A/N Thank you for the follows, favourites and reviews! I'm so pleased to have them. After this chapter I'll be concentrating on the Band of brothers story and how Fin fits in with it all. Hope you enjoy.

"Morning twinkle toes!"

Fin groaned "Twinkle toes?"she groaned some more. "Oh God was I dancing on the tables? Fin took an educated guess, seen as though that's what normally happened when she drank too much.

Luz chuckled "You sure were, but don't worry, we all joined you!"

Fin groaned some more, not wanting to open her eyes for fear of the horrific hangover that was waiting for her.

"You got to get up now, if you want to shower before we all get up" Luz added.

"Really? It's far too early!"

"We know Sobel and he could return a day early! You've got to get up now toots"

"Ok, blimin' hell" Fin moaned. She pulled back her blanket to thankfully see that she was still in her uniform. Fin swung out her legs and leant over to her trunk and retrieved her wash bag and towel. She looked up to see Luz holding out a neatly folded uniform. "Got to look like us now" he beamed. Fin thanked him, took the uniform and trudged wearily out of the barracks and down to the shower block, it wasn't far, just three buildings down.

The water felt so very good. It had woken her up, but it wouldn't hold back the inevitable headache that would be putting in an appearance soon. She needed to drink lots of water and get herself a decent cup of tea. She'd make her way over to the mess hall as soon as possible.

Fin turned off her shower and reached for her towel. It was a fairly small towel, she needed a bigger one really and one for her hair, she'd ask Luz to sort it for her. Fin pulled back the curtain and was confused. Where was her uniform? She looked up and down the block, but nothing, all her clothes had gone. "Well I'll be buggered, they fucking nicked my clothes!" she murmured to herself. Oh for fucks sake, she'd have to get back to the barracks in just her towel.

Fin was far too hungover to care a great deal, everyone should still be asleep apart from the Easy lads, it wasn't far she could make it.

Fin tentatively walked to the shower block entrance and peeped out. Just as she thought, all was quiet, not a soul in sight. Well let's get this over with she thought and stepped out wincing at the gravelly ground under her bare feet. Regardless, she began her quick walk back.

"Corporal Finney!" a voice barked.

"Bugger!" Fin let slip a little too loud, she turned to the voice to see none other than Lieutenant Speirs standing there, expressionless.

Speirs looked Fin up and down finding it hard to concentrate at the sight of her dripping wet, with only a small towel hiding her modesty.

"Where is your uniform Corporal?" Speirs demanded watching a drop of water fall from her long blonde hair and run down her shoulder and then down her slender arm.

"I forgot it Sir" was all Fin could think of to say.

"You forgot your uniform?" Speirs questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes Sir"

"Forgetfullness has no place in War Corporal!" Speirs informed Fin, he was enjoying this.

"I will endeavour to remember to not to forget in future Sir" Fin replied hoping they could wrap this up before anybody else woke up.

"You will remember to not to forget?" Speirs questioned amused.

"Yes Sir"

Speirs undid his jacket and stepped closer to Fin until he was inches from her before leaning in and placing his jacket around her shoulders. She smelt of roses. "I'll escort you back"

"Thank you Sir" Feeling flustered at Speirs closeness.

Fin kept her eyes forward as they walked side by side. "It would seem that you can sing and dance" Speirs stated breaking their silence.

"I can dance Sir?" Fin questioned knowing he had probably been witness to her table dancing, although not actually remembering that part of the evening herself. She would cringe at the flashbacks that would no doubt start later.

"You don't remember then?

"No Sir"

"Yes you can dance, walking on the other hand, you could not do last night" Speirs smirked

"Oh God, sorry Sir" Fin wanted to bury her face in her hands, but couldn't due to the need to hold her towel in place.

"Sergeant Talbert carried you back..." Speirs informed..."while you sang"

"Please Sir, you're torturing me!" Fin protested, wanting the ground to swallow her whole.

You're torturing me Speirs thought. He hadn't been comfortable with Talbert being Fin's knight in shining armour, carrying her to her bed. He was also mustering up every bit of strength he had to not take her back to his room and drop that towel.

They reached the barracks and Speirs held the door open for Fin and followed her inside. Fin looked around, they were all pretending to be asleep, obviously they had heard she wasn't alone. Walking over to her cot, Fin found her uniform neatly laid out, but with the most inappropriate lingerie lying on top of it! It was definitely not hers! It may as well have not been underwear with how little material there actually was, black sheer brassiere trimmed with red lace and matching French knickers.

"I suppose you still want to feel like a lady underneath a soldiers uniform" Speirs commented looking at the lingerie and then at Fin with a raised eyebrow.

"It's...it's not mine!"Fin stammered, removing Speirs' jacket and handing it back to him.

Pity Speirs thought as he accepted his jacket and left without another word smiling to himself.

As soon as the door closed, laughter erupted. "Can't believe of all people, it was Speirs to catch you!" Bill laughed.

"You bastards!" Fin spun around, pointing at each of them. Fin picked up the brassiere with one hand while making sure to still secure her towel with the other and marched over to Luz's cot by the door.

