A/N Firstly, thank you for the reviews and favourite!
I may continue to edit this chapter as I feel some of it just doesn't flow very well. I'm glad no one likes Edie, I don't either! Unfortunately she may not be disappearing (don't want to spoil it!) but hang in there and keep reading, remember, Fin has a great friend called Eve, who very rarely misses a trick! Also, with Nix back in England, maybe he's meeting with Eve? We'll find out in the next chapter. I'd like to be clear about something with Fin, she's a singer because as a former SOE agent it was a great cover for her and a way for her to make contact with her Nazi targets, singing in bars etc... I've now uploaded a picture for the cover. It's the closest I can find to how I imagine Fin could look like. Let me know your thoughts. Please more reviews.
The song is Jealous by Nick Jonas and Tinashe, but imagine it with a full 40s band playing. This song is probably quite tame compared to some risky ones of the 30s and 40s, look up the lyrics for Shave 'em dry! by Lucille Bogan!
England
Buck groaned, he was still laid up on his front, unable to get up. He was bored out of his mind, he desperately wanted to get back to Easy. The only thing keeping him going was a letter from Bill, keeping him up to date on Easy Company's antics. It sounded like they were actually having a bit of downtime in between the fighting. He got the letter out again and read it. Buck chuckled, reading what Bill would write about Fin, obviously Bill and the others didn't know why Fin was actually with Easy, so reading about what she got up to from Bill's point of view was certainly amusing. Buck looked up to see Speirs hobble up the aisle with his crutches, he was certainly making a remarkable recovery, maybe it had something to do with the pretty red head that visited him every day or the blonde nurse he flirted with, whatever it was, it was working. For the first time since Speirs had been here, he stopped at Buck's bed.
"Lieutenant Speirs" Buck nodded acknowledging him.
"Lieutenant Compton" Speirs returned the pleasantry "Got a letter from Easy?" he enquired, eyeing the piece of paper in Buck's hands.
"Yeah, from Bill, just keeping me up to date"
"Anything of interest?" Speirs probed.
"Nah, he doesn't really go into detail on the missions obviously, Nix is still drinking, Luz is still joking, Winters still brave, Fin still popping up in places where she shouldn't be, the usual!" Buck chuckled, noticing Speirs' eyes light up when he mentioned Fin, he scanned the letter again and continued "Looks like they managed to meet up with Fin's old platoon with the Red Devils, says they were all a bit jealous, she had some sort of special bond with them and some sort of secret language, Cockney slang he thinks, said they're a good bunch of men though, they had champagne!" Buck checked in with Speirs again, and could see he was still enthralled with the information about Fin.
"Any KIA or wounded?" Speirs enquired
"Nothing mentioned" Buck scanned the letter again, "oh except Fin got a proper shiner, Alley apparently whacked her one thrashing about when she was trying to treat him." Buck now witnessed Speirs' eyes narrow with rage spreading across his face.
Speirs nodded and hobbled back to his bed. Buck had noticed only in the past few days that Speirs now opened his curtain. Buck wasn't sure, but had he detected that maybe Speirs held an interest in Fin beyond a professional one? Well the man needed to make up his mind, daily red head visitor, doting blonde nurse and now Fin? Some men get all the luck!
...
Holland
Fin ran back into the barn to find Alley lying on a table with Liebgott and Tab bent over him "Out the way!" Fin ordered as she got up close. Fin scanned him, bleeding from the neck, not a bullet, looks like shrapnel, must have been an explosion, grenade, Fin concluded. "You're ok Alley, I've got you!" Fin reassured him applying pressure with one hand and mopping up the blood with her other hand. She needed to see how deep the shrapnel had gone.
"Fin?" Alley murmured.
"Right here old boy" Fin said gently.
Fin was looking at the shrapnel wound, when Alley suddenly started to thrash around, his arm shot up, with his fist clenched, he accidently struck Fin in the face with such velocity that her head snapped back. "Bloody hell!" She yelped as Alley continued thrashing "Grab his arms someone!" She shouted.
...
Winters marched into the barn, "Where did it happen? Liebgott?"
"At the crossroads Sir, where it crosses the dike"
"Tab get a squad together and someone get Doc, Fin you're coming with me" Winters ordered.
