Fic Reference: "The Only Son"

The Only Son is, for lack of a better term, a mini-opus. Started in December 2009, on a suggestion from butchiemcgee, it's grown into something I am extremely proud of and extremely shocked I managed to even write it.

It's a story based around two characters - Helga Zoller and Cpt Wilhelm Wicki, both from the Quentin Tarantino-verse - more specifically, the film Inglourious Basterds. It's about their time together, their time apart, and, at the very end, how someone lives with losing two people who - in their own way - saved the world.

This is a reference post that I will link to from each part. It's gonna get wordy up in here!

( We'll make time, even though we've got none - The Only Son, a reader's guide )

I'll attempt to update this as the fic progresses - I hope you all enjoy this as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thanks to butchiemcgee for her GIMMEs and general enabling, as always, and to Quentin Tarantino for creating a universe where this sort of thing makes perfect sense.

Fic: "The Only Son" (One), Inglourious Basterds (Mature)

LET'S DO THIS. Beware the exposition aspects of the first part of a big-ass fic!


TITLE: The Only Son (One)
FANDOM: Inglourious Basterds (Wilhelm Wicki/Helga Zoller) (AU, pre-film)
RATING: Mature
DISCLAIMER: Not mine. These characters belong to Quentin Tarantino, that crazy bastard.
SUMMARY:1938 - after the Nazi invasion of Salzburg, Pvt Wilhelm Wicki is found, injured, behind a Munich cinema by one of it's owners, Helga Zoller. Surprised but not one to turn away someone in need, she takes him in to her home to heal despite the political repercussions under a Jew-hating Third Reich. As he integrates into her family, bonds are formed and Germany becomes a virtual prison - leading men and boys into war and, eventually, the Basterds to work.

Reference post, with author's notes.


( It was a Friday night. )

What is this. I don't even. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH, GUYS.