France, 1944. As the Allies land on the shores of Normandy, an unlikely friendship strikes up between Levi Ackerman, a widowed French Jew, and Eren Jäger, a deeply-in-the-closet lieutenant in the German Wehrmacht. The two deal with love, loss, digni...
Trigger Warning: Consider this your warning for the next few chapters. There will be graphic descriptions of blood, violence, homophobic language ... well, you saw the warning back in Chapter One. It'll be a rough few chapters. Please trust me with the storytelling. That's all I ask.
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Eren and Levi were marched away from the river to a car and driven through the streets to the south of Metz, where there was a fort turned into an internment camp. The Germans called it Feste Göben, but the French called it Enfer de Queuleu, the "Hell of Queuleu."
Earlier that summer, the internment camp had been filled with prisoners of war and the French Resistance. When the Americans began to aim for Metz, the fort was evacuated, and all the prisoners were sent to concentration camps further east.
Eren thought how ironic it was. Levi had planned to infiltrate this fort to free Carly and the other Jewish brothel girls. Now, they were going to be prisoners.
His vision began to fade, and Eren felt his head dip forward. Reiner caught him and pressed him upright.
"Are you okay, Eren?"
He began to answer, but dizziness washed over him suddenly. He pressed the shirt Reiner had given him deeper into the wound on his shoulder. The fabric was already saturated, and blood covered his hand. Despite the pain, Eren tried to press in harder to slow down the bleeding.
"We should take him to the hospital," Reiner said to Kitz Woermann.
Kitz curled his lip as he glared at Eren. "That hospital is for soldiers, not faggots."
Reiner's brow tightened in disapproval, but he said nothing more.
They passed a few checkpoints, and Levi gazed at the window. He used to dream about making it past the roadblocks and out into open land. Now here he was, driving away from signs of the city, only it was not to freedom, but to prison.
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They drove up a hill and to a stone wall and massive iron gate topped with spikes. Kitz shouted at the guards, and seeing his rank and the SS guards with him, they let the car through.
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