Aldo was sitting up against a tree, knowing that he should get some sleep, but for some reason he couldn't. He looked around at the boys that were asleep, dreaming of home, except for Donny who was probably dreaming of bashing in the next Nazi's head.

"Lieutenant?" Aldo turned his head and looked up at Wicki's tall frame standing beside him.

"Yes Wicki?"

"Fox just went through the woods, armed. Headed west, I thought it was odd, so I came to you."

Aldo sat there for a minute before rising, "Well let's see what the Fox has up her sleeve tonight, lead the way."

….

Elise crouched behind the bushes staring at the soldiers in front of her, about 8 of them she counted, but the one she wanted was their Officer, one of Dieter's men. Linder, the only one that she had actually liked, he was funny and kind, but he had a hand in that night, and she was ready to get her revenge.

Taking a breath, she took off into the shadows and started her work.

…..

Aldo and Wicki kneeled behind and watched as Fox appeared and disappeared into the shadows like a ghost, slicing the throats of the men that were on the outskirts of the camp. She moved with such stealth and grace that it amazed Aldo, when they were attacking a camp he was always too preoccupied to pay attention to her, but now that he was watching it happen he realized how she had stayed alive for so long on her own.

They watched as she killed man after man until there was only one left. The one in charge, they watched as she walked out from the shadows covered in the other soldiers blood and faced the man. He seen the look of recognition on the man's face before he kneeled down onto the ground and hung his head in defeat.

Aldo exchanged a look of confusion with Wicki before turning his attention back to Fox as she just walked up and squatted down in front of the man and started talking.

….

"I always knew you would come for me, Fraulein."

"You want me to kill you, don't you?"

Linder looked up into her cold steel eyes and started to weep, "Elise, I never wanted any part of this, of what happened to you. I knew you kept that family in your studio, I think deep down Dieter knew as well, but refused to believe it. Kill me Elise, and let me meet my Maker."

Elise nodded and with such precision she reached across and took the blade across his throat. As the life fled from his eyes, she sat down in front of him and started to cry.

"I think you have some 'splainin to do, Elise."

Elise whipped around, pistol in hand to stare in horror at Aldo and Wicki standing there staring at her with realization on their faces…she just started to cry harder.

Aldo sat down beside her, and Wicki sat on the other side, "Now you're going to tell me what the hell is going on here, because right now I have half a mind to shoot ya."

Aldo waited patiently for her to compose herself and when she did she finally looked up at them, "My name is Elise Hellstrom, my husband is Major Dieter Hellstrom of the Gestapo."

Aldo went pale and felt like he was going to be sick, then without thinking about it he leaned over and smacked her across the face.

Instantly he regretted it as he watched her head snap to one side. "You're married to a damn nat'zi! What'd he do, send ya out here to kill us? Are you a damn assassin?"

"No…I'm not." She whispered, which just further pissed him off, he was about to slap her again when Wicki grabbed his arm.

"Just let her talk."

Aldo just nodded and sat his hand on his leg and waited for her to explain herself.

She finally took a shaky breath and began, "I met Dieter before the war had even begun, I was just an art student in the best art school in all of France, he had just enlisted. We got married not long after, he never told me what they were doing, for months I had no idea about the camps or that Hitler had begun to murder all of the Jews, it wasn't until some Jewish friends of mine that I had went to school with wrote me a letter and told me. I was furious, I wouldn't look at him, speak to him, and finally I got a letter from my friend saying that they were on the run, so I took them in. I had a huge art studio in our house that I kept locked, saying that if he stepped in it would ruin my inspiration, my peace. For months I would sneak food and clothes in there for them. Then that damned Hans Landa came to visit, he found them and dragged them into the yard. They dragged the children down by their hair." Elise started to cry again and furiously wiped the tears from her eyes as she continued, "I fought them, two soldiers grabbed me and one started hitting me, to try and get me to stop fighting. They lined them up in the yard, Dieter came home and I begged him to at least spare the children, the boy was only two, the girl had just turned five. He knocked me out with the butt of his gun, I awoke to their bodies in my front yard. Dieter, Landa, and Frederick Zoller left the house that night, leaving most of Landa's soldiers there, so I pulled my trunk out with all of the weapons my father gave me before they took him from me, and I slaughtered the men before I left."

Elise then started sobbing into her hands leaving Wicki and Aldo sitting there staring at her, completely speechless. "Please don't tell Hugo…I love him so much, and I don't plan on living through this war, and he would believe that I betrayed him and never forgive me…Please."

Aldo leaned over and placed his hand on hers, "You have my word."

And then they followed her to the riverbanks as she washed the blood from her skin and they headed back to the camp in silence.