One month later, Hawkeye and Margaret were sitting on the beach, watching the sunset. It was a Saturday, and both had the day off. They loved to spend them together, even though they saw each other at work, it just wasn't the same. They loved to sit and watch the sunset, the way they had when he proposed. Sitting together with Margaret's head on his chest, and he kissing her neck, lost in their own little world.

"Ben?" Margaret broke the silence. They usually had nothing to say when they watched the sunset; they just enjoyed it with the sound of the waves lapping on the shore. "I have something very important to tell you."

Right away he noticed she was being very serious, and knew something was out of the ordinary. I was a little worried. With concern, he asked, "What is it honey? Is there something wrong?"

She laughed a little. "No, no. Nothing like that. I went to your dad today and a had a little test done. I've got some great news." She took his hand and placed it on her belly.

He looked at her in awe. "Margaret-are you-am I-are we-?

"Yes Ben. I'm pregnant."

"You mean I'm gonna be a daddy?" He asked in disbelief. She nodded. She had tears in her eyes. He let out a whoop of joy and looked down and noticed she was crying. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. I was so nervous about telling you, I thought you'd be nervous, with, you know, what happened in Korea?"

"Margaret, I've learned to live with it. I'm fine now. I used to have nightmares before I found you, but ever since then I've had a good night's sleep, and I've been so happy! I told you before 'You and me and baby makes three, we'll be happy in my Blue Heaven.' I love you! I love you so much. And I love you!" He said with his nose right next to her stomach. "Hi there, I'm your daddy. Me and your Mommy, she's the one you're inside of, we created you. We love each other very much, and we love you." He kissed her stomach and made her laugh. He looked at Margaret and noticed the tears were now streaming down his face and he kissed them all away.

"I'm just so happy" she said. I love you so much Ben."

"How far along are we? I mean, when was it?"

"One month. Our wedding night." She added with a grin. "Though it might have been one of the nights after that in France. You wore me out. Daniel did the test, and he asked me when we would have conceived. When I told him I wasn't sure, he was really grossed out and called us a couple of rabbits."

Hawkeye laughed out loud. "God, I still can't believe I'm gonna be a Daddy. If it's a boy, I'm gonna take him to ball games, and take him fishing. If it's a girl, I'm gonna protect her of all the guys out there like me."

"God help us all if there's more than one of you."

"HEY!"

"Ben, would you, I was wondering.well, would you be my doctor? I know there are doctors here at the hospital who are obstetric doctors, but I would rather you were my doctor. You could keep me in check all the time, and deliver the babies, at the house. I think it would be very special to know that the first person our baby saw was their daddy."

"I'd love too. I was hoping you'd ask me that because when it comes to my wife carrying my child, I don't trust any other doctor. Not even my dad."

"Ben, there's one more thing. I love your dad, I really do. It's just, well, I know that this house is your home and has been since you were born. You were even born in that house. But, well, I've never had a house to call my own, and in reality, that is your dad's house. It's not ours. I feel at home, but I still feel that it's not my own place. And, well, it's embarrassing, but one day, he got up, well, the way he acted, I know he, uh, heard us the night before."

"Yeah, I know. There was something arousing about having a girl in my childhood bed, but now it would be nice to have our own house. Still in the cove, close to the water. And whatever house you want is yours. Like I said before, you have no worries, with me being chief surgeon and all, for my family it's only the best, and what my Major Baby wants, my Major Baby gets."

"Thank you so much Captain Sexy."

"You know, it never bothered me in the Army that I was a 'mere Captain' and you were a Major, but you know when it comes to our names for each other, you outrank me!"

"Don't worry, to me, you're General Sexy. No one outranks you in that department." She pressed her finger to his nose. "Would we be able to make a few phone calls now about getting a house?"

"Sure, c'mon let's go. But don't get up to fast. You are carrying my baby. In fact." He picked her up and carried her back to the house. While he was running he said "I don't want you to run, but I can't wait to tell dad that he's gonna be a granddaddy, even though he already knows. It's just that I'm so proud!"

