Day 10: Near Unknown Village in South Korea, 2330 Hours

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Day 10: Near Unknown Village in South Korea, 2330 Hours

Jess had started to get tired and was losing hope in ever finding her cousin, and soon enough she lay down in the back seat and fell asleep. B.J. looked in the back seat and saw that Jess was sleeping.

"Hey Beej, doesn't that look like Dalli?" Hawkeye suddenly asked B.J., slowing the jeep.

"It does," B.J. replied hopefully.

"Should we wake Jess up?" Hawkeye asked.

B.J. shook his head no and then said, "Jess didn't get enough sleep last night."

"How do you know?" Hawkeye asked B.J. out of curiosity.

"I remember her lying awake last night," B.J. said.

Jess squirmed in her sleep, putting her arms over her face.

"Dalli! Adallia!" Hawkeye shouted, pulling the jeep over to the side of the road.

She turned to see them and immediately demanded, "Where's Jess?", not being able to see her laying down in the back seat.

"She's here," B.J. insisted, "Just sleeping," he said, gesturing to the back seat.

Jess moaned and rolled over in her sleep, and Dalli asked, "How long was she up for?" as she peered down at her sleeping fourteen-year-old cousin.

"All night. She was pretty worried about you. She said that she felt like this whole thing with you running away was her fault," Hawkeye explained.

Dalli glanced between Hawkeye and Jess before muttering, "It's not, I just hate hospitals and doctors," she admitted.

"Dalli, Jess needs you. It's like you two are sisters," B.J. insisted.

"We could probably convince Colonel Potter to let you stay in the Swamp, seeing as how you hate hospitals," Hawkeye suggests.

Dalli glances at him and asks warily, "Are you sure he'd allow it?"

"Maybe," B.J. said with a shrug as Jess blinked open her eyes and sat up.

"Jess, we found Dalli," Hawkeye tells her excitedly.

"Dalli!" Jess exclaimed as she saw her cousin.

"Surprise, I'm not dead," Dalli joked before commanding teasingly, "Move over," and climbing into the back of the jeep, sitting down next to Jess.

"Are you...are you still mad at me?" Jess asked timidly.

Dalli sighed before answering, "I guess not. I'm sorry for what I did, I wasn't thinking," she admits.

As Captain Pierce started driving back to the M*A*S*H Compound, Dalli and Jess soon fell asleep next to each other in the backseat.

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