Untoten Kreuzung
Chapter 25
Sorry for such a late update, I've been busy with Minecraft and preparing for my trip to D.C.! Yep, I'll be in the Memorial Day Parade, I'm so excited! My school's marching band was selected to go again this year, I hope you'll all consider watching, but you won't be able to pinpoint me, we'll all be wearing matching uniforms, lol. Anyway, I'll be sure to update after the trip. (I won't be leaving until the 24th so be sure to get your input in before then)
A rugged man came into the living room, dirt covered his face and he had a scraggly beard. His hair looked like it'd been unkempt for days and so did his clothes. Muddy overalls, rough work boots, and a white t-shirt with the Confederate flag on it they just screamed that he was a southerner. He had deep set eyes that looked black at first glance, but in decent light they were very dark brown.
"'Bout time ya'll woke up. I was gettin' to worry you'd never see the light o' day again." He commented in his scruffy voice.
"Papa, that other fellow ain't up yet." Dan contradicted.
"Which one?" Dan's father asked. His son pointed to Richtofen who was still passed out on the other couch.
"Ah, I ain't too worried 'bout that one. Dressing up like a damn Hitler-loving kraut, it's best that he never get up." Dan's father grumbled. He looked back at Rune sitting on the couch.
"Well, miss. Have a nice nap did ya? Name's Jeremiah Rudders, nice ta meet ya." He greeted.
Rune looked at him and then back to Richtofen.
"I'm Rune Albana." She replied half-heartedly.
"He yer friend or somethin'?" Jeremiah asked.
"Yes, he's a friend of sorts. Those men are all friends you could say." She answered.
He grumbled and then went on with the conversation.
"Well, yer lucky me and my son were out there in the woods where ya'll crashed. If we hadn't been, well…..it wouldn't have been a pretty sight let's just say that." Jeremiah explained.
"Thank you." Rune replied, still worried for Richtofen.
"Miss, you all right?" he asked concerned.
"Yes, I'm fine, but….." she trailed off. Jeremiah went into the other room and stared at Richtofen. He nudged him a bit, then again even harder, and even more times, but he didn't wake up. He looked back into the living room and shrugged his shoulders.
"Don't know what ta tell ya miss. He's out cold, just gonna have to wait it out." He explained. Rune hung her head and then looked out the window. It seemed about sunset, and she instinctively fiddled around in her pocket. She nearly had a heart attack when she couldn't find her phone.
"Oh, sorry, I have yer phone miss. Just keepin' it safe for ya." Dan clarified and held out her phone for her to take back. She reclaimed her possession and checked the battery life, and there was none. It was just a black screen so she checked in her jacket pockets and luckily she found the charger.
"Do you have an outlet I can put this in?" she asked.
"Sure do, behind the table to yer right." Jeremiah answered. She looked back there and sure enough the outlet was there.
"Thank you." She replied.
"Sure thing." He welcomed.
Three hours passed and the sun was well underneath the horizon now. Jeremiah had made a makeshift meal with the foodstuffs he had at hand, which wasn't much. He'd explained that when they absolutely needed to they would have to kill the remaining livestock on their farm. Rune wasn't surprised that they lived on a farm; they were southern folk after all.
A sudden rustling got everyone's attention; from inside the secondary living room they heard very familiar German curses. Rune was the first to head into the room; sure enough Richtofen had woken up and discovered that he was sore as could be. Out of curiosity he reached up to feel his forehead then cringed with the slightest touch.
"Ed!" Rune said with delight.
He looked at her surprised to see that she'd gotten up before him for the first time.
"Vhat….vhat happened? Mein head is so dizzy….I thought ve'd died in zhat accident?" he managed.
"We would have, but these two men saved us and took us in." she explained.
"Vhat two men?" he asked.
No sooner had he asked about them did they walk into the room.
"So the sleeper wakes, 'bout time, I'd almost given up on any hope of ya wakin' up." Jeremiah grumbled. Richtofen looked at the ragged man in the overalls and almost would have scoffed if he weren't so dizzy and out of mind.