"DAD!! Guess what!!" He ran into the house, kicked off his shoes and carried Margaret all the way up to the couch in the living room. He set her down carefully and turned around to see Daniel sitting on the chair across the room. Hawkeye sat down next to Margaret and pulled her gently on top of his lap. "Dad! You're gonna be a Granddad! I'm gonna be a Daddy!!"

"Congratulations, son" He stood up and hugged Hawkeye. "You're gonna be a great dad."

"Dad, umm, I don't want to upset you, but, well, we're gonna move out into our own place. We love it here, but there's only one extra room, which we use as a guest room. I share your office, and well, we just want our own house to raise our own family in. It's gonna be like me. I was born and raised in this house. I'm gonna deliver my own child in our house. It's where he or she will live for her whole life with us anyway. We won't be moving or anything. It will always be the house that they will be able to come back to when they grow up. I hope you don't mind."

"No, I will be over quite often to see my grandkid, but I understand, that, being newlyweds and all, you need your own space and your won privacy."

They all knew what he was talking about. While he loved them both, he wasn't comfortable with his son and daughter in law making love in the room across the hall from him. It just wasn't right.

"Yeah, well, we're gonna call Miranda." Looking at Margaret he added, "She sells all the real estate here in the Cove."

***

"Nice talking with you Miranda. Thanks. Bye." Hawkeye hung up the phone. "Well Margaret, she's got three houses I think we'd be interested in. I don't have all the stats on them now, but we'll go see each other them tomorrow, and remember, money is no object. I can make it back by giving tonsillectomies to a few kids with rich parents. So whichever house you want, is the one we'll get. Now, let's go to bed. We have to get some rest, especially you, Margaret. You need to rest up. We need you to be strong. C'mon."

"Ben I'll be fine, but I am tired, so we should go to bed."

***

The next day, Hawkeye and Margaret went with Miranda to look at the houses. The first one as a small house, but cozy. It was nice, but it wasn't close to the beach, and just wasn't what they were looking for. They decided that they wanted many children, maybe four, so they wanted a big house, but not too big. The second one was a mansion, and even though they weren't' concerned about the money, it was a waste of money. They wanted a nice house, but with the cozy, homey feeling. This one was a house that had a cold feeling to it.

The third house, which Miranda left until last was beautiful. She left it until last, because from what Hawkeye had told her over the phone, it was what they would want. It was perfect. There was a huge from lawn with a beautiful garden. The wooden siding was white and there were blue shutters on each of the windows. There were bay windows in the living room, and in the family room. The front porch had a porch swing, perfect for relaxing in the evenings. Out back, there was a large garden with a white picket fence. A gate led to the few trees in the back, where there was a path leading down to the beach. There was even a small wharf where they could keep the Sandy Lynn. In the back garden there was a huge oak tree with perfect for a tree house and a tire swing. There was a back deck, a grill, and a small swimming pool complete with diving board. On the second floor there was a wraparound porch and stairs leading to the bottom patio, so you could access all the rooms from outside. They weren't even inside and they loved it.

Inside the back door, there were steps leading downstairs in the basement and upstairs to the bedrooms, and a hall leading to the main floor. The kitchen was beautiful, complete with a bay window where you could see the ocean. Perfect for a breakfast nook. The cupboards were oak. All the floors in the entire house were hardwood. Past the living room was the dining room where there was room for a huge table for everybody to sit down to at big, Sunday meals when everyone would come over. There was a patio door, which led outside, and double French doors leading to the living room where there was a beautiful fireplace with an elaborate but cozy mantel. There was a study on the other side of the house, and a room that could be used as a playroom.

Downstairs there was a den, a bar for entertaining guests, and room for a billiards table. Also, downstairs was the laundry room and a storage room, which could be used for storing old furniture, and Christmas decorations, and anything else they could just poke away.

