The pair woke up the next morning still in each other's arms.

"Good morning Major Baby." Hawkeye said as he looked down at her with deep blue eyes.

"Good morning Captain Sexy." Margaret replied. She gave him a kiss and he deepened it. Hawkeye let his mouth travel down her neck, and, although Margaret enjoyed it, she noticed the clock out of the corner of her eye. "Ben?"

"Hmm.."

"Ben, we have to get ready. C'mon. I have to get a shower. So do you. You smell like sweat."

"I wonder why."

"C'mon. We have to get ready. We can do this when we get home tonight. For now, we'll just have to work side by side like professionals for the next eight hours. It'll be hard, but we can do it."

"Okay." Hawkeye pulled himself away from her and put some clothes on to go down and get breakfast ready. "You go get a shower first. I'd join you, but I don't think we'd make it to work on time."

Margaret came down dressed in her nurse outfit and Hawkeye had breakfast set on the table with some flowers in the middle. Daniel had already had breakfast and gone to work.

"These are for you. I got them yesterday when I went out for a coffee break." He said.

"Hawk, that's so sweet of you, thank you." She said pulling him into her arms and kissing him. She pulled back and he gave her a pleading look. She smiled seductively, pressed her finger to his nose and whispered "tonight. If you're good today."

Hawkeye smiled. "I'll be a good boy, I promise." He replied like a five year old. After breakfast he got up to get a shower and said "Margaret, I'm going to get a shower. Feel free to come in again without knocking." He winked.

He came down dressed in his black pants and the same blue top he had worn on their first "date". He got his white lab coat and briefcase from the study and they left together.

All morning long they were shooting longing glances at each other across the operating table. When their eyes met, Margaret would smile under her mask and Hawkeye got weak in the knees. He was in his office at the counter getting a cup of coffee when he felt someone come up behind him and slap him in the butt.

"Woah!" he said turning around to see Margaret smiling seductively. "I thought we had to be good today!"

"Nuh-huh! I said you have to be good all day and I'll be good to you tonight. I never said anything about me being good at all. I just came up here to see if you wanted to join me for lunch, and I saw you back on in those nice black pants of yours without your lab coat on and I just couldn't resist. C'mon, sexy. Let's go."

He followed her down to the cafeteria. "At least this stuff is better than the mess tent food" he said as they got their cafeteria slop.

"After what you cooked for me yesterday this stuff is horrible."

"You mean what I cooked for you in the kitchen or the bedroom?"

"Ben! There are people around! Plus, you have to be good remember?"

"I know, I know.it's just so hard." She gave him a look. "No! I mean it's hard to resist temptation! I didn't mean 'it'.you're disgusting!!"

"I get it from you."

"Yeah probably. Listen, I know we've done something special now both nights since we found each other, but being Friday night, we don't have to work in the morning, I thought we'd do something extra special. I called Ellie, and she's gonna take Dad over to her place, get a few drinks in him so he'll end up staying there tonight. We'll have the house to ourselves, okay?" He winked at her. She had no idea what he had up his sleeve.

"Okay, so we won't have a repeat of last night?"

"Nope!"

"Then is sounds great! I have to go. Pick me up at 6, okay?" She got up and left. Hawkeye sat and watched her. He always liked to watch her walk away.

He was just getting to leave his office that evening and was again standing up back on to the door getting his coat. All of a sudden, he felt someone pinch his butt.

"HEY!!" He turned around. "You pinched!! You pinch really hard!" Getting closer to her he mumbled as his mouth neared hers "And I like it." He gave her a passionate kiss.

"Hmmmm. Ben, let's go. We can do this once we get home, remember?"

"Okay. C'mon."

They got home to get ready. Hawkeye wouldn't tell Margaret what they were doing but told her to dress up fairly warmly. He put on a pair of jeans and a Boston University sweatshirt. Margaret put on her jeans and had on one of Hawkeye's sweatshirts. It was much to big for her, and when she came in Hawkeye's room he looked at her and said "I didn't know it was possible for a girl to look sexy in something so big on her, it's not tight, but leaves more to the imagination, which is very very sexy" He smiled as he came over to her and hugged her.

"Yeah, well I've never seen you in jeans and let it be my turn to stick my tongue out. Your ass looks even better than it did today so I might just have to slap it again" she said as she moved her hands down over his back.

