In the end of everything

by Sjeherazade

In the end of 1944 Hungary gets the news that Austria has been sent to a concentration camp. She, Italy and Prussia imidiatelly starts an investigation to find which camp he's been taken to and when, and all this time they are haunted by one terrible thougt. What if it is to late to help him?

2. Vienna 1944-12-25

Chapter 2

Vienna

1944-12-25

Although there were wars around the world, it was also Christmas and Hungary decided to go and visit her ex-husband, after all they were still very good friends and they had, unfortunately, not seen each other in a while because of the war.

She picked up a basket which she filled with food. She had after all been following the politics news carefully the last few years, so she knew that Mr. Austria was one of the world's most unfortunate countries right now . Apparently it was both poor and dangerous over there right now, but Hungary still decided that it was worth the risk. She was, after all, an ally of Germany, so she would not exactly be the prime suspect if she approached the border. In addition, she wanted to know how Austria was feeling after all these traumas.

Just as Hungary suspected it was no problem for her to enter the Austria's territory, nor to make her way to his house. One thing that struck Hungary from the beginning was how different everything was from when she lived here. So much poverty, she had not seen it for several hundred years, and she didn't like it. Not that she didn't like to go to war but right now she felt that it had gone too far.

Hungary went up the stairs to Austria's house, it was dark in there, that was the first thing she noticed, the second thing was that no one responded when she knocked on the door.

She remembered that Austria liked to sit out in the back garden at this time of the day and therefore she simply walked around the house to see if he was there. He was not, however, she could see that someone had broken a window.

Surprised that a window has been broken without the pedantic Mr. Austria had fixed it, Hungary went over to broken window and looked through it. Then she was even more surprised, there were cobwebs everywhere, and even otherwise everything was a mess.

Hungary concluded that Austria could not be at home if the house looked like this. Probably Germany forced him to help him with the war, he had after all occupied Austria so it was clear that he would be messing around with him when he had the chance, he had done that so many times throughout history.

It was first when Hungary was on her way back home that a really horrible thought flew through her head. Mr. Austrias Human name: Roderich Edelstein. Edelstein was a Jewish surname.

Hungary was so shocked by the realization that she dropped her basket on the ground and her knees buckled under her. She was sitting there on the ground for almost a minute while the possible truth crept further and further into her consciousness. If all the rumors about Germany were true this could have ended really bad.