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Hochstetter slipped in and out of consciousness on the way back to Stalag 13. It drove him crazy to think that he was now at the mercy of Colonel Hogan. Of all people!
"Why couldn't they finish me off when they had the chance..." Hochstetter briefly thought.
Whenever consciousness began to fade, reality was replaced with an image of his father, the one thing that continuously mocked him.
"You disgust me," was the first thing he always said. "Look at you, at the mercy of the enemy... you pathetic excuse for a son!"
"Shut up! I hate you!" Hochstetter told the hallucination, not realizing that what he said was partially out-loud too. As the Gestapo Major muttered things from time to time, Hogan and his men would cast brief side-glances to one another.
"I can't stand the sight of you!"
"Then get the fuck away from me!!"
"Tch... Can't even respect your superiors..."
"There's no way in hell that something like you could be superior!" Hochstetter shot back. The vision raised its fist, ready to strike, which caused the Major to flinch.
"Perhaps you need to be reminded of how to obey!" His father growled.
"I hate you...! I'll kill you...!" Hochstetter groaned out-loud.
"Well, he sure seems really thankful, doesn't he?" Newkirk said sarcastically.
"Oui. I say we leave him here to die," LeBeau replied.
"As tempting as that is," Hogan started, "we can't. He might be exactly what we need to complete the mission."
"But is it really that important?"
"Well, according to London, it is, otherwise I'd be the first one to drop him like a hot potato!"
"Thank God I'm nothing like you!" Hochstetter growled to the hallucination.
"On the contrary, son," the vision laughed. "You're exactly like me."
Hochstetter shook his head. "No..." he moaned.
"We gotta keep him quiet if we're gonna get him into the tunnel," Kinch said.
"Yeah, that's the big problem with Hochstetter," Hogan began. "You never can shut him up!"
The group approached the tunnel entrance. As Hogan held the tree stump up, Carter and Newkirk climbed down so they could get Hochstetter when Kinch and LeBeau passed him down. Once they got Hochstetter into the tunnel, LeBeau, Kinch, and Hogan followed. As Hochstetter entered the tunnel, the vision of his father slowly began to fade.
"Like father, like son," his father was saying.
"No... Never..." Hochstetter whispered. "And thank God I'm nothing like you..."