Disclaimer- like always, don't own but wanna..Claralynn, Mae, and Casey O'Bryan are mine. A/N- hehehe.otay first of many parts

Claralynn ************** By Assilem

It was 1955, only 2 years after Hawkeye came home from Korea. It was also ten months

after he and his girlfriend broke up. She walked out on him like Carlye did all those years

ago. But tonight Hawkeye couldn't sleep; he tossed and turned in the summer heat of

Crabapple Cove. He thought about calling his dad but though different of it. He'd bought

this old Victorian house 3 months after the war ended. He sighed, then decided to go take

a walk on the beach. He got out of bed and pulled on a pair of green shorts and his blue

Hawaiian shirt. He looked down and shook his head in disbelief. And walked downstairs

and opened the front door to see a basket, but there was something in the basket that

made his heart skip. A sleeping baby laid in the basket. He picked her up to find a letter.

He brought the sleeping baby into his living room and laid her down on the floor with the

blanket she came with. He looked at the envelope and started to read the contents;

Dear Hawkeye, I hate to do this. I really do. This is Claralynn Melissa Pierce, that's right Pierce. When I left ten months ago, I was pregnant with her. She's a month old, I don't and can't take of her. I'll love her forever but I have to sort some things out. I'm sorry I know you can give her a better life then I can. Sorry Hawk I really am. I've enclosed her birth certificate for you. Remember me always Casey O'Bryan P.s. By the Way I also included a parental test. Again I'm sorry and I always will be. Take good care of Claralynn okay? Thanks and bye Hawkeye.Benjamin Franklin Pierce, and Claralynn Melissa Pierce.

Hawkeye just stared at this infant on his floor, and though how could someone abandon

their child. He needed to talk to someone. Someone in particular, Margaret, he needed her

help. He reached to the end table and picked up the phone and dialed the number he knew

so well.