Once again, I do not own Band of Brothers and this is based on the characters in the mini-series not the real men of Easy Company. This is a fictional story obviously and there may be some historical inaccuracies but bear with me, I will try to be as accurate as possible :)
Chapter 2-
Camp Toccoa
I stepped out of my quarters into the sweltering midday heat and groaned heading towards the cabin across camp which my 3 hour lecture was being held in. All I wanted to do was get out of this heat.
I haven't seen my brother since we said goodbye to each other by the train 3 weeks ago. I wonder how he's doing, which company he's assigned to, hopefully he didn't get stuck with that asshole of an officer who was always yelling at everyone.
I had about 20 minutes to spare before the lecture began so I decided to sit under a nearby tree to try to escape the heat while I waited.
Just as I was sitting down I heard whistling as some of the men passed by some of my fellow nurses under the tree beside me.
"Ugh gross" I muttered under my breath. Praying to God that they wouldn't notice me I put my head down to avoid their eyes.
"What do we have here?" one of the men said obnoxiously, the group of them approaching me. "Why aren't you over there with your other hot nurse friends? Cat fight?" some of the men laughed with him.
I looked up at him glaring, before putting my head back down and continuing to read the medical manual that I had taken out of my bag.
"What are you mute or something?" he asked, leaning down into my face.
"Awh leave her alone White, you idiot! A pretty girl like dat wouldn't want anything to do with your ugly ass anyways!" a man with a thick philly accent came to my rescue, pushing the guy away from me.
"Sorry about that Miss, not all of us Easy Company men are idiots like that one" he laughed pointing to White who looked rather unamused.
"Bill Guarnere" he said, sticking out his hand to help me up.
I took his hand, thankful that that White had given up and walked back over to the other group of nurses.
"Thank you" I said. "Thought I was going to have to punch that guy in the face" I laughed.
Bill laughed at my comment. "What's your name Miss?" he asked me.
"Elizabeth Luz" I replied feeling more at ease being on the same level as the soldier standing in front of me.
"Woah! Wait… Luz? No way! So you're the famous sister that Luz is always goin on about" he laughed patting me on the shoulder.
"Oh great, I'm sure he's telling flattering stories about me" I blushed, hoping that George wasn't telling his friends anything too personal.
"No no nothin but good stuff trust me, the kid loves ya to death" Bill said, shooting me a smile.
I smiled back, relieved that my brother was being mature for once.
"Luz is always talking about how he wants to find ya but doesn't know which cabin you're in and don't want to get caught wandering around the nurses quarters at night, if ya know what I mean" Bill laughed.
"I can see why" I chuckled at the thought of my brother getting chased out of the nurses quarters by angry nurses thinking he's some peeping tom.
"Well, most of Easy Company have weekend passes this weekend, and tonight we are all getting together at the bar down the road a ways to celebrate getting through our first few weeks of training if you want to join us" Bill said sounding hopeful. "I'm sure George would be happy to see ya!"
"Absolutely" I said, excited that I would finally be able to see my brother, I missed him a lot.
"What time will you be there" I asked, not wanting to risk showing up at a completely different time and being left alone in the bar.
"8:00" Bill replied, smiling again. "Want me to tell George to swing by your cabin and pick you up on the way? It's quite a walk from base, and a lady should not be walking alone at night, not with idiots like White roaming around" he laughed.
"That would be perfect, let him know I'm in Cabin 23" I said smiling.
"I'll tell him" he said, shooting me another big smile.
I looked to my left noticing the other nurses beginning to get up and move towards the cabin for our lecture.
"Well I must be going now" I said smiling at Bill. "It was very nice to meet you and I'll see you later on tonight."
"The pleasure is all mine miss" he replied. "How are you Luz's sister by the way? You're so polite and he's such an…."
"Idiot… Freak of nature?" I replied laughing.
"Yeah somethin like that" Bill chuckled.
Bill walked me to the door of the cabin and we bid each other goodbye until later that evening.
I could barely sit still the entire lecture. I was so excited to see my brother again and to meet all of his friends. Bill seemed very nice and hopefully the rest of George's company is too.
At 8:00 I heard a knock on my door. Rushing to the door I flung it open jumping into my brother's arms.
"Whoa Lizzie, a little dramatic there eh?" George laughed spinning me around.
He put me down and offered me his arm. "So you ready for a good time tonight or what? Personally all this training has got me beat, nothing a little beer can't fix though right?" he laughed, winking at me.
"Right" I said, smiling back at him and taking his arm.
"So Liz, tell me about Nurse training so far?" "Are the girls being nice to you?" he asked as we began walking off the base towards the bar.
"Yeah, I've made friends with a couple of them, one girl named Jessie, she's my age and actually grew up a couple of blocks away from us can you believe that?" I replied. .
"Nice, she hot?" he replied, lighting up a cigarette. Smirking when he noticed the look on my face.
"Gross" I said, walking a bit ahead of him.
"So what about you? How's training been going?" I asked him, changing the subject.
He told me all about training so far, he and the rest of his company had gotten stuck with that asshole of an officer who apparently loved to yell at them over nothing and revoke their weekend passes for any little infraction he could find.
"Sounds like a great guy" I commented, laughing at the impression George did of this Captain Sobel guy, George always could make me laugh with his impressions.
We got to the bar around 8:30. It was packed with about a hundred soldiers and nurses who had managed to keep their weekend passes. George quickly spotted his friends and drug me over to where they were sitting. I could hardly breathe from all the smoke in the place, pretty much every soldier had a cigarette dangling from his mouth.
"HEY FELLA'S" George shouted, putting his arm around me.
"This is my baby sister, Liz" he introduced me to the 10 men sitting at the table. Great George, call me a baby in front of your friends, I thought to myself turning a bright shade of red.
"Hey Liz" they all said almost in unison.
He pointed to each of the men, introducing me to each one of them separately.
"That's Frank Perconte, he said, pointing to a shorter Italian man who stood up and shook my hand.
"Talbert, David Webster, Joe Toye, Muck, Penkala, Bull, Martin", all the men smiled and waved at me as George introduced us.
"You've already met Wild Bill" I looked at the soldier who I had met earlier that day who shot me another one of his huge smiles.
"Your sister and I are already best friends" he commented to my brother, winking at me.
"Yeah don't get too close or I'll have to drop a grenade on you while you sleep… by accident" my brother said, shooting him a look.
Bill put his hands up in defense, smiling at me again as I laughed at my brother being so overprotective of me. He's always been this way with me, even though I was never one to need protection.
"And that's Joe Liebgott" George said, having me snap my attention to the man sitting at the other end of the table.
Sure enough, there he was, sitting quietly at the other end of the table, untouched beer sitting in front of him.
He looked up at me, looking me right in the eyes a shocked look appearing on his face as he recognized me, giving me a small smile and waving before looking down again. Avoiding my brother's eyes.
Well this is going to be an interesting night I thought to myself, running my fingers through my long brown hair, as George pulled me down to the end of the table that Joseph was sitting at.