Title: Sacrifices
Rating: PG
Summary: They hurt, but sacrifices are necessary when you're a priest.
Pairing: Hawkeye/Mulcahy, but it's all implied.
Disclaimer: I obviously don't own this since the show started and ended before I was even born.

Father Mulcahy loved being a priest. He loved helping others, listening to others, representing Jesus and God, everything.

Well, almost everything.

Priests had vows. One of which required them to remain celibate.

Physical attraction was easy to control. Love, not so much.

It hurt sometimes, to love someone and not being able to tell that person, to act on it, to give into temptation and just be two people in love.

It hurt nearly all the time, to know that the person he loved could very easily love him as well.

It hurt always, to sit back and watch that person go after everyone they could have so as to forget about the one they couldn't.

It hurt them both.

But it was the way it had to be.

Because Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy loved bing a priest, and priests had to make sacrifices.

He was willing to make them.

Even if one of those sacrifices happened to be the person he loved.

Even if one of those sacrifices happened to hurt the person he loved.

Even if one of those sacrifices happened to hurt himself.

End