Their Fizz- Band of brothers

A New CO

Taking Noville was easy, Flo and Gene didn't have any work to do the day they took Noville. For the first couple of days since Foy, Flo had been on edge all the time watching for Griffiths or any noise she thought it was mortars, often waking up from her light doze and grabbing her medic satchel ready to run for the first call.

But with Gene and her boy's help she had calmed down and could now sleep a full 2 hours without waking up. As well Captain Speirs had pulled her aside quickly to inform her that Sergeant Griffiths had now been taken off the line pending a court-martial, she had wanted to hug him with relief.

Now stocked up with all their medical supplies Flo and Gene had a job and a half keeping all the paperwork up to date and constantly doing inventory. Maths had never been Flo's strong suit and now she was realizing just how terrible she was...... Gene had been giving her a hand but she still felt rubbish about it.

When they took Rachamps. It was a cold morning, well it was always cold but Flo could feel herself shivering which hardly ever happened these days.

She was watching from the line with Winters and Nix as Gene had basically forced Winters to give her orders to not be the assault team medic.

She was huffing and rolling her eyes but eventually went along with the descision when all the boys had said they were happy she was being kept out of an extra amount of danger.

She was grumbling to Nix "Its not fair, if I was a man they would be happy for me to always be on the assault team"

Nix laughed and put an arm around her "Well your not a man and good because your our fizz and we want to keep you safe, especially head office"

Flo gave him a confused glance and saw the look on Winters's face when he heard what Nix exposed her to "Why especially head office?"

Nix suddenly groaned as he realized he had let slip while Winters just shrugged and mumbled "You've got to tell her now idiot".

"Yeh alright Dick. So, Flo, the US army is using you as an experiment to see whether women can join the army or not. If you do well and survive then women will be allowed in the US army......if not then I doubt they'll give it much thought"

Flo's face was blank but inside her blood was pulsing through her ears "So I'm basically carrying any woman whoever wants to be part of the military dreams on my shoulders?"

Winters gave a small nod before looking back over the battle happening at Rachamps "Basically yes" he said deadpan, Nix then decided to add on "And you're doing a tremendous job so far fizzy" while taking a gulp from his flask.

Flo just turned her head back to the battle and swallowed hard. "Okay," she said quietly. In her head Flo was thinking hard, she needed to prove that women were as good in an army as men were and that women were capable of being part of an elite group of men.

'Ill prove it to them' she mumbled under her breath.

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When the battle was over Flo had rushed down to the town to see if she could help Gene with any casualties. "Flo! Flo!" she heard him shout and she sprinted to where he had two soldiers Mack and Prop on the ground holding their wounds. "Flo you start on Mack, just a flesh wound not hit an artery" Gene informed her as she started working on his leg, ripping sulpha open with her teeth and grabbing a bandage ready to tightly wrap his leg.

Flo continued with her work, the smell of smoke invading her nostrils and making her cough, to which Gene glanced over at her concerned but she just shrugged him off, in her peripheral vision Flo suddenly saw something dart out from behind a wall.

Looking over to it fully she noticed two germans running for their lives through the field next to the town, looking around quickly she noticed Gene had gone to escort Prop to the jeep and none of the boys would make it in time to stop them. So grabbing Macks gun, Flo aimed at the germans, 'come on Flo remember what your dad taught you' she thought as she pulled the trigger aiming for their legs. There was always the risk that they could bleed out but she was only shooting to wound and limbs were her best bet, so with both eyes, open Flo shot one German hitting his leg as he tumbled to the ground, and then she quickly nailed the other one down as well.