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Fin reached Nix and Winters at their foxholes, moving away from the lads pretty damn quickly. She would have been a right sight, but she walked tall and gritted her teeth through the pain.

"Fin!" Nix looked incredibly relieved to see her "You look like shit!"

"Thanks for that Sir and I spent ages getting ready as well!"

Nix sighed shaking his head.

"Fin, you have no idea how relieved I am to see you!" Winters said grabbing Fin and then frowning at the state of her. Fin's face was nearly completely covered in dried blood and red marks, her hair was matted with more blood and she was hunched over, holding her ripped jacket together.

"Here" Fin handed over the documents she swiped from inside her jacket, revealing her ripped shirt as well. "I carried out sabotage orders and made a mental note of positions as much as I could in the dark..." Fin informed "...I'll translate those papers when I wake up..." Fin trailed off swaying, a tear ran down her cheek, the dizziness suddenly became too intense.

"Wake up?" Nix asked confused.

Doc reached them catching Fin just as she passed out.

...

"I'm going to request no more missions for the time being, she's doing too much, she's fucking exhausted!" Nix said quietly.

"I agree" Winters nodded crouching down over Fin, where Doc had laid her carefully on the ground.

"I need room!" Doc shouted.

"Buck! Get the men back to their Foxholes, we'll update them later" Nix ordered. The Easy men had followed Doc and had seen her collapse, they had all started coming closer, crowding round. Nix then grabbed Luz "Let Lieutenant Speirs know she's back"

"What's the diagnosis Doc?" Winters asked

"Head wound from that rifle butt, it's clotted but I'll still need to pop a couple of stitches in. She's been punched and slapped in the face, doesn't look like anything is broken, just her bottom lip is bust." Doc sighed, shaking his head. "Mainly exhaustion, dehydration, she needs a decent meal, Sir"

"Her clothes Doc, has she been...?" Winters asked tentatively not wanting to finish the sentence.

"I don't know Sir, I'll have to do a full examination and I don't want to without her consent"

"No of course, we'll keep her here, until she comes round" Winters answered covering Fin in more blankets.

...

Luz ran towards Dog company, he had no idea why Nix wanted Speirs to know except maybe because he had been there and was worried like the rest of them. Hopefully he wasn't in a bad mood, the man terrified him.

Speirs saw the technician from Easy running through the trees, he stepped out into his path causing the man to slip and fall over. "Flash" he smirked.

"Shit!" Luz mumbled as he got up from the snowy, cold ground "Thunder! Er...Sorry Sir"

"Do you have news?" Speirs asked expressionless, ignoring Luz's mistake.

"Captain Nixon told me to let you know that Corporal Finney is back" Luz said breathing heavily and brushing the snow off his pants.

Speirs fought the urge to run to her "Is she ok?"

"Don't know Sir, she walked through our line all casual and happy, ya know, but she looked a right mess. All covered in blood, her clothes were ripped and then she collapsed when she got to Captain Winters and Captain Nixon Sir, she's out cold"

"Thank you, Luz isn't it?"

"Yes Sir"

Speirs walked past Luz and headed to Winters and Nixon at a steady pace.

...

Aldbourne

Edie was tired, she leant back in her chair and raised her feet onto her kitchen table, rubbing her shoulders, she let out a groan as she stretched. She didn't have much time before she'd need to get herself dressed. She hadn't had a letter from Ron in a while, Edie's Uncle Hugo had said that all routes were cut off at the moment, therefore no post was getting in or out. Edie was concerned, his previous few letters were only ever about the pregnancy 'how is the baby?' 'are you eating enough?' 'are you getting plenty of rest?' There was no intimacy from him, nothing about her as an individual, nothing about their future or them as a couple. She wrote plenty about them, she had mentioned her Uncle's cottage in the Lake District for their honeymoon when the war was over, two letters ago! and he hadnt even commented on it! He didn't even humour her. He'd married her for the baby and now Edie had a problem, a very big one...there was no baby, there never had been one.

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Belgium

"Do we need a jeep?" Nixon asked Doc growing more concerned for Fin the longer she lay unconscious.

