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seven-oomen · 3 years

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Every road leads to you chapter 1 | Sambucky a/b/o mpreg

Note: obvious tags for this are a/b/o and eventual mpreg. Alpha Sam, Omega Bucky, Bucky deal with CPTSD, missing scenes, canon compliant, canon continuation, frenemies to friends to lovers, roommates, only one bed. Probably a few more tropes. tbh I wrote this chapter in like a day, posting it here first because I wanna finish the whole fic before posting it to Ao3 but hoping to get some feedback for it here. So I hope you like it. Let me know if you do.

“Stop the car!”

Goddamn Walker and his goddamn fucking mouth. He couldn’t believe this shit. Battlestar. More like throwing away everything Steve had ever stood for. These two, Walker and Hoskins, they weren’t fit to defend the mantle of Captain America. They were soldiers, not good men. He hated their freaking guts for that.

Sam should have never given up that shield.

He stalked further down the road, past the bus stop and onto a smaller road that wound back to town without looking back.

“It’s always that last line.” Sam said after a short back and forth with Walker and not long after Sam’s footsteps trailed after him.

“Buck, wait up!”

He kept walking, trying to contain the anger boiling under his skin. Pulsing and creeping up, threatening to overload his nervous system at the slightest touch. He took a deep breath instead and released it slowly. Trying to calm the waving energy inside of him.

Just keep breathing. Everything is going to be okay.

Sam fell into step beside him, his eyes practically burning holes into the side of his face. Though he paid it no mind.

“You’re not going to talk to me, are you?”

He glared at Sam but slowed down his pace just a little to allow the Alpha to keep up with him. As much as he usually enjoyed bantering with the other man, right now everything was just too much. And even Sam’s words echoed in his head and threatened to overload his entire system.

Sam, thankfully, understood.

“Alright. Let’s find a phone. Call Torres.”

He looked at Sam for a moment. The Alpha didn’t judge him for his mood, simply understood what he needed and left it at that. Honestly, it was nice for a change. He sighed, fishing his still working cellphone out of his pocket and handed it to Sam.

“Here.”

Clearly, Sam hadn’t expected that. But the smile Sam gave him created a pleasant warm feeling in the pit of his stomach and eased the pulsing energy through his body just a little. In a way, it was soothing to see him smile.

“Thanks Buck.”

“You’re welcome.”

Two short phone calls later they were on their way to the airport in a cab, their knees touching and only the sound of Taylor Swift singing over the radio surrounding them. Even the driver was quiet.

He still noted the driver’s glances between the two of them but didn’t comment on it since the chubby man didn’t either. He figured the man had bigger problems in his life than having an unmated Alpha and Omega sitting in the back of his cab. Having the kind of walrus mustache the man sported, had to be one of them.

Sam kept sneaking glances between him and the driver, his lips curled up in an amused smile. Almost as if he knew the kind of things he was thinking. It was a little weird, a little endearing, mostly just annoying. He raised an eyebrow at the behavior and leaned back with a smirk when Sam just glared at him and crossed his arms.

Damn right.

Though a small part of him winced at the way his gut twisted at Sam’s reaction. When was the last time he’d taken his suppressants? A quick silent count said he’d taken all of them. So that couldn’t be why he was having a reaction. What else could it be though?

Torres welcomed them at the airport, thankfully Walker or Hoskins were nowhere to be seen. A small miracle all things considered, but a very welcome one.

“Plane’s fueled and ready to go when you are.”

“Then let’s take off, I’ve had enough of Germany for now.” Sam said.

He followed, trailing after Sam into the cargo hold of the plane where they would undoubtedly spend the next few hours just staring ahead. And maybe even getting some sleep if they were lucky enough.

It took a few hours for them to get bored enough. He certainly didn’t know what to do with himself and Sam was on the verge of a mental breakdown judging the by the way he was glaring at him. Then again, if Sam had been mindlessly pacing up and down the cargo hold he’d probably be in the same state.

“Would you please just sit down?”

His fingers twitched at those words yet he did stop. Hands clenching and unclenching in an effort to get rid of some of his excess energy.

“I can’t. I’m restless.” He was. It felt like a dozen fire ants were crawling up and down his spine and the only way to alleviate that feeling was by pacing around the plane.

“I can see that, but you’re making me restless. Come on.” Sam beckoned him closer.

It was… tempting to sit down beside him and allow Sam to calm him. He couldn’t do that though. Couldn’t let anyone get that close. He didn’t know if Sam knew what he was, they didn’t talk much about that stuff. And a part of him never wanted Sam to find out either. He didn’t want to lose this edge of whatever it was that was between them. In a way it was comforting to know that someone didn’t take his bullshit, that someone still called him out on his stupid ideas.

