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"So here's the plan. We have to make Renee upset somehow. She has to be in a depressed mood. When she gets sad, she works. Sine she's head nurse this week she'll want to do a supply check." Nurse Kellye was explaining to the small group of matchmakers.
"Captain Hunnicut is scheduled to help for next supply check." Klinger said helpfully.
"Exactly, if she's upset, she'll want to work, she'll go grab the next person on the list, BJ, and check supplies." Added an excited Nurse Baker.
"We'll trap them in by blocking the door." Hawkeye said with a wide grin.
"She'll get even more upset and BJ can't help but comfort her." Kellye said with her own smile getting wider.
"Alright, so this is how we get her upset." Hawkeye started to explain.
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"Margaret will want to do a supply check when she gets back. I'll post pone my supply check till the very last minute. Hawkeye is on the list after you. We'll trap them in there together. We have to get her upset though." Renee was explaining to BJ in her tent.
"Why? She'll go in there willingly," he said, confused.
"Not so she'll go in, so her emotions will be so jumbled she'll be willingly _comforted_ by him."
"Oh, well that explains everything."
"You know they'll probably try something on us when we do supply check too. I guarantee that Klinger made the list this week that way on purpose."
"If I know Hawkeye, and I'm pretty sure I haven't been sleeping in the same tent with a stranger, he'll pull something while we're in there."
"Well, at least we know it's coming. He really shouldn't've said anything to you about me."
"No, he gave himself away. But what are we gonna do if they block the door to the supply building?" BJ said, he really didn't want to be locked up with her, his body had already started to go back into bachelor mode. Usually he'd have no problem when the nurses walk out of the showers in robes, but now___big problem.
"Got it covered. I know you don't wanna be locked up with me, as much as it hurts, I don't really wanna be locked up with you either. There's a loose board in the back. Klinger didn't know why I needed a saw. All we have to do is open our little doggy door."
"Ruff ruff." BJ said laughing, Renee joined him with a small giggle.
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"Oh, it was so much fun, dancing and flirting. I hope he asks me again, maybe we'll get further along this time" Said Nurse Baker to Nurse Kellye in the showers a couple of days later. The only other woman in the showers that afternoon was Renee.
"Further along? What's that supposed to mean?" Kellye asked smiling.
"Oh well, ya know, we went back to the supply room after leaving Rosie's, and it got a little out of control, in a good way. But for some odd reason, I guess Hawkeye didn't see the hanger on the door, so we got interrupted by him and his date."
"You'd think, Hawkeye's been in there enough he'd notice when someone else was occupying that room, especially if it's his best friend." Kellye said, with a sideways glance at Renee. Renee gulped and stuck her face under the water.
"But, like I said, hopefully BJ will ask me out again, a girl can only hope ya know."
Just then Renee stepped out of her shower and threw on her robe. She tied it quickly and grabbed her things, not even bothering to dry off when it was a bit chilly outside. She walked straight to her tent. She dried off and rambled through her newly moved things to find some clothes, "Why did I choose last week to move into my own tent!" she yelled at herself, deciding on grabbing some dirty clothes.
She threw on the clothes and grabbed her clipboard with some forms on it. She walked outside to see Baker and Kellye talking with Hawkeye. She couldn't hear a word they were saying.
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"It's goin' great, you should've seen her run out of that shower. She thinks that me and BJ almost slept together and that you were the only reason we didn't!" Baker said laughing.
"Me? Why me?" Hawkeye said suspiciously.
"Because you walked in on them without checking for the hanger." Kellye said with a giggle.
"I said to make her think something happened but why'd you have to bring me in on it. I always check for the hanger. I have to have something to hang my shirt on." He replied with a smile, "So everything's going as planned. Look, there she is."
Renee walked over, "Have any of you seen Captain Hunnicut?" she said calmly.
Kellye mouthed behind Hawkeye's back to Baker, "Captain Hunnicut?" Baker just shrugged as a response.
Hawkeye was busy with Renee, "Well, I think he might've had Post-Op duty."
"Might've? I thought you kept up with his schedule Captain Pierce. I guess I'll have to find him on my own then." She said walking away to find BJ.
