Disclaimer: I don't own MASH, not even on DVD... If I did, like many others, there wouldn't have been a goodbye kiss in GFA because they wouldn't be going seperate ways!
Author's Opening Notes: And now we begin to see the differences between Margaret's dream life and real life take shape...
To Margaret, they were married, they shared the same bed. As far as Hawkeye knew, though, they never had, not even in that abandoned hut. They had both wanted to that night, but she was still married to Donald, and he simply did not bend on his rule; 'Ring on her hand, hands off.'
It had taken some time, but he had finally convinced her, as a doctor, that they shouldn't be doing anything in the shape she was in. She assumed he meant having been unconscious for a week, but he knew that by 'the shape she was in' he meant her memory, or lack thereof. But he was willing to stay with her, which was why he was in a chair in her tent - again. Somewhere around the hundreth patrol of the guard out in the compound, Hawkeye had finally decided he couldn't sleep, so he had begun looking around for something to read.
Which was when he had found Margaret's diary...
What he read inside changed everything he had 'known' since coming to Korea...
-Flashback, Christmas time, 1950, Real Life-
He'd kissed her! That- That- That COMPLETELY UNmilitary CAPTAIN had KISSED HER!
But that wasn't what was irking Major Margaret Houlihan, no, what was bothering her wasn't that Captain Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce had kissed her...
It was that she had liked it. Not only had she liked it, but she had returned it.
"Why?" Margaret asked to her empty tent later, when she had recovered from the kiss, "Why?"
She wasn't asking why he had kissed her, she knew that - to annoy her and Major Burns, she was asking why she had kissed him back... And she didn't like the answers she was coming up with.
/He's the only person in camp who not only won't let you browbeat him, but fights back./
"Which just proves he has no respect for authority," she countered.
/He's got a great sense of humor./
"He can't take anything seriously."
/He's an excellent surgeon./
"He can't even be serious in OR!"
/He stands up for his beliefs./
"He's stubborn!"
/He goes out of his way to help anyone who needs it./
Margaret didn't have a response to that one.
/And he's got a cute body./
"Where the hell did that come from?"
With a groan, Margaret dropped onto her cot and fell asleep...
Author's Closing Notes: I'm probably gonna get blasted by someone for claiming that nothing happened in the hut, but Hawkeye refused to shoot a gun at anyone when they were trying to kill him and Colonel Potter, so I don't think an abandoned hut and a lot of shelling would cause him to break one of his own personal rules.