Tab ordered first squad at the ready as Doc arrived taking over the treatment from Fin. Fin grabbed her rifle and followed the lads out into the night.
As they neared the dike, Winters signalled for them all to halt. "Fin on me" he called quietly.
Fin appeared by his side in a matter of seconds almost making Winters jump. "On point Fin, report back to me" Fin nodded and crept ahead into the darkness out of sight.
Winters could hear MG'S fire in the distance, he assumed it was targeting Regimental headquarters.
Fin still hadn't returned and Winters was getting anxious, when he heard heavy breathing. "Too many for me to take on my own Sir" Fin gasped, she had ran quickly to the point that she probably pushed herself too much.
Winters smiled "I didn't expect you to take them on your own, how many?"
"Full squad, MG's, we can take them though Sir, or at least most of them." Fin informed.
Winters turned to the men "Move out!"
Climbing out of the ditch by the side of the road Winters, Fin and first squad jogged across the road, down the other side into the ditch running parallel.
"How close?" Winters asked Fin
"Got to get closer Sir"
"How close did you get?"
"Close enough to get pregnant Sir" Fin quipped raising a smile out of Winters who suppressed the laughter that tried to follow.
They moved out again, following the road up covering their approach from the ditch. Climbing out, they all crept across a field from which they could see the German MG squad set up. Winters turned to Fin and the men "Mortars here, everyone else on me!"
They ran forward, the only sound being their steady breathing, Fin had managed to catch her breath back. Fin reached out and put her hand on Winters' shoulder motioning him to stop. She cupped her ear for Winters to listen German voices "Just over the road" Fin whispered. Winters crawled over and took a look for himself, signalling the positions of the Germans back to them. Fin crawled forward to join Winters, with Tab and the others crawling into positions as ordered.
Fin looked over and located her targets, eagerly awaiting Winters' order. The Germans were just about to fire again when Winters fired his rifle. Fin pulled her trigger, target down, located another, target down, located another, target down...
The Germans were taken completely by surprise. They scrambled into position returning the fire. Still popping off the krauts, Winters ordered them back to the mortar squad, who fired as they fell back into position.
Fin ran feeling the burn of the bullets as they sliced through the arm of her field jacket but not making contact with her skin, for once she may get away without a wound! Although Alley made sure she wasn't pain free! With the men, Fin dived back down into the ditches along the road, running to the mortar squad "Suppressing fire!" Winters shouted bringing up the rear behind Fin.
Fin turned following orders as she heard Winters radio for an MG squad. Fin had no idea how many Krauts were left. She felt that they could be severely outnumbered and would have to try and hold this position for as long as possible.
The firing calmed down and by morning all was quiet. Looking out toward the Kraut position, Winters and Fin discussed tactics. "If they realise our position, they can outflank us Sir" Fin informed Winters.
"We need to act soon then, before they realise, how many do you think we're looking at?"
"It's a ferry crossing Sir, who knows?"
"Could be a whole battalion then Fin" Winters sighed.
"What's your plan Sir?" Fin enquired.
Winters called Tab and Peacock over "Tab you take your men up the dike, Peacock, up the left flank, I'm up the middle with Fin, everyone goes on the red smoke"
In position Winters turned to them "Fix bayonets" then he threw the smoke canister.
Winters ran forward. Fin followed just behind him, she was meant to go on the red smoke with everyone else, but she couldn't let Winters run out into the field towards the enemy on his own. Fin could feel the disapproval of Tab, Liebgott and the others boaring into her back.
Winters reached the ridge, he peered down at a lone, young Kraut. The Kraut looked up at him and smiled.
Bang
Winters flinched he fired taking the Kraut down before turning to see where the other shot came from. Fin was standing there, a Kraut dead on the ground, Winters hadn't seen him, he would have been shot, Fin disobeying orders saved him. My God she should have been busted down to a private by now with her obvious problem, God knows what training the British put her through, but she seemed to make the right decisions. He'd berate her later, but for now, she had been in the right place at the right time.
The Red smoke filled the air and the rest of Easy sprang up, sprinting forward after Winters and Fin, not knowing if they were running towards dead Krauts or the dead bodies of Winters and Fin after hearing the two shots.