Over the oak staircase with burgundy carpet runner, they went upstairs to the four bedrooms. There were three smaller bedrooms, though sill fairly large, one light blue, one yellow, and one pink. For now, the blue one would be a guest room, and the pink one would be Daniel's, or Jane's if they were to visit. The yellow one they decided would be the baby's because they didn't know if it would be a boy or a girl. The forth bedroom was the master bedroom. There were double French doors leading outside on the wraparound patio, and on the side where there was no porch, on the front, was a large bay window with a window seat. This room was a pale yellow. Leading from the master bedroom was one bathroom, with a huge tub that had jets in it as well (perfect for romantic baths, Hawkeye was quick to point out, causing a smack in the arm from an embarrassed Margaret) and of course toilet and sink. A second bathroom across the hall for the other three rooms to share had a smaller, normal sized bathtub. A third bathroom downstairs was the same.

"Hawkeye, this house is absolutely perfect! I love it so much! This is the house I want to raise our children in!"

"I know, it's beautiful. I love it too, and because I love you so much, this is the house we'll take, Miranda." He said with a huge smile. "Where are the papers?"

The signed all the papers, quite a few involved for buying a house. "You can move in as soon as you like. If you want, the shops open tomorrow, so you can go buy your furniture and have it delivered, and Hawkeye, you can be taking that bath by tomorrow night and sleeping in your own bed."

"Or on the couch for that bathtub remark, Ben." Margaret joked.

"Then it's settled! Margaret, what say we go home, look through some catalogues and pick out what we want? Then tomorrow, we can go to the stores, pictures in hand, and living here tomorrow night?"

"Sounds great! Thank you so much Miranda!"

"The pleasure's mine. By the way, Hawkeye told me the great news, congrats! Sounds like you two will be really happy here. Here are the two sets of keys that came with the house. I'd better run, Sam is taking me out to dinner tonight. Bye all!"

"Bye!"

They were left alone in their new house. It was empty, though it felt like home.

"Ben I love you so much. I can't believe this is our house! I'm just so happy!"

Hawkeye pulled her in his arms and kissed her. "We're gonna be really happy here. Just think, in eight months, this place will be filled with toys, baby things, and in a few years, this house will be filled with all kinds of kids' stuff. This house will be filled with love sooner than we know it."

"It is now. And tomorrow night, we'll do something special to, say, break in the new house." She looked at him and winked.

He raised an eyebrow. "I can't wait! Tomorrow night we will sleep in this house. For now, let's go to Dad's home, tell him the great news about the house, talk about what kind of furniture we want and everything. The shops open at nine, and we can call in and tell them that we're moving, so we can't come in. They'll understand. If there's an emergency surgery they need us for, they can call any of the stores around town, it won't be hard to find us.

"Okay."

***

The next day, they got up at eight and were out in the shops as soon as they opened. They found a perfect bed set, a sleigh bed made of oak, a matching dresser, and chest of drawers. They got a pine baby set, complete with crib, changing table, dresser, two rocking chairs, one for Margaret and one for Hawkeye so he wouldn't miss a moment of his child's life like BJ. They bought two other bed sets for the other rooms, a desk set for the office, a patio set, a couch for the den, a small oak kitchen table and a large beautiful oak table with six chairs for the dining room, with a matching china cabinet complete with china with red and yellow roses on them. They bought dishes and cutlery, towels, huge area rugs for each of the rooms to add warmth to the hardwood, and a living room set with a very comfortable couch with lots of pillows (again Hawkeye pointed out it was great for doing what they did on the couch that first night, causing another smack in the arm) and a chair. They bought one more chair to go with that. Margaret wanted to buy silk sheets, but although Hawkeye said that it was sexy, he would never live it down if his friends found out. Finally they compromised, and bought one set of normal cotton sheets with a blue and yellow quilt, and one set of blue silk sheets for when they were, as Hawkeye put it, in the mood and wanted to make it special. They got baby covers for the baby furniture with bears on it. They couldn't think of anymore things they would need right away, and decided that they loved everything they had bought.

They had everything delivered to their new house. The movers would even bring everything into the designated rooms.

They went to Daniel's house packed their clothes and everything they owned into Daniel's truck and brought it to the new house. When they arrived everything had been placed in the rooms. Hawkeye moved everything into the perfect place, and they finally felt at home. The house was perfect, and they couldn't wait to fill it up with kids. It seemed so big, but they knew in a few years it would probably burst at the seams.

They celebrated and went to bed in their new bedroom. They were very content.