PART THREE
ONE MONTH LATER
It was another warm day with rain included and all the doctors and nurses were hard at work mending the wounded and wouldn't you know it they ended up with a sniper. Everyone was pinned down and poor Jess was nowhere near her tent where her own gun was stashed sent to her by the very same Harry Truman. She was stuck in the pre op area along with most of the camp.
"Colonel Potter we have to do something there's sick patients' out there possibly dying" said Margret
"There's nothing we can do for the moment its daylight out and we can't get to the phone" said Colonel Potter
"I can't believe it a camp full of people too scared to move" said Jess
"Well if you're not so scared why don't you do something" said Frank
"You know Frank that's the best idea you've had the whole time I've been here" Hawkeye grabbed her arm.
"You can't you'll be shot" she snatched her arm away
"That's a risk I'm willing to take, you know... never mind" and she rushed out the door and ran to her tent. The sniper shot at her the whole time and missed with every shot. She grabbed the large black box she kept under her bed and rushed back to the pre op ward, the second she got there Frank started again.
"Told you she's scared she didn't do anything"
"I'm not scared I'd just so happens I needed this box from my tent"
"What's in it" said Hawkeye
"A gun" she opened it and in side was a non government issued snipers rifle with an infra red piece "I noticed from the angle of the bullets that the best place to shoot from would be just outside the door of pre op"
"There has to be another way"
"There isn't I can't promise he won't be dead"
"Just do your best" said Colonel
"Colonel" said Hawkeye
"Peirce, she has to do her job, this is the reason she's here" by this time she had finished putting the gun together and located the sniper.
"Alright wish me luck" no one said anything and she stepped outside calmly she came around the side of a jeep and raised the gun to the bushes on the other side of the camp and shot at the sniper he got off one shot before the silence of a dead man befell the camp. "Someone want to get a medical bag and come with me to check on him" She ended up with Hawkeye following her over; she broke into a short jog to get it over with. When she got there she knew the sniper was beyond help because half of his skull was missing where she shot him.
"This is why I didn't want anyone to shoot anyone because it would be one more human being dead in this stupid war"
"I'm sorry Hawkeye I tried to shoot low but it's a little hard to shoot blind" Hawkeye noticed the pool of blood at her feat that didn't belong to the dead North Korean sniper.
"You've been hit"
"Its superficial" she said as she made her was back to camp and when she got there she asked B.J to check her out because the simple fact every time Hawkeye touched her, her belly did flip flops and it was getting to the point where she could barely stand it. Hawkeye however liked to watch her but it would be a cold day in hell before he'd admit it.
ONE WEEK LATER
There was a knock on Father Mulcahy's tent door "Come in" he said as he sat at his desk writing to his sister the sister. Jess stepped inside and said
"Father could I trouble your ear for a moment"
"Of course my child, please come inside and have a seat"
"No thank you I'd rather stand and pace if you don't mind" she began the pacing almost immediately.
"Of course my dear what's on your mind?"
"Normally I would just keep it to myself but normally I would understand and it's not understanding why he's doing this to me that's killing me inside, before I came here I was supposed to get married but he couldn't handle a female being so tough, I had to be because there was a fifty, fifty percent chance I would ever have kids. I had an operation when I was five I developed a tumour on my right ovary and they had to take it out, apparently it damaged it and then when I was here I apparently got shot and the bullet severed my left fallopian tube. Even though the good doctor Hawkeye could save my life he couldn't save that one part of me so now I'll never be a mother" the Father looked quite uncomfortable when he said
"I'm sorry my dear but I'm not quite following you, just who are you talking about" she looked at him with a dumb expression on her face and then she remembered who she was talking to... a priest. The only two in the camp who hadn't figured it out for themselves was Father Mulcahy and Hawkeye.
