A/N: To Jolene, I would like to say I completely agree with you, after I posted I was like gag, but I couldn't of anything else to put there, so sorry but oh well. Hope you enjoy the next chapter.

Chapter Seven

"Where did you get this?"

"Floyd,"

"Where did he get it?"

"Joe,"

"Where did he get it?"

"Oh, uh, I think George Luz, way back before D-Day."

"Oh," Gabrielle was sitting on the edge of the enormous claw foot tub with Angelica beside her. They were shaving their legs with a cutthroat razor. It was making Gabrielle very nervous, Angelica didn't seem to notice. "So they couldn't scrounge up any safety razors, huh?"

"Nope," Angelica said not taking her eyes off her ankles.

"Oh well, then." Gabrielle continued to finish her calves.

Angelica and Gabrielle had just got back from the lake, they had gone swimming and Floyd had dropped off the razors. They were in identical white shorts and red blouses.

"So," Angelica said breaking the silence. Gabrielle jumped but didn't cut herself.

"If you do that one more time, I am going to kill you!"

"Sorry, but I thought of another one." Angelica cleared her throat. "Carey Grant or James Stuart? You know them right?" Gabrielle looked at her friend.

"I lived in Germany not Timbuktu."

"Right," Angelica said shaking her head. "So?"

"Carey Grant." Gabrielle answered pouring a jug of room temperature water over her legs rinsing the last of the soap off.

"Really? I would have said James Stuart." Angelica took the jug next. She looked at her wristwatch. "Oh shit!" Gabrielle looked up.

"What?"

"I have to go to the troops quarters, I am fifteen minutes late, Miss Toye is gonna kill me!" Angelica jumped out of the tub and ran out of the large bathroom.

"Have fun!" Gabrielle yelled sarcastically through the door. She could hear Angelica scoff.

After putting cream on her legs she walked into her room. Out of the window she could see all the boys in Easy Company playing baseball. They left the field and went and sat around a jeep.

Angelica told her that the men were going to be deployed to Japan, in a few months. Floyd had told her at the dance last night. Gabrielle prayed they weren't leaving today.

Joe was making his way up to through the town to the nurse's quarters. He raked his hand throw his hair.

Shaking Rebecca off last night was practically impossible. He wasn't all that shocked when she said she was willing to go all the way.

It was when he turned her down that the fireworks started going off. At first she screamed then she cried, then she screamed some more. It was like taking his little sister shopping and not getting her a toy. Eventually at around one in the morning she took the hint and sulked off.

All the guys had gotten the wrong idea at his late return which probably meant the nurses had too, and he didn't know Rebecca well enough to know if she would tell the truth for support from her friends or lie to save face.

That was one of the reasons he was heading to the nurses quarters, to set Gabrielle straight. He didn't want her to think he would kiss her then sleep with another girl. He shoved his hands in his pockets.

When he arrived at the nurse's house he quickly and quietly climbed the stairs. He had seen Rebecca out in the camp with Isabelle when they were playing baseball and had no idea what they were talking about. He didn't know if Rebecca had gotten to the house before him but didn't feel like bumping into her.

He knocked on Gabrielle's door. She looked up at him. She was wearing short shorts and a red sleeveless blouse. Her legs had to go for miles.

"Hi Joe!" She said brightly with a smile, for some reason the smile didn't reach her eyes. She came around to the other side of the bed. Joe looked down the hall. "Oh Rebecca isn't home yet." Joe looked around at Gabrielle who was still smiling.

"What?"

"I assume you are avoiding Rebecca, because of last night." Joe studied Gabrielle.

"Yeah about that."

"She came back at around 1, at first she was all smiles and innuendos but then when she got in her room with Elizabeth and Rachael she burst into tears. Angelica heard the whole thing and told me." Gabrielle's smile seemed to reach her eyes from only an instant when she said that. Joe smiled at her.

"Oh well, uh, right." He swallowed. "I uh came to tell you the Japanese have surrendered. I am going home." Gabrielle gave her first real smile. She came over and threw her arms around Joe's neck.

"Oh Joe that is wonderful." He wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Yeah I know, and I want you to come with me." Gabrielle pulled back when he said that and stared at him. He didn't let go of her waist so she was still in his arms.

"Are you serious?" Joe smiled at the exact time hers vanished.

"Yes, why?" Her eyes were probably the biggest he had ever seen.

"I…I can't." He dropped his arms from her side and crossed them over his chest.

"Why not?"

"I read that there is this hospital in Berlin that helps children from the camps recover. I am going to go there and look for my brother." She looked at the floor. "I know my mother is dead, but there is a chance that my brother might still be alive, I have to go and look."

Joe took a deep breath. He put his hands on her upper arms. "I'll come with you then." She looked at him. There were tears in her eyes.

"No Joe,"

"What why not?"

"You have seen enough, you deserve to go home." She said quietly. Her voice made his heart break.

"But I want to come with you," She looked at him.

"What if I do come with you to the states, and then you find somebody else, an American girl, what then? I will be in a country where I don't know anyone." Joe dropped his arms to his sides.

"I wouldn't do that."

"How do I know that? I have only known you for about three days." She said helplessly. Joe stared back at her stonily.

"And from the moment I saw you in that basement I knew I loved you." Gabrielle stared at him then looked at her hands. She said something he couldn't understand. "Huh?"

"I said what if you don't? How do you know?" She looked scared and desperate.

"Fine," Joe turned on his heel and stormed out of her room.

"Joe!" He heard her follow him to the door. He was almost at the stairs when Angelica came up them first.

"Joe you gotta make her see reason, Nicolas just told me," She turned to Gabrielle. "Berlin? It is still practically still war zone! Joe?" Angelica turned back to Joe.

"I tried." He shrugged off Angelica's gaze and left the house.