Berlin

1945-03-28

Hungary had asked Italy for some toothpicks, pieces of paper and colored pencils. With these, she had made little flags and buildings that she stuck into the map to make it more orderly. Germany had given her a list of all the concentration camps and they were also represented in her map.

Now Hungary had been sitting there looking at the map for hours, while she alternated between hope and despair.

According to the information she had received from Germany the concentration camps had different purposes. Some of them were labor camps, others were both labor and death camps, and some ... like Treblinka, for example, was just a death camp, a Point of no return. Treblinka was now expended, but this wouldn't be a great comfort if it turned out that it was where Austria had been taken.

On the other side of the table sat Italy with Germany's cat on his lap, and he actually looked at the map. Hungary had almost forgotten that he actually was able to read maps, Italy had actually been really good in military tactics once, Hungary didn't understand how it could happen that he suddenly stopped taking it, even though he obviously had the talent left somewhere inside his head.

On the other hand, America was seen as a military genius even though he couldn't for his life learn how to read a map. Hungary honestly didn't knew which of the two she was most surprised of.

"Italy?"

"Hm?" Italy mumbled in reply as he raised his head from the cat to look at Hungary instead.

"Do you think there's any hope that we will be able to find Austria in time?" Italy was silent a long time. Treblinka worried him as well but he didn't dare to say that to Hungary, at least not right now.

"I will not stop searching until all hope is gone" Italy answered Italy then, and he was actually surprised by himself why he had said just this, it really wasn't like him. But he had lived with Austria almost all his life and there was a strong friendship between them. "If he is still alive, I think a lot depends on what the allies are going to do" he continued after that.

"The chances would be greater for him after the D-Day clearly" Hungary thought loudly. "It's more powerful forces in Europe that we have to take into account now"

After a few more minutes of silence Italy got an idea, got up and put the cat down. "I'll try to get a Word to France" Hungary looked at Italy in surprise, as if she thought it was the dumbest idea in the world history. Italy saw this and declared that "Austria never wanted to become one of the Axis powers, he was forced to it by Germany, if we tell France this, maybe he can persuade the other allies to be nice to him!" A few seconds later Italy had disappeared.

Hungary sighed and was just about to start studying the map again, now that she was alone. But she would not be alone for longer than ten minutes. Then the door opened by a person who definitely had not expected to see Hungary in there.

"Hungary, what are you doing here?" Hungary winced, she hadn't heard the door open and honestly she didn't feel like talking to this person right now.

"What are you doing here Prussia?" she simply asked, without taking her eyes from the maps.

"I live here," Prussia replied truthfully and annoying, self-assured, as if it were the most obvious explanation of the world. "What do you have here?" He asked and sat down so that he could see what the maps represented. When Hungary gave up.

"Austria has been deported to a concentration camp and I intend to find him!" She declared, before she went to the door and walked out into Germany's garden.

Prussia remained seated, he was completely shocked by what Hungary had told him and now he tried to work out what he would do now, which was difficult. It was not until a certain thought came into his head that Prussia decided what to do. If Prussia couldn't make Austria's life a hell, no one could make Austria's life a hell. Therefore, he had to rescue him.

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"Hungary!" Prussia shouted as he ran up to her in the garden, where she sat on a fountain surrounded by white roses. "Hungary, I will help you!" Hungary looked up in surprise at Prussia and he saw that she had been crying, he didn't care about it anyway. "I have some lists you may need, the name of who were sent to each camp and so on, I thought it might be useful. Also, I have an awesome plan."