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DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS. This is a rework originally put on under a different Pen Name. However reviews would be great.

SLEEPLESS NIGHT

By Sarah Hall

Hawkeye was lost in his own thoughts. It was due to a patient he had treated earlier in the day. It was very late BJ and Charles were sound asleep and he had no intention of waking them just because he had insomnia. He had attempted the tried and tested ways to get to sleep, counting Cockroaches or Rats but that had done little to help. He had started a letter to his dad but he couldn't concentrate for long enough. So sighing he put on his Dressing gown and his boots and headed for Post op. If sleep was not going to happen he might as well be useful for a few hours.

In Post op there was a screen around the end bed on the right. He went to the desk at the end of the room where the nurse on duty sat. He quietly tapped the nurse on the shoulder and whispered

"Its OK I can take over"

"Thanks Hawkeye" she said and went out of Post op leaving Hawkeye with a silent room.

He walked his way down the middle of the room slowly checking on each patient, they were all sleeping peacefully. He got to the bed behind the screen in it lay a girl no more than eighteen, she was a local, her family had been killed and now she had been made homeless and injured. She was beautiful he thought, in his younger days he would probably have fallen in love with her. But not now, these days she was just another local in need of his help. But even still he worried for her future.

She lay asleep in the land of dream's, he wondered what she might be dreaming about or even who. He got a chair from the corner and placed it silently next to her bed and sat down. Her hands were on top of the Army issue blanket, he carefully placed one of her hands on his own, his hand was so much larger than hers. He stroked the back of her hand, it was silky soft unlike his own that were now turning hard and rough through all the scrubbing they went through every day. Her future he thought would be bleak with no family or home.

In the silence of the room he could hear the ticking of the clock he looked it said 4.30am, he had been awake all night, yet still didn't feel tired or sleepy. He heard the door open it was BJ.

"What happened to you last night, you never said you had a date"

"I didn't"

"Where were you then?"

"I couldn't sleep, I kept thinking about the young girl I operated on, she's in the bed behind the screen" BJ looked

"So what did you do?"

"I came and did a nurses shift, so she got some well earned sleep"

"You must be sleepy now"

"No not really"

"Even so you should go back to the Swamp"

"If you insist"

"I do"

"OK then"

Hawkeye headed for the swamp laid down on his cot and his body overtook what he was feeling and he fell into a deep asleep instantly.

Some time later there was a knock on the door of the Swamp which awoke Hawkeye from a very nice dream about a certain nurse and himself.

"Hawkeye sorry if I woke you" Came a voice from just inside the tent. Hawkeye looked round it was Father Mulcahy

"That's OK Father, What can I do for you"

"Its what I have done thanks to you"

"What do you mean Father?"

"Well I hear you are concerned for the future of the Korean Girl in Post op"

"Yes I am, but how do you know"

"BJ told me"

"He did"

"Yes, anyway I have had a word with the Nuns at the Orphanage, they are always in need of a spare pair of hands and they have said she can go there"

"That's great, so what now"

"So when can she go"

"The end of the week"

"That's great, I will take her myself"

Hawkeye smiled "That's great another person saved"

THE END

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