No long rambling author's note here this time. Just wanted to say thanks againa and say Disclaimer: I don't own these characters or anything affiliated with Glee.

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Puck was quickly put to work, digging new latrines as he was still able-bodied. Blaine was given the task of clearing out the dead and carrying them over to the shed where they were kept for cremation before. He would also be helping with the cremation process. However, that was subject to change since mass graves seemed a more efficient way of doing things. Well according to the American's anyway.

Kurt's fever had gone down and Blaine still hovered over him when he could, but once Kurt was feeling well enough to walk around, he was outside. He was trying to help Puck or do anything else that was asked of him.

Blaine was glad Kurt was so willing to help but still he worried. Kurt had just gotten over his fever, he didn't think he should be outside in the cold, sweating while digging a hole.

However, Kurt wouldn't be swayed and Blaine simply worked alongside him and Puck, trying to keep an eye on Kurt whenever possible.

On May 1st it was announced that there would be a celebration. Not only was May Day a national holiday in Germany, it was an important date in many other countries as well.

From out of nowhere sprang flags of different countries and nations and they were held high as the prisoners who could walk began a parade around the compound.

Blaine, looked up at the black, red, and gold waving proudly on the flag of Germany. More flags were passing, the flag of Austria, the flag of Poland, and many more. So many different people, all coming together after a terrible tragedy and still showing so much pride in their countries, because no matter what they had been told, they were truly still loyal to their homelands.

As Blaine, Puck, and Kurt gathered with the mass of other prisoners a man got up on a platform and gave a short speech as the prisoners huddled together to shield themselves from the cold winds blowing.

Blaine vowed that he would never forget the sight of those flags passing by him, reminding him of how the world had been and how the world could be again.

A few days later, the three boys were waiting to be dusted with DDT to help control the spread of typhus and malaria in the camp. It was all part of the process they had to go through before they could be placed somewhere by the American's, who were working in unison with the leaders of other countries to help the new refugees. Blaine, who had been studying Puck over the past few days suddenly asked, "So who is this person you need to find?"

"What?" Puck seemed surprised that someone was actually asking him something personal. He usually kept up his tough exterior, keeping everyone out.

"This person you were so intent on finding that you tried to leave the camp. Who are they? Your Mother? Father? A sibling?"

Puck was silent for a minute, contemplating his answer before he said, "Let's just say, we're as close as brother and sister without being blood-related."

Kurt smiled, thinking of Finn and how close they had become before...all of this had happened.

Blaine had never had a sibling, or anyone his age that he was particularly close to. Well, before he had met Kurt, that is. He had sometimes felt a longing for a sister or a brother, but it had always just been him and his parent's, a tightly-knit family.

"So what's her name?" Blaine asked, pressing Puck for details.

Puck seemed taken aback at his interest in his personal life. "Her name is Rachel. Rachel Berry. Her fathers and my mother were friends before. Back when they were our neighbors, so we were sort of thrown together at birth.

Blaine nodded and smiled. Then he realized what Puck had said about her parents.

"Fathers?" Kurt asked, apparently catching that detail as well. "As in plural?"

Puck nodded, a little defensive. "I don't know who her mother was, and neither does she. Her fathers have always been enough for her. Not to mention my mother sort of helped raise her and vice versa."

Blaine and Kurt glanced at each other a little shocked before Puck said, "It wasn't exactly a scandal in our neighborhood. I mean, most people just avoided each other anyway and all of our neighbors were hiding some secret or another, so two men living together didn't really surprise anyone."

Blaine could't even begin to fathom living like that. Even if he had fantasized lately about him and Kurt, he was sure that was all it would ever be. A fantasy.

Kurt looked just as shocked. "What planet was your neighborhood located on?" He asked disbelievingly.

Puck just gave them a look that would've made anyone else flinch in fear. "Look, my neighborhood wasn't the best." He shrugged. "That's all."

Blaine pushed his thoughts about Rachel's father's aside and said, "So why do you need to find her? I mean where are her parent's?" He asked.

"Where are your parent's?" Kurt asked, curious now, about Puck's background.

Puck shrugged again, moving forward in line. "We got seperated. Her Dad's and my Mom were sent somewhere. Rachel's father didn't know we were going to be seperated...he asked me to look after her. I probably wouldn't take this so seriously, but...he was like a father to me, my own dad was never really in my life. I respected him, so, I figure the least I can do is take care of Rachel."

"So you don't think her fathers, or your mother...will be looking for you two?" Blaine asked tentatively.

