All was quiet. The men of Easy Company sat just within the tree line over watching Foy, Belgium. Doc and Babe sat together waiting for the assault to begin. They shared a cup of coffee together.
"You ready?" Doc asked "Yeah, I am, and you?" "Im always ready, Babe." Babe and Doc smiled at each other for a bit, then they heard a whistle signaling the assault. "Good luck, Babe!" Doc said as he patted Babe on the back twice.
"You too, Doc!" Doc sat back and saw the men of Easy Company go and attack Foy. They had to go across a field, covered with hay bales for cover. The Germans opened up with machine gun fire.
Doc saw a couple of guys get hit by a shack and ran to them. "You're gonna be ok!" Doc said as he pulled out his medical supplies. He patched up one guy as best as he could and moved onto the next guy.
"I got ya buddy!" Doc began to help the man and heard a bang behind him. He turned quickly and saw it was a German soldier, that was hiding in the shack. The German saw Doc and tried to shoot at him.
Nothing came out of his gun. It had jammed. So Doc quickly looked for the sidearm of the wounded man in front of him. The German then ran towards him. Doc found the sidearm, grabbed it pointed the pistol at the German and fired three shots.
The German then collapsed on top of Doc, dead. Doc was breathing heavily and started to tear up. He pushed the dead body off of him and went back to fixing up the wounded man, while doing so he kept wiping his tears away.
As time progressed throughout the assault on Foy, Easy Company overran the German forces and captured Foy. Also as time progressed throughout the day, some men of Easy found a church to rest in.
Doc sat in the far back from the group and kept his head in his hands. Babe walked in looking for Doc. He saw Doc and walked over to him head in hands. "Doc...? You okay?" Doc looked up with tears and then quickly wiped his tears.
"Yeah, Babe, I'm okay." "Don't lie to me Doc." Babe sat down took off his helmet and put down his rifle, putting an arm around Doc. "Talk to me, Doc." "I-I killed a man today, Babe. He almost killed me though. I was so scared. I'm still shocked about it."
Babe held him closer. "I never wanted to have to kill somebody, all I wanted to do was help people live and survive. Taking a life is crazy." "Doc, I'm glad you're okay, I know it's...it's difficult to take a life. I'm glad your okay though Doc."
Doc fell back into Babes chest and let his tears flow out. Babe held him close and rubbed his back to soothe him. "I can't take it no more Babe. I can't" "I don't think any of us can Doc" Doc then got closer to Babe and wrapped his arms around him and held him tight.
Babe held Doc close and stroked his fingers through Docs hair. He let Doc get comfortable and held him all night long, letting Doc letting his tears out.
