A/N:This story takes place about fourteen years after the war. So here it's 1967.
It had started when Hawkeye had been there to comfort Margaret after a particularly bad day. She had witnessed a small girl loose her life, she had gotten a letter from some women Donald had been with, and now she couldn't seem to find her bottle of Scotch. The two never slept together in the sense they made love, but they feel asleep in the same cot. Neither of them had done anything about it until a month after the war (and Margaret's marriage had ended) when they ran into each other at a medical conference. The rest is history.
So now, Terence Hawkeye Pierce was the younger boy of twins. He was about eight and a half minutes younger. He was the smarter one of the two, but taller like his dad. He did look a lot like his dad. Some people said Terence could be his dads identical twin except he was younger.
His older brother Michael Alvin Pierce on the other hand looked just like their mother. If you saw those two together, or apart, you would know immediately who Michael's mother is. That's not what Terence observed about his parents (well he did notice it, but that's not what this is about).
Terence (being the smarter one, but even Michael could see it with his table spoon amount of feelings) observed that his parents loved each other more then anything in the world. They didn't rub their noses together like in the chick flicks. But whenever they were together they would hold hands. It didn't matter if it was in the super market or in the car. You could always count on them holding hands. They also showed their love when one of them would leave for something they would kiss. Those two would always say I love you. Anywhere anytime.
Even total strangers would walk by and see, just by the way they looked at each other, that those two were deeply in love. Terence always thought they looked like teenage kids. By the way his mother would light a room when she saw him or by how his dad would get some weird goofy smile on his face when he saw he.
So naturally when they got into the occasional argument the two boys would worry, but somewhere they both knew that nothing in the world could keep their parents apart. They just loved each other too much to let anything get in the way.
Terence could always tell, even at a young age, that his parents really did have the fairytale ending. His parents; Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce and Margaret J. Houlihan (now Pierce). They had been married for fourteen years and would be married for the rest of their lives. They had gotten married right after the war had ended when they both realized they couldn't live without each other, have two amazingly talented boys, a beautiful home in Maine right on the beach, and always had a loving and supportive family. And with that supportive family, Margaret's determination and Hawkeye's sense of humor those two could get and will get through anything. As long as they are together (which they will be).