Displaced Fairytale

Babu Mohammed the II and Rebecca Zawerii had fallen in love. When they were not together they dreamed of being together for the flame of love had been lit in their hearts. Even though these two had a burning desire to be with each other, their family and friends burned of hate for one another. For Babu’s Father was a chief member of Islamic Terrorist Movement in Lebanon and Rebecca’s Father was the head of the DOCT, Defense of Christian Territory. Both the Christians and the Muslims had been jockeying for control for hundreds of years. Many wars had been fought and great resentment had formed between both sides. Their families had been fighting over the rights to sacred lands for years and each side had suffered many casualties.
To avoid major conflict and the disapproval of their families, they would sneak away late at night to an abandoned hut at the top of a hill to meet. During the day, they would leave notes in a crack in the wall on the east end of town were the fighting and disputes were less prevalent. While their relationship blossomed so to did the conflict between the Christians and the Muslims. In September of 2004, the Islamic reform movement had managed to take control of the government in Lebanon. They called for the complete removal of Christian influence in Islamic holy places.
This sparked immediate response from the DOCT. All out war had been declared on the Christians in Lebanon and the Christian people were not ready to back down. With both families fighting, Babu and Rebecca’s relationship was in danger of falling apart. Rebecca’s father had assigned her a body guard and it was impossible to meet up with Babu at the abandoned hut due to the various checkpoints and blockades around the city streets.
Babu began growing very tired of not being able to see Rebecca and decided that they would flee the grip of their families and start their own life together. When Rebecca found the note stuffed into the crack in the wall talking about running away together, she thought about her life with Babu and the current life she lived. In her room she spent hours writing responses to Babu’s notes asking him how they would escape and how much she loved him.
One day her brother Peter, an officer in the DOCT, found one of these notes that had fallen behind his sister’s bed. He immediately recognized the name and reported to his Father that Rebecca had been having and affair with a Muslim terrorist. This enraged her Father and she was forbidden to see or communicate with someone whose family had killed her cousins and Christian brothers. This devastated Babu, he had to meet with her to discuss his plans of escape.
Outraged by the actions and plans of his daughter, Philip sent Peter and his four best officers to dispose of Babu. Philip gladly accepted the task and wanted to seek revenge on the Muslims for killing his cousin, Timothy, in a car bombing incident. At midnight Peter and his fellow officers began their mission and headed across town under the cover of darkness. When they reached the compound where Babu was staying they drew their weapons. Searching the compound proved to be difficult with several guards patrolling the grounds. Peter did not dare storm the compound for they were out numbered 8 to 1. He decided instead to wait for Babu to come out in the morning for a drink of water at the well. Peter and his officers then fled across the street into another building to wait for their target. Peter left the four other officers downstairs to guard the door and warn him about approaching Muslims as he climbed to the top of the roof and hid.
At day break, the compound looked desolate. No guards could be seen from where Peter hid on the roof. Suddenly, a man walked to the center of the compound. Peter could not quite make out his face but bore down on his gun anyway. Peter then heard a truck barreling down the alley way in front of him. He looked up at the truck only to hear bullets whizzing past his ears. He ducked for cover and yelled at his officers to fire back. As the Muslims soldiers climbed out of the truck, Peter and his officers fired back. Surrounded by the enemy, Peter tried to think of a way out. They fought with furry as the Muslims closed in on the compound. Unexpectedly, the Muslims stopped firing. As Peter poked his head above the wall, a flash of light and fire overcame him. Two RPG’s hit the building, killing both Peter and his fellow officers.
Hearing upon his son’s death, Rebecca and her Father were overcome with grief and sorrow. Burning with hatred her Father blamed Babu, and vowed he would get his revenge. Knowing that Babu would never kill her brother, she snuck out of her Father’s house and put another message in the crack of eastern wall warning Babu of her Father’s intentions. As soon as Babu found out about Rebecca’s brother’s death and Rebecca’s Father’s plot for revenge, he knew he had to reach Rebecca in order to save their relationship. After reading Rebecca’s note, he planned on meeting her just outside the city early in the morning to run away and escape their war torn lives. Rebecca’s body guard caught Rebecca leaving notes in the wall and notified her Father of her actions. Her Father again fuming by situation formulated a plan that would end this situation once and for all.
The next morning Rebecca snuck out of the house and fled to the eastern side of the city. Little did she know she was being followed? Avoiding all contact with people she reached the eastern edge of the city and waited in the designated spot. Babu, like Rebecca, snuck out of his Father’s compound and headed off toward the eastern part of the city. When Babu got about a hundred feet from the building he was suppose to meet Rebecca at, he saw masked soldiers storm the compound and grab Rebecca. He tore off towards them in hope of stopping their actions. He tripped and hit the dirt hard. While dust clouded his vision, he saw Rebecca being pulled into a car. He again ran after the car this time drawing a hand gun. As he ran around the corner, a massive heat wave followed by huge flames knocked him backwards. When he regained his spinning head, he saw that the car he had been following had been destroyed by a car bomb. His knees became weak and he fell to the ground for he thought Rebecca had been in the car. Knowing no one could survive the burning tangled mess of metal and plastic, Babu’s desire to live left him. Overcome with the yearning to be with Rebecca, Babu pulled picked up his gun and shot himself. Watching from a window in the top of a neighboring building was Rebecca. Held back by her capturers she screamed at what she saw. She cried and screamed with terror as the men unmasked themselves. It was her Father and her bodyguard. When released by her Father she ran home and cried out for Babu all night.
Still full of the pain and grief she experienced over Babu’s death. She found a vile of poison used for killing rats in the basement of her house. As she retreated back to her room, she could not take the sting of not being with Babu. She longed to be with Babu. She then raised the poison to her lips and drank it ending her life. The flame of love between Rebecca and Babu had once burned bright in both their hearts. Now, no flame remained. It had been extinguished by the darkness of the World.