Thank you all so much for all the reviews. I'm so happy that you all like this as much as I do. I hope you all like this next part.

A/N - Part of this next part is a flashback to Comrades in Arms, but done a little differently.

Margaret blinked her eyes as she tried to get them to focus when she opened them, she raised her head looking into the face of the man next to her, For a brief moment she remembered another time she had woken up like this, only this time was much better. She closed her eyes again and snuggled back into Hawkeye's bare chest, she casually ran her fingers through his dark chest hair. As she drifted back off to sleep her thoughts took her back to that abandoned hut.

"I'll sleep over here, Oh, I think I should warn you. If you come over here for any reason during the night, announce yourself. I intend to swing this to kill. Good Night ." Margaret said as she made a line onto the dirty floor of the hut that she and Hawkeye were calling home for the night.

The sound of exploding shell fire suddenly woke up Hawkeye. "What! What! What!"

"Stop it! Will you stop it?" Margaret cried out as she raised herself up onto her knees

"Margaret, wait a minute," Hawkeye called out to her as he made his way over.

"We're people! You can't shoot at us like we're animals! You want to drive us crazy? You want us to go insane? Is that what you want?

"Shut up!"

"Why don't you let us have one hour of sleep in peace?"

The sounds of the shelling seemed to be getting louder all around them, causing Margaret to get more afraid. "Stop it! Stop it! You don't even know whether we're Americans or Chinese or Koreans!"

"Margaret, come here." Hawkeye moved to take her into his arms

"I'm sorry. I'm afraid."

"Me too. So am I."

"I don't like being afraid. It scares me." She cried into his arms.

"Me too. I'd feel a lot braver if I weren't so scared."

"Please hold me."

"I'm holding you." ( The sounds of shell fire keep getting louder as the hut was shaking around them. )

"I can't feel it. Hold me. Hold me."

"Margaret, I'm holding you."

They were now as close to each other as they could, both pressed into each other's bodies, faces mere inches apart, as the shelling continued to escalate, both screaming and begging for their lives, "Will you cut it out?"- "You want to kill us? For cryin' out loud,?"- "Cut it out"- "Stop it! Will you stop it?"-"Just leave us alone!"-"Will you cut it out!"

Both looked deep into each other's eyes and as their lips touched the others, suddenly they found themselves being pulled together by some magnetic force beyond their control. Hawkeye wrapped his arms around her tighter, as Margaret, pulled his face closer to hers. Each getting lost in the other one.

Before they realized it they found themselves lying on the floor of the hut, giving into the sensations pulsing between them, they started trying to remove the barriers of clothing between them wanting to feel each other, not wanting to hold anything back anymore.

Hawkeye looked deep into Margaret's eyes one last time, all he saw was trust and possibly love shining back at him, but would it be enough? Would they end up having regrets about what was about to happen? He got his answer when he heard her soft voice in his ear, "Please Hawk, I don't want to be afraid, take away my fears, make me forget."

The sound of thunder outside the hotel room window suddenly startled Margaret wide awake, she grabbed ahold of Hawkeye, digging her nails into his bare shoulder blade, the action jerked him wide awake, "Margaret are you okay?"

"The... The.. thunder it reminds me of shell fire."

He pulled her as close to him as he could, wrapping his arms tightly around her while pressing his lips next to her ear, "It's going to be okay, I've got you, just like that night back in the hut, I won't let anything happen to you."

"Just hold me, please just hold me."

"I'm holding you, Margaret, I'll never let you go." He stroked her blond hair, keeping his lips next to her ear. "Shhh I've got you." He placed soft sweet tender kisses on her ear.

She felt herself starting to relax more, taking a chance she looked into his piercing blue eyes, she let herself get lost in them just like she'd done many times she'd been with him In surgery, now they sat wrapped in each other's arms waiting on the storm to pass. As the sounds of the thunder continued to rumble Margaret was trying to calm her frightened mind. "Tell me a story."

"A...story?"

"Yes, anything."

"Okay... We'll... Once upon a time, there was a doctor and a nurse, and well the doctor was extremely handsome, and the nurse didn't think so, She only had eyes for a ferret-faced other doctor..."

"Pierce..."

"Shhh, Margaret." He said placing his fingers on her lips.

"Now the handsome doctor, wasted all his time trying to get other nurses to like him, 'cause he knew the one nurse he secretly liked wouldn't ever like him, until one night when they were alone, they both acted on their longing feelings towards each other..."

Margaret gazed into Hawkeyes, blazing blue eyes. "So..."

"I'm getting to the good part; now faced with what he wanted he was suddenly afraid, because, the nurse was now married to another man, this scared him, and caused him to react differently than he had wanted to. See he wanted to tell her how much he loves her, how he wanted her to be his one and only nurse for the rest of his life, that he wanted a little girl that looks just like her, but he was scared he'd push her away him... "

Margaret placed her hand on his lips, "You wanted to be with me back then?"

"I did then and I still do now. Marry me."

She wrapped her arms around his neck, "Yes! A thousand times Yes!!!!"

Hawkeye jumped out of the bed, and grabbed his jacket reaching into the pocket and pulling out the red velvet box, he went back over to bed and handed the box to Margaret. She sat there stunned beyond words. "Open it."

She carefully opened the box up pulling out the rose gold ring with red rubies, "Hawkeye, this is stunning..."

He smiled as he took out the ring and slipped it onto her ring finger on her left hand, placing a kiss after the ring was in place. "Now the nurse belongs to the doctor."

Margaret smiled; "She always has deep down,"

Hawkeye took her into his arms pushing them both down onto the mattress, sealing their new engagement.

Well here's chapter 3, please drop a review!!!!!!