A/N zygomatic bone is the bone that is under your eyes. *just letting you all know*
Herr = Is Mister in German
Großvater = Is German for grandfather
Mein Enkelin = Is German for my granddaughter
Oui = Is yes in French
Petite soeur = Is little sister in French
Liebe Enkelin = Is German for Dear granddaughter
Vater = Is the German word for father
Fräulein = Is the German word for a woman that is unmarried
Oberst = Is the German word for Colonel
Onkel = Is the German word for Uncle
Freundlicher Großvater = Is German for kind grandfather
Mutter = Is the German word for Mother
Liebe dich Vater = Is Love you father in German
Liebe dich Tochter = Is Love you daughter in German
Wunderbar = Is the German word for wonderful
Gute nacht = Is Goodnight in German
The Healing Begins
Kreizler made it to the camp in record speed. When he arrived at the camp there was nearly all of the POW'S and guard's around the small house. He moved passed them all to get into the house as quick as he could. Deep down within himself he feared that whoever was hurt, that he would not be able to help them. When he had gotten the call to come to the camp that his old friend looked after; he had rushed over as fast as he could. He had been at the hospital at the time. After the call he yelled out that he would need another doctor and some nurses to come with him to help him at the camp. As Kreizler ran up onto the small porch he saw a small Frenchmen standing near the door crying. This alarmed the German doctor. 'Am I too late?' He asked himself. Kreizler quickly made his way into the house. Once inside his eyes saw the bloody mess. The older man stopped as his eyes saw a young woman sitting on the floor. His eyes watched the blood drip from her hair onto the floor. He looked down and saw the young man in the young woman's lap. He looked at the young man and saw a stab wound to the chest and a gun shot wound in his left arm. Kreizler looked over at his old friend, and saw that the man had been crying while moving his hands back to the wound on the young man's chest. His eyes looked over to see his friends love kneeling on the floor with his hand on the back of his daughter's head. His eyes shifted over to the bullet wound on the younger Colonel's right arm. Shaking his head Kreizler snapped out of his shock and quickly started to take charge of the situation at hand.
"Wilhelm get some of the men to move Newkirk to the sick bay as well as Mary. I will need your help. I will be helping Newkirk, so I will need you to look her over and bandage her head. Also ask any of the POW's or guard's if they have the same blood type as him as well as Hogan. He will need some blood as well." He told his friend quickly as he moved to the side of the young Corporal. Klink nodded his head, then turned toward Kinch and Carter
"Kinch, Carter help Laszlo carry Newkirk to the sick bay, and do whatever he tells you to do!" After Klink had told them this; he got up and walked over to his love and daughter. Hogan looked at his love as he walked over to him and Mary.
"Robert, I will carry Mary to the sick bay. Do you need someone to help you over to the building?" He asked his love who was now going into shock. Hogan nodded his head then shook his head. Klink narrowed his brows together when his love didn't say anything back to him. As Klink picked up Mary, General Burkhalter walked over to Hogan. He reached down and helped the younger man to his feet. The General looked at the younger man's face and saw that he was going into shock at what all had happened.
"Colonel Hogan?" the older man said his name, but all Hogan could do was watch his love pick their daughter up in his arms. His eyes widen as he saw her head fall backwards. Hogan moved away from Burkhalter to his daughter, but fell to the floor. Klink looked at his love, but looked up as Burkhalter yelled at him.
"Klink take her to the sick bay! I will help him! GO!" Klink ran out of the house with the young woman who he saw as a daughter in his arms. Burkhalter knelt down and took Hogan's left arm and placed it around his neck.
"Hogan you have to get help for yourself. Your daughter will be alright. But you have to help yourself before you can be there for her." Hogan looked over at the older man. In a weak voice he said.
"Your right." The General helped Hogan to his feet and helped him walk out of the house. Hogan saw someone run past him wearing black. Hogan glanced up to see Hochstetter standing near his car that was parked at the closed gates. The man who he hated was looking at him with a questioning look on his face, but had a happy smile on his lips. 'He would be this happy seeing me wounded and in pain.' Hogan thought to himself. 'I don't know why I even thought about calling him.' He added in his mind.
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Major Wolfgang Hochstetter stood by his car near the closed gates as a young Gestapo man ran toward the house. His eyes looked around the camp and saw POW's and guard's. Some were talking while others were running to help at the house, or going to the sick bay. He looked over and saw General Burkhalter helping the man that he hated walk toward the sick bay. Then when he looked closer at this man; he saw the blood on Hogan's hand. Hochstetter smiled at Hogan when he locked eyes with him. Then he looked over as he saw the small Frenchman tell the fat Sergeant something, then ran toward him.
"Major you're a little late for us to need your help." LeBeau told him. Hochstetter narrowed his brows at him. He saw the tear tracks on the Frenchman's cheek's.
"And why did you and Colonel Hogan need my help?" He asked the little man in a mocking voice. LeBeau narrowed his eyes and brows and let his anger get the best of him.
"Listen here Major! We needed your help to save a young sweet lady's life! Her step father killed her mother and that was after he did every kind of abuse to her, and yes even sexual too! That bastard raped her and did only god knows what to her! That sweet girl was sent here for everyone to protect her! Her step father came here and almost killed her, and Colonel Hogan! Her love, my friend Newkirk is fighting for his life after he sacrificed himself to save her from that monster!" At first Hochstetter was taken aback by the little man yelling at him, then listened to what he was saying. Hochstetter looked over as one of his men ran back to him.
"Herr Major." Said the young man.
"Well." He said in a normal voice. The young man raised a brow at this, then looked over at the little man and saw his face red with anger.
"I looked inside the house and… there is blood everywhere inside. The dead man that is still in the house is a Major George Rivers of the RAF. I was told that he came here to kill a young lady, and Colonel Hogan." The young man lowered his head for a second then looked up at his superior. "From what I saw, and what I was told he almost succeeded in doing so." Hochstetter narrowed his brows, then looked behind the young man and saw a POW and a guard carrying the dead man out of the house on a stretcher with a sheet over him. Hochstetter walked over toward them while leaving the other two behind him. He walked over to them and told them.
"Wait." Both men stopped as Hochstetter pulled the sheet back. His eyes widen at the sight before him. The man's face was very bloody. It looked like his nose had been broken. Hochstetter pulled the sheet farther down and saw the stab wound in the heart. He pulled the sheet down farther and saw four arrows laying between the man's legs. The four arrows had blood on them.
"Three of the arrows were in his back. We had to pull them out so that we could put him on the stretcher." Said the POW.
"Yes and the other arrow was used to stab him in the heart with." Said the guard. Hochstetter nodded his head and covered the dead man back up. He then turned to walk into the house.
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Meanwhile LeBeau stood there with this young Gestapo man. He looked over at the young man who was looking down at the ground with widen eyes. LeBeau lowered his head and said a prayer for his friends and his little sister. It was when the young man spoke to him is when he looked up and over at him.
"Do you know what happened in the house?" He asked him. While shaking his head LeBeau admitted.
"No. I was outside on the porch. No one went into the house while the fighting was going on." He told him. The young man looked over at him.
"I am sure that you will be questioned on what happened today. But I will be asking the questions. I know that Herr Major can go at it the wrong way."
"Thank you…." LeBeau looked at the young man waiting to hear him say his name.
"Captain Levi Ritter, I am second in command under Herr Major Hochstetter." He told the smaller man.
"Well Thank you Captain. I am Corporal Louis LeBeau. I hope you don't mind, but I would like to go to the sick bay now to see if my friends and my Commanding Officers daughter is alright."
"No please go and see about your friends and the young lady." LeBeau nodded his head and ran to the sick bay.
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Once inside the sick bay the three men placed the wounded Corporal on a bed. Kreizler got to work on how to help this young man. He cut open the young man's shirt and looked at the wound. As he did that Klink ran in, and placed Mary on a bed. He moved over to a cabinet and got what he needed to help her.
"Laszlo if you don't need both of them, I need one over here to hold her up so I can look at her head." Klink said this while taking off his Officers uniform jacket. Kinch moved from Carter's side to the older man's.
"How do you want me to hold her?" He asked him.
"Place her in your lap, with the back of her head facing me. Oh and Kinch try to wake her up. It's too dangerous for her to sleep now." Kinch nodded his head and did as told. He placed himself on the bed, then lifted Mary up into his lap. He held her back with his left arm. With his right hand on her neck, and the lower part of her head. Kinch held Mary's head up as he started to speak to her.
"Mary, you have to wake up." He heard her hum a little as she opened her eyes.
"James?" He smiled as his little sister said his name.
"Yeah sis. It's me. Klink has to look at your head alright." He watched as her eyes widen after he told her this. He bear hugged her as she tried to move out of his arms.
"PETER!" She yelled out as she tried to look for her love.
"He's alright Mary… He's alright. Dr. Kreizler is helping him now." He told her. Mary calmed down as she felt her body get tired once again.
"Alright?" She asked as her eyes started to close again. Kinch saw this and started to talk to her again.
"Yes Sis, he's alright." Kinch lied to her. He really didn't know if his friend was alright or not. Klink looked at his daughter's head. He smiled to himself as he saw that it was not as bad as he thought it was. He started to clean the cut, as Kinch tried to get Mary to wake up again.