"I'm sorry Father I was talking about Hawkeye"
"Ahh" he said with an all knowing look in his eye "I see"
"No you don't Father let me explain" she stopped pacing and sat in the chair he had offered before "He operated on me and saved my life, first he said he couldn't touch me because I was his patient and now he runs away from me, if he sees me coming his way he goes the opposite direction. I've watched him hit on every female in this camp except me, If I'm standing in a group of nurses he goes out of his way to ignore me. He wouldn't even spare me a second to talk about it. It's like I don't exist to him and it hurts Father it really hurts and I don't know what to do about it"
"I see, have you tried telling him how you feel"
"I tried but every time I open my mouth he's busy, Father I have another confession I've been deceiving everyone here, if he knew who I am he'd really get a shock. That little secret is really starting to burn you see I'm not just called Jess, Father please don't tell anyone this"
"Oh I won't"
"In my family either you sign up or you get guilted in to signing up the Mc Carthur's don't favour male or female everyone has to do their duty"
"You mean..."
"Yep I'm Jessica Amiliontnet Mc Carthur General Mc Carther's youngest sister"
"Now I see, you feel you have something to prove so you don't tell anyone your last name"
"No I see on a daily basis how much people go out of their way to please brass just imagine what they would do if they knew my last name"
"You don't give it because you don't want to be fawned over"
"Exactly, Thankyou Father it's really helped to get this off my chest, so to speak" she got up to leave when the Father said
"And what are you going to do about Hawkeye"
"Father If you come up with an idea I'm all ears but until then I'll just have to keep on going, thank you father" and she left leaving poor Father Mulcahy with quite a dilemma. Jess was walking to her tent when Radar handed her a letter from Harry Truman's office. "Thank you Radar"
"You're welcome mam" and he scurried away, Jess thought he was always such a nice person and always said hello to her, why couldn't Hawkeye be the same. She looked across the compound and there he was chatting up a nurse not even paying the slightest attention to anyone else. She kept walking and ended up in her tent. She sat on her bed and tore open the letter needless to say it was not good news. She yelled "NO" at the top of her lungs distracting even Hawkeye. Every single eye in the camp was on her tent as she ran straight to the office where Radar had just got back to his desk. She burst in the door. "Get me Harry Truman's office now" Colonel Potter came out of his office having heard everything starting at her tent. He nodded the ok to Radar and he began to put through the call. When he handed her the phone he stood next to Colonel Potter who whispered
"You'd better get the officers in here right away and the padre"
"Yes sir" said Radar as he ran out the door. Just as the officers bundled through the door with Father Mulcahy close behind the phone finally connected to Harry Truman's secretary
"Get me Harry now"
"I'm sorry mam but he's sleeping at the moment"
"THEN WAKE HIM UP" she yelled down the phone,
"I can't do that mam"
"Look you miserable little squirt either you get me Harry Truman now or Ill come down there and make you wish you'd never been BORN and I don't care how long it takes me to get there" the next thing she knew a very sleepy Harry was on the other end of the line,
"Hello"
"It it true"
"Is what true"
"Is Antony Mc Carther dead?"
"Oh Jess, I'm very sorry"
"You're lying" she began to cry silently now, with all the crap shed been through this is what it took to make her cry the death of her slightly older brother. "Please tell me you're lying"
"I'm not, he was shot point blank, if it will make you feel any better he died instantly he felt no pain, Um while you're on the phone any answer to those orders I sent you" the gall of this man asking such a question when her brother just died.
"No, no answer as such thank you" and she hung up she tried to compose herself before she turned around but she could only do so much.
"Colonel why have we been summoned like this" whined Frank
"Yes why" said Margret
"Jess here has just lost her brother..."
