PART FIVE
Hawkeye stood between Farther Mulcahy and B.J waiting for his own bride to walk down the aisle. It was a very rare occasion and he was actually wearing his full dress robes and not his bathrobe, B.J also wore his dress robes too. The people of the 4077 MASH had really done a good job with the decorations and if Jess had anything to do with it the food would be great. When the 4077 needed something done they came together and did it. First Margret came walking down the aisle in a beautiful purple dress and a summer bouquet of flowers. Made by Klinger of course, then came Jess his bride being lead by Colonel Potter, she was dressed in the traditional white with floral lace long sleeves and a low neck line, at least as low as was acceptable. For once Hawkeye was speech less. Her normal straight black hair had been twisted up into a bun with curls hanging down around her face and some small white daisy's woven into the base of the bun and a vale covering her slightly tanned skin. Normally she looked hot but today she was beyond hot, she was breathtakingly beautiful. She finally reached him at the head of the group,
"Welcome friends, ladies and gentlemen, who give this woman to this man"
"I do" said Colonel Potter, Colonel Potter lifted her vale and kissed her on the cheek then stepped back. She took Hawkeye's hands in her's
"Are you ready" he nodded and smiled at her, and then Father Mulcahy began to speak,
"We'll begin by reading a passage from one of my favourites John,"
"Choppers" yelled Radar
"Father can you do the abbreviated version" said Colonel Potter
"Captain Benjamin Franklin Pearce do you take this woman to be your bride"
"I do" said Hawkeye
"And Jessica Amelionet Mc Carther do you take this man to be your husband"
"I do"
"Does anyone here have any reason why these two should not be married" he paused for less than a second to look around and when no one said anything he said "Then by the power vested in me by the lord Jesus Christ I now pronounce you husband and wife, you may now kiss your bride" Hawkeye was already kissing her before Father Mulcahy ended his sentence. The people of the 4077 were already running for the wounded but they did manage to throw the rice before they left.
"Hawkeye hurry up will you there's wounded here" said B.J "She'll still be there when you get back" Hawkeye was still kissing her when she pulled away,
"He's right you know I will still be here when you get back be it twelve, sixteen hours or three days"
"I know but you make a great lower lip sandwich and I don't want to miss any part of it" she gave him a quick kiss and said,
"Now go and save some lives" he smiled and left quickly, Jess went to change with a huge smile on her face. It was only six hours till they finished in OR and the party started, the Colonel had offered to give them a week's leave in Tokyo but they declined as it wouldn't be safe for Jess to travel in her condition and there was no way they were going to get her in a chopper. The food she had instructed the cook to prepare didn't perish because she'd thought of all the problems that may occur all except one. They were dancing to music when General Mc Carther and Antony Mc Carther came in the door.
"Would someone care to explain just what is going on here" said the General
"Ahh General Mc Carther how good of you to stop by" said Colonel Potter "We were just enjoying the festivities here at the 4077"
"And what festivities are they exactly" Jess was still dancing with Hawkeye when she saw her two brothers standing just inside the doors speaking quietly with Colonel Potter. She drew in a deep breath as they came forward and tapped Hawkeye on the shoulder. All Hawkeye could say was,
"Sorry General you'll have to get your own"
"Hawkeye," said Jess "These are my brothers Antony and who I affectingly refer to as bubby Carther" he stopped dancing with her and said
"Well in that case it's nice to meet you, in a strange sort of I'd rather be anywhere else but here sort of way"
"Who are you?"
"Sorry Captain Benjamin Franklin Peirce or Hawkeye, I'm..."
"He's my husband now" said Jess cutting Hawkeye off in the middle of a sentence. The General looked like he was going to explode.
"Is this true" said Antony, Jess nodded. Antony leaped forward and hugged them both "I am so happy for you"
"Thank you Antony"
"Antony may be easily pleased but I am not is this marriage real has it been consummated"
"It's real and yes and no, certain circumstances made us better off getting married" said Jess, Hawkeye just stood there dumbfounded she was actually going toe to toe with her brother, a general but not just any general the lead general.
"What does that mean?"
"God are you dense or do I have to spell it out dear big brother, I'm pregnant with Hawkeye's baby and were married, which means dear brother your too late" the General had an evil look about him.
