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 Matthew Williams)
Today was tiring but fun. Took Nikolai and little Ivan out to the boardwalk with Al today. Natalya wanted time with just the girls so she, Katy and Anya were at the house doing what she called 'boring tea party girl stuff' and shoved us boys out the door. Which honestly after my last sort of tea party, I guess I could use a break from. It's always pleasant to face your demons in person. I told Al about Katy's friends Elizabeta and Roderich and how apparently Elizabeta was married before she met Roderich and her husband died in the war. Al said it seemed innocent enough until I went on. The fact was her husband was the one I killed in a fight in a German trench. And Al responded much like Katy did. He assured me it was not my fault and just something that happens in war. But with a name to the face that pops up in my nightmares, it doesn't help. I don't know what I am looking for, someone to get mad at me for it? If that was the case, I should just tell Elizabeta myself but I do not want her to hold it against Katy and stop being friends with her. So I just won't.
Al could tell I was feeling a little off still and mentioned he has yet to take Nikolai out fishing. He was waiting for him to get a little older, maybe when he could take Nikolai and Ivan at the same time, but if I wanted to, then he wouldn't say no. Seems like he could tell that some of the old demons and memories were starting to try and rear their head and he noticed how playing with Nikolai helped. I had then mentioned that Katy was getting sick a lot and then Al grew a large smile. He then told me to take Nikolai fishing as I was "going to need the practice" and that I "had only 9 months to get it in". I asked him what he was getting at, and he thinks that Katy is pregnant. Claimed he knows the song and dance having been through it with Natalya twice. Could she be? I thought I was injured down there for something she noticed. Besides I don't know if he wants Nikolai to learn piano so much as he wants to teach him things like baseball. I know by the end of the day Katy is going to tell Eliza when she sees her again and that stick in the mud she calls a fiance will be teaching Nikolai how to play. Especially since Al told me how Natalya was so insistent on it and he will pick it up. Biggest thing I remember from that conversation was Al sulking "the piano is out of tune and broken and of no real use, I don't suck at it that bad..." I will have to ask Natalya more about where that one came from.
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