I own nothing, only my OC

There is a bottle on the shelve talking to me

Saying come over here, you can have a drink

we can make thru this lonely night together

Thats a road I dont want to go back down

And I hate myself for what I am thinking now

Hey its just one night it's not like it's forever

I just wanna feel better

Maggie Rose, Better

"Nixon, Nix, wake up, we are moving out, Germany my friend" Welsh was kicking the cot Nixon was sleeping on

Easy Company and the rest of the 506th was heading for the Bavarian alpes.

Nixon rolled of the cot and looked at his reflection in the mirror on the wall, he looked like hell. He had tried to quit drinking, but had failed, and he had run out of Vat 69 and had been forced to drink the local stuff, as he called it.

Nixon walked across the square and into the post office "Ah, Captain Nixon, what can I do for you?" private Vest asked him

"I am looking for a particular brand of Whiskey" Nixon looked Vest square in the eye

"Vat 69, well it won't be cheap sir" Vest said to Nixon

"That won't be a problem" Nixon told the young private, he needed that whiskey, so if he had to pay out of his ears for it, he would.

The two men was interrupted by janovec, who informed them 350,000 Germans had just surrender

Nixon started to leave the post office, when Vest stopped him "Sir, I got a couple of letters for you here" Vest handed Nixon two letters. One was from his wife and the other from his parents.

The letter from his wife, had to be the dear Lewis letter, Charlie had told him about.

Nixon opened the letter, he read it as he walked across the square

, it was indeed the letter he had been expecting. He knew it was coming and he knew he hadn't been faithful to Cathy especially not since Normandy, but he still felt like a failure.

Nixon headed for regimental HQ, eager to share the news with Charlie, but then he remembered, he couldn't, because of his fucking drunken mistake. Nixon would never forgive himself for hitting a woman, and not only a woman, but the woman whom he loved with all of his soul.

Before he reached HQ, the order to get on the truck came, private Christenson clapped his hands and told the men to move out.

Nixon climbed in the back of a Jeep and sat down sulking. Winters was driving and Emma was in the passenger seat.

Someone started to sing Blood upon the risers and the large convoy moved out. The Convoy scrambled thru Germany.

Somewhere around Nuremberg, they stopped for the night and the officers first priorities was finding sleeping arrangements for the men.

Speirs walked into a house with Liebgott and Dana hot on his heels. Speirs told Liebgott to tell the family they had five minutes to get out and not to come back before the Americans had left.

Dana stood quietly in the corner and watched Liebgott and Speirs yelling at the family.

Dana didn't even feel guilty about kicking the family out of their house, these people was responsible for the suffering she and six million other people had been thru, so no she didn't care, she just wanted them gone.

So did Speirs, after the family left he pulled her close "Are we good or as good as we're going to be?" he asked her

"Yeah, we're good" Dana said

The regiment stayed for one night and moved out. The regiment continued south on the autobahn, as the convoy moved south, the 350,000 Germans, who had surrendered, walked in columns in the grass between the lanes, they were heading north. Winters was impressed with how the Germans still marched with pride, even though they were defeated.

Webster, who's truck was driving in front of the jeep with Nixon in it, got on his feet and started to yell at the Germans "Hey you, yeah that's right, you stupid kraut bastard, say hello to Ford and General fucking Motors, you stupid fascist pigs, look at you, you have horses what were you thinking?" At this point Ramirez had enough of Webster's yelling

Ramirez pulled him down on the bench "That's not enough Webster, give it a rest"

Camilla, who was on that same truck, hid a smile, she knew they would find out soon enough, why they were there to fight.

However Webster wasn't thru "Dragging our ass half way around the world, interrupting out lives and for what? You ignorant servile scum, what the fuck are we doing here?"

Without knowing it, Webster had just put a voice to Nixon's feelings toward the Germans and the war.

…..

Landsberg, Germany

Easy and the rest of the 506th pulled into the small town of Landsberg, Winters immediately send out some patrols, in case they were staying there for the night.

Dog would stay in town and Easy would patrol the woods. Speirs nodded and yelled out Easy, the men and Dana gathered around Speirs, who told which platoon to go where.

Dana looked at her husband, she was still, so very much in love with him and she couldn't imagine living without him. Dana still feared, that one day she and the rest of the girls would be sent back to their own time and she would lose the love she had finally found.

The patrol was walking thru the woods, it was Erie quiet. Dana had Shifty and McClung as lead scouts and Bull and O'Keeffe brought up the rear.

Bull noticed O'Keeffe was jumpy and gave him a hard time about it, telling him they could hear his heart pound all the way in Arkansas.

Perconte was looking around "Hey George, kind of reminds you Bastogne"

Luz looked at Perco and rolled his eyes "Yeah, now that you mention it, except of course there is no snow, we got warm grub in our bellies, and the trees aren't fucking exploding from Kraut artillery, but yeah Frank, other than that it's a lot like Bastogne"

Frank was glad his best buddy agreed "Yeah"

Luz took a drag of his cigarette "Bull smack him for me please" and Bull did just that

Dana ordered the men to settle down, she knew what they would stumble upon and she knew they were getting close, the woods were all quiet and it seemed like, even all the animals had left this part of the woods.