"I can stop the paperwork you know then it wouldn't be a real marriage"
"You'd do that just to get to me wouldn't you, as long as I'm miserable your happy it's been like that ever since we were kids your always trying to control me and now when I'm finally happy and you actually have no say in what I do you'd go out of your way to try and sabotage my relationship. Well I can tell you buddy It won't work my paperwork has gone through Harry Truman's office not yours so just back off" he glared at her,
"Fine good luck getting far in this army"
"I don't want to and if you haven't noticed this is a medical hospital and also if you didn't know Hawkeye is a doctor so if and when I get back to the states I will be married to a man who's not afraid to care and to show a softer side of themselves"
"Antony, with me"
"I think you went too far this time sis" said Antony
"It's possible but if he doesn't like it, well that's just tough"
"I'm glad really I am" said Antony before rushing out the door behind the General.
"I'm sorry you all had to see that, being the only girl in the family is really hard sometimes" Hawkeye hugged her
"Did he really try to run your life?"
"He always has, thank you for staying quiet"
"Truthfully I didn't know what to say, just a thought can he get your orders changed and send you back to the state's"
"No, as I said my orders come directly from Harry Truman himself all he can do is delay them a while but he eventually has to send them on to me"
"Right, forgive me if I not a little confident about that"
"Hey" she said while turning his head towards her "Forget about them, we are here and we are together, that's all that matters ok"
"Ok" they kissed and the crowd erupted into shouts of woo and wolf whistles. Then Hawkeye picked her up and said "Ladies and gentlemen, germs and dysentery, as a poet once said thank you and good night" the people of the 4077 cheered as they left for Jess's tent where Hawkeye's belongings had been moved. He put her to bed and lay with her snuggled up to him.
"You know what would be nice"
"Oh and what's that"
"A shower am I allowed one of those"
"As long as you're careful"
"I'm sure you will be"
"Me why me"
"Well I thought if we couldn't be together in the biblical sense of the word you might like to bathe me"
"Waiter, check please" he said before helping her over to the showers, un-noticed by any of the partiers. He helped her undress then get into the shower.
"I think I'll just stay out here"
"Hawkeye, get in here" she said, that was all the encouragement he needed. He quickly took off his clothes and got in the shower with her. Slowly he began to bathe her, he started with her back as it had no stitches in it then he bathed her front. He was careful not to pull at any of her stitches and to only use minimal water then her legs and finally her bottom but she forced him to bathe that part of her from the front and considering he was already aroused by even the very thought of her naked this made it difficult for him to concentrate and to remember she was wounded.
"You know you're not making this very easy on me"
"Who said it was meant to be easy on you" she said before she kissed him
"Jess" he said in a warning toan you keep that up and I'll forget you're wounded she took the soap from him and began to soap his body by massaging his skin. When she got down to his groin she went around his penis and down his legs. "That's just mean" he said with a smile on his face. She continued down his legs then back up and only then did she massage his shaft and balls. She washed him off without giving him release, then she with the help of Hawkeye stepped out of the shower. He grabbed her towel before she could and towelled her off. Then he put her robe around her and she snatched the towel away from him.
"Now it's my turn" she said before starting to towel him off too. She did exactly what she did in the shower but with less massaging and less care till she got to his shaft which she slipped into her mouth.
"Oh, god" he said, his knees nearly buckled under him "Stop that anyone could come in" she took him out of her mouth and he almost begged her to do it again.
"That's the whole danger of it but if you'd prefer we can go back to the tent"
"We can't do that there or any where you're not well enough"
"But I feel fine"
"Your not" she did feel fine and to show him she put him back in her mouth. He was lost for words, at first it felt good then it felt really good and then he lost all care and that was when he let go and lost all care, bucking his hips a little he filled her mouth. Spent as he was he still had to get her back to the tent so putting his own robe on he guided her out of the showers and back to their tent. They lay on the bed snuggled into each other's arms.
"Told you I was fine" he kissed her till she slept. At about midnight he woke and felt something was not right. Jess was right there beside him and her face was contorted in pain.
