Authors note:

I want to give credit to those on the M*A*S*H discord for coming up with the prompt, I'm just here to make a story out of it :)

It was just over two years since the war ended. Considering the end of the war marked the closure of pain and death in Korea, Hawkeye could only find himself to expect the best for him and his 4077th friends back in the states.

That's where he found himself wrong.

His imaginary happily ever after was shattered into pieces the day he heard the knock on his door.

Upon opening his front door, he had found himself greeted by a woman he thought he might never see outside the pictures shown to him in Korea and through letters.

He never expected to see Peg Hunnicut at his door.

"Peg? Is it really... you?"

But Peg couldn't answer. She only stared back with the look of a lost and broken soul. She knew that telling him why she was here, would not only break her, but him as well.