M*A*S*H Prime chapter 7
A Sight to See: Part One
Several weeks after colonel Blake's death.
The 4077th was adjusting nicely to the new C.O. Colonel Sherman Potter, which it was just as Jack had said, I-Core didn't trust Frank with the 4077th.
The batch of Rangers that was brought in had long been released, and every night after that, the desire to go home become stronger for Jack and Sierra.
Introductions were as simple as all had expected, and so was Jack and Sierra's introduction the older colonel.
Once Sierra and Jack had explained their situation to the colonel, he was just as accepting toward the two-time displaced teens.
Well it was another cold evening that has befallen of the campgrounds, not that Jack minded, he did after all have his girlfriend with him to face the cold evening.
The wind was howling like a mad wolf, and it was kind of spooky to the two teens, but that wasn't stopping them from being comfortable with each other In the cot they have been sharing, and then the oven had to quit working.
"Jack, the oven shut off again!" Sierra said to the raven haired teen.
"Okay I'll get it." Jack said as he separated himself from his girlfriend.
"Alright, let's see here." He said, as he approached the stove.
"let's get you back online shall we?" he said as he lit the match to put in the furnace. However, no one could have been prepared for what happened next.
KA-BOOM!
Sierra jumped at the racket, and she quickly realized that the blast came from the stove the Jack was by.
"JACK?!" She yelled as she jumped from her place on the cot and ran to stand by her fallen lover.
"JACK?! ARE YOU OKAY?!" she asked when she got beside him.
"Ah, my eyes, they hurt sooo badly, please make it quit!" Jack whimpered out he was laying on the ground with his hands on his face, that was covered in suet.
"Hang on Jack, HELP! COLONEL! KLINGER! SOMEONE!" Sierra yelled at the top of her lungs.
Klinger was the first on the scene followed closely by the colonel, and the captains.
"What happened?!" Potter said, as he saw the raven teen on the ground and in agony.
"He was just trying to start the stove back up when it blew up in his face!" Sierra said. Her voice was trembling, but that didn't matter. What does matter is, Jack is in pain.
Now Jack was next to impossible to scare (unless your Margret, then it gets easy). But right now he wasn't sure if he was going to be able to see again, and that thought terrified him to no end.
"Alright, Klinger! Get a stretcher for the boy, Hawkeye, get some gauze. BJ, call for an eye doctor for Jack!" The colonel said.
"Yes colonel!" said the ordered staff members.
The colonel then turned his attention to the teen in agony.
"Hey, can you hear me? Jack, you're going to be okay, I can guaranty you you're going to be okay." The colonel said in a soft voice. That did calm Jack down just a little bit, but not enough to cut through the thought of never seeing again, there was no way around it.
Klinger arrived a few short minutes later with the stretcher for Jack, "Here colonel!" He said.
"Thank you, Sierra, I'm going to need your help for this." The said red head just nodded.
"Aright, gently, we are going to put Jack on the stretcher, if we move to quick we may startle him, and we don't need any more of that for this evening." Potter said softly. She nodded again.
By this time the whole camp was awake due to the commotion, the nurses were up, even the priest was awake.
Sierra and Sherman had successfully moved Jack onto the mobile bed, and were getting ready to get him to the Post-Op Ward for recovery, until Klinger stepped forward and motioned that he take Sierra's side for her.
"Thank you Klinger." She said.
He looked at her with sympathy, "No problem." He said. He and Potter took the Stretcher to the 'ward.
Something warm hit her hand, and quickly realized that she was crying, and she didn't hesitate to wipe her cheek.
"I'm so sorry Jack, I hope you can see again." She said as she bowed her head and said a little prayer to the man upstairs.
Autobot Outpost Omega One.
Night time has fallen over the Nevada Desert, and inside the base of operations for the Autobots; hard at work was the C.M.O. and scientist and his technical compatriot, trying to get their ally home.
It was only a few short hours ago the accident had happened, and yet it seemed like it was forever since it happened.
"Were close, we have to be, the only reason this hasn't worked is because there isn't enough of all three." Ratchet said.
Raf only nodded, he was too concerned for his older brother figure to really care what Ratchet said.
The Thomson's had crashed on the couch. (which for the time being was for the best)
June was in the recliner, she too, was asleep.
Miko was on the other side of the living area, in the other recliner, and while it appeared that she was asleep, she knew otherwise.
Just like Raf, Jack was and older brother that she looked up to, and also like Raf she was worried.
M*A*S*H 4077th
All of the staff was gathered around the cot that had the blinded Jack sitting on it facing the captain that was aiding him with his injury.
"Here we go corporal, how does that feel?" The eye doctor captain asked.
"It feels fine, snug, but fine." Jack said.
Since Jack was wearing a corporal's uniform, it only made sound reasoning to call Jack a "corporal" although Jack hated it to no end, he choked it down for the time being.
"Alright, well if at any time you need it adjusted or changed, make sure you have someone else to do it, but in the meantime, I'll be back in about a week to see who your healing up, okay?" The captain.
"Yes sir." Jack said blankly.
"Hey, cheer up, you'll have your sight back before too much longer!" The captain said, giving Jack a reassuring pat on the shoulder as he stood up.
"But for now I would advise rest."
"Aye, aye, captain." Jack said with same amount of enthusiasm as he turned to lay down.
The captain walked out of the ward, with the other officers in tow.
Sierra moved forward to comfort the boy.
"Hey, you're going to okay Jack, the doctor said so." She said as she gently rubbed his shoulder.