"Mary, sis you have to stay awake. You can't sleep yet." He told her. Mary opened her eyes again and looked up at him.
"Where is Papa?" She asked. Kinch looked over at the door as Burkhalter walked Hogan into the room. The older man still had Hogan's arm around his neck.
"He's here. Burkhalter is helping him to a bed." When he finished speaking the young doctor that came with Kreizler ran over to start helping the American Officer. Kinch looked back at Mary as she moved some in his arms.
"I want to see Peter, and Papa." She whined out in worry for both of them.
"You will here in a bit sweet Snow." Klink said as he finished up what he was doing. He glanced up at Kinch and told him.
"Go ahead and take her out to the waiting room. I will go and help Kreizler." Kinch nodded his head and got up with Mary still in his arms. Klink walked over and washed his hands in a large sink. He looked over at his love when he heard him speak to him in a weak voice.
"How bad was her head?" Hogan asked him.
"It is just a small cut, but she will have one hell of a headache." He told his love.
"Wilhelm! I need your help over here! He is bleeding badly! The arrow nicked his lung and liver! I need you to start handing me my tools!" Klink ran over to his friend and started to help him. Hogan watched as the two men worked on his best friend. Both men moved quickly to get the wound to stop bleeding as bad. Kreizler cut into the young man's chest and looked around. He was able to get a good look at the organs that were damaged. Klink looked up at his son's face and saw the paleness on his face.
"If we don't get this fixed up soon and he doesn't get blood soon than he will die…"
"You mean that he will die again." Kreizler said as he started to repair the young Corporal's lung. Klink looked at his friend as he handed him a tool that was needed.
"What do you mean by again?" He asked him. Without looking away Kreizler spoke.
"There is signs that he did die, but by the grace of god he was given a second chance at life." He told him. Klink smiled at this.
"Or a kiss of life." He said remembering Mary begging all those up in the heavens to bring her love back to her, and then the kiss that she had gave him.
"What?" His old friend asked him.
"Mary begged all in heaven to bring her love back to her and she kissed him. After that is when she told me that he was breathing."
"Well that girl is a gift from the heavens than." Kreizler said as he took another tool that he needed, but didn't ask for it yet. "How did you know that I…"
"I taught you well Laszlo." Both smiled while not looking up as they continued to work on saving Newkirk's life.
Kinch carried his new little sister out to the waiting room. Once he had sat her down in a chair, he sat down beside her. Burkhalter walked into the room, and took a seat beside the young lady. Kinch looked over at the older man and asked him.
"General could you stay with her will I go and see if they need my help?" Burkhalter nodded his head and told Kinch that he would watch her, as he went to help the others. Mary was awake some, but asked the General in a very tired voice.
"Großvater, can I go and see my gold heart?" Burkhalter looked over at her with wide eyes. 'Did she just call me grandfather?' He asked himself.
"No mein Enkelin. He is in surgery right now, but once he is out you can see him." He told her. Mary smiled at him and nodded her head. Kinch walked back into the room with the younger Sergeant right behind him. Carter ran over to Mary and knelt down in front of her. Burkhalter looked at the two men with narrowed brows.
"Klink is helping Kreizler now, so they told us to come out here." Just as Kinch said this LeBeau walked into the waiting room. He saw the blood on his friends clothes and tried not to pass out from it. 'How is it that I can cook with raw meat, but can't look at blood?' He asked himself.
"How are they?" He asked Kinch while keeping his eyes down at the ground.
"Mary is alright. Colonel Hogan is getting help, and Newkirk is in surgery now." He told the smaller man. They all looked over at Carter when he spoke to Mary.
"Hey sissy. Do you want me to get you something?" Mary glanced up at Carter when he spoke to her.
"What did you just call me?" She asked him. Carter smiled and told her again.
"I called you sissy. You are like a baby sister to all of us." Mary smiled at him, and moved her eyes to look at her loves and her father's friends.
"Oui you are our petite soeur." Said LeBeau.
"Yeah you are our little sis." Kinch said with a sweet smile. This made Mary smile wide at them. Then remembered Kinch calling her his nickname for her earlier.
"Thank you, and I do see all of you as my brothers." She told them in a weak voice.
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The young doctor finished stitching up Hogan's arm. Hogan's eyes had been watching Kreizler, and his love work on his best friend. After the young doctor finished bandaging his arm; Hogan moved to get up. He wanted to walk out to be with his daughter. The young doctor saw Hogan go to move, but stopped him.
"Colonel Hogan, you have to lay down. You still need blood." He told him. Hogan looked over at him and then looked back at his love and his fallen friend. He nodded his head as the young doctor turned to the nurse and told her to go and ask for his blood type.
"Colonel Hogan needs blood, as well as his friend will need blood too. Go and tell the guard's to ask the POW's if they will give some of theirs." The young woman nodded her head.
"What type are they?" She asked him.
"Newkirk and I have the same type." The young doctor looked over at him and asked.
"What type our you both?"
"We are both O+." He told him. The young man looked over at the nurse.
"Ask for O+, A+, B+, or AB+. I say the young man that Dr. Kreizler is working on will need a lot more than Colonel Hogan." He told her. The nurse walked out of the room and past the waiting room.
"Please Colonel Hogan lay down. You need to rest. Your body is still in shock." Hogan didn't say anything. He just sat on the bed while his eyes watched his love help work on his best friend. His eyes watched Kreizler's hand move the needle up and down as he was stitching the young man that was his daughter's world. Hogan closed his eyes when he felt a sharp pain go threw his head. Lifting his hand up to his head; the young doctor saw this. He watched the American Colonel's body start to shake slightly.
"Are you alright?" He asked him. Hogan tried to tell him that he wasn't, but found that he couldn't speak. Hogan fell forward onto the floor onto his side. Klink looked over as he heard his love hit the floor. To Klink's horror his love started to bend backwards. Kreizler watched his old friend's eyes widen.
"Go to him! I don't need your help now!" He told him as Klink ran over to his love.
"ROBERT!" He yelled out his loves name. Klink had never seen a seizure like this before in his life, even the young doctor didn't really know what to do. The young doctor knelt down to the man's side. Klink watched as his loves body bend farther back to where his head was now touching his heels. Klink's eyes widen as he realized that his love was not breathing. Hogan's body bent as far as it could go without breaking. The older man placed his hand on his young loves hip as he felt helpless to help him. Hogan was in the seizure for only a half a minute, but to Klink it felt like hours went by. Once his loves body started to relax, and when Klink heard his love take a deep breath in, he himself did as well. Rolling his love over onto his back, Klink started to try to wake his love.
"Robert? Robert wake up." But all he got was heavy breathing. He looked up at the young doctor.
"Help me get him on the bed." The younger man help the older Colonel place the young unconscious man onto the bed.
From where he was standing, Kreizler watched his friend place the younger Colonel onto the bed with such care. He looked back down as he put in the last stitch on the younger man's wound. After he was done, he started to place the bandages on the wounds. He listened to his old friend tell the younger doctor what to do after someone had a seizure. He smiled to himself as he heard the care in the older man's voice. When the older Colonel was helping him with the young man that his old friend called his son. Kreizler knew that Klink would have been a great doctor. He knew what to hand him without Kreizler even telling him. The older man knew what to do, and that was why Kreizler looked up to him. When Kreizler had been asked in medical school who he would want to follow and to learn from. He had told everyone that he wanted to learn from Wilhelm Klink. All in the school had told him that he needed to follow and learn from someone who was a doctor, not one who was still in school. When he told them that he didn't care. That the slightly older man was great at what he did. Kreizler remembered that all had told him that this Wilhelm Klink would not be a good teacher. Kreizler smiled to himself when he had told Klink that he wanted him to teach him. The older man had given him an odd look back then. He was right to want to learn from Wilhelm at the time. The slightly older man was amazing at his work. They became fast friends, and soon they started to be able to read each other's minds. Then when Klink's father had came to take his son out of medical school, it had pained them both. Kreizler knew just how badly his new friend wanted to become a doctor. It was, and still is hard to see his friend now doing something that he didn't really want to do. It was when the nurse came back in, and walked up to him is what brought him out of his thoughts.
"Dr. Kreizler…."
"Did you find anyone to give blood?" He interrupted her. He looked over at her when she didn't say anything. The look on her face was that of confusion. "What is it?" He asked her again.
"Well I did." She told him as Kreizler covered the young man with a thin blanket to keep him warm.
"Then what's that look for?" He asked her now looking at her again.
"Well there are about fifteen POW's and guard's that are willing to give blood."
"FIFTEEN!" Klink turned his head from his love and narrowed his brows.
"Fifteen what?" He asked then looked back at his love when he moved in his sleep.
"There are fifteen POW's and guard's outside waiting to give blood." He told his old friend. Klink didn't look over, but smiled wide.
"They all really love you Robert and my brave son too." He told his sleeping love. The nurse walked out to collect the blood for the two men.
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Mary sat there with her head against Kinch's chest. Her eyes saw the nurse walk by the door. Her eyes traveled around the room and saw her new brothers sitting around her as well as General Burkhalter at her side. The General looked over and saw tears falling from the young lady's eyes. He moved his hand over onto hers. Mary looked over as he did this.
