A/N: I do not own any of the characters from Band of Brothers, only the character of Katie Millard. I mean no disrespect to the real men of Easy Company, these characters are based on those from the TV series.

I don't have much knowledge of army etiquette and am trying my hardest but if there are any mistakes my apologies. Also if there are any historical mistakes my apologies again but I have taken some artistic license. Some events may also be far fetched but hey this a fan fiction so when aren't they?

The build up to Speirs and the OC is going to be a bit of a slow burner because I want to put equal emphasis on the relationship between the OC and the men of Easy Company to that of her and Speirs.

Please review! I would love to know what people think!

"Right, everyone PT in two minutes. Let's move, let's move." He yelled, clapping his hands at the last bit. Everyone surged towards the door. I ran alongside the men with Bill and Luz either side of me.

There was a collection of men already congregated as we joined them. Everyone greeted one another and I attempted to stay back. I say attempted because someone brought all the attention on me.

"Well, lookee here boys. Someone seems to have got lost." I heard behind me in a deep Southern accent. I turned, and looked up and then continued to look up when I realised how tall the man was.

I felt an arm thrown over my shoulder. I looked to my left to see it was Talbert. "Nah, she ain't lost Bull, this is Easy's new nurse." He pulled me to his side and I smiled. They really were all nice.

"But you're a girl." I heard bitterly spat out from Bull's left. Maybe not all nice then. I looked to see a weaseley looking man who I instantly disliked.

I looked down at myself dramatically and gasped. "I am. Shit, I best get back to the kitchens." I looked at him firmly while anyone who was paying attention chuckled.

Bull stuck his hand out. "Denver Randleman, everyone calls me Bull." I put my hand in his which he squeezed gently.

"Katie Millard." I replied as I tried to tame my hair into a bun after returning his hand shake.

"Attention!" Was yelled across the field and everyone feel into line. I found myself in between Bill and Toye with Bull behind me and Luz in front. We all saluted until Sobel returned it and told us to be at ease.

"I'll get this announcement over with." He paced in front of the group. "There is a new nurse in Easy, Pvt Katie Millard. She will be training with us and then jumping with Easy when the time comes." He stopped in a position to stare my down. "If she is a distraction to you men, she will no longer be in Easy company, understood?"

There was a ring of "yes, sir" around me which I joined in with. Sobel continued to glare at me and I got a feeling that if I put a toe out of line, I was out.

Sobel suddenly turned away and continued to pace. "Lieutenant Winters will be taking you through PT today. Once that is finished you have the night off in preparation for tomorrow's inspection." With that he turned and left with Winters taking his place at the front.

"Right, let's begin." Winters called and started to take us through simple exercises such as star jumps, press ups, sit ups etc.

After about 15 minutes I started to get slightly out of breath along with some of the other men.

"You sure you can keep up duchess?" Toye asked gruffly but I could tell he was joking.

"I could do this all day." I replied changing to do press ups again. "And don't call me Duchess."

I heard some laughter. "It fits your accent." Luz said from in front of me.

"I'm not even posh." Confusion was evident in my voice.

"Well it's either that or princess, take your pick." Bill told me as we switched exercises again. I didn't reply as I was trying to regain my breath.

"You know what, this is greatly unfair." Luz complained.

"What is?" Bill asked.

"Well, you and Toye get to sneak a peek from the side and Bull gets the full view from behind. I get nothing."

I was confused. "Huh?"

Bill laughed. "He's on about you sweet cheeks." He explained. My face must have registered shock because Bill and Toye laughed.

"Can you blame him?" Toye asked, leaning back to jokingly look at my bum, well I hoped he was joking.

"Hey, keep your eyes, mind and conversation off my bum." I told them as I touched elbows to knees.

Again there were titters of laughter. I flushed but it would have been hard to tell due to me already being red from exertion.

"Well I'll keep my eyes, mind and conversation off your 'bum' if you do the same for my 'bum'." Luz told me, putting air quotes around the word 'bum'.

I smirked but managed to keep my laughter in. "I'll try Luz, but it will be hard." I joked keeping my voice serious.

