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"What the hell am I doing out here? Going thru basic training again or what?" Dana coughed, she had been discharged from the hospital the day before and was back with Easy and her Platoon.

"Jeez, I don't know lieutenant, ask Winters, he is the one who imposed this terror regime on us" Luz answered her and lit a smoke.

Webster walked by the radioman and the lieutenant "I just wish to return to the freedom of battle" he mumbled, as he walked by.

The two Majors had decided the best way to integrate the new replacements, was to institute a rigorous training program.

"Well, I can think of a hundred other different ways to integrate O'Keefe and the others into the company, I heard O'Keefe had a run in with Perco" Dana sighed

Luz puffed on his smoke "Yeah I heard Perconte ripped him a new one, I heard Winters had to help O'Keefe, when we went on that night problem two days ago"

"Yeah, I heard, fucking replacements, they are all piss and vinegar, asking when are we going to jump into Berlin. I got warm grub in my belly and hot showers and I get to share an actual bed with my husband every night. I haven't been home in years and I don't know if I will ever see any of my family again." Dana said while searching for the company commander.

"Speirs, Luz, get the platoon moving" Sparky yelled. Easy Company was doing a simulated attack on a fixed enemy position.

"Hey O'Keefe! Here is your chance to be a hero, you are lead scout" Dana ordered him

O'Keefe went over the ridge the company was taking cover behind, he crawled over the ridge, to see what was on the other side. O'Keefe crawled back and told his CO the enemy was in sight.

"Ok, lay down a field of fire" Dana ordered her platoon and the attack began. A few minutes of firing away, had Liebgott, Talbert and Grant bored, they ran up and stapled the sandbag, which was set up as a mock enemy machine gun crew, with their bayonets.

Dana and the rest of the veterans just laughed and the replacements was impressed. Suddenly Speirs appeared out of nowhere per usual and motioned for Dana to follow him. Dana turned to her men "Oh, Oh Daddy is mad" she whispered to them and followed Speirs.

Speirs walked over the ridge, he put his hands on his hips "What the hell was that?" he asked Dana

"What the hell was what?" Dana asked him

"The attack, I never would have thought you would act so unprofessional" Speirs told her, he was furious

"Come on, the boys was just having some fun" Dana said.

"That was… I don't know what that was, but I do know it's your job to keep those boys in line, so do your god damn job"

Dana glared at her husband "My job? My job! As I see it you have my job. I should have been made CO of Easy when winters moved to battalion. I might not have a silver or a bronze star or three purple hearts, but that's just because I got cheated, because I am a woman, so fuck you, I am better soldier than most of the son of a bitches up at regiment and the men actually like me"

Dana turned and walked away, she turned and looked at her husband "Don't bother coming home" and with that she returned to her platoon

When she returned to her platoon, the men looked at with awe "Guess you told him" Grant who was the new platoon sergeant said.

"Guess I did, let's head out boys" Dana picked up her gear and walked back towards the camp. Dana kind of felt a shame of her behavior, she knew she should have stopped Lieb, Tab and Grant, but she thought it was ok at the time, but sparky was right, she had stepped over the line. As soon as Dana got back to Camp, she headed straight to battalion CP, she hoped to beat her husband there and luck would have it both Emma and Winters was there.

"Em, Dick, Ron is going to be here in a few minutes and he is going to launch a complaint against me. He is unhappy with the way I executed the simulated attack and I stand by what I said to him"

Before she could explain any further Speirs barged into the CP he was still furious. Dana looked at him "I stand by my statement" she said and backed away from the two Majors a little

Emma looked at the two Captains "Captain Speirs, Ron, do you want to explain what happened"

Ron explained what happened, Winters looked at him" Sort it out, you are married after all, Dana just keep the boys in line" Winters returned to his report.

Dana looked at Ron "Just don't come near me and find somewhere else to sleep" she told him and stomped out of the CP.

Ron just shook his head, he knew Dana was a hand full, but she had crossed a line and he didn't know if, he could let her step back.

….

Winters had bigger problems, Nixon had started to drink again, which jeopardized his relationship with Charlie, but also his relationship with the brass up at regiment.

