It was a hot, stuffy night in Korea. Klinger, unable to sleep that night, wandered out of his office/bedroom to get some fresh air. He looked up, and stopped dead in his tracks. In the darkness, he could see the silhouette of a person coming toward him. North Korean? Chinese? Wounded soldier? All of these possibilities flashed swiftly through his mind as he tried to figure out what to do. He wanted to run, but fear froze him in his tracks.

     "Somebody, anybody, HELLLLPPPP!!!" Potter awoke to hear the screams of his company clerk. "Klinger, is that you? Are you all right?" He got out of bed, put on his robe, and hurried to see what all the commotion was about.

     In the Swamp, B.J. and Hawkeye heard the terrified scream. "Wha- what was that?" Hawkeye muttered, still half asleep. B.J., who had also been having trouble sleeping, was wide awake. Charles, thankfully, was on R&R at the time. B.J. ran over to his bunkie's bed to wake him up.

     "Hawk.... Hawkeye, wake up!" B.J. shook Hawkeye as he spoke.

     "What is it, Beej? What was that noise I heard; sounded like someone screaming," Hawkeye managed to say.

     "That sounded like Klinger yelling for help."

     "Why, what's wrong?"

     "I don't know. Let's go and find out. C'mon, get up!"

     "Ok, ok!" said a tired Hawkeye. They both went outside to see what was the matter.

     "Klinger, what in tarnations is the matter with you? You scared everyone to death yellin' like that!" said Potter to an obviously shaken Klinger. "Max, didn't you hear me?"

     "Y-y-y-es-s-s s-s-ir." Klinger was more disturbed than Potter had initially thought.

     "What happened out here?"

     "There was a person... out there... coming from the woods... "

     "I don't see anyone."

     "He disappeared... it was probably a SNIPER!"

     "Max! Not so loud! Do you want the guards to come over and start shooting? You know how trigger-happy they can be!"

     "What the hell is going on out here? Can't a man be comatose in peace?" Potter turned his head to see Hawkeye and B.J. coming toward them.

     "Pierce! Hunnicut! Get back to your tent, on the double! We may have an intruder here!" All of a sudden, a rustling could be heard. Hawkeye walked toward the sound. Potter yelled for him to come back.

     "Pierce, Pierce! Get back here... Hawkeye!!!"

     Soon, it sounded to Hawkeye as though the sound was right next to him. He moved some shrubbery and discovered a huddled mass hiding beneath it.

     "Hey, are you ok?" Hawkeye asked. He had to strain to hear the answer coming from this cowering person, head still hidden.

     "P-please don't hurt me. I'm not armed." English, Hawkeye thought. It sounded as though it came from a young woman, but not a Korean. An American perhaps?

     "Don't worry... I won't hurt you. C'mon out." Coaxing this young woman out was not an easy task. It took him several minutes to convince her that he would not do her any harm.

     "What is your name, Miss?" Hawkeye asked.

     At first, the woman said nothing. Then, all of a sudden, she asked, "Where am I?"

     "You're in Korea. Didn't you know that?" Hawkeye began wondering if he was dealing with something out of his league here. "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I'm a doctor. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pierce is the name, but you can call me Hawkeye," he smiled. "Now, what can I call you?"

     Finally looking like she was beginning to relax, she replied, "Lili."

     "What a beautiful name, Lili!" Hawkeye turned his head as he heard his fellow comrades running toward him.

     "Pierce, what in the name of..." Hawkeye heard as Potter was running toward him, screaming all sorts of profanities. Hawkeye noticed Lili was about to run away so he grabbed her arm before she could get away.

     "Let me go, please! I don't belong here!" screamed Lili.

     "None of us belongs here, Miss," said Potter.

     "You don't understand, I can't stay here!" She tried hard to get away, but Hawkeye was holding fast.

     "C'mon, gang, let's head back to camp and settle this there." Everyone, including Lili, followed the CO back to the camp.

     "So, let me get this straight. You just woke up in the middle of a field here in Korea? You have no idea how you got here?" inquired B.J. Lili nodded to the affirmative.

     "I don't understand how that could have happened. Where do you remember being last?" asked Hawkeye. "It's ok. Nothing will happen to you here."

     "I was in Chicago. I went to sleep, and woke up here. I have to get away from here though. I could cause more problems than you could possibly imagine! Not necessarily for you..." Lili looked down at the floor, obviously deep in thought.

     "Let's leave her alone for awhile, boys. Lili, you can use our VIP tent for the time being, right over here. You had a bag with you, and our company clerk Klinger, who first noticed you, is holding it. He'll bring it to you later... " Then he added, "Don't worry, no one has looked or will look through it." Potter smiled, and Lili smiled back. Potter took her by the arm and led her over to the VIP tent. Then he motioned for Hawkeye and B.J. to walk with him.

