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 Matthew Williams)

Well it's been a very merry Christmas for me. After being threatened with having my neck slit by Natalya after I did the traditional thing of asking the family for permission to marry, Katy said yes and we will be married by the spring. I thought for a second I could just ask Al as he is her brother in law after all, and the last male relative but he insisted I ask her blood family. The one she knew since they were little. While Natalya does not hold ill will toward me, she is very protective of her sister and I know what Katy had gone through with men before me. We did have a lot of long talks and most of our dates and courtship was really just me going over to have tea. Honestly the only thing Al said about it was "Finally! I knew you were going over there for reasons other than your flashbacks or war injury acting up." Like some of it was legit that but they just took that when I headed over. I was afraid of what Natalya would do. She thought I had desecrated her virtue or something like that in her brother's house. She's very ummmmm the word Al used was traditional. He did tell me that she wouldn't stay over at his house overnight until she married him.

Al said he saw Vanya's ghost again the other day when he was setting out the kid's Christmas gifts but where he saw the ghost, there is the picture taken before he left so I don't know, he may have been tired. Either way I find it amusing he isn't afraid of the ghost of his brother in law when those stories had him hiding under the bed as a kid.

But I am glad the children liked the gifts I made for them. I hope someday I can have at least one of mine and Katy's own. Yes I know she's getting older but there's still some time for her. She was nervous about that at first, given the fact of our age difference but I really don't care. I just want her to be happy and taken care of. Sure it may not be like when I was younger or before the war and such but dammit, for what she did for me, I would do for her. I do have a decent job now too, so it's not like she's marrying a pauper. I had been saving a lot of my wages to set up housekeeping and I know she's gotten some fair pay from her work with the sick. I mean it's the least they can do for her is to pay her for putting herself in that kind of danger. If a flu can make Al that sick when I've seen some of the suff he's eaten on dares then she's bound to be in real danger being around it. But she says her passion is helping the sick and injured so I'll let her do that. But if and when we have our own family, she won't need to work. After all she's been through, she deserves that.

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