DISCLAIMER: No disrespect is meant to the real Band of Brothers and what they accomplished. I own nothing except Alana and Sara.

Okay, so once again I used italics to signify spoken German. I have played with some dates cutting the time closer than it would have been to try to make the story work. In addition, I've played fast and loose with marital status…hey it is fiction after all. :)

Big thanks to those of you who have reviewed and everyone else out there who has enjoyed the story. I'm sorry to send it end, but you have to stop somewhere.

Chapter 10

He stepped closer to her, pulling her into his arms. She let her head fall on his chest. "Stay with me Lana, for just a while."

Nodding her agreement, she let him pull her to the bed.

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Two nights later, she and Ron were walking through the city of Zell Am See; they had been spending more time together and trying to get to know each other a little better. Nothing was said about what would happen when it was over; they just tried to enjoy their time together.

Lana was enjoying walking with his arm around her, it was rare for him to show affection in public, but lately he'd done it more often. She really was in love with him and sometimes she wished he'd tell her how he felt, but she was more than prepared for her heart to be broken.

Her thoughts were broken when Ron pulled her to him and kissed her. She was completely lost in the kiss and the feel of him when the male voice came from behind her.

"Well I see you have just changed sides for which you will whore with, but I must admit I'm glad to see you didn't die."

Lana broke the kiss to turn and face the man standing behind her. The Captain stood there with a smirk on his face. The fear of seeing the man again had her taking a step back into Ron's chest.

Ron had no idea who the man was or what he'd said, but the fact that it had made Lana back into him wasn't a good sign. Wrapping his arms around her waist, he felt her hands grip his forearms her fingernails digging into his arms. He really wanted to ask her what was going on but her attention was focused on the man in front of her.

Lana felt Ron's arms come around her and it gave her the strength to pull herself together. She grabbed onto his forearms to steady herself.

"I'm not whoring for anyone and you do realize this is an American officer standing behind me and with one word from me and you'd be arrested."

The Captain laughed, "I've always loved how brave you were, but I know you won't say anything about who I am, the man behind you seems extremely intense and you know he would rather murder me where I stood than turn me in, and then where would that leave you…think about it my dear."

Ron felt Lana tense even further and without taking his eyes off the man in front of them he leaned down to whisper in her ear, "baby what's wrong, what is he saying, please tell me what's going on."

He felt her shake her head no. Whoever this man was, he had her very upset.

Lana took a deep breath, "please just leave. He wants to know who you are and why you have me upset, please just go and leave me alone."

The Captain laughed and reached out to brush the wound at her temple. "You are so lovely my dear; I wish things could have been different. Just remember, it doesn't matter what side they fight for, he's only using you until it's over and he'll be gone as well. Auf Wiedersen."

Lana watched as he walked into the dark then her body started to shake and she couldn't stop. She felt Ron lift her into his arms asking her what was wrong over and over, there was no way she could answer, she knew he would kill the man if he found him and she wasn't about to let that happen.

Ron laid her down on his bed; she had stopped shaking but still extremely pale. He had no idea what was said, but he knew she was upset. "Lana, please baby, tell me what he said. Please, I love you, you can tell me, it'll be okay I promise."

Lana's eyes jerked up to meet his, "you love me? Please, I don't want to talk about it right now, please I just want to be with you." Pulling him down on the bed next to her she took charge in their lovemaking, all she wanted was to forget.

Later as Lana lay draped across Ron's chest, his hand running through her hair, he decided to try on more time.

"Lana do you trust me?"

"You know I do, why do you ask?"

"Then why won't you tell me who he was and what he was saying. I know he had you upset and I've never seen you that upset. So if you trust me, tell me."

Rising up so she could see his face, "I do trust you, but this is something that I can't talk to you about, this is where you have to trust me."

She could see the frustration on his face, as well as the anger. "Lana, if that is how it's going to be, then you don't trust me and I'm not sure where that leave us."

Putting her head back on his chest, she had the sinking feeling that in the end the Captain might have won.

Long after Lana had fell asleep Ron lay awake staring at the ceiling. He had a very good idea who the man probably was and he had a good idea why she wouldn't tell him. She didn't trust him enough not to have a hotheaded reaction. Sighing he looked down at the woman on his chest, he knew he loved her…he just didn't think she loved him enough.

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"Lana you okay? Come on I need you to help me get ready for the wedding."

Lana splashed her face again with cold water. She had no idea what she'd eaten, but for the last couple of days she'd been sick, now she had to help Sara get ready and she still had to dress herself.

