I do not own Hetalia okay? I am working hard to wrap this up here by the 11th, Armistice day so you'll see a lot of more updates. Anyway, enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
November 11th 1918
(From the diary of Natalya Jones nee Arlovskaya)
Today was really was Ivan and Anya's first birthday. I am so glad they made it, what with the flu that is going around. I have talked with some of our neighbors and they did lose one of the children to it. The child was about 12 years old, so much older and had a higher immunity than the twins would have. I know soon after Nikolai was born we spent time over at Vanya's, well it's now Katyusha's, house until it was safe but no where is safe, it is everywhere. However I cannot live in fear. It would be the same as living in sorrow and I know that is not what Vanya wanted for us. Katyusha had given us his things that she was given and we have it kept in the drawing room in a sort of corner out of the way but still visible. Fredka was given his journal specifically and he has it by his bedside but he hasn't read it yet. Too nervous and I can't say I blame him. I thought of trying to read it myself, which depending on how Vanya wrote it, English or Cyrillic, I will have to for him anyway. I don't know if I could myself.
I have been trying to focus on the things that are good. Things that bring happiness. Things like the birthday today. Those two had grown so much and I am so proud of the brother that little Nikolai is being to them. I know the twins did not ask for hamburgers and hot dogs for their birthday dinner, they can hardly talk. Although I think they are slowly picking up on the Russian for uncle and calling Fredka "Dada" while they sound a lot alike, I have noticed slight pronunciation when they see Matvey or Fredka. I may be presuming too much, they are only a year old. They defiantly have Fredka's eyes though. So bright blue and hopeful. To be that innocent...
So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. The year on this is 1918 and there was the Spanish flu outbreak so it will be mentioned. Mind you I am focusing on that era, so any similarities to this current mess, is purely coincidental. (And another reason I urge you to read more on this era, it's quite interesting) So remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now,
otherrealmwriter
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Realm.