"Before ya get up and eat I request that ya take off that outfit ya got on. I don't go to well with people that dress like them baby-killing Nazis." He added.
After that he left the room went back through the kitchen and into the dining room. Dan still stood there and watched both Rune and Richtofen.
"I'd do as he asks, sir. My Pa's Pa fought in World War II, and he was European Theatre. He told us lots of nasty stories 'bout Nazis, that's why he don't tolerate ya." Dan explained.
"Vell, I fought in it too so I vould be able to disprove some of zhose stories." Richtofen replied. Dan raised an eyebrow and sort of laughed.
"Are ya all right in the head, sir, I mean you'd have to be older than dirt to have fought in it." Dan clarified.
"I'm only thirty-seven, I'm not zhat old, besides I vas zhere vhen Hitler vas elected to Chancellor of Germany."
Before either of them could go on Rune whispered something to Richtofen.
"Vhat? Vhy didn't you tell zhem?" he bursted.
"I didn't know how they'd react, they wouldn't be that willing to believe something like that." She replied. Richtofen shook his head slightly and then looked to address Dan.
"Vell, vhether you believe me or not, ve are from Vorld Var II, but not exactly from zhis timeline or dimension." Richtofen began, but the look on the young man's face didn't very much reassure him that he understood. Rune at that point took immediate action.
"Have you ever heard about Call of Duty?" she asked Dan. He snapped out of his stupefied state.
"Yeah, I've played Modern Warfare and a little Black Ops." He answered.
"Did you ever play the zombies mode on Black Ops?" she questioned.
"I did a few times…wait….." he paused and thought up in his head. Rune waited for the inevitable and braced herself for what was to come next.
"Yer that crazy German guy aren't you?" he exclaimed. Richtofen nodded not quite sure what he would do next.
"And those three other guys, the Russian, the Marine, and the Japanese guy….." he added.
"Yep, that's them. They're the guys from the game." Rune assured.
Dan had a smile on his face, and then laughed a bit.
"Whoa, I gotta go talk to the Marine. He's been my favorite since I started playin'. This is…..it's just…wow!" he exclaimed again and went into the dining room. Richtofen let out a sigh of relief and carefully ran his hand through his hair.
"Now ve have to see how his father is going to take it."
Rune nodded in agreement, but then heard to rustle of conversation in the dining room.
"C'mon Ed, you need to eat something, can't have you going hungry when we've still got a teleporter to find." Rune announced. Richtofen unbuttoned his over shirt and slid off his armband. Afterwards he got up slowly and quickly adjusted to standing again.
"I wish I could recover that fast." Rune mumbled to herself.
"I gave myself ample time to rest and readjust, unlike you." He explained.
"I guess I am a bit impatient at times." She admitted.
"A bit….? Vell…..I von't say anything." He hesitated.
When they got into the dining room, Dan and Tank were already having a full blown conversation. Jeremiah just ate quietly, probably thinking that his son had gone loony.
"Yeah, I remember when I was stuck in a Japanese tunnel system with only my 1911 and a rusty butter knife. I was scouting around the corners and next thing I knew I was jumped by a Jap with a sword." Dempsey told.
"Oh man, did ya get him off ya?" Dan asked excitedly.
"Of course I did, threw him off me into the wall of the tunnel and slit his throat. Yep, ain't no man alive that can take the Tank out, heheh." He concluded.
"May I also add, Dempsey, zhat you're ze vone who gets downed ze most vhen ve are fighting zombies." Richtofen entered.
Dempsey didn't take to well with that remark and thus began another verbal fight between the two.
"I get downed so often because I ain't a pussy to get up close and fight those worm infested bastards." Dempsey retorted.
"Are you sure it's not because of your lack of brain cells Dempsey, because I believe that's vhat ze real reason is." Richtofen insulted.
"Well, excuse me. I'm not the one who keeps getting us lost in this whole time travel bit."
Rune hung and shook her head, both embarrassed and uncomfortable. She perked her head back up and looked over to Jeremiah.
"Did Dan explain to you….." Rune said, but was cut off with Jeremiah's sudden answer.
"Yep."
She continued to skulk over the embarrassment.
"Good." She mumbled.