I do not own Hetalia okay? I am glad to see the response to this fic. I don't have much else for the disclaimer so enough of this A/N, on with the fic!

August 9th 1919

(from the journal of Alfred F Jones.)

Today we had a kind of boy's day out thing at the insistence of Nattie and Katy. Mattie and I took Nikolai and little Ivan to the boardwalk while they stayed at home with Anya and just had a tea party or something like that. Nattie wouldn't go into too much more than she thought that us guys would be bored to death. I'm guessing she wanted time with her sister. Which I didn't think she was too into spending time with Katy like that. But who knows, with Vanya gone she may be wanting to cling to her only sibling left. Or could it be about something I had seen in one of the journal entries I had translated. I mean one sentence came to something about, 'No way that a man could love another man like a man loves a woman. Even if that were the case, he is married. It can never be.' It was his entry on the day Nikolai was born. So while shocking, I'm not changed in what I think of him. Flattered but not mad at the guy. It's not like he did anything bad to me, to Nattie, to Nikolai short of be a great uncle and brother. I mean I saw him like that and he acted like that. That is what I remember of him. His buddy Ernest never mentioned any inappropriate behavior of that sort in the battle field and from Mattie said, sometimes, guys get a little lonely...hee hee... So no matter what he was in that sense, that does nothing to the deeds he did in life to me. And if Nattie wants to make something bad on that, I'll defend Vanya's memory. Although I don't think she would. I mean I didn't tell her, unless she read it herself when I left it open.

Nah, what's more important is just what us guys did with our day out. Which Mattie said we should go to the boardwalk and that's what we did. Nikolai had a lot of fun as we went on the rides he wanted, sometimes he got to go on twice because little Ivan wasn't big enough for some of the ones that he wanted to go on and he wanted to go on with his dad and his uncle so Mattie and I took turns looking after Ivan while we rode with him. And while I won't say it, I can tell that Vanya was Nikolai's favorite uncle. But he seems to like Mattie well enough as well. I guess that's all that matters.

And I hope he can have fun with Mattie because if she does find a piano teacher, she's thinking of having Nikolai learn that. I swear I thought that thing was out of tune and it freaking came with the house when I bought it, the previous owner didn't want to take it with them!

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