"Vidi?" a young girl's voice whispered, shaking with fear. A boy with spiky brown hair turned and walked closer to the girl.

"I'm scared," she whispered.

"It's going to be okay." the boy—Vidi—whispered back. "We're going to be fine. Now, will you sleep? Can you do that for me, Vio?"

Vio, the girl, nodded shakily. Vidi handed her the blanket and patted her hair. "I'll keep watch," he said quietly, smiling. "It'll be fine."

It had been three days, and Vidi had barely slept a wink. But he decided that was okay, it was a reasonable price to pay for Vio's safety.

He waited until she drifted away to sleep, then he yanked a can open. In his business of surviving, he'd forgotten to eat.

Silently, with the moon keeping watch over them and the suffocating quietude of the night, Vidi kept watch.

Until he fell asleep.

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Morning came, and so did a bunch of patrolling soldiers.

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tw: h/locaust, death mention, the world wars, antisemitism

AU where the two got taken to the Holocaust concentration camps instead of dying from the bomb