Cara Finney or Fin as she was known to her brothers in arms had largely gone unnoticed as Captain Nixon had driven her across the American base to the nurse's quarters. She was dressed exactly how she left France in her camos, except she had swapped her beret for her helmet. Her face still blackened, she was looking forward to a shower and clean sheets.

Captain Nixon or Nix was nice, they had a good chat, he was eager to find out everything about her, even though he would have read her file, he wanted it from the horse's mouth. Cara was more than happy to answer his questions, she was an experiment by the British, the first and now because of her success, they were training more and the Americans were interested, she had opened the door to a special opportunity for women. By trade, Cara was a medic, but over the years through training and fighting in France, she was now a special forces combatant. The British came up with the idea after seeing women in the various resistant forces of occupied countries. Britain was experiencing great losses and wanted to see if women could cope with the front line and special missions. Her superiors had trained her as a spy after her medic training, with her blonde hair, blue eyes, fluency in German and French, she was a perfect candidate. She was soon court marshalled after her first mission as a spy due to her failure to follow orders, her punishment could have been a lot worse, but the British had already invested too much time in her, therefore demoted her to Corporal and put her in as a guise of a front line medic, whereas she would really be carrying out covert missions to gather information for her superiors.

Nixon had actually been impressed with her disobedience; she wasn't ashamed and wouldn't have cared if he hadn't been. Only the top brass, her CO and her platoon Officer would be aware of her real position with Easy company. She didn't like lying, but it had become natural to her, the British had been training her since the age of 16 after all.

Fin waved Nix off and entered her quarters. It was bog standard, rows of cots either side of the long building with a shower room at the rear. A luxury to Fin though who had only slept 4 nights in a bed in nearly a year.

"Spare bed second from last" a nurse said seated on her cot

"Thank you, but I won't be staying, just here to clean up"

"Well you can dump your stuff on it while you shower" the pretty brunette replied "I'm Nancy by the way, Army Nurse Corps

"Corporal Cara Finney, Easy company 101st Airborne"

"You don't sound American" Nancy enquired

"No I'm British; I've been transferred over from the Red Devils"

"British and a female! Good luck with Easy they're a rowdy bunch!" Another brunette nurse said entering the building, her uniform covered in dried blood. She held out her hand which was also covered in dried blood. Fin didn't flinch and shook it straight away, blood of course did not bother her, she once held a man's intestines that had spilled out of a wound across his abdomen until they reached a surgeon. "I'm Penny by the way"

"Cara"

"Well go get cleaned up, let's see what this Tommy looks like without the war paint" Nancy giggled

Under the warm shower, not near hot enough as Fin would have hoped, but she was most definitely not complaining, she was mentally preparing herself to meet Easy company. Penny described them as rowdy, she could handle rowdy, she just hoped she could understand American banter and would they understand her British banter? She looked down and watched the dirt flow off her body and down the plug hole.

Entering back into the dorm, with just her towel round her, Fin found that the orderlies had delivered her personal belongings as Nix had promised they would. Inside her trunk she found her no.1s, it was either them or her dirty camos, a good impression was needed, so on with her no. 1s.

"Jeez girl! You're gonna break some hearts in that uniform!" Penny exclaimed at the sight of Fin. Her uniform for a British military one was kind of flattering. Her uniform was slightly different to other British female military personnel because she was Special Forces. Her skirt was more fitted and stopped at her knee, showing her stocking bound slender legs (a gift from Nix she guessed as she definitely hadn't left any in her trunk) Her jacket nipped snug into her waist, secured by buttons and a belt. Her collar was high on her neck and she would wear her cap on the side. Penny helped fix her hair, American style. "You look a million dollars" Penny said proud of her handy work, applying some red rouge to Fin's lips.

Fin smiled as the engine of a jeep was heard pulling up "Knock 'em dead kid!" Penny said as Fin thanked her and walked confidently to the door. It was now time to become an American.

Fin stepped out into a sunny mid morning greeted by a smiling Nix leaning up against his jeep with arms crossed in front of his chest. Fin returned his smile with a bigger one; he's actually quite handsome she thought. Feeling very confident, she climbed into the jeep.

Nix couldn't take his eyes off her that uniform clung in all the right places. Her face was beautiful but even more stunning now it wasn't covered up in black. She scrubbed up amazingly. He would be remembering this sight for the foreseeable future.

"You're going to have no trouble making friends in that uniform" Nix winked at Fin as they both climbed into the jeep.

"Exactly why I wear it Nix!" Fin said in a serious tone

Nix raised his eyebrows and then laughed quietly to himself. "I'm going to take you to meet Colonel Sink now, Easy Company Officers will be there including, unfortunately your new CO Captain Sobel."

"Looking forward to it" Fin replied keeping her eyes forward as they drove off.

