The one good thing about being pulled off the lines was the fact that men of Easy were housed for once, enjoying the finer things in life like a soft bed of straw to lay their heads on as they slept in the comfortable security of the barns that outlined the city. On top of that, they also were privy, though it was in a slotted time per week, to the cold water of a shower which allowed them to clean themselves for the first time in what seemed like forever. To any outsider, these would have seemed miserable conditions, but to the men who were so used to sleeping in a cold, dirty hole in the ground, this was heaven.
And for the young medic of Easy, he was finally catching some much needed sleep amongst it all. That is, when he wasn’t worrying about the German captives who had all been brought in under war crime charges. Besides the man whom he had treated only a week before, random nicks and bruises kept showing up on the other prisoners, causing Eugene to raise a brow at the conditions they were being held under. But then again, he didn’t really care considering their people would probably do the same.
But as he made his way through the town square and over to the house where they were being held for their weekly check ups, he couldn’t help but be happy. After all, the sun was shining and for once he didn’t have to be decked from head to toe in combat gear. For once he could just feel a sense of normalcy, no matter how small it actually was.
Making his way down the steps into the basement where the Germans were held, each step let out a thump as his boot hit it, tossing some dust to the hard floor below. He turned to the man on duty, a young kid who was barely eighteen who sat in a chair with his rifle on his lap. The men could have easily overthrown him, but for some reason they didn’t.
Nodding to the kid, dark hues were quick to move over to the men who propped themselves against the wall. Some were playing cards, others talking in German, some were asleep, and when Gene’s eyes finally found the most injured prisoner of all, dark hues locked on the blonde man before heading over to him quickly.
“Hey. What’s goin’ on,” he asked as he brought himself to his knees next to Florian for a moment, blue eyes meeting with his own as he offered the man a small smile.