It was the middle of the night, and all the Summers household was fast asleep, but their peace was short lived, when suddenly the air raid siren was blaring, waking the mother up, and sending her into a panic.

"Elsa! Anna! Wake up my darlings!" she shouted as she ran to her daughters' bedroom, pulling them out of bed.

The eldest, Elsa was the first one to realize what was happening "The siren" she gasped as she awoke completely "Anna! We need to get into the bunker now!"

At these words the younger of the two woke up from her half sleep and they all ran down the stairs of their home and out the back door into their garden, and then hurried into the bunker, but all of a sudden, Anna stopped.

"Olaf! We forgot Olaf!" and started running back to the house.

Realizing what she was about to do, Elsa pulled her sister back "Anna! You can't risk your life for a cat!"

"If he dies, I'll never forgive myself!" Anna shouted back, and stated running back towards the house.

But once again, Elsa stopped her, but instead of pulling her into the bunker, she herself ran into the house, searching for her sister's cat.

"Olaf!" she shouted over the sound of bombs falling and exploding, making the ground shake "Come on you stupid cat! Where are you?"

And then she saw him, the stupid kitten had hidden in the fireplace, making his perfect, white fur black.

Elsa swooped the cat into her arms and darted for the garden, but just as she was going to leave the sitting room, a bomb crashed down into the road outside, making the bay window smash to pieces.

She fell to the ground, the dirty kitten protectively tucked into her chest. She got back up, her ears ringing and several shards of glass planted into her arms, but nothing that was stopping her from getting back up and darting back to the bunker.

As her mother and sister saw her, they shouted for her to get into the bunker quickly.

As she made it, and the door shut behind her, her mother gave her a slap behind the head.

"What were you thinking? You could have died! And for what, for a bloomin' cat? I hope you got the stupid thing at least!" she shouted at her daughter, tears obviously brimming her eyes.

Elsa slowly nodded, and untucked the little kitten from her chest "I got him, he was in the fireplace, so he needs a little clean" she said, a smile plastering her face as she saw her sisters eyes sparkle, she then turned to her mother "I'm sorry Mama, but Anna needs Olaf, he keeps her distracted"

Her mother then noticed the glass in her arms "Dear God! Look what happened to you! As soon as this is finished, you are going to the hospital missy" she then turned to look at both her daughters at the same time and sighed "I'm just so glad that you're both okay" she then took both her daughters, and the cat into her arms and waited the raid out.

-x-

The next morning, Elsa was sitting on a hospital bed, a nurse carefully taking out the glass in her arms with some tweezers, her eyes then caught sight of a white haired boy, sitting on the bed opposite, his left arm being put into a cast. He seemed to be staring at her, and as soon as she looked, he turned away, letting her see the bandage surrounding the top of his head. He actually looked to be around her age, and he didn't look ugly for a change.

"Ouch!" cried Elsa as the nurse pulled a shard of glass out too quickly.

"Sorry miss, it was larger than expected" said the lady, as she started to bandage Elsa's arms from the wrists to the shoulders

"Your sister and mother should be here shortly, meanwhile just relax" added the nurse once she had finished and left the room, leaving Elsa with the strange boy in the bed next to hers.

"How did you get hurt then?"

Elsa turned her head and was facing the boy.

"You first" she said, a faint smile on her face, smiles weren't common these days.

"Went back into the house to get my brothers stuffed rabbit and my sister's rag doll, and the roof collapsed, your turn" said the boy

"Stopped my sister from going to save her cat, and I went instead, window shattered, but the cat is fine" added Elsa.

"That's more heroic than me that's for sure" chuckled the boy "I'm Jack by the way"

"I'm Elsa" said the girl "What area are you from? I'm certain that if you were from Oxford Street I would have recognized you"

"Wow, uptown girl!" laughed the boy "I'm from the poor side of town, nowhere you've been I'm sure"

At that moment, the doors burst open.

"Elsa!" cried Anna as she ran to her sisters side "I was so worried! And Olaf was too, oh and mother was. Are you okay?"

Anna then noticed the boy on the other bed "Did you know that my sister is a hero!? She went back into our home, bombs falling from the sky, all to save Olaf! And she protected him from a projectile of glass, and didn't even cry when she got to the bunker, even when she had huge shards of glass in her arms!"

Elsa smiled at her sister, and then looked up at the door, where she could see her mother talking with the doctor, looking heart broken, and she knew why.

There was a reason they were the only children at the hospital, why school had been canceled and why her mother looked heart broken.

She stared as she came to her and Anna.

"My darlings I have sad news" said their mother "I've been told, that for your own safety, I have to send you to the country, where the Germans aren't expected to bomb us. I've tried to fight to keep you here with me, but it seems that all that's going to happen now is that you are going to get hurt. You understand?"

Both girls nodded.

"When's the train?" asked Elsa "And where are we going?"

"Tomorrow morning, and I believe somewhere in Scotland" said their mother.

A lone tear rolled down Elsa's cheek, even if she knew that this was coming, something inside her had hoped that the war would have been over before it had.

"Can you both be strong? For each other, and for me?" asked their mother, and both girls nodded.

But Elsa wasn't sure she could be, not even for herself.