Disclaimer- I don't own Band of Brothers but I do own a few characters such as Anne-Marie.
This chapter if more of the Prologue than the first chapter, the official 'first' chapter should be up by tomorrow
Simplicity and Sanity- Prologue
She knew it was going to be tough going into war and she knew she'd need to earn respect but she knew could do it, sure she was worked much harder than most. Sure people called her vulgar things or harassed her just cause they could get away with it...but eventually she did it, and she became one of the men, one of the soldiers. To her that was the greatest accomplishment yet, besides going from Nurse to a medic and a private. The glory had been great...while it lasted.
It had all crumbled when one of the medics in Easy Company was killed and they needed a replacement so they called her in. And it was back to the beginning, but she did it once she could do it again, she could do it again. Sure in the last company she was on the line but it was nothing compared to Easy Company. In that last company there was 8 hour shifts between medics in Easy Company there were no such things as shifts. It was fine at first, but then the reality hit and it hit hard.
At first she couldn't sleep, because she kept seeing that boys face, Garrison who was in her first company, she just kept seeing his blood soaked clothes. She kept feeling him go colder and numb under neither her hands. She kept hearing him cry for his mother...he was 18. It kept her awake
She couldn't sleep. And then...
She couldn't hear...
She felt like she was going numb. Sometimes the screams for a medic would wake her, sometimes she heard it but just sat there, hoping Eugene would get to the wounded soldier...and there were countless times people had to pull her out from her fox hole just to get her attention. And when they did that she couldn't even feel them pulling her out, she could feel when Heffron or Doc Roe would dive into the fox hole that she was in.
Heffron...Roe
They were the only ones to visit her, they seemed to respect her. She couldn't quite see why Heffron did, but it was better than know one. Maybe he didn't respect her...maybe he was just being nice. She didn't know...but she had a feeling why Eugene might. He was always telling her how good she was, how people didn't struggle or fight her when she tried to help them or just how more people lived in her care than his. She didn't think that was true, she thought it was the other way around but she didn't argue with him. She didn't have the energy to, besides she didn't want to make him angry. In Easy Company he was the first to talk to her, the first to show respect, the first to stand up for her. Even if it was war, she found him to be gentle, quite, and over all nice. Everyone else just made her angry, but he didn't.
She remembered their first talk, her first argument with the Men of Easy and oh boy did she remember the first days...