Warning, this chapter may make you cry:(

Never Ending Heartbreak

Maila was running she couldn't remember why she was running but she knew she had to get away from something. She was in what appeared to be a long corridor, a never ending corridor. She ran and ran and ran, yet there was nothing. Then she suddenly ran past a door, she froze and backtracked. It was a solid looking door with metal panels going across it. Looking from her left and right and seeing nothing there she reached for the handle; surprisingly it wasn't locked and opened easily. She slowly pushed it open and peered around the corner, again there was nothing there. She slowly went into the room and looked around; it was absolutely bare just four wooden walls. Then suddenly the door slammed behind her, she turned around and saw the Colonel from the POW base. He was standing in-front of the now locked door.

"No" Maila said rushing to the back of the room. He came walking towards her, his footsteps heavier then what they should be, as if he had metal in the bottoms of his shoes. Just as he reached her the scene of the room changed and Maila was now sitting in an old dentist chair.

"No, let me go!" Maila shouted, the memories of what last happened to her in a dentist chair became vivid. She then saw the torturer coming towards her; he smiled as he held something long and shiny in his hand. With the other hand he held a burner and he slowly hovered the flame over the end of the shiny object.

"Now hold still" he said wrenching her hair back and placing the item close to her eye. The thing he had looked like a massive pin, she watched as he brought a hammer to the other end.
"No" she said trying to squirm away but it was as if her whole body as cemented to the chair. "NO" she screamed as he hit the end of the pin.

Maila's eyes flew open, tears flooded down her cheeks as she looked around. She was surrounded by her squad; all had worried faces as they looked at her.

"Hey, hey it's alright" Reiben said coming over and wrapping his arms around her. She buried her face into his shoulder and gripped him tightly.

"We should move out" Miller said and the team slowly got ready.

Maila continued to have nightmares for nights after that. She'd go to sleep and then wake up a couple hours later screaming. Miller had decided to give her a few shifts of patrol but Wade wouldn't let her walk too long. She'd regained most of her strength; it was just the nights she feared now. This particular night Miller sent both Jackson and Reiben off on patrol, both of them were Maila's usual pillows.

"Here, let me" Wade said going over to her and sitting down. Maila smiled and rested her head in his lap.

"Thanks Wade" she sighed and he stroked her hair.

"Try and get some sleep" he said and slowly Maila's eyes became heavy.

The whole night the squad waited for Maila to wake up screaming but the screaming never came, Wade watched her eyes and they were still for once behind her eyelids. Jackson and Reiben came back.

"She's not woken up yet?" Reiben asked putting his rifle down.

"No" Wade said "She's not made a sound"

"Maybe you the right kinda pillow" Fish said raising his eyebrows.

Wade smiled and continued to stroke her hair, little did the squad know. This was the last moment that they would be truly contented for quite some time.

The next day the squad were walking in a field and at the end there was a row bushes, by the bushes were what looked like bodies. The squad eased their way forward and knelt in the trees, Miller signalled for the squad to stay where they were and him and Horvath moved up.

"What's that?" Maila asked looking at a large structure ahead of them.

"Looks like a radio station" Upham mumbled.

Reiben was watching the Captain and Sergeant, "I hope they aren't making plans for us to storm that thing" he said and the team nodded in agreement.

Miller and Horvath came back and rallied the squad into a circle.

"What is it?" Reiben asked.

"Machine gun, probably MG-42" Miller said.

"Jesus is that what got those guys?" Reiben asked.

"Maybe one of them's our boy" Mellish said.

"No, their packages are 82nds" Miller said "Your lucks not that good"

"I don't know how fast you guy are but I'm thinking we detour this way" Reiben said nodding to the left. "Quick and quiet, the karats will never even know we were here. So Captain what I'm trying to say, why don't we just go around the thing?" Reiben said, he looked over at Maila who had her eyes closed and was leaning on her rifle.

"I hear what your saying but we can't go around it" Miller said sorting his gear out.

"I'm with Reiben on this one sir" Jackson said taking a piece of grass that he's been chewing out his mouth, he's also glanced at Maila and was worried for her safety of the Captain was going to make them go.

"I mean, we left them 88s"

"For the Air Force, the Air Force isn't going to spend ordinance on one machine gun" Miller said, still continuing to prep his gear.

