Any sane person would have pressed themselves to the ground in an effort to avoid the constant shower of high velocity bullets coming from the machine... gun. Sanity didn’t play any part in his actions. Billy’s immediate reaction was to do whatever was necessary to prevent those German bastards behind the gun hurting him and his platoon mates. It wasn’t a case of courage just pure bloody minded aggression against those who dared to threaten his life. Billy chose to forget the medal. After all,. I love you. I need you. And right now you need me. You have to talk about this. Or would you rather that I told mom and dad?"I smiled and asked, "Are you blackmailing me, too?"She smiled wryly and said, "You were raped because of me. You are hurting because of me. I can't make it go away. But I can help you let it out. Talk to me."I sighed and said, "Laura, I was not raped because of you. You were arrested because of me. I was raped because ... because I have a vagina and they knew they could. ”He smiled and she had to admit he did look sort of cute even though she knew for a fact he was a boy because she had seen him in the bathtub and there was no doubt of his gender.“Don’t tell anyone, Mamie. I promise to buy you a new one at the five and ten. I got some dough from shoveling snow up on the avenue.”He was so concerned that she felt protective and a little sorry for him because he was built more like Santa Claus than a football player and she knew most girls would just pass him by. There was only two nurses on duty on a night and if they had a quiet spell then one would try and get some sleep and the other would walk the ward. There was two wards, upstairs and downstairs, sometimes one of them might have to help downstairs and vice versa. The new patient Graham was due a rub down, this was done quite often as sometimes they could spend quite some time in one place, Graham wasnt really needing this as he was more mobile than most patients, but it was part of his treatment.