Under the Rainbow
Chapter XX; Staying busy
A story of the Soviet House told in perfect 250 word segments
By: Chibi Ra Chan
Pairing: Korea/Belarus
Note: Sorry for the 10 day stretch between updates, it was finals week and I was a bit frantic and didn't have time to work on this. Updates should be regular now.
-Ra
I stay up clean the house, at least I'm not drinking, run around so I don't have to think about thinking.
Chores in the Soviet house were largely the same as chores anywhere. Dusting, sweeping mopping, stoking fires, cooking; it was pretty straight forward. What made it difficult was the sheer size of it all. As a left over mansion from the era of Czars the household was built with the express ideas of housing company and parties, which would then in be turn be cleaned and maintained by dozens of servants.
But that was long ago and no party would see the inside of the home for many, many years. All of the finery may have been extracted from the rooms, but it still took an army to keep the household functioning.
They did the best they could with only eight people.
For his first official day as a part of the Soviet household; he is sent with Prussia and Hungary to clean the pallor rooms that housed important meetings.
Despite what you'd think, Yong Soo enjoyed cleaning. Yao had been a stickler for keeping a tidy home, a habit that rubbed off on him from years at his side.
"You're lucky to be here on a Monday," Hungary intones; her voice isn't the same as he remembered it. It lacked a generally quality of happiness that it once held, "Monday is the day we get to clean the walls."
"Fun" Gilbert adds with a roll of his eyes.
Looking at the high ceilings and the limited supplies they were given, Korea knew that this would be anything but fun.