"Don't cry liebe Enkelin. Everything will be alright." She smiled at him, while the other three men looked at each other. Carter looked down at the floor and thought to himself. 'So Burkhalter sees Mary as a granddaughter.' He stated in his mind as a smile came to his lips. He looked back when he and the other's heard Mary speak in a low voice.
"This is all my fault." She said as new hot tears came to her eyes. Carter moved out of his chair, and knelt in front of her. Taking her hands into his, he told her.
"No it's not."
"Yes it is. This is all my fault. I should have let George kill me back home. I shouldn't have never been born, then Peter and Papa wouldn't be hurt, or fighting for their lives." She told him as she placed her face in her hands. All the men's eyes there widen at what she was saying. As she started to cry harder, Carter knew that he had to tell her the truth on what would have happened if she was not here.
"If you were not born, or you would have let George kill you, then no one here would be alive." Mary slowly dropped her hands from her face to look at the youngest of her new older brothers.
"What?" She asked him.
"First of all Newkirk would be dead. He was going to kill himself before, and on the day you got here. So he would be dead. Newkirk is like an older brother to me, so if he would have died… so would I. I would have took my life because I look up to him. He has helped me with so much over the time of me knowing him. I don't think that I would be able to function without him around to help me. I am a little slow at learning things, but he takes his time in teaching me whatever it is I have to learn or want to learn. I wouldn't be here if he was dead. Then there is George, he would have came here to kill Colonel Hogan after he had killed you. Then there is another way that Colonel Hogan could be dead. If he had found out that you were killed, then I say that he would have killed himself. Then Klink would be dead after, or hell before your dad. He loves your dad very much, and if Colonel Hogan would have killed himself, then Klink would do the same. They love each other very much, and everyone in this room knows that they can't live without each other." Burkhalter nodded his head at what the young man was saying. 'They all know that them two can't live without each other as well.' The older man thought to himself. Mary looked down while her tears slowed down some, then looked back up as Carter continued to tell her the truth. Carter pointed at Kinch and LeBeau and said.
"These two here would have tried to escape, and would have been killed while trying. Sissy, if you were killed, or wouldn't have been born… there is a good chance that no one here would be alive. None of this is your fault, and don't ever think about taking your own life, or wishing that you were not here in anyway. If that happens, we will all miss you so much that we couldn't live without you in our lives. If you try to take your life, or if god forbid something happens to you… then everyone here would die off one by one. If you go it will be a domino effect here in this camp. All of us would fall down after you. This all happened for a reason. A reason that will be shown to us in time." Kinch and LeBeau listened to their young friend speak. They had never heard Carter speak like this before. Both of the men were proud of the younger Sergeant.
"Newkirk is not dead, and your dad is alright. You being here, smiling and laughing makes life here in… this hell whole feel more like home. Us seeing you smile, hearing your sweet voice makes all of us feel like we are back home, and that everything will get better. You give me hope that no matter what happens in this blood-soaked war; that there is light in this dark world of war that we are all in. Please don't blame yourself for things that you, nor any of us have control over." As Carter finished talking to the young woman who he calls his sister; Mary's tears started to fall even more. Burkhalter looked at the door as he saw the nurse walk by with the bags of blood in her hands. After seeing this General Burkhalter looked away from the door, and over to the young lady and told her.
"He is right. I know for a fact that Newkirk would be dead now. Klink had told me that he was worried about the young man. As for your father; he would have killed himself, or would have done something to be killed. Your brother is also right that you smiling and being your sweet self gives all here in this camp hope, as well as making all of us feel like we are home again." Mary smiled wide as the older man spoke to her.
"You are right, both of you. I have no control over what happened or what will happen next. I am glad that I am here, and that I can make all of you feel better. And all of you do make me feel better about myself. I can start to be myself, the person that I used to be when I was with Papa on the air base. But I didn't know that I was giving all of you hope, and I will try my hardest not to blame myself anymore." Mary looked up and smiled wide at her new brother's and the older man she saw as a grandfather.
"That is all we want." Mary looked over toward Kinch when he spoke up. "We want you to be yourself, and not to blame yourself, or listen to what your mother or step father told you. We all want you to be the person you want to be. If you want to open a bakery, or cook for everyone in the world… then we will help you do that. You showing others kindness and being sweet to them. That makes all of us want to be better human beings." He told her with a large smile. Mary smiled at him, then looked over at the doorway when she heard her name.
"Mary." Klink stood there smiling at his non blood daughter. He had heard everything that had been said, and was happy to hear that Mary had more than just the three of them to look after her.
"Yes?" She asked as she tried to read his eyes. 'Just because he is smiling doesn't mean that…' She trailed off on what she was thinking when he asked her.
"Do you want to see them?" He asked her with the same smile on his face.
"Yes, I would." She told him. Mary went to stand up, but fell back in the chair. Klink ran over to her and helped her to her feet. While her new brothers, and new grandfather breathed again. Mary smiled and thanked her Vater. As Klink was helping his daughter to see her father and her love, they all heard near the front door of the sick bay.
"I am Major Hochstetter of the Gestapo, and I will go back there and see with my own eyes what is going on here!" Klink felt Mary start to shake as the Major yelled. He looked over at her and told her.
"It's alright…" Klink turned his head as he saw General Burkhalter storm out of the waiting room. He looked back at her with a large smile. "The Major is a big yeller. He yells even if he is happy." He told her with a larger smile. This made Mary smile at him. Klink helped Mary into the room that both her father, and her love was in. Mary's eyes fell on her father first. Her brows narrowed as she saw that he was in a deep sleep.
"What happened? Did Papa have a seizure?" She asked him. Klink looked over at her with shocked eyes.
"You know that your father has seizures?" He asked her as she sat down beside her father on the side of his low bed. As she moved a piece of his hair off of his forehead she spoke.
"Yes, I went to his apartment when he was sent to London to be with the RAF. I walked up to the door and it was open. I walked in and saw Papa on the floor. He was bent backwards to where his head was touching his heels. I called Grandfather Butler, and told him." Klink smiled when she told him what she had done to help her father, his love. Mary looked over and saw her love laying on a bed not too far away. Her eyes widen at the sight of him. He was pale to where he almost looked dead.
"Is Peter alright?" She asked her Vater in a low voice. Klink looked over at his son, and smiled.
"Yes Peter is alright. The nurse had gave them both blood. So they are both doing better now." He told her. Mary moved to get up, but stopped when her Vater spoke to her. "Mary do you need help?" He asked her. Mary shook her head as she stood up. Klink watched the young woman walk over to her love. She stood beside her loves bed, then sat down on the side. Mary took her loves hand into hers.
"Peter… Peter please wake up." She softly begged him. Klink frowned, and walked over to her after hearing her beg her love again.
"Mary, Kreizler gave him a strong pain medicine. He will be asleep for awhile, but he is alright. Both Kreizler and I helped him, and I have to say, that his wound was bad, but it could have been worse than what it was." Mary felt hot tears come to her eyes again.
"Then he didn't die?" She asked him. Klink placed his hand on her back.
"Well Mary, I have to tell you the truth. The truth is that yes he did. Kreizler told me, and I could see for myself; Peter had lost a lot of blood during the fight and mostly after. The bullet that hit his arm did cause it to pour the blood, but the arrow to his lower chest did nick his lung and liver. But he did die sweetheart, but you asking for him to be brought back and giving him the kiss of life is what I say gave him a second chance." Mary smiled at her Vater's words, but her eyes never left her loves face. She listened to his breathing; it was shallow and weak.
"Will he make it threw the night?" She asked hoping that her Vater would say that her golden hearted Huntsman would.
"Yes he will, but he will be down for awhile, and will need a lot of taking care of. He is just as hardheaded as your father." Mary smiled wide at this.
"I will take care of my gold heart and my father, but I will need your help with Papa though." She said this as she looked up into her Vater's baby blue eyes.
"Oh I know you will need help with Robert." He smiled wide at her. Klink then looked over at the door as he heard a soft knock come from the doorway. General Burkhalter was standing there with an upset look on his face. Neither one of them didn't see Mary look back at her love, and lift his hand up to kiss it.
"Hochstetter wants to talk to you Klink, and to Lady Mary. I told him that you will talk to him, but Lady Mary is too weak to…"
"I will go with Vater, and talk to the Major." Mary interrupted the General. As Mary stood up, Klink asked her.
"Mary are you sure about that? Hochstetter is going to yell and carry on. That may send you into a flash…"
"I will be alright. This all started because of a madman that was after myself and my father. I have to clear the air. This is all George's fault and no one else's. I don't want no one to be punished because of the actions of that madman." She told them while still looking at her love. Klink smiled to himself as she spoke. 'She is like an uncrowned Queen.' He thought to himself as his daughter leaned over and kissed her love on the lips.
"I will be back gold heart." She told her sleeping love.
"Well shall we go and talk to the grumpy Major?" Mary giggled lightly as her Vater made a joke.
"Yes." She turned to look at her love once more. As Mary walked closer to her father. She leaned down, and kissed him on the forehead.
"I'll be back Papa, don't worry about me. You have wonderful dreams of you and Vater." She told her sleeping father who smiled in his sleep.
