A/N: Thankyou very much to Meredith for her wonderful help in suggesting
how to finish this.
Part Eight: Epilogue
Nicolette and Perdita went on to become the third line of surgeons in both their families. They remained true to each other, politely declining offers from the men who constantly asked them out on dates.
At the end of the day when the cruel remarks became to much, Perdita and Nicolette were glad that they could find comfort with Erin and Emmylou, who knew how it felt to be called frigid, or square and ridiculed for putting their studies ahead of social lives. It was the constant and loving support that got the two through college, convincing them to keep going when times were rough.
They graduated, tying for third place in their class and it was very proud parents who watched their daughters become doctors. Both BJ and Hawkeye still loved their daughters more than ever, for who they were.
Hawkeye retired and Dr Nicolette Pierce took over his practise, Dr Perdita Honnicut at her side. They lived together and as they matured further, they began to explore their relationship in a more physical way beyond the sweet little kisses they had shared as teens and although their parents had believed that this would pull them apart it only served to make them closer than before.
Things were hard as neither girl could bear the separation from their families, or each other. Perdita often travelled west again to see her parents, but missed Nicolette the whole time, and when she was with Nicolette, she missed her family the whole time. If Nicolette went and stayed with the Honnicuts, she missed her family. Both families saw how their separation affected their daughters, and the Honnicuts, with the smaller, older family decided to do something about it.
When Erin and Emmylou were settled in their own house in New Orleans to be near Emmylou's Aunt Ruby, her only living relative, Ben was at college in Chicago and Caitlin was attending the private school that Perdita had been at in Maine, BJ and Peggy decided to leave the west coast for the east and at long last, the two families were together once and for all.
Nicolette and Perdita stayed together through everything, and never married nor had children as they'd dreamed as little girls. They didn't mind though, they were very happy together, telling only a select few friends, and informing everyone else that they took their careers as surgeons too seriously to have time for raising a family, taking immense pleasure instead, in helping to raise their numerous nieces and nephews.
They'd formed a close, unbreakable relationship, that grew stronger with every year and in time they came to realise how much they needed it when their fathers passed away within a few short weeks of each other. It was a relationship that had changed Nicolette, Perdita, and everyone around them, for the better, and if they had the chance, they would never go back and change anything, they were perfectly happy just the way they were.
Part Eight: Epilogue
Nicolette and Perdita went on to become the third line of surgeons in both their families. They remained true to each other, politely declining offers from the men who constantly asked them out on dates.
At the end of the day when the cruel remarks became to much, Perdita and Nicolette were glad that they could find comfort with Erin and Emmylou, who knew how it felt to be called frigid, or square and ridiculed for putting their studies ahead of social lives. It was the constant and loving support that got the two through college, convincing them to keep going when times were rough.
They graduated, tying for third place in their class and it was very proud parents who watched their daughters become doctors. Both BJ and Hawkeye still loved their daughters more than ever, for who they were.
Hawkeye retired and Dr Nicolette Pierce took over his practise, Dr Perdita Honnicut at her side. They lived together and as they matured further, they began to explore their relationship in a more physical way beyond the sweet little kisses they had shared as teens and although their parents had believed that this would pull them apart it only served to make them closer than before.
Things were hard as neither girl could bear the separation from their families, or each other. Perdita often travelled west again to see her parents, but missed Nicolette the whole time, and when she was with Nicolette, she missed her family the whole time. If Nicolette went and stayed with the Honnicuts, she missed her family. Both families saw how their separation affected their daughters, and the Honnicuts, with the smaller, older family decided to do something about it.
When Erin and Emmylou were settled in their own house in New Orleans to be near Emmylou's Aunt Ruby, her only living relative, Ben was at college in Chicago and Caitlin was attending the private school that Perdita had been at in Maine, BJ and Peggy decided to leave the west coast for the east and at long last, the two families were together once and for all.
Nicolette and Perdita stayed together through everything, and never married nor had children as they'd dreamed as little girls. They didn't mind though, they were very happy together, telling only a select few friends, and informing everyone else that they took their careers as surgeons too seriously to have time for raising a family, taking immense pleasure instead, in helping to raise their numerous nieces and nephews.
They'd formed a close, unbreakable relationship, that grew stronger with every year and in time they came to realise how much they needed it when their fathers passed away within a few short weeks of each other. It was a relationship that had changed Nicolette, Perdita, and everyone around them, for the better, and if they had the chance, they would never go back and change anything, they were perfectly happy just the way they were.
