AN: Okay, it gets weird.

He pushed himself, although with pain, and stood up from the cold earth and cleared his dry throat.

"Hey! Get down!"

She ignored him.

He asked again "Look kid, you gotta stay down if you don't want 'em to see you."

She ran right past him with out a glance then swung around, stared, and startled him by saying his name -

"Irwin..." How did she know his name? This place creeped him out so bad but he had no other option right now but to run after her. He pulled his wet medic pack over his shoulders and ran after her for a ways until she finally stopped at the edge of the yellow sea of grass.

Wade stood next to the girl as she fell to her knees, shaking a little as she whispered a faint

"No."

He looked down upon her, noticing that her dress wasn't red on purpose. She had blood soaked down her front. It wasn't her blood . . . . . .

A sudden spine chilling cry pierced his ears as men screamed in the distance.

"She ran this way Captain!"

The girl jerked her head up at the noise and Wade looked abruptly to the west. He noticed that soldiers were running from the house out towards the field. The voices were English.

"American soldiers? British?" He said to her. He had a feeling they weren't his rescue team or the girl's . . . . . she just looked at him, holding her bloody hand out to him.

"What are you doing? Are they shooting at you?!"

He heard them coming closer and foot steps of approaching. He got a glimpse of olive drab uniforms.

"This can't be! Americans soldiers shouldn't be hurting people!!" Wade panicked and squatted down and grabbed at her arm and was stunned as his hand grasped hers.

He must not be in a dream because she felt so real! She was cold and clammy, like the dead often felt like.

Wade gave a shudder and he watched her as she tried to get up, her foot caught in a sink hole of mud and she could not pull herself out. The girl turned her face to look up at him and said with sorrow in her voice. Her brown hair clumped in mud.

"They will kill me. Help me, Irwin." she squeezed his arm firmly.

"It's okay, honey. I'll help you, just hang on there."

Wade peaked up from the tall grass and a sudden gasp caught in his throat. The man coming closes to him was-

Pvt. Mellish! Mellish's face twisted in amusement and he called out to the little girl. A look he never wanted to see on Mellish.

"Here kitty. Come here darling we won't bite . . . . yet."

He slowed his walking to scan the tall grass. Feet away, Jackson was holding his prized Springfield rifle so lovingly in his grasp.

"Hey Mellish, she's not a damn pussy cat. Havn't you ever 'eard of 'element of surprise?"

Next to Jackson, Rieben was concentrating on the field.

"Let's just wipe her out and be done with it." He said.

Horvath and Miller were a ways back, and Upham was even farther back, his face spattered with blood. Caparzo was no where in sight.

How did they get here? Wade wondered.

Wade didn't know why his squad was doing this but he didn't want to find out. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled as hard as his sore body would let him. He tried but she was strangely heavy, like something didn't want her to be pulled out. He stopped and yanked off his pack and grasped her again.

He pulled with all his strength and with all his heart until her leg had been finally freed and dragged her away from the sink hole. They got up and ran as fast as they could.

"Hey! Wade's got her!"

Wade winced at his name. OH GOD! He thought. They recognized him! He's a dead man now!

His blood went cold and he could not catch any breath in his tired lungs. They ran to the line of trees at the edge of the field. He froze and fell to the ground where he grasped his helmet and looked into the girl's green eyes.

"This can't be real. It's not real! It's not REAL!" Wade whispered to the still girl. She nodded.

"I don't want to die! You've come to save me?" She whimpered. Wade felt a stab in his heart. He couldn't save her. He just didn't know how.

Suddenly, Jackson popped out of the bushes and grabbed Wade from behind. The girl screamed in surprise.

"SO! Here's our medic! You run off and I couldn't find you. Are you helping the enemy here?" He whispered in Wade's ear. His voice wasn't cold but did not seem very nice right now.

"Jackson! What the hell is going on here I'm on your side, asshole!" Wade yelled, trying to fling Jackson off of him. Sergeant Horvath came trundling into the trees. His face tired from running, followed by Capt. Miller, Upham, Mellish and Rieben.

Well, go on to the next and final chapter! If you guys want things changed let me know! I'll do my best. Even if you want more chapters. S'okay to me.