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FUBAR.
Soon after we left, I was introduced to a one Mike Hovarth, he seemed nice enough, bit of a dick, bit ah well, we couldn't all be winners I guess.
Trees.
Grass.
Sheep.
"HEY" turning around. Just Upham pissing Mellish off.
"Oh hey"
"do you want your head blown off you fancy little fuck? Don't ever fucking touch me with those little rat claws again, get the fuck back in formation".
I laughed silently, earning a raised eyebrow of Mellish, as he shook his head in disbelief at Upham, who was once again trying to make conversation.
"I was err just wondering where you're from?" He soon walked on as Mellish glared at him.
I followed him with my eyes, who would the next victim be, ah Carparzo.
"Carparzo" He never got the chance to finish his sentence.
"Hey drop dead Corporal" he paused " and another thing, every time you salute the Captain you make him a target for the Germans, so do us a favour don't do it especially when im standing next to him, kapeesh?"
Upham looked devastated, "Kapeesh".
He looked around quickly, looking for someone else to piss off no doubt. The smirk that was on my face quickly vanished as his eyes locked with mine, oh shit. He jogged over, smiling happily.
"I just remembered I never finished telling you about my book" he was interrupted by Wade.
"watch it, rifle."
"Anyway Maria?"
"Yes, what do you want now" I drawled out with a tone of distaste in my voice.
"My book, yeah it's supposed to be about brotherhood, the bonds of people in the war" once again he was cut off by Carparzo laughing.
"Brotherhood? What would you know about brotherhood, hey get a load of this guy fish"
Mellish laughed. So did Wade. So did I. So did everyone else, including Upham.
"Why don't you ask the Captain where he's from" Carparzo again, he nodded at Mellish, a glint in his eye, now what was this about.
"Yeah, go ask the captain, he'll tell you everything you want to know" Mellish giggled slightly, clearly having fun taking the piss out of Upham. I smiled, and threw a questioning gaze at Wade who looked my way; he just shook his head and laughed. I guess I would have to find out later then.
"You wanna explain the math of this to me? I mean, where's the sense of riskin' the lives of the eight of us to save one guy?" Reiben looked at me "Nine of us" he winked. Arsehole.
"Twenty degrees. Anybody wanna answer that?" Miller looked on happily waiting for someone to speak up.
"Reiben, think about the poor bastard's mother" Ah what a surprise it would be Wade sticking up for the guy, he seemed to see the good in everyone.
"Hey, Doc, I got a mother, all right? I mean, you got a mother. Sarge's got a mother. I mean, shit, I bet even the captain's got a mother, and little Maria over there certainly got a mother" he turnt and looks at Miller, who had a bemused expression on his face.
"Well, maybe not the captain, but the rest of us got mothers" he winked once again in my direction, causing my to mutter under my breath "looks like you've got a fucking twitch, Jesus Christ" Jackson next to me laughed sending me a wink "Do all you fuckers have a twitch?" he sent a smile my way, hm, his smile was nice, a bit lopsided but I think that's what I liked about it, I smiled back, sweetly I might add, he did after all have a rather nice arse. Oh dear, part of my mind was telling me to stop looking at the man in this way, but the other half just reminded me that I'd been pretending to be a man for the past year. It was time to be a woman, and let my hormones out of their cage.
"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" Oh that would be Upham wouldn't it. "La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la. What the fuck is that supposed to mean, Corporal, huh? We're all supposed to die, is that it?" Mellish once again pissed at Upham, nothing new there.
"Upham's talking about our duty as soldiers." Miller looked at Upham a small smile on his face. "Yes, sir" He is sucha' kiss arse, "We all have orders, and we have to follow 'em. That supersedes everything, including your mothers" Miller gave a look in Reiben's direction. "Yes, sir. Thank you sir".
Then a second of beautiful silence, without the annoying tones of Uphams voice, it was like heaven.
"Even if you think the mission's FUBAR, sir?" Ah and then Reiben comes along, breaking down my heaven and bringing me back to this shit tip of a conversation, he was right about one thing though, this mission was FUBAR. "Especially if you think the mission's FUBAR Private".
"What's FUBAR?" I rolled my eyes at the idiot, everyone knew what FUBAR meant, I was just about to make a sarcastic comment when Mellish spoke up. "Its German" he chuckled at the expense of Upham who's reply nearly had me in tears, the man really didn't know anything, "Oh right yeah, I've never heard of it", oh dear me.
"So seein' as I all know these men have been dyin' to know, what's a woman like ya'self doing in the war?" ah I knew one of them would ask soon, didn't think it would be Jackson but still I knew it. "Well, y'all see, Im not the sorta' girl to just sit around at home waitin' on a man to get back from the war, and then pop out a few children, wanted to do somethin' better with my life, be my own person, I felt I needed to do something bigger, I needed to help." the men looked at me in disbelief. Reiben just had to say something next "and you had to join the war? Couldn't find a nice job? Some life you're living, just waitin' to be killed". I glared daggers at the back of his head "well if I do die then I'll die protecting my country".
"Same with all of us darlin'" I smiled at Jackson, "Well I better show you all how a woman does things in the war then, whole lot better then you 'lot".
"oh really now? You really think that, you're the only woman in this god forsaken war, so im pretty sure we're doing a decent job" I nudged Carparzo and pouted, "never said you weren't doing a fuckin' good job, just said us woman would do a better one" I winked playfully at Jackson, who smiled, "now whose got the twitch. 'huh?".
Guns firing in the distance brought us out of our humorous mood, and each one of us straightened up, grabbed our guns and headed off towards the town in the distance, with every step the gun shots rang out clearer and louder, a part of me wished that I'd declined the offer of coming along with Miller and his team, memories came flushing back to the front of my mind as a particularly load bang. There blood on me, bits of metal stuck deep into their bodies as they tried to suck in air with damaged lungs. No right now is wrong time to think of my past team, right now I had to focus on my new brothers, my new friends, and I'd go to hell if I was gonna' lose anyone else. Jackson Nudged me and we ran on, getting ready for combat.