"No, we need to keep her here, she has intel" Winters said regretting his selfish tone.

"I think she'll be ok here, she's just resting" Doc replied, ignoring Winters.

Speirs strolled up to them trying to hide his concern at the sight of Cara, the medic from Easy was cleaning up a lot of blood from her face and hair.

Nix looked at Speirs and furrowed his brow, Speirs ignored him and crouched down. "How is she?" he asked sternly, but quietly.

Doc barely glanced at him, concentrating on Fin " Head wound, she's been beaten pretty bad, she has bruising to her stomach, I saw it through her ripped shirt, bruising to her face, nothing broken though, bust lip. I'm guessing she is exhausted and dehydrated mainly Sir" Doc continued to gently wash the blood from Fin.

Speirs was crumbling inside, he couldn't stand seeing her like this. The rage was building too much. He didn't know if he could control himself any longer... Doc saved him. "I'm just going to get more water and a clean rag, stay with her, make sure she doesn't get cold Sir"

Speirs nodded. Winters and Nix had moved away a little, discussing something. Speirs looked back down at Cara. Her jacket and shirt were ripped he could see the bruising that Doc had said about, he pulled the blanket back over her. They were all thinking the same thing had she been sexually assaulted? He immediately stopped thinking about it, he couldn't think that, he'd go insane. He took Fin's hand in his and lightly stroked it, noticing the marks round her wrists, she had been bound. He gently rubbed the bruising. "Cara" he whispered "Wake up beautiful, you're ok" he sighed. Speirs lowered his head, he hated seeing her like this, it was tearing him up. He bent down to whisper in her ear "Cara, wake up, for me"

Doc returned, Speirs moved to allow him full access to her again.

Speirs stood up and walked to Winters and Nixon. "Did she say much before she passed out?"

"No, we'll interview her when she's well enough" Nixon replied.

...

Aldbourne

Edie thought about telling Ron she had lost the baby and that he may stay with her out of pity, but because all his letters were just about the baby, his heart didn't lie with her, therefore that wasn't an option. She had to get pregnant and only had a small window of time to do it in. She could easily fool him over the dates, he would never work it out, the man didn't even ask how far she was gone when she told him the news!

In the meantime, she had received word from Uncle Hugo, that the blonde medic was being worked hard and that it would only be a matter of time before she cracked up or wound up dead. She hoped this would be soon. With her out of the picture, maybe Ron's letters might change and he would write more personal things to her and forget about fucking Corporal dead girl walking Finney,

Get pregnant, get rid of the medic!

Edie's thoughts were interrupted by the mantle clock chiming. She had to get ready now, Paul would be here soon, he was getting lucky tonight! Edie chuckled to herself. She had spent a good week chatting up tall men, with dark eyes and brown hair, only men with similarities to her Ron. If anyone could describe a trait about her, then it had to be that she was indeed very thorough!

...

Belgium

"IT'S A TRAP!" Fin sat bolt up right, coming out of her sleep.

Quickly climbing to her feet. " it's all duff!" She added.

Winters, Speirs, Nix and Doc all stared at Fin speechless at her sudden awakening.

"Fin?" Doc walked over to her. "Here, stop, you need to slow down!" he said grabbing her by the shoulders.

"Can't believe I've just realised!" Fin continued.

Sensing that Fin might blurt something out in her erratic state in front of Speirs that he shouldn't hear, Nix walked over and grabbed Fin's jacket, he fingered the rips "What happened Fin?"

Fin looked down "Er...nothing Sir"

All three men were in close to her now "What?" she asked

"Fin were you..."Winters began gently

"Raped Sir?!" Fin finished his sentence to looks of horror on all their faces "No I bloody wasn't! Do you really think the British would send a woman to the front line and not train her on how to stop a rape?!" Fin ranted feeling offended "Can't believe you all under estimated me!"

Relief from the men hung heavily in the air, although they now had a very pissed off Fin staring at them with her arms folded across her chest, throwing them all daggers.

"Sorry Fin, we just, well you're a woman, you can't protect yourself from everything" Winters said gently.

