One day we'll all go home.
I hope I'm not just a mutual to you, but someone you want to bring up in irl conversation so you have to awkwardly and cryptically say "my friend..." and refuse to elaborate on my origins or the origins of our friendships
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MASH // regina spektor - older and taller
from robert frost, maple
Affectionate platonic kisses between Margaret and her guy friends are just the best.
| 53. “I love you and I am terrified.” (Charles/Leonidas(OC))
Leonidas stands in front of Charles in the Swamp with a few tears in his eyes. He had just heard that Charles never really cared for him from a nurse in Post-Op when he was helping Hawkeye with his rounds. He was confronting Charles about it, who's acting like he has no idea what Leonidas is talking about. Charles stands from his desk, putting a hand out to placate his lover. "Leonidas-"
"Why are you acting like you don't know anything!?" Leonidas asks, clearly a little angry. "The nurse told me that you told her everything I heard right to her face! She said she heard it from you, I don't think she has any reason to lie to me!"
"Leonidas, dear.." Charles says, clearly trying to calm Leonidas down. "I really do not know what you are talking about, my dear.."
"The nurse told me that you never really loved me. Was all of this just an act? Taking pity on the immigrant boy!?" Leonidas asks, tears falling down his face. "Was she right, did you never really love me?" He chuckles, bringing a hand up to wipe his eye. "I don't know why I thought it would be any different, you're a Winchester, of course you wouldn't-"
"I love you!" Charles says suddenly, surging forward and taking Leonidas's hand. "I do love you.." He repeats, looking at Leonidas with a soft look in his eyes. "But.. I am terrified." Leonidas pauses, looking at him with a confused look in his eye
"Terrified..?" Leonidas asks. "Why would you be terrified, I love you, Charles.. I'm not pulling the wool over your eyes on this." He says, stepping closer. "I have never lied to you and I won't ever start."
"You know I have an image to uphold back in Boston, I.. was just terrified that somehow news of you and me.. of us would make it back to Boston and my parents would figure it out." Charles explains. "I do love you, Leonidas, I do.. You know how my parents are, how my father is with people like you.. people like us."
Leonidas comes closer and cups Charles's cheek in his hand, his other hand still linked with Charles's. "I know how your father is.. And I honestly couldn't care less. I have you and you have me.. that's all we really need in this life. You don't have to be terrified, Charles, because you have me.." He says, smiling softly.
Charles looks down at Leonidas, just staring down at his lover. He eventually starts to smile, rubbing his thumb on Leonidas's hand. "I do have you, my dear.. And I am glad to have you in my life." He admits. Leonidas smiles as he hears Charles's words, he knows that he's the only one who can make Charles soft like this.
"Now come on. Let's get to bed. I'm exhausted after Post-Op duty and I know you've got first shift in the morning after BJ." Leonidas says, remembering the schedule that says Charles had to take over from BJ at seven in the morning. The two change and Leonidas convinces Charles to stay in his bed for the night. They fall asleep with each other in their arms, happy in their piece of Korea that's all theirs.
the only indication that Father Mulcahy has aged is his hair being whiter.
Requested by @remyfire on Discord: Charles seeing his first Korea Fall :) Charles/Leonidas (OC) - As the Night Changes
After a long day in Post-Op, Leonidas is finally released from his nursing duties around 1900. He stretches his arms over his head, groaning a bit as his hip pops. 23 years old and yet he swears he's pushing 40. Leaves fall around him as he walks back to the Swamp with his hands in his pockets, and Leonidas smiles. This is his second Fall of Korea and it's just as beautiful as the first. When he gets closer to the Swamp, he sees Charles standing just outside the door with his eyes trained on the trees at the edge of the 4077th.
"Pretty, ain't it?" Leonidas asks, stepping up to Charles's side and pulling out a cigarette. Charles stays silent, something Leonidas wasn't expecting. He's used to Charles snipping at him about the dangers of using cigarettes, not staying quiet. "Major?" He tries.
"Oh!" Charles's title seems to snap him out of whatever trance he was in. "Pardon me, Mylonas.. I did not expect to see you out of Post-Op so soon." He slips back into his usual uptight persona, almost like the little vulnerability he showed wasn't there to begin with.
"You can call me Leonidas, Major. You know that, right?" Leonidas asks. he finds his lighter and lights his cigarette aflame, taking a drag as he puts the lighter away. "It's beautiful, you know.. Never seen anything like it." And he was telling the truth. The fall leaves in Boston, or even Piraeus, were nothing compared to the beauty of the Korean Fall.
"I never expected a place like this to be so.. colorful." Charles says quietly. He's letting his vulnerability show again and Leonidas swears his own heart skips a beat. A leaf falls in front of Leonidas and he takes it in his hand, feeling the texture. He hands it over to Charles, smiling.
"Just wait until tomorrow, Major." He says. "This place will be littered with beautiful leaves and white flowers." Charles just stares at the leaf in his hand while Leonidas puffs on his cigarette. 'Maybe..' Charles thinks, looking over at Leonidas with a small blush on his ears. 'Maybe Korea isn't so bad..'
he/it/they ☆ Stanley/Hawkeye ☆ MASH guy at heart ☆ i write things sometimes
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