War or Love / Reich x Soviet

Chapter 6: Stories and Vodka

Soviet brought him some fresh clothes and put them on the floor in front of the bathtub, after that he left the bathroom. After a while, when Reich was finished, he called for Soviet Union, who carried him to the sofa. Reich felt Soviet lift his injured foot a little and looked at him again, confused. "I have to change the bandage.", he replied to the reaction. After a while the bandage was gone and Reich could see the gunshot wound well. In his opinion it didn't look as bad as he thought before, but he felt a little bit sick again, so he had to look away. The other association was also changed, no one spoke a word for a while until the children came. Reich sat up and the children sat next to him. Ukraine went to the TV and turned it on. A long time passed and not a word was said before Soviet told the children to go to their room. He then sat down next to Reich with a vodka bottle. Soviet Union took a deep breath and broke the silence: "I told you, you can't leave without someone noticing. It was the same with my wife." "Why your wife and where is she anyway?"

So Soviet began to talk and while he was talking, he drank his vodka: "I met her about 27 years ago, we were best friends immediately, after a while we were together and then it took a while until we got married. We loved each other very much and had children and adopted others. A big happy family, but shortly after Belarus was adopted, she often sneaked away at night, strangely enough, only my children noticed. One day I stopped her when she was about to leave and asked what was going on. She said she had found someone else she loved more than me and I let her go." He cried a bit and took another long sip of vodka. A few moments passed, then suddenly Soviet took Reich by the hip and pulled him towards him. "Don't do that!" But when he looked Soviet in the eye, he realized why he was acting so strangely. "Soviet?" Reich tried to get up and used the self made walking sticks to help. He limped away quickly, hoping Soviet weren't up to anything stupid. But when he was about to go to the stairs, Soviet stumbled in his way. He looked at Third Reich with a strange look, so that Reich felt very unsafe and limped back a few steps, but Soviet Union was getting closer and closer to him.

Third Reich went back further and further until he hit the door. Soviet's strange look made Reich shudder. Reich tried to get away quickly, but Soviet Union pushed him against the door. Third Reich tried to escape from him, but he just couldn't, Soviet was just too strong. "Let go of me!" "Why should I?", asked the drunken Countryhuman, "I love you so much." "You're drunk and now let go of me!" "No way!" Soviet came with his face closer to Reich's face, but he turned his head away from him. Now it's enough for him, he growled at Soviet and showed him his sharp teeth to scare him away, but he didn't care. Soviet Union kissed him lightly on his cheek. It was totally enough for Reich and he tried to bite him, but he missed Soviet and he kissed Reich on the lips.

Reich turned his head to the side again, it was just terrible for him. Now Soviet distributed a few light kisses on Reich's neck and there was nothing he could do about it. It got even worse for Reich as Soviet somehow managed to pull his shirt off. But then Reich saw little Belarus running up to her father and tugging at his sweater. He didn't react to her and so she pulled more and more on his sweater. Now it was enough for her and she hit him in the stomach and Soviet Union stopped. She backed away and didn't know what to do next. Reich didn't know what the unpredictable Countryhuman would do either. Soviet turned to Belarus and let go of Third Reich, who went to the ground. "Papa?", she asked anxiously and went back further. Soviet came closer and closer to his daughter and looked very threatening because he was about three times bigger than she, and he also had the vodka bottle in his right hand, which he now has lifted up like a racket.

Reich knew immediately what the drunken was up to, got up a little with the help of the doorknob, pushed himself away from the door and rushed towards Belarus, who just stood there trembling and didn't move. Third Reich caught her in flight and took her in its wings and held her close when they didn't land very gently. He opened his wings and let go of Belarus, who got up and wanted to help Reich get up, but he was too heavy for her and so the other children from Soviet came to help. As fast as they could they climbed the stairs and locked the door with a chest of drawers. Reich sat on the floor and kept sliding back until the children came to him and looked worried and fearful into his eyes, because he was the only adult and should have a good idea that he didn't have. "What now?", asked Ukraine, very frightened. "I don't know." They could already hear Soviet coming up the stairs. "We have to hide in one of the rooms!"

They were already helping Reich up and disappearing into one of the rooms on their left side. The room was full of old stuff and boxes, full of more old stuff. "Here's the key!", Kazakhstan called to them after rummaging around in a drawer. "Bring it to me!", Ukraine demanded. She already got her brother's key. Now they heard a loud noise from the hallway and they closed the door, locked it and put everything possible in front of the door. They sat snuggled close together in a corner of the room. Reich stroked the trembling Belarus soothingly over the shoulder to calm her down. Heavy steps came closer, to the room door and Reich's heart raced with fear. Creaking and cracking noises came from the locked door and after a loud noise it suddenly opened. Soviet pushed everything disruptive out of the way in order to get to them. Reich just wanted to flee, but he couldn't move because of his fear.

Soviet was almost at their feet and the children fled. They all passed their father, but Third Reich was not as lucky as they and was caught by Soviet. Soviet Union grabbed him and put him on the old bed. The children had no idea what to do, then their father came up to them and shooed them out of the room before they saw the broken lock and the door was closed again. They pressed and pressed but couldn't open it. "Let's call Estonia, she can definitely help us to get Reich out of there!" Latvia suggested to her siblings. Everyone ran to the phone and called her big sister. "Hello Estonia here, what can I do for you?" "Big sister, we need your help!" "What happened?" "Reich is with us. Papa got drunk and locked himself in the guest room with Reich. We need your help!" "Alright, I'll come as fast as I can!"

They hung up and waited some minutes for her to come. "Nice to see you again!" "How the hell did Reich come to you?" "Long story, but not important for now." They talked until Russia had an idea: "I opened the window a bit for us to escape." "Let's try!", Latvia decided. "But you will wait for us in front of the door!" Estonia went into the kitchen and got a frying pan, which she gave to Latvia. Immediately they went outside and formed a robber ladder. "That's even worse than I thought!", Latvia called out to her sister. "Can you reach the window?" "Yes, but you will be shocked by what I see here!" She opened the window wider and stood up. You could now hear the moans and the painful screams of Reich even more clearly. Suddenly Estonia heard a loud pan noise.

Latvia hit the frying pan on the head of her distracted father, who then fell unconscious on Third Reich. Reich fell back relieved and Latvia threw him his clothes, which he put on again immediately, then Latvia quickly put on his father's clothes, which were strewn all over the bed just like Reich's clothes. Latvia threw open the door and called for her siblings before turning to Reich who couldn't get Soviet off. "How are you?" "What does that look like!", he replied in a tone with which she realized he was in some pain. The children came into the room and gathered around their father to pick him up, only Latvia stayed with Third Reich, who was still trying to calm down. "Shall I help you?" "Yes, please." So Latvia went closer to him, he straightened up a little and she put his arm over her shoulders. She helped him get up and the two of them walked carefully, step by step, out of the room. Latvia noticed how painful everything was for him and thought for a moment before suggesting: "Maybe you can sleep with me and my siblings for tonight." "If its okey for you."

So they only walked a few rooms before the others returned, with Reich's shirt. "Do you mind if Reich spends the night with us?" Nobody said anything against it. "Thank you!", Reich said, still with that tone. Everyone went into the room and prepared to go to bed while Latvia accompanied him to one of the beds. He quickly put the shirt back on. He lay down on the bed, which wasn't as soft as Soviet's bed and pulled the cover up. He felt someone joining him, when he looked it was little Belarus and her siblings came to them and lay down next to them. Then everyone fell asleep peacefully.