Tab cleared the field to find Winters and Fin lying down shooting German after German as they climbed over a mound, running right across their fire. One by one the men formed a line and all fired. The Germans were unorganised, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. As sick as it was, these were the easiest kills of Fin's military career so far. Fin was calm, her breathing was steady, she was focussed, she was a robot, she didn't care, why did she feel no remorse? Kill or be killed That's what they drummed into her.
Fin smiled, a whole other German company just rounded the hill, they all continued their fire as the Germans scrambled to form a counter attack, chasing down their Foxholes.
Winters radioed for reinforcements, they couldn't possibly kill them all, but could take them prisoner with back up.
...
Fin waded through the dead. These Krauts were SS. Fin crouched down by one and released his SS pin from his collar, a souvenir, she had missed her chance with the one she stabbed, having to leave quickly, with no time to collect her pin.
Fin rose quickly with her rifle at the ready to the sound of gun fire again, lowering it on seeing Lieb still firing at the Krauts. Hot head Fin had observed his temper before, probably not as bad as Speirs, but Speirs wasn't a hot head, he just had a temper. Speirs Fin wondered how he was doing, if she was able she would write to him, but she wasn't allowed, she wasn't allowed to write to anyone, punishable by firing squad. A bit extreme, Fin always thought, but it wasn't allowed in her job, that's why her and Eve never wrote to each other. Apart from Eve's note that time, but that didn't go through the official postal channels, they would never know.
Fin watched Winters go over and stop Lieb, noticing Lieb was wounded Fin wondered over too. "Let me see Lieb" Fin said joining them.
"It's just a scratch Fin" Lieb assured her.
"Take the prisoners back to Battalion CP" Winters ordered.
"Yes Sir" Lieb reloaded his weapon.
Not trusting him, Fin watched impressed as Winters cooly grabbed his weapon and emptied the ammo, leaving only one round to a shocked and pissed off Lieb "You have one round, how many prisoners do we have?"
"Eleven Sir" Lieb replied through gritted teeth.
"Good, you drop a prisoner, the rest will jump you, all prisoners are to arrive at Battalion CP alive!" Winters ordered.
"Yes Sir!" Lieb left and ran towards the prisoners.
Winters turned to a smirking Fin "You sure know how to turn a girl on Sir!" Fin laughed.
...
England
Speirs didn't think a woman's voice could ever grate on him as much as Edie's did. How did he ever date her for as long as he did? He shut her up by bedding her that's why. He wasn't remotely attracted to her any more though, how on earth would he be able to live with her? He was starting to imagine his life as a string of affairs or maybe one affair, Fin. No he'd never do that to her, she deserved a husband, children, a proper family after the war. Even if she wanted to, he would never subject her to the life of a mistress. Hell, he didn't even know her true feelings towards him. She liked him, that's all it was right now. Did he even love her? Yes. Did she love him? He hoped to God she did. What could he do though? Edie was pregnant with his child and his child was innocent, it was his obligation to give that child a family and not subject it to a life as an outcast, a bastard...
"Ron! Are you listening? My parents can't make it, but my Uncle will be there"
Speirs nodded, in acknowledgement to Edie.. What the fuck was he going to do?
"Ok, darling, I have to leave to confirm the time with Father Murphy , Oh it's so exciting isn't it!" Edie rose out of her chair, bending back down to kiss Speirs on the head before leaving.
Speirs grunted and rolled over on his bed when she had gone out of sight. He'd been hiding the truth of his recovery from her to delay the wedding. Thankfully he'd managed to keep his upcoming nuptials secret from anyone else while he wracked his brain for a way out. Even Compton didn't know, if there was any chance for him and Fin, he wouldn't risk anyone finding out who could get the news back to her.
...
One dead...Dukeman Fin was still remembering. How many Krauts did they kill? How many was worth one? Fin had never really thought about the dead, the killing, never really concerned her before. Casualties of war, for a greater good. That's what her family were, in a way she was too, just a breathing one. Maybe she was getting soft in her old age? Twenty years old. Is that old? she probably had experienced enough for a whole lifetime at the age of twenty. Fin looked out into the field, there were a lot of dead bodies. How many were twenty years old or younger? She could collect their personal papers, find out how old they were. Hang on a minute...why was she bothered?! God damn Nazis!