O Keefe made a remark about how quiet it was and Perconte agreed with him. Dana was still waiting for them to find the camp, which she knew from her history books was a sub camp of the Dachau concentration camp.

The patrol walked into a clearing and there it was, the Camp, the men all became quiet and Christenson lost his lunch.

Dana turned to Perconte, who was the best runner "Go get my husband, Nixon, Winters, Emma and do not let Nixon get here without Captain Kahne.

Perco ran and Dana walked up to the fence and tried to talk to the prisoners, but they wouldn't talk to her and she realized it was because of her uniform, so she removed her helmet and let down her hair, that made the difference, some of the men cried and some called out the names of their daughters and wife's.

…

Perconte ran into town and asked for Winters and Speirs, no one knew where they were and Frank was getting desperate, he knew if he came back without the officers Dana had ordered him to bring out to the camp, he was a dead man.

Finally he found Winters and Emma "Major Winters, ma'am, we found something on the patrol and ahh, we came across this…"

"What, what Frank, Frank what is it?" Winters asked him

Frank was frantic, he didn't have words to describe, what it was they had found "I don't know Sir, I don't know"

Emma knew exactly what it was Dana and her men had found. She dropped her head and waited for Franks breathing to slow down, once she was convinced Frank wasn't panicking, she looked at the two men "Frank go get Camilla and Roe, tell her it's time and she needs her hunger kit, she will know what you mean"

Emma then turned around and the first sergeant she noticed was first sergeant Talbert "Tab go get Nixon and Charlie and tell them to get here on the double, tell Charlie why we fight and she will know what to do"

Talbert ran off and Emma looked at her husband "You and need to have a little talk"

Emma led Winters into the building, which served as HQ "she put her hands on her hips and started to pace " Ok, in 1942 the Nazi's came up with the final solution, they were going to eliminate all, Jews, Jehovah witnesses, gypsies, homosexuals, handicapped, anyone who didn't fit into the idea of the Arian race. They put them into camps and worked them to death or gassed them and then burned the bodies, it's a camp like that third platoon has discovered in the woods, so be prepared, it's going to be ugly, rough and a lot of men are going to break down"

Emma turned and looked at her husband. Winters looked startled and a little pale "Yeah, ok, let's go see what it's all about"

When they walked out of the HQ, the other officers were waiting for them. Charlie, Emma and Camilla was looking at each other and nodded, they knew exactly what they had to do, once they got there and it was going to be the hardest thing they would ever have to do.

The remainder of the second battalion was ordered on to trucks, and when the battalion pulled up to the Camp, Winters knew, nothing would ever have prepared him for the sight that met them.

Skeleton like men was gathered around the fence and the gate to the camp. They were all wearing striped clothing, most of which was torn and worn. Their heads were shaved and most of them were missing most of their teeth, the whole camp was wrapped in a stench of death, rotten corpses and general decay.

Winters stepped of the jeep, he was about to order Christenson to cut the chain that held the gate together, preventing the prisoners from escaping.

"Stop, Major Winters, sir" Camilla stepped forward

"We have to make sure these people stay in the camp, they can't wander of and scatter. They probably have typhus, cholera and other cottages diseases, we need to keep them here and Sir no one feeds them, if we starting giving them food they will eat themselves to death, we have to put them on a special diet, only food with live bacteria, like sour kraut, yoghurt, quark and such"

Winters nodded and ordered Christenson to open the gate. Winters walked in with the men following him and he realized he needed a translator, so he could talk to the prisoners and send for Liebgott.

Nixon walked next to Winters with Charlie hot on his heels, she knew what the place would do to Lew and wanted to be near him when he finally realized, why they were fighting the Germans.

Nixon stared at the men emerging thru the smoke from the burning buildings, some carrying what looked like death bodies. Nixon was paralyzed, the amount of emotion that ran thru him at that very moment was indescribable, and he felt helpless, shocked, rage against the Germans, sadness and sorrow.

What these people had been thru, couldn't even be described and it made his problems seem insignificant.

Nixon turned around and there she was, his reason for existing, the woman who made it worth living and he had done the most unforgivable a man could ever do and here she was, just looking at her, made Nixon feel like it was all going to be ok.

Charlie looked at Nixon and opened her arms to him. Nixon almost ran into her arms and he was mess.

Charlie just held him and whispered to him "It's ok, it's all going to be ok" Charlie had tears running down her cheeks. Nixon pulled away a little and brushed the tears of her face "I am sorry, I am sorry, I promise, no more drinking and no more rage"

Charlie looked at him "We are not ok yet, but we will be, just hang in there" Charlie started to walk away.

