Throughout It All

27 | We Must Go On | October 5, 1918

So ... I have a plan?

Well, we'll just have to see what will happen, won't we?

(Also, if these chapters are getting repetitive or boring, you can tell me)

Okay, so there was something that I was kind of unsure about, but it checks out, so I am now relieved haha.

Enjoy! :)

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The 77th Division is not in good shape right now.

There were 554 men. 197 of them got killed, and 150 of them--including Jack, Kid Griffo, and Dave Simmons--got captured. The rest? Jack has no clue where they are now. He hopes they're okay.

They're all being marched off to a prison camp ... somewhere. Somewhere in Germany, that is. Jack, Kid Griffo, and Dave Simmons have a rough day of marching ahead of them.

True, they have a rough week (more than just one rough week) behind them. 

Jack knows there are some things he saw that he'll never be able to unsee. He sees the haunted look in Kid Griffo and Dave's eyes. They are seeing things too.

Jack doesn't know how long they've been moving, no way for them to stop moving. They assume it's been hours, but that could also be minutes passing by super long.

Until, finally, they reach the gates outside of the prison camp. The gate opens, and they're marched inside.

Jack looks at his surroundings.

True, he doesn't know exactly where he is. 

He just knows that he's probably going to be here for a really, really long time.

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Mush wants to get off the battlefield.

Spot wants to get off the battlefield.

Neither wants to continue with this.

Yesterday they got the news that most of the 77th Division got captured.

They remember the drafting card Jack had. They know that Jack is a part of the 77th Division. Which means that if he isn't dead or still missing, he's a prisoner. They hope that he's only missing.

They hope that they won't need to put up a gold star for him back home.

If they make it back home.

There are troops who are trying to rescue the 77th Division, which is now nicknamed the "Lost Battalion." Mush and Spot would have volunteered to go with them, but their general had other plans for them.

Those plans? Staying here.

While so far the goal of this battle is going better than it had been with the first divisions, it still is hard, and Mush and Spot don't know how long this is going to go on. Yesterday was the beginning of the second phase of the "big plan," but sometimes they wonder if there really is a plan, if there really is a reason for all of this to be happening.

They just have to make it through today. And tomorrow, and the day after that, and however long it takes until they can go home.

If they are able to go home.

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