I don't own Hetalia okay? I know it has taken me longer to update this than it's predecessor The Longing of the Heart but hey I will get it done and I am having 3 families interact over a decade! Cut me some slack! Anyway, enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
August 4th 1923
(from the journal of Matthew Williams)
I have hardly been home for long periods of time since April. I have had to fight tooth and nail to see Katy on our anniversary, see the kids on their birthdays, and still no word from Al out in California. They had moved out in April and Natalya had promised to write Katy when they settled in. Who knows, they may have been late getting the mail or still need some time to get everything settled. It wasn't easy for me to move into Al and Natalya's house after the war, and that was with him helping. I can't imagine crossing the whole freaking country while having 4 young children. I mean Nikolai is the oldest at 8 and there's Alexei who is 2 now. Honestly I know Natalya would be able to handle them but still. I miss them and I miss my kids because I had been working so much. It had turned out that Feliciano had told the bosses about everything he knew. I have spent more time on Broadway than I have at home. And when I do come home, most of the time the children are asleep already. Louise has seen Eliza and Roderich more than I have since she loves taking care of Maria like Anya did with her.
Although when I am home Katy keeps asking me if I would like to go out west. She missing her sister already? Probably. I know that she loved the kids too. I am thinking of just saying bugger all and just writing them myself, see if you know, anything happened to Al at all. Or is he stuck at a Marshall's desk in San Diego. Then again I think I would have heard about that in a rant of a letter. When I got home, Katy gave me a book of photos from Yosemite and said 'wouldn't it be nice to live out there? You can work in the park and all be good.' Is she planning something like Natalya did for Al? And yeah I will admit, it would be peaceful and I would be able to see my children more. I think park rangers have more solid schedules than prohibition agents. And maybe I am overworked because I am only having to to write this because I could have sworn I had seen Ivan's ghost tapping his foot at me. No way. It's my psyche thinking this and a manifestation of the stress I am undergoing. But heck, Al, Natalya and Katy have made claims like that and hey, this was his house. I just need to go to sleep.
So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. I finally got my prohibition era story started called In Too Deep nothing planned romance wise, this one is more of a drama. And yes, this one will have more chapters than its predecessor. I do hope to get it wrapped up by summer but hey, who knows how life is going to go at this point. I do have the hardest class of my semester out of the way so school stress is reduced. Anyway, remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now,
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