I do not own Hetalia okay? I don't have much else to say with this, so enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
Natalya sat down and poured herself a cup of tea and sighed. It had been a few days since Feliks had come to visit and to her surprise and pleasure, he was keeping his word of being a decent houseguest, having actually most of his time preoccupied with his streaming and editing. She did have to admit, it seemed a lot easier to do on Youtube. But if there was big plans to be made on a date that was going to be revealed on Christmas, when the whole family would be together, then she needed to have the discussion now. I don't want anything in July, goodness knows that Katyusha and Vanya will be very busy on those months...August is much too muggy around here. I know it would be cliched, but June would actually work for us...She thought as she looked over at the desktop tree they had gotten that was buried behind the gifts. Most of them were for family that would be taken when they go to the respective celebrations. While it took as Alfred complained, "an act of Congress" to get everything through, the only solid determination was that on Christmas Day, Matthew, Alfred, Katyusha and Ivan and their children would be at Francis and Arthur's house. However, the twins asked if Santa was going to stop by their house on Christmas eve or their grandfather's and if they should stay over. This was where the chaos was beginning. Splitting some of the gifts for the New Year's Eve where she and Ivan were playing Ded Moroz and Snegurochka. "Toris!" She yelled as he placed a duster down and sat on the chair across of her.
"Yes Talya?" He asked.
"I'm never going to really like that nickname." She laughed. "But I'll put up with it." She sipped her tea. "So, Katyusha and Matthew will be at the New Year's celebration that Ivan is having for the twins, correct?"
"Yes. Mr. Alfred told me they were planning it so that all the children would be together for it, even though Charlotte is still rather little yet." Toris said.
"Good. That's what I thought." She replied. "So, I was thinking that we announce the date then. The whole family will be together. I know they will be at Matthew and Alfred's father's on Christmas day, but..."
"You have no connection to them like Katyusha and Ivan do." Toris said. "And if I may be blunt, I don't think you like much of their family."
"Not really." Natalya said. "Especially not Francis and Alfred."
"I'm okay with that." Toris said.
"So I was thinking..." Natalya began. "We need to set a date for the wedding so your parents and I guess Feliks can get the tickets they need and make the arrangement. And I was thinking that we should do it in June. You know that Katyusha and Ivan will be very busy in July and August is just horrible for us. That's when the new semesters start."
"And it is awful weather. So hot and muggy." Toris said.
"Hey Torriboy, Natalya, I finished some of my videos, just waiting for them to finish uploading, what are you talking about." Feliks said jumping on the couch in between them. Natalya scoffed. "Ah say what you want about me but you'll be wanting my designs, I know it."
Natalya blushed as he was right. "Toris and I were just discussing when a good time would be for the wedding and we decided so far on June if you must know. And we will likely be spending Christmas day here, as my brother and sister will be at their fathers-in-law house with their husbands and children."
"Righteous! You have to help me get everything we need Torriboy! I have Kevin Sam W Domu if you want you can do a reaction vid with me on it" Feliks said. Toris rolled his eyes and Natalya looked confused. "Oh, you may know it better by the English name, Home Alone."
"That one..." Natalya said. "Well it may not A Christmas Story, that's on television on repeat every year. Although I don't know how big brother stands it..." Feliks looks confused.
"Oh her brother's husband loves that movie. He often questions a lot of it that Alfred says it was the 90s..." Toris laughed.
"Anyway I have to get you something too," He said looking at Natalya and Toris gave a feeble smile. "And June is a lovely time to have a wedding. How about the middle of June, like the 15th or such?" Natalya and Toris looked at each other. It seemed to work. School for both of them would have finished and it wouldn't have just finished so they would have time to plan things. "And July has major travel rushes, June does but not so much so you could honeymoon where you want without that July craziness."
"Haven't even thought that far ahead." Toris said. Natalya shrugged as well. "We can't necessarily afford some 5 star resort or something like that."
"Ah, but some time away as husband and wife before back to the normal grind." Feliks said. "Have to have that." Natalya remembered that Matthew took Katyusha to Ukraine as she wanted to see the country as she had not since she was a child and Ivan and Alfred went to Miami beach, which caused Ivan to come back with a nasty sunburn.
"We could get back near or around the 4th..." Natalya said.
"Why the 4th?" Feliks asked.
"Yeah, why then?" Toris asked.
"It's Alfred's birthday." Natalya said.
"So?" Toris asked.
"The twins might want us there." Natalya said.
"We'll work something out," Toris said. "But at the same time, not to be rude but they need to spend some more time with their other aunt and uncle too. I think Katyusha and Matthew may be jealous of us."
"True." Natalya said.
"Good." Feliks smiled. " I need to borrow Natalya. If you're getting married in June, I need to get her dress. And Torri told me about how you had a deep connection to your Russian roots." He thrust a dress sketchbook in her face. She looked at the one that he had pushed in front of her. It was based on a traditional yet modern design. It was a wide fluffy skirt with red trim and gold and red flowers around the bodice. the sleeves were lace but trimmed much like traditional dresses in red with a headband crown in white red and gold. "See?"
