Ok so the main response to the first chapter seemed to be positive so here we are! Now the chapter title comes from the song "At the Beginning" from the Anastasia credits, I'm not sure if I'll do that for all but it fit this time. I don't own Twilight let me know of any historical errors you find! Thanks and I hope you enjoy!

"Girls ,girls, girls wake up" my mother whispered shaking me and my sister.

"what is it momma?" Esther asked in a terrified voice.

"Today is the day we've feared little ones" my mother whispered "the soldiers just came to the door we have fifteen minutes to be down in the streets now please darlings get up!" my mother said again almost begging this time.

She hurried to our closet grabbing our school bags and shoving as many clothes in as possible. We were both getting to our feet dressing quickly putting on a couple layers-just in case. We went to get our shoes, but mother stopped us "No girls boots please for me" she said begging again I nodded and got my boots instead even though it was summer.

I helped my sister with her boots as well. My mother handed us the bags and began packing one for herself. She finished and we hurried down the stairs-it never even occurred to us to disobey the Nazis; to hide in the house. We were terrified to disobey. That's when my mother pulled me aside and looked at me hard in the eye.

"Yoshabel Marie you have to promise me two things" she said all panic gone from her voice it was now hard and serious. "One never Bella NEVER forget who you are- you are a chosen one you are a child of Abraham you are special. We've been persecuted for years but we've never given up and neither will you do you understand me?"

"Yes momma" I whispered.

" And two Bella I don't want you to ever leave your sisters side you here me? Unless they force you two apart and threaten your life don't leave her"

"Yes momma" I repeated crying now.

"Oh baby" my mother said pulling me into a hug she was crying too. Esther looked at us then ran over and clung to my mother and I.

"I love you" Esther whispered. " We'll get through it we always have for centuries since forever" she whimpered as if willing it to be true. My mother looked down at my sister

"Don't forget who you are little one or for who you were named for don't forget."

Esther nodded "Abba keep us safe" my mother whispered. We heard gun shots down the street and knew they'd shoot us too if we didn't get out there.

I grabbed Esther hand and we ran into the streets. We walked down the streets well actually we were more or less herded down the streets. I leaned down to whisper in Esther's ear

" We look like the Israelites don't we? Walking down the Avenue of The Sphinxes after the pharaoh let them go." Esther squinted looking at us all walking along the streets. Then she looked up at me and nodded

"Yeah and we're gonna be liberated too Bella I know it!". I smiled at her I hope I thought. We walked all the way to the train station clinging to each others hands with our mother right behind us. That was when they separated us. They shoved me and my sister onto a train and pushed my mother into a group of other older looking woman ;mothers.

"Momma" I screamed reaching through the mesh of bodies trying to get to her. But a solider saw my attempt.

"kein rückseitiger Jude"(no back Jew) he hissed at me and slapped me hard across the face.

I fell into the dark far back corners of the cattle cart. Esther still clinging to my hand came with me though managed not to fall as well. She touched my face where I had been slapped. "It's not bleeding" she said touching it gently "I don't even think it'll bruise." she said sounding proud of being able to talk medically like that.

I pulled Esther into my lap. "We're gonna be ok" I whispered "we'll be there a few weeks at the most then the Americans- you remember what I told you about Americans right?" "

"Yeah they live all the way on the other side of the Ocean and they have an eagle and stars and stripes and gold streets right?"

"Yeah and they and the British and the Russians are gonna save us gonna get us out of where ever we're going and we're gonna walk hand in hand up to our door and Momma and Daddy will be waiting inside and we'll go to the beach in matching sun dresses and we'll eat all the ice cream and strawberries we want because we won't be rationing food anymore and we'll even be able to take off the star and they'll be no soldiers in the street it'll all be normal just like before. I'll get to see Alice and Emmet again and you'll get to see-" but I stopped dead. "Alice and Emmet" I whispered.

I didn't know where they were didn't know if they had been loaded into the train or if they had tried to hide or even if their street had been called up. I didn't know I had no idea. No idea what had happened to my two best friends in the world. I felt dizzy with worry and clung to my sister even tighter as more and more people were crammed into the cattle car.

Epov

I sat in the front seat of a jeep. My uniform was perfectly pressed. Albert my father's friend sat in the driver's seat rambling on and on. I wasn't really listening just nodding at appropriate intervals. Then something he said caught my attention "Ahh there she is lad" I looked up and sure enough we were driving up to a huge expanse of land rimmed with barbed wire and smoking chimneys. Albert drove up to the fence between two guard towers. He waved to one of them and the gates slowly opened. We drove through the camp.

It was, well to be frank it was awful and repulsive. I couldn't see how father could think places like this were so magnificent. I had seen some awful things I had watched as the night of broken glass, I had seen the old men on the streets forced to scrub the side walks with their beards, had seen the mothers screaming as their teenage sons and husbands were taken –more like dragged from the house.

But that was all shadowed in comparison to this. The people well inmates looked as though they had been starved their heads were shaved and their eyes. Their eyes were easily the worst-empty, hollow and hopeless.

We drove through passing buildings –barracks, factories, crematoriums," showers" (though I don't know why they bothered to call them that anymore everyone knew what they really were). We stopped at one building I wasn't sure what it was though it looked nicer than the other crudely built ones. "Come on son there's some one I want you to meet" Albert said getting out of the jeep.