"Fin?"
Fin looked up "Hi Nix"
"How's it going?"
"it's all tiggerty-boo!"
"Want some water?" Nix winked holding out his canteen.
Fin smiled taking a long swig from Nix's canteen "Still on the VAT69 then?"
"What else!" Nix laughed. "363 Volksgrenadier hit the town of Opheusden early this morning at exactly the same time your SS made a run for the CP. Third battalion got the hell beat out of them. Horton was killed."
"Shit!" Fin replied
"Jump in the jeep, Sink wants you at CP" Nix said motioning Fin over. "There's a mission tonight for Easy, it's going to be lead by Lieutenant Colonel Dobie, thought you might be pleased to see him, he's eager to see you"
"Dobie? Bloody hell, lead the way! What's the mission Nix?"
"British 1st Airborne need rescuing, Operation Pegasus"
"What!?" Fin said shocked, those were her boys.
"They're trapped, not hurt Fin" Nix said reassuring her as they sped down the road to the CP.
...
Inside the CP, Dobie greeted Fin with warmth, it had certainly been a long time. Their greeting was brief though, "Need to get down to business Fin" Dobie said with conviction. Sink, Fin, Lieutenant Heyliger and Nix, all huddled around a map to smooth out the details.
Stepping back Fin turned to Nix "Where's Winters?"
"Promotion, meet your new CO, Moose Heyliger, he's a good man" Nix said pointing to the tall, dark haired Lieutenant speaking with Dobie.
"That's a seriously great name!" Fin replied impressed.
"Well, you can have every confidence in him, Sink has already filled him in, he's really looking forward to working with you"
"Terrific" Fin said genuinely.
...
It was cold and wet as they boarded their boats to execute Operation Pegasus. Fin was apprehensive, she was aware that they could be slightly off with their coordinates and hoped that if they were the British lads weren't too far down the river. The crossing was made with ease, but that wasn't the hard bit.
Fin got out of her boat with Heyliger and Dobie and crawled up the bank "Where are they Colonel?" Moose whispered to Dobie.
Dobie turned to Fin " Do you want to do the honours?"
"Yes Sir! Fin grinned from ear to ear " Lieutenant White Sir!"
"Fin?!" A voice came back.
"Come on out Sir!"
"Well I'll be damned! Fin!" White beamed.
"Heyliger, 506th of 101st airborne" Moose said holding his hand out.
White took Moose's hand "I've never been so happy to see a bloody yank!"
"Your show Colonel" Moose said turning to Dobie.
"Come on Fin, we'll be right back!" Dobie, Fin and White disappeared into the bushes
They emerged a few minutes later with another British Officer "Lieutenant Moose Heyliger" Fin introduced her new CO to her old CO "Brigadier Hashdon"
"God bless you my man" Hashdon said shaking Heyliger's hand.
"We're ready to go Sir, where are the rest of ya?" Moose asked.
Hashdon turned to White and nodded.
White called the men forward "and here we all are" He informed.
"Let's get this show on the road!" Fin said
...
Dobie had arranged for champagne back at a farmhouse to celebrate a successful rescue. Fin was in the middle of the Red Devils, chatting and hugging. She didn't think for a second that she'd see these boys again until after the war.
Hashdon stood on a box at the front, "Moose Heyliger and the American 101st have done the Red Devils a great service. Making it possible for us to return…and fight the enemy on another day!"
A huge cheer erupted amongst the men.
"CURRAHEE!" Hashdon shouted
"CURRAHEE!" They all shouted back.
"Anyone else getting a little jealous that we seem to have lost our medic to the Tommys?" Tab asked.
"I can't even see her any more, too many red berets surrounding her!" Shifty added. "Actually I think she's wearing a red beret!"
"They can't do that!, she's one of us now!" Bill said angrily taking a drink of his champers.
"Hey relax! They're like her brothers and she ain't seen them in a while!" Luz tried to calm the tipsy Easy men.
Shifty saw Fin slip off away from the group of red berets with just one of them against the far wall of the barn. Looking far too cosy for his liking.
Bill noticing the same grabbed Toye to mingle with the Brits. He grabbed one of them and pointed over to Fin "What's that all about?"
