"Beej, if Annie tries to get me to talk about anything, stop her okay?" Hawkeye asked.

"Why?"

"If she does, I lose twenty dollars and a drink." It was 0700 hours and after informing Potter we had not gone AWOL overnight, we were trying to feel awake.

"Why should I help your cause? It's your bet, you take it as it comes." BJ was too tired to know Hawkeye was joking and his morals were at work.

"Hawkeye, it's a losing battle there." I chuckled, sitting down with a tray of food. I took one bite and gave up. I was too tired to eat, I'd felt like I'd just completed a long OR shift, yet all I'd done was play poker till 4am. Three hours sleep wasn't enough.

"You're exhausted Annie, I bet if I say 'sleep' 3 times you'll drop right off." I looked sceptical. "Okay then, sleep. Sleep. Sleeeeep . . ." His eyes closed and he fell asleep. His hypnotism had worked, on himself and BJ. The sight of the two men sleeping made me tireder and I dropped off, my head leaning on Hawkeye's shoulder.

"ATTENTION ALL PERSONNELL, CHOPPERS! YOU KNOW THE DRILL! BOTH SHIFTS REPORT TO OR IMMEDIATELY!" I was jerked roughly awake.

"Annabelle, may I request your assistance?" I looked up, I was paired with BJ, but Charles was calling for me across the room.

"OK Charles," I replied and surprisingly I worked well with him. BJ and I were good, but when Charles and I paired up, we were a team to rival Hawkeye and Margaret.

We kept working till lunchtime, and we took turns of having breaks. Hawkeye and I got off together and as we headed to the Mess Tent for lunch, I casually started chatting.

"Ben darling, do you think we'll ever get out of here?"

"One day my sexy little Captain, one day."

"What's going to happen then?" I knew in the twenty minutes we had, I would have to get the talk out of Hawkeye I needed to win the bet.

"I'm going to take you home, and you can meet my dad and all the wonderful people in the Cove, you'll love it."

"I was born there." I reminded him dryly, I had arrived in the Cove's small hospital.

"Really, what a coincidence, so was I! We can have a big wedding once we're settled. We'll invite EVERYONE; they'll all love you I'm sure. And we'll live in a house there and start a family and our four kids"

"Four?"

"Yep, four, two girls and two boys. They can go to the local school were I went! You should see the place in autumn, it's beautiful, god created new colours just for the leaves in Maine. I'll work in my dad's practice and he'll have you too, if you want to keep working. And we can take all your little brothers and sisters, on picnics by the coast. But is that what you want?" He stopped suddenly.

"Not exactly Hawkeye, but I think we can compromise." I chuckled softly.

"What ever it is you want, I'll move heaven and earth to give it to you."

"Ever since I was a little girl, I dreamed of a white wedding, loving husband, big house and lots of beautiful children."

"Amen,"

"A little boy named after his dad and his Uncle Jack."

"Benjamin Jack Pierce? It works out to BJ I love it!"

"And a little girl named Felicity and after our closest female friend."

"Felicity Margaret,"

"You read my mind, and a brother for Ben and a sister for Felicity and that's just a minimum. I want to work, but I want to be a mother more, so when I have children, I'm staying home. And we'd live in a beautiful house with my husband's mother."

"Husband's father,"

"And he could look after the kids when we go out. And we would go out, because our love would always be young, and we'd never tire of each other. And my husband would treat me like a queen. It's a fairytale, I know, but it's what I want."

"I'll do everything in my power so you get it. Are you serious about living with dad?"

"Yes, I'd love to, he's a wonderful man, plus I want him to deliver however many babies we have, all of them, he delivered me, so I think it'd be a real buzz for him."

"You know just what he'd like best! Dad is going to be nuts about you!"

"And we'd all get together, the whole family, his parents, my parents, his siblings, my siblings, our nieces and nephews, the lot, every second Sunday for a picnic. We'd have huge get togethers for birthdays, weddings, anything!"

"Well we can your lot lives in the Cove now. Which of your siblings are still at home?"

"Jemima, Nathaniel, Grace, Matthew, Alice, Lily and Chris would be if he weren't here somewhere. And Andrew lives with Rachael, her husband Steve and Corey their baby."

"Where does Andrew come in again I get confused?"

"He and Eve were born just after my real dad died. They come before Mimi and Joe, and after Jeremy. He's got some mental retardation; long birth I think and he can't enlist. He needs help in everything that's where Rachael comes in, she cares for him."

"I see. Do you know you're working twenty dollars out of my pocket very quickly?"

"I am? Oh, now what do you think of the names I picked so long ago?"

"I like them, Annie, I thought I was eloquent, but you take the cake. You're very beguiling, you just conned me into that little heart-to-heart. Thus being, I am losing the bet Annie, but not if I refuse to talk for the remainder of our lunchbreak. You won't have gotten the ten minutes in." I laughed.

"Well, I have my ways of making you talk."

"And they'd be?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?" I smiled, mysteriously and seductively.

"Well, I would, tell me please."

"Nup!" I laughed.

"Please Annie my sexy little Captain?"

"No, you'll work it out in time." I chuckled.

"I'll be your best friend? Tell me how you'll make me talk, oh. I see I am talking now."

"Mmm hmm," I smiled when Hawkeye made a 'note' on an invisible pad of paper.

"What was that Hawkeye?"

"A list of all the times you've bettered me."

"Like?"

"Like yesterday morning, with you and Beej, when I forgot my shift. And when I asked about you and BJ and you said you were like Margaret and I, and just now, when you won twenty dollars." He finished, handing me two fives and a ten from his jacket that he'd thrown on before coming for lunch.

"Thankyou Ben dearest, now I believe our twenty minutes is up, BJ will be wanting lunch, so we'd better head back."

"Okay my sexy little you, but remember, sleep with one eye open, Hawkeye the vengeful doesn't allow himself to look stupid three times without getting the person responsible back." I laughed, not knowing what to expect, but not caring.

Hawkeye scooped me up in his arms, and smiling, carried me back to the OR.