Like Trees in June

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Authors Note: The name Faye Green was used in episode 106 "Who are you?" of CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. I just really liked it so I decided to use it for this story.

Faye Green (Fay - silent e)

The name of this story comes from Chapter 14 Part 1 "Like Trees in November" of the book Watership Down by Richard Adams (great book by the way also was turned into a movie, the 1978 one, not 1999).

I choose June instead of November because June 6th was D-Day.

This chapter takes place in Part One, in the fifth scene. (After Sobel was tricked and when Winters gets court marshaled.)

Chapter One

Aldbourne, England

"I don't know, I still think Sobel deserved it" the medium sized, thin, blond said to the three other girls around her. All four dressed in their nurse uniforms. On her left was Lindsay Hill, who was the head nurse for Fox Company, and to her right was the head nurse for Dog Company, Kate Jeremy, and sitting on the ledge behind her was a new nurse that had just come from the states, her name was Lauren Nelson. And of course herself, Faye Green, the head nurse for Easy Company. They all looked over at the four men playing basketball, Perconte, Bull, Malarkey, and Talbert. Faye had joined the Nurse staff ready to help the soldiers about a year ago, she meet Easy's men about a month ago and even now they were great friends.

"I feel sort of bad for him" Lauren said.

"Are you kidding me?!" Faye said and turned to look at her. "Have you seen how he treats the men?"

"You have obviously have never met my father." Lauren told her as she diverted her attention back on the four men.

"Yea, maybe not" Faye said quietly almost to herself. She watched as a jeep pulled through the guys playing and watched as sergeant Evans, a good friend of Sobel walk up to Winters and Nixon who were also standing by the ledge.

"Hey look" she said to her friends.

They all looked over too see the men salute each other and then Evans walked off and climbed back in the truck and it rode off. Faye looked back over at Winters and Nixon. Nixon smiled a little, and Winters look disturbed.

" Ill see you guys later okay." Faye said, as she nodded to her friends and walked off toward the men.

"Lieutenant Winters, Nixon." she said as she approached them. They looked up from the paper in Winters hands.

"Hey Faye." they answered.

"What's wrong?" She asked, Winters handed over the paper so she could read it. Faye glanced at it then rolled her eyes and handed back the paper.

"We were just talking about him." She sighed, as they started to walk.

"Yea?" Nixon questioned. "Did you say how much of an ass he is?" He finished.

Faye smiled, and nodded "I think that may have been mentioned." She stated.

"Well I need to go take care of this, I will see you two later." Winter said, as he walked away.

"Yea, good luck!" Nix called after him.

The other tow kept walking and Nixon turned to Faye.

"He had a good run, didn't he?" He asked sarcastically. "I'll miss him" he continued.

Faye smiled and patted him on the back. " Loop holes Nix, there's always a loop hole." And with that she walked off.

Nixon thought to himself as he watched her go.

An hour later Faye walked into the Nurses Quarters to find her friends all sitting on their beds facing each other, and talking. When she walked in they all smiled and Faye sat down next to Lindsay.

"So, any news?" Kate asked.

"Besides the fact the Sobel has sunken to a new low?" Faye answered "no not really."

"What did he do this time?" asked Lauren, sitting up and moving to a more comfortable position.

"He gave Winters a letter of appeal (??)." Faye said as she got up and moved over to her bed, the other girls looked at her, all wanting to know the gossip.

"What did Dick do?" asked Lindsay, interested in the whole deal.

"I'm sure nothing." Faye returned as she sat on the bed looking at the girls.

"I wonder how Easy's men are going to find out?" Kate said as she thought out loud. "Or how they will react?"

"Well I'm sure they don't know yet." Faye told them.

"I don't want to be there for that." said Lauren, as she jumped from her spot on the bed. "Now lets go do something, this will be our last day off from the hospital."

The girls got up and left to go to the Bar. Lindsay went off to where some of her friends were, and the other three found themselves in front of some of Easy's men.

"Faye Green." Frank Perconte said aloud "How the hell are you and who are these lovely women you have with you?" he said eyeing Lauren and Kate.

Faye sat down between Bull and Johnny Martin, and broke Perconte's concentration with the girls by smacking him upside the head. "Eyes off Frank, these are women not food." Faye told him. Perconte looked offended, and the other men just laughed.

"That's what I said, lovely women, didn't I?" Frank said.

"Hey Frank, shut up while you're still good for it." John Martin spoke up.

"What's that? Some sort of threat?" Frank asked.

"It can be if you don't shut up." John returned.

Frank threw his hands in the air giving up.

"Okay well answering Frank's question, this is Kate and this is Lauren." Faye said as she pointed to the two girls. "Kate and Lauren this is Easy Company." Faye said looking around. "Well some of Easy Company at least, this is Bull Randleman, Johnny Martin, Frank Perconte, over there is Don Malarkey with Skip Muck and Alex Penkala, and over there playing cards in Joe Toye, Luz, and Tab." She said pointing at the men. "Now go, go and have fun, mingle, get drunk, enjoy yourselves, well don't get to drunk." She said playfully.

The girls smiled and sat down. Faye turned to John.

"Where are the rest of them?" She asked.