He sat down on the floor opposite Sam, his back propped up against some crates and the tips of his toes not quite touching Sam’s.

Sam merely stared at him for a moment, then leaned forward and offered him his hands. “Gimme your hands.”

“No.” His first reaction was to lean back further and glare. Sneering at the hands he was offered.

Though Sam didn’t budge or get angry at his behavior and stayed calm. Within minutes his shoulders relaxed just a little and he laid his hands in Sam’s with a soft grumble.

“Fine.”

“Good, now breathe.” Sam said, taking a deep breath in. “In, hold it-” He paused for a few seconds, then released his breath “-and out slowly. Repeat.”

“You’re playing therapist now are you?” He appreciated Sam’s help, truly, he did. But there was always a part of him that just wanted to rile Sam up. Just to see if he could.

“No, I just want some goddamn peace and quiet without you pacing a hole through the floor and this is probably the best way to get that.” Sam bit back, the corners of his lips curling up.

It did something to him. A warmth that pooled in his stomach and slowly traveled to his heart and eased the little aches, pains, and pulses of his body. God he could drown in those dark eyes all night.

He blinked rapidly at that thought, only then realizing that his breathing had synched up with Sam’s and they were calmly breathing in and out together. How had that happened? Even his own therapist hadn’t been that effective in getting him to calm down.

He hadn’t even noticed he had exposed the dog tags around his neck for Sam to see. His full name and designation clearly stamped and visible.

James B. Barnes O

32557038 T41 42 O

R.Barnes

3092 Stoorton RD

Shelbyville IN P

Sam didn’t seem to care either way. “Better?”

He nodded, quickly pulling his hands away from Sam’s when Sam’s thumb brushed over the back of his hand. “Yeah…”

“Good. Let me know if you feel restless, we’ll do it again.” Sam leaned back and closed his eyes, his breathing slowly evening out.

He honestly didn’t understand it. Sam had had every opportunity to absolutely obliterate him and yet he hadn’t. Anything vulnerable he showed him, any kind of weakness he had, for once it wasn’t used against him. Sam treated him like a person. He never really noticed that before, or it hadn’t registered this clearly. It was too easy to forget when he was around Sam, too easy to just fall in beside him and joke and snap along. It scared him just a little.

It also gave him hope.

Maybe that’s why he brought Sam to Baltimore.

He should have known things would go south real quickly.

“How come nobody ever told me about him?” Sam’s voice was full of fire and emotion and yet it cut him cold across the chest. He wasn’t sure if he deserved that reaction, but he understood it in a way.

“Steve didn’t know and I didn’t-” He ran a hand through his hair, sighing “-I didn’t tell anybody because he’d already been through enough.”

The sharp sound of sirens pulled him out of his thoughts and brought an entirely new problem with it. Before he knew it, he was the one escorted into a police car with his hands cuffed. He missed his court mandated therapy. Wasn’t that a fucking joke?

He spared one glance at Sam just as the car pulled away from the scene and immediately wished he hadn’t. The look Sam gave him hurt more than any punch ever had and for the life of him he couldn’t figure out why. He didn’t owe Sam anything. And yet it felt like he just lost his entire world.

“I’m sure everything will be sorted quickly, Mr. Barnes.” One of the cops, the shorter one, said. He was quite a bit more nervous now than he had been when he thought Sam had been an aggressor, possibly because he feared repercussions from profiling an Avenger. Good. Maybe it would make him think twice about pulling shit like that, though a part of him very much doubted it.

He simply glanced at them in the rear view mirror, feeling an almost sick sense of satisfaction as that unnerved both of the cops further. He didn’t say anything to them despite their attempts at making small talk with him.

What was the fucking point anyway?

He didn’t expect Sam to come get him at the station. Seeing him there felt like a slap to the face. Not because Sam had done anything wrong, no he’d done everything right. And that’s exactly what hurt so much.

The doc seemed hell bent on getting him to open up about his problems. And as much as he didn’t really want to he found himself opening up anyway.

“Well in my miracle, he would talk less.” He said, glaring at Sam as he said it. And maybe that was a bit harsh, but Sam took it like a champ and threw it right back at him. God how he wanted to shut him up in that moment. Though in what way he wasn’t quite sure. In the last day his emotions had been all over the place.

He wanted to hate Sam, but he couldn’t. Something deep inside him just couldn’t hate him for any of this. Not when he himself had done so much worse.