"Right everyone take a break and then we'll do the assault course." Winters ordered.

I bent over with my hands resting on my knees, trying to catch my breath. "Ok, I should have do more cardio back in London." I mumbled to myself. I stood back up to see a slight swarm of Easy men around me.

A handsome man stepped up to me first. "David Webster, nice to meet you ma'am."

I looked up at him. "Don't call me ma'am." I pleaded.

Liebgott was next to me and nudged me in the shoulder. "Yeah don't call her ma'am, her title is Duchess." He said is a snarky voice (which I assumed was his tone of humour) earning a glare from me.

"Don't call me Duchess." I told him sternly.

This only cause him to smirk. "Come on, you've gotta meet Doc Roe." He tugged on my arm until I followed him to a man that I shouldn't call cute but he just was.

"Doc, this is your new nurse." Liebgott told him.

I held out my hand and smiled. "Katie Millard."

He stared at my hand. "So you're here to replace me." His Cajun accent floated over me and lessened the blow of him refusing to shake my hand.

Liebgott look slightly stunned at Doc's reaction suggesting he was never anything other than mild mannered. "Hey…" he started to defend me but I put a hand on his shoulder to top him.

"I'm not here to replace you, I'm here to assist and help you." I told him sincerely hoping that he would believe me.

He stood looking into my eyes before holding out his hand. "Eugene Roe, called Gene by most." I took his hand and shook it. "Sorry about that ma'am, I just like my position and want to keep it"

I nodded. "That's fine as long as you don't call me ma'am again." Liebgott went to open his mouth. "And don't you go telling him to call me anything but my name, or I will leaving you bleeding at some point." I told him with a smile.

This caused him to grin. "A twisted sense of humour, a girl after my own heart." He clutched his hand to his heart.

"Everyone over here." Winters called from a while away. I turned and jogged over to him with Liebgott and Gene on my tail.

"Sobel wants you all through this obstacle in under 15 minutes so really push yourselves today." Winters told us encouragingly.

I looked to Gene. "How long does it usually take you to get through the course?" I asked, hoping he was going to say something close to 15 minutes.

"Usually about 19 to 22 minutes." He told me.

"I'm fucked." I exclaimed.

I heard a chuckle in front of me and when the man turned I saw it was Guarnere. "So the good lady swears."

"Yes, she does when she's utterly fucked." I reiterated.

A man next to Guarnere who I hadn't met turned round and leered at me. "You will be if you come to my barracks tonight."

Guarnere looked at the man like he was going to punch him and Liebgott tensed next to me. I gagged theatrically, ready to make a retort when someone reached over my head and pushed the man on the side of the face, hard.

"Respect the lady, boy or you will regret it." I recognised the voice as Bull's and turned to look at him. He had an intimidating look on his face that made the man mumble an apology and then turn back around. Bull looked down at me, nodded his head once and began to talk to Gene about something.

Liebgott nudged me. "You're not fucked, we'll all help you." He told me.

"No, no no. None of you can help me more than you would help anyone else. I need to prove I can do this or I'm out." I stared until they nodded their head in agreement. "I'm probably exaggerating. I've done obstacle courses, I just did them a while ago." I was saying this more to myself than anyone else, to psyche myself up, to believe in myself.

We were told to organise ourselves in lines of eight and we would set off one line after the other. I ended up on the end of the line with a grinning Luz next to me. Winters was on my other side.

"Just try your hardest." He told me. "There is usually some injuries at the end so keep that in mind."

He was playing to my nurse instincts because I instantly wanted to get to the end as soon as possible to help those in need. I felt my face harden and I nodded. The whistle was blown and I was off.

I managed it through half of the course without an issue with the shouts of encouragements from my new found friends egging me on. As I was crawling my way through mud I caught sight of Guarnere who gave me a big smile and a thumbs up.

Issues came when I got to the wall. And I don't mean the theoretical wall of when your body can't take any more, I mean a literal wall that I had to haul myself over. I watched two men go over, using the memento from their run, to run up it two steps to grab the top and then pull themselves over. I had seen people help each other over but I was stubborn and wanted to do it myself.

