War or Love / Reich x Soviet

Chapter 10: Old stories

After a while, Reich woke up again. He felt a deep breath at the back of his head and turned his head to the side where he saw Soviet Union's face, but he was asleep. When he looked down at himself there were two big arms around him. Third Reich didn't know what best to do now, because somehow he liked it, on the other hand he was embarrassed. He decided to enjoy the situation as he didn't notice anyone else in the room.

After a short time Soviet began to mumble something, but Third Reich understood nothing. After enjoying for a while, the bigger one woke up and Reich pretended to have just woken up from Soviet. A long yawn came from Soviet Union before he asked Third Reich: "How are you?" "Much better. Thank you for saving me!" "No problem!" "How are the children?" "Everyone is fine. Germany and Belarus caught a bit of cold, but nothing bad."

Shortly afterwards, something wet nudged Third Reich. "Kira, stop that, you rascal, I know that you want to lick me!" And he was right, as soon as he had said that, he licked it over his face. "Papa!", shouted someone who ran to Reich and hugged him when Kira was finished. "Son, how are you?" "I'm fine. Just thanks to you!" Two more came up to them and stopped not far from the three. "Reich, we are very sorry that we called you a villain on the first day." "Forgive and forget!", he replied, waving to Russia and Ukraine.

Third Reich gave them a hug and whispered to them: "You are not wrong!" After whispering this to them, he let go of them. Soviet Union who was still behind him, stood up and informed Reich: "I'll get you some clothes." "Thank you very much!" Everything was still tingling in Soviet, as it was two hours ago when Reich was sitting on his lap. He went up the stairs and got some old clothes from his children from the guest room. When he came downstairs , most of the children were sitting at the dining table.

Soviet Union went to Reich, gave him the clothes and picked him up. "What do you do? I can walk halfway normally again." "Don't complain, it's easier, faster and more painless." Soviet Union was right and Third Reich thanked him: "Thank you Soviet!" "You're welcome!" He was already putting Reich down on the bathroom floor and leaving him alone so that he would not disturb him while he was getting dressed. After a short while the door opened and Third Reich came out of the bathroom.

"Ready for lunch?", asked Soviet Union. "What's there going to be for dinner?" "Broccoli soup!" "Sounds good!" So they went to the table and sat down. Everyone liked the food and they told each other a lot of funny stories. But after eating and relaxing on the sofa, Reich still had two problems with his wings. He wanted to get rid of the short cut feathers and he had to clean his feathers. So he pressed his left wing against the sofa with one arm and grabbed the first feather.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Third Reich turned in the direction where it came from and replied: "What do you know about wings?" "Not as much as you, but I know that it will be very painful." He then looked at his wing again and thought. Soviet Union was right and Reich only looked for the loose feathers. "Why have I never heard of your wings?" "I was told that I have to hide them and not show them to anyone but my family."

"I see!" After Reich had removed the loose feathers, he asked Soviet: "Soviet, could you please spend an hour with the children somewhere else." "Why that?" "I have to clean my feathers and that's a bit gross." "I can help you with that too, it's not too gross for me. I used to have to clean all the feathers of Kazakhstan, maybe I can help you too." "If you really want to?" So Soviet Union sat down to the right of Reich and held out his hand. Reich spat into Soviet hand and he began to carefully spread the spit on Reich's feathers. After Reich watched him to find out if he really didn't mind and that he was doing it right, he took care of the other wing.

After about half an hour they were done. The rest of the day consisted of various games, from board games to card games. Third Reich had already been wide awake in bed for two hours and couldn't sleep and he was thinking about what to do to end the war and many other things. Unfortunately, he got a stupid idea. Soviet lay awake in bed and watched Reich, who had now made up his mind. Reich slid down, got out of bed, and checked again at everyone who was in bed, especially his son. Reich's face tightened, as if trying to suppress something. Now Soviet Union was even more worried about him.