Note: This chapter is borderline between PG and PG-13 just for the situation. Please review and enjoy reading!
Ch. 5: Terror
Maria rode in the car along with other Nazi soldiers to Vienna. Maria told them that the hiding spot was by the Cathedral, but she would like to stop at the hotel first. The Nazis agreed with her as they pulled up to the hotel they would stay at. Maria opened her door and was surprised to find a very nice large room. She sat down on the bed exhausted from the drive. Hiding so much was not easy for such an innocent, truthful person.
Maria heard a knock on the door and went to open it. She saw it was the Lieutenant and smiled.
"Are you ready to go?" She asked eager began her escape plan.
"Oh well yes, but first if you don't mind I would like to have a word with you." He told her pushing the door open. Maria's face began to burn with nervousness.
"Wh-What do you want?" She stumbled at him.
"Well I wanted to let you know I have never met such a charming woman. I was wondering if you would marry me." He asked her innocently pulling out a huge diamond ring. To most it would be beautiful, but to Maria it was the biggest most ugly ring she had ever seen. Forgetting whom she was talking to Maria began.
"Are you joking? You know very well that I am married and that I love my husband!" Maria shouted.
"Yes I see. You love him so much that you are about to turn him in hmm? You are about to give every secret he ever had away to me. Yes I can see you love him very much. Tell me Maria, if Georg was doing what you were dong would you still love him?" He asked.
"What are you talking about?" Maria asked innocently.
"Well pretending to be injured in the day, but going around at night with men…" he began.
"I have never done any of that and you know it!" Maria shouted.
"Yes I know it, but I don't suppose your husband will know it when he gets this note, will he? Will he be glad to find his wife has been cheating on him?" He asked pulling a note out of his pocket. "I wonder what he will think of you when he reads why you have not yet returned to Switzerland."
"Wait how do you know he is in Switzerland?" Maria asked reading the note. Her eyes fired up when she read it. She had never heard such distasteful things being said about her. Then she realized she had just let the truth out. She saw the Lieutenant laugh evilly at her as he locked the door behind him. She gasped as he tugged her wrist and laid her on the bed.
"Yes Maria I have known all along you were a fake. It is not hard to tell. We have had people searching for the Captain for months until we found him. Do you know how much trouble you will be in when you tell everyone there is no hiding spot? You will be put in jail. The only reason I have saved you this far is because I want you to be my wife. So say yes and I will save you or you die." He told her roughly. Maria laid there in absolute horror as she felt him put his lips on her back. Seeing her not responding to his opposed question made him even more upset. "Answer me now!"
"I will never be your wife. You can't force me ever. I will never love anyone but Georg. So the answer is no." Maria said trying not to show her complete terror. The look in his eyes shook her to the core.
"Fine, it is not my place to kill you. They will, but not before I get what I want out of you." Maria gasped as he was soon unbuttoning her dress. Soon he yanked it off but felt Maria hand lash his face. He stopped for a moment in shock, but soon grabbed her feet and pulled her to the bed. As he began to take off his clothes still holding her to the bed she spotted his gun.
Maria prayed hard to God and also to Agathe to help her as she stopped moving for a moment to make him think she surrendered. She put all her effort into moving her small hand to the gun. She pulled it out and kneed his bare skin. Stunned to see her with a gun he sat up. She wrestled with him until she had him in a headlock.
"You get out of this room and set me free or you die." Maria said her voice stone cold offering no hint of being scared to shoot. She typed the small letters SOS into the telegram machine remembering Georg telling about stories of the Navy and what they would do when they needed help. It was the shortest version of help she could think of. Soon someone had unlocked the room and to Maria's dissatisfaction they were Nazis.
The danger of being raped was over, but being in danger certainly was not. The Nazis allowed her to get dressed and then once it was explained she was a fake, she was beaten until she was knocked out and taken to the nearest prison.
Maria awoke to find herself in a small cell for prisoners. Her whole body hurt from the beatings and lashings from the Nazis. She put her hand gently on her stomach and started to cry. She prayed that her baby was not injured. The only good thing about this was that the one part of her that had not been touched seemed to be her stomach area. She was grateful for that, but was still shaken by the events that had unfolded so swiftly that night.
She sat on the cold cell floor thanking God that she was still alive at least. Maria was extremely happy that God had given her so much strength in that hard situation. It frightened her to think what would have happened if she had not had that boost of strength and energy. She decided it would be better to be in a prison cell and beaten than be married some pathetic Lieutenant who she loathed. She realized that either way the Lieutenant had thought he would win. Even though Maria was now in prison and who knows what she knew he had not gotten what he really wanted out his plan.
A cold shiver ran down her back as she realized what could have happened. She again thanked the Lord for giving her power to overcome the titanic obstacle she faced. Maria smiled when she realized she had asked Agathe for help. Ever since Georg had told her more about her, Maria seemed to become close to her in prayer. She felt that maybe Agathe was not only watching out for her husband and children, but their new beloved Mother as well.