Title: The Returning Rose
Chap: 2
Author: Bobbleheadcollection
About: Our heroes are having trouble staying busy but when a new prisoner comes in they'll be to busy trying to handle this new situation to be bored.
Before: Hello everyone this story isn't a slash at all, my grammar horrible when it comes to writing slashes, but when it comes to these story that deal with a everyday normal episode, its a lot better. Therefore, I hope you all enjoy the story I know I enjoyed writing it. I DO NOT OWEN ANY OF THE CHARACTER EXCEPT FOR THE NEW ONE.
The men came filing out of the barracks very slowly; the cold nip at the men's faces as they stood in their line. The wind blew the snow back and forth, even though it was slowing down the flakes still piled up on the already snow cover barracks. Jumping, running in place the men tried everything they could do just to keep warm, as Schultz slowly counted them. Hogan was eyeing everything around them trying to find where the prisoner could be. Then the door of Klink's office flew open and Hochstetter and Klink came out. They padded down the wooden stairs and hiked their way through the snow.
"Schultz, report!" Klink shouted. Schultz did an about face and saluted Klink.
"All present an accounted for, Commandant!" Schultz said feeling very proud, even though he looked like he had frozen solid to that spot.
"Good, good now listen carefully," Klink started to make his way forward towards the prisoner. "Major Hochstetter has something to tell all of you so listen carefully." Klink turned back around to Hochstetter, who had snow building up on his Gestapo hat. "There all yours major." Klink said snapping to attention.
"Thank you Klink." Hochstetter said not really meaning it. "The Gestapo has commander a barracks, and this is a warning to all of you prisoner. If you go with in three feet or even go inside the perimeter, you will be shot!" Hochstetter chuckled with amusement, until Hogan stepped forward.
"Major, what is so important that it has to be guarded, and what if one my men are on clean up duty and a paper fly with in three feet of the guard?" Hogan pronounces just wanting to give Hochstetter a hard time.
"That is none of my concern. I've told the consequences of what might happen, and that is all." Hochstetter turned and headed back to the ambulance.
Hogan turns to Klink who was glaring at him, and then Klink turned and left for his quarter. Schultz dismissed the men and went back to his duty. Hogan though looked around and headed behind the barracks. He saw in the far distance, Gestapo men heavily guarded a barracks. The solder's were pacing about in the snow; sometimes one would go over to the window and look through it but would eventually walk away. Then Schultz came around the corner and spotted Hogan. Schultz ran up beside Hogan and Hogan smiled at Schultz.
"Hi there Schultz how guard duty coming?" Hogan said laughing.
"Colonel Hogan, you not allowed to be outside of the barracks. Please go inside, beside it's to cold out here for escaping." Schultz pleaded with Hogan to go back in. Therefore, Hogan gave up, went around to the front, and went back inside.
As Hogan walked in, he saw his men lying about under their blankets trying to keep warm. "Alright everyone listen up, I know where our friend Captain Red his being held." Hogan marches his way over to Newkirk and Carter's bunk. He lifted the blanket, pulled out the piece of wood, and lowered a diagram of the camp. "Now our Captain is being held here. In barracks seven." Hogan said pointing at the barracks on the diagram. "Now is there a tunnel or branch tunnel leading into this barracks?"
"I think there's a tunnel under barrack's six." Newkirk was leaning over his bed and pointed to barracks six that was not any more then ten feet away from barracks seven. "I do believe that we might be able to dig out a branch tunnel."
Hogan nodded at the idea; he shoved the diagram back up into the bed, and then replaces the piece of wood back into the bunk. "Alright everyone listen up. It is very important to make contact with this captain, he might be an under ground agent. Well start digging now!"
"Colonel Now?" Newkirk exclaimed looking at the Colonel as if he was nuts. "Colonel can't we start digging a little bit later?"
"No, we dig now while the Germans are unaware of us. Therefore, I want you, and Carter to start digging now. It's twenty-four hundred and if we all work a three hour swift we'll get done in less this seven hours." Hogan took a sip of his coffee.
"Colonel how do you figure that?" Carter asks standing up.
"Well the last branch tunnel we dug it took us about eight hours, now I figure if we have four men working on the branch tunnel we could have though two men working a three hours shift at a time it'll only take us about an hour less." Colonel Hogan explained.
"Colonel we had eight men last time working on the branch tunnel?" LeBeau said pouring the Colonel more coffee. "You have four men working at a time, on a three hour shift? That doesn't sound right to me"
"Yes because that was twice the distance then this!" Hogan shook his head in disappointment. "Listen, you guys dig an ingenuous tunnel system. We just need one more tunnel to complete out system now how about it. Pretty please?" Hogan asks sticking his bottom lip out in a pout. There came a low rumble of, 'fine' from the men. "Good, now Carter, Newkirk you two have the first swift, then after you guys are done Kinch and LeBeau will take over, around three hundred hours." Hogan Smiled and headed into his office and closed the door
"Well come on Andrew lets go and be some ruddy gophers." Newkirk said hoping off his bunk to the floor. Carter followed behind Newkirk; he watches as Newkirk open the tunnel entrance. Kinch and LeBeau went back to bed to get some rest before they have to do dig for three hours.
The three hours came and went. The night for the men in barracks three went quickly as the sound of the tunnel entrance open and close. It came three hundred hours when, Newkirk and Carter where relieved of their shift, they climbed up the steps completely exhausted. Both men where covered in dirt from head to toe, which had been plastered on them because of the beads of sweat illuminating off their bodies. Hogan watches as his men collapse on Carter bed. Newkirk had stripped down to his white under shirt, where as Carter had just unzipped the top part of his jumper and tied it around his waste
"You, guys must have been working hard?" Hogan said as he watches Newkirk pushes Carter off him. Carter moved to the other end of his bunk, curled up in a ball, and fell asleep.
