This is just a short fic to say what happened in the book when Bruno's father finds the place where Bruno's clothes were. Bookverse!
Barbed WireI walked along beside the fencing, thinking about Bruno. He was all I ever thought about nowadays. My wife had already moved back to Berlin, with Gretel, and the look she had given me when I said goodbye to her was like stone. She believed that I had killed Bruno by bringing us here, and I couldn't disagree with her there. I believed it myself. But I couldn't change it, so I dealt with it in my own way. I stayed inside my office, only leaving when necessary, and left most of the work to my second in command. I couldn't bear to be involved with it any more.
Suddenly, for some reason, I stopped. I don't know why I looked down, but when I did I saw something very strange. The bottom of the barbed wire was bent up as though it had been wrenched from the ground. I lifted it, and saw that it would have been easy for someone to slip under, if they were very small. A young boy, say. A boy of around nine years old.
I knew this place, they had found Bruno's clothes here nearly a year ago. Strange that they hadn't noticed this bit of wire poking up, unless it had been so dark they couldn't see it. They'd found the clothes at night, hadn't they? Yes, so they wouldn't have seen this. Oh, God. This was where Bruno had come. This was where Bruno had died.
That was the moment I collapsed into nothingness.
EndOkay, so I know it's really short, but I hoped you liked it! Please review, thanks! :)