I don't own Hetalia okay? I don't have much else for this opening. Anyway, enough of this A/N, on with the fic!

December 25th 1922

(from the journal of Katyusha Williams nee Braginsky)

The children had a Merry Christmas but I could tell that Fredka and Natalya were only here with us for them. I know they know something, something big and important but they won't tell me. The children don't know. I do not like that Matvey took to trying to bribe their children to get what they are up to. Turns out they don't know and I am inclined to believe them. Anya was helping with Louise and Chadwick and I admit I was curious, and she is the same age as little Ivan and she hadn't heard anything from her mother. It is interesting however because I heard Fredka and Natalya say a few things in Spanish. All I can tell is that that must have something to do with it. Natalya does not learn another language unless she has to. Although when she does she does well. That is how she was with English before we came to America.

I don't know what she said to Eliza but she has been visiting Natalya a lot more than she has me. I didn't mind she sung at the speakeasy while she was looking for something to do now that Erika was sent to finishing school, but she may have also been laid off. She is about four months along and from what Natalya told me, she had beat up one of the Vargas brothers for getting too friendly with her and even had to fight off their grandfather who would kept pushing with her. Like they did not respect the fact she was indeed married. But yet I don't think she quit for that reason. She seems the type who could handle herself. Matvey said the office was busy with the Marshalls and causing a rivalry there and they seemed to take a liking to Fredka. I wonder if there is anything to do with that.

This job has caused a huge rift in between Fredka and Matvey and it is killing him. I see that Matvey is so conflicted with this job. He cannot make Fredka see that he did not put him in the place the bosses did. That Matvey wanted his brother to have his back. That he thought that Fredka was a very skilled man who could handle just whatever the job required. I hope he doesn't let this ruin things too much longer. I know how Natalya is when she loves someone very much. I just want us to be one big family again like we were before.

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