-MN-
Hochstetter walked toward the sick bay. He stopped dead in his tracks as he saw fifteen men standing outside of the sick bay. Their was a mix of POW's and guard's standing there. Some had their sleeves rolled up, while the others were asking a nurse questions. As he started to walk closer his eyes spotted a doctor come out of the sick bay. The doctor was slightly younger than the older Colonel. Hochstetter pushed threw the men as well as the doctor who gave him a look. As he walked into the building, he was stopped by a nurse.
"I'm sorry Sir, but you will have to wait here." She told him.
"I am Major Hochstetter of the Gestapo, and I will go back there and see with my own eyes what is going on here!" He yelled at the woman. The woman was about to yell back, but General Burkhalter yelled out first. The Major looked over and saw the older General storming his way toward him.
"Major! That is enough yelling. I will tell you what is going on here." He told him as he stopped in front of him. Narrowing his brows at the older man, the forty-three year old man went to yell once again, but stopped himself when the General gave him an evil glare.
"Sorry Herr General, but I have to know what has happened here. I need to talk to Colonel's Klink and Hogan."
"Well you can talk to Klink, but Hogan is I say asleep by now. So much has happened, and Lady Mary is not able to talk at all." When the General said Mary's name; Hochstetter looked at him with raised brows, then remembered what the small Frenchman had said earlier.
"Who?" He asked.
"Lady Mary, she is Colonel Hogan's daughter. She came here for protection from her step father, but he found her and caused all of this mess." He told the Major. Hochstetter narrowed his brows together again.
"I need to speak with Colonel Klink as well as this Mary as soon as possible." He told him, then turned to walk out of the building, but stopped when the General spoke again.
"You will speak to him here. Klink will not leave this building as long as Lady Mary, a young lady who he sees as a daughter, and Corporal Newkirk who he sees as a son is here in this building." Hochstetter turned around quickly and stared at the older man.
"Very well I will go into the waiting room than." He said as he stormed pass the General. After Hochstetter was out of sight Burkhalter gave him a nasty look. Burkhalter turned and walked to the room that Mary and Klink was in. When Hochstetter walked into the waiting room; he saw three of Hogan's men sitting in the room. He went to ask them what they were doing there when Carter told him in a strong voice.
"We are here to make sure that our friends and our new little sister is alright." Kinch's and LeBeau's eyes widen at the tone the younger man gave the Major. Hochstetter was about to yell when for behind him he heard Klink speak.
"Boys could you go and help Schultz calm the camp down." Hochstetter looked from Klink to the three men. They all nodded their heads, and got up to leave the room. As Kinch walked by Klink, Klink grabbed him by the arm. When Hochstetter, and Burkhalter who had walked pass them, and was out of earshot; he told him in a low voice.
"Radio London and tell them what has happened here. Also tell them that Hochstetter will not believe any of this, that we may need them to air drop a file or something. He will try to take Mary or Hogan with him." Kinch nodded his head at what the older man was talking about.
"I'll go and do that after we help Schultz." He told him. Both nodded their heads as the Sergeant turned to walk out of the building.
Hochstetter sat down in a chair then looked up at the General who was still standing. He narrowed his brows at the older man. Then looked at the door as Klink moved out of someone's way. The Major's eyes widen at the sight of the young lady that General Burkhalter called Lady Mary. The young woman was only 5'4. Even with a bandage around her head, her long coal black hair was past her hips. Her skin was white like milk; to where the few drops of blood that was on her face, and neck shined like bright rubies. He then looked at the clothes that she had on. The clothes were in an old riding style, that would have been warn in a fantasy story book. His eyes spotted the blood stains that were here and there on her pale pink coat. Hochstetter watched Klink help the young lady to set down in a chair that was beside him. Once she was seated is when both higher ranking Officers sit down in their chair's. There was a empty chair between Klink and this Lady Mary. Hochstetter's eyes moved from them to the young lady sitting next to him.
"Lady Mary this is Major Hochstetter of the Gestapo." General Burkhalter introduced him to her. Mary looked over and into his eyes with hers. Hochstetter was taken by surprise when he saw the color of her eyes. 'Her eyes are almost white, but have just a small hint of blue in them.' He thought to himself.
"Hallo Herr Major." When Mary spoke in German, but also in her sweet British accent, it also took Hochstetter by surprise.
"Hallo Fräulein Mary. I wanted to ask you some questions." Mary smiled and nodded her head at him and said.
"Yes of course Herr Major." It took Hochstetter a second before he could speak again at the sound of her voice, but he soon found his words again.
"First do you know why your father, Colonel Hogan called me here?" He asked her.
"Yes I do. Father called you here so that when my step father George was caught. My father had hoped that you could take my step father to your Headquarters so that he would be away from all of us here. I also say that he would have told you to do whatever you wanted to my step father." She told him. Hochstetter was surprised by this. 'Hogan wanted me to take this man off and kill him?' He thought to himself.
"I see, and why was your step father after the both of you?" He asked her. Klink moved beside Mary now. Mary lowered her head and told him.
"He came here to kill me, and my father. I know now that George was in love with Papa, and tried to substitute me for him." All three men's eyes widen at this news.
"Mary are you sure about this?" Klink asked her. Mary looked over at him and nodded her head.
"Yes, Peter put it all together. That is why when George raped me, which by the way Herr Major he did tell me that he was making love to me. I did believe him, but Peter, my gold heart told me that is not what he was doing to me. But George would never touch me, or hold me. He would never kiss me or anything like that. When he started to watch me bathe two years ago, he would set in a chair and watch me. He told me that was what a good father was to do. When he did watch me bathe he would usually have himself in his hand. He would make me wash myself slowly while he stroked himself." Mary said this in a low voice as the two older men in the room closed their eyes at hearing this. Hochstetter's eyes glanced up to see the General close his eyes, and have a look of disgust on his face. He looked back over at the young woman when she started to speak again.
"He would take pictures of me without any clothes on. Some were of me in the bath…" She trailed off on this.
"Mary how old were you when he did this?" Klink asked her again.
"I was ten years old when George started taking the pictures, and when he… started raping me. Before that he would run his hands over me, and into me… then he would undress me, and stare at me. He would sometimes take the pictures of me. When he would get the photos back he would show me how I looked…" Hochstetter heard the young woman's voice start to shake as she started to cry. "He would make me look at them. He would always tell me that no man would ever want something so hideous looking, or would want to marry a hideous Demon. That a demon like myself was a hideous creature that no one wanted… not even my own mother. There was times that he and Mama would lock me in my room, and they wouldn't let me come out for days…" As the tears started to flow down Mary's cheeks, Burkhalter opened his eyes. He got out a handkerchief with his left hand. He tapped Klink's arm causing him to look over at him. The second oldest man in the room took the handkerchief and lifted Mary's face. He wiped her tears away as he asked her.
"Where was your room at Snow?" Mary looked into her Vater's eyes and told him. Hochstetter raised a brow when Klink called her Snow.
"It was the attic. In the summer months it was so hot in there that I couldn't breathe at times. Then in the winter months, it was so cold that it was painful. Mama was nice enough to bring up some old sofa cushions so I could sleep on them. They were so thin that I could feel the hardwood floor under me still… There was a small pot in the room for me to…" She trailed off on what she was going to say as her Vater lowered his hands from her face.
"So that you could use the restroom." He finished for her. Mary nodded her head, and started to cry more.
"Yes… the windows were nailed shut, and there were bars on the inside of the windows. I couldn't open them to get air. Then when they wouldn't let me have any food for days, they would both come to me and tell me that I was hideous to look at. Then they… they would shut the door on me… leaving me in the darkness again. When I was allowed to eat it was after George and Mama would be done eating and everything was put away. When I came here, and you, father and Peter said that I could eat hot food.. I was so happy. I was happy to be able to take a hot bath or shower, and not to have anyone looking at me while I did so. I was happy that I didn't have to bath any of you like a child, like George had told me to do to him. I was so happy to know that what all George and my mother had told me about sex was all wrong. That Hilda told me what was right and that making love was not like what had been done to me. I was so happy to know that when I bleed once a month that it is normal to do so, and I am not miscarrying a baby like they had told me. That I can make jokes and laugh without being beaten for it. I can ask for things like fabric to make clothes that I want to make, and not what I have to wear. And I can see my father without Mama electrocuting me…" Mary's head snapped up to look at her Vater's shocked face when he yelled out.
"WHAT!?" Klink yelled out when Mary had said this. "What do you mean that she electrocuted you?" Mary was still looking at him with large tear filled eyes.
"Wilhelm, you need to calm down." Said the General. Hochstetter sat there in disbelief in all that he had heard up to now. 'There is no way a woman or anyone would do all this to her. She has to be lying about these things.' He thought to himself. Klink looked over at Burkhalter and nodded his head. He looked back at his non blood daughter and told her.
"I'm sorry Mary… that just shocked the hell out of me… That your mother would do that." Mary placed her hand on his and told him.
"It is alright Vater. But when Mama had found out that I knew who my father was, and after I had begged her not to have him killed. She tied me to a chair, poured water on me and cut a electrical cord. She electrocuted me because I had spent time with Papa." She told her Vater who was starting to tear up. Hochstetter's and Burkhalter's mouths had dropped at this.
