MASH = K - O
Author: Sage Harper
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Characters: BJ, Hawkeye
Prompt: Kismet
Rating: U
Author's Notes: BJ's POV. Based on 'Welcome to Korea, II'
Of all the wars, in all the world, I had to walk into his.
Blundering off a plane into the madness with only a roguish stranger as a guide.
Hawkeye Pierce; whip smart, ever ready with a drink and retort, champion of the underdog.
They say you’ll never be closer to anyone as you would in a war zone. Within an hour I knew that to be true.
I never believed in soul mates, until that day. Now I know for sure.
Fate works in mysterious ways, to bring people together.
For that, all I can do, is be thankful.
Author: Sage Harper
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Characters: BJ, Hawkeye
Prompt: Loquacious
Rating: U
Author's Notes: Hawk's POV
It never used to take much to get him talking about his wife.
Couple of drinks and he’d been missing and mooning, telling stories and devouring letters for the hundredth time.
Then something changed, us, we changed, him the most.
Our comfort changed too, the ratio of drink to touch tilted.
We made our own stories, wove our own world of wishing and promises.
Knowing what the words would amount to, after dawn, believing anyway
Sure, in the day he may have an anecdote ready; but in the night, the realm of dreams and lovers, he never says her name.
Author: Sage Harper
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Characters: BJ (references to Hawkeye & Trapper)
Prompt: Modicum
Rating: U
Author's Notes: A companion piece of sorts to Iota.
I’m not ordinarily a jealous person, especially not over something like this.
It’s childish, irrational, ridiculous. Even if I did say anything it’s not like anyone could fix it.
Basically I’m envious of someone I never met.
Because whatever happens, however long I’m here, in however small a way, I’ll always be his replacement.
We never talked about how things were between them, not really, but a part of me knew.
A part of Hawk left with him.
I’ve no right to feel this way, not the slightest bit.
But we do a lot of things we aren’t supposed to.
Author: Sage Harper
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Characters: Margaret
Prompt: Nefarious
Rating: U
Author's Notes:
She knew the way the other nurses looked at her.
Intimidated, ready for a blow, wondering what they’d done wrong.
They didn’t see her as a friend; reach out, draw her in, confide their thoughts.
She was always ‘Major Houlihan’, even when she wasn’t.
Surely there must have been a time when she had been softer, carefree, open… not like this.
She thinks sometimes it would best to burst forth from this cocoon, reveal herself as a butterfly
Then she’d remember all the times she had, how much it had hurt.
And wonder if it would really be worth it.
Author: Sage Harper
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Characters: *Henry or Trapper
Prompt: Obtuse
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: *deliberatly left open-ended in that respect. It doesn't really matter, and works either way.
He was going to miss that place.
It almost made him laugh.
All those months of complaining about the hell hole.
Getting home sickness - he wasn’t even sure where home was anymore.
He’d miss so much…
Radar’s innocence, childlike wonder, and incredible efficiency.
Klinger’s carefully crafted madness
Father Mulcahy, the calm of their storm
Hawkeye, for just, for everything.
Nurses, lots of nurses. For their sweetness, freely given tenderness in his hours of need
Hot lips? yeah even her.
Then he thought of Frank Burns, a spokesman for obtuse, if ever there was one.
No, he wouldn’t miss Ferret face.
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Characters: BJ, Hawkeye
Prompt: Kismet
Rating: U
Author's Notes: BJ's POV. Based on 'Welcome to Korea, II'
Of all the wars, in all the world, I had to walk into his.
Blundering off a plane into the madness with only a roguish stranger as a guide.
Hawkeye Pierce; whip smart, ever ready with a drink and retort, champion of the underdog.
They say you’ll never be closer to anyone as you would in a war zone. Within an hour I knew that to be true.
I never believed in soul mates, until that day. Now I know for sure.
Fate works in mysterious ways, to bring people together.
For that, all I can do, is be thankful.
Author: Sage Harper
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Characters: BJ, Hawkeye
Prompt: Loquacious
Rating: U
Author's Notes: Hawk's POV
It never used to take much to get him talking about his wife.
Couple of drinks and he’d been missing and mooning, telling stories and devouring letters for the hundredth time.
Then something changed, us, we changed, him the most.
Our comfort changed too, the ratio of drink to touch tilted.
We made our own stories, wove our own world of wishing and promises.
Knowing what the words would amount to, after dawn, believing anyway
Sure, in the day he may have an anecdote ready; but in the night, the realm of dreams and lovers, he never says her name.
Author: Sage Harper
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Characters: BJ (references to Hawkeye & Trapper)
Prompt: Modicum
Rating: U
Author's Notes: A companion piece of sorts to Iota.
I’m not ordinarily a jealous person, especially not over something like this.
It’s childish, irrational, ridiculous. Even if I did say anything it’s not like anyone could fix it.
Basically I’m envious of someone I never met.
Because whatever happens, however long I’m here, in however small a way, I’ll always be his replacement.
We never talked about how things were between them, not really, but a part of me knew.
A part of Hawk left with him.
I’ve no right to feel this way, not the slightest bit.
But we do a lot of things we aren’t supposed to.
Author: Sage Harper
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Characters: Margaret
Prompt: Nefarious
Rating: U
Author's Notes:
She knew the way the other nurses looked at her.
Intimidated, ready for a blow, wondering what they’d done wrong.
They didn’t see her as a friend; reach out, draw her in, confide their thoughts.
She was always ‘Major Houlihan’, even when she wasn’t.
Surely there must have been a time when she had been softer, carefree, open… not like this.
She thinks sometimes it would best to burst forth from this cocoon, reveal herself as a butterfly
Then she’d remember all the times she had, how much it had hurt.
And wonder if it would really be worth it.
Author: Sage Harper
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Characters: *Henry or Trapper
Prompt: Obtuse
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: *deliberatly left open-ended in that respect. It doesn't really matter, and works either way.
He was going to miss that place.
It almost made him laugh.
All those months of complaining about the hell hole.
Getting home sickness - he wasn’t even sure where home was anymore.
He’d miss so much…
Radar’s innocence, childlike wonder, and incredible efficiency.
Klinger’s carefully crafted madness
Father Mulcahy, the calm of their storm
Hawkeye, for just, for everything.
Nurses, lots of nurses. For their sweetness, freely given tenderness in his hours of need
Hot lips? yeah even her.
Then he thought of Frank Burns, a spokesman for obtuse, if ever there was one.
No, he wouldn’t miss Ferret face.