"What is your fascination with my tushie today?"

"I've always liked it, I just never commented on it before because I was too nervous. Ever since I gave you that flu shot. I noticed then though I tried my best to show you I wasn't happy about the situation."

"Really? And I had no idea" He kissed her slowly. "Okay you just sit down in the living room, and don't go anywhere. I have to get some things ready."

As she sat there she could hear him bustling about in the kitchen making a racket. Finally he came out with a huge picnic basket and said "C'mon, let's go!"

They walked through the trees behind the house until they came upon the beach. There was a little wharf with an sailboat tied to it. "This is the Sandy Lynn. Named after my mother. I got it before Korea, but Dad kept it up for me while I was gone. Come on." He took the basket, led Margaret into the boat and sat her down, passing her a lifejacket. "Not to alarm you, but for safety. Put it on."

He put on his own lifejacket and climbed aboard. He untied it, and guided it out into the sea.

"Hawkeye! You can operate, cook, sing, you're great in bed, and now I find out you can sail too! What else can you do? What other hidden talents have you been hiding from me?"

He looked at her suggestively "I'll show you later."

"Where are we going?"

"You'll find out." The followed the coastline for about 20minutes. They were past Crabapple Cove and didn't seem to be anywhere near civilization. Hawkeye moored the boat a little ways off of a secluded beach. There were rocks all around and formed a type of cave sheltering around the sand, so there was no wind. In order to get the boat closer so Margaret could get out he hopped out of the boat and into the water.

"BEN? What are you doing?"

"I'm bringing the boat in." He said as he grabbed a rope and started pulling towards the shore.

"Let me help."

"It's awful cold here. I know you're not used to it. Hold on I'll -- -" SPLASH!

Margaret had jumped in next to him. They pulled the boat in and tied her on to a makeshift wharf. Then Margaret decided to have some fun. As Hawkeye was wadding towards shore, she jumped up behind him and he fell in the water, but he grabbed onto her so they both tumbled in. They swam around a bit, splashing each other playfully until Hawkeye dove underwater. Next thing Margaret knew, he came up behind her and started to kiss her neck. He knew the right spot and she fell into his arms.

"C'mon. I had a feeling this would happen, so I packed some extra clothes and blankets too." He picked her up and carried her towards shore. "I feel like a lifeguard saving a poor damsel in distress. I may just have to perform mouth to mouth resuscitation on you."

"And I may just have to let you."

They got to shore and Hawkeye pulled out some clothes.

"I'm soaked to the bone! Even my underwear is wet." Margaret complained.

"What'd you expect? Don't worry, I thought of everything. I even brought you an extra pair of underwear, socks, bra, and for good measures a condom."

"Someone thinks he's getting lucky, doesn't he?"

"Well.."

"Okay, I know you've seen me before, but look away. We'll both turn around and get dressed okay?"

"I will if you will."

They each grabbed their clothes and turned around. When Hawkeye had nothing but a shirt on, he felt that someone was watching him. He turned around to see and there was Margaret looking at him.

"Hey! You turned around! You didn't keep your promise!" Margaret said

"Hey neither did you! I think you have an obsession with my tushie."

They finished getting dressed, but with hair still wet they were a little cold. Hawkeye took out a blanket and wrapped around her. He took another blanket and set it on the ground and guided her to it. Next to it, he put some wood in a pile and started a fire. Once the fire got going he placed something with tinfoil wrapped around it on the fire. He went back to Margaret, and cuddled into her under the blanket.

"I brought you here because this is the only place I know we won't be disturbed. No one knows about this place. I found it one day when I was out in my boat. I never brought another person here or told anyone about it. So it's just you and me."

They sat silently for a long time, with no sounds but the waves on the shore and the sound of the fire. After a while Hawkeye got up, took two wine glasses out of the basket, and a bottle of champagne. He filled the two glasses and laid them next to him. Margaret watched him curiously as he went digging into the huge basket once again. He was placing something behind it, as if gathering up pieces of something and putting them where she couldn't see. Soon, he got up, bent down and picked up a dozen yellow roses. He picked up the glasses with one hand and the roses in the other, and handed them to Margaret.

