AUTHOR COMMENTS: I've written a lot more of this story, but I'm just posting the first two chapters to see if it's any good. let me know honestly if this should continue or not. Oh, and for fans of HM (I'm one of them), unfortunatly, while they are together, it's not going to be terribly romantic and mushy between them... sorry. Let me know what you think! Here's the story.

Crabapple Cove, Maine, 1958

Hawkeye sighed impatiently yet again as he looked at the clock in his Crabapple Cove home and saw that it had not moved much, if at all.

A female voice came from behind him, slightly annoyed with his pacing and constant sighs. "Why don't you head out?"

Hawkeye turned to face her. "Margaret, you know as well as I do that I'll be early if I leave now. Then I'll just be wearing a hole in the airport floor instead of this floor."

"I don't care, Pierce, you're getting on my nerves!"

Hawkeye couldn't help but smirk at the fact that she still used his last name when she wanted to order him around. She noticed this.

"And whip that smirk from your face!" She said, even though she had a bit of a smile on hers.

"What smirk?" asked Hawkeye innocently, his face now serious.

Margaret laughed. "Just get out of here!"

Hawkeye walked toward the door, then stopped and turned around. Just as he opened his mouth to say something, Margaret anticipated him.

"And no, you can't take Danny or Anna with you." she said, now with a smirk of her own as his face took on a pouting expression.

"But Maarrrgret,"

"Not buts. They're still asleep from their naps and I won't have them cranky because their father wants to show them off to his best friend!"

Hawkeye laughed and was soon joined in laughter by Margaret. She walked over and gave him a quick kiss on the lips.

"Now get going!" she shooed him out the door.

Hawkeye walked grinning to the van. He and Margaret both enjoyed their playful sparing matches.

He got in the van and took off to Portland. Portland was about an hour away from Crabapple Cove, and was where BJ and his family were landing. BJ now had three children. Erin was 7, Ben was 4, and Katy was now 2.

Hawkeye and Margaret's own kids, Danny and Anna, were 3 and 1. Hawk and BJ talked on the phone several times a week plus letters, but hadn't been able to see each other in person since the war ended except at Hawk and Margaret's wedding. At the time, the rest of BJ's family hadn't been able to come. Ben had been named after Hawkeye. BJ had been tempted to actually call the child Hawkeye, but besides the fact that he hadn't wanted two people with the name of Hawk, which could get confusing, Peg had drawn the line at that point.

Besides each other, Hawk and BJ hadn't kept in that good of touch with the other members of the 4077th. Except for Margaret, of course. Hawkeye and Margaret had met up again about six months after the war, and gotten married six months later, about a year after the war. They figured they had wasted enough time as it was. BJ was the only member of the 4077th present at the wedding. Then, around their first anniversary, Danny (named after Hawkeye's father) was born.

All the other members of the 4077th were arriving the next day for the 5-year reunion. They had kept in touch, but not that well. Now they would. Hawkeye had a reasonably sized house, a big back yard, and the beach only a short drive away so he wanted to have the reunion at his house.

Hawkeye arrived at the airport, checked his watch, and sighed. He had left at 1 pm, so it was now 2, and BJ wasn't due until 3. He couldn't wait to see his best friend again. Looking around, he decided to kill the hour in the café.

short chapter length, I know, but it'll have to do.