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"Flowers or chocolates Dawsey?"
"What?"
She looked across at Dangleberries and then at the rest of 2 Section who were apparently waiting for her solve this mystery. Of course if she had been listening to the conversation she may of had a better idea what they were on about but this would be the first patrol after Bashira had been taken from the village and the young girl was still very much at the forefront of her mind.
"Flowers or chocolates for Dangleberries to take to try and win his ex back when he gets home" Smurf supplied the background that she had been lacking.
"I think you're going to need more than that mate."
"No look girls love a man in uniform right, so add that to the relief that I'm not dead I'm onto a winner." Clearly he'd given this a lot of thought.
"You'd eat the bloody chocolates before you got back to Birmingham so I'd stick with the flowers. Although don't blame me if it all goes wrong, none of my ex's ever bought me flowers."
" No gentlemen in London Dawes?"
"No Sir, not round where I live at any rate".
"Well as entertaining as I'm sure recounting everyone's personal histories would be, we do have a job to do so listen in."
An uneventful patrol was welcome and there was no longer the complaints once they had returned of boredom, they had seen enough excitement in the last few days to make them thankful for a quiet run.
After debrief Molly went to make tea and wasn't really surprised to find Smurf waiting cup in had for her. She only hoped he'd realise that she would have done the same for any of them and would tone down his need to become her personal protector, she'd already got some stick of the rest of the guys for it earlier in the day.
"I'll buy you some flowers, soon as we touch down back home. "
"Smurph stop. I don't need any flowers, I wasn't complaining about the lack of flowers in my life and I don't need you to feel sorry for the girl from London who never had a decent life before she joined up."
The hurt flashing across his face was almost enough to make her stop but you had to be cruel to be kind. She stalked over to the medical tent under the guise of needing to check her kit. She didn't see Captain James exit the tent a minute before she arrived.
It had only been a month but she automatically moved around the small space checking supplies. Then she stopped. Sitting in the middle of the table was an open bottle of water with 5 small pink flowers that she knew grew on the road side near the village. How anyone had managed to get them back, mostly in tact but still a little battered was a small miracle. Her words to Smurf came back to her and she still stood by them, she didn't need flowers but the thought that someone had thought enough of her to find them out here was enough to make her feel she could fly home on the feeling alone.
She was smiling from ear to ear about what was probably a few weeds in a bottle, when she walked out of the tent and once again didn't notice James as he smiled to himself at Lady Luck once more smiling down on him and allowing him his moment.
AN: A massive thank you to everyone who has read and reviewed my previous attempts, hopefully this one isn't too bad but the idea refused to go away and I had to give in.