"Over at the bar." He said as they both looked over and saw the rest of the guys there getting drinks.

"So I heard what happened." Bull said diverted her attention from the bar. She looked over to him.

"What happened?" She asked

"You know with Winters and Sobel." He said. Faye was taken back.

"That was only like a few hours ago how do you know?" she asked him looking at John who was also interested in the conversation. Bull smiled and took the cigar out from the corner of his mouth.

"And I thought it was just a rumor, so what has that tricky Bastard pulled this time?" Randleman asked.

Faye looked at him slyly. "I thought you knew." she stated.

"Like I said I heard a rumor, but I have a feeling you know." He said to her as the guys from the bar stared to walk over with drinks in their hands.

"All I know is that he court marshaled him for some kind of failure to inspect the latrines." Faye said quickly, worried what they'd say.

"Son of a bitch." John said as he slumped back down in his chair. The rest of the guys sat down and put drink on the table.

"Who did what?" asked Webster overhearing what she said.

Faye was about to open to mouth to say something but she was cut off by Bull "Sobel gave Winters an appeal"

"You gotta be shittin' me" Mike Ranney said as all of the men sunk into their seats.

"Don't shoot the messenger." She told them as she watched Webster stare into his glass. She looked around the table at the angry and sad faces. Then Faye threw her hands in the air.

"See this is why I didn't want to tell you." She said as they looked up, she smacked Bull in the arm.

"You made me." She told him but he just shrugged it off. Bill Guarnere stood up and walked over to SSgt. Lipton.

"We don't even know what will happen." She tried to tell them.

"Faye it's not your fault." Joe Liebgott told her. She smiled at him; he had always been nice to her.

"Yea, then why do I feel like it is." She said quietly.

"Yea, Faye, it has nothing to do with you, don't worry about it." John martin told her, trying to cheer the group up.

"Alright then can we forget about it for now and just have fun and drink." She said

"Faye you don't drink." John pointed out. She looked over to him.

"Then Ill be the one having fun, if anyone cares to join, ill be over at the dart board." She said as she walked away from the men, tipping her head to them. They laughed and a few men did got up and played darts.

Faye stepped put the bar and on to the gravel, it was cold outside, and she hugged herself to keep warm. She had spent two hours with the men and decided to go to the barracks. The wind pushed against her back as she walked forward, her hair falling out of its place in her bun on the back of her head. She pushed the loose stands aside and kept walking.

She saw a movement in the shadows of a near by building. Faye looked over to see a soldier leaning over and holding his stomach. She walked over, interested to see if the man was hurt. As she stepped closer she saw that the man wasn't hurt, just drunk, it was Cobb. She sighed and thought about leaving him, knowing that he almost always gets drunk, but she knew she had to do the right thing.

"Cobb, do you need some help?" Faye asked advancing toward him. He looked up from his drunken stage.

"No" He said flatly.

She still walked toward him, and touched his arm gently. "C'mon let me help you." she told him. He shrugged out of her reach, and when she advanced again, he grabbed her and threw against the wall in a drunk fit. He locked her neck with his arm, Faye struggled against him.

"Cobb…let…go…" She pushed the words out. He was yelling and cursing, she tried hard to push him but he was to strong. She heard voices and footsteps. Faye was about to pass out when Cobb's grip fell and she slid down the wall, but someone caught her before she hit the ground. A pair of strong arm lifted her from the waist. Faye rubbed her throat and took a look around. She looked over to see that Webster had Cobb in a head lock and the man still holding her was Joe Liebgott.

"Are you alright?" He asked

It took her a second to answer. "Yea I'm fine." She said still rubbing her neck. Webster helped Cobb up and pulled his one arm over his shoulders.

"I think ill take him back to barracks." Webster told them as he walked away. Joe nodded and turned to Faye.

"Can I walk you home?" he asked.

She smiled and looked down at her waist and blushed, Joe saw this and removed his arms.

"But I only live right up there." She pointed.

"I know" He said as they stared to walk, she eyed him suspiciously.

"I see you there a lot." he told her seeing her wonder.

Faye smiled and kept walking.

"So I take it this is your first encounter with Cobb." he stated.

"Well no, just my first encounter with the drunk Cobb" Faye told him.

"Is your neck okay?" He asked.

"Yes." She touched her throat and smiled to him. Faye looked up to see the nurse barracks.

"Well this is me" She told him as they stopped in front of the door. "Thank you so much for helping me back there."

He nodded it off. "Well whenever I see a beautiful women being strangled by Cobb, I come running over, this is like the third time its happened, so don't feel so special." Joe said playfully

Faye laughed "Okay then, I guess all I have to be is grateful." She told him

They smiled at each other for a few moments. Faye broke the moment and turned to open the door, Joe still watching her.

"Good Night." She told him as she slipped thought the door.

How could anyone ever know of the price paid by soldiers in terror, agony, and blood shed if they'd never been to places like Normandy Bastogne, or Haguenau

I wrote this story because I love all of the other ones; you guys do such a great job! I love the stories, please, please write more, I love to read them!

Sorry about the whole bar thing, that whole part was just to show you the relaltionship with Faye and the men, it was a little too long for my taste, but I needed to do it. Hope you understand.

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