When she got out of earshot Hawkeye looked at the other nurses with a sad expression, "I think she may be taking that harder then we thought. Even when we glued her underwear to the side of the latrines, she never called me Captain Pierce since the first day we met, and she's never called BJ, Captain Hunnicut since the very same day, unless she was messin' around, but I doubt she was this time."
"She gets that way, you should've heard her that day you glued up her underwear, she was all with the Captain's, Major's and Colonel's. She wouldn't even call us Nurse whatever, it was Lieutenant this or Lieutenant that for the next three days, she avoided you and BJ those three days."
"Oh, well, I think she's really mad then." Hawkeye said, "Come on let's go find BJ before she does, we outta tell him that she's mad. But we don't know why got it?" He said as they all split up. Kellye went after Renee.
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"Hawkeye told me you were here." BJ said smiling as he walked into the supply building.
"Lieutenant Kellye told me you were here, Captain."
"We're alone, you don't have to do the Captain thing." He said with a frown, "Plus I thought you disliked that stuff as much as me and Hawk did."
"I do___usually."
"So what's so different now, and why were you looking for me? Margaret doesn't come back till the day after tomorrow, you said you would wait till the last minute." BJ said sitting down next to Renee on the spare cot.
Renee stood up and walked away from him, "You tell me what's so different." She said as she turned around and started to look at boxes, "We just need to get this done and over with anyway." She said with a cough.
"Come on, what's wrong. I thought we were pretty good friends, what with us going through similar situations and all." He said with a frown. Just then a scraping noise came from the door. On the outside, Hawkeye and Klinger had locked the door using a chain and padlock and put a few heavy crates in front of the door. They smiled and dusted off their hands as they walked away, Nurse Kellye and Nurse Baker on either side of the two men.
"Well, we're probably trapped." BJ said, the frown never leaving his face. He walked over to the door and pushed, it didn't budge, didn't even give a little. He tried with his shoulder but that didn't work either. "Well no use in fighting it, we'll use the way out the back."
"It's right here, behind the cot." Renee said about to move it when BJ sat on it.
"Nope, not until we talk. There is something wrong and until you tell me I'm not moving an inch."
"Well I'm not talking so we might as well get the supply check done. Find the Calcium Permanganate."
"No."
"Excuse me?"
"I said no. You didn't say please."
"Please Captain."
"No, you said Captain."
"Please Sir."
"I'm not a civilian, as much as I'd love to be."
"Please BJ?"
"Much better." He said getting up pulling down a box from the very top shelf, "here, we'll need another box of these ordered soon. But Margaret can take care of that when she gets back. This supply check is over." He said replacing the box and taking away her clipboard. He looked over the top sheet of paper and then motioned to rip it in half.
"BJ! Don't you dare do that! Margaret told me to do a supply check, if we don't do it now then I'll have to do it with Hawkeye and then Margaret will be stuck with Charles when she gets back!" she yelled.
"Ok fine, we'll do it. But you have to promise to talk to me after."
"Fine, fine." She said taking back the paper with a sigh.
After they were finished BJ looked at his watch. "It's been two hours. They probably really think something up."
At that comment Renee burst into tears. BJ looked horrified. "What's wrong? What'd I do? What'd I say?" he said trying to get her to stop crying.
"Nothing's wrong, just a little tired." She said, wiping away her tears. She walked over and moved the cot.
But before she could move it enough BJ grabbed her around the waist, "Oh no you don't, you promised to talk remember?"
"What if I don't wanna talk?" She said trying to get out of his grip.
"You promised Renee, you don't break promises to friends."
"What if you aren't my friend?" She said wriggling more. BJ lost his balance because of her moving so much and fell back, but he didn't let go of her. They both landed on the cot with Renee on top. She turned over quickly to get up while he was still in shock, but he was faster then she thought.
He gripped her tighter around the waist and blinked back tears, "Don't tell me you aren't my friend Renee. What did I do wrong? You're the only person in this whole camp who understands me and knows what not to say when I'm around so that I won't burst out in tears. Don't tell me that we aren't friends, I might just have to take a long walk into the mine field if you do."
"You wouldn't dare." Renee said, scared, "You don't care that much."
"What if I do?"
"Then I'd have to remind you of Nurse Baker."
"What about her?"
"You almost sleeping with her and the only reason you didn't was because Hawk didn't see the hanger on the door."
"I'd say that whoever told you this was lying, I'd never sleep with anyone here, they'd hog the sheets."