Drying her face, she opened the door to find Sara mostly dressed. With the Japanese surrender, three days ago things were happening fast. Orders for men to go home had been flowing in at a steady rate, so Sara and Lew had decided to marry while still in Austria.

Forcing a smile Lana pushed Sara down in a chair and started working on her hair. "Calm down, we still have an hour and you'll look beautiful regardless."

Sara smiled at her in the mirror, "I really wish you were getting married with me, it would be nice to have a double wedding. So have you and Ron talked about it."

Grimacing, "no we haven't, in fact I've not seen him in two days, guess he's been busy. Okay, let's finish up and get moving."

The ceremony had been beautiful and Lana had tried to stay focused but she kept looking around for Ron. She hadn't seen him at the ceremony, that really surprised her that he didn't take time to at least see Lew get married.

Later at the reception, Dick approached her with a glass of champagne. "Hello Lana, I saw you sitting over her by yourself and thought I would bring you a glass. Are you okay, you look a little distracted?"

"I'm fine Dick, I'm just curious as to why Ron couldn't stop whatever he was doing to come to this, I thought Lew and he had a better friendship than that."

Dick gave her a strange look, "Lana, didn't you know, I thought the two of you were together, I thought he told you already…he left for the states two days ago. Lana, oh my God, Lew help me."

Lana heard nothing else as she passed out in Dick Winters arms.

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6 months later

"Nixon Nitration Works, Lana speaking how may I help you? No I'm sorry, Mr. Winters is out of the office, may I take a message?"

Lana glanced up from taking the message to see Lew walk in the door and prop his hip on her desk.

"Yes I'll have Mr. Winters return you call as soon as he returns to the office. Thank you and have a nice day."

Hanging up the phone Lana smiled at Lew, "so what brings you down here…other than to check up on me."

Holding a hand over his heart, "you still can wound me sweetheart. Why can't I come down and check on my favorite employee?"

Laughing Lana pushed out of the chair and headed to the filing cabinet. "Oh I don't know maybe it's because people will begin to talk that you're showing favoritism to a lowly secretary."

"Sweetheart you're not lowly and since Dick was out this week I thought I'd stop by and see how you were."

Grimacing, she stopped filing to rub her stomach where she'd just been kicked. "Well still fat and so help me, this thing inside of me definitely takes after his father."

"How's that?"

"Well let's see there's that very annoying habit he has of kicking me anytime it hears a man's voice. By the way, thanks for just getting me kicked. Then the there's that thing about not letting me sleep the entire night through. Gees, how many more months of this do I have?"

Laughing Lew walked over to where she stood rubbing her stomach. Pushing her hand aside, he took over. "So what makes you so confident it's a he?"

The baby calmed and she actually closed her eyes. "How could I not think it's a 'he' a female would never torment me so. So do you do this for Sara, you seem to have a talent for calming unhappy babies."

Lew kissed her forehead and sighed in exaggeration, "No, she's mad at me right now. Blames me for her being fat, her feet being swollen…the list is so long I just say sorry dear as I come in the door now, because I know I've been blamed for something else. Anyway, let me get to the real reason I'm here, we are having a party on tomorrow and I've invited a few of the men from Easy and we would really like for you to come."

Thinking about it for a moment, Lana nodded her head. "Sure I'd love to."

Nixon kissed her cheek, "good we'll see you tomorrow then, I'll send a car to pick you up. I'm so glad you are coming, you've kept to yourself hidden way too much."

After Lew had, left Lana sat staring down at the ring on her left hand. It meant nothing in reality. Dick had gone with her to buy it just so people wouldn't talk. She'd found out she was pregnant about a month after returning to American and her and Lew had fought loudly and bitterly that it had caused Sara to leave the room crying.

Lew wanted to try to find Ron to let him know and Lana had refused. She had told him if he cared, he'd have told her he was leaving in the first place instead of just getting on a plane and leaving. The second big argument had come with Dick not a week later when he'd offered to marry her. Instead she'd compromised with him that she'd work for him so he could keep an eye on her, but there was no way she'd let him enter a loveless marriage. Life was hard enough without that.

Unfortunately, this baby was every bit as stubborn as its father was, kicking her any time she tried to sleep, work and talk to anyone male. Sara had helped her make up the story that the father never came back from the war, which was close enough to the truth, and that usually had people murmuring in sympathy and not asking questions. Thank goodness, how would it have sounded had she had to tell everyone the father had left her before he knew?