Nixon looked at her back "Charlie, now I know what you meant, when you said, I would know soon enough why we were here"

Charlie stopped for a second and then continued walking.

Winters and Emma were talking to one of the prisoners, Liebgott translated. Emma already knew what the man would tell them, and he confirmed what she already knew.

Camilla came running "Winters, hey Em, can you get the men to rally around me? So I can tell them what to do"

Winters looked at Emma "Get it done, I need to call Sink"

Emma got a hold of Speirs and McMillan, they found the commander of Fox and the battalion gathered around the Easy Doc.

"Look, we need to triage these men, those who can walk, those who need assistance walking or need to be carried and last those who are dead. The live inmates need to be placed by the gate, leave the dead in the huts, they will buried tomorrow, ok boys move out"

Camilla started with men already gathered at the gate. Camilla spoke German and Russian, courtesy of the West Point language courses.

She had her trusted stethoscope, and she was examining a man, when she felt a hand on her shoulder, Camilla looked up. Lipton looked down at her, she squeezed his hand "I am ok, I can handle this"

Lipton nodded and continued his walk around the camp, everywhere he looked there were dead bodies and smoking remains of buildings. He stumbled upon Malarkey, who was looking at one of the dead bodies wrist and the both noticed the tattoo. All of the men in the camp had tattoo's, they had been branded like cattle.

This camp was nothing like Lipton had ever even imagined, he couldn't comprehend how such evil existed, what kind of sick minds had planned the extermination of a whole religion, this was genocide, like never seen before.

Dana was helping the men triage the prisoners, she felt like she was about to vomit, the stench in the camp was overwhelming and nothing had prepared her for this, for seeing an actual concentration camp.

Speirs walked by and noticed his tough ass wife looking pale and fragile and he knew he had to get her out of there "Dana why don't you go and help unload the trucks"

Dana looked at Ron and gave him a grateful smile and walked towards the trucks the 326th medical unit had brought with them.

Dana started to help and she noticed Sink, Winters Nixon, Emma, Charlie and Doctor Kent walk towards Camilla.

Camilla was talking to one of the polish prisoners in Russian, when she heard Sink address her "Lieutenant Hamlin"

Camilla turned around "Sir" she said and saluted Sink

"This here is Doctor Kent, he is the regimental surgeon" Sink introduced the two doctors to each other.

"We already met, however last time I saw you, you didn't know who you were and you went AWOL from my hospital" Kent smiled at Camilla

"Yeah, sorry about that, I needed to get back to my boys" Camilla blushed slightly

"So tell me what do we got here" Kent asked Camilla

"Well, all of them are starving, 99 percent of the men have cholera and typhus and they all have some sort of respiratory tract infection, pneumonia mostly, I need blankets, cots, antibiotics, food with life bacteria in it, clothes, every medicine you can think of, plasma, saltwater, disinfection, you name I need, and a bunch of nurses would be awesome" Camilla told Kent

"Well, you can have whatever I got on these truck and I can some of your men scrounge for supplies at the local hospital" Kent said

"Awesome and yes, do you by any chance have any coca cola with you?" Camilla asked

"Why would you need coca cola, for these men?" Kent asked

"Oh, the coke was for me" Camilla winked and got on with her work.

Pretty soon the 326th took over from second battalion and in no time tents was pitched and the nurses, medics and the two doctors was working hard.

Dana and Emma poked their head into the tent Camilla was working in, she just looked at them and motioned for them to leave, one thing was for here to risk infection, but she wouldn't let her friends catch anything.

…..

Nixon and Charlie was sitting in the living room in Charlie's billet, she shared a small house with Camilla, who was working out at the camp and Charlie wasn't expecting her home anytime soon.

Charlie was looking at a jittery Nixon who need a drink and Charlie wouldn't let him, she had sat him down and told him, he wasn't leaving the house until he was sober.

Charlie knew he could do it, he did once when she first met him and by god, she was going to sober him up again.

Emma was sitting on the couch in the living room of her and Dick's billet, she was going thru some paper work when her husband walked in, she couldn't help but smile and winters walked over and sat down next to her and pulled her close to him and kissed her on top of her head. He needed to be close to her after what they experienced today and after what he just heard from Division HQ

"I just heard from Division HQ, that the Russian liberated a larger camp, ten times, big with ovens…"

Emma looked at her amazing husband "I know Auschwitz, horrible place" Emma sighed

"The towns' people claim they didn't know about the camp, that we are exaggerating" Emma said

"Well they are going to find out tomorrow. Taylor just declared Marshall Law and every able body between the age of 14 and 80 are going to help burry the bodies"

Emma looked at Winters "Serves them right" was all she said

…..

The next morning a very tired Charlie drove Nixon out to the camp, the people from town were already working on burying the dead.

Charlie could tell Nixon still had a hard time dealing with what he had seen "You need to accept the fact this has happened and live with it, knowing you fought for those who lived thru this. This is why we fight"

Nixon knew he found the reason for his war and his reason for being sober thru the rest of it.