The Red Devils looked over and smiled "Nothing, they've just got a bit of history"
"What?" Bill urged.
"It's no secret, Fin will tell the story herself," he started "anyway she had just turned 17, the night before her first jump..."
"Fin did her first jump when she was 17!" Luz exclaimed
The red devil elbowed his mate and shared a smirk, they were aware that Easy company didn't know all about Fin unless they were an Officer. "Yeah, think she lied about her age or something" he smiled. "Well, she was convinced she was going to die and decided she didn't want to die a virgin, so went down to the local pub..."
Luz interrupted again "Don't you have to be 18 to drink in England?"
"When a pretty girl in uniform walks into a pub, the last thing anyone is going to do is question her age mate!" the red devil replied amused.
"Would ya pipe down Luz and let the man finish his story!" Bill snapped.
"Anyway, Bob's your uncle Fanny's your aunt, There's the lucky fucker!" he smiled pointing at Fin and the red devil standing with her. "She had no idea she'd be joining his squad though! He's tried to court her ever since!"
"Talk about right place at the right time!" Shifty commented hearing the conversation and joining them. "Were they never a couple then?"
"Nah unlucky for Harris, Fin uses and abuses!" the red devil laughed. "Remember that bomber chum? Shot him down in flames! He said turning to his mate
"Yeah I remember that! What a cockup! The fucking Rodney!"
The Easy boys looked at each other, what were they talking about?!
"Oi Miss Fitch!" the red devil shouted over to Fin who looked his way " You going to let Harris Aylesbury duck ya up ya Queen mum?!"
Fin laughed, flicked him the finger and shouted "No, but if you play your cards right, I'll let you Tommy tank on my thrupenny bits!"
The red devils jeered and laughed. Much to the confusion of the Easy men.
"Don't get too attached chaps, Hashdon is working on getting Fin back" the red devil said.
"Work on it all he likes, she's staying with us!" Shifty stated.
...
Speirs had managed to recover in record time, thanks to his blonde nurse and could be out of England tonight, he was dressed and ready to go. The company was moving back into France and Speirs could join them there. Compton also seemed eager to get back, they could move out together. Speirs hadn't been discharged yet, but he wasn't going to wait for one.
"How are we feeling this morning Lieutenant?" Speirs' blonde nurse asked bending down to retrieve his clip board and check his file.
"Fighting fit" he replied with a smirk. What he would give to hear a British accent coming out of her mouth.
"You are doing remarkably well" She smiled looking at him "Think I'm entitled to a thank you!"
Speirs had thought about how he was going to 'thank' her, he knew what she wanted. Could he do it though. With everything that had happened? It now felt wrong and that was a new feeling for him to deal with.
Without crutches, Speirs followed the blonde nurse out of the ward and into the corridor. She turned and winked at him. He smiled. She stopped at a supply cupboard, unlocked it, checked the corridor was empty and opened the door. Speirs, roughly pushed her inside to the sound of her giggles, pulling the door closed behind them. He slammed her up against the shelving, knocking several boxes off and went straight for her neck, sucking and nipping at her smooth skin, becoming more forceful as she moaned in pleasure. He slid his hands up her dress, caressing her thighs. He opened his eyes to see a strip of light from the door shining on her blonde hair... Fin, he was cheating on Fin. But he wasn't, but it felt like he was. He stopped, pulling abruptly away.
"What's the matter?" the flustered nurse asked flattening the wrinkles from her uniform.
"I can't do this..." He began "...I'm getting married this afternoon."
...
Holland
"Hey Fin, you're not going to leave us? Are ya?" Tab asked
"huh? What right now?" Fin asked confused, she thought Tab was teaching her to be better at poker.
"Red Devils reckon you're gonna be back with them soon"
Fin looked up to see genuine concern on Tabs face "No of course not, I think I'm with you lads until the end of the war now"
"I hope so"
"Hey me too!" Fin smiled pulling Tab in for a cuddle.
"Fin!" Harry shouted bursting into Easy's temporary accommodation. "It's Moose!" he shouted with panic etched across his face. "shot by friendly fire, he needs you!"
Fin sprung to her feet, grabbing her med kit and little else, she chased after Harry leading the way.
