DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the characters except Nikki and David. No disrespect is meant toward the real Band of Brothers, I've based this story entirely on movie charactersations of those men.

TITLE: Will probably change but having serious issues uploading. Yuk, technology!

Summary: This will be a Speirs/OC story. It has been in my brain for a while and thought what the heck, he really doesnt' get enough love. :)

Feedback is always welcome

Chapter 1 Meeting Easy

Nicole "Nikki" Klemp sat at Mrs. Stewart's kitchen table in the early morning sun staring at the calendar. Yep, it hadn't changed in the last half hour; every time she looked it was still 5 June 1944. Word had come down yesterday that today was the day. The truck would be here shortly to take her to the airfield along with the 30 other translators that were going to be making the jump into France.

I've got to be out of my mind, why in the world did I ever volunteer first to be a translator and then jump out of air planes. Oh come on Nikki, admit it, the jumping out of airplanes was kind of fun.

With a very unlady like snort, she swallowed the remainder of the now lukewarm tea and headed up stairs to pack, yep no turning back now.

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When all the translators had gathered at the airfield they crowded into a hanger where they received a very quick over view of the operation, a quick equipment issue with no instructions on something they were calling a leg bag…or at least she was sure that was what the specialist had called it.

David Stein one of her fellow interpreters came up and sat down next to her eyeing the new piece of equipment with suspicion. "Oh, I've just got to know whose bright idea these were."

Nikki dropped it back on the floor and considered giving it a good kick. "I've no idea, but I certainly hope that when I see Dick and Nix they know what to do with it. Right now I'm just glad I'm not carrying everything they are."

David shrugged, "well I for one want to get this over with. You know what they say about waiting being the worst of it.'

"Oh is that what they say, well if waiting is the hard part jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft while being shot at is going to be too easy then." Nikki's sense of humor seemed to be hanging in there at least.

David got up and extended his hand to Nicole. "come on old girl, looks like the trucks are here and we wouldn't want to deprive those men of your wonderful company one minute longer. Lord knows if I looked like you I would never carry my gear again."

Nikki felt the great desire to stick her tongue out at David's back; oh, he thought he was so funny. Just for that, she sincerely hoped he ended up having a terrible time with Dog Company.

The closer they got to the airfield the worse Nikki began to feel. Nerves were an understatement of what she felt. Right now, she didn't know what had her more upset, facing the Germans or meeting the men she would be working with. She knew they weren't going to be happy with a female, but out of the thirty or so translators six of them were women. Not uncommon, but still, the thought of women putting themselves into such a dangerous situation had taken some serious convincing, but God love Colonel Sink, he had agreed to take them all providing they finished paratrooper training.

She had been working closely with both Lt Dick Winters and Lt Lewis Nixon over the last few weeks, they knew her and were accustomed to working closely with a female, and she just wasn't sure about the rest of Easy. Lew had said they were all good guys and that she would fit in, she only hoped that was the case.

The sudden jerking halt of the truck brought Nikki back into a sudden reality. Someone really needed to teach these people how to stop; the entire paratrooper training had given her fewer bruises than riding in the back of these trucks. Nixon suddenly appeared at the back of the truck with his smirk of a smile. He was the only person she'd ever met that when they smiled it still looked like a smirk.

"Hey Nik, got everything? Great let's get going I promised Dick I would get you over to Easy before heading over to my chalk."

Grumbling under her breath about men and their general lack of understanding, she was almost running trying to keep up with Nixon. This was the only time she was glad to be tall, but even at 5 ft 7 inches she was having a hard time keeping up. Such a hard time in fact she almost missed what he had been saying about him being with another group.

Coming to an abrupt halt she could only stare at him, "Wait, wait, wait…what do you mean your chalk? Aren't you jumping with us?"

Nixon put his arm around her shoulders to keep her moving while he explained that he would be jumping with Colonel Sink and that she would be with Dick and his small band of merry men. "But look, don't worry, Dick will be there and you know he won't let anything happen to you…I think he's grown kind of attached to you. You know kind of like a bratty sister."

Finally giving in to her childish feelings, she did stick her tongue out at Nix along with an elbow in the side. God she hated men sometimes.

"Great you're here; thanks for bringing her by, come on Nik we need to get you equipped and ready to go." Well so much for a hello from Dick as he immediately began pushing and pulling her into her chute and doing equipment check.

"Hey hang on a minute Dick, don't I even get to say good bye to Nixon?"

"No time, they got you guys here behind schedule and we've got to make up some time. Take this."

She had experience been mauled during training and on the trip over that was one thing, but this was just crazy. Without her doing, anything Dick had her dressed and pushed to the ground to wait the call forward before she could even breathe. Letting out one long sigh she finally began to look around at what was going all. Most of the men in her chalk were already outfitted and ready to go and now were staring at her like some kind of bug.

Well Nikki, now is as good of time as any to break the ice, here goes nothing.

"Hi, my name is Nikki, so what's yours?"

