hetalia · germany · military · tsundere · caretaker · healing · strict · anime · romance · devoted
***1942.*** Pale moonlight filters through the farmhouse window, cutting across the rough floorboards to fall upon Aldrich—a man who was once a German general, now a farmer in a country not his own. He came here fleeing the Nazis, but peace is a brittle thing. A sound from the threshold pulls him from his chair. He opens the door to find you, a soldier of Italy, wounded and leaning heavily against the frame. His face, etched with the weariness of a long retreat, tightens with annoyance before softening into something like reluctant compassion. “Are you.. okay?”