The doc didn’t seem that pleased with them. Honestly, she should have known better. “You guys are leaving me with no choice. It’s time for the soul gazing exercise.”

Now that, he actually liked. “I like this one a lot better.”

“Oh god he’s gonna love this.” Sam said.

“Oh yeah, I’m ready.”

They scooted close, legs intertwining as they sat opposite one another. Once again he was staring into deep brown eyes except this time Sam’s warmth also seeped into him. In a way it was like touching spring for the first time since a cold winter. Warm and pleasant with just enough breeze to keep you alert and in the moment. It was both heaven and earth on hell and he wanted nothing more than to punch him in the face. He didn’t. He couldn’t.

Because punching Sam wouldn’t solve anything. It wouldn’t give him closure. It wouldn’t bring Steve back. Steve, who had walked out on him and left him in a time he barely knew just to get his own happy ending. Yeah maybe that had left him a little bitter and a little broken.

“Why’d you give up the shield?”

He poured his heart into his words and bared his soul wide open and it didn’t seem to matter to Sam. So maybe Steve had been wrong about him. About both of them. Maybe he didn’t deserve redemption or compassion. Maybe he didn’t deserve a second chance. And maybe he didn’t deserve Sam’s kindness or compassion either. Maybe he was just broken.

“See you outside, Buck.”

Maybe he was just too broken to function after all.

“Thanks doc.” He followed after Sam, quiet and brooding on the outside but his mind was screaming and crying in agony.

Worthless. He was just so fucking worthless.

He shouldn’t care this much.

He didn’t deserve to care this much.

Maybe that’s why he suggested to go the HYDRA route and find Zemo, or maybe it was a form of self sabotage. Who knew? All he knew, was that this was his last chance to do something right for this world. No matter what it would cost him.

#sambucky #winterfalcon #marvel fanfiction #sam wilson #bucky barnes #avengers a/b/o #mpreg #tw cptsd #canon compliant #my writing

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ikesenlemonadestandstories · 6 years

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Blue Skies

Alright everyone, I am happy to announce that I finally had a free Saturday. Like zero things planned. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. So I have used it to write out the final part of Retrograde spell. It’s a bit of a doozy, quite long but that’s alright. (I think) I’ll put an Epilogue out there soon hopefully :) who knows. Maybe I’ll start it tonight *wiggles eyebrows aggressively*

I took quite a bit on inspiration from watching one of my brother’s stage fights (he’s certified in stage combat) with a friend. They were very kind in allowing me to watch the scene as a reference for my work.

As per usual with this piece there are some warnings. I’ll put them down below.

Gonna go and tag @little-mini-me-world per their request.

WARNING: Gore -Graphic Content in the form of Violence-, Serious bodily harm. -Please read at your own risk with your own mental state in mind!-

You can find all of the other parts of this story by searching the tag ‘Retrograde Spell’ or by jumping over to my master list. Just a friendly reminder, I’m doing a follower give-a-way at the moment. Check out the details on this post here!

Happy reading!

Blue Skies - p10

[Yukimura]

I wasn’t sure I liked the constant chatter, but I had to admit the immediate updates on position changes was convenient. It explained why Kanna was always able to make tactical changes on such short notice. Sure Shingen was crafty, but even he didn’t quite come close to her rapid decision-making skills.

Across the field, I could see the bursts of smoke as (YN) got closer to the group. We got the all-call, and I knew (YN)’s soldiers had engaged the rear guard as Yui tried to secure the QA’s retreat, but I didn’t expect to see the gap close that quickly. A low rumble rolled over the field and enemies went flying bursting into smoke mid-air.

“Mari, what kind of prosthetic did you give her?” Kanna screamed over the system.

“A good one.” there was a pause before Shingen burst into laughter, bringing his long sword down into another enemy.

“The look on your face just now was priceless, Princess.”

Shingen’s comment earned him a glare, not just from Kanna but myself. Why does he insist on calling her princess?

A whistle sounded off in the direction of Kanna’s Aunt. All at once each QA soldier stopped and ran off setting a course of their commander.

“Stop any of them you can! Do not let them escape!” Kanna yelled at everyone.

We took out as many of the enemies we could as they made their way back to the middle of the field, but there were too many to stop their retreat completely. Running in the direction the QA had taken off in we met up with the third and fourth regiments as well as Nobunaga and his men.

“I wonder what could have caused a large-scale retreat like that?” Masamune paused asking nobody in particular.

