“Is it your first class too?” “Nah Gene, I’m teaching this bitch!” In an effort to save Gene from burnout, his friend and fellow medical resident signs him up for weekly lindy hop dance classes. He doesn't expect his instructor to be Babe Heffron. Babe was, in Eugene’s estimation, somewhere among the top three acquaintances whose health and safety he was most concerned with at any given time. He had absolutely no idea that Babe partook in swing dancing, let alone how he’s been granted a position of authority on the subject. This is an unoficial baberoe spin off of bingomanifesto's excellent series, A Kinder Fate.

I could stare at your back all day…

Chapters: 4/8 Fandom: Band of Brothers (TV 2001) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edward "Babe" Heffron/Eugene Roe, Joseph Liebgott/David Kenyon Webster Characters: Eugene Roe, Renee LeMaire, Anna | Augusta Chiwy, Joseph Liebgott, David Kenyon Webster Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Getting Together, Character Study, Swing Dancing, med school, Burnout - Freeform, accidentally kind of a songfic, The inherent eroticism of realizing someone is really good at something

After their class ends, Babe announces that he’s going to keel over and die if he doesn't have a slice of pizza in the next fifteen minutes. Gene agrees to accompany him to a little spot nearby.

Gene tracks down Renée, because he was her ride home. She tells them not to wait up, she’ll get a lyft. As Gene and Babe head out together she catches his eye and waggles her eyebrows, which he returns with a scowl, despite the fact that his heart is pounding.

Gene misses two classes in a row. One week, a major trauma intake in the ER has him working overtime. 

The next week is a pretty regular Tuesday, and he has every intention of going to class, but when he gets home, he lies down on his couch in his studio apartment and finds he just can’t get up. Content warning for a non graphic description of death and medical trauma and burnout.

Chapter 3!