"Vater, I… I have scars on my body were George would tell Mama to hurt me." Mary started to cry harder as she laid her head against Klink's chest. Klink wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tightly.
"Mary do you think that you can tell Major Hochstetter about your scars?" He asked her still in shock at what Mary had said a moment ago. He knew that all of this was hard for his daughter to talk about. Mary nodded her head and leaned back up. While wiping the tears from her eyes she told Hochstetter about her scars.
"There is one from where George told Mama to push me threw a glass window. There are five whip marks on my back from where I had dropped five spoons on the table. George told Mama to punish me for dropping them. There are three cigarette burns on my hip from George putting them out on me… There are scars on my arms from where George had tied me to a chair."
"Why did he do that?" Hochstetter asked her in a shocked voice. Mary looked into his brown eyes with her snowy blue ones. She then took a deep breath in and told him why.
"After I turned ten, George would rape me all day on my birthdays. On my fourteenth birthday I was sick, and he got so angry at me. He tied me to a chair with ropes. He tied them so tight that the ropes cut into my skin. I have the scars on both of my arms and under both of my breast… The last group of scars… I… I did myself." All three men's eyes widen more at this.
"What do you mean you did them to yourself?" Klink asked her in a worried voice.
"George wouldn't touch me if I was bleeding so I… I would cut my inner thighs so it would look like I was bleeding." Mary lowered her head and wrapped her arms around herself. Klink looked at the young woman with widen eyes. He pulled her to himself without even thinking.
"Mary it's alright." Klink told her as he rubbed her back. Once she had calmed down some, Mary spoke again on what she thought George and her mother were trying to do to her.
"Mama… I told Papa that she was mindless, but I don't think that she was. I honestly think that she didn't want me. She was always telling me that I shouldn't have been born. In away she did drive that into my mind. She would go along with George's ideas on ways to hurt me. I learnt early on that if I would set and cry, or became quiet, or even be depressed than the happier they would be. But if I was to be happy, and smiled to her or George, then the madder they would get. They wanted me to be miserable, and maybe in away they wanted me to take my own life… George and my mother would do these things to me. I was ten when George told me that he was my god, and I was to never question him. I knew that he was not my god. That he didn't own me. I was not his to own. I have been threw, and was living a hell on earth, but I would not lose my faith. I prayed every night, for those that I love to be safe and healthy. I hid my rosary so that they would not find it. I prayed every morning and every night. I used to set and dream of being with Papa, and being part of a family. I would dream of meeting the man that would love me for me, and having a family with him. But there were times that I didn't think that was going to happen. George and Mama… they would do so much too me. They tried to break my spirit or my faith, but I wouldn't let them do that to me. I had to be strong like Papa, and my… my gold heart… Who almost died to save me from a monster. I have to be strong not only for my loved ones, but for myself as well. I will not let George or my mother haunt me from their graves. " She told them with pride. Klink smiled at his daughter as did Burkhalter.
"I knew that one day that I would leave that house, and I could be with my Papa. That he and I would celebrate my first birthday together…"
"First birthday?" Hochstetter asked. Mary nodded her head.
"Yes this year would be the first birthday of mine that I hope we will get to celebrate." All three men narrowed their brows at her.
"You mean to tell me that you have never celebrated your birthday before?" Asked Hochstetter again. Mary shook her head then looked him in the eyes.
"No, I had asked before if I could have a party, but Mama would just laugh and say that no one wanted to remember that horrible day. She would beat me with a bamboo cane if I said that I wanted to see my father on my birthday even from a far. She would even do that if I reminded her of him. I guess that's why I couldn't really act the way I wanted too. I had to act the way they wanted me too. Mama didn't want me to act like my father, but George did. When I was around one I had to act one way, then when I was around the other, I had to act another way. But I was happy when they would leave me alone in the house for weeks at a time. I could be myself, and go and see my father."
"They would leave you alone?" Mary looked over toward the General.
"Yes they would. I don't know where they would go though, but I would get out of the house by squeezing threw a window in the cellar. I would walk a half a day to the air base to see Papa if he was in London at the time. I would be so happy to see him. I think that was because, seeing him… I knew that things would get better, and one day I would be able to be with him." Mary smiled at this thought.
"Mary honey, you are with him now." Mary looked over toward her Vater when he spoke to her.
"I am, and I am with a man that loves me. I have a family, they may not be all of my blood, but we are family." Mary smiled wide at this as new tears fell from her eyes.
"Then why are you crying?" Hochstetter asked her. Mary looked over at him and smiled a loving smile.
"I am happy. I have my father, and Herr Oberst that I see as a second father to me. He even treats me like his own daughter." Mary looked over at Klink who smiled wide at her.
"That's right I do."
"I am with someone that loves me with all of his golden heart. I have new brothers, and a sweet Onkel Schultz, and a…" Mary looked over to General Burkhalter and smiled at him. "And a freundlicher Großvater." Klink looked over at General Burkhalter when he spoke up.
"Yes you do, and I think that you have a new Mutter too." He told her. Mary narrowed her brows at him. Burkhalter pointed his finger over at the door. Mary looked over and saw Hilda standing there with tears running down her face.
"Hilda?" Mary said the older woman's name. Hilda walked over, and knelt in front of her.
"Mary, why didn't you tell me about all that they did to you?" She asked her. Mary's eyes widen at this. None of them noticed that Hilda was at the door listening to all that had been said. She had walked into the building when Kinch, Carter and LeBeau had walked out. Hilda stopped at the door when she heard Mary telling the three men all that her mother and step father had done to her.
"I'm sorry Hilda that I didn't tell you. When I had told you what they had done to me in our last girl talk… I could see that you were getting angry. I didn't want to burden you with knowing all that was done to me. Just like I feel guilty even now for telling all of you this." As she lowered her head, Hilda placed a hand on the side of the young woman's face.
"Mary, you telling us all of this is not a burden. We have to know all of this to be able to help you. Dr. Kreizler will have to know all of this to be able to help you with your flashbacks. He will help you, and he will help us to be able to help you too." She told her. Mary smiled wide and nodded her head. Hilda saw in Mary's eyes that she was so tired.
"I think that you should go and lay down for a bit. I will talk to Herr Major, and tell him what we talked about on our first, and last girl talk." Mary nodded her head and stood up. Klink stood up and helped his daughter to the room that her love and her father was in. Hilda sat down where Mary had been sitting and told Major Hochstetter all that she and Mary had talked about.
Klink helped Mary to a bed that was between her father and her love. He laid Mary down on the bed and covered her up. He looked at his watch and it was only four in the afternoon. He shook his head then told Mary that he would wake her up every hour on the hour to ask her questions for the next 24 to 48 hours. Mary nodded her head and knew why he had to do this. A concussion was not something to shrug off. He smiled to himself as his daughter smiled at him and told him.
"Liebe dich Vater." With tears in his eyes at the thought of him never hearing this being said to him; he said back to her.
"Liebe dich Tochter." He said with a wide smile.
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Captain Ritter had helped the guard's and the POW's calm down a very upset camp. Ritter had went to the little Frenchmen and his friends and had asked them questions on what happened, and about who all was mixed up in the mess. He was shocked to find things out from a Sergeant Kinch. Then when the Kommandant's secretary had ran over to see where Mary was; she had told him a few things as well before running toward the sick bay. Then after the three men who called themselves Mary's brothers had finished telling him about this Major Rivers; they then started to tell him all about this Mary. All three men talked about everything that she was good at and could do. Ritter had to admit that if this Mary didn't have a love, then he himself would at least try to win her over, but he was not raised to be a bitter man. He smiled at the three men as they talked about what all this Mary had done for her love, Corporal Newkirk. After he had finished talking to them he was going to walk toward the sick bay, but saw Major Hochsetter walk out of the building. He knew that the Major was not in a good mood just by the look on his face. As the Major walked to the young Captain that was standing at Barracks 2, Carter was at the door. Carter had the door cracked open to see if anyone was coming toward the barracks like he always did. Kinch and LeBeau were standing beside the entrance of the tunnel in the barracks. Carter over heard the two Gestapo men talk.
"Major what is it?" He asked him.
"That girl is lying about everything that was done too her!" Hochstetter yelled out. The young Captain narrowed his brows at the older man.
"Why would she lie about anything?" He asked him.
"Because she's Colonel Hogan's daughter! It is impossible for that damn girl to have been threw that much!" He yelled out as he looked around the camp at the POW's and the guard's talking with each other. "This camp has gone to hell." He said with a locked jaw.
"Major from what I was told, that girl would not lie about any of it." Hochstetter looked over at the younger man with narrowed eyes and brows.
"What were you told and by whom?" He asked him.
"Some of the POW's that call themselves her brothers, and Herr Oberst's secretary told me somethings." He admitted to the Major. Hochstetter's face got red at what the young Captain had told him.
"YOU FOOL!" Captain Ritter closed his eyes tight as the Major yelled in his face. "I WILL BRING HOGAN AND HIS LYING DAUGHTER INTO HEADQUARTERS AND QUESTION THEM FOR DAYS!" He yelled as he quickly walked to the car. Captain Ritter opened his eyes only to roll them as the older man stormed off.
"Oh yes that will help her and her father to forget everything that happened here today." The Captain said to himself.