"Hawkeye, please wake up"
"I'm up, I'm up where does it hurt"
"My stomach"
"Ok stay there, don't move"
"Hawkeye, don't leave me"
"It's ok I won't be long" he dashed out the door and bashed on Major Houlahan's door "Margret, Margret get up I need you" she opened the door all sleepy eyed
"What, whets happened"
"Jess's in pain and I need help"
"Ok, just tell me what to do"
"Wake Radar and get him to get the Colonel and B.J" he raced back to his and Jess's tent. He held her till the others arrived all except Radar who stood outside the tent waiting. The one person he didn't ask for was also standing in the tent to offer his suggestions. Jess was breathing short fast breaths
"Why are you breathing like that" asked the Colonel
"It helps with the pain" she said
"This pain is it short little ones or one long one"
"Just continues pain it doesn't let up"
"Did you two get up to any hanky panky" neither of them wanted to admit what happened in the shower earlier and technically they didn't so,
"No we didn't I knew she was in no condition for that" said Hawkeye
"In that case I'd say you missed something in there and all this moving around must have dislodged it and somehow it's started your labour, but no fear we can stop it and then find the piece of shrapnel and take it out, but first we need to get her over to the operating table" Burns and B.J carried her over on a stretcher and for once Burns was actually caring for someone else other than himself which was so out of character for him, he even scrubbed ready to help. But for this one even Hawkeye stood back and let the Colonel take the lead. Now campers here we go, Margret put the mask over Jess's face and she faintly remembered Hawkeye saying he'd see her when she woke up before she blacked out. They spent three hours on her which to her it seemed only a few minutes and then it was another four till she actually woke up. She looked over at Hawkeye and noticed they were not alone in the room. Colonel Potter, Margret, Burns, B.J and Radar were all there waiting. Margret had fallen asleep in her chair, Burns had lain out on the floor and Hawkeye, B.J and the Colonel were playing poker at the end of her bed in her tent.
"Ha a royal flush you both loose" said B.J
"You cheated, who taught you to play" said Hawkeye
"You did"
"I rest my case"
"I'd like to rest my case but I'm not going anywhere till I know she's out of danger"
"I know Colonel, you've all been there tonight, even Burns helped by being there and staying out of the way at the same time" said Hawkeye
"Yeah he's a first class gem, but you still lost three times in a row" said B.J
"I'm sorry If I've had my mind elsewhere tonight"
"And right you should be" Jess had been listening to all of this and she startled them when she said,
"Hawkeye" Hawkeye jumped from the edge of the bed to the top of the bed waking Margret and Burns up.
"What's going on cant a person get a little shut eye around here?"
"Jess's awake" Margret jumped up from the chair and Burns from the floor, only because he got trampled on.
"Why are you all here" Hawkeye began madly kissing her face before he said
"We nearly lost the both of you"
"How" she asked before attempting to sit up. Hawkeye and B.J helped her up.
"The shrapnel nicked a major artery and almost got the baby but we as in the Colonel got to it just in time"
"Colonel Potter, why didn't you do the surgery?"
"I couldn't" she squeezed his hand as if she understood but she didn't so she asked,
"Why couldn't you do it" he sighed exasperated she didn't understand,
"I couldn't because my heart was in my throat"
"Oh, you do really love me" while they had been talking Colonel Potter had been checking her like he had been doing every fifteen minutes for the past three hours and this check up was the best of them all.
"Well it looks like she's out of the bad part of the woods but not completely, Hawkeye keep an eye on her for a little while and no strenuous activities"
"Yes sir" they said in union
"Alright come on let's clear out and let the love birds alone for now" one by one they squeezed her shoulder and patted Hawkeye on the back except Frank, he was still a little too afraid to touch her. He just nodded to her and practically ran out the door. Leaving them finally alone hugging and kissing till they slept, with Jess in his arms he felt UN beatable, invincible even. The rest of her pregnancy passed with almost no problems. As soon as she was able too she returned to the kitchen granted she did a lot of sitting and even though when she got bigger it became near to impossible to get near the stove and she had to show Klinger and the cook how to make certain foods she still did it. She was two week's past her due date and Hawkeye was in surgery and he'd been there for the past six hour's when she felt her first labour pains it stunned her so much she dropped the doctor's lunch consisting of roast beef sandwiches and lettuce. She dropped the whole lot on the floor she'd had a small pain in her back all day but then it was normal that pain was always there and Hawkeye made it go away with his magic hands. She was ok for about a half hour when her water broke and she knew she was in trouble. She was stuck in the kitchen alone because everyone was over at surgery and a General had stolen the cook away for a conference. She slowly made her way over to OR, she walked straight in through the door.
"Jess mask" said Hawkeye "And where's lunch" she was already sweating just from the walk over and Hawkeye wasn't helping very much.
