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For the briefest of moments everyone was silent to what had just transpired. The shock settled a mute blanket over the entire camp, but then within the blink of an eye the spell was broken.
Paul was the first to awaken as he broke off into a run following Madalina. Eve followed close behind not entirely sure as to what was going on but still knew the situation, whatever it was, was not good.
Unfortunately Madalina was quicker than they were and by the time they had reached the trailer it was locked.
Desiree hung back for only a moment to screech, "I swear to God Dell if you have hurt that girl I will kill you myself personally!" Then she followed Paul and Eve as the pair began pounding on Madalina's door.
"I don't get what the big deal is? That kid just needs to grow some thick skin." Dell scoffed but his dark humor was short lived.
Elsa slapped him across the face. The sound echoing in everyone's ears.
"You stupid son of a bitch! Do you not realize what you have done?" Elsa screamed in his face.
Dell became stunned but only shortly before his rage filled his large frame, "Did what? I just showed her how it is!"
"You broke that girl!" Elsa roared at him. The force of her voice stunned him for the second time.
"All the pain, death and tortured memories that girl had been trying to repress since the war has just come rushing back to the surface at a pace she could not control, overwhelming her to an unfathomable state! All because of you, you stupid, ignorant asshole." Elsa hissed in his face.
"Madalina! Madalina open the door!" Paul was shouting as he heard things break and crash to the floor. He heard his beloved scream and howl in Lithuanian. Her noises piercing everything in his soul.
"Eve check the window on the side to see what's going on." Desiree told her as something else crashed inside the trailer.
As Eve went around the trailer to the window everything went quiet. Nervously she peered into the window not expecting what to find.
The sight stunned her, taking her breath away.
"Well...um she completely trashed everything in her trailer. She broke her vanity bowl, her vase, she smashed her mirror. Jesus there is glass everywhere. All the furniture except the bed and the wardrobe is turned over." Explaining the scene to them but her eyes kept coming back to Madalina.
"What about Madalina? Where is she?" Paul questioned next to her.
Eve shook her head, "I can't...she's..." She trailed off losing the words.
Waves of panic flooded through Paul, "Lift me up! Lift me up I need to see her."
Without a single noise Eve picked up Paul effortlessly and leveled his head with the window.
Paul made an indescribable noise, somewhere between a sob and a cry.
"Oh my poor sweetheart." A few tears slid down his face, "Baby, baby I'm so sorry. Please just please..." His words failed him as Paul couldn't stop staring at the woman he loved huddled on the dirty, glass stained floor with her back to him. The only way he knew she was breathing were the sobs racking her petite body over and over.
"Just please come back from this." Paul whispered pressing his forehead against the glass. His breath fogging up the window.
The minutes turned to hours as a small group of people camped outside of Madalina's trailer. Anxiously waiting for any sign of life from the once vibrant young woman.
Jimmy had joined them after his mother dunked his head underwater and plied him full of black coffee. Now his insides turned and twisted but not from his throbbing hangover. No, he felt like absolute shit for what he said to Madalina when he was drunk. He hated himself for what he said and what he did. For God's sake he was the drunken idiot who pointed out the tattoo..her tattoo-the thing that broke her.
Dell had made himself scarce yet again, but this time it was for the best.
Paul had not moved from his spot since he planted a chair right outside his beloved's door. From what he could tell the crying had stopped about two hours ago.
But that did nothing to make him feel relieved. Now she just lay quiet on the floor of her trailer. Never once moving from her spot.
"She is going to be okay. She'll come back and everything will be okay." Jimmy quietly spoke, his head in his hands.
"And what exactly are you basing on that Jimmy?" Paul snapped at him, "This is all your bloody fault, you and Dell!"
Jimmy groaned, "I know! You don't think I know that!"
The sound of footsteps running towards them made everyone turn around.
"Hey." Thomas ran towards them, "What the hell is going on?" He questioned to everyone.
"What are you doing here?" Paul rose from his seat.
"Well I was coming by to talk to Madalina about a case she asked me to look into. I told her I would stop by once I talked to the Chief. I get here and Miss Mars tells me Madalina is in a bad shape." Thomas explained, "Now I ask again, what the hell is going on?"
There was a pause of silence. Thomas began to sweat.
"Everyone found out about...what happened to her during the war. About where she was and what they did to her." Paul's voice dripped in sadness.
Thomas let out a loud a curse and ran his hand through his hair, "How'd everyone find out?"
Everyone turned their gaze towards Jimmy who hung his head lower if that was even possible.
"Some drunken idiot and his asshole father caused quite a row and Madalina got caught in the middle of it." Eve seethed at Jimmy.
"Look I feel like crap okay! And I know that doesn't make it any better but I hate myself over what happened!" Jimmy yelled out.
"Dell was having words with Madalina and he went to grab her...long story short he ripped her sleeve and everyone saw her tattoo." Paul spoke.
"Shit." Thomas quietly cursed and rubbed a hand over his face. Everything about the day April 11, 1945, flooded into his skull. But what he saw most of all was the emaciated body he encountered when he entered an almost empty barrack. The body he didn't even know was a woman until he was actual staring into her face. Looking sixty, never guessing she was just barely a teenager. Weighing nothing more than a child.
"She took off after that. Locked herself in her trailer and trashed everything in it. Screaming and yelling in Lithuanian. Eve lifted me up to her window where I found her sobbing on the floor. That was hours ago. Now she's just been silent." Paul whispered.
"So what do we do?" Thomas asked in an open question.
"She needs you." Paul said so softly it was almost impossible to hear him. This was killing him that he couldn't help the woman he loved, but if someone else could then he was going to bloody make sure they would.
"What?" Thomas was bewildered.
"Look none of us can even come close to what she is feeling but you know more about it than any of us." He reasoned.
"How can he help her?" Desiree inquired though her usual tone of sass was missing.
"You found her in that hell hole. You got her out. You've seen the things she's seen. If anyone can help bring her back then you can." Paul concluded though his insides were contorting from the agony.
"You mean...he...you were there?" Jimmy awed, but his question didn't get a response.
Thomas swallowed the lump in his throat.
"How do I get inside?" Asking as he stared at the door.
He could do this. He had to. Because he didn't know what would happen to her if he failed.