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bob100. Disclaimer: Based on the characters portrayed in the Band of Brothers miniseries, not the veterans themselves.
Winters/Nixon
100 words
Prompt: #117 Hell
The landscape is littered with fire and the dead. Nixon knows immediately that the DZ is wrong. They missed by so much he'd been dropped into Hell.
He gets his bearings and moves on, rifle at the ready. Soldiers join up; none of them are Dick, but none of the bodies they pass are, either.
It's daylight when Nixon reaches battalion's staging area, and he's still on edge. Then he spots Lieutenant Winters, alive and whole, and everything shifts.
“Going my way?” he asks, offering a hand and a smile.
“Sure,” Dick replies, and it's all Nix needs to hear.
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Nixon, Winters
100 words
Prompt: #118 Desolate
Ten months since D-Day and this was the most desolate place they'd seen.
Walking wounded was a familiar state, one boasted of by the soldiers. Never before had they seen walking dead, these innocents made the scapegoat of Hitler's rage.
“I thought you weren't drinking the local.” Dick's tone wasn't accusatory.
“Yeah, well...” Nixon had new feelings to drown. With that last jump, the demotion, and the divorce, he'd felt like the world was out to get him. Now he felt ashamed, petty, and surprisingly grateful to those Nazi bastards for showing him that life could be so much worse.
- Mood:
annoyed - Music:My dad is fucking loud
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Edit: Although I suppose the View in my Style option is better than bitching about it? *fails*
That said. \o/ BoB!
Soldiers join up; none of them are Dick, but none of the bodies they pass are, either.
*hugs Nix*
Now he felt ashamed, petty, and surprisingly grateful to those Nazi bastards for showing him that life could be so much worse.
*hugs Nix tighter*
Oh they are both wonderful little snippets. Well done.
Edited 2009-04-14 11:30 pm (UTC)
I think Nix needs those hugs - his angst brings me great fun and joy. (Well maybe not joy, but I still enjoy it. All the better for Winters to heal him, then?)
:) Glad you like them! One of these days I'll finish the longer W/N piece I've been working on and off on the last few days... They just want to like hold each other and I'm all, "Come on, guys, move on!"
I like the angst. I'm all for angst. I used to be even more for it if they got fixed in the end, but um, Om kinda ripped my brain apart and now, well, I still like it when they're fixed, but I kinda like more when they aren't :D
I like fixing as long as its...believable. Like all of a sudden magical everything's better makes me all, "Riiiiight," but if it's still broken but healing or broken but better, I'm happy with that.
That being said, As You Walk Away (http://community.livejournal.com/aldbournewhores/194229.html) is one of my favorites even though it rips my heart to pieces every time.