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 diary of Natalya Jones nee Arlovskaya)
I had Katyusha over to talk, despite the fact she kept running back and forth to throw up. She claims it had been that way for a few days. I swear if I didn't know much better, maybe Matthew timed things well. By that I mean I told her that she may want to keep an eye on her symptoms and see if she isn't pregnant. She acted like I couldn't know what I was talking about, she was trained as a nurse after all and was the one who told me that. Not to belittle her training but I had been through the same thing twice myself. I know the morning sickness very well. But no, while trying to clean Fredka's study, I noticed Vanya's journal open and some notes that Fredka was making so he could understand it better. He's gotten the hang of reading Cyrillic. It's not perfect and sometimes he does have to use a guide or write the word into English letters. However, one translation note he had read, '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.' I then read the journal myself and that is what indeed was written. Read the whole entry from the day Nikolai was born and pieced it together. Vanya really loved Fredka. Deeply. That's why I arranged this girls day to talk to Katyusha. I had called it such and kept Anya so we could discuss it privately because Frankly I did not know what to think.
When I told her and showed her the journal, she simply said, "Well that makes sense on why he never married." I was confused and she explained about how he was a great man and to think on if there was any time that he engaged Fredka in a romantic manner. Most thing I could think of when he was staring at Fredka a lot at our wedding. Honestly staring a lot isn't that bad a thing. Fredka told me of one time that Major Bonnefoy made an inappropriate advance at him back at the office before the war during the supply contracts they brokered. Vanya did nothing of that. He focused more on being a brother and uncle than he did trying to chase Fredka. So at most it's a tragic love story that you'd read in some froo froo French novel or something? Katyusha said we should not let this change anything but just as an explanation for why he could never find someone to marry. He was not the type of man to live a lie either. She said as a nurse she is told a lot of things in confidence and it isn't as uncommon as one would think. Just not really paraded around.
On a less depressing topic, apparently she does know someone who could teach piano to Nikolai. See, I found this house does have one in tune. It was not out of tune, Fredka just couldn't play it. I asked how come he never told me about it and he said, it came with the house and he apparently didn't know how to play so he never said anything. How it took me this long to notice it or try it, I don't know. But she said that the fiance of someone she is friends with is a musician trying for a symphony in New York from Vienna and she would see if he'd like some work. I did say we would pay. I will have Nikolai know how to play better than his father and when they are old enough, I will have Ivan and Anya know how to play something as well.
So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. I go over this in Klondike but at the time this was set, people were partially accepting of homosexuality in the sense they didn't really think much of it either way. And I am talking commoners, not people making laws and politicians. In fact it is said that acceptance in the 20's was comparable to the 70s. It was the Great Depression and the Mccarthyism of the 50s that set a lot back. Scapegoating your problems and the like. Acceptance in the US history aside, remember to read (well you just did) and review. Ciao for now,
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