My German Lover, Part 20 chapter 3

--The rabbit is back!--

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The winter of 1942 was a very cold season, and in April, everybody was very happy to see spring was back once again, with warmer temperatures...

"Maudit hiver!" (goddamn winter), Paul said to Will, as he was folding some winter clothing...

"Yeah!... I guess if we were living in Martinique, we would not need those...", Will answered, smiling...

"...I hope we will one day!", Paul answered.

Early in May, Lutz told Paul and Will he had received a letter from his brother Hans, telling him they were on the offensive again on the Russian front, and that now, they were fighting in the Crimea and would soon be at Sevastopol's doors...

"...They said last winter was the coldest winter they had seen in Leningrad since over a hundred years... can you imagine? No fuel, no food... nothing... They must be all starving to death...", Lutz added...

"...This is totally inhuman...", Paul answered...

A few weeks later, they had a perfect example of how inhuman war can be, when Will came home one night and told Paul:

"I guess it's "pay back" time for us..."

"What do you mean?"

"...Last night, Köln (Cologne) was bombed... and they say it was terrible... the biggest air raid we've ever seen over Germany... I've heard that more than one thousand british planes bombed the city and reduced it to rubbles..."

"Shit! ... Was Berlin bombed?", Paul asked...

"No!"

"Thank God! I'm glad we'll soon be taking Ludwig away from the Reich... Things will only get worst over there..."

"I wish my father would agree to leave Berlin... but he keeps saying he can't leave his clinic and his patients...", Will said...

"Anyway, I don't believe they are in danger in Charlottenburg... it's so residential over there... no industries... no plants... Why would the Allies want to bomb Charlottenburg?", Paul asked...

Will looked at his lover with a sorrow face, and answered:

"...That never bothered the Luftwaffe, you know... when they bombed British cities: Whole residential areas were erased from the map in London... even though there were no industries over there..."

"...The Allies are not savages, you know...", Paul replied.

"Maybe!", Will answered, unconvinced.

At the end of June, 1942, Paul flew to Berlin and had a few meetings with his German business partners...

As usual, he was staying at Will's house and needless to say Ludwig had already packed his luggage...

"I'm ready...", he stated, beaming...

"...I can see you are...", Paul answered, laughing...

"Now, behave yourself, young man!", Will's father said...

"I will, dad... I will...", Ludwig answered.

That day, when they all got to Tempelhof, they were all crying... and as Ludwig kissed his mum and dad good bye, he told them:

"I love you so much... Thanks for letting me go..."

"We love you, son... Take good care...", they answered.

"...And I love you too, Karin", Ludwig said, looking at his sister... "I'll miss our fights... but I want you to know that I really love you... really...", Ludwig said to her, hugging her and kissing her on the cheeks...

"You won't believe me, Ludwig... but I'm gonna miss you too... a lot... I love you bro, I swear...", She answered, crying...

They didn't know it yet, but they were all turning a page in their lives... It was the end of an era, and they didn't know it yet! That was the last time Ludwig saw his parents and his sister alive. Later, he would not regret having taken the time to tell them he loved them!

Minutes later, as Ludwig and Paul were sitting aboard the airplane and were waiting for take off, Ludwig said:

"YES! ... Paris, here I come!!!"

Paul bursted out laughing, then said:

"Yeah... The Rabbit is back!"

"What?", Ludwig asked...

"The "Rabbit"... You're like a rabbit... a real sex maniac...", Paul answered, laughing...

Ludwig bursted out laughing, and then he started to rapidly tap the floor with his foot, impersonating a hot rabbit... and he said:

"Yeah! Here I come... Hold on to your hats, ladies..."

"Oh my God! (...) We better buy a lot of rubbers...", Paul answered, laughing too...

"You bet!"

When they landed at the Bourget Airport, Will, Lutz and Franz were there to meet them... and they all bursted out laughing when Paul told them:

"I brought back the Rabbit with me: God bless all of us!"

Since they had decided they would spend the summer at Bagatelle, Paul and Ludwig moved over there as soon as they came back from Berlin. It had been agreed that Will would join them there every weekend, and that Lutz and Franz would come as often as they could...

Ludwig went back to work at the greenhouse, and was more than happy to find out that Marie-Hélène was still working there...

Yup! The Rabbit was back, and it didn't take long before the two of them were... well... you know!!!

That summer, Paul had decided to resume his swim training: He had develop a good swimming workout plan to help maintain and even develop his swimming technique and to get fitter, and had convinced Ludwig to train with him, since Ludwig liked to swim...

At seven o'clock every morning, he would wake Ludwig up, and soon after, they would be in the lake, for an hour of daily training...

Of course, the training was physically exhausting, but as they were getting stronger, they were also getting fitter... and it didn't take long for the results to show on Ludwig's body.

At seventeen, he now had a well toned body, with nice pecs and he was rather proud of his rippling stomach...

Of course, the swim training was helping a lot, and his shoulders were getting stronger as the training was progressing...

"Do you think I have stopped growing?", Ludwig asked Paul one morning, after their daily training was over...

"Oh... At seventeen? Probably not... you're what? 6'1... I wouldn't be surprised if you grow another inch or two before you stop growing..."

"Hey! That would be cool...", Ludwig answered, beaming...

Paul was smiling, thinking to himself that Ludwig was still very much a kid, but into a man's body...

And what a body!

With his blond hair and beatiful blue eyes, Ludwig was a typical example of the Aryan race Hitler was so found of, however stupid that notion was...

Nevertheless, Ludwig had turned into a very good-looking hunk, Paul thought, and he had no doubt women would soon be chasing after him... He and Will would have to keep a very close eye on that young guy, otherwise he would wreak havoc in Paris... and Marie-Hélène would only be his first victim...

Paul never gave a thought about the fact Ludwig could also wreak havoc among men too! He should have...

That summer, a farmer from around the village had asked Paul's manager if his young son could have a job on the estate, since the family badly needed some extra money...