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

89. Matthew's Journal 7

I do not own Hetalia okay? I don't have much more to say here so enough of this A/N, on with the fic!

November 15th 1918

(from the diary of Matthew Williams)

Al was brought home looking like death warmed 3 times over. And I had seen it before. Back in Europe. I got concerned how he causually mentioned that people at work caught that flu that is going around but now he's looking like a lot of the men I had seen in the hospital because of illness, not injury. Heck I may have had it myself for a little bit before coming back because I do remember a few days being fluish. Like they would have told me anyway. I had brought Katy over as they had trained her for this if the flu does get out of hand and she did say indeed it was Spanish flu. I asked for the truth of her away from Natalya as that woman is wild when she is worried. According to her, while not as bad as what is often reported in the papers, he still has it and from what her bosses say, this 'second wave' as they called it is more virulent than the first one. All we could really do is just make sure that Al got plenty of rest and fluids and to help try and keep his fever low. I went and got a bottle of asprin as that is a good fever reducer and gave that to Natalya to give to him.

What worries me is did I bring it home? I was sent to a hospital to interview a doctor about what was going on as because the guy he normaly asked to do such stories was, you guessed it, sick with the flu. I mean when I had that flu before my discharge I thought it was the normal one, and I guess it was or that feeling of being sicker than I was when I normally was not because of the injury playing on it but because it was this horrible one and I had an immunity? I'm not a doctor and Katy is only a nurse. But I have a good feeling that Al will pull through he is strong after all. But that doctor I talked to said that is the group that died more often than others... God I would hate to see Natalya if the worst does happen. But as long as we treat this as it is, then Al will get over this. He has to.

Although there goes my plans to ask Katy to dinner this weekend. Seems like it would be rather inappropriate right now for us to leave Natalya burdened with a sick husband and 3 kids.

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otherrealmwriter

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