Harry lead Fin to the train tracks to see Winters bent over Moose. He wasn't moving. A private was stood over them shaking. "Private get Doc Roe and an ambulance" she instructed.
Kneeling down beside him she noticed someone had administered morphine already. "How much morphine have you given him?" Fin asked without looking up and directing her question at anybody in particular.
"Two or three syrettes" Winters replied.
"Shit!" Fin gasped in anguish that's too much
Fin didn't comment, she was too angry. She cleaned and compressed Heyliger's wounds until Doc and the ambulance arrived, which thankfully had happened in minutes. "Hey Moose? You're going to be just fine! Can you hear me?"
Moose grunted.
"Can you open your eyes?" His breathing was slowing "Hey Moose, come on now, open your eyes for me!"
Doc jumped out of the ambulance immediately checking Moose over. Winters and Harry carefully loaded him in.
"How much morphine did you give him?" Doc asked
"I didn't" Fin replied looking to Winters.
"Two or three syrettes" Winters replied to Doc.
"Jesus, were you trying to kill him?!" he barked, "you're lucky he's a big man!"
"We didn't know" Harry said.
Doc interrupted, "yeah, well you oughtta know", his eyes darting over to Winters, "you are Officers, you are grown-ups, you oughtta know!" He climbed into the vehicle with Moose. Winters shut the door, leaving his hand lingering until it drove off.
"He'll be fine, Doc will see to it" Fin said gently patting Winters on the shoulder.
Mourmelon-le-Grange, France
Speirs and Buck arrived on base learning that Easy company and Dog company were now there. Speirs immediately went to check on his men as did Buck, Buck had a problem though, he couldn't find half of them, including Fin.
...
"Hey lads; guess what I just heard!" Fin said walking into the mess and plonking herself down next to Bill.
"Spit it out then Fin" Tab said.
"Well Winters has been given a 2 day pass to Paris, Sink's in Reims to see Marlene Dietrich and Welsh is going too, Strayer is back in England for a wedding and Nix has gone back to Aldbourne for a few days!" Fin said with a knowing smile and a twinkle in her eye.
"Fucking good work Fin! Hey I got given this card, Anybody heard of Lulu's?" Bill said holding up a little business card.
"Yeah, if you're looking for sex, gonorrhoea!" Toye laughed
"Well, what we waiting for? I'm always looking for sex!" Bill laughed back.
"It's a bar as well," Tab informed
"That's just dandy then, we can take Fin!" Bill smiled looking at Fin.
"We can't take Fin to a fucking brothel!" Luz hissed.
"If it's a pub as well, then I'm game!" Fin winked.
"Fuck! We can't take Fin to a brothel!" Shifty shook his head, supporting Luz.
"It's more of a gentleman's club" Liebgott added.
"Well none of you lot can go then!" Fin quipped to a load of groans and elbows in her ribs.
...
Fuming, Buck stalked over to a vacant jeep almost knocking into Speirs as he passed.
"Lieutenant Compton?" Speirs enquired
"Fucking snuck off base haven't they!" Buck said climbing into the jeep "Couldn't help me round them up before the MP's do, could you?"
"Where have they gone?"
"Lulu's, they took Fin with them, it's a fucking brothel!"
Speirs rounded the jeep without hesitation and jumped in.
...
"Who is staying sober to make sure we all get back?" Luz shouted over the loud music coming from the full band on the stage.
"You just volunteered!" Fin shouted back laughing
"No!" Luz downed two shots at once "Can't now!"
"Me neither!" Fin laughed downing her drinks as well.
Fin looked around, apart from the giveaway girls, Lulu's didn't look like a brothel. It looked like a normal French bar, with a large dance floor and a stage. Fin seemed to be the only non French woman in there and she didn't want to guess that all the other women were working girls. It had good music, good booze and a good atmosphere. She'd been asked "How much" a few times to her amusement, but Shifty had appointed himself as her body guard, so her 'clients' backed off pretty quickly. Shifty was not impressed that she had agreed to come, but she was 'one of the men, just with different lumpy bits!' As Bill put it!
"Hey you're that medic that can sing aren't ya?" a private asked her approaching the bar where Fin was leaning with the Easy lads.
"Yes" Fin smiled
"You should do a duet with Cooper, he's a proper good crooner!"