I caught the action the same time as Kanna and Mitsunari. (YN)’s unit had cut a path through the enemy line and was now standing in the middle of the field squared off with their aunt. That couldn’t be good.

“Do not engage her by yourself. I’m on my way.” looking as panicked as she sounded Kanna pleaded with her sister. Making a break for the middle of the field only to be blocked out by a transparent barrier shimmering in the places streaks of sunlight were cutting through the clouds.

She shook her head and answered “Kanna I wish I could, but that’s a request that just isn’t possible for me to accept. I have several debts I need to pay to that woman.”

One of her generals, who’s name I believed to be Yoshiyuki approached. Pressing her right hand to the bead on her necklace her armor evaporated leaving her in what I assumed were training clothes. They looked like the one’s Kanna wore when we sparred. (YN) was in a tight black one-piece romper with a deep U-back, perfectly exposing the intricate tattoos that mirrored Kanna’s. The front came up in a halter fashion with a very high collar, sitting just below the necklace I had only seen leave the twins’ necks once. Without the armor to blend into, her left arm stood out. Black and plated, pulsing orange valleys everywhere a joint should have been. Standing directly to the side of her Yoshiyuki looked to be tinkering with it.

(YN) shrugged, as Kanna and Mitsunari sucked in a sharp breath. It wasn’t until her general walked away from her that I understood why.

[YN]

The goal was to protect history, and incidentally your friends. Rushing into the fray with the first and second units close behind we managed to make quick work of Yui’s rear guard. The twelve of us surged further, disrupting their battle line inciting chaos. The prosthetic you wore granting you more power than you were used to, swaths of enemies were sent flying high as you swung your familiar uchigatana at them. As attention turned away from the warlords, Kanna, and Yuuto you broke down further into pairs.

Yoshiyuki fought beside you, revolver and sword both drawn taking out QA soldiers left and right. As a group, you were able to whittle down the numbers just enough to get close to your Aunt. It had been five years since you had seen her but for her and everyone else stuck here it had only been a moment. The sight of her, unchanged, face bleeding from the strike you made to her person, with a deranged smile spreading across her face nearly sent you into a rage as she deactivated her armor. Old wounds re-opened only half healed. As you grappled with your emotions, a voice came over the system centering you.

“Do not engage her by yourself. I’m on my way.” Kanna’s voice sounded strangled like she had pushed the noise out. You felt terrible upsetting her, but this was something you had to do for yourself. You placed your uchigatana back in its sheath and stood straight, squaring your shoulders with your Aunt.

Putting up a barrier so nobody would be able to interfere you powered down your armor as Yoshiyuki helped unclip your prosthetic.

“Kanna I wish I could, but that’s a request that just isn’t possible for me to accept. I have several debts I need to pay to that woman.”

You shrugged the arm off leaving the connecting piece and the scars around it visible as you drew your double-edge katana.

“Well, what do we have here.” The field cleared between the two of you, QA soldiers and your forces forming a perimeter. “I’m impressed you were able to come after me so quickly, it’s no matter though, I’ll just take your other arm and be on my way.”

“Confident as ever I see, but I guess you should be able to say whatever you have to say to make yourself feel better.” your fought the urge to clench your fist around the hilt. It wouldn’t do you any good to allow her even a single victory. So you smiled instead.

“Here is to a fair fight my little niece.” another attempt to taunt you. You knew she would try to trick you by deactivating her armor. That’s what the large scale update had been for. You had shut down the systems that were connected to your deceased relatives and her. She couldn’t re-equip even if she wanted to. It would be a fair fight, and more importantly. It would be a fight you would win.

[Mitsunari]

I was in the exact place I didn’t want to be. Stuck outside (YN)’s barrier watching as she and her aunt ran directly for each other.

As their swords clashed Yui struck first, spinning her wrist around dodging (YN)’s blade swinging it around towards her chest, which (YN) blocked quickly with her own blade braced against her. Backing rapidly away (YN) righted herself just in time to prevent another blow from Yui’s sword. Bending backward she pushed off the ground flipping away from her aunt as Yui’s blade slashed through the space she had just occupied.

(YN) continued parring blow after blow until she was able to throw her aunt of balance and go back on the offensive. Grabbing hold of (YN) only arm, Yui made calculated thrusts with her sword that (YN) quickly and expertly dodged until she was able to twist out of her grip and kick her aggressor away. With her aunt off balance (YN) used the opportunity to swing only to be blocked again.

Ieyasu clicked his tongue at that. Clearly as agitated as I was with this situation.

