CH. 6

POV: Heinrich

It was early in the morning and Heinrich was making his way to the German dorms.

Bismarck had asked to see him, he didn't know why but he was intrigued.

He could see the outside of the dorms, it was quite plain, just like how they liked it.

He opened the door and walked it.

To the left there was a door to the bar but past this there was a large grand staircase.

Most people would just see the outside and assume the inside was boring aswell but it was actually very beautiful, with large paintings of important German figures like Fredrick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Mozart there weren't just men either, there was Anna Frank and Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria among others.

He knew Gabriel with his love of history would like these paintings.

Heinrich has just arrived at a large wooden door that has a name plate that says BISMARCK

He knocked and the door opened to see Z23. "Guten Morgen" she said "Do you need to see Frau Bismarck?"

"I do," Heinrich said.

"Let him in Nimi" Bismarck was heard through the door.

Z23 then let him in, he came in and saw Bismarck sitting behind a desk working on some paperwork.

She soon finished and looked up "Please leave us Nimi" without a word Z23 left and closed the door.

"Kapitän Heinrich" She had spoken with kindness in her voice to Z23 and harshness to Arthur and Gabriel but with neither to him, Heinrich noted.

"Frau Bismarck you can just call me Heinrich"

"Then you can just call me Bismarck"

"Ok, so what did you want to speak about?" Heinrich inquired.

"I wanted to get to know about you, so where were you born?"

"I was born in Bremerhaven," Heinrich responded. "How about instead of me just telling my story you tell me your's?"

"Fair enough, I am rather ashamed of my past though."

"The entire country of Germany is ashamed of their past" Heinrich responded.

"Well since you just told me where you were born I'll tell you the same. I was launched as a ship in Hamburg back in 1939 I came into this form in Hamburg aswell" Bismarck explained.

"I see. So, what about any sisters?" Heinrich asked, he knew the answer but he was just trying to carry the conversation

Bismarck looked over, a little confused but answered anyways "One, Tirpitz, she's under your command. Do you have any siblings?"

"I did" replies Heinrich. "She was killed along with my parents during one of the first attacks of the Sirens, it is what inspired me to join the navy"

"I'm sorry" Bismarck said with some of the kindness she spoke to Nimi with "Your sister and parents will be avenged"

'Vielen Dank" Heinrich replies.

A moment of silence went by until Heinrich broke it "So do you have any hobbies?" he asked.

"I play piano, Frederick de Grosse has encouraged each member of the Iron Blood fleet to play an instrument" Bismarck explained

"Well I'm something of a music man myself, I can play piano, guitar, drums, etc."

"Wow, that is impressive Kapitän" at this moment Z23 knocks and enters the room

"Frau Bismarck it is almost time for your meeting with Frau Hood at the beach" Z23 informeds.

Bismarck looks at her watch and sees that this meeting had gone on longer than expected "If you will excuse me Kapitän I must go"

Heinrich saultes and tells her "You are free to go, It was a good talk"

Bismarck nodes in agreement before leaving.

Gabriel's POV

Gabriel had just finished a church service that Richelieu and the other Iris girls were holding at the chapel, he thought it was very nice even if he wasn't particularly religious he was planning on going next week.

He was walking above the beach, he looked down and saw some girls playing in the water, or laying on towels, and some were building sandcastles, quite impressive ones at that.

He then looked closer to where he was standing and saw tables that were concealed from the water, but he could see into the little alcoves from his position.

The first one had no one in it so he looked to the next inlet and saw Hood sitting there with a tea set for two, Bismarck then came up the beach with Z23 in tow.

They then stopped, Bismarck told something to Z23 and then Z23 left and Bismarck entered the alcove. Hood stood up and greeted her, they both looked awkward as they sat down and started to talk.

Gabriel couldn't hear them so he looked at the next alcove to see Edinburgh and Hornet seemingly listening to the next one so he looked at the next one to see Enterprise with Belfast behind her seemingly nagging her to do something, he then realized that Edinburgh and Hornet were eavesdropping because they were convinced that Belfast and Enterprise were in love, Gabriel doubted it, he didn't rule it out but he thought they were friends, kinda?

But he had promised to Matthew that he would try and do something, in hindsight that wasn't the best move.

He pushed that to the back of his mind and continued looking into the inlets.

He saw a variety of girls in them doing a variety of things, some were clearly on a date while others were just friends like Z23, Laffey, Javelin, and Ayanami then there were sisters like Jean Bart and Richelieu, he wanted to go say hi to Richelieu but he knew that her conversation with Jean was very important and thus didn't bother them.

Gabriel was about to leave but he then heard someone talk from behind him.

"Look at all those couples"

Gabriel turned around to see the love man himself, Matthew.

"They are not all couples you know, look Richelieu and Jean Bart, they are sisters, it would be extremely weird if they were dating" counters Gabriel.

"I'll give you that one but except for the sisters they are all lovely couples!" Matthew comes back with.

"Oh yeah? Put your money where your mouth is. If they all turn out to be couples except for the sisters in the next five years I will give you 500,000 euros. If not you give me 500,000 euros, deal?" Gabriel proposes.

"Hmmmm" Matthew thinks "I will take you up on that offer!"

Gabriel was shocked, he didn't expect him to actually accept a bet he was so going to handly lose, but Gabriel liked money and thus didn't say anything and just shook Matthew's hand. Matthew then walked off whistling a cherry toon.

Gabriel just continued walking down the path until it turned away from the beach, There then was a rather large tree in between the path and the direction to the beach, under this tree was a collection of girls sleeping.

The centerpiece of this was Shinano whose tails were wrapping around the other participants like Champagne, Nicolas, and Le Malin among others.

Laffey then came out of seeming nowhere and joined in the sleeping group.

Gabriel let out a chuckle and went to the office.

There was no work to do today but he was notified he had gotten a package.

Coming up to the door he saw a box next to it, he picked it up and carried it inside and placed it on his desk. Gabriel opened the box to reveal a letter which he picked up and opened, written on the letter was this:

"Dear Gabriel,

it is Fredrick and I have decided on a few things. First you're gonna be the sheriff for this island, at least our part of the island, this is a big job so you can hire some deputies to help you, a police station will be built for you. The second thing is that you will be sent on that mission to the Aletians islands we had talked about, you will need some more air cover so make sure you prepare for that.

Sincerely, Fredrick."

Gabriel then looked in the box to see a badge and a baton with a belt attachment, he then saw a little note reading

"If you need more of these inform Akashi, and don't let her scam you"

Gabriel let out a soft chuckle before turning on his laptop and getting onto juustagram, he had created a French group so even if he can't give them details over juustagram he could just tell them that they will be going on sortie soon.

He then took out some ad space on Adobe's Newspaper that she ran for the base and promoted the deputy position.

He then went over and did the same thing on the Eagle Union's morning radio show.

With that he went home.

The End.

Author Note's

Thanks to starburst98 for your input.

Please comment your feedback and If you find any spelling/grammar mistakes etc, thanks.

Just some extra things if you were curious

Heinrich's sister who died was named Anna

Gabriel is from Calais

The base in mind is located at about LAT 42.1931533 and LONG -158.1450983

Arthur is from Northern Ireland