Yes! Updates! First one in like... forever! I swear, I've been so bad on updating this one, it's not funny. And don't get too excited cause this chapter's short... but it's important! I swear on the awesomeness that is Prussia! I hope you all like it and please review!

Interlude

A hundred years later…

"Push! Come on, you can do it! I know you can!" a blonde haired man assured his wife as she gasped and groaned from the hospital bed.

His wife had been pregnant with their first child for most of the year, a full nine months. It had been late the night before when she started to go through contractions, signifying the baby's arrival.

"Come on, love," he urged. "You can do it. There's enough strength in you."

"It's… harder… than it looks…" she gasped and the doctor readied himself for the arrival of the baby.

"I know you can do this," her husband assured her, rubbing circles on her dark skinned hand with his thumb. "Just breathe."

"Push," the doctor commanded. "I can see the head. You're almost finished."

The dark-skinned woman complied, letting a pained cry as the baby was finally delivered. Her husband knelt by her side, petting her hair as the doctor took the newborn aside for cleaning. He smiled at her, his blue eyes sparkling. This was the happiest day of their lives since their wedding.

The doctor turned back to them and handed the woman the baby, a smile on his face. "It's a boy."

"He looks just like you," the woman smiled, looking at her husband. "I bet he'll have that blasted cowlick too."

Before her husband could respond, the baby in her arms squirmed around with a little squeak. "He's quite the fussy little fella… I think he might have more of your personality."

"What should we name him, Alfonse?" the woman asked, looking down fondly at the babe in her arms.

Alfonse smiled down at the baby in her arms, putting an arm around his wife's shoulder as he looked into the baby's blue eyes. "I believe it's up to you, love. You have the right, after all."

The woman looked down at the baby cradled in her arms, touching the newborn's head softly as the babe began to drift off to sleep.

"His name will be Alfred," she said. "Alfred F. Jones."