"I beg to differ Sir!" Fin replied angrily.

"What happened?!" Speirs demanded

Fin looked at that handsome face of his, that handsome MARRIED face of his! She took a deep breath...

"We had a good old chinwag about the latest fashions in Paris over tea and scones, argued over whether you should put the cream or jam on first. We disagreed, it's obviously the Devonshire way, cream before jam, stupid Nazis don't know anything. Outnumbered, I came off a bit worse in the scuffle, Sir."

"GOD DAMN IT CORPORAL!" Speirs snapped angrily.

Trying to hide his grin, but realising that Fin was obviously still pissed off with the married Speirs and Speirs was quite capable of wringing Fin's neck right now Nix turned to him and motioned him to step back. "We need to talk to her, I'll find out what's happened and I'll see you later" Nix said as a friend rather than an Officer, he knew that Speirs cared for her, he could tell even through that icy exterior of his. Speirs nodded, glancing angrily back at Fin who was now talking with Winters and Doc quietly.

Fin watched Speirs walk away out of the corner of her eye, she didn't like fobbing him off and Winters would probably have reprimanded her for talking to an Officer like that, but he knew they had to get rid of him so she could talk about what really happened.

"You're braver than me talking to Speirs like that!" Doc grinned at Fin. "I got you another uniform by the way and a coat!"

...

Nix, Winters, Harry, Buck and Fin all huddled round.

"It's all a bit too suss Sir" Fin started "I knew the SS commanding Officer Herrick Brandt, he had no interest in interrogating me, I didn't think at the time, I was too busy trying to figure out an escape before..." Fin paused, a few tears appeared and escaped before she could stop them, she quickly composed herself "... the Gestapo arrived"

"The Gestapo! Hey Fin it's ok!" Winters reassured putting an arm around her.

"I don't want to get arrested by the Gestapo Sir" Fin whimpered ever so slightly.

"You won't Fin! Why were they called?" Nix stated, not wanting to contemplate the possibility of losing Fin to Hitler's secret police.

"I'm on the most wanted list Sir, I knew it was a possibility they would be called, but usual protocol would be for Herrick to have started the interrogation in case I had an L tablet" Fin continued.

"Why are you on the most wanted list Fin?" Harry curiously asked horrified at the thought of Fin taking her own life.

"My dashing good looks and incredible sense of humour Sir"

"Obviously!" Nix chuckled "Seriously though Fin, why? We have worked out that we don't have your full military record, so spill!"

"Not enough time to go into detail now Sir, but my missions were to be an utter nuisance to the German Army and frustrate the Gestapo by continually evading capture" Fin quickly replied "I heard Herrick order for the Gestapo right away, I have a feeling he was expecting me to be arrested or to escape and he wasn't going to do too much in between."

"What are you saying Fin?" Buck asked

"I think they were expecting someone! When Herrick saw it was me, he had to call for the Gestapo, but I think the original plan was to let the allied soldier escape and deliver duff intel back about Foy"

"Shit this is serious stuff!" Nix sighed " I need to speak to regiment"

"Sir, I think there must be a mole working at special branch, Herrick knew about a mission I had carried out in '42, there's no way he could have known without an informant" Fin concluded.

"I agree, Your methods for collecting intel were working fine up until now, I don't believe our brass would send you to be deliberately captured when things were working well as they were." Winters added.

"If you weren't interrogated why did they beat you?" Harry asked

"Herrick and I go way back, I royally piss him off Sir"

"Like you do with Speirs?!" Nix whispered in Fin's ear.

Caught off guard by Nix, Fin whispered back "I piss Lieutenant Speirs off for other reasons"

"Ok, Fin you return to medic duties for now, leave this with us." Winters ordered.

"Yes Sir" Fin headed back to her foxhole, she would now have to explain everything to the lads, well, a version of everything.

...

Fin walked back to her foxhole when the shelling and gunfire started again.

BOOM! CRASH!

Fin ran towards the lads, she wanted to be close for any medic calls, she winced from the bruising to her stomach. She scrambled, trying to avoid falling branches. Suddenly she was tackled and brought down heavily into a foxhole. Fin cried out as her back hit the hard ground in the hole, winding her. A firm weight, was on top of her, pinning her down.

