Like Trees in June

Chapter Two

Aldbourne, England

Faye woke up the next day to the sound of guns and mortars going off. She pulled herself out of bed and saw that all of her friends were up except Lauren. She drowsily walked over to her friend's cot and shook it.

"C'mon wake we got to go, the men are already up and doing their drills after that we got to go give last minute shots." Faye said as she went over to her locker and got changed then she took her tooth brush and toothpaste and walked down stairs to the nurse main quarters. Faye saw Lindsay and Kate outside having a smoke so she decided to join them. She grabbed a cup and filled it with water and went to her friends.

Faye walked behind Lindsay and pushed her. "Thank for wakin' me up" she said sarcastically.

Lindsay turned to her friend and smiled. "My pleasure" she said as she took the cigarette out of her mouth.

"You know that I hate it when you smoke, don't you" Faye said as she slid down the wall and sat on the ground.

"I hate it too, I just love to see you bothered." Lindsay said.

"Hahaha..." Faye laughed dryly as she took out her tooth brush and out some tooth paste on it.

When her friends saw this they both started to moan. Faye had the tooth brush in her mouth when she looked up to them.

"What?" she mumbled though her teeth.

"We hate it when you brush your teeth in front of us." Lindsay said.

Faye laughed "maybe I just love to see you bothered" She told them as she continued to brush. Her friends rolled their eyes.

"So why were you so late last night?" Lindsay asked. Faye looked up at her friends, both interested in her answer. She put her toothbrush in her pocket and stood up.

"No, I just ran into someone that's all." She told them. They looked to each other and raised their eyebrows. That when a tired looking Lauren came out.

"Ladies…" she said in a greeting tone. Kate offered her a cigarette, and she willing took it, as Lindsay resumed with her questioning.

"Who was it?" she asked.

Faye considered that there was no harm in telling, seeing as nobody got seriously hurt last night.

"If I tell you..." Faye started.

"I know I know, we won't tell, we promise." Said Lindsay, looking to the other girls who were both nodding, agreeing.

Faye looked sympathetic to them. "Okay, ill tell you but you have to keep your mouths shut." She said to them.

Kate rolled her eyes "yeah, yeah, now spill."

"Okay, well you all know Roy Cobb right?" She asked.

"Yes" they all answered, waiting for her to get to the point.

"Well he was drunk last night, and when I found him I said I would help him get back to barracks, but he refused, so when I tried again he stared to yell…" She stopped not wanting to finish. "AndthenhepinnedmetothewallsoIcounldn'tbreathe,byenow." She said so fast they barely understood. As she turned to leave, her friends pulled her back.

"Wait one minute" Lindsay said pulling on her friends arm.

"He did what?" Lauren asked as she stood shocked and starting at Faye.

"What happened next?" Asked Kate who was also wrapped up in all of it.

Faye shrugged "well that's when Webster and Leibgott showed up, David took Cobb, and Joe walked me home."

"Do any of the officers know?" asked Lauren.

"Not that I know of." Answered Faye

"what are you going to do?" Kate asked.

"Nothing" Faye started " He was drunk and probably doesn't even remember."

That's when all her friends stood still, and looked really shock. She gave them a weird look.

"Is that why Cobb is walking straight towards us?" Lindsay asked, looked beyond Faye.

Faye's eyes widened as she turned around to see Cobb crossing the adjacent street heading straight for her.

When he reached her, he looked hung over and a little sad.

"Nurse Green can I speak to you for a moment?" he asked.

All three of her friends were giving him the look of death. He saw them and was taken back. Then he looked to the ground.

"You told them didn't you?" He said. Faye was quick to say no, but her friends all said yes. She turned to them and gave them a stern look, but they were looking Roy up and down in disgust. She turned back to him.

"Look miss, I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am for last night, I was very drunk, and I didn't know what I was doing, I am so sorry." He went on. "I know you could never forgive me but I just wanted to say that I am forever sorry." Roy finally finished.

Faye thought for a moment, she knew there was no use to hold it over him, and she wouldn't tell anyone what happened. She looked over to Cobb.

"Its fine, just you have to promise me you won't ever drink like that again." She told him as a wave of relief rushed over him. She looked back to her friends who were still giving Cobb the evil eye, they looked funny to her all staring at Roy, eyes squinted and not moving an inch. She turned back to Cobb who could feel the tension, and was slowly trying to back away. He looked at Faye who simply nodded to him and he walked off.

Faye watched Roy and her eyes suddenly landed upon someone else, Joe Leibgott. He was apparently watching the whole thing. He moved his view from Cobb over to Faye, who was staring at him. He smiled and slowly walked over to her. Faye looked around herself.

"Am I being followed?" She asked jokingly.

Joe ignored her question. "What did he say?" he asked. His hands shoved in his pockets and he looked uncomfortable with the fact that Cobb talked to her. And frankly she felt uncomfortable with the whole thing.

"He said sorry" Faye answered, looking back at where Roy and his friends who stood, talking.

Joe nodded and looked over too. They both turned back to each other.

Faye thought to herself 'what the hell, why is he being so weird?' she asked herself, waiting for him to speak.

"Are you going to the social tonight?" He asked dryly.

'Oh' she said to herself, she thought fast.

