Berlin

1944-12-26

A few hours later, Miss Hungary stood outside Germany's door and knocked on it with all strength she could force out.

"Open the door, Germany, I have some questions for you and they absolutely can not wait. Let me in!"

But it was Italy who finally opened the door, and Hungary was actually surprised at how masculine he looked like now, compared to when he wore her green dress. If it had not been for the situation, she had certainly thought it was comical.

"Germany is not feeling so good." Italy tried to explain, and then he tried to ask Hungary to come back a little later.

That was an experiment he had to give up almost before he thought of the idea. Hungary didn't want to listen to that kind of nonsense and she explained to Italy that Austria perhaps felt even worse and that Germany was probably the only one who knew what they could do about it.

Italy was shocked by the news of Mr. Austria, and Hungary could then see Germany at once. But Italy still seemed to hesitate when he opened the door more and more to finally open it fully to let Hungary in.

Hungary walked in to Germany's bedroom, followed by Italy, and Italy hadn't exaggerated, Germany looked very sick, but it couldn't be helped, she went in to him and sat down next to his bed.

"Mr. Germany?"

Hungary saw Germany's eyes opened, then she saw a glimpse when he recognized her.

"Hey Hungary!" He greeted, and the voice told Hungary that Germany had been feeling much better. "Maybe a strange question from me right now, but. How are you?"

Hungary couldn't help but smile a little bit about the issue. But while she did not forget why she came here.

"Germany, it's true ... those rumors about ..." Hungary just couldn't say the word "gas chambers", it got stuck in her throat, the only thing that came out was a sob. Germany lifted a trembling hand and took Hungarys one hand in his.

"I'm afraid you can take all the horrible rumors you heard about me lately, multiply all the terrible things with a thousand and then you're not even close!" He explained. "That's why I'm this sick you see" he continued before Hungary had time to recover from the shock. "My current boss is completely insane Hungary, he will kill me" Germany looked into Hungary's eyes she was shocked by something. "Well, now you know anyway," he sighed "if the war does not end soon I will not survive. I hope you will have better luck"

Hungary clenched her teeth, she needed to tell Germany what she knew. "Germany ..." a tear ran down from Hungary's eye, down her cheek, and did not stop until it reached her chin and dropped down into her lap. "Germany, I went to visit Austria earlier today, he wasn't there and his house was full of cobwebs ..."

Germany looked at her without saying a word, it was time to listen now, not talking, just show Hungary that he understood. And Hungary ... continued

"Do you think he might have ..." At this point Hungary had to wait and rest, and Germany took her hand again, to comfort. Hungary gratefully took the hand and squeezed it. "Austria has a Jewish surname, after all," she sobbed.

Germany gasped, he had completely forgotten about that, now he understood clearly what Hungary was concerned about, and the worst thing was that her concern was probably justified.

"Do you think there is a possibility that he ... might ... have ended up..?" Hungary couldn't say that word either. Then she looked seriously into Germany's eyes, he looked back, equally serious. And he could not lie about his fears.

"Yes, I think there might be a possibility ..." he sighed. "I think ..." Germany was trying to find the right words, "I think there is a risk that ... he may have been ... you know ..." Now Germany also had difficulty getting out the word he so well knew how it sounded ... "deported".

When Germany finally managed to say that word that Hungary was so afraid that he would say, and that she had been the very last thing she had hoped to hear, she hid her face in her hands with a scream, then she started overbreathing. Germany tried to get her to stop but it was impossible, partly because he was too weak to get up and partly because Hungary was now so incredibly heartbroken that there were absolutely impossible to get a word through to her. It was just lucky that ltaly came in at just that time, otherwise Hungary would probably have fainted.