I don't own Hetalia okay? Warning for this chapter, some ethnic slurs used to portray anger (in reference to the Zimmerman Telegram that was kind of the final nail in the coffin on the US Staying out for historical context) But by as many entries as there have been so far, I would think you'd know that by now. Anyway, enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
September 13th 1918
(from the diary of Natalya Jones nee Arlovskaya)
This is just why I did not want big brother to go! I feared something like this!I don't even know if he's dead or not. He may, he may not. I know this. I didn't appreciate Matthew saying he's going home after that. Yes the man is right about that, but you don't need to say it! Besides, what would Vanya be coming home to. That man should know how lucky he is to have us so he shouldn't get too dismissive of how Vanya will probably be coming back. It may be he is worse off. At least all Matthew needs to get around is a cane. I appreciate Ernest sending us this news but I know how soldiers are, they won't send things like this unless they are certain something really bad is to happen. I want to skin the next kraut I see alive and put the same salt I use to pickle my cabbage on his raw flesh. They started this shit, and because they wouldn't stop being cowards with those U-boats and tempting those fucking beaners down south is why this country couldn't stay neutral. I am not an ignorant woman in world affairs you know. Sometimes I think I know more of the news that Fredka does.
I know I am supposed to stay soft and comforting for the children, but when I got the news, it all came out, the worries I had silenced with blind faith, thinking that Vanya had something that Matthew did not and he wouldn't fall to the same fate, but I knew that was not the case. He faced the same odds as almost any other soldier did. Although it is like Fredka told me to comfort me, and possibly himself, that the letter was written nearly a month ago and knowing how Vanya is, he's probably fought off any secondary injuries and illnesses and would be coming home any time and we'd get a letter from some official telling when to pick him up. And if something worse than what happened to Matthew did happen, Katyusha is living at his house and is trained in medical care for soldiers and had experience with Matthew's shell shock. I can only pray that is the truth. I mean I have enough to worry about with that flu spreading around. I don't want the children to pick it up if it is indeed worse than year's past. Especially not little Ivan and Anya. They're not even a year old. I don't know what I would do if someone in this household caught it and fell to an invisible bug. Even if that someone was Matthew. I have grown to kind of like him.
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