"She said WHAT?" Henry couldn't believe what he was hearing.

Trapper shrugged, "That's what she said Henry, she wants to stay here, she doesn't want to go home."

"What kind of deranged lunatic kid are we handling here?" Henry asked, "Everyone wants to go home!"

Hawkeye looked thoughtful for a moment before replying to this, "It sounds to me like this girl has a genuine reason for wanting to stay."

"Or at least not wanting to go home." Trapper put in.

The three men were silent for a few minutes while considering the situation at hand, a girl wants to stay at the 4077. It's the middle of the war, she can't be moved for at least a couple weeks. The 4077 is only three miles from the front and the girl knew it, what could possibly possess the girl into wanting to stay in the middle of a war? As the three men sipped their coffee and poked their forks into what seemed to be some form of hash browns and some form of eggs, or so they all hoped.

"Well," Henry sighed, "There's really nothing we can do, the general will take her back to the states in a couple weeks when she able to be moved safely." Hawkeye shook his head in disgust, "I have a feeling sending that girl back to the USA would be almost murder."



Trapper stared at him "Almost? What's worse than murder?"

"Living through being beaten and knifed...and surviving." Hawkeye said as he looked around.

******



Doctor Sidney Freedman had never seen a case like it, Sara had only spoken that one sentence to Hawkeye and Trapper and now once again she refused to talk. She refused to speak of what happened when she was captured by the enemy, about her home, about how she was treated at home. She even refused to give them her name, though that was no problem because they already knew it, still he had never seen a case like this before. She was described by Sidney to Henry, as quite bluntly, 'A broken soul with out the hope to put her life back together.' This worried everyone including Hawkeye and Trapper.

Though the surgeons and few nurses that had operated on Sara tried to keep quiet about the young girl's residence in the camp, somehow there was a leak and soon everyone knew about the young girl who had been saved by the two best surgeons in the 4077, Trapper John McIntyre and Hawkeye Pierce. Everyone also heard that this girl wasn't talking, which worried everyone even more, still nurses, doctors and enlisted men all came to say hello to this girl and tried to make her feel at home.

What Henry Blake, Hawkeye and Trapper did not realize was that slowly people were bringing this girl out of her seclusion, and slowly, everyone in the camp became more attached to this broken soul of a child and they were going to have even a harder time trying to get rid of her, the opposition was rising against them.

Except two certain Majors who both believed that a girl had no place what so ever in the nearest MASH camp from the front, but then, who really listened to Hot Lips Houlihan and Frank 'Ferret Face' Burns anyways? Not very many people, still at the very moment that Frank Burns and Margaret Houlihan were asking Radar to talk to Colonel Blake who was desperately trying to sleep off the bad breakfast he had.

"Im sorry Major's but he busy." Radar protested as the two Majors desperately tried to get in to see the Colonel who was groaning from the noise outside his office.

"Nonsense!" Margaret protested, "Every time you tell us he's busy, he ends up sleep or something useless like that and Frank has a few choice words to say to him!"

Radar sighed, "I'll go tell him you're here." Radar put down his clipboard and knocked on the office door, "Sir Major's Houlihan and Burns are outside..." Both Majors barged through the door into Henry's office.

"Tell them I'm busy Radar, If I have to talk to The lipless wonder and Hot Lips I'll throw up what little food I had for breakfast." Radar coughed nervously and Henry sighed, "They're in the office aren't they?" The Colonel moaned and looked up to see two very angry majors staring at him.

"Alright what do you two want?" Henry demanded as he adjusted his fishing hat, "I was trying to get some work done."

"Frank wants to make a complaint about keep that wounded girl here another day!" Margaret said.

-Not again- Henry thought, "Is that true Frank?"

"Yes it is!" Margaret said angrily, "Frank believe's it's dangerous and inappropriate to have a girl in the camp and he's greatly disturbed by it!"

"Now what's so inappropriate about it?" Henry asked as he began to tie a fishing fly



"With hooligans like Pierce and McIntyre around who knows what will happen?" Margaret protested. Henry only sighed.

"Are you suggesting that their pedophiles Frank?" Henry asked as he looked up at the two majors suspiciously, this sounded like another con to try and get his surgeons a dishonorable discharge.

"Yes," Margaret said, her face getting red with anger, "And if you don't do anything about it then your just worthless colonel with no place in the army!"

Henry stood up in anger and pointed his finger at Frank, "Now you watch what you say Burns or I might just have to slap her across the face." Margaret made some kind of squeaking noise before turning around in a huff and dragging Frank out of the office after her.

Henry sighed and sat back down "Just an average day at the 4077..."