A/N: Hey this is dumb but I thought I'd make a little place to shove my little RusAme drabbles and oneshots and stuff. If, um, if you want (and this is probably selfish and vain of me to think), you can use any ideas/stories/whatever you find here and use them for your own thing. Just don't, like, steal them or something. You know. Say something like "inspired by"? What I think I'm getting at is PLEASE DON'T THINK "AW DARN IT THAT IDEA WAS ALREADY USED WELP NOW I'VE GOTTA THINK OF SOMETHING ELSE" because you don't really it's okay.

NOPE NOPE NOPE I'M SORRY THIS IS DUMB NEVERMIND I don't know what I'm trying to say.


He overhears others speaking. "No more Russians," they say, "they'll send any more back." That is fine, he thinks, he will be Polish. As much as it hurts to deny his countrymen and ancestors, he needs to get in. If not for himself, then for his sisters, still stuck oh the other side of the world, at home.

This is his new home, he reminds himself. For now.

He is pushed forward, and stares at the man behind the counter. "Name." The man says.

"Ivan..."

The man glares at him."Are you sure?"

"Braginski. With an 'i'. I am Polish."

The man rolls his eyes. "I'm sure," he says, but lets him in anyway. he must remember he is Polish now, at least for a little while, and remember to spell his name 'right', as much as it hurts him to go against the old country.


A/N: Yeah another. That was painfully short I'm sorry. I wrote in between classes one day because my Lit&Society class was about Immigration to America. It was so inspiring (I guess), and I wanted to write a whole bunch for it. ...And then I didn't. This was supposed to be a way bigger thing with a bunch of guys coming in from different places (like there was supposed to be a China-thing where he came in to California) and going through TROUBLES and meeting up and surviving this big bad new scary country together? It would have been at the turn of the century in the late 1800s or early 1900s or something (because that time is just wonderful especially in regards to new immigrants oh my gosh).