Weekly Writing Challenge – Find a Muse in The Masters

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, 1942. Public Domain

Jenny knew her life was about to change more than she could ever imagine, people were sure to say she shouldn’t be here, that she was a traitor. Would her family and friends ever understand. The truth was she really didn’t care, tonight had been inevitable from the first moment she met Englishman Jack Hunter. Her love for him and his ideology meant more to her now than anything.

They had known each other since the outbreak of the war, a wonderful man, a Doctor from upstate. She knew of course that he was married but lived for the weekends she spent with him. Each Friday he would travel to New York and work extra shifts at the cities hospital. This late hour should be her precious time alone with him but of course tonight was different.

“Is this really the only way,” asked Jenny for what must have been the tenth time.

“Yes you know it is we have planned this for months, the culmination of all my work in your country. Jenny I must leave for Washington in a few hours and then my work here will be done,” said Jack.

“Your work with me, will that be done too in the morning,” said Jenny.

“No I promise I will join you, if things go well the war will soon be over and we can be together in Moscow. Tonight though you must go with Viktor, he will fly with you to Mexico and then by ship to Murmansk. The work you have done for our cause has been truly outstanding when this is all over you will be a national heroine”, said Jack.

Jenny flushed a little she knew that she was doing the right thing. Jack, Viktor and the barman were fighting for a just cause she was sure of that. Soon the Nazi’s would be defeated as would the corruption and capitalism that had spread throughout her beloved homeland. The Soviet Union and the United States were after all allies.

Jack had explained to her many times how crucial the secrets were that she had shared, to have the Director’s personal assistant from the Manhattan Project helping their cause was nothing short of a miracle. Now the Soviet Union had the atomic weapon it had so desperately wanted, years ahead of its rivals. A new world order would soon be established.

“There is nothing left for you here my darling. I have the letter to deliver to your president and then we will be together again. Comrade the documents quickly we must go, now.”

Inspired by The Weekly Writing Challenge – Find a Muse in the Masters. “Write a new piece using Nighthawks by Edward Hopper as your inspiration.”