"Uh Captain, we can still skip it and accomplish our mission, I mean this isn't our mission right sir?" Fish said.

"That's what you wanna do Mellish, just leave it here so they can ambush the next company that comes along?" Miller asked and Fish didn't answer.

"No Sir, that's not what I'm saying. I'm simply saying it seems like an unnecessary risk given our objective sir"

"Our objective is to win the war" Miller said.

"Sir, I just uh. I just don't have a good feeling about this one" Reiben said.

"When was the last time you felt good about anything?" Miller asked.

"When I was reunited with my men sir" Maila suddenly said from the back of the group. They all looked at her "Sir, I don't think this is a good idea" she said and the Captain looked at her. He then got up and ran to a different spot. The rest of the squad watched him go and gradually followed.

"Alright, three runners with suppressing fire. Mellish you hook to the right; I'll go up the middle. Who's going left?"

Maila felt a sharp stabbing pain in her heart, she must have moved physically as Jackson grabbed her elbow.

"Are you okay?" he whispered and she nodded.

Whose going left?

Phelps had once asked that.

No one said anything.

"Who's going left?" the Captain asked again and just as Maila was about to volunteer Wade interrupted her.

"I'll do it, I'll go left" he said.

"Wade" Maila said looking at him crossly. "He's the medic Sir. It's not a good idea" she said turning to the Captain.

"Well I'm not letting you go left Private and no one else seems to want to volunteer" the Captain said.

Maila turned to her left and looked at Reiben sitting next to her; he pretended not to notice her looking.

"Alright Wade" Miller nodded.

"Upham, switch of with Jackson and you linger in the rear. We advance and keep pressure till he has to change his barrels"

Maila watched and Jackson and Upham switched stuff. "Sir, what about me?" she asked.

"You stay in the rear with Upham" Miller said.

"But sir" she protested.

"Listen to the Captain" Reiben said and Maila scowled at him.

"Captain…"

"Ryan, do I have to attach you to one of these trees or are you going to do as you are told?" Miller said crossly. The rest of the squad stayed quiet, Maila didn't say anything more and went to sit next to Upham.

"I think we should be able to hit them from grenade range" Miller went on to say to the men.

"Maybe I should go up the middle sir" Horvath said.

"The way you run, I don't think so" Miller said.

"Maybe I should go left sir" Horvath added and the Captain looked at him crossly.

"Maybe you should shut up!"

Maila watched as Upham helped the Sergeant take some gear off; with a sigh she knelt next to Reiben and helped him shrug off his gear. "This won't be the last time you help me undress, will it babydoll?" he asked with a smirk

Maila frowned and shoved his shoulder. She then went to help Mellish.

"That was distasteful" Jackson said and Reiben ignored him.

"Reiben, base of fire. Mags and clips where you can reach em and extra grenades for the base runners" Miller said.

Reluctantly Maila handed her grenades to Mellish. She wanted to be fighting more than anything.

"Don't look so sad" Fish said, he leant forward and gave her a little peck on the cheek.

"Quit being a perv" Maila smiled.

"Quit being a perv" he mimicked back, making her smile. "That's what I wanted to see" Fish nodded.

They're conversation had barely finished before the men where out there running.

"Upham follow me" Maila said and dragged him behind a dead cow body. The pair of the peeked over the top and watched.

"Grab the sight from Jackson's Springfield" Maila said and Upham did so. "Tell me what you can see"

"The Captain is still going down the middle, Wade and Jackson are running to a bunker, Wade just threw a grenade but a German threw it back"

"Did it hit Wade?" Maila asked and Upham shook his head.

"I don't think so"

The ground shook as grenade went off, "Keep looking" Maila said.

"I can't see much, just earth in the air. Some grenades are being thrown"

A few more mags and grenades went off and then the firing of guns died down.

"Hills clear, four down and dead" Horvath showed.

Maila didn't waste anytime in waiting to be called; she jumped over the cow and raced into the smoke and dust.

"Upham, Ryan grab the gear and get up here!" the Captain shouted.

"UPHAM!" Maila called behind her; faintly through the cloudy air she could see Upham on his way. As he got closer she grabbed some of the stuff off him and pulled him along behind her.

"We need water and extra dressing now" Miller shouted.

Maila's heart thudded.

"Someone's been hit" she said, the panic clear in her voice.

"Get the morphine out the extra medical kit!"