"Wow..." She said and noticed that he actually drew the model to look a lot like her. "You're much better at this than I thought..."
"You need to have more faith in me." Feliks laughed. "I know what I am talking about with things like this." He looked over to Toris. "And I have this Christmas thing in the bag. I'll try and give you guys the best Christmas like there would be in Polska, if your brother and sister are busy in other places that is."
"That sounds lovely." Toris said.
"And if you want me to, I can even work on the bridesmaids dresses," Feliks said. "It's my duty to make sure my best friend and his gal have the most awesome and fabulous wedding ever."
"Could you do suits too?" Natalya asked.
"What makes you ask Miss Natalya?" Feliks asked. "Because I can make Toris look great too."
"Seriously, you don't need to worry about me..." Toris blushed.
"Why?" Natalya smirked. "Besides I want both of my siblings involved. I happen to have both a sister and brother."
"You want me dressing the whole wedding party?" Feliks smiled. "Well I can do so. Just let me know how many of each, what you want and I will make them faboulus. You only have one wedding after all and I will make it worth your time."
"Sounds wonderful." Natalya said. "If you are doing such a nice thing for me, you should for your best friend too." Toris smiled but knew that Natalya had him there. And he had to agree deep down if she was putting up with Feilks designing her outfit he should bear the same hassle. He knew it would be frustrating so he shouldn't leave Natalya alone to face it.
"Great." Feliks smiled. "I know just what to do if you like that dress I showed you to give Torriboy a complimentary suit and have everyone look great. It's my job to do so."
"Only condition, is you don't broadcast this all over your channel." Natalya said.
"Fair." Feliks said. "Mind if I show off the outfits on my website for my business?"
Natalya paused. It was only fair if he was doing so much work for them for something like that. However she didn't want the wedding used for something like that. She didn't want the twins shown all over the internet for his money, especially when Alfred was working hard on his social media control to let the children have a bit of privacy when they were young. "Outfits only." Natalya said.
"Outfits and sketches." Feliks countered. "No one will know it's you or anyone else and they will get an idea of what they look like on a person with a head."
Natalya looked at the sketchbook to see what he meant. It did look like her, enough to give her an idea that it would look good on her, but at the same time, it wasn't a photograph and not an exact copy drawing. "I guess I can agree to that."
"Thanks guys. Get me pics of the rest of the party. Well I know what the best man looks like." Feliks smiled as he hugged the both of them and headed back to his room where he was working and sleeping.
Once the door shut behind him, Natalya sighed. "He's something else. I can't say I don't like him, but he reminds me a bit of Alfred...you must really like the company of loud boisterous people."
"Apparently..." Toris blushed.
The days seemed to fly by in Alfred and Ivan's eyes but for the twins, each hour seemed to last a lifetime. They knew that on Christmas day they were going to their grandfathers' house to get some gifts but they were worried that Santa wouldn't know this. "But what if he leaves the gifts here?" Dimitri asked.
"Or he forgets altogether!" Nikita panicked.
"Calm down, Santa knows." Alfred reassured them over dinner one day. It had been chaotic but they worked it all out. The big Christmas celebration would be at Francis and Arthur's and have Matthew and Katyusha over too with Charlotte. Maybe I should talk to Dad and Papa about us staying over for some Christmas Eve fun too. I mean I am sure the twins would like baking the cookies for Santa, and they won't be so worried about getting missed. Not like they won't anyway….. Alfred thought as he looked at Ivan and they smiled at each other. They had agreed that the big Christmas gift for each of the twins would be a remote controlled T-rex for Dimitri and a Molly American Girl Doll for Nikita. She had grown to love the series when they picked books out from the library and had read every single one from Molly's stories with Alfred before bedtime. They had each gotten the twins a bike but had decided that for ease of transport, that would be the gift they get with Ded Moroz. This was when Natalya and Toris would be over and bring the gifts they had gotten the rest of the family, as Matthew, Katyusha and Charlotte would be over as well. Katysuha had planned most of the Ded Moroz arrival and like the year before, Gilbert had wanted both Matthew and her at the town square for the annual New Year's broadcast which they'd leave Charlotte at Ivan and Alfred's house until they came home. But this had given Alfred an idea he wanted to run past his fathers before they did anything else.
After dinner, Ivan took the plates from the children and took them into the living room where The Grinch would be playing while Alfred offered to wash the dishes. While he was placing the dishes in the sink, he called his dads. "You Pops, what's up?" Alfred asked.
"Nothing much, just sitting here working on some embroidery while your papa is fretting over every little thing." Arthur replied.
"Mon dieu!" Francis could be heard in the background. "Well I never. You know I want the twin's first Christmas with us as their family to be perfect."
