The Healing of the Heart

by otherrealmwriter

After the events of World War 1, injured veteran Matthew Williams falls for a nurse Katyusha Braginsky, who just happens to be the sister of his brother's wife. The family heals over the next decade over the trauma they experienced before. Written as a series of journal entries over the 1920s CanUkr, AmeBel. Sequel to The Longing of the Heart but can be read on its own

95. Roderich's Journal 7

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!

June 2nd 1923

(from the diary of Roderich Edelstein)

I am honestly less scared of being a father than I did when Eliza told me she was pregnant. I do know I won't have to keep leaving the home at strange hours like Matthew has had to lately and his children are smart enough to pick up on things. Katyusha does not like it either. She has worried that Matthew is on the Vargas's gang's watch. Eliza told me that one of their henchmen attacked Natalya, or at least tried to, thinking that Alfred was Matthew. Apparently from what Matthew told me, this is a common confusion and I could see how a foolish upstart would mix the two up.

Nikolai was actually sad he had to leave me behind. I did not realize that boy liked me so much. He is doing great in his piano skill. He keeps trying to write his own music but is not matching the notes he wants with what he is playing. It's still pretty close. I will be making sure Maria learns well. She looks a lot like Eliza, with my hair. It is very dark. I have been speaking with some brothers who had founded a movie studio out in California themselves and are wanting to add music to movies. I have played the music for some theatres when we needed a little extra money and it would be something if all they a theatre owner would need to do is just hook the reels up and play it. While playing it while a moving is going, timing is key.

I am getting used to the more unpleasant sides of having a child. Eliza made me change Maria and burp her after she was fed. Needless to say I am getting used to poop and spittle. And in some bizarre way, it isn't as horrible as I was thinking it would be. Disgusting? Yes. Very Much so. But in comparison to mud and rotten corpses of men and horses, so much better. Eliza wants to climb up with her in the tree house and I just want to teach Maria music like a proper young lady. To this Eliza says it is boring and that was the part of being a governess she did not like. Thought that Erika was being stifled in finishing school. I saw his point as I had met her boss before and I did like him a little bit. Funny, Eliza can be rather unrefined at times and I consider myself the embodiment of sophistication. Well as best as I can be anyway. This world is changing fast from the old ways.

Any way, if nothing else Maria will have a stable house. Nothing like what I read from Austria.

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,

Otherrealmwriter

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Realm.