The Once Upon a Time Affair Challenge; " A different sort of hero"

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The Prompt –

{Your Choice} held his breath as the ball bounced around the spinning roulette wheel. Ordinarily he would be hoping for the ball to settle on his chosen number but, this time, he didn’t want the wheel to stop spinning at all.

The Theme – Hope

“ A different sort of hero."

Summary: Napoleon and Illya are once again in Monte Carlo, but this time they must enlist the help of an innocent to help them 'get out of Dodge' during France's blockade of the Principality of Monaco. (The story has a surprise 'crossover')

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Comments

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Thank you!!! I'm glad you enjoyed the story in spite of not being familiar with LeBeau. I didn't plan on it being a crossover but when I typed in the name Louis in the prompt...it just evolved to Louis LeBeau.

I'm looking forward to your story cuz!

I actually researched the character of LeBeau over and above what I remembered from the show. All the bits about the restaurant, the paint store getting married were part of his bio. I added the cheating wife though as I needed a good reason for him needing to gamble. On the show he always called the Germans the 'Boche.'

You can probably see some episodes of Hogan's Heroes on You -Tube.

It was a comedy about the POW camp which secretly runs a partisan operation, destroying all sorts of German installations in the area etc. The Commandant is an idiot, and the Sergeant in charge was an over weight softie who constantly uttered the phrase "I know nothing. I see nothing." When he accidentally walked in on the prisoners preparing an operation. Colonel Hogan was their leader. The members were a cockney named Newark, LeBeau, a black American named Kinch and an dizzy but brilliant when it came to explosives American named Sergeant Andrew Carter.

It's an improbably show where the POW's run rings around the Nazis both inside and outside the camp.