I took three steps back and ran at the wall completing the two steps and grabbing the top. However my lack of upper body strength meant I fell pathetically back to the ground. I groaned to myself. I felt a hand grab my upper arm and pull me up. I looked up to see it was Joe Toye who gave me as close to a smile as I thought I was ever going to get from him, a slight switch at the corner of his mouth.

He clambered his way up the wall but sat at the top. "Take your run up again and I'll grab you." He told me.

I looked at him, annoyed I couldn't do it myself. "I want to do it myself."

"The longer you make me wait to help you the slower my time is so hurry up. I'm not going on without you." His voice was shockingly stern but I still wavered. "It's nothing to be ashamed of, a lot of men can't get over the wall the first time or even the second time."

It was true and I needed to stop being stubborn. I took a few steps back and ran at the wall, taking the steps up need to grab the top. The moment my hands grabbed the ledge, Joe grabbed my wrists and instructed me to walk up the wall. I did as I was told a reached the top. We jumped off the other side together and ran to the end. Where soldiers who were timing us were waiting.

"Names and numbers?" One of them asked with a clipboard. We rattled them off and he wrote them down.

"Pvt Millard and Pvt Toye 16 minutes 57 seconds."

I kicked the ground in frustration before falling to it like a sack of potatoes panting for breathe while I lay on the floor.

"Thank you." I panted out. Joe had come to sit next to me with his knees pulled up, tearing a blade of grass.

"What?" He asked. He couldn't understand me cause of my breathing.

I rolled over onto my front and looked at him. "Thank you for helping me over the wall. You probably would have made it if it wasn't for me." I told him, feeling guilty.

He shrugged. "Never leave a man behind." He looked at me so I smiled.

"Well, thank you." I said again.

"Yeah you said that. Oi, what the hell took you so long?!" He yelled.

I twisted to see who he was yelling at. It was Guarnere and Luz.

"Well, I had a meeting to attend to half way round." Luz joked, falling to the floor next to me. "Oh, nurse I think I need CPR." He cried dramatically.

I shuffled over to him, still lying on my stomach until my face hovered over his. He seemed surprised but stayed still. I looked over his face for a couple of seconds before tapping his sharply on the face a couple of times. "Nope, your fine." I rolled onto my back and then onto my feet hearing Guarnere and Joe laugh.

"You're a cruel woman, Katie, a cruel woman." I blew him a kiss before turning to walk away.

"Hey, where you going?" Liebgott asked as he joined the other three.

I started to walk backwards so I could look at him. "Nursing duties." I shouted back before walking away.

I spotted Gene talking to another soldier so went up to him. He looked at me and gave a small smile. "You okay, ma cherie?"

I blushed a little at him. "Just wondering if you know if anyone needs help?"

"Christenson has got cut by the barbed wire that is now covered in mud and Martin has a sprained wrist." He told me.

I nodded. "Ok which one do you want to deal with?" I enquired.

"I'll sort out the sprain, you do the cuts." I nodded taking the aide pack he was holding out to me.

"Right, point me in the direction of Christenson." I said scanning the hoard of men around me.

"He was with Bull and Perconte last time I saw him."

I looked around and saw who I was looking for. I turned to Gene and smiled my goodbye before heading off in the right direction.

"Christenson?" I asked as I approached. I recognised him from my barracks but just wanted to double check.

"Oh the Duchess is gracing us with her presence." He joked.

I rolled my eyes. "Continue like that and I'll let your cuts fester." I warned before crouching next to him. "Hey Frank, Bull." I greeted the other two men. Frank mock saluted me while Bull nodded.

"Where are the cuts?" I asked.

"My back and then the back of my thighs and arms." Christenson said.

"Take your shirt off and lie on your front then." I told him which he did.

When I saw the cuts I swore. "Shit Christenson, your meant to go through on your stomach, not rub against the barbed wire." Bull and Perconte chuckled.

I started to clean the mud off the cuts, continuing through Christenson's winces. "What were all your times?" I asked.

"I got 18 minutes 13 seconds." Perconte told me looking a little dejected.

"17 48." Christenson gritted out as I rubbed an especially deep cut with antiseptic cream. "You're not gentle at all, Katie."