Spinning Yui produced her other blade. I had forgotten that as the previous crow she was equipped with multiple armaments. This was no longer what I perceived as a fair fight, but I would hold my breath and trust (YN) knew what she was doing. They battled back and forth until Yui caught (YN)’s sword between both of her blades. Crossing the two she used her momentum to spin her and toss (YN) to the ground. Laying on her stomach in the grass she quickly rolled to her feet in time to block Yui’s next strike.

Masamune whooped at the small victory.

Not realizing how far back she had been pushed; I watched as (YN) took off in a run for the barrier wall. Using it to her advantage, she scaled it briefly before pushing off and landing a kick on her aunts left arm. They separated and (YN) fixed her stance to accommodate her aunt who had re-equipped from the two swords to a spear.

“What!” Hideyoshi yelled next to me. “How is that even considered fair!”

Only three away from me Kanna spoke up. “Technically the Talon’s are trained against us, so this isn't anything new. The Crows’ are strategists and weapons specialists. It may not look like it, but this is a very fair fight that (YN) is winning.”

Spear in hand Yui advanced again as she quickly and effectively blocked. Moments and seventeen parried blows later (YN) sliced through the wooden handle of Yui’s spear cutting it nearly in half. Then once again taking the blade off the top in her next advance. How much force did one need to sever it so thoroughly? Frustrated Yui tossed the worthless pieces to the ground pulling out two curved swords.

The action earning a chuckle from Mitsuhide.

They continued their battle as (YN) blocked blow after blow. Eventually bringing her sword down over her Aunts head who blocked it by linking the curved edges together. Pushing (YN) back she left them hooked swinging them together, using it as a long sharp projectile of sorts. As (YN) rolled on the ground below to avoid the full swing Yui pulled the blades apart and advanced as she jumped back to her feet.

Block. Back bend. Block. Back bend. The pattern continued as (YN) continued to avoid the onslaught of attacks her aunt had to offer. All until she swung around, sharp steel of her blade cutting through the metal of her aunt's swords. Using what little was left of the weapon Yui tossed them at (YN) who jumped backward bending low. As the severed blades embedded into the wall of the barrier (YN) pushed back up and stood to wait for Yui to draw her next weapon.

Turning quickly Yui grabbed the weapon off of one of the QA soldiers. Nobunaga made an amused noise next to me as she charged at (YN) carrying the comically large spear. Was that a spear? No. She held the bludgeon as she ran moving to swing. (YN) stopped abruptly and advanced towards her aunt. Needing to re-calibrate the distance Yui paused mid-swing, the weight of the weapon pulled her backward. She struggled with it for a moment as (YN) broke smirking sword extended towards her aunt.

“Oh, gods why would anyone that size try to fight with a weapon that big?” Yukimura questioned as a small laugh escaped.

“She must be growing desperate,” Shingen responded a more serious expression pulled across his features. “You sister is doing an outstanding job at frazzling her. One arm or no. She is an impressive fighter.”

Pride swelled deep in my chest bringing a smile to my face as I watched the rest of the battle. You could win this. You would win this. That I was sure of.

[YN]

You had been pushing your aunt through as many weapon changes as you could. Taking your time and using the surrounding barrier to your advantage. Every so often you were clued into the laughs, and soft praise offered to you by the onlookers just beyond the boundary. Trying to block it out to keep your concentration.

Yui had just tried and failed to use a long-handled mace, not taking into account her size and the speed at which you were moving. Fighting a laugh as you waited for her to draw her next weapon you made your stance again, blade facing her. She turned and ran towards the throng of QA soldiers stationed behind her line, grabbing a smaller metal bar offered by one of them. You had chased after her, but the momentum of her swing brought you to a stop quickly. Taking two more blows effectively before the force sent you to the ground for the second time this fight.

She brought the heavy rod down as you rolled away, hitting the earth where you had been laying with a wet thud. This happened four more times before you were able to get back on your feet and run along the perimeter of the barrier. You were able to put some distance between the two of you as you both re-centered yourself. The nicks in the metal rod she was holding not going unnoticed by either of you. She advanced again, and you blocked feeling the shock of the blow ring through your entire arm. Taking the momentum, you twisted the tip of your sword around the bludgeon, taking it and slamming it into the ground next to you. It left an impressive crater, but you couldn’t dwell on that seeing as she had prepared to swing again.

Blocking the blow smoothly you went on the offensive spinning in circles bringing your blade down against her blocks in rapid succession until you felt the metal give. With one final strike, you pushed your sword through splitting yet another weapon.

