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Thanks to Dick's good sense of orientation, they made it to the HQ before the night was over. They nearly collapsed over each other because of the exhaustion and the decrease of adrenaline. But when Maggie heard about Ron Speirs being accused of shooting a varying number of POWs, Maggie braced herself up and searched for Ron. Of course Ron was kind of intimidating but Maggie was sure that he wouldn't act so stupidly.

When she had found him, she asked him about the incident and just received a short "Mpf".

"Ron, you didn't do that, did you?"

"Mpf…"

Because Maggie started to doubt her earlier assumptions, she gave him a short lecture about the stupidity of shooting German POWs, just to be sure. Even after she told him that she didn't think he could be so stupid and short-sighted – because if the Krauts ever heard about that incident, they wouldn't have an incentive to treat their own comrades differently – she just received an indifferent noise. Maggie was so angry that she wanted to slap this guy. How could he not care about that? Sure, the Army needed every officer they could get their hands on, but if Sink would hear about that, he'd sure give Ron hell. She made a sour face and stomped into the direction of the HQ-building to blow off steam. She crossed Dick's path and just waved him off what irritated him pretty much because Maggie was always kind, especially to him… When he later heard about the "Speirs-incident", he knew why Maggie was pissed. She had a very distinctive sense of justice and surely wanted to know what really had happened and if he estimated Ron Spears correctly, he wouldn't have let himself just be interrogated by her.

Contrary to their hopes, Easy didn't get much time to rest, because there was a German battery near Brecourt that needed to be destroyed. The battery faced the landing zones at the beach, so it was essential for the whole mission that it got blown up as fast as possible. Because Meehan was still MIA, Dick was in charge of the company. Maggie could see that he was proud of leading these men who meant so much to him but she could also see a hint of fear in his eyes. But the fear seemed to be gone the moment he briefed his men. In addition to the Easy men (and woman) that already had made it to the HQ, Hall and another comrade from A-company joined the mission. Dick showed his tactical abilities and quickly came up with a plan.

Once they'd arrived at Brecourt manor, they jumped into the ditches and the grass and made themselves as small as possible. Dick told Buck, Malarkey and Guarnere to take some men and go to the other side of the battery while he would lead the rest of the men and Maggie on this side. Although he could see that Maggie would have liked to stay with Guarnere who was still upset because of his brother's death, Dick wanted to have Maggie close to himself so he could have an eye on her. Of course he knew that Maggie went through the same training like he and the men, but she was still a woman and he deeply cared for her and didn't want to see her hurt; especially not under his command. He told Lip to climb up a tree and zero in on the Krauts at the first gun before he told Maggie to stay closely behind him. When everybody was in position, he jumped as first one into the trench. He heard Maggie's footfalls closely behind him and could concentrate on the mission at hand. Before he could realise it, they had taken out the first gun. They couldn't blow it up immediately because they didn't have the TNT. Apparently Lip was stuck somewhere on the way to their position. Dick could see that Maggie just had the same thought because sorrow crossed her beautiful face. He gave her - what he hoped was - a reassuring smile when Hall came to them and told them he had TNT. Dick was positively surprised by the young man and told him that he made a great job. Hall looked rather proud and received an appraising smile from Maggie which caused him to look shyly away. After they had destroyed the gun, the Germans seemed to be so confused that they started firing at their own positions. Before they lost their advantage, Dick ushered the others to the next gun. Maggie had to admit that taking the lives of other people wasn't as difficult as she had thought. She hoped that she wasn't generally brutalized but that it was because those people threaded to kill her boys.

Apart from the fact that they were short on ammunition and Popeye's shot butt, everything went well.

Their luck ended shortly before they arrived at the next gun-position. Hall ran forward and was shot. Dick eliminated the remaining Krauts and blasted the gun. Meanwhile, Maggie had checked on Hall and told Dick that he was dead. Dick took some time to grieve about Hall and Maggie took his hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze.

"I'm so sorry, Dick" Maggie said tearfully and Dick tried to return her favour and gave her hand a short squeeze. After that they searched the position and Dick found some very interesting papers.

Before they had the chance to attack the remaining gun, Ron and some boys from D-company showed up with more ammo. Ron asked if they could take out the last gun and Dick gave him his permission. Maggie couldn't breathe when she saw the boys, Speirs in front of them, leaving the trench and being shot one after another. At least Ron was successful and they could start their way back to HQ. In doing so, they ran into Lip who hugged Maggie tightly and asked her if she was okay.

"Yeah, I'm fine. What about you? I was so worried!"

"Sorry, darling. I had problems leaving my position and then there was this boy who searched for the HQ, Andrew Hill and he was shot before he could make his way…" "Do we have any causality?"

"Yeah, we lost Hall…"

"Shit. How is the Lieutnant?"

"You know him, he feels responsible for it…"

"Yeah…"

Lip grabbed Maggie's hand and pulled her close to his body to give her some comfort.

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