War or Love / Reich x Soviet

Chapter 12: At the lake

Reich was tired and wanted to lie down in the bed in the hospital room, but first he had to tell his son about Kira, what he would like to avoid. "Papa, you are fine!", the little boy called and hugged his father. "I have to tell you something...", but before he could tell him he was interrupted by him: "When will Kira come?" "She won't come back." "And why not?" "She is...", how could he tell his son. Then he answered with tears in his eyes: "Son, she is dead!" Germany then hugged his father tightly, then he leaned down and hugged him tightly, Soviet and his children also hugged them.

They hugged for a while, then one after the other let go. "Your father and I still have to organize something, please stay here." They quickly organize everything for the trip to Reich's house in the Alps and other things. Then they got the children and drove together to the damaged house of Soviet to take some more things with them, because they will probably have to wait some time for the house to be repaired. They drove to the airport, where Third Reich confessed that he was not a friend of flying in an airplane, but then Soviet Union calmed him down and they took off.

Everyone on the plane managed to sleep for about two hours. Then they had to get out, it was still the middle of the night and you could hardly see anything, but you could feel a difference between the two cities. They drove to Reich's house for about an hour, where he first showed them around and showed them the rooms. Immediately the children went to their room and saw two other Countryhumans lying there in one of the beds. When Germany woke them up, they greeted him warmly and said they had been waiting for them the whole time.

When the children were working out who should sleep where, Reich gave Soviet two rooms to choose from: Either he slept with Reich or in a room with a bed, where the mattress very likely made his back ache. After putting his things on a chair in the room, he lay down in the soft bed, although it wasn't quite as springy as his own bed, but that didn't bother him very much. After a few minutes, Reich came into his room and lay down on the left side of the bed. Reich quickly fell asleep, he was so happy to be home again.

The next day he was awakened by Soviet, who shook him awake. "Good morning Reich, are we going downstairs for breakfast?" Reich nodded in response to Soviet Union's question. Then the tall man went out of the room and the very sleepy Reich got his clothes. Then he went into the bathroom next door to his room. But when he changed, he noticed how his chest hurt a bit. After Reich had changed, he went downstairs for lunch. Only his two sons FRG and GDR were at the table. "Papa!", they shouted and came up to him to hug him. "I'm so happy to see you again!", he shouted, wrapping his arms around the children.

"Would you like breakfast?", came from Soviet, who put some things like bread, butter and milk on the table. "What would there be?" "Everyone can eat what they want. There is a free choice!" Then the other children came downstairs to their fathers and sat at the table. Reich, Soviet and the two little ones came along and ate something. But Reich's food was very untypical for him. "Dad why do you eat cheese on bread and drink milk with it?" "Sometimes I also need something different." "But you don't like to eat bread at all." "Maybe I like it for a change!", he protested and continued to eat.

The children continued to look at him in confusion, especially he confused the two of them, as he kept looking at Soviet Union and he kept looking at him. "Papa what's wrong? You look over at Soviet the whole time!" This made Third Reich somehow angry and he says irritably: "I don't do that!" "Dad, why are you angry?" He didn't even answer and continued to eat quickly so as not to have to answer. Soviet announced: "We'll leave in half an hour!" "Where?", asked Reich confused. "To the lake in the valley! But when I woke you for the first time, I asked you if it was okay and you said that you just needed some sleep and then you would be ready."

"I can't remember. Also go swimming in November? That's crazy!" "Oh come on Reich, I even asked the children and they were enthusiastic about my idea! If you want, you can of course stay here too!" "No, I'll come with you to watch, but not more!" "So get ready, we'll be leaving the house in half an hour!" With these words the tall man disappeared into his room while Reich went to his books and chose one to take with him. A little later he felt a little weak, luckily it disappeared after a few minutes.