Wanna Get Ficced?

Title:  “Twenty Years Gone”
Author:  Perpetual Motion
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Rating:  R [language and some imagery]
Summary: “Peg, honey, it’s not like that.”  Or maybe it is.  BJ, the truth, and the layering of lies over decades.

Disclaimer:  I do not own these characters, and I’m certainly not the first to play with this idea.  I’m merely having a bit of fun and blowing my mind at the sheer word count of the thing.

Author’s Notes:  It started with mijmeraar’s fics for fanfic100.  They were good, they inspired, and then I was off.  My plans for a brief little ficlet full of angst and pain turned into 14,000+ words.  I wouldn’t have gotten here without distaff_exile and amazonqueenkate; they were encouraging, helpful and 100% brilliant throughout my various e-mails [roughly 30 to distaff_exile] and IM conversations [amazonqueenkate found great amusement in my capslock].  They talked me through awkward dialogue, wall-to-wall angst, and even the occasional “holy shit, how’d it get this long” freak out.  It was a constant cheering section, without which, I don’t think this fic would have seen the light of day.  My great thanks, ladies, for being so damned determined to get me to the end.

Twenty Years Gone

By Perpetual Motion