Rubbing her stomach, "little one, it'll be okay, no one can replace your father, but we'll be okay, trust me."

Lana had arrived early to try to help Sara only to be pushed into a chair on the veranda and catered to by the staff. Closing her eyes she enjoyed the warmth of the sun.

The chair pulling up next to her made her open her eyes. Dick was next to her smiling. "It's really good to see you out. I was worried that you were going to become a hermit."

"Nah, not me, I needed this, besides, this is the calmest this baby has been in days, I just wanting to sit here in the sun and sleep."

Dick patted her hand, "go ahead, I'll be quiet and keep the well wishers away."

When Lew answered the door, he was shocked, but in a pleasant way to see Ronald Speirs standing there.

"Well glad to see the Army let you escape, come on in, Dick is out back, would you like something to drink."

Ron came in and gave the room a quick glance. "Sure a drink would be fine, but I was wondering if you could answer something for me?"

Lew shrugged, "sure what's up."

Looking at his feet for a moment he decided the best way to ask was just to blurt it out. "Have you or Sara heard from Lana. I kind of lost touch with her after I had to leave so fast and I've not found anyone who knows where she went."

Nixon's laughter had him looking at the man as if he'd lost his mind. "Okay so what's so funny?"

Nixon finally got his laughter under control. "Nothing absolutely nothing, I just think it's funny that you left her in Austria without so much as a word to her, now you want to know where she is, and you think I'd tell you."

Ron ran a hand through his hair in frustration. "Look, you know I had no choice about how fast I left and well, I wasn't sure what was between us, and now…yeah I'm sure I'm in love with her and would like to tell her that. So do you know or not?"

Lew could only shake his head, "you know you're something else. You have no idea how she cried after you left, oh yeah and when Dick told her she collapsed at our wedding, so why would I ever hurt her like that again."

Before Ron could answer or ask anything else, Nixon pressed a glass into his hand. "Go out back and talk to Dick, I need to think for a while."

Ron took his drink and left the room, not seeing Sara as she came in to stand beside her husband watching him walk outside.

"So you think he'll screw this up?"

Lew kissed her on the forehead, "nope, I think he'll get it right this time."

When Ron walked out onto the veranda, it was full of people, some he knew most he didn't, but he could see Dick Winters red hair and decide to head over to talk to him.

As he approached Dick, he realized that he was sitting at a table with someone; he couldn't see who he was talking to because of the crowd, but when the crowd parted the white blonde hair was un-mistakable.

Lana was sitting with her eyes closed listening to Dick's stories of his latest trip. She didn't even open her eyes when Dick said hello to someone and then told her he was stepping away from the table and would be back in a minute.

She was so sleepy that she really paid no attention when a male hand covered hers on the table. "Dick, I said I'm okay, just sleepy, you can leave me here by myself."

When she felt another hand lay on her stomach, her eyes snapped open. The baby moved under the hand, not to kick which was the typical response, but almost seemed to move closer and relax. Laying her left hand over the one on her stomach her eyes followed the hand up the arm to meet the eyes of Ron Speirs.

"Why didn't someone tell me you were married?"

Lana couldn't comprehend his words for a moment, married, who was he talking about. Then she looked down at her hand and saw the ring. "I'm not married to anyone, we just thought having it would stop questions, why are you here?"

"Lew invited me. So if you're not married then how are you pregnant?"

Lana could feel her anger and hurt rise, here he was after six months making demands. "Well so nice of you to finally show up and I see nothing has changed, still making demands without so much as an explanation of where you went. Well let's see how am I pregnant, I really thought you knew the story of the 'birds and the bees' because you were very good at executing the act with me."

Pushing her finger into his chest, "oh yes and it so nice of you to tell me you were leaving, so I guess now I can finally tell you, the baby's yours, Ron, what do you have to say to that?"

Before she could say anything else, he was down on one knee in front of her. "I'm sorry I left without seeing you, it wasn't my choice I had to been on a plane just hours after the orders came, there was no time and if I'd know I'd have found you sooner. But I'm here now, and Lana I love you, please marry me."

Trying to salvage what little pride she had before she fell into his arms, "are you asking me because I'm pregnant or because you love me?"

Leaning in to kiss her, he left no doubt he was in love with her. When he broke the kiss, he was smiling. "So does that answer your question?"

Pulling his head back down to her, she kissed him again. "Does that answer yours?"

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Thanks to everyone who has been reading and reviewing the story. I hope you've enjoyed. I think I've got another one in me, or at least as soon as I finish Someday.