A/N : Hey Everyone! I hope you like this story…

Extended Summary: Sara Dawson was a regular US student, with incredible hockey ability, when her school decides to take a trip to Russia she wants nothing more then to go with them, when conflict arises Aka: War, She has to get out of there some how, with all her friends, fellow classmates and teachers dead, she decides to dress up as a Russian Man and try out for the Hockey team. If she makes the hockey team it will give her a one way pass back To the US, then all she has to do is keep her being a girl from the US a Secret for long enough…

I stood there, looking at the mangled bodies of my friends and former classmates. The stench was of rotten blood and of gasoline. The Scene will haunt me until the day that I die. I start to walk around the battle scene that used to be our hotel, before it was blown up. As I gaze upon the horror struck face of my best friend I can't help but let a few large tears roll down my soot covered face. And to think I was the only one left, because I went to get coffee… I heard sirens in the distance, I knew the only way to survive would be to run. So that's exactly what I did, I ran for my life. I saw a near by forest and ran into that as I made my way out of the forest, I saw a house a tiny cottage. It was my only escape…

"Sara, would you like to come down and have some tea now?" asked Marie. Marie was the owner of the cottage. Her husband has long since diseased.

"Yeah Marie, I will be down in a second" I said to her. She was just like my mother, only she had brown eyes and auburn hair where as my mother and I had green eyes and dark brown hair. She was just as kind and as sweet as my own mother though. That thought brought more tears to my eyes. I get up and go to the bathroom. I make my way downstairs into the kitchen.

"Here is your tea sweetey" Marie says. Even though she isn't my mom, that's what I call her.

"Thanks mom" I say.

"Do you want to help me with the gardening today?" She asks me

"Sure" I said

That Night I gathered up all my stuff. Tonight was the night I was going to run away. I was just about to leave when…