Huldra09
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“Ironic, isn’t it,” Margaret said, keeping her eyes fixed on the road. “Other people get to have ten-year reunions. They get to go to some fancy venue, dress up, and brag about how incredibly successful they have become. We get a nine-year reunion, and it’s a goodbye.”
Nine years in an eternity. Nine years is the blink of an eye. On a dark August night in 1962, the news of Colonel Potter's passing reaches Margaret and Hawkeye, and they have to leave the white house by the ocean behind, and travel to Hannibal. Meet their old friends again. That strange family bound together by blood, cold, rain, last breaths, too many drinks and a constant dance on the thin line to insanity. They have to say goodbye to the man who was once there, right in the middle, when the bond between them all formed. The chain that can never be broken.
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"Dear Helen,
it’s been a week. A week in this place. It feels like I’ve stepped into another world, the journey here was a rabbit hole, and I arrived in Wonderland. There are no wonders here, though, just… lack, really. A lack of leadership, of discipline, of reason. A dust pit, an insane asylum lead by the Mad Hatter. The sheer number of wounded, the lack of time, always another one waiting, maybe he will have a better chance. An avalanche. It’s so easy to lose your footing, to be spun around, overturned. You need an anchor, something. You need someone."For Margaret Houlihan, Korea was filled with firsts. First time she smiled at Frank Burns, first time she pushed him away in disgust. First time she wanted to strangle Benjamin Franklin Pierce, first time she realized they were... friends? First marriage, first divorce. First time she truly thought she was going to die. Not the first time she gave her heart away, in so many ways, but the first time it changed something deep within. Not the first time she longed for her best friend, for the one person who knew the real Margaret - the one behind the facade - but the first time she used that connection as a lifeline. Dear Helen.
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“Just tell me you’re happy, Margaret, just tell me that and I’ll go away. I will take all the memories I have of you and put them in a box with a pretty bow and lock it in my heart. Take it out for Christmas and birthdays. Tell me you’re happy. That’s all I want.”
To come home. To pick up your life where you left off or form a new one on your own terms.
You didn’t expect how temporary everything would feel, how you would be afraid of getting attached. You didn’t expect the feeling of being caught in a maelstrom, or that the flame you always carried within would start to flutter and die.After Korea, Hawkeye and Margaret are trying to get on with their lives. Apart from each other and apart from the people they came to think of as family. Trying to find their place in a world where nothing seems familiar anymore. It’s hard. Exhausting. And neither of them can forget that thing between them. The thing that clicked, kept shifting and grew strong.
The thing that holds. -
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"And that's what I'm gonna do. What I wanted to do all along. Work in the States, in a hospital."
That last night in Korea, she was so sure of it. Find some stability. Put down roots. Make a life for herself on her own terms. Maybe find someone to share all those moments with.
But then came the nightmares that didn't want to let go. The memories. The echoes of cries for God. Or mercy. Or mother. The rest of the world that moved on while the few of them were stuck in a torn country, in the shambles of a war.
And then there is the impossible man with the blue eyes and the safe arms. The one who understands. But they are two very different people who would never work in the real world. Would they? -
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The war is over. Margaret is trying to find her footing in a world that is brand new to her, but how can you start over when past horrors refuse to let go?
(Mentions of thoughts of suicide, nothing graphic at all. Also - Potter and BJ are not actually in the story, but are integral parts of how the story plays out, so therefore the tags).