"Oh, man up." I continued my work expecting Bull to answer. When he didn't I looked up. "What about you, Bull?"

"14 53." He told me.

I raised my eyebrows. "I'm impressed." I told him honestly.

He smiled at me. "What did you get?" he asked me.

"16 57." My voice came out surly, when I didn't mean it to.

"How in God's name did you do better than me on your first go?" Christenson complained from beneath my hands.

"Probably because you were too busy fighting the barbed wire." I replied scathingly, making the three laugh again. I sighed. "I couldn't get over the wall."

"You obviously did cause you completed the course." Perconte told me. One of Christenson's cuts were still bleeding so I applied pressure to see if it would stop from that alone.

"Joe Toye helped me over." I was still sulking slightly.

"And that matters because?" Christenson asked, resting his head on his arms.

"I wanted to prove I could do it on my own." I changed the topic, finding it embarrassing that I did feel the need to prove myself. "If this cut hasn't stopped bleeding, you're going to need stitches."

"No one, except a few cares if you're a girl as long as you can pull your weight which you obviously can if you got better times than me and Christenson." Frank told me, keeping eye contact as he did so. "And I needed help over the wall."

I smiled at Frank, his words making me feel better. I took the pad of Christenson's back and thankfully it had stopped bleeding. "Well you've escaped stiches this time." I put away all the kit and picked up the bloodied gauze. Christenson rolled back over and put his shirt back on.

I stood up and he followed. "Thanks for patching me up, nurse." He said with a smile.

I held put my hand on his shoulder. "Next time don't get into a fight with the wire, because you will lose." I patted his shoulder and turned to leave hearing the three of them laugh as I left.

Once I'd returned the aid kit, Winters began addressing the group again. "Men, some of you reached the limit but many were over by a minute or two. We need to work on this but for now fall out back to the barracks and make sure you are ready for inspection."

Everyone left for the barracks but I held back to speak to Winters. When I saw he was speaking to another soldier who had his back to me so I decided to wait until they were done. However Winters saw me and motioned me over.

As I got closer I was able to see the other soldiers face and faulted in my step. He was so handsome it was hard to believe he was real. His jaw was strong, with plump kissable lips. His had big brown eyes that you could get lost in, but the power they possessed was even more attractive. His hair was black, shaved at the sides and longer on to allow him to style it into an attractive comb over. He was also dressed in PT gear so his form as on show. He was slim but roped with muscles that had me salivating. He was watching me with the same interest that all the men had because I was a girl on an army base.

"Sir?" I asked after saluting to him.

"Pvt Millard meet Lieutenant Speirs of Dog Company." I saluted to Speirs, trying to control my shaking hand, beautiful men had this effect on me. He saluted back.

"We were just discussing your obstacle course time." Winters told me. I couldn't help but smile slightly. "I'm impressed."

"Thank you, sir."

"It still doesn't beat the best time in Dog company." Speirs commented, his deep voice gliding over me nicely.

I bristled slightly at his comment. I had to look up to meet his eye as I only reached beneath his chin. "In all fairness, sir, it was my first attempt."

Winters chuckled. "I bet she'll have the best time in the company after a few attempts. Maybe even the battalion."

I was shocked by this seeing as my aim was to just get over the wall without help.

Speirs looked over me once again, raking his eyes from my head to my toes, halting slightly on my curves. He huffed a little laugh, a barely noticeable one. "We'll see." He nodded his goodbye Winters and left.

I couldn't help but scoff a little at the man's arrogance and nerve. He was such an arsehole.

Winters put the clipboard he was holding under his arm and then crossed them. "Now what can I do for you?" He asked.

"I was wondering about the shower situation. I can share a room with a bunch of men but I cannot shower in front of them."

He huffed a little laugh. "I understand. There is a private shower for the officers, I will see if I can get permission for you to use them."

"Oh my goodness, thank you so much." I couldn't help but smile broadly.

He nodded at me. "Make sure your good for inspection. You don't want to give Sobel any excuses." I nodded at him this time. "Anything else?"

"No, I'm good sir." I saluted him and once he returned it I left.