I don't own Hetalia okay? Honestly don't have much to say with this one. Some days there will be some just Matthew and Katyusha's, others will everyone, just depends on the story. Anyway, enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
October 9th 1919
(from the journal of Ernest Henry)
So today was much better than yesterday. I wasn't cursed at in Russian by Ivy's little sister. Al, her husband seems like a real nice guy and I like Matt a lot. Hard to think that guy was a Mountie before the war. And Al seemed to think so too. Apparently Matt is the real quiet type unless you cross a line with him. We headed out to a bar once this guy Roderich came over to give Nikolai his piano lesson. Al and Matt were looking for a good reason to get out of the house. It's not like Nikolai is a bad player for a four-and-a-half-year-old boy. Al was hoping secretly that Nikolai would be horrible and that Roderich would get frustrated and quit. It was Natalya who insisted that he learn to play. He told me that Nikolai was Ivy's favorite thing in the world and he would have felt much the same about little Ivan and Anya too. Shame the guy only knew them through pictures and letters. I have to say that Nikolai is a good kid who apparently loves swimming and now the piano, much to Al's chagrin. He keeps wanting to teach him baseball, a sport he loves to play. He did say sipping his beer, "Well there's little Ivan I guess…."
With this Matt kind of laughed but then Al turned to him and reminded him he was about to be a dad himself. So apparently he had been discharged from both the Canadian military and the Mounties due to shrapnel injury, shell shock and some of those injuries leaving him half blind, although you wouldn't know it by looking at him and apparently he's still a crack shot from what Matt claims. Says he won Al's kids tons of toys from the boardwalk that way. Have to say that while they weren't Ivy, they were close to him, Al much more than Matt as Matt married Ivy's older sister recently but it was nice to reconnect with his family. It's like he's back again. I'm going to hang in town for a few days then head out to look up some of my old buddies and enjoy some booze with them before prohibition sets in. Or I will get a lot of coughs. Although Matt warned me he nearly fell into a bottle himself when he first came back. Said that it sounded like some of the depression things he struggles with. I envy Matt a little. Got a good, hot wife (not going to say that like that in front of him but I think Matt's wife is prettier than Al's and they are Ivy's sisters so yeah….) Now where I go from here, I don't know. Maybe Chicago, find me a job out there. My wife's from rich Philadelphia stock so I don't want to go there if I can help it. Maybe I do, maybe I don't but that would be awkward none the less. Will keep in touch with Al and Matt though.
So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. Don't have much else to say here else. Anyway, remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now,
Otherrealmwriter
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