Renee couldn't help but smile, "But Baker was telling it Kellye."
"And you know good and well that Hawkeye, Baker, Kellye, and Klinger have been doing a lot of hanging around together lately."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"They are the ones pulling the matchmaking thing on us."
"Did it work?" Renee said calmly.
"You tell me." BJ said with a smile as he lifted his head up and let his lips briefly touch hers.
"I think it did." Renee said with a smile.
"Looks like we've been beaten." BJ whispered.
"Not quite. We still have to see what happened when Margaret and Hawkeye are put in this situation."
"Come on then, let's get out of here and bust their little bubble."
"Don't let them know their plan worked." Renee said with a mischievous glint in her green eyes.
BJ smiled and brushed back a piece of her dirty blond hair that fallen out of the usual bun she wore it in, "Of course not." Renee smiled and kissed him on the cheek before she got up. BJ got up and moved the cot as Renee moved the board she had cut out.
They both went through and then Renee replaced the board tightly. They stepped around the side of the building just as Hawkeye and the others were coming back to open the door.
"Have fun moving all that stuff guys." Renee said with a smile as she walked to her tent.
"Good try Hawk, maybe next time it'll work." BJ said with a laugh as he walked in the opposite direction of Renee.
"How did__When did they__What happ__I don't think our plan went right." Hawkeye said sitting down on one of the crates.
"Funny, I think it did." Kellye said as she watched Renee walk away happily.
"Me too." Baker said as she saw BJ turn around and look at Renee with a smile before walking to the Swamp.
"Well, you can explain it to me while we go see what they did in there" Hawkeye said placing his arm around Nurse Baker.
"Maybe later Hawkeye. I'd rather go talk with one of my friends. I have to explain to her why I tricked her."
"Yea, me too, sorry Hawkeye." Kellye said when Hawkeye had looked at her with a hopeful look. They both smiled as they walked after Renee.
"Women, I'll never understand them." Klinger said as he started to move crates.
"I don't see why not. You were one for a couple years." Hawkeye said with a laugh as he helped and now smiling Klinger to move the wooden boxes.
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"So here's the plan. We have to make Renee upset somehow. She has to be in a depressed mood. When she gets sad, she works. Sine she's head nurse this week she'll want to do a supply check." Nurse Kellye was explaining to the small group of matchmakers.
"Captain Hunnicut is scheduled to help for next supply check." Klinger said helpfully.
"Exactly, if she's upset, she'll want to work, she'll go grab the next person on the list, BJ, and check supplies." Added an excited Nurse Baker.
"We'll trap them in by blocking the door." Hawkeye said with a wide grin.
"She'll get even more upset and BJ can't help but comfort her." Kellye said with her own smile getting wider.
"Alright, so this is how we get her upset." Hawkeye started to explain.
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"Margaret will want to do a supply check when she gets back. I'll post pone my supply check till the very last minute. Hawkeye is on the list after you. We'll trap them in there together. We have to get her upset though." Renee was explaining to BJ in her tent.
"Why? She'll go in there willingly," he said, confused.
"Not so she'll go in, so her emotions will be so jumbled she'll be willingly _comforted_ by him."
"Oh, well that explains everything."
"You know they'll probably try something on us when we do supply check too. I guarantee that Klinger made the list this week that way on purpose."
"If I know Hawkeye, and I'm pretty sure I haven't been sleeping in the same tent with a stranger, he'll pull something while we're in there."
"Well, at least we know it's coming. He really shouldn't've said anything to you about me."
"No, he gave himself away. But what are we gonna do if they block the door to the supply building?" BJ said, he really didn't want to be locked up with her, his body had already started to go back into bachelor mode. Usually he'd have no problem when the nurses walk out of the showers in robes, but now___big problem.
"Got it covered. I know you don't wanna be locked up with me, as much as it hurts, I don't really wanna be locked up with you either. There's a loose board in the back. Klinger didn't know why I needed a saw. All we have to do is open our little doggy door."
"Ruff ruff." BJ said laughing, Renee joined him with a small giggle.
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"Oh, it was so much fun, dancing and flirting. I hope he asks me again, maybe we'll get further along this time" Said Nurse Baker to Nurse Kellye in the showers a couple of days later. The only other woman in the showers that afternoon was Renee.