BOOM! CRASH!

Fin looked up to see falling branches partially cover the foxhole she was in. She turned to the face of the soldier on top of her, Speirs

"You need to let me out Sir!" Fin shouted

"You're going nowhere!" Speirs shouted back protecting Fin from the blasts and falling debris.

"The men might need a medic Sir!"

"Wait for the calls!" Speirs instructed.

"Why aren't you over at Dog company Sir?" Fin questioned

"If we're back to formalities Corporal, then I don't need to explain myself!"

"Can you shift yourself a bit, you're hurting my bruised stomach Sir!" Fin winced

Speirs lifted himself slightly, but staying on top of Cara, he lifted his head and stared into her eyes. There was still no twinkle. She looked a little better now though, the blood was cleaned from her face, although it hurt him to his very core to see the marks on her from the beatings she had endured.

Fin looked into Ron's eyes, they were full of concern. She didn't quite know what he was playing at, regardless of his feelings towards her, he shouldn't have acted on them considering his marital status.

Speirs brought his hand up and moved some hair from Cara's face, tucking it back into her helmet, her hair was always falling into her face he had noticed. He wanted her, he knew she wanted him, only allowing her morals to stop her. "It killed me seeing you thrown in the air, you lay there for only a few seconds, but it was too long!" he whispered in her ear. "I tried to get to you!" he continued. Fin lay there, not knowing what to say in return. A blast went off just outside their foxhole causing Speirs to hold her more tightly again.

"You tear me apart Cara, how did you escape?"

"What do you think you've done to me?" Fin replied into his ear, failing to reveal how she 'escaped'

"Why did you go to the Krauts!? You should have come to me! WHY?!" Speirs was feeling the rage bubble again "Always fucking come to me!" He shouted over the noise of the German artillery.

"I thought about you" Fin croaked "While they held me, it was you, I tried not to, you're a bloody, fucking , married bastard!" Fin yelled, trying to wriggle free. Speirs still held her tightly, like he promised himself that he would until she gave in.

He tipped his helmet back, so he could get at her. He leant in and kissed her. He was gentle, very aware of Cara's cut lip. She struggled underneath him, trying to push him away before pathetically giving in and kissing him back. She wrapped her arms around his neck once again. He was careful not to get too carried away, she was hurt, he just kissed her carefully, pulling away sporadically trying to control her desperation to kiss him harder.

BOOM!

The shelling continued; Fin had wrapped her arms round his neck and her legs round his. She had resisted at first, but he was her Achilles heel and she hated that she did this when he had a pregnant wife waiting for him. She urged into him closer, she had no care for her physical pain. She felt him hold back, unsure if it was because of her bruising or his guilty conscience for his wife.

Speirs groaned as Cara wrapped her legs round him. He pushed, rubbing up against her, feeling her trying to press her kiss onto him more forcefully, tightening her grip with her legs. Fuck! he rubbed up against her again and again as she arched her back, she craved him... he was losing control...

The shelling stopped.

"MEDIC!"

Speirs jumped off Cara and pulled away the debris covering the foxhole. Without looking at him Fin climbed out and ran towards the screams. Guilt washing over her, what the fuck did she think she was doing, when men were being blasted to pieces! Give your damn head a wobble girl! She scolded herself.

...

The attack restarted...

Trees were still falling, dirt and debris was flying up everywhere, large branches hit the ground as Fin weaved her way through, ducking, trying not to become a casualty herself. Fin got to a foxhole "Are you ok? Who needs a medic?"

Malarkey and Skip poked out "Fin!" They exclaimed happy to see her

"Are you ok?" she repeated.

"They peppered my helmet!" Skip said showing the holes in his helmet to Fin.

"Get down, protect your head!" Fin instructed as the ground by her was sprayed with bullets.

"MEDIC!" it was the same voice as before, Fin carried on running towards it.

It was Penkala, Fin jumped down to him as a shell blew some snow up by them, Fin ducked over Penkala protecting him.