Both of you stopped again, squaring up to each other. “You have grown much stronger, I’ll give you that. How long have you been preparing your revenge? How long did you struggle against my victory over you?” your Aunt laughed madness taking hold.

“Five years, though I can assure you. I’m not here for revenge. I am here to protect what is important to me. History, my family, and my friends.” you laid your convictions out, and her smile deepened, the distortion in her mental state evident.

“How utterly childish. History is fluid, there is no true history. We can do with it what we please! The notion of family and friends in that place is a joke. Nobody there cares, if they did I would have been allowed to love whom I wanted, not sit and watch him die over and over as history deemed fit!”

“That is where I have to disagree.” You gestured to the group who had gathered just outside of the barrier. Everyone watching and listening. You noticed your sister had her hands locked together, while Yukimura rested a comforting one on her back. Shingen and Kenshin stood casually to the side watching Kanna clearly invested in her emotional state. The warlords you had grown to care about stood right up against the barrier, Mitsunari the only one physically touching it. As if doing so would eventually grant him entry, while the others bickered with Mari and your brother about getting in. “It is because of everyone here that I am able to fight the way that I do. Shall we.”

You could feel the fire in your soul reach your eyes, you didn’t know she had been hurting and what exactly had pushed Yui to this, but it couldn’t have been easy. None of that excused her actions though, you needed to take her down, but that didn’t mean you were entirely keen on the idea.

She drew what you knew to be her final sword and took a fighting stance in front of you as you did the same. You waited for her to come to you, mostly blocking her wild swings. Emotionally driven, her thrusts were erratic and easy to prevent but you kept your guard up. She came at you again, and you ran for the barrier flipping off of it for the second time. It gave under your feet allowing you to twist in the air and land facing Yui as she turned to swing at you and continue her offensive.

Working your way back to the middle of the field you planted yourself and upped your attacks. Spinning around your Aunt in an attempt to cause confusion. She grabbed your wrist again and thrust, but this time you broke away much quicker. The speed of both your swords increasing until they couldn’t be seen, only heard.

The loud hollow clang ringing off the wall of the barrier deepening the eerie atmosphere that had crept in. She took a massive swing as your arm was down to which you brought your blade up, the double edge proving its usefulness. Cutting through her last blade. The useless blunt side of her weapon pressed against your neck as your very lethal sword was poised against hers. There was panic for but a second in Yui’s eyes.

Twisting your sword down quickly you spun up into a kick, foot connecting with her head. She crumpled to the ground unconscious, and the enemies in the barrier began an advance to defend their fallen commander. Utterly malleable with the new update, you pulled the walls of the barrier in closing your aunt in with just yourself. Once she was secured you elongated it and handed her off to your brother who had walked over to retrieve her.

Yoshiyuki helped re-equip your left arm as you adorned your armor and turned towards the full force amassed in front of you. Their faces bright, everyone looked ready for the fight, and you smiled despite it all.

“Shall we wrap this up?” you asked nobody in particular as your sister and Mitsunari joined you in the middle of the field. It was then that you noticed that the clouds had broken up letting the sun shine down once more. The blue sky no longer hindered.

#ikemen sengoku #ikesen #ikésen #ikémen sengoku #ikesen yukimura #ikesen mitsunari #ikesen self insert #cybird #short story #my story #fight scene #sword fight #retrograde spell #final installment before the epilogue #trigger warnings

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gyrlversion · 5 years

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The Jewish boy assassin who humiliated Hitler

Herschel Grynszpan, 17, murdered German diplomat Ernst vom Rath, 29, at the German embassy in Paris in 1938

Trembling uncontrollably with the shock of what he had just done, Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish teenager, dropped the smoking revolver he’d bought a little over an hour earlier on that morning in November 1938.

It now lay on the floor of the German embassy in Paris, the price tag of 210 francs still tied on with red string.

‘I don’t intend to escape,’ he told those who grabbed him. As he was led away, he shouted out again and again his defiance: ‘Sales boches!’ (Filthy krauts!).

A few yards away, the victim of the shooting, a young diplomat of the Third Reich by the name of Ernst vom Rath, clutched at his stomach as blood poured from a shattered spleen and a pierced pancreas.

He was alive but mortally wounded. Two days later, after an emergency operation failed to save him, he died.

His assassination was the pivotal point in a remarkable and little known story of one individual with the temerity to pit himself against the full might of the Nazi regime.

A new book tells how, against the odds and in the face of humiliating defeat, he won a sort of victory for which he’s rarely been recognised.

Brave, self-sacrificing Herschel Grynszpan was the pawn who was exploited by Hitler and his propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels as a tool in their persecution of the Jews.