Sink had asked Winters if he could work with Nixon. Winters had told Sink he could and Sink had demoted Nixon to battalion S3. Sink knew Nixon and Charlie made an amazing team, and he had kept Charlie at regiment, but demoted Nixon, even though he lost a genius at S3 work and a brave and commonsense soldier. However Sink couldn't handle Nixon's drinking and Charlie's cold stares.

Now all Winters had to do was tell Nixon and Charlie, but that would have to wait. Nixon and Charlie was participating in operation Varsity as observers. The 506th had thought Varsity was their mission, but Eisenhower, decided to send the 17th airborne instead.

…

Nixon was jumpmaster on his plane and Charlie was second soldier to jump. As they took off, they could see the boys from Easy yelling and giving them the V sign.

Nixon opted to remove the door after take-off, he was looking out the door, so he could see when they reached the drop zone.

Charlie was sitting next to him praying everything would go smooth and for Nixon to stop drinking. Nixon's drinking was becoming a problem again, she didn't know if she should leave him and let him hit rock bottom, or wait for what she knew was coming.

Charlie knew the plane would take a direct hit over the drop zone, so she was ready to jump.

One hour into the flight Charlie tapped Nixon on the helmet, and motioned to him that the red-light had come on.

Nixon motioned for the men to "stand up, hook on, and sound of for equipment check"

Charlie tapped Nixon on the arm and told him everything was ok.

Nixon waited for the green light to come on, seconds after they got the green-light, the plane took a direct hit over the drop zone.

Nixon grabbed Charlie and threw himself and Charlie out of the plane, all he could think about was getting Charlie to safety.

Both their chutes opened and they watched how the plane crashed, only two other soldiers had made it out.

Charlie just looked at the burning plane, she was relieved she made it out, but she felt sorry for the boys who didn't, it was a waste a life to die only months before the war was over.

Nixon tapped her on her shoulder "We need to get moving"

Charlie just nodded and followed him and the two troopers to the assembly point.

When they arrived at the assembly point Nixon informed the CO of the battalion what happened and returned to the CP to sleep, he didn't even try to find Charlie, he just wanted to drink the sight of the burning plane away.

Charlie decided to leave Nixon to his own thoughts, they would discuss this when they returned to Mourmelon.

Charlie found the platoon the men from her plane had been attached to and sat down with the boys, an around of "evening captain" sounded and Charlie nodded to the boys.

She looked at them, they were all so young and Charlie just sighed. Charlie sat around and shot the breeze with boys most of the night, a few hours before dawn, Charlie went to find Nixon.

Nixon was hung over and he still hadn't talked Charlie. The two of them where being send back over the Rhine and flown back to Mourmelon.

On the way back, just a little outside the camp, they drove past Camilla and Lipton, "Was that Captain Nixon and Charlie?" Camilla asked Lipton

"I think so" Lipton said

"What the hell is he doing in his harness?" Camilla asked

"I don't know, but let's find out" Lipton said and started to walk back towards camp

Charlie was driving the jeep and she was a little pissed at Nixon, he still hadn't spoken a word to her. When she drove into camp she almost hit Speirs and his most recent loot.

Charlie stopped the jeep and Nixon just got out and walked inside their billet, he went straight for the booze.

"Do really think that is the answer?" Charlie asked him

"Yep" was all Nixon said

"I don't and if you don't talk to me, you are going to be a very lonely soldier soon" Charlie took of her helmet and harness and started to shrug of her jacket.

"I just don't know what I am doing here anymore, why do we fight, can you tell me that?" Nixon asked her

"I can't yet, but you will find out soon enough, just promise me to cut back, please Lew" Charlie pleaded with her lover

Nixon walked over and kissed her on her head "I'll try" he said and pulled her into an embrace

Charlie sighed and hugged him back, she knew it would get worse before it would get better.

Dick walked into the room, he looked at the drink Nixon had just poured and then look at Charlie, who just threw her hand up, to motion she wanted to stay out of whatever was coming.