"Well I fail to see what that has to do with me" scoffed Frank. That was it that was what gave Jess the strength to turn around with a look of murder in her eyes
"No I don't suppose you would, Frank Burns the hart less Ferret face of the 4077 or you Major Houlahan, you're almost as bad as Frank"
"You tell em" said Hawkeye
"Gee Hawkeye that's the first three words you've said to me while looking at me since I was your patient. I mean what the hell is wrong with you, don't you care if someone around here actually gives a damn about you, no I don't suppose you do if you even smell me coming you run away scared and you B.J. Why did you have to be so nice, Radar I've made a decision would you call Harry Truman back and tell him I will take the orders and I'll leave first thing in the morning, god knows there's nothing keeping me here? Now if none of you mind I'll be taking my shower then I'll start packing" Jess just about ran from the room.
"Gees what did I do" said Hawkeye
"You really have no clue do you" said Father Mulcahy
"Not a clue would someone enlighten me please"
"Hawkeye the girls in love with you any one can see that"
"Apparently not everyone, No she can't be"
"She is" said everyone in the office all at the same time
"Ok, ok no need to shout" he said as he exited the office with BJ following
"So what are you going to do?"
"Well first of all I'm gonna have a drink and then I'm going to talk with her, on second thought I'm just gonna talk with her"
Jess was in the shower crying under the water when Hawkeye barged in "Why didn't you say anything you could have saved everyone a lot of trouble and heart ache if you'd just spoke up"
"Figures you finally find the courage to speak a whole sentence to me and I'm completely naked" she looked down at herself "and wet what, are you afraid I'm hiding something in my clothes" then she dropped the soap "Damn" she bent over to pick it up and Hawkeye felt something move. Something he'd never felt before. She put the soap in her soap dish and shut off the water then she said with a helpless look on her face "He's gone Hawkeye, the only person in this world who really mattered to me and he's gone" she was absolutely devastated and crying in front of Hawkeye, in two seconds he'd opened the stall door and was holding her while she cried her heart out. "Hawkeye I'm all wet" she said as soon as she could.
"It's my favourite kind of girl"
"Then I should have done this sooner but I doubt I would have got any reaction from you, you were going out of your way to ignore me"
"Only because I didn't know what to say to you"
"And now" she said as she looked up at him with her breasts pushed up against him in a very provocative way. What else could he do except lean down until their lips were almost touching and say
"Am I going anywhere" he kissed her then, the man with the wandering hands was kissing her in the woman's shower and he didn't stop until Major Houlahan came in.
"What's going on here" she said in her official toan
"Not much" said Jess which sent Hawkeye into hysterics. "Could one of you please hand me my robe my bottoms a little chilly" Hawkeye let her go and gave handed her, her robe.
"This is highly inappropriate Peirce"
"Major maybe if you get your head out of the clouds for a moment you might see there are others here who need a little caring from time to time what am I saying you've used up all your caring on Frank" He walked out leaving Major Houlahan in a huff
"I don't know what you see in that man"
"That's easy; he's always there when I need him, Oh Major I'd like to apologise for my outburst earlier"
"It's alright I understand what you're going through"
"Thank you Major your really not a bad person and you do have a heart, I'll be leaving tomorrow and I was wondering if you'd keep an eye on Hawkeye for me while I'm away you know keep him out of trouble" she smiled at Jess
"Of course I will" Jess walked over to her tent with no interruptions but in the back of her mind she knew that all eyes in the camp were on her. When she entered her tent Hawkeye was only a step behind her and locking the door. Hawkeye had changed into his robe Jess guessed he didn't want to be left out since she was wearing hers as well.
"Hawkeye a double feature in the same day"
"I'd like to give you a reason to stay"
"And what's that, rats, dysentery"
"I can show you better than I can tell you" and just like that she was in his arms again kissing him like there was no tomorrow, which technically for them there wasn't. She broke the kiss as suddenly as they started.
"Hawkeye, you're not wearing anything under your robe"
"I know I thought I'd try something new" she kissed him and pulled away
"It's not a bad thing to try"
"There are some things I'd like to try with you" with Jess wearing nothing but the robe she backed away a little almost to her bed. She undid her robe slowly and dropped it to the floor.
"Where would you like to start" Hawkeye came forward and lay her down on her double bed, not army issued.
