I do not own Hetalia okay? I am coming closer to the end here so I hope you enjoy. Enough of this A/N, on with the fic!

December 25th 1918

(from the diary of Katyusha Braginsky)

I was never expecting this out of Matvey. Not to say I am not completely happy for it, but just him proposing like that. Of course I accepted. It turns out that Fredka and Natalya had suspicions on why he kept coming over and had offered their approval before he asked me to marry him. Also it seems that Natalya nearly slit his neck thinking that somehow he had gotten me pregnant and that is why he was asking to marry me. Nope, we even stayed in separate rooms all the times he did stay overnight. He's been nothing but a gentleman to me. But that is how Natalya is, she will assume the worst of everyone who is nice to me. To be fair though, my luck until now hasn't been that great.

I was just so happy to see the children enjoy their gifts. The twins looked so cute with their hats and mittens I knit them and Nikolai loved Matvey's gift. I did help with the painting as he wasn't good with the finer details. He got them carved well so it was easy to work with. But what really got me was seeing the children love Vanya's old plush toys. He is never completly gone as long as we remember him. I swear he would have approved of Matvey. I mean if he thought Fredka was a good enough man for Natalya, then he could not say a world against him. I may be biased as Natalya seemed to hold supscions on him, but my past luck with men is not the best itself. We're talking about holding the ceremony in the springtime.

Sadly though, as happy as I feel, it's slightly tainted because of the sheer fact that Vanya could not see it. It's frustrating too because the war ended about 2 months after he passed. If only that attack hadn't happened, he would be here with us today. But I do know he did not want us to dwell on the past but to look to the future and make our lives better. And I can see that things can only improve from here. Another good thing, apparently Matvey really liked my fruit cake. I had run out of sugar and used his maple syrup instead thinking it would work and I guess it did. I have yet to tell him that it was his. He'll find out soon enough. He said he'd move in with me but assured Natalya that he'd sleep in a separate bed until the wedding. Like Vanya, quite traditional. Just a little more agressive than he was on the matter with her.

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