But then, in his own small way, he turned the tables and check-mated them.

His was a one-man crusade — though, in truth, he could barely be called a man. The self-confessed killer was no more than a kid, really; just 17 and baby-faced, as a photo taken at the scene of the crime shows, hunched in an over-sized trench coat and with the surly stare of an adolescent lost in his own thoughts.

Grynszpan told police that he murdered vom Rath because he had picked him up at the Place de la Republique and paid him for sex in a hotel room

A thin and frail youngster, he had come to France on his own two years earlier, in 1936, sent away from Germany by his parents who could see all too clearly the foul, anti-Semitic way the wind was blowing under the Nazis.

Discriminated against and abused, adult Jews could only leave if they surrendered all their possessions, but children were allowed to go without penalty, so the boy was shipped off to his Uncle Abraham in Paris.

But France was not the haven he wished for. He could not get a visa to enter and had to slip across the border as an illegal immigrant.

His application for a residence permit was turned down as the French government — unwilling to annoy its powerful neighbour and itself riddled with anti-Semitism — cracked down on Jewish refugees like him. He couldn’t get a job and had to live on a meagre allowance from his uncle.

A brooding type, with a hair-trigger temper and a tendency to depression, his mind focused, not unreasonably, on the increasing persecution of what, with tears welling from his eyes, he called ‘my people’.

Grynszpan’s murder therefore became a crime of passion rather than one with political motivations and he avoided a show trial

‘We have a right to exist on this Earth,’ he insisted, yet ‘if you are a Jew, you . . . are hunted like an animal.’

With the French police on his tail in order to deport him, he went into hiding, locking himself into a small room in his uncle’s flat and always on alert for a knock on the door and a demand to see his papers.

News came from Germany that his family — who originated from Poland — had been stripped of all possessions and brutally expelled.

With 18,000 others, the Gestapo had rounded them up, transported them by train to the Polish border and dumped them in no-man’s-land without money or food.

Grynszpan went mad when he heard.

‘The constantly gnawing idea of the suffering of my race obsessed me,’ he said later. He was determined to hit back in a very public way that would wake up the world to what was being done to Jews.

‘Germany’s conduct provoked me beyond measure. I wanted to create a stir.’

He’d never fired a gun before and the man behind the counter in the shop had to show him how to load and fire it. From there, he made his way on the metro to the German embassy down by the River Seine.

He told the receptionist he had important documents to deliver to one of the senior diplomats and was shown into an office where vom Rath was sitting in a leather chair.

‘You’re a filthy kraut!’ he shouted at the top of his voice as he pulled out the pistol from and fired five shots. Then he waited, unresisting, for his chance to tell the world why he had done it and thereby expose the evils of the Nazis.

Brave, foolhardy, naive, self-sacrificial, suicidal: his action was all those things. But Grynszpan had made his point.

Except that it instantly backfired. He got publicity all right — but not the sort he wanted.

In Germany, Hitler was planning a nationwide terror attack on Jewish properties, to be disguised as a spontaneous outpouring of disgust at ‘World Jewry’ by the people. The assassination in Paris was just the pretext that he and Goebbels were looking for.

A trial date was set in May 1942, but as the time approached, the Nazi hierarchy grew increasingly uneasy. Goebbels conveyed his ‘grave doubts’ to a rattled Hitler, who had his closest henchman, Martin Bormann, announce that the trial was postponed to an indefinite date and Grynszpan had his victory

Herschel Grynszpan would be their unwitting scapegoat

The expert Nazi propaganda machine went into top gear, hailing vom Rath as a hero and a martyr for the cause (which was a lie, as privately he likened Hitler to the Antichrist). His assassination by a Jew had to be avenged.

‘The shots in Paris will not go unpunished,’ screamed Nazi party newspapers.

News of vom Rath’s death on November 9 unleashed what became known as Kristallnacht — the night of broken glass. Hitler’s brown-shirted thugs went on the rampage, ransacking and burning down thousands of Jewish-owned businesses and synagogues and randomly beating Jews.

As the state-sponsored terror spread around the country, hundreds of Jews were killed and injured; 30,000 were rounded up and sent to concentration camps.

When, in his prison cell in Paris, he heard what had been done in retaliation for his crime, a grieving Grynszpan was devastated.

‘The thought that I caused this catastrophe brings me closer to madness,’ he wrote in despair to a friend.

Vom Rath’s state funeral — attended by the Fuhrer and broadcast live on the radio — wound up German indignation to breaking point, as Hitler and Goebbels had intended.

