Decide (War or Love 2)

Chapter 5: The journey begins!

The next morning, GEAU went to her father, who had finally fallen asleep and lay down with him. "Reich?", he murmured in his sleep, snuggling into his daughter. "I'm not Mama!", she giggled. Her father slowly woke up and when he saw that it was his daughter and not Reich, he became sad again. "Papa, why are you sad?," asked GEAU Soviet Union. "It's just about your m-mother.", he said in a sad tone. His daughter then asked him: "Please tell me what's wrong with Mama." He only said: "I'll tell you and your siblings later what happened. I want to get some sleep first." She nodded to that and snuggled more into her father.

After a short time he fell asleep again, whereupon she fell asleep too. She eventually woke up as her father was crying again. She tried to calm him down, but he just couldn't calm down. After a few minutes, the tall Countryhuman got himself together and got up, grabbed his clothes, and wandered into the bathroom. Then GEAU went downstairs to her siblings, who were listening to the radio and listening to music, but no matter which German station they switched to, sad music was playing everywhere, which confused everyone even more. Eventually Soviet came down to his children and asked: "Children, please turn off the radio and sit down at the table. I have something important to tell you."

Russia turned off the radio and sat down at the table with his father and brothers and sisters. "Children, you must be wondering when your mother will be back, right?", Soviet Union asked. Everyone nodded and waited for an answer. Soviet replied: "Reich will not come back home." BRD jumped up and asked: "Why isn't he coming back and for how long?" The big Countryhuman, who is trying not to cry again since the kids must have known, replied: "R-Reich is never coming back because he... because he is... he is dead." "WHAT?!", everyone at the table yelled, confused or thinking they just misheard.

"You didn't hear me wrong, he's dead.", he said deeply sad. All the children came to him and hugged him. Everyone burst into tears together. "He didn't see the plane, got injured and fell out of the sky.", he managed to get out. Everyone was crying and trying to cheer each other up. At one point, Soviet Union got up to make food as he was going to leave the house afterwards had to take care of some things and had to go away for a day in the evening. During the meal everyone was quiet and most didn't eat a piece as they had lost all appetite. Soviet burst into tears again and everyone tried to calm down.

After the meal, which wasn't really a meal, Soviet left the house, Latvia was now responsible for that. The rest of the day consisted of being sad and desperate. In the evening Soviet came back to get his things because of going to Berlin and Moscow. Somehow GEAU began to doubt the story. During the night, for example, she asked herself a few questions like: How could Mama miss the plane? Mama is always something of an immortal, so why would a plane and a crash kill him? How do they know Mama died from the impact? How do you even know a plane injured him?

She didn't understand it and had more doubts about it, she asked her siblings the next morning too and they only reacted strangely. "How can you doubt Mama's death!", Ukraine said. "I don't doubt his death, I just doubt the story.", she said. She exclaimed: "Nevertheless you doubt his death!" "Not at all!" The two continued to argue for a while and slowly she also began to doubt Reich's death, while the others increasingly thought she was crazy. The children watched their father on television. No one had ever said that Third Reich and Soviet Union had a family, and Soviet found it harder than usual today to hide that from the people.

He said he would take over Reich's land because Reich wanted it that way, but he never said he was for or against it. Some people didn't believe him and most were prejudiced against Soviet Union, even though he promised the people of Reich not to introduce communism. Neither Third Reich nor Soviet told about their relationship or their family because of mistrust from their peoples. In the middle of the night he returned to his children and immediately threw himself into bed. Over the next few days his situation worsened as he started drinking vodka again and got drunk.

The children then always left him and locked their rooms out of fear, since most of them could still remember the night that led to Reich becoming pregnant for the first time. GEAU had more and more doubts as the days went by and was never satisfied with the answers she received, since she mostly only heard: "It's just the way it is!" But she wasn't satisfied with that and couldn't sleep peacefully with it either. After a few days, she searched she looked for the beautiful necklace, since Reich no longer needed it when he was dead and she liked to have a memory of him. She looked everywhere for the necklace, but it was nowhere to be found, even her father didn't know where the necklace was.

This was getting stranger and stranger for GEAU and she understood her family less and less. She really wanted to prove to everyone that her mother could still be alive and she believed in it more and more. GEAU also believed that if she continued to sit around at home, she would get nowhere. She had to seek help from other Countryhumans who were guaranteed to know if her mother might be alive and could help her find her. She tried everything, but one day she made a big decision. GEAU wrote:

Papa, I look for Mama. Dont be scared for me I wil find him and bring him home again. Ill take food, water and more with me so dont wori about me. Yur GEAU.

After writing that, she carefully placed the note in the living room, went into the kitchen, and packed food and water in her backpack. Then she went into the children's room and got some stuffed animals, something to draw and books. Then she waited until her father started sleeping off his intoxication again. She snuck back downstairs, got some maps and a compass and went outside. There was a little cold breeze from the east and she decided to fly to France or Britain as she was sure they could help her search. Shortly thereafter, she put her bag on so that it was not on her back but on her stomach, otherwise she couldn't fly. Already she spread her wings and rose into the air. She looked back one last time and was unsure about her decision, but then she flew on determinedly.