I do not own Hetalia okay? I am glad so many of you like this story. I don't have much else to say here so enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
November 11th 1917
(from the journal of Katyusha Braginsky)
Today was a very busy and joyous day. Natalya finally gave birth. And it was like I thought. Twins. A boy and a girl. It had taken Matvey longer than last time to get to me but I handled the whole birth myself. And Fredka's hand injury. Like with Nikolai, Natalya insisted Fredka be there every moment she was in labor. First was little the little baby girl and then the boy. They were named Ivan Fredrick Jones and Anya Yvonne Jones. As usual, Natalya insisted on Russian names for their first. I think, even if Fredka didn't like them, he knew better than to challenge her on that. I know why they chose those names. I do recall Fredka asking if our parents had an name picked out for a girl when Vanya was born and I did recall a name they had discussed was Anya. They miss him so much. We don't get a lot of letters simply because of the nature of his duty and the time it takes for mail to cross the Atlantic on a good day.
Matvey has really taken to Nikolai and made sure he was not in the way while Natalya gave birth. Goodness knows that is chaotic enough without a two and half year old running around. I know he's been trying to cope with how the war affected him, and it did badly, but if nothing else I like to think that maybe, just maybe Nikolai is giving him motivation to not fall into the traps that many in his shoes do. Not to mention that if he did, Natalya would let him know just what she felt on the matter. Well Fredka is arranging for a family portrait to send to Vanya hopefully that will get to him before Christmas. If not Christmas than Epiphany. He'd love it so much.
I do worry though that despite his constant promises he will make it back okay, that if he does, he may be worse off that Matvey is. I have only brought this up to Matvey. I figured that since he was on the battlefield himself, he would understand better. That and when it comes to Vanya, the idea of him dying is a more sensitive topic to Natalya and Fredka. He's Fredka's best friend in the world and almost like a big brother to him. Natalya would never leave Vanya's side back in Russia unless he made her. Even that took a lot of force. He had a role that Matvey is trying to fill in their family as I think he caught on to that dynamic himself but as much as he tries, it will never be the same. In the end Matvey said one can only have faith and pray that this comes to pass. As thankful as I am to the lord for the blessing of my new niece and nephew and for Matvey being alive at least, as I never expected to have such a good friendship with Fredka's brother, I do worry about Vanya. It's the cloud that rains on these rays of sunshine we do have.
So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. And the idea for the middle names came from my fic Klondike where Matthew and Katyusha named their children after their brothers they hadn't seen in a long time. So anyway, remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now,
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