"Granted that you have been in here for a few hours I'll forgive you're out burst there, Ouch sweet Jesus"
"What did you stub your toe again" said Frank and she gave him an evil look even the devil would be afraid of.
"No Frank and if you speak again Ill choke you and this time I won't stop, wow that smarts"
"What smarts" said Hawkeye
"My question first, B.J are you free at the moment"
"I won't be for a while why" and then a big contraction hit, she grabbed the closest passing person who just happened to be Klinger and screamed in his ear.
"Holy crap I'm deaf" Klinger screamed back not because she screamed at him but because she was just about ripping his arm off. Hawkeye dropped his scalpel realising what was wrong.
"Beej you better help her" then it dawned on all of them they Hawkeye was going to be a daddy and very soon by the sound of it.
"Can anyone take this one off my hands?"
"I will B.J, nurse can you close for me" said Colonel Potter
"Can we have some quiet please" said Frank "Honestly how am I supposed to operate like this" Margret rolled her eyes.
"Kelly take over for me"
"Margret we always operate together" Margret changed with Kelly and went to help Jess up onto a table.
"You mean Margret always operates alone" said Hawkeye
"Would you all please shut up" said Jess "How long is this going to take" she moaned.
"Just let me take a look and I'll tell you" said B.J with his new gloves. B.J looked and said "O oh"
"What, what do you mean o oh, Hawkeye he said o oh"
"Hawkeye are you done over there" said B.J
"Yeah I'm done nurse close for me"
"You better get over here then" Hawkeye took off his gloves and threw them down on the ground while walking over to Jess. He grabbed her hand and said,
"What's wrong?"
"I have to turn the baby around and it's really going to hurt her"
"Hawkeye,"
"It's ok you'll be ok, you're in the best hands here" while he was talking she didn't notice B.J had put his hands on her but she felt it when he began to turn the baby around. She yelled obscenities into Hawkeye's ear and poor Hawkeye said
"Ahhhh" as she squeezed his had almost off. B.J stopped pushing the baby around
"Alright we should be ready to deliver" then Margret said,
"Doctor, the baby's heart rate's gone up"
"That's not good is it" said Jess
"No it's not, it means the baby has to come out now" said Hawkeye
"But isn't the baby coming out now anyway"
"Not soon enough" said B.J as they laid her down she felt a small prick then half of her body went numb.
"I can't feel anything"
"It's ok they just gave you a local anaesthetic" Hawkeye was holding her hand while he watched B.J cut her open and pull out their baby. He cut the cord and smacked the baby's bottom and the baby began to cry. He handed the baby over to Margret to clean it and he stitched Jess up. Margret handed the baby over to Jess and Hawkeye and said
"Here's your new baby boy" Jess cried
"What's wrong" asked Hawkeye
"Nothing, there's absolutely nothing wrong" she kissed Hawkeye and said "He looks just like you"
"Really I don't see it"
"You will" said B.J he kissed her again just before they carried her out into the post op ward and every nurse they past said "Aww" as soon as they past them. It was another six hours till Hawkeye was able to come and see them both and by then a screen had been put up and she was feeding their baby. From the second he saw them he felt his heart strings tug and then something stirred much much lower.
"You look amazing"
"Even after all that"
"Yep even after all that"
"So what are we going to call him?"
"I don't know do you have any suggestions" she smiled and said
"How about Hawkeye junior" Hawkeye smiled
"I like it"
"Like what" said Frank just walking in on a private moment which he was really good at.
"Like get the hell out of here, you don't just walk in on other people's private moments"
"Well tough it's time for her check up"
"I can do it"
"I'm the doctor on shift now and she's getting her check up from me" Hawkeye looked at Jess like he was saying your turn,
"Frank if you touch me or Ben here meaning the baby I will personally hurt you and I will enjoy every moment"
"And I'll help" said B.J coming around the screen Margret came up behind Frank and Colonel Potter was behind B.J. Klinger and Radar weren't far behind. They all came to see Jess and the baby but it was Colonel Potter who asked the question who everyone but Hawkeye was wondering.
"What are you gonna call the little tyke" he said as he played with the baby's hands. Jess looked a Hawkeye before saying
"We decided to call the baby Benjamin Franklin Peirce Junior so Hawkeye Junior" everyone laughed. They all commented on how cute the baby was before leaving them alone. "I have an order for a lower lip sandwich here"
"Oh really" he leant in for a kiss and the baby began to cry which made her burst out laughing.
THE END