     "Hawkeye, this lady seems to have taken to you. You seem to be the only one who can get anything close to a direct answer from her. Spend some time with her later, if you will... after she has rested of course. I also want her to have a physical... God knows where she's been if she can't remember." Potter then walked back to his tent.

Part II

     Morning arrived in Korea. It was even hotter than it was during the night. Hawkeye and B.J. were asleep in the Swamp when Klinger busts in, yelling and screaming for the doctors to wake up.

     "Klinger... KLINGER! Calm down already! Now what are you saying? I can't understand you when you're hysterical," Hawkeye said. "Well, I'm awake," said an obviously annoyed B.J. "You know, Klinger, you're lucky Charles isn't here right now, or he'd have your hide." Klinger looked rather disturbed. "Sirs, you don't understand. Remember the girl we found last night? What's her name..."

     "Lili," answered Hawkeye. "Oh yeah! Well, anyway, I couldn't really sleep this morning, so I decided to get an early breakfast. When I finished, I thought that maybe the girl we found might be hungry, so I got a tray of food and brought it to the VIP tent. But when I got there, she wasn't!"

     Hawkeye sat bolt upright in his bunk. "You mean she's gone? Oh, no, we have to find her. No telling where she's gone."

     "And if we don't find her by dark, there's a good chance we never will," said B.J. "C'mon, Beej... We gotta go tell the Colonel about this," Hawkeye said as he started getting dressed. "You too, Klinger. You're the one who didn't find her this morning."

     The doctors and the company clerk made way for Potter's office, knowing he would probably be up by then. When they got there, they saw the Colonel, sitting down with Lili.

     "There you are! Where were you?" asked Klinger.

     "What's all this about, boys?" said Potter.

     "We thought she disappeared... Lili here. She wasn't in her tent this morning when I went to bring her breakfast. I thought she ran away," said Klinger, who was beginning to calm down.

     "I was just having a little chin-wag with the little lady here. Asking her a few questions. Saw her standing outside this morning crying like the world was going to end. So I asked her to my office so we could talk it out." Potter then gets a look of frustration on his face. "However, I'm sad to say it was my chin doing most of the wagging. All she keeps saying is she doesn't belong here; that she has to get away from here before she causes 'irreversible damage'. I don't know what she meant by that. I've been here with her for over half an hour, and she says she can't explain why she's here... and that even if she could, she wouldn't."

     Hawkeye walks toward Lili and offers her his arm. "C'mon. Why don't you come and eat breakfast with us? I realize the food here isn't all that great, but it's usually edible," said Hawkeye with a smile. Lili smiled back, stood up, then took his arm. "Klinger has your breakfast all ready... just bring it over to the mess." Hawkeye and Lili walked out of Colonel Potters office and toward the mess tent. Potter, B.J. and Klinger just looked at each other, all knowing they are thinking the same thing. "I sure hope your bunkee isn't getting the way I think he's getting, if you know what I mean, Hunnicut," said Potter. The Colonel, B.J. and Klinger then followed Hawkeye and Lili to the mess tent.

     Hawkeye and Lili were sitting at a table in the mess tent, eating. Hawkeye looked at Lili, who obviously was not taking a liking to the food there. "What's wrong, your food still alive?" asked Hawkeye, trying to get her to laugh.

     "I... I'm just not hungry, that's all," said Lili, avoiding Hawkeye's gaze. "I have to go now, bye." She then got up to leave.

     "Wait, wait a minute, where are you going?" Hawkeye stood up, put his arm around her shoulder, and gently pushed her back down on the bench. "What's wrong? Did I do something? Did I say something? I know, I know, I joke around a lot... That's just part of my nature. I guess it's just one of my insane ways of preventing becoming insane amidst all this insanity," said Hawkeye with a smile. "Oooh, is that a smile I see coming from that pretty face? You know, it really becomes you." The smile on Lili's face got bigger.

     "I knew you had it in you. Now, why don't you tell me why you think you can't stay?"

     The smile disappeared from Lili's face as fast as it came. "I can't tell you. I really have to go now," she said.

     "C'mon now, I won't tell anyone. I promise. I never break a promise. Really. What can be so bad?"

     "It wouldn't be bad for you. You have no idea how the future will turn out, so how could it possibly be bad for you? But it could be bad for me. Anything I do could change how everyone and everything turns out. You would never, ever be able to comprehend the severity of my situation. You couldn't. That would be utterly impossible! Don't you understand what I mean?!?" Lili broke down and cried right then. Hawkeye didn't know what to say. All he could think of was to hold her. He put his arms around her, pulled her toward him, and just held her.

     "It'll be ok. Don't worry... It can't be all as bad as you think..." Hawkeye was at a loss. He just didn't know what to do. He felt so bad for her. If only I could help her, Hawkeye thought to himself. Then Hawkeye felt this strong urge to kiss her. He knew he couldn't, but why did he feel that way? Then one last thought came into his mind, one that wouldn't go away: I think I'm falling in love.

