Huldra09
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Margaret is five, and mad at her mom for not letting her get a crew cut. She is almost 15, and doesn't know what to do when Colonel Brinks leans in close. She is 19, and can't bear the sight of her father's back as he turns his attention on anyone but her.
Margaret is 30, and thinks she might kill Frank Burns. She is an eon, has always existed, and can hardly even feel her hands anymore. Pierce tells her they're there, though, and maybe she can trust him.All her life, Margaret Houlihan has been good at playing games. When reality hurts, when it scares her, why not just step into a role, make the pain go away? Play a game, please whatever man that happens to be watching.
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When her father cancels their plans to meet in Tokyo, something shifts in Margaret. A door opens. A voice from deep within, one she has tried her best to quell for so many years, gets louder and louder. The voice asking questions, questions with edges sharp enough to draw blood. Why doesn't he see, why didn't he stay, why is she never his first choice? Is the path her father set her out on a long time ago really the one she wants to keep walking? And once that door opens, it's impossible to force shut again.
Set during the end of the show, this story explores how Margaret came to make the decision to go back to work in the States, in a hospital, and finally step out from under the shadow of her father.
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Post-op late at night. Margaret and a wounded soldier, a little conversation about oil puddles, beauty, and a coconut bra.
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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.