The Longing of the Heart

by otherrealmwriter

Set in the early 1900s, Alfred F Jones is a coworker of Ivan Braginsky in a firm in the New York City area who has just married his little sister Natalya. But how deep is their love and who does everyone really love? AmeBel and slight unrequited RusAme Told as a series of journal entries over the years of 1914-1919

67. Alfred's Journal 18

I do not own Hetalia okay? I am hoping to finish this story here soon, so be ready for more updates. Anyway, enough of this A/N, on with the fic!

July 31st 1918

(from the diary of Alfred F. Jones)

Today Nattie and I took the kids to the beach to get out of the heat. The twins are 9 months old and crawling around all over the place, well Ivan is. Anya follows him a lot and Nikolai keeps following them trying to keep them from climbing up the stairs. Tells me that he is being a good big brother and keeping his younger siblings safe. Good kid. I have had to run after him and keep a good eye on him. He loves the beach so and is even swimming a little bit. It's more of a doggy paddle but it is something. He can't swim very deep and he wanted to go further. I couldn't let him do that on his own just quite yet so I told him to grab on while I swam out a ways until I could tell that Nattie thought it was too far. I can sense when she is going to scream. We heard a "Get back here you two!" so I sighed and turned around. Nicky was not very happy. Had to explain it was because his mommy is worried about him she doesn't want us going out too far. With this Nicky sighed and just looked on the beach for shells. He found a few and even found a horseshoe crab shell. "Can I send this to Uncle Dyadya Vanya?" He's taken to calling his uncle Ivan Vanya so he wouldn't mix it up with his little brother who was named for him. I agreed and when we get home, he's going to 'write a letter'and send some of the shells he found as a gift.

Reminds me, I should write too. Haven't in awhile and I am sure Vanya is dying to hear from me. It must be hell out there and I want him to remember how much we care and want him back home. God I can't wait till this war is over. I still hold true to my belief that he'll be back here in the States by Christmas.

So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. Get ready for some bittersweet parts for a while. This is set in World War 1 era after all. If you want to learn more about the era, I suggest The Great War with Indy Niedell on Youtube as that is a very informative channel and I use it a lot for references. And All Quiet on the Western Front is what I draw a lot of from for personal perspective. Anyway, remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now,

otherrealmwriter

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