"My God." Leah Kerns groaned as she and Jules Callaghan entered the female locker room that only the two of them shared. Leah plumbed herself down on the wooden bench that sat it's self in the middle of the room, while Jules slumped to the floor, leaning against the cool metal lockers. Both of them groaned louder in doing so.

"That. Was. Awful." Jules complained.

"I don't even know what that was. Because it certainly wasn't a training exercise, it was Hell." Leah agreed.

"I literally can't feel a thing on my body."

"I'm not going to be able to get my butt off of this bench, I can't move."

"Who the hell pissed in Ed's cereal this morning? Because today was just cruel. Why did Ed have to do that to us?"

"Because he loves to see us suffer. That's the only rational reason." Leah answered her teammate.

Jules stayed quiet in response and began to peel the gear off her petit, incredibly sore body. Her boots came off first, followed by her socks. "At least I can still move my toes." She commented as she wiggled her toes.

"Just wait until morning- I'm sure they'll be just as bad as the rest of our bodies."

"The worst part of all of-'' Jules sucked in a sharp breath as she began to remove her Kevlar vest, wincing in pain before continuing. "The worst part is that every single one of those guys walked into their changing room like they just had got back from a trip to Heaven."

"There's no way they aren't sore after that, it probably would have hurt their manly pride too much to show a little feeling." Leah retorted as she too began to undress herself slowly.

Jules finally had her vest off and began working on her button down SRU long sleeved shirt. "I can't wait to get home and have a long, hot bath."

Leah smiled at her friend. "Hmm, a little back rub from Sam I suppose?" She laughed as a light blush crept its way into Jules' cheeks.

Despite herself Jules chuckled too. "Yes, as a matter of fact, one of those would be lovely. And I suppose you'll be expecting a visit from Connor tonight?" Jules laughed as the tables had turned. Connor was an engineer that Leah had been seeing for quite some time now. Jules was the only other member of Team One who had met him, or for that matter, even knew about him- running into both of them one night while grocery shopping.

Leah snickered. "You jealous?"

Jules looked up at Leah while making quick work of removing her tee-shirt. "Never. I'm completely happy with Sam thank you very much."

Jules was expecting a quirky comment from Leah, but when it didn't come Jules looked back to Leah wondering what the problem was.

"My God Jules, your chest."

Jules looked down at her sports-bra clad chest to see what was so wrong that it had Leah all uptight.

"Shit." Jules walked over to the body length mirror. She pulled her sports-bra down ever so slightly, careful not to expose herself in front of Leah. She cursed again as she saw the light purple bruises that danced along her chest. Groaning once more Jules walked back to the bench that Leah was sitting on and sat down beside her friend.

"Damn, I don't even want to see my chest now." Leah commented dryly.

"That was actually the stupidest training ever." Jules complained. "Please tell me when we are going to find ourselves in a situation where we have seventy pounds of stupid concrete sitting on our chest."

"Did Ed seriously not realize how much more that hurts a woman than a man? It killed. Not even one of them clued into our immense pain."

"I think Sam knew." Jules argued. "I noticed that he briefly had that sad puppy dog face going on when it was my turn."

Leah laughed. "Well be thankful you have such a perceptive man then."

Jules smiled and nodded. "Well this is just great; I have no clue how we're going to get through shift tomorrow."

"Sometimes it sucks being a girl." Leah added.

"No, it just sucks being a girl in the SRU."

"And for some reason, we're the ones who put ourselves through it. Please remind me why."

Jules sighed. "We do it for the civilians, the people who can't protect themselves."

Leah chuckled. "Yeah, something like that."

A/N- hope you enjoyed it! It was just a situation that I feel like Jules and Leah would eventually find themselves in! Please review!