He knelt down next to her to kiss her then gave her one of the glasses. They clinked them together and then he got up again. This time he fished in the basket he came up with two plates and two forks. He went over to the fire, took out the thing he had put in earlier and opened it to place some steaming fish onto each plate. He had scallops, shrimp, salmon and cod, and arranged some on each plate, went over handed one to Margaret and sat down.

"Ben, this is delicious! I LOVE you're cooking!"

"Yeah, well, it's just something I do. When mom died me and Dad each kind of took up things she used to do. Cook, clean. I know the Swamp was a mess, but usually, I'm a very clean person. A neat freak at times even."

"Thank you so much for the wonderful evening, Ben. You've just kept having one surprise after another. I never know what you're going to do next!"

"You haven't seen the half of it," he said as he smiled to himself.

They finished their dinner and drank their champagne as they watched the sun fade slowly into the ocean. Like they did the first time they watched the sunset, Margaret got between Hawkeye's legs and leaned back on his chest while he wrapped his arms around her. This time, he was doing what he had wanted to do the last time. He placed small, sweet kisses on her neck as they sat together. Not a word was spoken, just a soft mumble from either Hawkeye or Margaret, both enjoying the scene. After a while, Hawkeye got up, startling Margaret.

"Sorry, it's just I have one more surprise." He knelt down to face her. "Margaret, when we first met, I know we really didn't get along, but I know as well as you know we never hated each other as we let on. There was always something between us, something special. Later on, we became friends, and at one time in Korea, we were lovers. That ended in disaster because we just didn't know how to react to the feelings we had for one another. It scared us both. Neither one of us had experienced real, true feelings for someone like that before. I had a girl I thought would be mine, but it didn't work, because I loved medicine more. I thought it would always be my first love. Until now. I'd gladly give up my medical degree, the sun, the moon and the stars, all for you." He lifted up one leg so he was on one knee. He pulled out a little blue felt box and opened it, to reveal a ring. It was beautiful and left Margaret speechless. It was complex in all its simplicity. It was a gold band with ivy carved going around it, and one, simple diamond in the middle. "This ring was my mother's. Margaret Jane Houllihan, I love you more than anything else in this whole world and this whole universe. I love you now, and I love you more everyday and will always love you. Will you marry me?"

By now, tears were streaming down Margaret's face. "Oh Ben! Yes! I love you and I will marry you!" He placed the ring on her finger and came forward and hugged her, kissing her tears off of her cheeks.

"I don't want you to think of me as too cheap to buy a ring. I want only the best for my baby, and being chief surgeon, you'll never have to worry about that. It's just that the ring was my grandmother's and then my mother's. I thought it was only fitting for you to have it."

"Benjamin, I love it. It is beautiful!! I love you! I love this! I'm just so happy." She couldn't contain her self and burst into fresh tears, which he kissed away. The two kissed for a long time, before Hawkeye realized that it was dark out, too dark to get back.

"Margaret? I hate to tell you this but we won't be getting back tonight. Don't worry. I planned on this happening. I had thought we might be able to make it back in time, but I have a tent and everything we need on board. I'll just go get it." He hopped up into the boat grabbed a few things and jumped back down. He set up the tent and the two sleeping bags, which he zipped together to make one sleeping bag, and got everything for a little camp set up.

"Ben I didn't know you even camped! You seem like an expert outdoorsman."

"I've been doing this since I could talk. Me and Dad would come out into the woods and spend weekends together. I was 10 when Mom died, and we had plenty of time together then, so after that I took the trips to be on my own. I got plenty of experience camping, so you have no worries being with me."

"Did I mention I find rugged outdoorsmen sexy?" Margaret asked innocently.

"No, you didn't, but since you do, I guess it's good you're marrying me." He said with a huge grin. "God, I can't believe I'm actually saying that."

"I know. I love you."

"I love you too." He had brought a duffle bag to shore and was going through it when he said "Uh-oh! I thought I thought of everything, but, I forgot to pack pajamas." Hawkeye looked at Margaret suggestively.

"That's okay," She said seductively. "You were a good boy at work, and an extremely good boy here, doing all this for me. You won't be needing pajamas. C'mon, Captain sexy."

"Okay, Major Baby"

He smiled at her and led her into the tent where they enjoyed their first night as an engaged couple.