And perhaps, they plotted, there was an even greater propaganda victory to be won.

Nazi investigators set about trying to assemble evidence that he had not acted alone as he claimed, but was part of a Jewish-led world conspiracy.

Once proven, this, they reasoned, could be presented as the Jews declaring war on Germany and justification for the ultimate sanction being planned for them all: extermination in the death camps.

Meanwhile, Grynszpan faced a murder trial and the possibility of the guillotine. Frightened as any 17-year-old would be, he was still defiant and welcomed his day in court to have his say and damn the Nazis to the world.

That day never came.

Grynszpan languished in prison for 20 months, during which time the outbreak of war in 1939 pitched France against Germany.

In Berlin, he had not been forgotten. He still topped the wanted list, and a special Gestapo unit eventually tracked him down to a prison in Toulouse, where he’d been evacuated by the French.

He expected instant execution — a bullet or a noose. Instead, he was flown to Berlin and a basement cell in the Gestapo’s headquarters, where he was surprisingly well-treated. Not a hair on his head was to be harmed, for now.

He was to be the star of a show trial which would demonstrate that the Jews were the aggressors, not the Nazis, who had acted simply to protect themselves. This, Hitler was assured, would ‘strangle’ any foreign compassion for the Jews and justify his policy of exterminating them.

The intention, says author Stephen Koch, was that the Final Solution — the Holocaust, as it came to be known — would be legitimised.

When he realised he was being kept alive solely with some major propaganda purpose in mind, at the end of which he would likely be publicly hanged or beheaded, Grynszpan dedicated himself to preventing that show trial from happening.

At 17, he had wanted to make the whole world aware of his plight: now, he sought invisibility.

The tactic he adopted was one that had been suggested to him during his incarceration in Paris.

To get off the murder charge, his clever French lawyer told him, he should claim that his victim, the handsome but unmarried vom Rath, was a cruising homosexual who had picked him up on the streets and corrupted him. That’s why he had shot him — a crime passionel not a political one.

The very idea apparently baffled Grynszpan, an innocent in sexual matters. It had to be explained to him what a homosexual was (and did), and when he was told he laughed at what he saw as the absurdity of it.

He rejected the idea at the time, but now, two years down the line and in German custody, it seemed to him to be an excellent story to tell in court and cause maximum embarrassment to the Nazis.

The martyr and hero vom Rath exposed as a pervert? That would undermine any show trial and might even prevent a trial taking place at all.

So this was the new and tacky story he spun to his interrogators; that the 29-year-old diplomat had picked him up in the Place de la Republique and taken him to a seedy hotel for sex. Money had changed hands.

Afterwards, Grynszpan was ashamed and disgusted and wanted to end the liaison but he was constantly stalked until, out of exasperation, he went to the embassy to confront vom Rath.

There, tempers flared, insults were exchanged and he took out his revolver and shot him. In a further elaboration later, he said vom Rath had promised that, in return for sex, he would protect Grynszpan’s family in Germany, but then they were deported. That was another reason he killed him.

It was all a lie — and the young man’s Nazi interrogators knew it.

When told what his defence would be in open court, Goebbels railed at the story as absurd and insolent and, in his twisted logic, typical of squalid Jewish duplicity.

But dare he risk letting the story be aired in public and leaving a doubt in people’s minds? Allegations of vom Rath’s homosexuality would doubtless hog international headlines and, worse, muddy the waters of a Jewish plot.

One solution was for the court to go into secret session, thereby excluding the Press, to hear Grynszpan’s testimony. But then the whole idea of convincing foreign observers that his actions were part of a Jewish world conspiracy would be compromised.

Herschel Grynszpan had his victory. ‘The manoeuvres of one insignificant but clever Jewish boy’, as Koch puts it, had stymied the Third Reich.

He’d been used as an excuse for Kristallnacht but managed to avoid being presented to the world as a justification for an even bigger crime: the wholesale slaughter of millions of his people.

The callow youth — now a man in his 20s — probably never realised he’d won the duel of wits with his Nazi captors. All he was told was that the trial had been postponed but he had every reason to think it would eventually happen.

His precise fate is unknown. The best guess is that he was put to death in the autumn of 1942, probably in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. His Gestapo minders came there to get him, ostensibly to shift him to another camp.

But there was speculation among the other inmates that this was a fake transport and he was instead driven to Sachsenhausen’s execution block and disposed of.

His name had made headlines for the slaying at the German embassy, his face staring out from front pages around the world. He died in obscurity — but the fact remains that he outsmarted them all.

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