I don't own Hetalia okay? This is kind of a sequel to The Longing of the Heartbut it is also able to be read on its own. You may just want to read the other one to get a better backstory. It's up to you though. Anyway, enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
April 15th 1919
(from the journal of Matthew Williams)
Well today finally happened. I mean I only asked Katy to marry me back on Christmas but finally settled on a date and that was today. One of Katy's favorite times of year is spring and Easter so she wanted to have the biggest thing she had hoped for for so long. She never deserved those men who stood her up in the past. How that Feliks guy could have left such a sweet and beautiful woman at the altar even! Well she is my wife now and I couldn't ask for more. She accepted the fact that I was broken in the war. Everyone talks about me like nothing is wrong, but I know there is. I mean that is why I am in New York and ended up meeting Katy in the first place.
It was a small ceremony with the family. Al and Natalya's children were there and we had little Ivan and Anya as a ring bearer and flower girl. They're only a year and a half but if there was one thing that I've known over the years since I was discharged was that it is family that matters. And frankly if Al and Natalya weren't there for me, god knows where I'd be. Canada's weather is no good for my injuries. I had been thinking of moving out to the southwest or California (Something I never thought of before this) because the cold and wet which cause the old war injuries to ache more. The whole ceremony was almost a reversal of roles of Al and Natalya's back 5 years ago (God, has it been that long? Damn….) but the sad thing was that while Ivan had given Natalya away, he couldn't with Katyusha. He was killed in the war after all. But it was Al who had an idea for this.
It was his older son Nikolai who took that "giving away" role. Yeah it's usually the Dad or a male relative but her father had died years ago before she had come to America and well I already said why Ivan could not, so the next oldest male relative by blood was Nikolai. And he was the only one in the family without a duty in the ceremony and he was a little jealous of his younger siblings. But this made him feel like a big kid now and he walked her up so proud like a little solider and he told me to take care of his Aunt Tetya Katy all important like causing everyone to giggle a little. Natalya did bring a picture of Ivan to the ceremony so "He could see it too" and Al went on about how he could anyway be acting kind of like the medium between Ivan's soul and this world since he was sick back in November. Whatever, if it helps them. But Katy and I are happily married now and tomorrow I am taking her up to Niagara Falls for our honeymoon. Can't believe I didn't see it when I was still a Mountie in Canada….
So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. Like I said this is a sequelish spin-off to The Longing of the Heart but can be read on its own. I don't quite know how long this one will be just yet as the other I had a more defined plan. But yeah. Anyway, remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now,
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