"So you two are making combat jumps with the 17th, while I am in supply briefings all morning"

Nixon started to take off his boots "Yeah lucky us"

"Well congratulations, you two are probably the only two officers in the 101st with three stars over your jump wings"

Charlie just looked at winters "Yeah and he never fired his weapon in combat ha"

"Really? Never not even with all the action we seen?" Winters asked him

"Not a round" Nixon said and walked over and poured himself another drink

"So, how did it go this morning? The Jump?" Winters asked

"Great, fantastic, we took a direct hit over the drop zone, I got out, Charlie got out and two others got out" Nixon said

"And the rest of the boys?" Winters asked

"They blew up over Germany somewhere, boom" Nixon said

"Yeah, I am sorry" Winters answered him

"About what?" Nixon asked

"About the boys' tough situation" Winters answered

"Oh yeah the boys, yeah terrible, oh well it wasn't me" Nixon said

At this point Charlie got up and took Nixon's drink from him and gulped it down.

"The real tragedy is, they also lost their CO, so guess who gets to write all the letters home?" Nixon threw his empty bottle in a bucket besides the door to the living room and walked thru it.

Dick and Charlie followed him, Nixon scrounged for some more Vat 69 and found some in a near empty bottle.

He then sat down on a chair, Winters turned and looked at him "I got a visit from Colonel Sink this morning"

"Yeah, how is the good colonel" Nixon asked

"Concerned, still drinking nothing but the Vat 69" Winters answered him

"Nothing but the finest for Captain Kahne's man" Nixon said and pulled Charlie to him

"Is that a problem up at regiment?" Winters asked him

"What this? Is that what he said? I just don't like up there" Nixon asked him

"Good, you be glad to hear Sink is transferring you back down to battalion S3" Winters told Nixon

Charlie's head snapped up "What about me?" she asked

"You get to stay at regiment and work with Matheson" Winters told her

Charlie let out a few choice words she didn't want to leave Nixon and especially not now

"What do you two think I should write to the parents?" Nixon asked his two friends

"Did you hear what I said Nix, you been demoted" Winters asked him

"Demoted, yeah got it, because I don't know how to tell them their kids never even made it out of the god damn plane" Nixon retorted

"You tell them what you always tell them, their sons died as heroes" Winters told him

"You really still believe that?" asked Winters

"Yeah, yeah I do, don't you?" Winters asked Nixon

Nixon just gave a small laugh, he didn't really care about anything at the moment, maybe only the wonderful woman standing next to him

Winters looked at Charlie "Talk some sense into him, please"

Charlie just smiled and Winters left. Charlie dragged Nixon to his feet and dragged him into the bedroom, she undressed him and herself and pushed him down on the bed and got in next to him. She kissed him and whispered "Don't worry, you'll get it soon enough"

…

A couple of days later and for Nixon a couple of bottles later, Speirs, Dana, Welsh, Lipton Camilla, Nixon and Charlie was gathered in the living room of Charlie and Nixon's billet.

The boys was playing poker, well the boys and Camilla, and she was cleaning them out. Welsh and Speirs was talking about how they couldn't believe, how Ike was going to let the Russians get Berlin.

Nixon was running out of Vat 69 and suddenly got up "Deal me out" he said and walked out

Welsh looked around at the others "Are we waiting on him again?"

"Yeah, we're waiting" Lipton said

…

Charlie ran after Nixon

"Lew, what are you doing? Comeback here, Lewis did you hear me?" Charlie was looking up at the sky, it was pouring down

"Charlie, don't just go back inside" Nixon pulled a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket, he lit one up and walked out into pouring rain, in search for some whiskey

Charlie ran after him an grabbed his sleeve "Please Lew, You won't your answer in the bottom of a bottle"

Nixon turned and looked at Charlie "then where do I find it? You won't tell me, you just keep saying I'll find it later" Nixon yelled at her and kept walking,

"Nixon, get back here, Lewis if you don't get back here, you will be very lonely tomorrow"

"I might be lonely, but at least I got someone to go home to, what do you have?" Nixon was angry and after he said the words he immediately regretted them

Charlie looked at him like he had struck her "How can you say that, you know my situation and you know I will never be able to go back home, you son of a bitch"

Nixon just glared at Charlie "Yeah, well, I wish you and the rest of you never showed up in the first place"

Charlie looked hurt "Well, at least my wife isn't leaving me and taking me to the cleaners, guess you can't even hold on to an anorexic, alcoholic bimbo"

Nixon was furious and before he knew what he was doing, he raised his hand and slapped Charlie across the face.

