Their Fizz- Band of brothers

Easy Meeting

"Hello" she whispered do quietly she thought no one heard it.

No one replied anyway they all just looked at her in amazement.

She spotted an empty bed at the end of one of the rows and she assumed this was her bed. Flo quickly walked over and put it on the bed and looked back at the silent, confused faces.

"Right, listen up everyone" Flo all but shouted.

A limey? She's a limey, they were all thinking, what on earth was a brit doing here and not in her own army?

"I know this must come as a shock to you even though you were warned, but I got scouted by the US people over in England and they decided to send me here as a medic and translator, it's probably because I've already treated a lot of battle wounds and got full marks on the anatomy and physiology exam" They are still confused she thought.

"Anyway, my name is Florence Hilton and don't get on my bad side cause it'll be me you call for when you have a gunshot wound on your arse".

With that last statement all the men started smiling and some of them full on laughing.

"Now that's what I call an introduction, hi my names Bill Guarnere"

"Pleasure" Flo smiled back

"Joe liebgott" the man smiled

"Liebgott, do you speak German then?" she asked interested in why she was there if they already have a translator.

"Yeah and Webb from 1st speaks it as well" Liebgott said

"Oh, well it must be because I speak French as well" she said

"Ooo the language of love, hey I'm Joe toye".

"Nice to meet you" laughed Flo

She was then introduced to Buck Compton, Chuck grant, Skip Muck, Alex Penkala, Donald Malarkey, one lung mclung and Carwood lipton.

All the men had smiles on their faces and looked interested in their tiny medic.

"This is all of second platoon, there's also 1st and 3rd, and you'll probably be wanting to meet the ranking medic Eugene Roe, he is in the med hut, I'll walk you over" said grant.

"Thank you" she was grateful she didn't have to try and find it by herself.

As they walked over, there were a lot of catcalls and wolf whistles and shouts of
"The army finally forked out for our entertainment".

Flo blushed furiously and tried to ignore them.

Grant gave a few of them withering stares but was talking to Flo to help drown out the noise.

They talked about the drills and times of things and what life is like here.

"It's tough, but you seem like you can handle it" grant smiled.

Flo chuckled, "well hopefully your right"

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"Doc, this here's your new combat medic for 2nd platoon" grant said.

Doc she presumed turned round and gave her a large smile. "Hello, Pvt Hilton I presume"

"Yes it's nice to meet you" Flo smiled.

Grant left the 2 medics to talk and go over rotas.

"So, how are you feeling about being here, I can tell your not local" Doc smiled.

"What gave it away?" Flo laughed.

"Nothing actually, I just noticed on your file"

After that they spent 2 hours talking and getting to know each other. Discovering they had a lot in common and had gotten along well they knew they would become close friends by the end of this war.

By the time they had finished talking, it was dinner and that meant the mess hall. Still in her civilian clothes Flo felt out of place and awkward. Gene (she had decided to call him that) walked in with her and again she felt like she was standing on stage naked. She felt a small brush creep up on her cheeks, but did not let it deter her.

Flo continued chatting with Gene and they sat at a table with their food (heaven knows what food it was supposed to be), when the rest of 2nd platoon showed up along with a few others.

"Hello, I'm Frank perconte"

"Bull randleman"

"Shifty powers"

"Smokey Gordon"

"Tab or talbert"

"Popeye"

"Skinny sisk"

"David Webster"

"Donald Hoobler"

"And I'm George luz, nice to meet you ma'am"

"Oh please don't call me ma'am I'm not an officer and I'm only 18" laughed Flo.

" Now you know our names, what should we call you then?" smiled skinny

"I don't know, Florence, Flo, Flora, Wren?"

"I know let's call you Floss" smiled Lipton

Flo smiled slightly "the only other person to call me Floss is my older brother, most people at home is Flo or wren but I'm sure he wouldn't mind"

"Perfect Floss it is then"

She was surprised how open the men were to her being here, she thought it was maybe because they didn't think she would last long so they wouldnt have to put with her.

But in reality it was because they knew she was chosen for a reason and after they met her they all knew she would be like their little sister.