Chapter 4: A Mystery

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The four of them stayed longer with them and kept coming to visit. About two months passed and it was now clear to see that Third Reich was pregnant. That day Soviet had to go to the doctor, while Reich had to prepare to travel to Berlin the next day, as he still had something important to discuss there. After such a long time, he finally wanted to fly again, even though Soviets had advised him against it. Reich was getting pretty good at flying again, but he definitely needed a little more practice. Today GEAU was a night owl again because she spent the whole night trying to understand how to read.

She was awakened by a pressure on her forehead. She opened her eyes sleepily and as soon as she saw her mother she started to smile. "Good morning little angel!", Reich greeted his daughter. "Good morning Mama.", she murmured. He then asked: "Do you want to get up and have some breakfast?" "No, I'm too tired.", GEAU mumbled. Reich nodded and was about to leave the room, but his daughter stopped him: "Mama, can't you lie down with me?" Then he came back to her, she slipped aside and he lay down with her. Shortly afterwards he fell asleep his little girl with him. When she woke up she was snuggled close to her mother.

Already she snuggled up even more to Reich, who was woken up by it. Tenderly he stroked his daughter's back, who enjoyed it very much. At some point they heard the front door open and someone coming up the stairs. Then you could hear the person being in another room. Already Third Reich and his daughter saw a huge shadow and saw the figure approaching. He put his hands around GEAU and Reich and asked them: "Did I wake you up?" "No, darling, you didn't wake us up.", Reich made it clear to him and kissed his cheek. "Do you really have to go to Berlin?", Soviet asked his husband again.

"Yeah, because one of us has to take care of our country, right?", Reich asked cheekily, since he often spent more time taking care of his people than Soviets did. "Why can't we finally unite our countries?", complained the tall Countryhuman. Reich replied: "You know that something like this is very difficult and not one of our children is able to lead an entire country that is also the largest country in the world. You know the rules, as soon as at least two different countries become a new one, the child has to take care of the country and the parents have to retire with the rest of the children and our children are either too small or want to enjoy life first before they so have a lot of responsibility."

"Stupid rules!", Soviet Union muttered. "Unfortunately, that's a rule we need to discuss with all Countryhumans.", Reich opined, "But first we should get up and eat something." Soviet nodded and let his two family members get up. After a few hours, GEAU wanted to draw something again, so she went to her father's office for empty papers, but she saw a note from today in one of the drawers. She didn't understand much, except that it said something about cancer. She wanted later asked her parents about it because she didn't understand it. Later at dinner, she asked, "What does diagonse mean?" "You mean diagnose?", asked BRD.

To which she replied: "Yes, what does that mean?" "This is something like find and find out something", he tried to explain. Shortly after, she asked: "And what is cancer?" Soviet almost choked before replying: "It's an incurable disease." She nodded and they continued to eat, but she still couldn't get the note out of her head. During the night, GEAU managed to sleep with her parents again. GEAU woke up early again and got busy with picture books again. Her parents got up a little earlier than usual today so that Reich could clean his wings. Afterwards GEAU also cleaned her wings and waited for the food.

After the meal, Third Reich said goodbye before he took off. He will come back either in the evening or in the morning. After a few hours, Soviet Union and the children heard Reich's speech on the radio. He didn't talk very much and if it were small things that should change, which Soviet already knew and most children didn't understand. A few hours later the phone rang and Belarus called her father down. Soviet looked more and more shocked during the phone call, after which he ran out of the house as fast as he could, leaving the children questioning. Everyone was worried about what was going on and puzzling around, but no one had an answer. Russia, Ukraine and Germany provided the food as they were the oldest and most experienced of the eight children.

It was a while before they heard someone knock on the door. Kazakhstan opened the door and saw Latvia hugging him and informing him: "Dad asked me to take care of you guys." "Do you know what's going on with Papa?", Kazakhstan asked her. His big sister replied: "Unfortunately not little brother." At dinner, everyone said their theories. Everyone went to bed early, but in the middle of the night the front door opened. Luckily everyone was still awake and ran down the stairs to their father who was sitting on his knees with his hands over his eyes crying. They quickly went to their father and hugged him from all sides while he continued to cry.

After a few minutes, Soviet was able to get up and shut the door behind him before slowly trudging upstairs, followed by his children, who were still very confused. Soviet immediately climbed into bed, curled up and clung to the other side of the bed as he continued to cry. The children went back to their room as they wanted their father to calm down first as he couldn't get a word out. All night long the big Countryhuman cried and it seemed like he could never stop. It took a long time for the children to fall asleep, because their father kept waking them up.

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