"I'd like to start at your ear and never stop" and he proved it by kissing her right temple then he kissed feather light kisses down her neck while caressing her nipple. He nipped at her neck with his teeth and she sighed with delight. Her body moved against him like she wanted more. The pleading for more was even in her voice and she sighed "Hawkeye". He stopped kissing her "Hawkeye" she protested.
"I want to take this slow, I want this to be a night neither of us will ever forget" he said
"I can promise you neither of us ever will" he continued to kiss feather light kisses down her body till he got to her breasts. He took one into his mouth and she arched her back with pleasure. "Hawkeye stop" he stopped and looked into her eyes,
"Why is something wrong?"
"No, I just wanted to do this" she said right before she flipped him on his back and stripped him of his robe and his boots.
"If you'd left them on we could have been dirty together" she leaned in close to his ear and said
"And what makes you think this won't be dirty" she began to do the same to him but when she took him into her mouth he pulled her up his body.
"Now that's naughty"
"What you didn't like it"
"On the contrary I liked it a little too much" she motioned for him to sit up and he did,
"Then you're going to really like this, cross your legs" He crossed his legs like she asked, then she sat astride him with her legs wrapped around him, they wrapped their arms around each other, he slipped into her with ease and she began to grind her hips against his making them both moan softly into each other's mouth. She continued the same movement until it wasn't enough for either of them. "I have another idea"
"What's that" he said
"Lay on your back, but slowly", slowly he lay down. Jess lifted her bottom so he could straighten his legs. She sat astride him and slowly moved up and down his shaft keeping his gaze as she went till he closed his then she threw her head back arched her back and moaned loudly. Hawkeye opened his eyes and grabbed her body pulling her down on top of him, surprising her in the process. He shushed her with a kiss. Then he wrapped his arms around her rolling both of them to the side as he did, they rocked against each other till finally they climaxed together. After they lay snuggled up together under the covers.
"Stay with me tonight"
"I'll stay with you any night and every night"
"I'm leaving in the morning"
"But you'll be back right"
"Right, I'll come back eventually" It wasn't till now it dawned on him, they hadn't used any protection and he hadn't pulled out like he usually did. He was so wrapped up in her he didn't realise till now.
"We may have a problem"
"Oh, what's that?"
"We weren't very safe"
"You realising that now too"
"I was just so wrapped up in you I didn't notice till now"
"And I was wrapped up in you but what's the chance, you yourself told me. It's highly unlikely"
"Right" she kissed him, "Highly" she kissed him again, "Unlikely" she kissed him one more time and they started all over again.
In the morning a jeep was ready to take her to the front and all she had to put in it was herself. She stood before Radar "Good bye Radar" then she hugged him, next was Major Houlahan, "Margret, I'll miss you" Margret smiled
"I'll miss you too you shook things up here and your food I'll never forget that"
"I'll come back and I'll make you, your favourite, beef bourgeon" Margaret hugged her good buy.
"You're the best friend I've ever had here"
"And your mine" all she had to say to frank was "Good bye Frank" B.J was up next "Good buy B.J thanks for being so nice to me" she hugged him.
"Come back and we'll be nice to each other"
"I will" next was Colonel Potter she hugged him straight away,
"You take care now"
"I'll have to, otherwise you'll be eating world war two rations" they smiled at each other before she moved on. Last on her list was Hawkeye, dressed in his kaki and robe. She stood before him not sure what to do or how to go about it, "Hawkeye" she started to say when he pulled her quickly into his arms kissing her within an inch of her life. Her arms circled his neck and his arms circled her waist. The others quietly stood there looking a little uncomfortable, they began to whistle. Hawkeye and Jess pulled slightly apart
"You could ignore the orders and stay here with me"
"I can't Hawkeye, but I promise you I will be back" she kissed him again this time shorter and then she got in the jeep. As she was driven away the small group dissipated and it was then Hawkeye realised the whole camp had watched Jess's farewell.