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?

14. Part 2 - Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Roderich woke up brutally by someone slamming something in his head. He sat up and realized that both he and Elizabeta had fallen asleep and moreover slept for quite some time. And who had struck him didn't turned out to be very hard to figure out.

"Get up, we are there!" He heard Gilbert cheer with a roar through the bus. Roderich glanced out the window to orient himself.

The bus had stopped, inside the fence of the concentration camp. Roderich could see that horrible "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign above the entrance and he couldn't help but gasp. The second after that he was struck by the thought of the last time he had arrived at this location. At that time he had come here in a cattle wagon that was so full of people that it was difficult to breathe. Roderich had not forgotten that trip either. Several times the train had stopped, the doors were opened after which several people cramped into the already crowded carriage. After what he thought must be days they could smell something that reminded them about dead bodies.

Roderich was called back to reality by Elizabeta who pulled him up on his feet.

"We might as well go out to the others," she said to Roderich without caring about Gilbert's comments about that destination.

Outside the bus, another school class waited to see the same thing. Roderich looked towards the barracks. He still knew how he would go to find the one where he had his bed, and a variety of other places that he would rather not think about. He simply followed Elizabeta as she walked towards the rest of the class.

Then it happened for the first time that day. It was a sound that probably no one else heard, but for Roderich it was so nasty that he panted and turned around, utterly convinced that would see an SS soldier behind him.

It turned out that it was only the bus driver who stepped out of the bus. Roderich caught up with the others, he didn't want to be left alone in this place.

When Roderich made it to the others, the two school classes had already begun to move toward the barracks. For Roderich there was now only one thing that was important, to stick near the others. Above all Elizabeta. She would never let anything happen to him.