Disclaimer: I do not own The Book Thief.

Please note, The narrator, Death, writes in bold.


Update 3/23/20: Chapter 19 is completed! Planning to put up chap 20 soon :)

AN: This chapter is not complete! I apologize for the shortness! However, go back and read 18 it's complete!

blackhellbutterfly: I am having major writer's block for Rudy's story! I've been researching the kind of school he is attending and that is partially why I haven't uploaded much on him. I am by no means done with this chapter though! I am still working on it haha Also, go back and read chap 18, it was short because it wasn't completed yet! Trust me there is some juicy stuff in there ;) Well kinda lol not really. Its complete now tho, chap 18. As always thanks for the support!

EmperorLeo: The last chapter wasn't done that's why it was shorter but I have writers block ahhhh lol I want to bring back Rudy, but I was researching what kind of experiences he will have at the Nazi school. It's hard to make it all up. I did go back to last chapter completed it! There is something exciting in it too! At least for me and my otp xP Ps this chap 19 is not complete! Still working on it since more research is needed to write it! Thanks for reading!

***WHAT KIND OF STORY DO YOU GUYS WANT?***

1. Rudy and Liesel make up?

2. Viktor and Liesel get together?

3. Bettina and Rudy go off the deep end and turn evil.

4. Rudy to die and never return?

5. Rudy to live, come back and confront Viktor and Liesel

and have a fight over who she ends up with?

6. Have Liesel flip flop between them? ;)

A/N #2: PLEASE NOTE IN THIS FIC: LIESEL IS NOW 16, BETTINA IS 14, VIKTOR IS 18 AND RUDY IS 16 YEARS OLD!


Chapter 19: Being a Proper Nazi

Rudy had grown accustomed to the drills. The ones that AHS shoved onto him. AHS standing for the elite Adolf Hitler School. His squadron made it to the center of the school's green. Or perhaps where one would have been if it weren't hidden beneath layers of muddy footprints. There is mud everywhere. April showers doesn't bring May flowers. It brings mud and lots of it. It is late April when Rudy had returned to his barracks at the end of his rigorous training. His body is sore and achey all over. He had just finished taking a shower or at least something somewhat like it. That is if you count ice water being dumped onto you for slightly messing up the formation. However, it wasn't his fault it was that damned Bernhard Trausch guy that messed it up for farting so stinky that Rudy had stepped back in disgust. Of course, then that created a domino effect of bumping each and every recruit. Therefore, royally fucking up everything. At that exact moment, the Reichsjugendführer turned around and witnessed the disaster firsthand.

***GERMAN NOTE***

Reichsjugendführer means Youth Leader.

He was also forced to do 10 laps around the green while soaked to the bone. He is lucky his punishment is just ice water and not the club stick beating. He had heard horror stories about the abuse that goes on here. His laps of shame he had to run isn't even the most humiliating part because not only did the Youth Leader think that Rudy ruined the formation, but he thought made the stinkiest farts too. Trausch must have been a pro at pretending he wasn't the one that farted because the next thing that hapened Rudy was completely doused in ice water. Trausch is strangely reminiscent to his moron of a best friend Mueller. Thank Gott Trausch isn't his friend though. He didn't think he could handle that. Instead, he is his roomate. And that is already tortuous enough.

"Done sucking Schirach's cock?" Trausch yell laughs as soon as Rudy enters the barracks. The name of their Youth Leader is Baldur von Schirach.

"Real mature Trash." Rudy rolls his eyes at his stupidity.

So what if he did the 10 laps? He isn't ready to die so young if he didn't follow his Youth Leader's orders. Schirach made his evil former instructor, Pffikus seem like the Virgin Mary compared to him. He sure didn't miss his Hitler Youth days with that arschloch. But Schirach. He is fucking satan incarnate. "And get off my fucking bed!" Rudy makes a half hearted jab at him and misses. His torn muscles screaming in protest. Trausch folds over laughing. That damn shit for brains. Rudy ignores him and yanks one of the towels from the small table beside the bed. He yanks it with so much force that the poker cards beside it were knocked askew. They fell and scattered everywhere. He heads toward the showers to wash the gunk of today from his body.

When he reaches the showers he releases a sigh he didn't realize he is holding in. He peels off his dirty uniform. It falls to his feet. He then removes his shoes that are caked in mud. He flicks on the shower nozzle to the hottest setting and just lets it cook him. His mind wanders back to Liesel. Did she hate him after what he had put her though? He hadn't had will to take advantage of her in the end. He had gotten as far as pulling off her dress. He wanted her to regret cheating on him with Viktor. He was angry and betrayed that she never told him she was Jewish. How could she have lied to him for so long.

He had let his anger cloud his judgement and he had almost crossed the point of no return. Or maybe he had crossed it. The way her eyes were full of fear. Tears and terror. She was like a wild animal caught in a trap, right as the hunter comes back to collect its kill. Even so, he still didn't feel sorry for his actions. He didn't even know if he loved her anymore after all she had done and with who. He felt his heart seize at the thought of Viktor closing in on her. While, he was hard at work to fight this worthless war. Deep down he felt he did love her, but right now he hated her. And he hated himself as well. He would become a proper Nazi and prove to her that she would regret doing this to him. Even if it meant he had to pry her from Viktor with his bare hands.

"How long are you going to stand there?"

Rudy turns around and it's that stuck up Kolya Volker from the train ride. Why did he care that he stood brooding underneath the shower or not. "Go somewhere else." Rudy motions around him there were plenty of stalls to go around.

"You've been in here longer than the 2 minute rule." Volker says matter of fact.

Rudy rolls his eyes. What a weirdo. Why is he keeping tracking of his time? "Are you a fag-" Rudy begins, his voice icy, but is cut off when he realizes why Volker has said what he said. The Youth Leader must have been making his rounds because some teen outside of his line of vision makes a yelping noise, as he's being dragging out of the shower.

"Too fucking long Schneider!"

The Youth Leader screams enraged. There is the sound of him being beaten. Rudy winces hearing the sound of a club hitting naked flesh. He quickly makes his exit. He made a mental note that he owed Volker one for this.