War or Love / Reich x Soviet

Chapter 17: Before Christmas

Reich had been really restless for days because of the dreams and the family he had invited for Christmas. A few days later America and Japanese Empire declared war on each other. The weeks passed and there were only three days until Christmas. Reich and Soviet are deeply preparing. However, they wanted to keep their relationship a secret if they didn't already know. So Soviet had to pretend to sleep in a different room and had to sneak to Reich if no one noticed him.

When Third Reich slept a little longer, Luxemburg came by personally to tell him the results of the previous day's tests and to examine Soviet. Reich was torn from sleep by Soviet. When he saw Luxemburg in front of him, he was a little confused. "I have to talk to you because there is something I don't understand.", Luxemburg said calmly. "What do you not understand?" "The child is growing faster than normal! Do you know anything that could lead to this?" "Nothing I know!"

"Really strange!" "Is it bad that the child is growing so fast?" "In this case not! It really has a lot of energy and your body is ready too. I would say that if it continues to grow like this, labor will start in five or six months." Reich could no longer listen. He was happy, but at the same time was afraid. Soviet Union saw how he was doing. "Thank you very much for the sharing, but I think we would like to know the further information after Christmas or Reich?"

He nodded and Luxemburg went to Soviet Union to see how his back was doing. After checking him he left again. Soviet went to bed with his friend and pulled him to him to calm him down. "Everything will be fine Reich!" "But what if not? Then what? Maybe that was a terrible decision." "Think about it carefully and tell me if it really was such a terrible decision not to kill the child!", he asked Reich.

He thought for a while, but the decision he had made was the right one. "I am still very scared Soviet!" "I know Reich! I am also afraid. I love you and I want you to be happy!", he said and kissed his forehead. A few minutes later, Soviet noticed that his friend had fallen asleep again. He carefully got out of bed, he had planned to take some work of Third Reich.

He slept for two hours and panicked because he was an hour late. After getting dressed, he ran out of the room and rumbled into someone, causing him to fall back, but the big man caught him. "Why so fast?" "I'm an hour behind!" "You aren't, I've already taken care of a lot of work on the list!", he informed Third Reich and helped him to his feet.

"Thanks for the help!" Soviet Union hugged him. "Soviet the children will see us.", he whispered to him. "They're gone for about four hours." "Why?" "They buy all sorts of things for Christmas and then go for a walk. So we have some time to ourselves. Maybe it will be easier for you to dance without an audience." "I told you before that I don't like dancing!" "Oh come on Reich! Just one dance!", he begged him.

He could no longer contradict his friend: "All right!" The two men went into the living room and Soviet switched on the radio. After the song was finished, a slower, quieter song came on. They danced and Reich began to like it more and more. He also stopped stumbling, although he concentrated more on Soviet than on his own steps. When the music was over, his dance partner asked: "Another one?" "Yes, please!"

They danced for a while, but after the fourth or fifth dance, Reich had no more strength, sat down on the sofa and snuggled with Soviet Union. They interlock their hands and feel the closeness to one another. Reich began to give him light kisses on the neck, then they looked amorous in the eyes and Soviet pulled him to kiss him passionately.

When the children came a few hours later, the radio was still on. But when Latvia looked for Reich and her father, she found the two of them lying in bed, snuggled close together. They looked really peaceful together. Only now did she look at the floor, where many items of clothing were lying around. "Who's there?", asked Soviet, who turned his head to his daughter. "It's just me dad!" "Are you back already?" "Yes!"