Fort Bliss Page #5

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We're more than friends,

and you know it.

Listen, I've been on the

other side, it's not...

Ssh...

No, that's enough. No.

No, we cannot.

I want you so bad.

No. Look, hey!

I think about you all the time.

That's enough. Stop, stop.

Please stop.

Mark, I mean it, up!

Come on, get off!

You know you want this, Maggie.

Stop it! Get off me!

Get off! Don't do this!

I'm gonna make you come so hard

you'll be begging me for more...

Don't do this.

Let go!

How the f***?

Ow! F***!

Jesus Christ, Maggie!

What are you doing?

I will f***ing shoot you.

Come on, Swann, we were just

messing around, right?

No, not me.

All right, I f***ed up, okay?

I lost my head for a second.

I'm sorry.

Come on, Maggie, let's not

leave it like this, huh?

What are you doing?

What does it look like?

Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm okay.

You'll feel better if you

talk about it, you know?

No, no, I don't know that.

Is it about going back there?

Did something happen?

A lot of things happened.

Why is it so hard for you to let your

guard down for a second? Why? You think...

Look, I really appreciate

you trying, but do me a favor.

I don't ask you about your sh*t.

Perfect. Perfect.

Sergeant.

Yes.

A few of us are heading out to celebrate

my promotion, care to join us?

I wish I could, but I've got

some load planning to do.

To tell you the truth, I wish we could

just fast forward the next four weeks.

I feel like a kid

waiting for Christmas.

Don't tell your wife that.

Well, you know what they say,

first wife is for practice anyway.

Hey, um, congratulations.

Thanks.

Maybe I could

get you a reassignment.

We just got a two-year

tour to Korea. Super kush.

I could put in a word

with the CO?

Oh, god, are you crazy?

Like I'm gonna leave

my kid for two years.

You tell him yet?

I feel like an a**hole.

Orders are orders.

I know... f***.

I feel like I should be pissed,

and I am, I'm really f***ing pissed.

But you know,

part of me actually...

It's really f***ed up.

All I know is you're

one hell of a medic.

Now the trick is to get it right

in the vein, just like that...

because that's where the

medicine needs to go.

And then we put a piece of tape

over it, so it doesn't move.

Nice and easy,

hold on... okay.

Good job. Okay?

Now we're gonna let the patient rest,

because we're gonna talk about something.

Does that mean no bedtime story?

No, no, we can have a bedtime story, but

just pop up here for a sec, okay? Come on.

Okay.

Remember how I had to go away?

For a while because of work?

To Afghanistan?

Mm-hm.

It looks like I have to go back.

Why?

Because I have a very important

job and those people depend on me.

So will you be gone one day?

It's gonna be the

same as last time.

Okay? And hopefully

a little bit shorter.

Well, that's too long.

It is too long.

But the most important thing is,

is that I love you a ton.

Okay, and Daddy's gonna take really

good care of you while I'm gone.

With Alma?

With Alma.

Now can I have a story?

Yeah, you can have

a story, come here.

Paul?

Paul?

Paul?

Paul?

Paul.

Paul.

Paul!

Wait! Wait!

Have you seen a little boy?

Five years old, have you seen a little boy?

Paul! Paul, where are you?

Paul!

Paul! Paul. Oh, my god.

I want to go home.

Oh, my god,

I thought I lost you.

Go to sleep.

Hey.

Maggie... you all right?

Yeah, I'm good,

I need to talk to you.

Now?

Who is it, Brian?

Look, I need you to get me

on that assignment in Korea.

I looked into it, and it's an accompanied

tour, which means I can take Paul with me.

Who is this?

Uh, Maggie Swann,

we served together.

Just... give me two...

She's just my friend, Ami.

Got any other friends

stopping by I should know about?

Uh-oh.

It's a two-year assignment.

I realize that, but they won't let me out of

deploying, because it'll set a bad precedent.

This way I'm volunteering for a

longer mission, everybody's happy.

And you?

We're talking some base clinic

in bumfuck Pyeongtaek.

Where you'll be looking at sprained ankles

and refilling malaria prescriptions.

Just do this for me?

What's it look like I'm doing?

Downloading porn?

You never know with you.

Sir?

Korea?

You think that's the answer

to your problems?

Sir, I can explain.

How dare you go behind my back?

I apologize, sir,

I was going to tell you.

I'm trying to fight a war here.

You think you're the

only one with a family?

No, sir.

You know what you are?

A baby.

Besides it's too late,

they're never gonna grant it.

Country first,

you ever heard of that?

Yes, sir.

Try living it.

Lift!

Looking good. Move it!

Keep it going.

Thanks.

Thanks for dinner.

Just eat.

What about you?

Not hungry.

You're not hungry?

Mm-mm.

You said you wanted to talk?

I was riding with an infantry

unit and we were working a TCB.

Basically a checkpoint for cars.

It was an especially hot day.

We were a few guys short, so I

volunteered to run some of the searches.

And the guy running the squad,

Staff Sergeant Donovan...

we were like equal in rank,

but it was his mission.

I must have looked like I was

gonna pass out...

because he comes over and he

asks me to take a break.

I'm all right.

I said get in the f***ing shade,

Swann. I got this.

And he takes my place.

And then a car drives up.

Stop.

Turn off the car.

Get out of the car.

Get going, open it up.

Hurry up! Open the hood up.

Let's go.

Keep walking. Keep walking.

Far side looking good.

Keep walking. Over here, start

walking. Here. Hurry it up.

What the f*** you got up there?

Let's go, then. Hurry up!

Let's go. F***!

Go!

Shut up.

You see anything in there,

Kolozel?

Let's go! He's gonna go over there and

f***ing search you. Let's go! Keep walking.

Sir! Hurry up!

Sir! Excuse me! Excuse me.

I need you to step over here,

we're gonna search your body.

Sir! Sir! Please be quiet.

All right, listen to me!

Shut the f*** up!

Sir! I need you to step over here,

we're gonna search your body.

Popcorn! Popcorn!

Allah akbar!

There were no bodies.

Three guys standing there one

second... and then nothing.

That's not your fault.

You didn't ask him to take over,

just... I mean, he was doing his job.

No, he took my spot because

of something stupid he'd done.

But that's not the point,

I don't expect you to understand.

Why not?

Because I wasn't there? Because

I don't know what it's like?

You don't.

You don't have to be in a war to see

people get killed for no reason.

Try coming back to a life

that doesn't want you in it.

You know,

sometimes I think that...

Sometimes I think Paul would have been

better off if I hadn't come back.

No, he wouldn't be better off.

How do you know?

I know what it's like

to grow up without a mom.

And believe me, you don't

want that for him.

Hey.

You can have the re-assignment.

Now you gotta talk to your CO.

Ball's in his court.

Wow. I really owe you.

I won't forget.

Thanks, man.

Three weeks from deployment.

You gotta be shitting me?

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