Hi-ya guys! This is a preview to my very first non-one-shot up here! It's actually part of the Hetalia kink-meme, but I think it deserves a longer setting than a one-shot. I've been given so much detail to work with, so I shall make this good. If I can.
Now mind you, I won't actually upload chapters if people don't tell me that they like it. I can find out how many people visit the page that this is on, but I don't know if you like it or not. So fave or comment/review or whatever's done here and then I'll put more chapters up, unless of course, I get a horrible case of writers block, and I have to resort to my other Hetalia long story that I have stockpiled, but I want to get well into before posting any of it anywhere.
Old Scars Don't Heal
Prologue
Whilst the two teens did like each other more than what was requited, their closeness was what they felt more of a necessity, rather than a simple want. Nations didn't want. They ran on instincts. And that instinct drove Matthew and Maria to uncomfortable closeness.
'I'm so sorry.' Matthew whispered, covering Maria's ears with his hands. He didn't want her to hear this. He thought that Alfred wasn't going to be home today. Wasn't he too busy fighting papa Francis in that stupid hundred-year war?
He winced as sharply as his twin would have in the next room as the sharp, blunt sound of the slap reached his ears.
Arthur was such a bitter, violent drunk.
His hands pressed against Maria's head at a nearly painful pressure, and she clutched at his wrists, trying to make him let go, but he wouldn't. He wouldn't let her hear Alfred's screams, pleads for mercy, even though she's probably heard worse, seen worse, at her own house.
He pressed his forehead against Maria's, trying to block out the sobs and stinging blows, but to no avail. Each blow that landed on Alfred seemed to land on him too, to Maria's eyes. The twins were linked through more than blood.
Bodies, minds and souls, they were as good as one.
Then Matthew screamed, tears splashing down his cheeks, but it was nothing compared to the inhuman shriek that seeped through the wall.
'Alfred, Alfred…' Matthew chanted as if it were a prayer. A prayer to keep his brother safe, and sane.
When Matthew stopped crying, he wordlessly stood and ran from the room, bursting into the next. Within moments, he was kneeling next to the broken body of his twin, lifting him easily.
Alfred was so skinny right now.
Biting his lip, Matthew deposited Alfred on his bed next door, grateful that Maria wasn't so squeamish. Alfred was still naked after all.
Matthew shed his shirt and lay next to Alfred, pressing their bodies together. If Alfred didn't stop shivering, he might just get even more ill than he is already, and the only true way for one nation to help another is to share everything, resources, land, treaties, bodies.
'I'm so sorry.' Matthew whispered, to Alfred and Maria. Oh he so desperately wanted to show Maria the stars tonight, she couldn't see them from the soviet house. It was so bright over there, and smoggy. Why did Arthur have to choose tonight to come home? Why not tomorrow? Alfred was already a little ill to begin with. This is just going to knock him around even more.
He is kind of shocked when Maria lies on the other side of Alfred. She doesn't have to. She just does it.
'I don't have a family in the same sense that you do.' She murmurs. 'Not since Ivan's royal line was murdered. I haven't done this before. It's quite an experience, isn't it?' and then she smiles, and Matthew forgets how much trouble he's causing Maria right now. She's happy doing this, and that's all that matters to him.
Woot!~ Prologue.
So, names are as follows (And I shall name everyone who is or has a chance of showing up);
England-Arthur Kirkland
America-Alfred F. Jones
Canada-Matthew Jones (Okay, so his real last name is actually 'Williams', but they're freaking TWINS, how could they have different last names?
Ukraine-Maria Braginski
Russia-Ivan (Vanya) Braginski (Vanya is the diminutive, or in other words, his 'nickname')
Belarus-Natalia Braginski
Switzerland-Basch Zwingli
Iceland-Emil Steilsson
Germany-Ludwig Beilschmidt
Prussia-Gilbert Beilschmidt
Japan-Kiku Honda
Greece-Hercules Karpusi
Turkey-Sadiq Adnan