The Story Of Their Daughter (Steggy fan fic)

1945 Part 2

I woke up and the feeling of the cold sharp air took over my whole body. It's still dark outside. What happen? Then I remember. Almost dying and right now wishing I was dead. The sound of my mother's voice from yesterday still hunts me. She sounded broken and who knows if I'll ever see her again. I felt tears going down my face. I look over at my dad he is still asleep.

"Dad," the words barely come out of my mouth as I try to shake him. He opens his eyes the one things I'm happy to see.

"Hey, are you okay?" he asked he can see the tears coming down my face. I want to say that where going to die here. I want to lose hope but that what I taught. I was taught to hold on to hope no matter what. I was taught to fight because fighting is the way you survive in this world.

"I'm just so tired and so cold," is all I can manage to say. My dad sits up and puts his arm around me. I close my eyes and feel a brief moment of happiness but then I open my eyes again. Then it all goes away.

"Someone will find us," I can tell that he trying to be positive. He doesn't want me to worry. He wants to make his little girl feel safe.

"It could take days, we're in the middle of the ocean," squeezing his hands harder.

"Ya I know, but we're strong we'll make it through," then he kisses the top of my head. We can't be out here for more than 3 days or we will die hunger and dehydration. He is right we are strong but I don't know how strong we can be when we have no food or water.

I take a deep breath in and smell the ocean, it doesn't smell very good, "Hopefully" I whispered.

3 days later, I look up and see bright lights it looks like they are coming from a ship. "Dad look!" I was somehow able to scream. My dad's mouth open with shock as the ship comes closer.

We wave our hands up in the air and scream out for them to see us. The tossed down two ropes we tie them to the lifeboat and they bring us up to the ship. As soon as I see the men on the ship I think oh no. They are Germans. Before I can say anything two of the men grabbed me a throw me and I hit the wall hard.

"Carter!" I look up to see my dad with many German men trying to hold him down. My head hurts some much like something is stabbing. Then everything turns black.

I wake up in a sell. I look over to see my dad in the cell next to me.

"Dad," I whispered, "Are we still on the ship?"

"Yes, but don't worry as soon as they take us off we will run," in my mind that doesn't sound like a very good plan. We don't know how long we will be on this ship. We don't know where we run too.

We barely get any food and any water. Every day is a struggle to stay alive. When I go to sleep every night I don't think that I'll wake up the next morning. Yet somehow I do. It hurts to move to walk to do anything really.

I'm trying to sleep when I hear a door open. I lift my head up to see a bright light come from the other side of the door. I cover my eyes because it burns my eyes. It takes me a minute to adjust from all the days of being in the darkness.

"Grab them," said one of the German guards. They open my sell and pull me out. They hold on tight to my arms. I see my dad and he mouths the "we run".

They take me off of the ship their fingernails are digging into my skin. When we get to their base I look over to my dad. Their base looks a lot like how ours was but there is one big difference. We are fighting for the right reason and they are fighting for the wrong reason. My dad gives me a nod and I take a deep breathe in. I know what I'm about to do is stupid but it's my only chance.

I break from the men who were holding my grasp. I start to run as fast as I can I look behind me to see my dad. But then a man comes up behind him a teases him and he falls to his knees.

I stop and turn around, "Dad!" I feel two cold hands grabbed me. I try to kick the men but I'm too weak.

"Carter!"

"Dad!" They keep pulling me back farther and farther away. "No daddy!" I yell at the top of my lungs. Then another man picks up my feet. They pull me away and I lose all sight of my dad.