OH4H: Thanks to all my reviewers, your reviews give me a warm and fuzzy feeling! I'd just like to remind you all that my chapters are short because I don't have much time to write them, it's been a mad house around here lately so anytime I can get to write is good. The Italics are Margaret's thoughts. Thank you!
Margaret sat in Post-Op re-reading the note for the hundredth time. She almost screamed when she first read it. Margaret didn't know what she was going to do, her mind was full of questions. She had narrowed the millions of questions she had, down to the two that worried her the most, "Does he remember? What's going to happen now?" Margaret heard a sound and quickly jammed the note into her pocket. She looked up and it was the one person she really didn't want to see at that moment.
"Hey Margaret," Hawkeye didn't know if Margaret remembered or had a note, but he wasn't planning on giving anything away.
"Hello Hawkeye," Margaret was completely confused, she wasn't sure if Hawkeye had a note, if he remembered or what. She tried to think things out.
"If Pierce has a note, he's not saying anything. Why isn't he saying anything? Am I not good enough for him?" Margaret started to get angry at Hawkeye just from what might be going on. "He might not remember, or have a note. But then why did I have a note?"
"Margaret?" Hawkeye was looking at her strangely and she snapped out of her thoughts.
"Yes Pierce?" Margaret looked at him trying not to show any emotion.
"I asked if there's anything I need to know?"
Margaret was shocked, he knew!
"BJ said something," he continued
"BJ knows? How?"
"and he said that Corporal Michaels had a high fever." Hawkeye looked at Margaret for confirmation.
"Oh, yes, well, his fever's gone down quite a bit and he's just a bit warm right now, and Private Graham is doing much better, and Corporal Denson was having some abdominal pain but it's subsided." Margaret wanted to kick herself for being so paranoid, thinking that BJ knew, what was next? Her nurses? She nearly laughed.
"Wait a minute, when I came in…I had the note on my shirt and…oh no! Did Able read the note?"
"Margaret are you alright, you're white as a sheet."
"Yes, I'm fine Pierce."
"If you say so."
And so began, the longest Post-Op shift of Margaret and Hawkeye's lives.