Suddenly she heard something she thought she would never hear, Jack, was crying.
"You all say that, and in reality I'm not sure if I believe it." He said. His voice cracking.
"You might not believe it right now Jack, and you have every reason to be scared right now, but I do believe in what the doctor said, and I look forward to seeing your blue-grey eyes again." She said, tears of her own were surfacing 'no I got to stay strong for him!' She scolded herself.
"If it'll make you feel better, I'll sleep in here with you tonight." She said.
"Please." Jack said. Sierra took pity on him 'If I was in this predicament, he wouldn't leave my side either, and I couldn't let him go at this alone even if I wanted to!' she thought to herself, with a sad smile she gently climbed into the cot next to the boy, and she gently wrapped her arms around him.
And just as she had expected, he melted into her embrace. He buried his face into her shoulder.
'cute!' she mused.
He calmed down greatly after he was secure in her arms, and they fell asleep in that position, never to wake up until morning.
Meanwhile outside
"The Kid's scared, he has every right to be, but he will be fine." The captain said.
"And you're positive of this?" Potter asked.
"Without a shadow of a doubt!" the captain said.
The officers of the 4077th all nodded.
"That's good to hear." Hawkeye said.
"Now the lieutenant that was part of the concerned party, the shorter red head who was she to him?"
"His girlfriend!" Hawkeye answered.
The captain nodded.
"Well, is there anything else that you guys need or is that it?"
"I think that's it for now, we'll call you if there is anything else that comes up before you come by again." Potter said.
The captain nodded. "Okay, well in the mean time I'll see you guys later. Take care of that kid, while I'm gone." He said as he climbed into the jeep that he was using.
"I think Sierra has that under control." Hawkeye said smiling.
"Sierra…?"
"The lieutenant." Potter said.
"Okay, well I'll see you guys later." He started the jeep's engine
"Take care of yourself captain."
"I will." He said as he started to drive off into the night.
The officer of the 4077th watched as the man drove away from the compound and into the evening.
"Do you believe what he said about Jack's sight?" Hawkeye asked.
"He was confident with his answer, so yes I do." Potter said.
"I trust your judgment." Hawkeye said to the colonel.
"Welp, it's my evening for making rounds, so you kids go on ahead and get some rest I'll get you if I need any help." The colonel said.
"Alright, goodnight colonel!" BJ, Hawkeye, and the other nurses said.
Morning
Jack was the first of the two slumbering teen to joust awake after the night's rest that he had.
Jack pulled away from the secondary form of heat for the cold, and that was when he recognized the fact that he was being held by Sierra (Not that he minded of course).
But it was the way he melted into her embrace last night that he was embarrassed by.
Sierra must have felt him move, because she too was shifting around in her wake up process.
"Morning handsome!" She said.
"Morning beautiful!" Jack said although he wished he really could see her beautiful smile.
"Sierra, about last night…" Jack began.
"Noooo, Don't apologize, it was kind of cute to see you act like that though. The way you melted into my arms last night, to be honest, I don't care if you do that every evening you are like this. Just as long as if you are comfortable with me holding you like that."
"I…I…did like the way you held me last night, that's part of reason why I was so scared was because I've never acted that was toward anyone, I've been scared before but, this is a whole new level of fear." Jack said. Cliché as it sounded, it was still true.
Radar walked in to the Post-Op-ward, once there he saw the young couple in the cot.
"Hey, Igor has a special breakfast made specifically for you two, just letting you know."
"Thank you Radar!" Sierra said.
"So, how did you guys sleep last night?" Radar asked.
"Well after Jack calmed down we were able to sleep pretty well; I woke up a couple of times to see if Jack was okay, which he was, and I was able to get back to sleep fairly quickly afterwards." Sierra explained.
"And how are you feeling Jack?" He asked the temporally blinded teen.
"I'll feel better when I can see, but for now I'll be fine." Jack said.
"Glad to hear that, you know you gave us a scare last night?"
"Yeah, Sorry. I hope I get this off before I go home."
"I hear you on that one!"
Jack's stomach let out a ferocious growl.
"That's the cry of 'morning meal time'!" Jack said. Sierra laughed.
"I'm glad to see you in a brighter mood this morning!" She said.
"I am too!" Hawkeye said as he walked into the 'ward.
"Morning Hawkeye!" Radar said. The older man nodded at Radar
"I take it Radar's already told you about the breakfast that's been cooked for you?" he said as leaned on the railing on the edge of the bed.
"Yep!" The two teens answered in unison
"He didn't go into details, but that's fine." Sierra said.
"And how are you feeling this morning Jack?" Hawkeye asked the blinded young man.
"Well my eyes are hurting a little, but I'll live!" Jack said. Hawkeye nodded.
"Good to hear!" Hawkeye said.
"Can we get some breakfast now? I'm hungry!" Jack said sheepishly.
Sierra giggled at the boy's words, "Yes, my love, I'll guide you to the mess tent." She said.
Jack stood up, and that was when he realized how vulnerable he was to 'attack'. And as such, he was afraid the nurses would take advantage of him (It was kind of spooky if you asked him).
Sierra looped her arm around him and started walking toward the door.
One more chapter up, and I figure 'why not run this a little longer?'
So Jack has been blinded by an explosion, and many of you are going to ask 'Is he going to go home like that?' I've thought about it multiple times, and I bring my self to do it.
and on a scale of 1-10 how did I do with the 'comforting' gestor from Sierra?
But anyway, like always, thank you guys so much for reading this chapter, if you liked it! let me know in the comment section below, and I'll see y'all later!