"What is this?" she demanded "Do you know how inappropriate this is?" dangling the brassiere in Luz's face who looked a little worried. "I mean, just look how flimsy it is! There is no support whatsoever! I'm going to be jiggling around all over France wearing this!" Fin teased before laughing with all the men to a very relieved Luz.

"Jeez Fin! Don't say 'jiggling'" Luz laughed.

Standing outside, Speirs smoked a cigarette having heard the result of the Easy men's prank on Fin. He was impressed, the girl had a great sense of humour.

Fin had been in two minds as to whether she was to believe Luz about Sobel returning early, but he hadn't so far, so she went for a run to clear her head and plan her revenge.

The Easy men watched Fin jog round the assault field, all agreeing that she was crazy to train when they were going to be trained hard by Sobel when he returned. They weren't aware though that Fin needed all the training she could fit in, she was more involved in this War than they would know.

Luz woke early the following morning. He sat up and looked over to Fin's cot, surprised that she wasn't in it. He got out of his and realised his uniform and footlocker were missing. He smiled, the broad had exacted her revenge! He soon realised looking around that everyone's uniforms and footlockers were missing. All they had were the t-shirts and shorts they slept in or just the shorts for those who slept topless. How on earth did she pull this off? Luz woke everyone up and let them realise on their own what had happened. The only thing to do was to go outside and find Fin.

Fin stood leaning against the Officers accommodation, it slightly concealed her from the Easy lads when they stepped outside. She looked up at her handy work, she had hung all their uniforms high on the tower and stacked their footlockers in a pyramid. She gave herself an imaginary pat on the back, it was a job well done.

She watched with amusement as Luz stepped out first, getting soaked by the bucket of water she had rigged above the door.

Fin felt a presence joining her against the wall. "That's quite an elaborate stunt Corporal" Lieutenant Speirs acknowledged lighting a cigarette.

"Thank you Sir" Fin replied still focusing on the lads who had now spotted their stuff.

"Nice touch with with the water over the door" Speirs praised

"I thought so too Sir"

"Took you all night, right?"

"Yes Sir" Fin grinned

"How did you get up there?" Speirs enquired

"Magic Sir"

"You don't say" Speirs smirked " You best get going, they've just spotted you"

"Oh, I think I'm quite safe here with you Sir" Fin replied hinting at Speirs reputation with the men.

"Only until I finish this cigarette" Speirs grinned.

Taking heed of Speirs' warning, Fin shot off between the buildings, she needed to lay low for a while!

Speirs watched in amusement as half the men chased after Fin and the other half scratched their heads at how they were going to retrieve their stuff.

Fin decided to lay low at the shooting range. She had an hour left to avoid the lads and until Sobel returned. It was funny, Sobel would actually be protecting her!

She pulled out her side arm and casually raised it to the target and fired off a couple of shots straight after one another, bullseye, perfect. Fin couldn't help but giggle to herself at the thought of Luz getting soaked. Speirs had made her suitably apprehensive, she was glad he wasn't in Easy company, he was too much of a dish. She felt she hid it well though. She shot off another round, again perfect.

"Wow! You're really good!" said a friendly voice approaching Fin from behind.

Shit! Fin thought, she immediately lowered her aim and fired again, purposely missing the target. Turning round, Fin was faced with another handsome soldier. Did any of these soldiers get hit with the ugly stick? she wondered.

"Shifty Powers" the soldier introduced himself. "We haven't met properly yet, but I have already heard a lot about you , glad to have you with Easy" he finished.

"Thank you, nice to meet you too Shifty and I have actually heard about you as well. The best shot in Easy, so I've been told" Fin replied.

"Well not now!" Shifty acknowledged the target.

"Oh, I'm just lucky" Fin lied.

"Let's see how you are with this" Shifty said handing Fin his rifle.

Fin smiled awkwardly and took the rifle. She purposely held it wrong as she shot off a round, missing the target completely and allowing herself to be hurt by the kick back.

Shifty chuckled "Here, can I help you?"

Fin nodded as Shifty came up behind her, reaching his arms round he positioned the rifle properly against her body and in her hands. She could feel his breath on her neck and it sent a shiver down her spine, which she knew he would have felt too. This is a little intimate she thought.

With the rifle now positioned correctly, Shifty stayed with her and instructed her to pull the trigger. Fin obliged.

Bullseye.

"Wow thank you!" Fin acted "You're a great instructor" she praised.

"I could help you practise some more?" Shifty asked

"That would be lovely of you" Fin replied, not really knowing how to handle this situation, but she could work that out later.

Shifty looked down at his watch " We best get going, Sobel is back soon" Fin nodded and the two of them walked away from the range.

Shifty and Fin had failed to see the two Officers observing them from a distance.

"What do you make of that?" Winters asked Nixon

"She was obviously pretending to be a bad shot" Nix replied

"I realise that!" Winters said sarcastically, rolling his eyes. "I'm referring to the touching, I'm worried about the men falling for her. Out in the civilian world she was a ten, here now in the Army outnumbered by men, she's probably a fifteen" Winters explained.

"Nah! She was more than a ten before coming here!" Nix grinned "Don't worry, she knows the score, she'll keep them at bay"

As the pair walked away, Nix asked "Any allowances for us Officers?"

"Not the married ones!" Winters joked.