Angst
1.

"It was either going to be me or you and I wanted it to be you."

He put the gun's barrel to his own temple and pulled the trigger through the screaming.

AU
2.
"You just need a prompt or something. Like...what if you won the lottery?"

"I wouldn't be here."

"Obviously. But what would you DO?"

"I... I'd…I'd s-start a gallery..."

"Where?"

"I u-used to think I wanted to return to Jelgava but... I think maybe America. Or Germany...I guess I'd like to travel w-without any real destination. Take photographs of all the interesting things I see. Fireflies in the French countryside d-during the summer... a cobblestone road just after a storm has let out..."

"Dandelion fields during a windstorm."

"The Daugava when it freezes in the winter. The cathedrals at dawn... S-so if you won...?"

"Wouldn't mean anything."

"Oh. I... forgot. Apologies. What if... you could do one thing, a-any one thing and be exempt f-from the consequences for j-just that one time?"

"I'd like to jump the White Cliffs."

"Why?"

"Because I'm afraid of heights."

First Time
3.

It was a startling thing to see a flush of red spread over Eduard's cheeks, because Estonia simply did not do something as juvenile and asinine as blushing. When Latvia asked him about it, he just looked away, blushing harder than ever.

"…don't tell me you're a…"

Now Estonia blushed because Latvia was laughing at him, and that was something Latvia simply could not do.

Fluff
4.
He found it odd that Eduard insisted on being so particular about everything, even to the point of making sure his socks were still neatly folded together before their forays into the world of carnality. Then again, that misplaced display of humanity was somehow reassuring and allowed Raivis to feel something warm and fond glowing in his chest when the morning came.

Genderbend
5.
There were tears on the floor tiles of the broom closet again, and she sighed at seeing them.

"You're being stupid. That's what it means to be a woman."

That didn't mean it wasn't a disgusting discovery the first time.

Historical
6.

It was harder to divide their minds than it was their bodies. Looking at how they couldn't even talk without some sort of heady miscommunication, Eduard wondered if he had merely imagined what they had called Vana-Liivimaa.

Horror
7.

It wasn't his face that changed.

Wild eyes, bared teeth, blue veins thrown into stark relief against bleached skin.

"I'm sor—"

Humor
8.

"And what about the money you owe me, Raivis?"
"I-I said I'd pay you back!"
"So you said. Forty years ago."

Hurt/Comfort
9.

He could breathe easy because the touch from these hands was straight-forward, blunt, and guileless, and not the unsettling feel of cold fingers that were supposed to be seductive but only felt intrusive.

"You're shivering—"

"So shut up and fix it."

Smut
10.

Eduard is hardly strong enough to truly shoulder all the troubles he insists on inviting, but Latvia adds his weight to Estonia's burdens if only to hear how the vowels in his name are so delightfully drawn out when screamed.