@stiiney/ text starters - always accepting 

(✉ →Stiney) I know it’s early but how do you feel about going hiking ? 

(✉ →Stiney) Well it’s more of a run but it’s up hill and on a hiking trail so I’m gonna call it hiking 

(✉ →Stiney) I’ll even throw in brunch after to sweeten the deal since we’ll miss the sunrise

@stiiney/ soft angst starters - always accepting 

Her first instinct is to tease him. Make a joke about how maybe the Army is tougher than the Marines but the tone of his voice and the look on his face signaled that this wasn’t a laughing matter. He was serious. “You’re right sometimes being home does hurt.” And it shouldn’t because for most soldiers the ultimate goal is to just make it home but getting home doesn’t erase the pain of the battlefield or the things that they had seen. 

“ Back there everyone gets it. Here only a handful of people do.” Ellie was lucky to have the veterans' advocacy group on campus and brothers who had served and understand. It wasn’t the same for everyone else. “ If you need to talk you know that you can always reach out to me.” Which was easier said than done for a soldier even if they weren’t anymore, but she offered anyways.  

@pyrrhicwon/ soft angst starter - always accepting 

“ I can’t,” she said with a soft sigh as she leaned against the doorframe to the house she was being quartered in. The brunette felt awful about lying to him. She could go, even wanted to go, but she shouldn’t. She had gotten enough teasing from some of the Toccoa men about cozying up with a replacement. They had always said it good-naturedly. There was no accusation of any wrongdoing but the reality of it all was that Ellie was in a unique situation.

 A woman in the Army was basically an experiment at this point, a trial run. She couldn’t afford to mess it up. If her stint in the service worked out it could open the flood gates for lots of women pursuing whatever they wished and as much as she liked Babe it wasn’t fair to throw that all away because she wanted to spend time with him. Fraternizing with another soldier certainly wasn’t allowed and the sort of reputation it would create would undo all her hard work, set women back even further.

If he had invited her out with a group she would have said yes but a dinner with just the two of them while out on a weekend pass? That was certainly too much. It would spin too many heads no matter how much she wanted to go. 

“ It’s a really nice offer Babe but I can’t accept.” Sometimes, especially moments like this, she wished she was like all the other girls her age. Standing on the porch in a dress, her hair down for the first time in what felt like forever with a handsome man asking her on a date she almost felt like she was a normal girl, but they both knew the reality was that she wasn’t.  

@pyrrhicwon / soft angst starters  -always accepting 

War was hell. They had all seen and experienced it. The medics were exposed to even more than most men, but what they had discovered that day nobody had been prepared for. Nobody had left that camp the same. “ Shh, I’m not going anywhere” she whispered softly as she cradled his head to her chest. Usually she would have been worried about what this could like or the implication of impurity but that could all be ignored today. Of all the people who needed comfort today it was Joe. Captain Winters had asked him a nearly impossible task by telling Joe that he had to instruct his people back into the camp for their own safety and Joe had done it because he had known it was what he had to do. 

She let her fingers comb through his hair. “I’ll be right here.” He was practically on top of her so there was no getting up from the bed anyways.  The medics along with everyone else had done as much as they could, which really felt like nothing at all, before being dismissed when doctors and others better equipped to handle it had arrived. Everyone was exhausted, it was more mental than it was physical, and yet she felt as if she’d never be able to sleep again. 

“We’re gonna win this war and nothing like this will ever happen again. The people responsible for this are gonna be held responsible.” 

@pyrrhicwon / Soft Interactions  - Accepting 

The idea of sleeping was sometimes easier said than done in a warzone. Spots to sleep were few and far between and they were almost never comfortable, but sometimes exhaustion was enough to make all other factors that inhibited sleep irrelevantly. There were enough of the boys from Easy company around that she felt safe enough to try and get at least a quick nap in. 

The brunette was nodding off despite the fact that they were sitting on the hard stone of some memorial statue she couldn’t even read. Her head would tilt forward every time she was nearly asleep and the action would startle her awake once more. She couldn’t help but groan in dissatisfaction.  “ Gene, can I use your shoulder as a pillow? You can use my head as something to lean yours against,” she said offering a hopeful smile. She waited for his reply and was satisfied when approval had been granted. 

Scooting closer she rested her head against his shoulder. It was already infinitely better even if the stone was still harsh to sit on. “ Thanks,” she murmured already shutting her eyes. Even if she didn’t sleep and just had a chance to rest her eyes and relax that would be enough. “ Really appreciate it.” Tiredness practically had her slurring her words.