As they made it to the squad Maila looked down at Wade lying on the floor, Mellish ripped the front of his shirt open and blood started to pour from two bullet holes.

"No, Wade" she said rushing to his side.

"More sulphur Mellish" Miller said.

"Get my legs up" Wade said.

"Your gonna be alright doc"

"How's it look?" Wade asked.

"Wad, your gonna be fine. Your gonna go on a hospital ship" Fish said.

Jackson was pouring sulphur onto the holes. Maila helped by ripping the packets open.

"Put my legs up" Wade said over and over.

"Sarge get his legs" Maila said.

"I got em I got em" Horvath said.

"Upham give me your canteen" Fish said and poured some water onto the wounds.

Maila watched it all un-fold in front of her, Jackson was pouring sulphur and then Fish would pour water washing the sulphur away.

"Stop, we gotta put pressure on it. Stop the bleeding" Maila said.

"Can't you try and get the bullets out?" Jackson asked.

"That will only make it worse, like taking the plug out a bath" Maila said.

"Am I shot in the spine?" Wade asked.

"Lift him up, easy, easy" Miller said.

They lifted Wade so the Captain could reach a hand under and feel if there was an exit wound.

Maila watched and then saw Wade's hands shaking all over the place; she grabbed them and held them tightly in her own.

"Wade, you got an exit wound. It's in the small of your back" Miller said.

"How big's, how big's the hole" Wade asked.

"It's about the size of an acorn" Miller said.

They rolled him back and continued to wipe away the blood and apply sulphur. Blood had now started to come out of Wade's mouth; Maila looked down at him with tears in her eyes.

"Is there anything bleeding worse than the others?" Wade asked.

"Yeah, right here, right here, I'm gonna put your hand on it" Fish said and he took one of Wade's hands out of Maila's hand.

"Oh my god my liver, oh my god my liver!" Wade exclaimed.

"Tell us what to do, tell us how to fix you" Upham said.

Maila brought Wade's hand to her lips and kissed it, she couldn't stand it if he died. His eyes then drifted to hers.

"What can we do Wade, tell us what we can do" Miller said softly.

Without taking his eyes of Maila he said "I could use a little more morphine"

"More morphine sir" Jackson said.

"Give it to him" Miller reluctantly said to Horvath.

"No" Maila said wiping her nose on her sleeve "No, you can't give it too him!" she exclaimed.

"Maila" Wade whispered drawing her attention.

"I'm here Wade" she said.

He brought his hand out of hers and motioned for her to lean in closer. She did and he reached his head up a little and pressed his lips to hers. Maila had no idea that Wade felt the way he did. She loved him so much but in a lovers way? She wasn't sure, but she kissed him back, getting the taste of his blood in her mouth. She pulled back just in time to see Horvath give the extra morphine.

He then started to hallucinate and whimper, Jackson who had been supporting Wade's head moved slightly.

"Maila, come here" he said and Maila took over, she stroked the sides of Wade's face and kissed his forehead.

"Shush, shush" she whispered.

"Mama?" Wade then said looking up at her "Mama, I wanna go home I wanna go home" Wade cried and Maila hugged him tighter.

"It's alright Wade, your alright" she whispered and pressed her lips to his forehead.

"Mama, Mama, Ma..."

He then stopped mumbling, once the sound of mumbling stopped the sound of crying started. Mostly it was Maila's.

"Wade" she sobbed.

Jackson put his hand on her back.

Miller took a piece of paper out Wade's jacket, it was Caparzo's letter. He got up and left, in the distance the sound of men could be heard. The squad looked up and saw Reiben kicking the shit out of somebody. Leaping to his feet Jackson raced up the hill.

"Reiben hold him!" he said.

The others slowly followed. Maila couldn't bring herself to leave Wade's body. Horvath knelt down and took one of Wade's tags; he put it in his pocket and then took the other one. He reached forward and took Maila's necklace attaching Wade's tag. Maila smiled and Horvath grabbed some cloth.

"Here" he said wiping her chin "You've got some blood"

"Can you get it all off please?" she asked and Horvath nodded.

Once done they followed the others, Maila still gripping Wade's tag in her hand.

OMG, this chapter has really taken it out of me. I hate watching Wade's death scene, i love him so much! Also i was listening to Lost in the World by Kanye West while writing this chapter. Its an awesome song!

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MayDayxxx