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I do not own the characters or the events that happen in The Book Thief. This is not my story just changed it a little.

There was knock on the door. Rudy's mother, Barbara, opened it. She nearly fainted when she saw the two men in black coats at her doorstep. When she looked she thought that this was it, that now her husband, or maybe Kurt, her oldest, would be taken away from her. She wasn't too far off.

"Frau Steiner?" The man on the right asked. He had shock blonde hair and stormy blue eyes, like the ocean during a hurricane.

"That is me. What do you want?" she asked. She hoped that her terror did not show through her voice.

"We came to talk to you and your husband about your son. May we come in?" This time it was the one on the left. He had sandy blonde har, and blue eyes so soft that it makes you, even me, death, wonder how he could wok for such a cruel man, the Fruhrer, Adolf Hitler.

"Of course." She opened the door wider so they could come in. When they cam in she led them into the kitchen. They passed the kids in the living room playing dominos. She walked into the kitchen "Make yourself comfortable. I'm just going to go get Alex." She left.

When she returned with her husband, Alex, they sat down with the two men. "Would you like some water or milk?" she asked the men

"No thank you." The sandy haired man answered

"We came here to talk about your son, Rudy." The one with the darker eyes started.

"What about him?" Alex inquired.

"He has been giving an amazing oppurtuinity to go to a school that trains young men in a good physical form, like your son, to be in elite form of Germans. These German will be stronger. They will be a new bread of Germans that will scare away our enemies, and make us the stringest country in the world." He explained.

Alex and Barbara looked at them with shocked faces. "Where would this school be? Would he stay with us?" Barbara asked, but she didn't need to. She knew what the answer would be before she asked.

"The school is in Berlin, so he would be taken there." The man with the light eyes answered.

Rudy began to grow curious of the men in the kitchen, so he left his game of dominos with his siblings, and pressed his ear against the door. He heard that the men wanted to take him away to school to be trained. He heard it all, and he did not like it.

"You don't have to make your mind up now, but when you do write a letter to this address." The one with the sandy haired man slipped Alex a paper. "Auf wiedersehen." The two black coated men got up and went to the door.

"Goodbye to you too." Frau Steiner said as she showed the men to the door.

Once the men left, Rudy went up to his parents. "They want to take me away, don't they," he said he looked up, into the eyes of his father. "Don't lie to me I heard them! They want to take me away to some school!" He yelled. "Well I'm NOT going!" He went to turn away back to his room, but his father caught his arm.

"I'm sorry, Rudy," his father said. He wasn't mad at him. His voice was calm, but you could hear the waver of sadness in his voice," but we can not afford to not do as these men say. They can hurt anyone of us, or send me away. I'm sorry you must go."

Rudy stepped away from his father and started screaming from his hurt, "YOU COWARD, YOU SAUKERL. YOU WOULD RATHER THEY TAKE YOUR SON AWAY THEN TO ACT LIKE A MAN AND FIGHT!" After getting these words out, he pushed past his parents and went through the door. Rudy knew there was no denying the inevitable, he was going away.

His father was not upset at what his son had just said to him. He did not go after Rudy because he knew that he would eventually come back on his own with a new set of mind. Unfortunately his wife did not realize this about him. For she was screaming about the kitchen yelling about where he could have gone, but he refused to let her leave to look.

Rudy wondered around. He almost went to Liesels house to tell her what happened, but he knew that the words would never be able to come out correctly. He realized now that his father was right. If he didn't do what the Fuhrer wanted, his father would be drafted, and there would go the little money supply they had left. He knew what to do. He knew he needed to go. With that in mind he went back to house, and preparing for what he was about to face

What Herr Rudy Steiner didn't know, was that this desiscion to go, to leave Himmel Strasse, just saved his life.

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