"It's an artery Fin!" Penkala screamed

Fin looked him over to see him holding his wrist. "Let go! I need to see" Fin shouted over the noise of gun fire. "Let go Penkala! I can't blimin help you if you don't let go!"

"I'm gonna bleed to death Fin!" Penkala moaned.

"Let her see your arm!" Bull groaned next to Penkala looking through the sights of his rifle.

Penkala finally let go and Fin got a good look, getting out a bandage to wrap around it "It's not an artery you daft sod, you're going to be fine!" Fin grinned.

Doc arrived skidding to a halt by them both. "I'm not going back?" Penkala asked. "I'm not going to the Aid station with all this going on!" he added.

"Well you're in luck Penk, because we don't have an Aid station!" Doc laughed putting his hand on Fin's shoulder as he stood up and nodded at her as he ran off to check for any more wounded.

The attack finally stopped. Fin looked around to assess the damage what a fucking mess! "Hand over any med kits you've got lads, we're short" Fin asked, holding her hand out.

...

Fin tentatively walked over to where the lads were eating dinner. Some of the lads were having a laugh about Lieutenant Peacock looking for Dike. She hung back, listening in knowing that they were all going to bombard her with questions as soon as they saw her.

"...try battalion CP Sir!" Malarkey suggested.

"Try Paris", Muck muttered out of ear shot from Peacock.

"Try Hinkle" Malarkey laughed.

"Stop lurking and get you're ass over hear and start explaining Fin!" Bill called over noticing Fin leaning the other side of the tree that Doc was sat against smoking a cigarette. Fin looked down at Doc help!

Doc smirked "Good luck!"

Fin walked over and sat amongst Tab, Luz, Bill, Toye and Shifty as the others walked closer to listen in.

"Before you start Fin, none of this talk about you should be doing dangerous stuff because you have no family, we're ya fucking family, ya hear?!" Bill started.

Fin smiled "Thanks Bill"

"Well what's with choosing the Krauts over us then?" Bill questioned.

"They invited me over for a slumber party, it would have been rude to have declined the invite" Fin replied to the looks of raised eyebrows from the lads. "Ok, ok! Sorry lads, lost my head for a minute, Hudson was doing so well and then they just shot him, I lost my temper!" Fin explained.

"Ok, where did you learn to shoot like that? Not looking and just randomly shooting over your shoulder?" Shifty asked

"Oh, it wasn't random, Hudson was instructing me, it was pure luck really that it worked, I needed to apply pressure to his bleed and stop the Krauts, made it all the worse when they shot him"

The men looked like they were accepting Fin's version of events, much to her relief.

"Ok, we can all see they beat the shit out of ya, how did you escape?" it was Luz's turn to ask.

"That's was just luck as well, they under estimated me, I played the helpless female medic and they didn't even tie me up. Questioned me, slapped me round for a bit and then left me on my own. I took a chance to escape and made it back" Fin lied.

"What were they like?" Shifty asked.

"Loud!" Fin laughed "They just shouted and barked at me all the time!"

"Did they hurt ya other than beat ya?" Bill pressed, remembering fin's ripped uniform.

"No!" Fin said convincingly.

"We're gonna have to put you on a lead!" Luz joked

"Any excuse for a bit of bondage, hey Luz!" Fin laughed elbowing him.

"You could put the lingerie on!" Luz suggested laughing and hugging Fin.

"I hear you're pissing needles?" Fin turned her attention to Bill.

"Yeah"

"We've really got to talk about boundaries if we're going to get married!" Fin laughed.

Bill laughed back. The lads started to chat amongst themselves, Bill pulled Fin's sleeve back "Didn't tie you up hey? Care to explain these marks then?"

...

Regents Park, London

"Himmler isn't happy"

"False intel will be delivered to the Americans though"

"He doesn't care, for personal vendettas. He has caught ten female agents so far and you denied him his eleventh!"

"We know where she is now, it's only a matter of time before we have her again."

"Make it sooner rather than later, He has special plans for her, unlike the other agents, she won't be fortunate enough to end up in a prison camp."