Time for a test Nix thought. He pulled the jeep over just before a company of soldiers. "We'll walk the rest of the way"

Without questioning, Fin exited the jeep and straightened her uniform and joined Nix in front of the jeep and walked alongside him.

Let's see how she reacts to Fox and Dog company Nix knew by pulling over and walking Fin in front of Fox and Dog company she was going to get called out, rumour had spread like wild fire through the battalion of Easy's new British female medic.

He didn't have to wait long as they passed by Fox Company who had already stopped what they were doing and were eyeing up Fin.

"Hey toots! Get a load of this!"

Fin and Nix turned to see a Fox Company private holding his crotch and gyrating his hips in Fin's direction.

Fin turned to Nix "Excuse me for a moment Captain" and then turned on her heel and marched straight up to the private stopping inches from him.

Nix watched with huge curiosity.

Fin looked down at the private's crotch where he was still holding himself, continuing to laugh with his company. Fin looked up at him "I'm afraid Private that you may be too big for my mouth" she said with a smile.

Slightly shocked by the unexpected reaction the private blurted out "It's not that big!"

"Well in that case, I'm no longer interested!" Fin pouted and then turned on her heel back to Nix who was shaking his head in amusement to the roar of laughter behind Fin and the never ending piss take this private would now endure.

"Shall we?" Fin said to Nix motioning them forward to continue their journey.

As they approached Dog Company Nix waited in anticipation for Dog Company's turn to cat call Fin.

And there it was…

"Hey baby, you don't want to join E company, you want to join D company, we'll look after you!"

This time Fin didn't stop, she just looked over her shoulder and called back "Sorry Honey, but I'm not a Dog, I'm Easy!"

Nix couldn't stifle his laughter and let it out. Fin looked at him and winked "You're going to be just fine!" He said

They could still hear the laughter and boisterousness of the men as they entered the small brick building that housed Colonel Sink's office.

They walked into a smallish room, a basic office, with Colonel Sink behind his desk, rising at the entry of Fin and Nix. To his right stood Winters and Sobel. Fin took a guess at Sobel, from his scowl. Nix said it was unfortunate he'd be her CO, therefore the dark haired Officer was Sobel and the red haired, kinder looking Officer had to be Winters. After introductions, Sink got down to business.

Colonel Sink praised Corporal Finney and thanked her for her cooperation with this experiment. He read aloud from her service record to fill her new chain of command in on her military experience and what would be required of her. He skipped over the details of her court marshal and how she became enlisted at the age of 16. Two factors Fin knew would be asked of her at a later date no doubt by her new superiors in Easy company. Colonel Sink wished her the best of luck and walked out leaving her with Lewis Nixon, Dick Winters and Captain Herbert Sobel.

"Shall I escort Corporal Finney to 2nd Platoon's quarters, Sir?" Winters asked Sobel

"I'm not happy about this at all. Regardless of your experience, you are foremost a female medic, until instructed otherwise, but seen as though Colonel Sink seems to think there is no issue here, then reluctantly I will have to say yes! Sobel barked at Fin. Sobel then turned abruptly and marched out of Sink's office.

"He's like that with everyone, don't take it personally" Winters said gently to Fin

"I've met worse Sir" Fin replied. Fin took note of Sobel's deliberate use of her gender.

"Well he's on a 36 hour pass, which means we all get a 24 hour pass! Let's get you over to 2nd platoon as I'm sure they are gonna want to drag you down the pub with them" Nix smiled

"I'll meet you back at the Officer's block Lew" Winters' addressed Nix "I'll no doubt see you down the pub Fin"

"See you later Sir"

Winters couldn't help but have a few reservations as he walked back to the lounge, ignoring the hoots and hollers from a few men still milling around outside of their barracks, obviously Lew and Fin had emerged from Sink's office building. He mulled over his worries. Fin was obviously more than qualified, well she had 4 combat jumps under her belt already, had come face to face with an SS Officer, had fought on the front line and carried out numerous covert reconnaissance missions on her own. She had been at War since 1941, whereas they had just joined, she was a veteran at the age of 19. He just hoped the men accepted her and respected her, she was to join Doc Roe as their 2nd medic and the men would not know of her real position within the company.

Winters sat down in the lounge in the same chair he had occupied earlier that morning. Times like this, he wished he did drink.

"Looks like you're going to have your hands full" Winters looked up to see Lieutenant Speirs of Dog Company standing in front of him lighting a cigarette that was dangling from his lips.

"Glad she's not Dog Company's problem" Speirs added in his deep gruff tone.

"Don't think you're off the hook Speirs" Speirs turned to see Nix stroll into the lounge "We'll be sending her over to D company when Easy company need to relieve their blue balls" Nix finished taking a swig from his flask

Speirs smirked, while Winters buried his face in his hands through disbelief at Nix's lewd comment.

"I take it the men were pleased with their new medic then?" Winters enquired, looking up

"Fucking walking on air, the lot of them" Nix grinned.