hint: some blossom; some wither. maybe she thinks she deserves better than an american city slicker

━━━━ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 [coming soon] marley chevalier, no matter how badly she wants to, has never been one to test the limits. with a compassionate heart at constant odds with expectations she's not sure she can meet, life for her has been a state of limbo. that is, until december 7th, 1941. the frangible way that she's lived her life is gone, replaced with two brothers being called for return to service and her small town turning upside down with fear and wartime rage. the new tenuous reality that is her home of houma, louisiana leads marley to a choice that will test every limit that's been placed before her; she enlists. before the war, enlistment for marley had meant steady jobs for her brothers and a war that had long since passed. now, it means concealing her name with the desperate hope that she can help in any way she knows how. and as fate would have it, history changes course when she is placed among the likes of men who, too, are to rewrite what it means to be a soldier for the united states. together, they are apart of easy company, 2nd battalion of the 506th parachute infantry regiment of the 101st airborne division. and with these men, marley realizes that to make it through the war, she has to embrace the fact that her once careful way of life will never be hers to live again. 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 © 𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺

"You're coming?" "Of course you didn't think I was going to let you go alone did you?" Alejandra cocked her eyebrow giving a small smirk "All right then hop in, but just to be clear you can't change your mind. I'll leave you on the side of the road" "Aye Alejandra tan dramática. Just drive" So she did, their apartment growing smaller in the distance and neither of them looked back. All Alejandra Guerrero has wanted was to prove herself. Prove to her family that she could be the daughter they wanted and to prove to America that being Mexican didn't make her any less of an America. When the war breaks out she knew this was her time to finally prove herself, so she enlists in the Airborne. Esperanza Luna has been treated like a fragile flower. All her life she has been sheltered from the world told that she can not fend for herself. When she hears Alejandra's plan to leave she begs to go with her, deciding that she will be the person she's dreamed of becoming

"I met you in the dark, you lit me up" [film - 1917] [will schofield x reader]

When the USA entered World War 2 after the attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands of men went to enlist in the Armed Forces. Half a year later, the Army announced that they were looking for female volunteers for a special program. And since it is an experimental unit, the Army decides to integrate them in another brand-new unit: The Airborne. Follow a group of extraordinary women who refuse to let anybody stop them from fighting for their country alongside the men. Read about the bonds they forge, the challenges they face and the experiences they gather.

At 26, a cold and composed officer of the Women's Auxiliary Corps, Lieutenant Edith Sink is in control of her life. Within the parameters she has set, everything makes sense. Until the day Captain Richard Winters walks into her office. Winters/OC/Nixon