"RITTER!" Carter watched the young Captain roll his eyes again, then turn to walk toward the screaming man. After the young Captain walked off, Carter ran over to Kinch and LeBeau who had heard everything.
"Kinch, you have to tell London to send Hochstetter a file on what was found in that house." Kinch looked at the younger Sergeant with raised brows.
"Funny, Klink said the same thing." Kinch informed them. Both Sergeants looked over at the French Corporal when he spoke up.
"What will that do?" LeBeau asked the young Sergeant.
"Then Klink and I think alike. If we can get that file on his desk, and he reads it, then he will not take Colonel Hogan or Mary to Gestapo HQ. Hochstetter thinks that Mary is lying about everything that was done to her, and if he takes her there she will break down. And there will be no putting her back together again." Carter saw that both of them were about to tell him that there was no way for that to be done in that amount of time. Carter then quickly reminded them. "I am second in command next to Colonel Hogan, and that is an order Kinch." He told him. Kinch knew that was true, but didn't know if Carter's idea would work.
"I don't know if yours and Klink's idea will work or not, but I will tell London to send a file and give it to an underground agent." With that Kinch went down into the tunnels. Carter watched his friend go down into the whole. He then turned toward LeBeau when the bed went back in place.
"I know what I am doing. It will work." He told the little Frenchman then turned to walk back to the door. LeBeau shook his head and hoped that Carter's as well as Klink's idea would work.
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Hogan opened his eyes and looked to his left. He smiled when he saw his little girl asleep beside him. He went to roll over onto his side, but was too weak to do so. He narrowed his brows together and tried to sit up. When he couldn't sit up too far he started to panic some. 'What happened?' He asked himself. He tried to sit up again, but found a hand on his chest pushing him back down onto the bed. He looked over to find his loves baby blue eyes looking into his. Hogan smiled wide at his love.
"Will." Klink smiled at him and leaned over and kissed him on the lips. Klink slid himself closer to the bed. Hogan looked at his love who was sitting on the floor beside his bed. "Your sitting on the floor?" He asked him.
"Yes I am Robert." He told him with a sigh. Hogan couldn't help himself, he had to say it.
"Alright, but I can't help you up off the floor." Klink narrowed his eyes at his love's joke.
"Robert, did you just call me old?" He asked him. Hogan smiled at him with a playful look in his eyes.
"In away yes." He smiled wide at his love, then chuckled as his love rolled his eyes at him.
"Well I hate to tell you, but you will soon be forty. And you will need help to get off the floor soon." Hogan's smile fell as his love made a joke about his age now.
"True, but you are still older than me." Klink rolled his eyes at his love once again, then smiled at him and leaned in to kiss him again. Once the kiss broke, Hogan asked his love.
"What happened?" Klink sighed and told his love.
"You had a seizure, and I have to say… that scared me." Hogan softened his eyes at the older man.
"I'm sorry Will. It was where everything happened at once. I had a feeling that I was going to have one sooner or later. I'm sorry that I scared you." He apologized to his love. Klink smiled at him and then told him.
"Mary knows that you have seizures. She said that she went to see you one time at your apartment in London, and you were having one when she got there. She said that she called Butler to come and take you to the hospital." Hogan closed his eyes at hearing this news. He had hoped that his little girl wouldn't know about them.
"Well at least she knows. How is she, and Newkirk?" He asked. Klink smiled a small smile, and told his love about Newkirk's wounds and how bad they were. Then he told him that he would be alright, but will need to be taking care of. Klink smiled when he told Hogan about what Mary had said about taking care of Newkirk and himself. Hogan smiled a small smile, then it fell when his love started to tell him about their daughter.
"Well she has a concussion. I have to wake her on the hour every hour, but she did tell Hochstetter everything." Hogan's eyes widen at this.
"What did she tell him." Klink then started to tell his love everything that their daughter had told the Major.
As Klink told him, Hogan's eyes widen and started to tear up. Closing his eyes he couldn't believe that Lizzie did that to their girl just because she had seen him. As Klink went on Hogan could only imagine the pain that his Snow had endured the hell that she had went threw. Klink took a deep breath in and then told his love about the scars. Hogan started to cry softly as he heard this, but when Klink told him about the cuts on her inner thighs Hogan looked over at him quickly.
"What do you mean that she did those herself?" He asked him.
"That is what she told us. I was thinking of asking Mary if Laszlo could take pictures of them." Hogan narrowed his brows at his love. Klink sighed then told him.
"Hochstetter doesn't believe anything that Mary had told him. I know that he doesn't, but if he sees the pictures of her scars then he will. Hochstetter will try to take you and her to Gestapo Headquarters. I just thought that if he saw them then he would believe her." Hogan nodded his head at this. His love had a point.
"Alright, but Mary will have to want too though." He told him then paused. "And I want to see the pictures too… well I think I do. I don't know. I think that I might break if I do." He told the older man with tears in his eyes. Klink placed a hand over the younger man's hand.
"I know, it will be hard to look at them, but I think that you should look at her scars." Hogan nodded his head as tears fell from his eyes.
-MN-
Kinch sat the headphones down on the table. He rubbed his face with his hand. He had to tell General Butler on what had happened a few hours ago. When Butler had heard everything that had happened, the man had to hold in his tears. Kinch had never heard a General about to break down in tears before. Kinch had told the General about Carter's plan on having a file taken to Gestapo Headquarters. The General told him that an underground agent was heading to Hochstetter's office now as they spoke. Kinch was about to ask the General on how was this possible when the older man told him that a file was on it's way to the camp anyway. Kinch took a deep breath in and let it out heavily. He got up and walked back to the barracks. He got to the latter and looked at his watch and it was now six o'clock. It had been a long day for everyone here at this camp. Closing the raising bed entrance to the tunnel; Kinch walked over to the table and sat down. LeBeau slid a plate of food in front of him. Kinch looked at the food, then pushed it away.
"Sorry, but I don't think that I can eat right now." He told the small Frenchmen. LeBeau sighed and told him.
"No one can eat really. After what has happened today, no one is up for eating anything, not even Schultz." LeBeau sighed again as he took a drink of his coffee. Carter was the next one to sigh and speak up.
"I hope that Sissy, Colonel Hogan, and Newkirk is alright." Carter said out of worry then sighed again as he lowered his head.
"They will be alright. Mama Hen Klink is there looking after them." Kinch said with a smile. Carter looked up with a smile on his face and nodded his head.
"Yeah that is true." Carter looked at his two friends and saw the depressed looks on their faces. Then he smiled and spoke up again. "So what should we make Mary for her birthday?" He asked them. Kinch and LeBeau looked over at him with raised brows.
"I was thinking of making a large leathered book for Mary to write down her recipes." Carter told them his idea. Kinch smiled and told them his idea.
"I was thinking of making Mary a turntable for her cakes. That way she can move the cake around on this table, and not be moving around the kitchen table when she goes to decorate her cakes. She can just turned the turntable and move the cake around." Carter smiled at Kinch as he said this.
"That's a great idea." He told him with a large smile. Both looked over as LeBeau told them what he was going to do.
"I am going to write down all the recipes that I know, and I will write them in French." He smiled wide as Kinch rolled his eyes, and Carter smiled wide and yelled out.
"That would be great!"
"What would be great?" The three looked over and saw Schultz and General Burkhalter standing at the door of the barracks. All three stood up and looked at each other as the General walked into the barracks and asked again.
"What would be great?" Carter smiled and told him.
"We were talking about what we were going to make Mary for her birthday. " Carter told the older man. Burkhalter smiled and told them.
"Well I think that all of us should have wunderbar gifts for her. She did say that this was the first birthday that she would be able to celebrate." All three looked at the older man. Burkhalter sat down at the end of the table were Hogan always sat at. The men looked at him then sat down as well. Schultz grabbed a chair and listened to what the General was now telling the men. They all couldn't believe what he was telling them at first. Then when Carter looked over at Kinch who had his head down; Carter knew that all of this was indeed true. It was Carter that spoke up again.
"Well, we all know that Mary never had a real birthday before… so I say that we really pull out all the stops on this one." He said with a large smile. All of the men smiled, and started to talk about what to do for Mary's birthday.
-MN-
Mary was woken up by her Vater shaking her awake softly. Mary smiled as he started to ask her the same questions as before. She answered each one with a smile; then her Vater told her that he was going to get some sleep. He then told her that Kreizler would be waking her up to ask her the same questions. She watched her Vater lay in a bed that was beside her father's. Mary smiled a loving smile as she watched the older man place his hand on her father's while he was sleeping. Mary rolled over to see her love sleeping beside her. Mary reached over and placed her hand onto his. Then when she closed her eyes, she heard him make a noise in his sleep. Opening her eyes, Mary sat up in her bed then moved out of it. She sat on the side of his bed and watched her loves eyes. She smiled wide as she saw his blue flamed eyes open and looked at her. Mary smiled even wider as she heard her loves voice.
"Mary." He said in a weak voice, and a smile.
"Peter, your okay now." She told him with a large smile. He placed his hand onto hers and asked her.
"Are you alright? What happened to your head?" He asked her now seeing the bandage around her head. Mary wiped a tear from her eye then told him.