The person to her right that she had tried to introduce herself to laughed. "Lady, you are something else. I'm SGT Carwood Lipton, or Lip for short. I guess you'll be our translator huh?"

"Yep that's me, if I live to hit the ground I'm your gal. Wait that didn't come out right, oh hell you know what I meant."

Lipton laughed even harder. "Yeah I know what you mean, you are too funny, and you and Lt Nixon should get along real well."

"Yeah that's us just a couple of jolly jokers."

Before the conversation could go any further, the call came to rally around Lt Meehan with the wonderful news there would be no jump tonight.

Nikki looked at Dick and smiled, "see you got me all dressed up and nowhere to go. I certainly hope you don't intend to keep this up, a girl could start to feel unwanted."

"Come on Nik; let's go find Nixon so he can spend the rest of the night complaining."

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Well Dick had certainly been right, they had listened to Nix's complaining all the way back to the barracks, first about the gear and then about the lousy weather. However, on the bright side she had the chance to met all the men in Easy Company and at least give them a chance to get over the shock of working with a female Nixon's assessment of them had been correct. They were a fantastic bunch of guys who were definitely going to make her laugh, she just prayed they would all make it through the jump tomorrow.

She and Dick had been sitting outside watching the light slowly fade from the sky, having no interest in the movie, when Nixon decided to join them.

"I think it's clearing up. Yeah it's clearing up, we'll go tomorrow." Nixon took a long drink from his canteen, noticing Nikki staring at him he offered it to her.

"No thanks, that's the last thing I need, to be hung over and airsick all at the same time. I guess I could just puke on the Germans.

Nix shrugged and mumbled something about her suiting herself.

Nikki just sighed. She really hoped Nixon was right, the waiting to go was driving her crazy, and the sooner they went the sooner the war would end. Sighing again, she listened to Lew and Dick talk about the jump and then about Tocca and someone named Sobel that obviously neither man liked. Deciding she wanted to talk to David she realized she was going to have to get at least one of them to point her in the right direction.

"Hey boys, if I could interrupt, could you point me in the direction of Dog Company?"

Nixon frowned, "Why you want to go over there? Aren't we enough for you?" The smirk had returned to soften the question, but Nikki knew his joking was to cover his protectiveness.

"That's not it, my friend David is their translator, and I just want to see him before the jump, come on Nix, and walk me over."

Sighing with great dramatics Nix finally consented to walk her over to Dog Company but after that, she was on her own. Giving him a kiss on the cheek, she ran off to meet David never realizing someone else was watching.

Lt Ronald Speirs was a man who believed in discipline and what he was seeing right now was a serious breach of discipline. The female had run up, hugged his translator, and were now heading off away from everyone else and that didn't look good at all.

"So how are things in Dog Company?"

"Not so bad, they're a little rigid, especially Lt Speirs, that is one scary guy and I'm not the only person who thinks so, hell his own men are scared of him." David lit a cigarette and leaned back against a tree. "Still it could be worse I guess, he's pretty much left me alone, but his eyes, I swear the man gives me chills when he looks at me."

Nikki grabbed the cigarette from him and took a couple of good draws before handing it back. "Yeah well, just do your job and he won't hurt you, most of these guys just have big tales attached to them, they're harmless."

"Really miss, I don't think I like you undermining my authority or dragging my translator off into the dark of night."

Beside her, she heard oh shit…anyone but him. Nikki had only a moment to realize what would make David so nervous until she came face to face with Lt Ronald Speirs.

"You must be Lt Speirs, I'm-."

"I know who you are miss, but my question is what do you think you are doing out here in the dark with my translator?"

Nikki pushed herself off the tree to go toe to toe with the dread Lt of Dog Company. She just couldn't believe this was happening.

"Who do you think you are to come out here and start accusing me of anything less than honorable, I'll have you know…"

David who had been stunned into silence decided to step up and get between the two combatants. He had seen that look in Speirs eyes before and he really didn't want Nikki to get hurt.

So grabbing her around the waist he attempted to pull her back while using very soft tones to calm her down. "Er ist nur schwierig, liebt ihn vergisst. Gehen Sie zurück zu Ihrer Einheit und ich werde Sie auf dem Boden morgen sehen. Seien Sie sicher" (he is just being difficult, forget him love. Go back to your unit and I'll see you on the ground tomorrow. Be safe.)

Speirs watched both of them hating the fact that she hadn't backed down and in fact was still spitting mad. Interesting, he wished now he had paid more attention in German class.

"Hat er nur besagt gemacht, dass wir etwas falsch machen, oder bin ich verrückt." (Did he just imply that we are doing something wrong or am I crazy?)

David pushed her further away from Speirs and kissed her on the forehead. "Go home liebchen." (love).

Nikki started walking back toward easy but couldn't resist one more jab at him since she was now aware he had no idea what they were saying to each other in German.

"Sie sind ein Ruck." (You are a jerk)

When Speirs knew she couldn't see him anymore he actually smiled. Oh yeah, she was going to be a handful. God help the Germans if they caught her. Still smiling he headed back to his own tent for some much needed rest.

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