As Time Goes By

Hawkeye is trying to move on with his life after Korea. It sounds so easy, but easier said than done. Hawkeye hasn't been quite the same, and though he tries to make connections with those around him, there some sort of distance between himself and others that he can't quite understand.

Upon visiting his girlfriend who is studying in Boston, Hawk runs into an old 'friend' who is giving a lecture at his girlfriends school.

Charles too has been working to get his life back. He never thought it would have been so challenging. He's home in his beloved manor on Beacon Hill, with his dream job, and courting a woman who is perfect for him by the standards of high society and his family.

But nothing feels quite right, not as perfect as he had imagined it to be, and anything less than perfection is frustration.

When Pierce shows up to a lecture Charles is giving, they speak afterwards about that 'off' feeling.

In this they find a connection that is lacking in other relationships; they understand one another.

Hawkeye and Charles begin to write to one another after Pierce leaves Boston, and the relationship that follows is full of troubles and triumphs, and a kind of battle all its own.