"Well, how about this you guys," Alfred began. "Got room for Ivan, the twin and I?"
"I am sure we could find something, we do have a few spare bedrooms just for that reason." Arthur said. "Just what are you thinking?"
"Well the twins were worried that Santa might miss them where Christmas is over at your guy's place." Alfred said as he heard Arthur say 'huh' "So I was thinking that we spend the night and Papa can help them bake some Christmas cookies and all that. Have fun and all. Matt and Katy are fine coming on Christmas day, says it won't make much of a matter with Charlotte but yeah…." He began as he scrubbed some baked cheese. Louse baked spaghetti….something so tasty makes a mess…."
"Yes, that's how it usually goes…." Arthur said. "You should see what a disaster the kitchen is when your papa goes all out in cooking…."
"At least it's worth it!" He heard Francis yell from the other room. "Not a disaster to clean up and disaster to eat!"
"Uhhhhh guys…." Alfred said turning the conversation back to him and his idea.
"Oh!" Arthur said perking up. "Of course. If Ivan and the twins are okay with it, it is fine by us, right Frog?"
"Of course!" Francis smiled. "Tell the twins hi from their gran-pere not their grand pear! I hear them call Lucille the correct term for great aunt!"
"I'll tell them grand pear says hi." Alfred teased. "Speaking of Taunt Lucille, she coming?"
"I do believe so," Arthur said. "She had been asking about what the twins and Charlotte would like and making plans to bring something over for Christmas. She loves them so much."
"Okay, I think the twins would like that." Alfred said. "I do know they liked her and want to see her more often."
"Well Lucille will be happy to hear that." Arthur replied. "I'll see if she is coming and let you know what I do."
"Thanks Dad." Alfred said as he hung up and went back to washing the dishes. He finished up just as the Whos in Whoville were singing despite there being no presents and sat beside Ivan as he and the twins watched the end of the classic tale.
"Didn't you say Ded Moroz stopped someone from taking gifts?" Dimtiri asked Ivan.
"Da, he and his granddaughter Snegurochka will help fight Baba Yaga from taking them." Ivan replied.
"Then the Whos needed Ded Moroz and Snegurochka." Nikita said. "I'm sure they could have stopped the Grinch." Nikita said making some punches in the air and fake ninja moves.
"That may be true Niki, but then how would the Grinch learn his lesson?" Alfred asked.
"He'd have his butt kicked." Nikita said proudly as Ivan laughed.
"Yes but getting your butt kicked doesn't make your heart grow three sizes..." Alfred said. "I got off the phone with your grandpas. They want to have you over for Christmas Eve and they will call Santa and tell him to bring your gifts to their house." Ivan smiled, knowing what Alfred was talking about. "They said there's enough room for us there." he added knowing Ivan was bound to ask about it.
"Can we Papa?" The twins asked.
"I do not see why not." Ivan said.
"Cool." Alfred said as he text Arthur about what Ivan had agreed too. "They'd love to have you there and your grandpear would love to have you help him make the Christmas cookies."
"Cool!" Nikita jumped up. "Can I eat the dough?"
"You'll have to ask him." Alfred said. "But he takes cooking and baking seriously." He warned remembering his childhood. He knew that with the twins being 4 years old and his grandchildren, Francis was more likely to be easier on them than he was when Alfred was a little older, but he also knew his passion for cooking. But it was Christmas time after all, so who knows. "Will you follow all his directions?"
"Yes!" Nikita said saluting as Dimitri nodded in agreement.
"Good." Alfred smiled as he looked at his watch. "It's bath time you two." He said. "Come on, let's get going."
"Awwww..." Nikita pouted as Dimitri got up and smiled. "Can I skip it?"
"No. And remember, Santa and Ded Moroz are watching. You don't want them seeing you not taking your baths?" Alfred said as Ivan nodded in agreement to the twins.
"Guess not..." Nikita said.
"Now let's go up to get you bathed and cleaned up." Ivan smiled as they got up and headed up to the bathroom.
"Someone's being a good papa..." Alfred said. "You're defiantly on my nice list." He added with a kiss.
"Ewwwwww..." Dimitri said.
"Papa and Daddy kissing." Nikita said as Alfred and Ivan just laughed.
"Why that's good to know." Ivan smiled back. "I must make the best dad in the world have a merry and bright Christmas as well." He smiled.
"Indeed." Alfred smirked. "But let's make sure the twins are clean."
"I will." Ivan said as he kissed Alfred back, causing the twins to stick their tongues out.
"And I must give you a gift early tonight." Ivan whispered in Alfred's ear, causing him to blush.
"Sure thing..." Alfred smirked back.
So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. Honestly don't have much to say but yes, apparently in Poland, Home Alone is huge. Amazing what you find out and Russian wedding dresses are pretty. So other than that, remember to read well you just did and to review. Ciao for now
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