"Maybe, I have a lot of work to do." She lied, knowing she had nothing to do, but didn't want to seem too interested.

Joe opened his mouth to say something, but he was cut off.

"Faye c'mon we gotta go." Lauren yelled. Faye looked over her shoulder then turned back to Joe.

"I am so sorry, but I really have to go." She said as she started to back away. Joe looked like he still had something to say but Faye was already heading inside. He cursed to himself, and walked away.

Faye reached Lauren who had put out her cigarette out and handed Faye her cup. They started to walk inside.

"Well at least that wasn't weird" She told her friend who just shrugged.

"Hey you could have eased up on Cobb." Faye said.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Lauren denied.

"Please, I thought he was going to fall down in pain because of the knives you guys were throwing at him." She told her.

Lauren just smiled to herself. "Yea, he's not a good catcher." She told Faye she walked away toward the hospital. Faye smiled and followed behind her.

"Jesus Christ that hurts." yelled Luz, who hated needles.

"Almost...there all done" Faye said, as she took the needle away. She watched as George examined her handy work.

"Need a band-aid?" She asked, taunting him. "We have these really cute colorful ones."

"Really?" Luz asked, skeptical the airborne would have such a thing.

"No ya big baby, now move along." She said as she tried to pull him off the chair. He just smiled at her.

"Someone didn't love you enough." He told her jokingly, finally pulling himself up. Faye laughed and pushed him put of the room, but instead he stood at the door. She waved in another patient. In came Talbert.

"Hey tab, you can sit down." She told him. She turned back to George, wanting him to leave. He just ignored her and leaned against the door frame.

"Speaking of sitting, who are you going with to the social?" He asked Faye as she turned her attention to Floyd.

"George what does sitting have anything to do with the social?" She asked taking out a new needle.

"It doesn't, I just really wanted to ask you, so who is the lucky man?" He prodded as Faye tried to work on the needle.

"Sorry, can't hear you I am working." She told him, as she turned to Talbert, and quickly gave him the shot.

"C'mon Faye, you can hear me, who is it?" Luz asked again. Faye put the needle down and looked to George, now Floyd was listening.

"You are really annoying, you know that?" She told him.

Luz shrugged it off "C'mon even I have a date, don't tell me your not going." He said, wanting an answer.

"No I never said that, it's just..." She tried to think of something.

"What, What is it?" He asked, she thought for a second.

"No actually, I am going with someone, I'm going with Floyd here." she said as she looked over to Talbert, who did a double take on the whole thing, not knowing what just happened.

Luz looked conspicuous, and looked at the two of them. He just shrugged "Okay then." He said still not completely sure about the whole thing, but he pushed off the door frame and walked away.

Faye turned back to Talbert. "You don't have a date do you?" She asked him.

He laughed "I do now." He said.

Faye made a sigh of relief, and smiled to him. "Thank you." She said to him, as he walked towards the door.

"I guess ill pick you later." He said, and she nodded and followed him out. He started to walk towards the main hallway. She noticed she had no more patients, but looked over and saw Luz still standing by a wall, with his eyebrows raised. Faye at first gave him a shocked look then, then squinted her eyes at him, and grabbed her stuff and ran to catch up with Floyd. When she looked back, Luz was shaking his head, and smiling at her show.

'It's going to be a long night' she thought to herself.

Farthest from your mind is the thought of falling back, in fact, it isn't there at all. And so you dig your hole carefully and deep, and wait.

I just want to say I have no problem with Cobb, but that whole scene from the first chapter was just a start-off, you know.

I am so sad; I will be gone for a whole two weeks! i ll miss reading all your great new stories and updates!! sends frowny face untill then...

Thank god for casting calls---

Damian(Winters!!)- Stars in NBC in fall lineup show 'Life' If you don't know about it visit the NBC website.

Donnie(Lipton)- Staring in the new Spike series 'Kill Point' (who else watched that, good stuff am I right? Favorite Quote--"Is that important of not? There are so many things wrong with the construction of that sentence I can't even stand to look at you right now." that was really funny.

Ron(Nixon)- Standoff (sadly pulled off air)

Matthew(Speirs)- Gossip girl (small part, but we all loved him as Speirs)

Rick(Welsh)- this show called Rome. Anybody? Nobody? Ok then.

Scott(Malarkey)-ER (I don't really watch it, But I heard it is good.)

Neal( Compton)- One day I was watching this show 'Traveler' And I was like "Holy shit it's Buck fricken Compton!", He pops up now and then on different shows.

Rick(Luz)- Oh god his is everywhere 'What About Brian' was the ABC online show he appears in as a main character.

James(Perconte)- Queens Supreme? Never heard of it, have you?

Kirk(Toye!!!)- Last I saw him was in the NBC show 'The Black Donnelly's' with the best part, an mob partner; He landed the best character name too!

Michael(Randleman)- Don't even get me started, this man was in almost every show, minor parts, but I mean c'mon, I am sitting looking at his film stats (not now but when I wrote this) and I have to give the man some props, he is a great actor.

Am I forgetting anyone? Most of the others haven't really been that busy. Tell me if I missed some one. I like to keep up with what the boys are doing today after seeing Band of Brothers and watching their new work.

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