Puck shook his head. "No. I don't think they survived."

Once again, Kurt looked flabbergasted. "How can you know?"

"I can just...tell." Puck said, turning around and facing forward in line.

Soon they were dusted and were sent to the next part of the process, diet assessment.

When they had been processed, checked, dusted, and questioned, they were sent to another part of the camp that everyone seemed to be trying to keep clean.

The three boys had to share a bunk, but it was still less cramped than their sleeping arrangements had been before.

Puck lay awake, long into the night, thinking about Rachel and his promise to her dad, and he made a solid decision in his mind. Tomorrow night. One more day.

Blaine shifted in his sleep and Puck had a sneaking suspicion the dark haired boy, whose curls were beginning to grow back, knew what he was planning because his face looked disapproving, even in his sleep.

Puck knew instinctively that Blaine was a person who stayed in line and kept to the rules of society, unless it couldn't be helped.

The next morning, Blaine was the first one up, he stretched and climbed off the bunk, sitting on the floor next to it.

Kurt shivered and moaned, heaving himself onto his elbows and peering over the edge of the bunk.

Blaine smiled and said, "good morning sleepyhead." Then he reached out and ruffled Kurt's chestnut-auburn hair that was also growing back in.

Puck heard Blaine's comment and Kurt's groan and sat up slowly, peering around at all the other "displaced persons" who were getting up.

That's what they had been labeled. Displaced Persons, DP's for short.

Puck turned back to his bunkmates to find Blaine watching him again.

Kurt was stretching and didn't notice anything transpiring between the two boys, but Blaine stared at Puck, searching for something.

Puck tried to hide behind the guy who had beaten the guard on the day of liberation, the guy he'd hidden behind his whole life, but for some reason Blaine smirked, as though he'd gotten what he wanted.

Puck shrugged this feeling off and quickly stood up, walking towards food and a day of hard work, with Kurt and Blaine right behind him.

They dug more latrines, carried more dead, and waited. Waited to be cleared to leave.

When they had eaten dinner and climbed into bed, Puck lay there, waiting for Blaine and Kurt's breathing to steady and become rythmic. He waited for them to sleep, but as it got later and later and they just lay there in the dark, Puck couldn't stand it anymore.

He sat up and whispered, "what's up with you two?"

Blaine answered. "We're waiting for you."

"Waiting for me to do what?"

"Leave." Kurt answered quietly.

Puck was stunned. "What?" He said quietly.

"Well are we going or aren't we?"

"We?"

"Yeah, we don't want to just sit around here, especially if you leave." Blaine said, smiling. "We'd have no protection. He sounded a little sarcastic but Puck didn't take offense.

"So do you have a plan?" Blaine asked Puck softly.

Puck considered for a minute before saying, "I was just gonna hop a fence."

"What fence? And aren't there guards?" Kurt asked.

Puck nodded. "Maybe I should rephrase. There's a stretch of fence I though we could go under, quietly. The guards would have a harder time seeing us crawl through some bushes and under a fence than they would have if we_"

"jumped the fence." Blaine finished for him.

Puck nodded, patting his pocket where he kept the patch from the guard. It almost felt like his identity now.

The three boys quietly climbed off their bunk and slipped out of the barracks and into the night.

They stole through the camp, acting like they were supposed to be headed some where. They steered toward the latrines and then veered away towards the chain-link fence.

There was a smnall, new, hole underneath it and it was shielded by bushes and shrubs on both sides.

Puck slipped underneath effortlessly, his frame barely not scraping against the fence. I wouldn't have made it under that fence before I came here, he thought to himself.

Blaine held the fence up, so the jagged edges wouldn't catch Kurt's clothes and then followed the other two boys under the fence.

They hurried away from Dachau concentration camp and towards their new lives. The lives they would choose for themselves.

Ohh, they just did something very few people did. There were some who left the camp without permission and if they were caught, they were supposed to be shot if they didn't have a legit reason. Well...no one ever got caught who didn't have a legitimate reason, apparently.

Anyways, sorry this took so long. I thought I would have this chapter done before I got home from camping but...I relaxed a little bit too much on my vacation, lol. However, I did have it started before we got home, so I was only half a failure.

I hope you enjoyed seeing a little bit more of Puck in this chapter. The next chapter should involve Rachel and Puck and then the chapter after that there will be more Klaine and whatnot, because I can't be away from them for too long. 3

But please review and let me know how this chapter went or how mad you are that this chapter took so long to get posted or, you know whatever thoughts you have. I'd be glad to hear them.

Thankies,
OSK