knowing Hawkeye is regular army.

Hawkeye stood about half-awake in line in the mess tent. No news was floating around about him being regular army, or him and Margaret together. He knew the regular army stuff would be out any minute now.

As he sat down at one of the tables, heard it coming over the PA system: ATTENTION, ATTENTION, ALL PERSONAL. WE GOT TWO HUGE NOTICES ABOUT CAPTAIN PIERCE: ONE, HE'S ENGAGED TO MAJOR HOULIHAN, AND HE'S REGULAR ARMY. HE DID THE TWO THINGS NOBODY EVER EXPECTED HIM TO DO! THAT WILL BE ALL.

All the personal in the Mess tent turned their attention to Hawkeye. He felt him self-go a deep shade of red. A few of he nurses glared at him, knowing he wasn't 'free'. A few enlisted men looked at him, shocked. Hawkeye couldn't take it. He got up, in search of Margaret.

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Margaret was in her tent, getting ready for the day, when the notices where aired. She felt her knee's go weak as she heard about their engagement. She managed a few steps backwards on to her cot. She closed her eyes and rested her forehead in her hand, and felt tears coming. She could just imagine the cracks they'd get. the head nurse and chief surgeon? HA! They all thought Margaret disliked Hawkeye a little, but could now tolerate him. And with Hawkeye chasing nurses and such-oh what the nursing staff would do to her! She then let the tears fall.

She heard the door open, and some come in. She felt a pair of strong arms warp around her, and knew it was Hawkeye. He started to rub her back, as she cry into his chest.

"Hawkeye, what are they going to say? The head nurse and the chief surgeon? They probably think it's a joke, but what if they believe it?

"What about me, in the Army? The one thing nobody ever expected me to do? We'll make it though just fine."

"Your right. And boy do we have a big day in front of us. Making you regular Army and-oh! Hawkeye, when do you want to get married?" Asked Margaret knowing that another thing to get cleared up had came up.

"Some time before the war's over."

"Wanna make it next week? We could tell Farther Mulcahy, and ask him if he'll do it. And Hawkeye, we have to call are parents! We should do that right now!"

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"Klinger, we need to make a few calls." Said Hawkeye, walking in with Margaret.

Klinger looked at them standing together, hand on hand. He was shocked as ever at the together, and wouldn't believe it until he saw it. He knew about Hawkeye joining up, and didn't say any thing about it until he got the facts. It could have been a joke played by BJ or some one else. Now as he saw the couple standing there in front of him, he believe it.

"Alright, where are the places we have to call, so I can get started." Asked Klinger, happy to have some thing to do. Once you got the morning, weekly, daily, surgical, and supply reports done, there wasn't much to do, unless mail had come.

"Crabapple Cove, Maine; Germany, and where does your mother live, Margaret?" asked Hawkeye.

"Boston, and my father is in Berlin (A/N: I don't know if that's true or not, I'm just guessing.)." Replied Margaret.

"Okay. Lets see.Margaret we have to call your father first, then it's up to you two between calling Hawk's dad, you mom, Major." Said Klinger, starting to get a line to Berlin.

~Half-hour later~ "All right . Col. Houlihan! Hold for a second!" Said Klinger, handing the phone over to Margaret.

"DADDY! Hi daddy, how are you. Oh, I'm great.. Daddy the reason I called was to tell you some thing. Daddy, I'm engaged! To who? Captain Pierce! No Daddy! Daddy he enlisted to be with me! No he will never hurt me.what? Okay daddy. I love you to." Margaret hung up the phone. "That wasn't as bad as I expected," she said. "He said if you ever hurt me, he'd kill you."

"I guess I'll live, then."

Margaret throw her head back in laughter. "Do you want to call your dad now? Or should call my mom?"

"I'll call my dad, if you don't mind. Hey Klinger, Crabapple Cove, if you would please."

~Some time later~

"Here you go sir, Crabapple Cove." Said Klinger

"Hello, dad? Hi dad. Two things happen to. Well, both of them I did to my self, but they happen to me.. well, I'm engaged. Margaret Houlihan.what.DAD! Come on! When was I engaged? Last night. The other thing? I'm regular Army. I know, I know, I would never do it, but I did it for Margaret. Thanks dad. yeah, once we're out of here, we'll come visit. When will we get married? In a few weeks, most likely. Well, it was good talking to you, dad, see ya.