"Further along? What's that supposed to mean?" Kellye asked smiling.
"Oh well, ya know, we went back to the supply room after leaving Rosie's, and it got a little out of control, in a good way. But for some odd reason, I guess Hawkeye didn't see the hanger on the door, so we got interrupted by him and his date."
"You'd think, Hawkeye's been in there enough he'd notice when someone else was occupying that room, especially if it's his best friend." Kellye said, with a sideways glance at Renee. Renee gulped and stuck her face under the water.
"But, like I said, hopefully BJ will ask me out again, a girl can only hope ya know."
Just then Renee stepped out of her shower and threw on her robe. She tied it quickly and grabbed her things, not even bothering to dry off when it was a bit chilly outside. She walked straight to her tent. She dried off and rambled through her newly moved things to find some clothes, "Why did I choose last week to move into my own tent!" she yelled at herself, deciding on grabbing some dirty clothes.
She threw on the clothes and grabbed her clipboard with some forms on it. She walked outside to see Baker and Kellye talking with Hawkeye. She couldn't hear a word they were saying.
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"It's goin' great, you should've seen her run out of that shower. She thinks that me and BJ almost slept together and that you were the only reason we didn't!" Baker said laughing.
"Me? Why me?" Hawkeye said suspiciously.
"Because you walked in on them without checking for the hanger." Kellye said with a giggle.
"I said to make her think something happened but why'd you have to bring me in on it. I always check for the hanger. I have to have something to hang my shirt on." He replied with a smile, "So everything's going as planned. Look, there she is."
Renee walked over, "Have any of you seen Captain Hunnicut?" she said calmly.
Kellye mouthed behind Hawkeye's back to Baker, "Captain Hunnicut?" Baker just shrugged as a response.
Hawkeye was busy with Renee, "Well, I think he might've had Post-Op duty."
"Might've? I thought you kept up with his schedule Captain Pierce. I guess I'll have to find him on my own then." She said walking away to find BJ.
When she got out of earshot Hawkeye looked at the other nurses with a sad expression, "I think she may be taking that harder then we thought. Even when we glued her underwear to the side of the latrines, she never called me Captain Pierce since the first day we met, and she's never called BJ, Captain Hunnicut since the very same day, unless she was messin' around, but I doubt she was this time."
"She gets that way, you should've heard her that day you glued up her underwear, she was all with the Captain's, Major's and Colonel's. She wouldn't even call us Nurse whatever, it was Lieutenant this or Lieutenant that for the next three days, she avoided you and BJ those three days."
"Oh, well, I think she's really mad then." Hawkeye said, "Come on let's go find BJ before she does, we outta tell him that she's mad. But we don't know why got it?" He said as they all split up. Kellye went after Renee.
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"Hawkeye told me you were here." BJ said smiling as he walked into the supply building.
"Lieutenant Kellye told me you were here, Captain."
"We're alone, you don't have to do the Captain thing." He said with a frown, "Plus I thought you disliked that stuff as much as me and Hawk did."
"I do___usually."
"So what's so different now, and why were you looking for me? Margaret doesn't come back till the day after tomorrow, you said you would wait till the last minute." BJ said sitting down next to Renee on the spare cot.
Renee stood up and walked away from him, "You tell me what's so different." She said as she turned around and started to look at boxes, "We just need to get this done and over with anyway." She said with a cough.
"Come on, what's wrong. I thought we were pretty good friends, what with us going through similar situations and all." He said with a frown. Just then a scraping noise came from the door. On the outside, Hawkeye and Klinger had locked the door using a chain and padlock and put a few heavy crates in front of the door. They smiled and dusted off their hands as they walked away, Nurse Kellye and Nurse Baker on either side of the two men.
"Well, we're probably trapped." BJ said, the frown never leaving his face. He walked over to the door and pushed, it didn't budge, didn't even give a little. He tried with his shoulder but that didn't work either. "Well no use in fighting it, we'll use the way out the back."
"It's right here, behind the cot." Renee said about to move it when BJ sat on it.
"Nope, not until we talk. There is something wrong and until you tell me I'm not moving an inch."
"Well I'm not talking so we might as well get the supply check done. Find the Calcium Permanganate."
"No."
"Excuse me?"
"I said no. You didn't say please."
