leaning out for love

"Are you married?" It's a standard question for a nurse, but it's been a long day, and it takes more effort than usual not to roll her eyes."Yes, Corporal.""Oh. You wanna get divorced?"_____ Margaret's been in love with Helen for about five years now and telling herself that it'll pass. But it's a lot harder to tell herself to ignore it when she's about to get divorced. Maybe she doesn't want to anymore.Or, the Hawkbeej married divorce attorney AU. Schemes and pining abound.

Title comes from "Suzanne" by the inimitable Leonard Cohen but I listened to the Nina Simone cover which is a different vibe but still so good. Credit to aunt-hawkeye on Tumblr for the text post that started this whole thing, and to gayfranzkafka and horaetio for starting the Houlifield movement. For background: Hawkeye and BJ are lawyers (in New York and San Francisco respectively) drafted into the US Army around 1951, quickly become friends, and make something of a name for themselves by helping various army personnel with divorces and other assorted legal trouble. Everyone else at the 4077 is pretty much the same. After the war, BJ gets divorced and goes to Maine and has a dramatic proposal yada yada yada and they end up in San Francisco as newly minted divorce lawyers, which lends itself to Schemes because divorce law in the 50s was fucking weird.