Long separations are always hard. It's even harder when it's due to circumstances beyond your control. Your transfer, albeit temporary, as an experienced urban and confined space combat specialist to another base has not been easy for Keegan.

Daily phone calls, emails with cute emoticons and declarations of love.... Even that wasn't enough to fill the void your absence created in his life.

He would cross out the days on the calendar that hung above his bunk and dream before going to sleep, how much he would hold you close to him, to his heart and never let you go again.

Six months later, he was standing at the airport at gate number 4. A beautiful bouquet of chrysanthemums in his hands. His feet were tapping out an incomprehensible nervous rhythm. And in his heart, a pinching feeling of anticipation. And then, finally, you get off the plane....