I do not own Hetalia okay? I know it's been a little longer updating this one than when I was working on The Longing of the Heart, but like I said in other A/Ns, I knew better how that story was going to go than this one. Anyway, enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
October 8th 1919
(from the journal of Matthew Williams)
Well that was a surprise. Apparently Ernest, Ivan's war buddy came by. He had the bad luck to find just Natalya home today. She's quite sensitive about the issue of Ivan's death and will let people know about it. Only it shows as anger with her. Al has a way to talk her down if he was there, but he wasn't. Katy, was upset so she excused herself for some tea in the kitchen until she could face the fact so I just hosted Ernest. It was an interesting exchange. He had made it through the war just fine. Something he lamented because of the situation. He was expecting to see Ivan paralyzed from what he had seen but not dead. I had a similar situation with my friend Wayne. I joined because he did and tried to keep him safe, ended up killing Elizabeta's first husband (although then I didn't know that!) after Wayne got it pretty bad. It was nice talking with a fellow veteran that isn't Roderich. He may be a good musician and piano player but the rod up that guy;s butt has a rod up its butt.
Now from what I know from what I did talk to Ernest about, he's not a bad guy, not as bad as he thinks. Or will let me know about. Whatever, it's his story to share. He had come back home healthy to nothing and no one and just drifted around the country until he decided to reconnect with some old members of his unit. Since Ivan was his best friend, he was the first he went to see and he wanted to make sure that he was okay. It was rather disappointing. I did say we could visit his grave so we could just talk, veteran to veteran you know. There's a bond there that no civilian could understand. Katy knows this, she's worked with many. She still does work at the hospital as a nurse, just not as much and when she gets bigger, as she calls it, she will quit entirely well until the child is older she says. She likes the job. However, she is already planning the garden for next year as she is taking in the fall bean harvest and canning them. They did exceptionally well so it looks like I am going to be eating a lot of green beans. I thought I had seen enough in the war. Oh well. We'll try talking to Al and Natalya tomorrow. He's got off then so it might be easier with him there. He does have a way to comfort her that I don't know of.
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