Note: This was written almost a year ago on my proboards forum so sorry if it's a little messed up. This chapter and Chapter 1 were all I got to.

Austria x Almost everyone pairing which means there will be:

Austria x France
Austria x Spain
Austria x Germany
Austria x Turkey
Austria x China
Austria x Russia
Austria x Greece
Austria x Prussia
etc if I want to put more in.

If you like feel free to review :D I'm always open to criticism!

Prologue:

Everyone was gathered together in Austria's den. They were chatting openly, joking around and laughing, generally having a good time. Of course, when said everyone it was meant that only the people Roderich himself interacted with the most. Ludwig, of course was there, Feliciano -you can't have Ludwig come without him or else something might happen. Eliza was there like she normally was, Francis and Antonio were there enjoying the company, and accompanying Tony was Lovino, his adorable accomplice.

"I wonder what Roderich called us in for?" Tony questioned, popping a finger sandwich and three cherry tomatoes into his mouth before chewing and swallowing. He knew it must have been something important if the prissy nation was supplying food. That meant that they'd be there a while. Not that Antonio minded, he was just bummed that he couldn't spend this time to be alone with his Lovi~

"Oh! Maybe Mr. Austria's gonna have a baby!" The ditzy Northern Italian smiled a large excited grin.

"Nein, it's physically impossible. I'm surprised you don't know that." Ludwig shot back, drinking from a supplied glass of wine.

"Then what are we here for mon ami?" Francis looked at them confused. It had been almost 2 hours since he got there and he was starting to get a bit irritated. They all were.

"It's a very interesting occurrence, actually." A child spoke behind them. They all turned, the sound of the child baffling. Standing in the doorway in a horse riding outfit and chocolate brown hair was a violet eyed child. He definitely sounded German. He was adorable and it made the Spaniard, Frenchman, Italians -well, the northern one- and the Hungarian aww at him. The only one who seemed shocked at all was Ludwig.

"Mein Gott!" He stood up, his eyes wide with horror as he stared at the child. The boy looked up at him, frowning. "Roderich what in the name of gott happened to you!" He boomed. Everyone stopped then looked from the shocked German to the boy and started to pick out the similarities.

The violet eyes.
Chocolate Brown hair.
Beauty mark on his cheek.
Living in Austria's house...

"What? You mean to tell me that that's Roderich?" Francis hollered, pointing at the child.

"How do you know that's him Mi amigo?" Toni questioned, not believing it himself.

"I grew up with Roderich, I know what he looks like at this age." He replied, looking confused. "But the question is...what happened?" Roderich sighed and walked over, pulling a chair out. He was rather short for looking like he was 12 or 13. He had to practically jump up to get onto his piano stool.

"I don't know how it happened. Just...there we issues in my home, then the next thing I know is everything was chaotic, my world fell down around my feet, I was invaded and I passed out. When I came to I was this size and it's been inconvenient for me. Everything is too tall in this house and I need a chair to stand on to get my tea out of my cupboards. Hopefully though," He reached forward and took some of the tea that was prepared a finger sandwich. "My government will repair itself and I will get my land back soon." He nibbled on the sandwich and smiled, swinging his feet like a child.

"Aww! He's so cute!" Toni ran over and hugged him, unable to keep it in anymore. Everyone else broke out in a loud Aww as well.

"Noooo, don't hug me!" He whined, trying to push out of his arms. "This isn't right, I'm older than you and you're treating me like a baby!" He stopped struggling for a second, noting how cocooned he felt in the bigger man's arms. Hesitating he found himself clinging to the Spanish man and cuddled back into his embrace, embarrassed a little that he was enjoying a hug like this.

Of course, as a child, he was never hugged like this by his vati, and now that he was surrounded by people and had the body of a child, he was enjoying it. This was the first time in so long he was hugged like this. And thinking about being in the embrace of his ex-husband -the embrace he never got when he was actually married to him- being protected...

"Awww he's sleeping~ He's so cuuuute!" Toni sang. What sleeping? He felt drool trickle down his chin. Embarrased he pulled away and pushed the Spaniard back.

"Don't do thaaat~" Roderich whined, wiping at his chin. "This is important business we're dealing with and you suffocating me isn't going to help with it!" he puffed his cheeks out, crossing his arms, but the Spaniard just laughed lightly.

"Aww, you're so much cuter like this though. You fit so well into my arms~" suddenly a rough hand collided with the back of his head.

"Engañando, horrible, puñaladas por la espalda ... culo!" Lovino shouted his face red, a couple tears in his eyes. "You're not supposed protect him you jerk!" He turned and stomped out.

"B-But Lovino, where are you going?" He stood and chased after him. "Aww, mi amor come back!" Roderich sighed and rubbed his forehead.

"So why did you turn into this?" Ludwig questioned, taking a seat again. Roderich shrugged his shoulders, looking down at his lap as he grabbed another sandwich and nibbled at it.

"I don't know. I believe it was the instability of my economy, and when my government collapsed I was fair game to be picked at. I'm no longer as big as I used to be, and I'll have to make due with that. I don't know how we'll fix it though." He pushed himself off his piano stool and put is plate down. "Excuse me; I need to be excused for a bit please." He bowed his head.

"Roderich!" Ludwig stood and rushed over to him. Grabbing his arm he pulled the boy back, almost pulling him off of his feet. Roderich looked back at him not sure what was happening, or what Ludwig wanted. "If..." He trailed off a bit. "If you need some economic help, I will help you. If you need a home to stay in until you can bet back onto your feet, consider my home, your home." He offered. Smiling Roderich nodded and pulled his arm away from him.

"I'll consider your offer the day I go insane and think living with Gilbert is a good idea. Now excuse me, I'm going to be very busy for the next few weeks." he replied, itching his head.

"I can help you ja? What do you need work on?" Ludwig volunteered. He really wanted to help the Austrian. He didn't want his economy crisis to get so out of whack that he wouldn't survive. He didn't want Roderich to vanish like Rome.

"It's nothing too important." The child looked away blushing. "Just...I need to make everything shorter. By how tall I am, I need a stool to climb up on the toilet. We just need to lower it to the ground." He looked passed the German and smiled lightly but slightly depressed at everyone. "I hope you all enjoy the snacks. You can help yourself to anything you want, just try not to destroy my house and be sure to be out before 9. I like to have the house locked up after 9." He turned and headed off into the heart of his house, getting to work on making everything shorter so he wouldn't have to struggle to get up on anything. Of course, like usual, he'd left the others stunned, confused and most of all, curious.

How was he going to get out of this one?