"Yeah you should get up on stage!" Bill called over briefly tearing himself away from necking a petite black haired girl draped over him.
"Yeah come on Fin!" Luz encouraged.
"Ok, why not! Where's this Cooper?" Fin asked looking over Shifty's shoulder, he had managed to place himself even closer to Fin.
The private turned away and walked into a crowd of soldiers before it briefly parted and he returned with an exceptionally good looking Sergeant!
Pushing past Shifty, Sergeant Cooper introduced himself to Fin, looking her up and down as he did. Fin introduced herself in return and chatted to him idly for a bit.
"We gonna do this?" Cooper asked, he had suggested a bit of a risky song with a risky performance to go with it. Fin didn't exactly feel sexy, she wasn't in her number ones, only her shirt and trousers, but she had enough alcohol in her to try and pull off some sort of performance.
"Yeah go on then!"
Compton and Speirs arrived at Lulu's pulling up erratically on the tiled road. Lulu's front entrance was down a small alleyway just off the to the left. They jumped out and quickly walked in. The place was big with American soldiers everywhere, Buck first scanned near the bar, but none of the men were there. Speirs looked up towards the stage there was a soldier singing. Speirs stepped closer to see him up close and dancing with someone else while he sang. Speirs eyes narrowed in anger "You're too fucking beautiful and everybody wants your sex, that's why!" the soldier sang, grinding himself up against Fin, running his hand down her body, gently hovering his fingertips over her breasts. Fin brought up her microphone and sang the chorus with him as she turned her back on him and let him wrap an arm around her waist and nuzzle her neck. He tore his angered eyes away to see Easy men sat on the front row with women draped over them cheering and egging Fin on. Speirs caught sight of Compton and signalled to him.
"I don't like the way he's looking at you
I'm starting to think you want him, too
Am I crazy? Have I lost ya?
Even though I know you love me, can't help it
I turn my chin music up
And I'm puffing my chest
I'm getting red in the face,
You can call me obsessed
It's not your fault that they hover
I mean no disrespect
It's my right to be hellish
I still get jealous
Cause you're too fucking beautiful
And everybody wants a taste
That's why (that's why)
I still get jealous
You're too fucking beautiful
And everybody wants your sex
That's why (that's why)
I still get jealous"
Fin on her own
"Listen
I'm the type to never sweat no chick
Ain't nobody but you got me stressin' this way and you know
Now the struggle's always real
Girls be stepping in my space
All up in your face
How am I supposed to feel?
I turn my chin music up
And I'm puffing my chest
I'm getting red in the face,
You can call me obsessed
It's not your fault that they hover
I mean no disrespect
It's my right to be hellish
I still get jealous
Cause you're too fucking beautiful
And everybody wants a taste
That's why (that's why)
I still get jealous
You're too fucking beautiful
And everybody wants your sex
That's why (that's why)
I still get jealous
You're the only one invited
I said there's no one else for you
'Cause you know I get excited (yeah)
When you get jealous, too
I turn my chin music up
And I'm puffing my chest
I'm getting red in the face,
You can call me obsessed
It's not your fault that they hover
I mean no disrespect
It's my right to be hellish
I still get jealous
Cause you're too fucking beautiful
And everybody wants a taste
That's why (that's why)
I still get jealous
You're too fucking beautiful
And everybody wants your sex
That's why (that's why)
I still get jealous"
Speirs was going to drag her ass off that stage, the first time he sees her on his return and she's letting some fucking Sergeant grind up against her in a brothel! He could fucking shoot every last one of those Easy company men right now! Speirs clenched his fists trying to calm down, that fucking song wasn't exactly helping either. He had been in a vicious mood ever since leaving England and it wasn't about to subside any time soon.
He pushed his way through the crowd when he snapped his head round to the sound of whistles, MP's!
Speirs looked back to the stage to see Shifty jump up and grab Fin by the hand running off towards the rear. The whole place became mayhem with soldiers without passes running in all directions. Speirs had no choice but to leave through the front entrance where he found Compton.
"Guess I'll see them back at base then!" Compton said shaking his head in disbelief as they walked back to the jeep "Oh I hear congratulations is in order, Lieutenant Speirs..."