"Well, of course we have, since you have the best ruddy gophers." Newkirk joked as he tries to stand up. He had a little trouble standing, as his legs quivered, from the straight three hours of digging. "LeBeau and Kinch are working on the rest of tunnel right now. We got a little more then half way. If Kinch and LeBeau work the way they are the tunnel might be done in a little less then two hours." Newkirk lit one of his cigarettes before climbing on his bed for some well deserve rest.
"That's great that means well make contact with him sooner. Why don't you guy-? Never mind." Hogan chuckled as he saw that both men had fallen asleep while he was ranting to himself. He covered both of them with a blanket and headed back to his room.
As the time past, and before anyone knew it seven-teen hundred hours, had rolled around. LeBeau then came running up the ladder of the tunnel. LeBeau had taken of his red sweater and was now just wearing his cream color shirt. LeBeau made a bee's line straight to the Colonel's room. The door was open and Hogan was sitting at his desk with the lamp light; not to bright and not to dim.
"Colonel Hogan we made it!" LeBeau exclaimed happily. "Do you want Kinch, and I to go up?" Hogan had places his pencil down and looked at LeBeau.
"No, I'll go make contact. I do not want you, or Kinch to get hurt, if this captain might want to attack first and ask question later." Hogan and LeBeau exited his office to return to the tunnel. Hogan stop to fix Carter blanket so it covered his legs. "Alright lets go."
LeBeau was down the tunnel first, then Hogan came down and jump of the ladder not touching the last three steps. Hogan spotted Kinch who was laying on his cot, that Hogan put down there for him since he was the one who had to stay with the radio if any incoming calls where coming in from London, the British sub, or an underground agent. Kinch looked over to LeBeau and Hogan as they made their way over to him.
"Hiya, Colonel! LeBeau and I reach the destination." Kinch rolled off the cot and started to walk with Hogan down one of the many tunnel systems. "Hey Colonel would you like one of us to go up there? I mean if something happen to you, were out of business!" Kinch and Hogan stop walking and Hogan faced Kinch.
"Kinch listen I have complete confident in this prisoner, and if I'm wrong, then fold up Stalag 13." Hogan smiled at Kinch and kept on walking, leaving Kinch to worry.
Hogan had quite the walk, the tunnel that lead to barrack six was very long and for some reason had a lot turns and twist in it. Hogan turned the bend and found the entrance to the branch tunnel. LeBeau and Kinch had painted a sign and nailed it at the top, it read 'entrance to barracks seven.' Hogan laughed and entered the tunnel. Hogan was very impress with marksmanship that the men put in this tunnel. The entrance was big and spaces, for at least two or three normal size men to fit through at once, and it was a straight shout to the ladder, where as all the other branches had at least one bend or circle in it because the men thought it was funny. Hogan made his way to the ladder oil lamps hanged from the walls, guiding Hogan to his destination. As Hogan place his hands on the ladder he looked up to see the floor panel already had been cut and there was no light shining through which was a bad sign. This meant that whoever was in there knew that they where coming up and was waiting for them or they went to bed. Hogan breath in and started his ascend to the barrack.
Hogan could hear his heart pounding furiously in his chest as he laid his palm against the floor panel. Lifting it very quietly and slowly to not attract any attention Hogan remove the floor panel. Hogan tardily lifted his head out of the hole. He encountered complete darkness; the barrack gave Hogan an uneasiness feeling, not a sound in bleak, cold barrack, the only sound Hogan could hear was the barking of the dogs, and the whispering winds that blew fractious against the thin windowpanes. Then as Hogan pulled himself out of the hole, his worst fears happened. He froze when the click of a gun then followed by a very strong, stern, muffled voice.
"You move, I shoot you where you stand!" Hogan swallowed hard, he could not get out of this scrape now, and he was in big trouble. "Alright, do what I tell you and we won't have any trouble." The voice had such a commanding tone that Hogan could not refuse; he nodded his head, because Hogan could not find his voice. "Now get out of there, close the lid and face the window." Hogan did what acquired of him. He lifted the rest of him out of the tunnel and shut the lid. He stood up and faces the window, but stood off to the side because if the person decided to stand right behind him he could at least get a glimpse of this person. The lights where flip on and Hogan had to squint at the sudden brightness of the room, which was desolate a few seconds ago. Hogan listen to the footsteps of his occult friend, the footsteps he was used to hearing was steely and heavy, where as these footsteps where demulcent, and graceful. Hogan looked directly at the windowpane and could only make out a smidge of the person. "You're an American?" The voice sounded surprise, and still muffled.
"Yes," Hogan cleared his voice, to speak, because right now he was a little irritated with the muffled voice and his secretive friend. "I'm Robert E. Hogan, Colonel of the American Air core." Hogan breathing hitched as he finished his sentence, waiting patiently, but still nark by the muffled voice, but what Hogan received was beyond his belief.
"Wait, you mean you're the very known, and very famous, Papa Bear, I've heard so much about." The voice relived from the muffled took Hogan by total surprise. "You may turn around now." Hogan spun around quickly and froze in his tracks. "Ello, Colonel Hogan, I'm Captain Red!"
I AM SO PROUD OF THIS CHAPTER IT TURNED OUT AMAZING! IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF ^_^^_^! Chap 3 coming soon