"George slammed my head into the floor four times." She watched her loves eyes widen at this. He went to move to her, but stopped when pain went threw his shoulder and lower chest. He quickly raised his other hand up to his lower chest.
"Ah." Mary placed her hands on her loves right arm and right shoulder.
"Peter please don't move. You did get hurt remember." Newkirk looked over at his love and then remembered the arrow that he thrusted into his own chest.
"Yeah I do, but what about your head?" He asked her. Mary smiled then told him.
"It is just a small cut, but I do have a concussion though. I have to stay awake, but if I do go to sleep I have to be woken up off and on, for the next 24 to 48 hours. Vater was waking me up, but now he is sleeping and Kreizler is going to wake me from now on." Newkirk was glad when his love told him this. 'Well at least she will be alright.' He thought to himself. He smiled at her with a tired smile.
"You go back to sleep. I know that you are tired, and the pain medicine that Kreizler gave you is kicking your ass." Newkirk chuckled very lightly at this.
"Yeah it is. Will you be here when I wake up?" He asked his love who he had died for, but was given a second chance. Mary smiled wide and told him.
"Of course I will." She smiled at him, then smiled even wider as she heard him say.
"I love you diamond heart."
"I love you too gold heart." Mary watched her love close his eyes and listened to him start to breathe heavily as he gave into sleep. Mary moved to go to her bed when Kreizler's voice stopped her.
"Mary, I have to ask you something." Kreizler walked out of the shadows of the room. He had been in a bed that was in the room asleep, but was woken up by his old friend. In a low voice he asked her what his friend had asked of him. "Mary would it be alright if I take some pictures of your scars? Wilhelm asked me to do this so that it will be on file at Gestapo Headquarters." Mary was about to answer him, but he added. "You don't have to if you don't want too." Mary held up her hand and told the doctor.
"I think that would be a good idea to do that. Vater is right, they need that for their files and that way when they look back on this day later on. They will all see that all of this mess started because of what that madman did to me." Kreizler was taken a back by the noble way Mary spoke to him. He nodded his head and helped Mary to the next room.
The room was closed off so that no one would see them, or would see her without clothes on. Mary started to undress, but almost fell over. She giggled as she caught herself. Kreizler quickly ran over to help the young woman. He was not expecting Mary to giggle when she had almost fell over. Mary saw the older man give her a look. She smiled and told him that she reminded her of her love when he had almost fell over when she had helped him take a shower. Kreizler smiled and shook his head. Mary then in a sheepish voice asked the older doctor to help her take her clothes off. Kreizler nodded his head and helped her. Once all of Mary's clothes were off the older doctor helped her to an examination table. He looked over her body and the scars. He started to ask her questions.
"Mary have you ever broken any bones?" Mary shook her head no.
"No, George told Mama that if I had a broken bone then I would have to go to the doctor, and then they would know what they were doing to me." She told him. As Kreizler walked over to the table and picked up the camera; he then asked her one last time.
"Mary are you sure that you are able to do this?" Mary nodded her head and told him.
"Yes, I am fine with this. At least this time I know that these picture's will not be pushed in my face to show me how hideous I am." Kreizler turned around and looked at the young woman.
"Mary do you think that you are hideous?" He asked her. His eyes saw the young woman lower her head.
"I really don't know. I know that Peter says that I am beautiful, but I was starting to think that he was right…"
"But when you saw your step father and you hearing him calling you what he used to; made you think again didn't it?" He asked her. Mary nodded her head at him.
"Yes it did. George called me Demon… and maybe he was right. I am not that beautiful to look at, and I really don't know why Peter loves me." Then Kreizler saw Mary shake her head.
"Mary what is it?" He asked her.
"No. I am beautiful. I can't let him get into my mind again. Peter asked me not to let the things that George said get to me, and me sitting here letting those things in my mind is not good for me. Peter had died, then was given a second chance. He said that's because he loves me, and he loves me for my mind as well as my body." Mary told herself. Kreizler smiled at the young woman. He walked over with the camera.
"Alright Mary, do you want to stand or stay seated?" He asked her.
"I think that I should stand; that way you can get good picture's of the scars." As she said this, Mary stood up.
Kreizler moved closer to take the first picture. As he took a picture of each scar; Kreizler could feel a mixture of different emotions raising within himself. The first two was that of rage, and disgust. How could a woman let a man do this to her daughter, and to also do these things to her as well. As he moved around to take picture's on the young lady's other arm; Mary told him what happened with each of her scars that she had. When he got to the last group of scars that was on her inner thighs; Kreizler felt so much go threw him. Rage, and disgust was soon joined with grief, and sorrow. This was the most painful thing in his life he had to do. As Kreizler looked at the cuts; he did feel the tears start to fall from his eyes. He had seen young men come into the hospital with gun shot wounds to the head, and some were even missing limbs. They were in so much pain that they would moan loudly, cry loudly, and some would ask to be put out of their misery. Closing his eyes now he thought to himself. 'These scars… they are healed. So why am I… having a hard time with this?' He asked himself. 'Because deep down, you know the physical pain that she did to herself, was to be able to get a break from this horrifying molestation.' His inner voice told him. Kreizler was brought out of his thoughts when a hand touched his. He opened his eyes and looked down at his shaking hand, and the hand that was on his.
"Laszlo are you alright? It's alright, I'm okay now. I don't have to live threw that anymore." Mary told him with a sweet smile.
"I know, but the thought that you did that to be able to take a break from it… it is painful to know." He told her.
"Yes, I did that to be able to take a break from it, but I know that it happened in the past and it will never happen again. Peter has told me many times that all that was done to me will never happen again, and I know that he is right." Mary once again smiled a sweet smile at the man. Kreizler nodded his head and took the last of the photo's. After he was done, he helped Mary put her clothes back on. Mary looked at the pale pink coat with the blood of her love, her father, and her own blood on it.
"Laszlo…" He narrowed his brows at her when she said his name.
"Yes?"
"Can you please burn that? I don't think that I can ever look at that color pink again. I fear that if I wear that color pink again that I will see the blood on whatever I wear." Kreizler nodded his head at her and sat the coat to the side.
"I hope that you do make this coat again, but maybe in a pale blue next time." Mary narrowed her brows at him.
"What do you mean?" She asked him.
"Well it is a nice style for a coat, but I have to say… pink is just not your color. I think more in the greens, blues, and other colors than pink." He told her with a smile. Mary smiled at him and nodded her head.
"I think you are right." She said with a smile. Kreizler helped Mary back to her bed, and helped her lay back down. Mary watched him look over her love, then told her that he will wake her up in an hour. Mary smiled and laid her head down on the pillow. She moved her hand over to place it on top of her loves hand; who in his sleep turned his hand up to hold hers. Kreizler smiled at the sight before him. He looked up at his old friend and his love. Klink had pushed the bed next to Hogan's and had his arm draped over the younger man's lower stomach.
"Awe how cute… the balding Eagle finally has a Chickadee now." Kreizler glanced down at Mary when he heard her giggle.
"That was mean." She told him while trying her hardest not to laugh out loud.
"Well they call Wilhelm the Iron Eagle, and he is balding. Your father is from America, and they have a Black-capped Chickadee there, and he has black hair so." Kreizler held in his laugh as Mary placed her other hand over her mouth, and was trying so hard not to laugh out loud again.
"Oh my god… only you and I can call them that." She told him.
"Deal." He told her and walked off. Mary lowered her hand and looked over to her love.
"Good night my gold heart." She told her love who was in a deep sleep.
-MN-
Hochstetter walked into his office and sat down at his desk. In his hand was the photo's of this George's dead body. He opened the file and looked at the picture's and read what was wrote down on the paper. Hochstetter looked over the photo's of the dead man, and saw the wounds that he had gotten before his death. The man's nose was indeed broken. He also had broken ribs, but what killed him was the stab to the chest. Hochstetter looked at the picture of the arrow that was used to kill this man. Throwing it to the side, he then picked up the next group of photo's of what was found on the man, and in the car that was found up the road from the camp. His eyes narrowed at what he was reading now. Found in the car was dried mushrooms that was in the seat next to the drivers side. Hochstetter narrowed his brows, then looked at what was found in the man's blood. The toxicologist found D-lysergic acid diethylamide, and 4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine in the man's system.
"Like I know what that means." He grumbled to himself. The Major got up and walked over to his bookcase and took a book out of the case. He walked back over to his desk as he opened the book. Looking threw the book he found what was found in the man's blood. Reading it out loud to himself.
"LSD (D-lysergic acid diethylamide) is one of the most powerful mind-altering chemicals. It is a clear or white odorless material made from lysergic acid, which is found in a fungus that grows on rye and other grains. And the other one is… Psilocybin (4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine) comes from certain types of mushrooms found in tropical and subtropical regions of South America, Mexico, and the United States." Hochstetter raised his brows at this, then looked at the door when it opened. The young Captain Ritter walked into the office. Major Hochstetter looked up at the young man with narrowed eyes. 'What does he want?' He asked himself. The young Captain placed a file, and something in a small red velvet bag on his desk, and went to walk away.
"What is this?" He asked him as he picked up the file.
"A file from London on what they found in the house that Mary Hogan was living in." Hochstetter slammed the file down on the desk, then asked the Captain.
"How did you get this?" He asked him with narrowed eyes and brows.
