Bombers Everywhere

Months later of June of 1944. The lieutenant tagged his rifle and daggers while waited for Baldur to show up at the mabolo tree where stoically, he was eyeing towards the barracks. The evening was filled with niters, fleeing from their niche at the treetops. Just literally, someone showed up and the lieutenant never expected that it has to be his wife in uniform.

" Oh God...it shouldn't be you Mag, we'll be spying with Baldur.. Look at the horizon from south to west! Hmm ...isn't it interesting? See how those planes dropping some terrible bombs. The skies are even filled with smokes and flames, hmm...you've just recovered a bit and...you need to take some rest. You aren't coming." George's deep sound was twirling over Magee's ears.

She was just quiet, pretending there was never anyone instructing her to back off. Yet, she seated too close next to him, left her feet hanging on, waggling them on the air while she was wrapping her arm on his timid waist. In a while, he turned his head and looked at her with a smile as he softly pinched her cheek, while there's actually a wary and raging sound of wild bombs, mapping on the smoky air from a distance. Suddenly, he was pressing her shoulders while the moonlight beamed on her face like spotlights.

" I ... don't know...maybe I'm just crazier than before. I've got so many questions in mind even before the war leaked. But...I came across the seas just to claim you mine. I was supposed to be bound for Europe...but my feet set forth on the shorelines here to be with someone I was born to be with - forever, and there's a hundred reasons to cheer...I don't know...but it's exactly how I feel along the way till now, with or without the war. Who are you..." The lieutenant paused, smiled again and softly touched her cheek as she clasped his hand and lifted it on her face.

" I...I just waited for you to come for me. It wasn't easy, when the war had started I have stopped thinking for you to pick me up. I thought..."

" Who said that? haha!" He laughed while picking her hair to cover his mouth.

" You cruel...you haven't even sent anything for me. Not even a single letter. But I just wonder why I was waiting for you when haven't known each other." She smirked.

He removed his jacket and cloaked it on her as the evening wind freezes them.

" Do you like it?" He smiled again at her.

" Yes. It gives me more warmth; and why asked it?" She put her face on his stony arm and clasped both her hands around him.

" I mean, our dating and marriage within the war. It's all too creepy for you I guess." He sighed.

" No, it's....just what we've all got for now. I'm not choosing between what I don't haves."

There was silence again.

"It must have been des...no, it's the way it has to be, it's God's plan." The lieutenant got back looking at the smoky horizon that was probably on the shorelines, fronting San Agustin.

"Don't go for now, I'm afraid..." She whispered.

" Hmm...we'll just, get some updates from the markings of San Agustin, they have better access to Daba Times than we have. Why scared this far, I could feel we are too close from the liberation...we're almost." George gently caressed her soft hair and arranged his jacket on her as the branch they're sitting on began to signal a cracking sound that almost bend a little bit due to their weight.

" I think I have to get going. You stay with them, Mag."

" George, please find him. I missed him so much." She bowed her head and teary eyed.

" I'll find Damian, yes." He embraced her tight but they're both stunned by the vehicles coming in and out of the nearby barracks. Meanwhile, George sent her back and instructed Albrecht to tighten up his alertness, or she can escape like a schoolgirl again. When the lieutenant was about to return up to the mabolo tree branches, Baldur packed up and approached George.

" Mayumi had a sound sleep, Albrecht will take care of her too. He'll be their escort, but Mayumi's not a problem, my sister is the escapist, hmm. Any message to her eldest brother who'll be her bodyguard?" Baldur winked an eye to the lieutenant, referring Albrecht.

" Ah...silent, it's not that, she never even insisted, you know. Okay come on, bro, we need to wrestle with the way out for San Agustin." The lieutenant finally packed up and signaled Baldur.

On their way, they literally have no torch to light the path as they were heading west, they decided to pass through the old tunnel under the road going to the shoreline where once they have used as passage to escape after rescuing Sr. Sibal and some civilians trapped in San Agustin.

"Bro, it's locked!" Baldur exclaimed in low tone voice.

" What?" George whispered.

" The tunnel's door is locked up.

" What do you mean?"

" There's a chain tying the big separate metal posts and in between, there seemed a signage but we can't read it. since my flashlight ran out of batteries" Baldur muffled.

" Here, take mine. I just charged this with new batteries from the supplies we've regained. Let's see if what's those texts say." George uttered.

When Baldur got the flashlight, he right away looked at the signage and read the texts.

" A skull sign with maybe planted mines inside, huh!" Baldur pressed his head and returned the flashlight to George while still hearing the sound of bombings nearby.

" Oh my...okay, let's do something else. But sure enough that going up and walk on to that path may cause us trouble. We can even hear their chitchat from here, hmm..over 3-4 guards, isn't it?" George chuckled to his brother-in-law.

" Sure, yes. What do you plan?" Baldur smiled.

" Try to see if where those four gathered." The witty lieutenant smiled.

Curiosity brought Baldur to right away creep and saw the four border guards on post, seemingly played something inside the guard house.

" Eureka! so I know what you're thinking right now. Though, the noise will bring us into a big trouble afterwards." Baldur said.