I followed though not very willingly through my experience with my father I knew anything that Nazis thought worthy to show off to anyone was probably cruel and sick. We walked into the doors and it reminded me a little bit of a hospital. There was a very handsome man standing by one of the beds there was a person on the bed but I was too weak to look. I instead looked at the ground.

"This" Albert said gesturing to the man "Is Josef Mengele a doctor of sorts" he said. The man turned and nodded

"Not exactly I like to think of myself more as a scientist" the man said smiling it was a sick smile though that made me entirely uneasy but to be polite I asked,

"What do you research?"

"Oh I find twins very fascinating" he said with that same sickening smile. He then continued to describe to me in detail the "experiments" he performed. But I'll spare you the details.

After our visit to the lab we got back in the jeep "There's one other place I want to show you I think you might like it here this is where we're planning to put you" I nodded politely but his excitement made me uneasy.

When we did arrive at our destination I was surprised- it wasn't nearly as bad as I feared nice in comparison with the rest of the camp. There were piles upon piles of clothes, bags, shoes everything.

"Welcome to Canada" Albert said smiling.

" Canada?" I ask "Isn't that a North American country?"

"Yeah full of riches I hear that's how this place got its name this is where all the prisoners' things are taken when they're confiscated" he explained. There were several girls that I hadn't noticed before scurrying around.

They looked -nice, well kept but obviously prisoners. They had on the same uniform outfit and they still had hair but they didn't have the swagger and arrogance of the female Nazis I had met before.

Albert grabbed one at random he dropped his hand though the second after she had followed the unspoken command to come as though she had burned him however the way he looked at her clearly made her uncomfortable.

"This is one of Canada's new guards Edward" he told her not looking very happy about having to talk to her so directly. "I want you to show him around got it?" She nodded clearly terrified to actually speak.

Albert nodded then looked at me "Well I guess this is good bye son take care of yourself" he said handing me my bag from the back seat of the jeep. I thanked him and took it. He hopped back in the jeep and drove away.

I turned to the girl "So what's your name" I asked trying to be polite. "Sephora" she whispered sounding terrified.

"That's and unusual name is it a family name?" I asked honestly curious.

"No it's the name of Moses wife he's a very important man of God to my people." She said seeming to brighten up a little then without warning her face turned to a mask of horror and she covered her mouth as though she had cursed. "I'm so sorry sir I know you hate it when we mention things like that please forgive me please please please" Sephora said falling to her knees.

They were this terrified of us just because they mentioned something from their heritage? Then it hit me her people she was referring to the Jews that's why she was so horrified.

"No it's fine" I said pulling her to her feet "I asked, I'm not going to hurt you" She looked at me clearly not believing me but she nodded.

"Do you want me to show you Canada now?" she asked.

"Yes that would be great" I answered. She showed me the piles upon piles of things and told me that it was her and the other women's job to sort all the confiscated belongings she showed me where their latrines were and where their barracks were.

Then she pointed to another building which once again looked nicer than most of the other buildings. "I don't think I can go in there but those are the soldier's barracks and someone in there should tell you what to do. Thank you again for your pardoning my mistake sir" she said.

"Edward" I corrected "please call me Edward". Sephora nodded and I made my way over to the barracks. It was very nice inside the floor was tiled and the bunk beds inside had sheets and small writing desks next to them.

A blond girl stood by one of the desks writing something hurriedly. She looked up when I came in. She was obviously a guard she was dressed in the Nazi uniform standard for woman.

She stopped writing and held out her hand "Hello I am Rosalie the overseer of the woman here" she was beautiful gorgeous even she had obviously come from money her hair was perfectly curled and her uniform pressed expertly but despite her beauty it was clear why she had been given the job she had.

She had a very hard look on her face, dangerous yes that was what it was. "You must be the new guard Edward correct?"

"Yes mam"

"Oh please call me Rosalie" and her face broke out into a smile that cleared all traces of iciness away.

It was clear at that moment that she only looked mean. "Rosalie then" I said. "So pretty much what we do here is just watch over the prisoners- I'm sorry the women" she stopped seeing the look of confusion on my face "You see the heads over at the main camp don't like it when we refer to them as women they find it more derogatory when we instead refer to them as prisoners or Jews or inmates. But I think it's rude and cruel so I prefer to refer to them when we're not with other guards as women." she explained "I know it's all confusing". I looked at her even though I knew It was rude to stare.

"Is your father a Nazi?" I asked.

"Yes and my mother died she was opposed to the whole Nazi thing but when she died my father enrolled me in the girl's Hitler Youth and then I got put here. Why do you ask?"

"You don't seem like the other Nazis I've met that's all and that's a compliment trust me"

"You're not like the other Nazis I've met either" Rosalie said. "Oh and there's one other thing I need to tell you before I forget. About once a week we go and select of few women to work here. I know you're new but would you mind doing it tomorrow?" Rosalie asked and her expression was so kind and weary that I was ashamed of myself for ever thinking she was cruel.

"No that'd be fine where do I go?" I asked.

"Where the trains unload right before they get their hair shaved is when we like to choose. This sounds vulgar but the other men like it when we choose pretty women. They're sick but I'm scared of them so I try to please them." Rosalie said sounding even wearier than before.

" So the pretty ones" I asked? grinning just a fraction. She nodded and walked slowly from the room.

Now I have a question for everyone and I'd really like you to answer it in the reviews- Should Jasper be a Nazi with Edward and Rose or a prisoner( perhaps a Prisoner of War?)? Ok I'd really appreciate some answers. I really hoped you liked the chapter. Please review and tell me what you think!- love you-wild-lili