"Please Captain."
"No, you said Captain."
"Please Sir."
"I'm not a civilian, as much as I'd love to be."
"Please BJ?"
"Much better." He said getting up pulling down a box from the very top shelf, "here, we'll need another box of these ordered soon. But Margaret can take care of that when she gets back. This supply check is over." He said replacing the box and taking away her clipboard. He looked over the top sheet of paper and then motioned to rip it in half.
"BJ! Don't you dare do that! Margaret told me to do a supply check, if we don't do it now then I'll have to do it with Hawkeye and then Margaret will be stuck with Charles when she gets back!" she yelled.
"Ok fine, we'll do it. But you have to promise to talk to me after."
"Fine, fine." She said taking back the paper with a sigh.
After they were finished BJ looked at his watch. "It's been two hours. They probably really think something up."
At that comment Renee burst into tears. BJ looked horrified. "What's wrong? What'd I do? What'd I say?" he said trying to get her to stop crying.
"Nothing's wrong, just a little tired." She said, wiping away her tears. She walked over and moved the cot.
But before she could move it enough BJ grabbed her around the waist, "Oh no you don't, you promised to talk remember?"
"What if I don't wanna talk?" She said trying to get out of his grip.
"You promised Renee, you don't break promises to friends."
"What if you aren't my friend?" She said wriggling more. BJ lost his balance because of her moving so much and fell back, but he didn't let go of her. They both landed on the cot with Renee on top. She turned over quickly to get up while he was still in shock, but he was faster then she thought.
He gripped her tighter around the waist and blinked back tears, "Don't tell me you aren't my friend Renee. What did I do wrong? You're the only person in this whole camp who understands me and knows what not to say when I'm around so that I won't burst out in tears. Don't tell me that we aren't friends, I might just have to take a long walk into the mine field if you do."
"You wouldn't dare." Renee said, scared, "You don't care that much."
"What if I do?"
"Then I'd have to remind you of Nurse Baker."
"What about her?"
"You almost sleeping with her and the only reason you didn't was because Hawk didn't see the hanger on the door."
"I'd say that whoever told you this was lying, I'd never sleep with anyone here, they'd hog the sheets."
Renee couldn't help but smile, "But Baker was telling it Kellye."
"And you know good and well that Hawkeye, Baker, Kellye, and Klinger have been doing a lot of hanging around together lately."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"They are the ones pulling the matchmaking thing on us."
"Did it work?" Renee said calmly.
"You tell me." BJ said with a smile as he lifted his head up and let his lips briefly touch hers.
"I think it did." Renee said with a smile.
"Looks like we've been beaten." BJ whispered.
"Not quite. We still have to see what happened when Margaret and Hawkeye are put in this situation."
"Come on then, let's get out of here and bust their little bubble."
"Don't let them know their plan worked." Renee said with a mischievous glint in her green eyes.
BJ smiled and brushed back a piece of her dirty blond hair that fallen out of the usual bun she wore it in, "Of course not." Renee smiled and kissed him on the cheek before she got up. BJ got up and moved the cot as Renee moved the board she had cut out.
They both went through and then Renee replaced the board tightly. They stepped around the side of the building just as Hawkeye and the others were coming back to open the door.
"Have fun moving all that stuff guys." Renee said with a smile as she walked to her tent.
"Good try Hawk, maybe next time it'll work." BJ said with a laugh as he walked in the opposite direction of Renee.
"How did__When did they__What happ__I don't think our plan went right." Hawkeye said sitting down on one of the crates.
"Funny, I think it did." Kellye said as she watched Renee walk away happily.
"Me too." Baker said as she saw BJ turn around and look at Renee with a smile before walking to the Swamp.
"Well, you can explain it to me while we go see what they did in there" Hawkeye said placing his arm around Nurse Baker.
"Maybe later Hawkeye. I'd rather go talk with one of my friends. I have to explain to her why I tricked her."
"Yea, me too, sorry Hawkeye." Kellye said when Hawkeye had looked at her with a hopeful look. They both smiled as they walked after Renee.
"Women, I'll never understand them." Klinger said as he started to move crates.
"I don't see why not. You were one for a couple years." Hawkeye said with a laugh as he helped and now smiling Klinger to move the wooden boxes.
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End of Episode 8, Episode 9 coming soon!