Part III

     Later on that day, back in the VIP tent, Lili sat there on the bed, with the bag holding what she assumed to be her belongings. She wasn't sure what was in the bag, which she did not recognize. She slowly opened it up to find a few items: a hairbrush, a flashlight, a pad of paper and a pen, a book, and a few other things. She flipped through the book, looking for something in particular. When she found it, all she could do was stare at it... Outside, Potter could be heard having a talk with Hawkeye...

     "Hawkeye, what the HELL is the matter with you? You barely know that girl. In fact, you don't know her. What is it with you anyway? Ever since she got here you've been acting strangely..." Potter could not figure out what was on Hawkeye's mind. All Hawkeye could think about was how he felt earlier in the mess tent. "Well, what do you have to say for yourself, Pierce?"

     "Colonel, I don't know why she is affecting me like this. All I know is that I feel these deep feelings for her. I realize I barely know her, but..." Hawkeye was interrupted right then by Potter.

     "Pierce, I asked you to talk with the girl. I didn't ask you to go falling in love with her. In case you were thinking otherwise, in a few days she is being shipped back to the States, where she belongs. This is no place for her, no matter how you feel about her. She will be much safer there, and you know that. I just wanted to get a few answers from her, and since she seemed to be responding to you, I figured it would be a good idea for you to spend a little time with her. But you're taking this much too far. We know nothing about her. Absolutely nothing. I don't think you should spend any more time with her..."

     "Colonel, Lili is a very scared girl. There is something, or somebody, here, frightening her to the point where she wants to run away. Am I supposed to just let her do that? And let her take a chance on her life?"

     "I never said that Pierce. I said you are taking your relationship with her way too far." "Let me spend this time with her. You said she will only be here for a few more days. Let me try to help her through this."

     "Alright, Pierce. Just one thing: don't take this any further than it already has. Keep it strictly on a friendly level."

     Just then, B.J. walked out of Post-Op. "Colonel... Hawkeye..." said B.J. "Hunnicut, do you have the results of the blood tests you took on Lili?" asked Potter.

     "Wait a minute, I thought I was giving her the physical!" exclaimed Hawkeye. Potter just looked at him. "I thought it would be a better idea if Hunnicut did it. Don't you agree, Pierce?" Potter gave him a look that Hawkeye knew he meant he was serious. "Yes, Colonel," he said.

     "Anyway, Hunnicut, do you have the results?"

     "Yes, Colonel Potter," said B.J. "Her CBC is normal, except for a slightly elevated white cell count. I think that is normal considering what she has been going through." Potter and Hawkeye nodded in agreement. "Other than that, except for some dehydration, she is fine." Then Hunnicut got this look on his face, a look of amazement that Hawkeye had never seen before. "I found some very strange things though. I asked her of her medical history... did she have the mumps, measles, etc... she said no, but according to the bloodwork, she has somehow developed an immunity to these things."

     "The only way a person could develop an immunity is by having the disease," said a puzzled Potter. "Or by way of vaccination, and we have no such thing for mumps or measles." Hawkeye looked seriously at his fellow surgeons. "Are you sure she had an immunity?" B.J. nodded to the affirmative. "I'm positive. I don't know how, but the tests didn't lie. Unless she has forgotten more than she thinks... I doubt that for some reason, though. She didn't say much about her medical history, however... she didn't even want me to do the physical or blood work!"

     "Odd," said Potter. All of a sudden, Lili popped out of the tent. "Why, good afternoon, Miss Lili!" said Potter cordially. "Good afternoon," chimed in Hawkeye and B.J. "Well, I'd better be on my way; I've some work to be done," said Potter, who dismissed himself and went to his office. "I have some stuff to do also. Please excuse me... how about you Hawk?" asked B.J. "No, I think I'll stay here and show Lili around camp," said Hawkeye.

     From there, B.J. walked toward the Swamp, and Hawkeye and Lili locked arms as they walked around the camp. He showed her the Officers' Club, introduced her to the other people on the compound, took her to Rosie's, then last but not least, back to the Swamp. He poured himself a "martini" and offered Lili one. "It's not the best tasting stuff in the world, but it does the job: it gets you blind-stinkin' drunk!" said Hawkeye with a laugh. Hesitantly, Lili took a "martini" from Hawkeye. She took a sip and got a disgusted look on her face. Hawkeye giggled.

     "Like I said, not the best tasting stuff." He downed his first "martini" and started on the next. He finished that one as fast as the first. "Lili?" he asked. "Yes," she answered. "I don't know if I should tell you this, but I think I'm falling in love with you."

     A smash could be heard as Lili dropped the glass she held in her hand. Hawkeye moved toward her, put his arms around her, and, passionately, he kissed her; she did not resist, but kissed him back just as passionately...