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!

March 15th 1923

(from the journal of Katyusha Williams nee Braginsky)

I am so worried. Matvey acts like he can keep things from me, but I overheard him talking with Fredka soon after the raid he was forced to take a part in. The Italian man and his grandsons were arrested in it and he yelled "Beware the ides of March" I know that as this date in reference to when Julius Caesar was betrayed. I had told him this morning about it and Matvey just said "Oh that was from Shakespeare's play." Well I read a lot of history back home. That is when the ancient Romans settled their debts. I wouldn't put it past a man whose name was Romulus to invoke that. Besides he must have more than his grandsons working with him. And Natalya is alone with her children.

And I don't know how much longer I will see her. Did I make her mad? Did Matvey? She told me about Fredka needing to head out to San Diego before coming back to move Natalya and the rest of the family. Poor little Louise will be crushed. And it's not like when he was living in Canada That was hardly the distance this will be. Natalya sounds so happy and said that because she's certain Vanya is haunting their family, seeing how he loved them so, that he could finally be somewhere warm like he dreamed. Well he is right here in New York. In the ground. We can see him whenever we want.

But that's not a good way to think. Louise is so adorable and chatty. She talks a lot to Chadwick who often just sucks on his hands. I have to keep pulling them out of his mouth as he is a year and a half and his teeth are coming in. But Louise loved playing with Anya. Louise is the only one she can stand as apparently Alexei takes after his brothers and father's energy and often make that treehouse of theirs. And the only help Natalya has while Fredka is so far away? Eliza. Who volunteered despite her pregnancy. She and Roderich stay there I think because of the threat. Natalya says that it's only so they can get used to their new house, because they are selling it to them. I doubt she would ever admit she needs help.

Then again maybe, just maybe I can use this to talk Matvey into becoming a park agent at that Yosemite park in California. I know he'd love it. And while according to the map I saw it is a good distance from San Diego, it is at least a lot closer than we would be now. And if Natalya can pull strings behind her husband's back to improve his career, so can I.

So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. I don't quite know how long this one will be just yet as the other I had a more defined plan. But the way it is going this one will be longer than the other. One is over a few years, this a whole decade practically. I am toying with some Prohibition era ideas with the Vargas family but nothing too much has come so far. If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear it. Anyway, remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now,

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