Germany 1944, country side just outside of Berlin.
The sound of cars could be heard moving out and about, disrupting the quiet peace of the early Monday afternoon. The captain's new family was arriving, bringing him a new wife and new step children; a son and a daughter.
"You shouldn't be reading so many books about fantasy and love Raivis. It isn't practical for a girl your age." Eduard said softly as her took one out of her hands. The blond looked up at her older brother before scowling and taking it back, blushing softly.
"You want me to be reading books about all those propaganda that the German war is feeding us?" she questioned as she opened her book again; turning to the page she was at. Eduard frowned softly at her tone, knowing where she was getting at. He knew exactly why she used that tone with him considering it was his fault they were in this situation.
When the German army invaded their home in Riga, their father had been killed in the effect. When Eduard began working for the German military, by force, their mother and sister had brought him lunch one day and he had been forced to introduce the two to their new father; Commander and Captain Ludwig Von Beilschmidt.
"I'm sorry…" Eduard began as he pulled out a pocket watch from the breast pocked of his doctor's coat, state official military hat resting on top of his head before he took it off. "If I had known that they would have hit it off like they did I wouldn't have introduced them." He muttered softly.
"It isn't your fault they met." She said as she closed her book again, placing the bookmark securely in the crease. "It's your fault for taking the job as the medical profession for the German army." She said as Eduard went wide eyed. "What choice did I have Raivis it was either work as their doctor or be killed or worse!" he said before they both screamed as the car suddenly slammed to a stop, causing Raivis to be flung into the others lap, causing both of them to blush.
"Are you alright!" One of the escorting officers asked as he opened the door. "Are you okay Raivis?" Eduard asked and she nodded as the other officer helped her out of the car. "What happened?" Eduard asked, looking a little stricter than usual.
"We blew a tire." He said softly. Raivis looked down at her feet as she shuffled them before something caught her eye; toward the deeper woods past the rubble road that they were on. "Please do not wonder too far Miss Galante!" one of the other officers called, but she ignored him.
She stumbled as she ended up kicking something with her shoe. She looked down, and noticed it was a rock with what looked like an eye carved into it. She picked it up, tilting her head. "This has somewhere it needs to be." She said to herself as she looked around before spotting a large stone figure that had an open mouth, but was missing a second eye; but it was on a small hill.
She stumbled up the small hill, trying not to slip so much before she finally reached the top, forced herself to reach it before she placed the small stone into the hole. She waited for a few moments before jumping as a winged bug popped out of the mouth, fluttering its wings; she smiled.
"A fairy…" she said softly before she jumped as she was pulled down off the small hill by Eduard, their mother standing beside him before rushing up to her and brushing off any nonexistent dirt from her deep maroon jacket.
"You shouldn't wonder off like that Raivis; look at how messy you are now. What will your new father say about this? He does like things tidy." She said before kissing her cheek warmly; quiet obviously with child; about 8 almost 9 months along.
"You mean Captain…or Commander, or does he prefer to be called Colonel? It's all confusing." She protested. She didn't like calling him father, that title was reserved only for hers and Eduard's father who passed during the invasion for being mistaken for the resistance and was shot on site.
However, that's what she's been told. Eduard never likes to discuss it with her; perhaps knowing something more then he let on perhaps.
"Eduard, is it alright that I talk to Raivis and ride the rest of the way with her?" Their mother asked, making Raivis frown softly. "But mother…"
"No buts dear. I want to discuss things with you." She said softly, rushing her into the car she rode in, where her assistant was sitting. "You know Mister Edelstein, right Raivis?" Her mother asked as she followed suit and sat next to her little girl.
"Y-Yes…he's your assistant that Commander ordered to cater to your every need." She muttered, making her mother laugh and making Mister Edelstein snort in a form of laughter.
"Your daughter is very bright; very humorous." He said.
Miss Galante wasn't anything like her daughter. Pale, yes, but thin lips, long eye lashed, perfectly curved body in the right places, a large chest; the opposite to Raivis.
Raivis often times caught herself staring at her mother, being envious of how beautiful she was. She'd often go into her mother and fathers room, go to the vanity and just stare at herself in her mother's mirror, inspecting all of her mother's beauty products as if they were some foreign treasure.
Of course now that her mother was pregnant, her health had dropped down increasingly. Eduard was increasingly against his mother traveling at such a late stage of the pregnancy, but their step father insisted on his "son" being born with his father.
"How are you feeling today Miss Galante?" Mr. Edelstein asked as he looked at a clipboard, his bag next to him securely. Was he coming to live with them to? Would the house be big enough to hold them all?
Raivis looked to her mother, who smiled happily in response. "My little angel is behaving himself today." She said softly, sighing heavily when she felt a harsh kick to her stomach. Raivis opened her book back up where she had left off, holding the edge of the page before turning it. Mister Edelstein fixed his glasses before
"Might I recommend, Miss Galante, that you give your daughter some Military savvy books to read? It might impress your new husband and have them get along better." He said before her mother looked over to Raivis and sighed before grabbing the book her daughter was holding. "Raivis, please." She began, flipping through the pages of one. Raivis whined before shooting a hidden glare to the man sitting across from her. "Mother, please give them back." She whined before taking them back. Miss Galante sighed softly and leaned against the seat, trying to relax. "Can you have them stop the car please? I want to ride with Eduard." Raivis muttered to herself.
Her mother laughed softly and held her close to her side before kissing her forehead. "Darling, I love you to pieces; but you're growing up and you'll be 16 soon. You need to begin thinking about finding a husband and not about these silly fairy tales. No man is going to want a bride like that." She said before the car stopped again in front of a large, white brick, 3 story home in the middle of the woods; a few barns here and there. The white home was so…unsettling in the differently colored forest and wooded area.
She sighed softly, mind drifting to the fairy she saw earlier today.