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I walked over to Dick's foxhole. He looked up to see me approach. He smiled as I jumped in next to him. He spoke gently, "Kate."

"Dick," I replied.

"What can I do for you?" he asked, giving me his full attention.

I stated, "Well, I am letting you know that I'm taking a medic and another man to try and find 3rd again. We're running too low on supplies. I think that Eugene is out of something...he seems worried."

Dick nodded as he understood the predicament. He asked, "I'm glad you're taking an extra man. After that last shelling, you can't be too careful."

"I agree. Is there anything else that I should try to bring back?" I asked.

Dick shook his head. "I don't think so. We should be okay. Just find 3rd, grab what they can spare, and get back here safely."

I nodded, just as Spina and Heffron approached us. I glanced up, almost surprised that Spina was going instead of Roe. I also knew that Roe needed a break. I looked back at Dick, smiled and stood up. I climbed out of the foxhole and started to head out.

"Kate?" Dick asked as I was just out of hearing range.

I turned and looked at him. He was standing up in his foxhole, looking at me. I furrowed my brow as I asked, "Yeah?"

The look on his face grew serious as he spoke, "Be careful...okay?"

I swallowed as I nodded. I turned and ran to catch up to the guys. I wanted to say something to him, something meaningful, but this wasn't the right time. I would just have to wait, and hope that we would make it out of this winter land.

As the three of us walked through the snow covered forest, Heffron broke the silence between us. "You know he told me he's a virgin?"

"Who?" Spina asked, suddenly curious.

"The replacement in my foxhole, Julian," Heffron explained.

"Yeah?" Spina asked, suddenly disinterested. I knew why the curiosity suddenly went away. Spina was one of those men who didn't like to get too close to the replacements. Just like so many of the Toccoa men, he hated to see our friends die and be replaced by kids, who as Heffron pointed out, were kids still who hadn't lived life.

Heffron kept musing, "Virgin...just a kid. The only virgin I know is the Virgin Mary."

Spina looked at me. "Well Babe, you might know more than one if the Lieutenant can ever admit to being one!"

I glanced over at him. "What makes you think that, Spina?"

He smirked. "Are you telling me that you're not?"

"I'm telling you that whatever you think is wrong. Now, can we continue?" I shook my head as I turned away from him.

Spina laughed as we came to a stop. We could spot some blown up weaponry in the field. "Hey Babe, where the hell are we?"

I looked around. I couldn't tell if the weaponry we saw was ours or not. It was too mangled to make out any distinguishing features, and what I could have seen was covered in snow.

Babe stated as he continued walking, "This way."

Spina finally said what I was thinking, "I don't like it."

I walked up to Babe as we looked around. It was quiet...too quiet. I started to grow anxious.

Heffron asked as he looked around, "Where the hell's 3rd battalion?"

Babe and I took a step forward. We heard something snap under our feet, and we fell into a snow covered hole.

Spina cursed in surprise. Heffron started to laugh at how startled all of us had become, and I couldn't help but chuckle a little.

Suddenly, I heard a voice under the snow, right next to us. I raised my hand whispering, "Shut up! Shut up!"

When Spina and Heffron stopped giggling, we heard a German voice speaking. My heart stopped. We had walked into the enemy line and we were standing in one of their foxholes. I motioned to Spina to approach us, as I tossed my gun up by him. Spina knelt down and grabbed Heffron's arms as I helped Heffron climb out of the hole that we fell into. Spina hoisted him out.

They turned and grabbed my arms. They pulled me out of the hole. I grabbed my gun as I hissed at them, "Go! Go!"

I scrambled to my feet as they started to run back in the direction we had come from, and into the cover of the forest. I was a few feet behind them when I could hear Germans shouting at us. They started to fire their weapons at us. The bullets snapped past our heads as we ran towards the trees.

I watched as Babe and Spina ran into the forest. As I was running behind them, trying to catch up to them, I lost my footing. I fell to my hands and knees. I quickly regained my footing and managed to get into the forest before getting killed.

I knew that it wasn't safe for me to stop running now that I was in the cover of the forest, so I kept running. I didn't stop until I reached a break in the trees. I slid to a stop and looked around.

The Germans weren't following me and I had no idea where I was. Spina and Babe were no where to be found. My breathing was heavy as I gazed around my surroundings, trying to get my bearings. I looked down at my feet. Something was different about this ground. I looked forward to see that it was wide, and I looked back and forth, to see that the area stretched forward through the forest on each side of me.

My breathing hitched. I realized what I was standing on. I muttered, "A road... there should be no road here. What the hell...?"

I looked up again, realizing that this was bad news for us or I was in a completely different part of the forest, when I saw two silhouettes walking toward me. I couldn't chance it being my men, so I quickly ran across the road and fell off the side of it into a deep snow drift.

I held my breath as I waited for the two men to approach. I could hear talking and footsteps crunching in the snow above me. The voices were speaking German and then footsteps stopped. I waited for the gun to go off. I waited for them to give away my position, something to alert that they knew I was there, but it grew quiet. I grew anxious, unsure of where they were or if they were still there, so I waited a little longer. When I didn't hear anything for a while, I slowly started to stand up. I looked around. I was alone.

I scrambled out of the snow bank and started to run in a direction that I had hoped would be my line and not the enemy's.