Charlie put her hand on her throbbing cheek, she was so surprised, and she had imagined a lot of scenarios when the time came to confront Nixon about his drinking, but him slapping her wasn't one of them. Charlie turned around and walked back into the building, she kept walking straight thru the room the other officers was gathered in and slammed the bedroom door behind her.

"What hell was that?" Dana mumbled and got up, she walked over and opened the bedroom door. Dana found Charlie bend over the wash basin, splashing water on her face sporting something that would eventually turned into a black eye.

"What the hell happened to you?" Dana asked her friend

"Lew hit me" Charlie said

"What?" Dana was shocked, she couldn't believe Nixon would actually hit a woman

"I confronted him and he slapped me" Charlie said.

"I going to get the son of a bitch" Dana mumbled and stormed out of the bedroom. Speirs looked up just in time to see the look in his wife's eyes, they still weren't talking, but he knew something was wrong.

"Dana, Dana, for Christ sake, Captain Speirs I order you to stop" Speirs yelled after Dana

Dana turned around and just irk her husband, she jumped to attention and held the position until he had saluted her.

Speirs shook his head and hid a smile, man she was driving him fucking crazy "what the hell happened back there?" he asked

"Nix hit Charlie and now he is going to feel the wrath of god" Dana said to her husband

"HE WHAT!" Speirs yelled and stormed out of the house and into the pouring rain, looking for the culprit.

Alarmed by Speirs yelling, the other officers came running out of the building and Dana once again explained what had happened.

Welsh sighed "I have to talk to Winters" and he then disappeared

"Well, I going to head back to the aid station, send Charlie my way ok, I'll keep her there for the night" Camilla kissed Lipton and stormed of

Dana looked at Lip" What a freaking mess"

"Yeah, you can say that again" Lipton said and saluted Dana and walked towards Battalion CP

Dana just stood out in the pouring rain and a few seconds later Roe walked by "Captain you really should get inside, so yah won't catch pneumonia again"

"Yeah I should, but I won't" Dana mumbled to herself

Dana stomped of the direction her husband had disappeared in, she found him and several officers all shouting at Nixon, who was sitting on the ground with his head in his hands, sporting a bleeding nose and a black eye, courtesy of Ron Speirs.

Emma had finally gotten her uniform on and stepped out of the CP, she heard some general shouting and saw the crowd gathered around Nixon, who was sitting on the ground saying he was sorry.

Emma walked over and the crowd stepped away from Nixon, Emma gave them all a stern look "Ok you are all dismissed, you too Dick, I got this"

The other officers vanished, Winters hesitated for a moment, but Emma motioned for him to go on back to the CP, she was alright.

"Come on punchy, opsy Daisy" Emma pulled Nixon to his feet and pulled him towards the aid station

Once they reached the aid station, Emma pushed Nixon inside and left him to find Roe or Spina, she found Camilla and Charlie in an examination room "You ok?" Emma asked

"I am good, how is Lew?" Charlie asked Emma

"He is a mess and he is truly sorry, you worried about him?" Emma asked

"I am and I know I shouldn't be, but I forgive him. I won't make up any excuses for him, what he did was wrong on so many levels, but I been known to throw a few punches myself, but I don't know if I can go back to him" Charlie said

"You are the bigger person" Emma said and turned around

Emma walked straight into Roe "Doc, I need you to take a look at Captain punchy" Emma followed Roe to room where she had left Nixon.

Nixon was sitting on a chair, Doc took a look at him and cleaned his scrapes "Yah good ta go, Sir" he said

Nixon thanked Roe. Emma dragged him back to the CP, when they got there she turned to him "You can stay here tonight, but tomorrow you are on your own, I can't protect you, you need help Nix"

"I know, you think she will ever forgive me?" Nixon asked Emma

"I don't know Nix, she forgives you, but you might have lost her for good" Emma kissed Nixon on the cheek and patted Nixon on the shoulder and left the room.