"A woman ran up to me and gave it to me. She told me that it was given to her by an underground agent."
"WHAT!" Hochstetter yelled at him. "AND YOU LET HER WALK AWAY!" Hochstetter went to walk out of his office, but was grabbed by the arm by the younger man.
"I THINK YOU NEED TO FORGET ABOUT THAT WOMAN AND READ THE FILE MAJOR!" The young Captain screamed at him. Hochstetter widen his eyes at the younger man.
"HOW DARE YOU SCREAM AT ME!" He screamed back. Ritter pulled his lips back showing his teeth. He then told the Major the truth about himself.
"Major! There would have been no other way to get you to listen! You only listen to anyone if they are in your face screaming at you! That young Lady went threw hell and you think that she is lying about all of it JUST BECAUSE SHE IS HOGAN'S DAUGHTER! For once Major, actually do your job and read the file on Mary! There are picture's along with it!" With that the young Captain let go of the Major's arm with a jerk. The Captain went to storm out of the office, but stopped long enough to say.
"I read the file… and I have to say… no one should go threw that." He turned and walked out of the office slamming the door behind him. Hochstetter went to go after the young man, but something told him to stop and look at the file. He stormed back over to the desk and sat down. He picked up the bag and threw it to the side then picked up the file and read it to himself.
As the Major read the paper his eyes went from anger to shocked. He looked at the picture's that had been taken of this Mary's room that was indeed the attic. He saw the small pot in one photo, then saw her so called bed. His eyes went from the paper's to the photo's. He looked at the photo's of a young girl that was only ten years old to now. She had no clothes on, and there was even some of her in the bath. Hochstetter closed his eyes and threw the photo's onto the desk. He couldn't look at them anymore. There had been a few photo's of this Mary, but she was so thin. Hochstetter shook his head trying to get the image of seeing her ribs and collar bone out of his mind. Her zygomatic bone was so far out, because of her cheeks were so sunken in on her face. Placing his hand on his stomach he tried to keep his dinner down. Hochstetter picked up the next group of photo's, and prayed that they were not of this young lady again. This group was all of her father Colonel Hogan. There were so many taken of him in England and also of him back home in America. 'This man was obsessed with him. There are even picture's of Hogan in two different locker rooms with no clothes on.' He thought to himself. The Major sat them aside and picked up the next group. He closed his eyes again still hoping that these were not photo's of the young woman again. He opened one eye to see a photo of the windows nailed shut, and the bars on the window's from the inside. He looked over the photo's of the bamboo cane, and the whip that was found in the upstairs closet. There was one photo of the electrical cord that Mary had told him about earlier. Setting the photo down; Hochstetter closed his eyes. He didn't know if he could look at anymore, but he knew that he had too. There were many picture's that looked like a book that had writing in it. His eyes read over what was wrote down in the book. Then standing up while still reading he called for the young Captain to come into the room.
"Ritter!" The young Captain walked into the Major's office and saw the paper's and photo's spread out on the desk.
"Yes Sir." Hochstetter looked up from the photo.
"Her own mother wrote this." He stated. Ritter nodded his head and said.
"Yes, I know. For her to write those things about her own child is sickening." He told him.
"Did you read all of this?" He asked him.
"Yes I did."
"Tell me… I don't know if I can read all of it, or have the stomach for it." He stated, and pointed to a chair that was in front of the desk with a open palm. Ritter sat down then started to tell the Major about what this woman had wrote about her own daughter.
"Well, she wrote that she couldn't stand to see the young lady's face, that she looked too much like her father. She wrote that her eyes were so beautiful that she wanted too… scoop them out with a spoon. Her hair is so long and silky that she wanted to cut it all off, but this George wouldn't let her on both, the eyes and the hair. She wrote that she enjoyed watching George take her daughter, because one she didn't want him on top of herself, and second was because she wanted her daughter to be empty inside. She did write that when she did finally give her to her father that Mary would be nothing more than a empty shell. She would tell this Mary to kill herself in front of her father and she would do it. Then that… woman said that would teach Robert, Colonel Hogan a lesson for not giving her all his money."
"What?" Hochstetter asked him with a raised brow.
"Yes, this was all over fucking money. Her mother also wrote that she loved beating her, but electrocuting her was the best feeling that she had ever had. That causing this Demon as she called her; causing the Demon pain was the best part of being it's mother. She had even wrote in there that she had told Mary that when she bled once a month that she was miscarrying a baby. She wrote that… that was the most funniest thing she had ever done. That she loved seeing the look on the young girls face when she had told her this. Then the last few pages talk about this George… She says that he was in love with Robert, or Colonel Hogan. That George would say his name a lot when they first made love, then when Mary was born she had put it in his head to rape the girl. She wrote saying that. "George is a fool. I told him that raping the little Demon would make him be closer to his love." She then writes to say that she had put him up to a lot of things by making him think it was all his ideas. She gave him the drugs, and went out with whomever she wanted too, while George was home alone with Mary. When they would leave Mary home alone, they would give her little food. That she had hoped that the girl would die from starvation. Then she would get the little… I dare not to repeat the word that she called her daughter to you Sir, but she would get the money that her own father had left to Mary, not too her."
"What?" Hochstetter asked. His eyes snapped open when he heard this, and now with both brows raised he waited to hear more on this.
"I don't know what she meant by that, but it sounds like this Mary was left a lot of money by her grandfather." The Major narrowed his brows to think on away to find out more about this. He then started to talk out loud on what was going threw his mind.
"If this Mary inherited money, or maybe more from her grandfather, then I think that she would like to know about this?" Ritter looked at his Commanding Officer with raised brows. 'Is he actually going to do something nice for this young lady?' He asked himself. It was when the Major spoke again to him, is when Ritter came out of his thought.
"Please Captain continue on what you were saying." Ritter nodded his head still with both of his brows raised.
"Yes Sir… Her mother would go off with a lover while George would go and take photo's of Colonel Hogan where ever he was at the time. The last page says that she had been with child and gotten rid of it." Hochstetter's jaw dropped open at this.
"What? Who was with child? Mary or her mother?" He asked him. Ritter shrugged his shoulder's.
"I don't know. But there is a photo of the baby in the…" Hochstetter started to go threw the picture's trying to find the photo. Once he found it, his mouth dropped, and his eyes widen with horror. There in the last photo was a brown chest that looked to be locked. Reaching over quickly he grabbed the paper that talked about this chest.
"This chest was found in the attic. It was locked, but we did open it and found… a skeleton of a newborn baby…" Hochstetter let the paper fall from his hands onto the floor. He placed his hand over his eyes, and sat there in disbelief that someone would do that to a newborn baby.
"Like I said Sir. That young lady didn't need to go threw all of that. Her mother hated her, and her step father used her to be in his sick mind… be closer to her father who he was in love with. But the men that called themselves her brother's that I talked to. They talked about how Mary would smile and laugh. Even though she went threw so much pain, and…" Ritter closed his eyes as a tear fell onto his cheek. "That she would tell them that they are perfect the way they are. That hearing her sweet voice can make anyone feel better about everything. She is a wonderful cook and baker, and she can speak many languages. She wants to open a bakery when the war is over, and name it Silver Wings. I asked why that name, and the oldest Sergeant told me it was because of her father, because of his Silver Eagles on his shirt collar. The young man that loves her… loves all of her. He tells her how beautiful she is, and that she is amazing at everything she does. She has saved his life in more ways than one. This Mary gave him the encouragement to be a designer. The youngest Sergeant there… Carter. He told me that she doesn't like what had happened to her in the past, but tries not to let it bother her. She will smile and would help you with anything. But…" Hochstetter looked over at the young man.
"But what?" He asked trying not to let it be heard in his voice the emotion that he was feeling.
"But she does have a Photographic memory though. She can't really forget anything. I read upon it, and it is basically when a person can remember memories… frame by frame. Mary can watch someone do anything, and then she would be able to do the same thing later on in life. But that also means that she will never forget everything her mother and step father did to her. Everything that happened today will haunt her forever. I was also told by Fräulein Hilda that Mary has flashbacks, and they are bad." When the young man paused Hochstetter tilted his head at him.
"What?"
"Mary had flashbacks of her step father… so with him dead, she may not have them too much now. But she will have flashbacks on this day, and they will come to her over and over again. It may drive her mad, and she may try to take her life… like her mother wanted her to do." The young Captain looked over at the Major. Hochstetter nodded his head at this.
"Well it is getting late. Gute nacht Herr Major." Ritter stood up and walked out of the office once again.
"Gute nacht." Hochstetter said back. Once the door was closed the Major looked over at the small red bag. He leaned over and grabbed it. He closed his eyes and hoped that it was not something that was used on this sweet girl. He opened the bag and a silver rosary fell into his hand. At the sight of this and seeing the cross was warn; he, himself broke out in tears. After an hour of crying, he had calmed down. While wiping the last tear from his eyes he said to himself. "I think that I should go and check on Mary in the morning."
A/N Okay… that was some heavy stuff there. But I just want all of you to know that there is people out there in the world that is like this! That is the sad part of it. I have read this in the news, and had seen stuff like this on ID channel. So please if you or anyone you know is going threw abuse, please reach out and help. They may not be able to get help themselves.
