Disclaimer: I'm not L.M. Montgomery and these characters are not mine :-(. Oh, and I'm not making any money off this. Pity.

A/N I may have messed up some facts a little bit, I don't have the book in front of me so it may have been impossible for Walter and Ken to have seen each other while at the front, but if they could have, I've always imagined there having been a night like this. And of course you can tell that I've never been in war Thank G-d.

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The fire crackled and the soldiers sitting around its comforting warmth and eating meager rations were sharing stories. One brought out a picture of his sweetheart and they were all talking longingly of home. A soldier with a white scar down his browned cheek stood up and went over to another sitting a bit farther from the fire. "Walter, d'you have any pictures from home? I've looked over my few so many times that I know them all by heart and all this talk is giving me such a hankering for the old times. Before all this."

"Sure, Kenneth. You'll find them in a wallet in the bottom of my rucksack."

Kenneth looked through the pictures. There was one of each member of the Blythe family and one of Susan. He stopped on the last picture, the one of the youngest Blythe, Rilla. He stared, memorizing the picture. He didn't even hear anyone come up behind him until Walter spoke up again. "I have an extra one of her if you'd like it."

Ken turned around and saw an understanding look in Walter's face.

"How did you..."

"The night before I left I talked to Rilla in Rainbow Valley. I was thinking aloud how the women have got it hard too. They wait for their husbands, sons, playmates, and sweethearts. As I said that, I asked Rilla if she had a sweetheart. She said that maybe Ken Ford."

"I asked her the night before I left. But I haven't got a picture. Thank you...brother."

"Welcome to the family for real."

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A/N Yeah, I know, he didn't really propose, but he did sorta ask her. If you're confused, means you never read the book. That part is practically bookmarked in mine because it just opens to it because it's been opened to it so often. Am I making sense?