A/N: Takes place after Maurice Lindell, a young Resistance worker, has been betrayed by a girlfriend and delivered to the Gestapo. Watch the film if you want to find out what happens after.
Yvette is a traitor.
My anger is what keeps me silent. Thoughts of Maman and Barbé slowly replace those of the girl who betrayed me, betrayed us. I feel oddly calm through the blows, through the maddening stickiness of blood I can't wipe away.
"Where is your mother?" my tormentor screams inches from my face.
"I. Don't. Know," I lie for the hundredth time.
The next blow brings bright sparks spinning before my vision and pain lances through my head.
Darkness.
Have they turned out the light? Surely not – I can still feel the heat of the interrogation light on my face. As the questions begin again, I realise the truth.
I am blind.
