From where they sat on the shore, their eyes could see nothing but the sea, all the way to the horizon. The sunlight shining off of it the water was beautiful, but Sadiq already knew that. He'd known that it would be before they'd decided to revisit Heracles's homeland. He'd known that everything he saw would either be new and gorgeous, old and captivating, or just straight depressing. He knew all of the food would be delicious, because at this point the brunette was the only one who ever cooked, and the Turkish man was rather used to the style of cuisine anyway.

No, he'd agreed that the trip would be a great idea because he wanted to watch the younger mans face light up as he told stories about the stores his mother would take him to before she died, before he had to move to America to live with his aunt and uncle. He wanted to compare the Greek to all of the other people walking the streets, to see if he could find a single person as beautiful as the boy he was holding.

The wind died down for a few minutes, and that was when he noticed that Heracles had fallen asleep, his mouth hanging open and his head falling to the side. With a quiet chuckle, he took one last look at the view stretching out for miles in front of him, before standing up slowly, loading the smaller boy into his arms, deciding it would be easiest to just carry him bridal style back to their hotel .


A/N: Each chapter will begin with the number of the prompt, prompts for each pairing are chosen by the last number in the prompts. So number 184 would use pairing number 4.

Here are the pairings as of now:

1: Turkey/Greece
2: Prussia/Germany
3: Japan/North Italy
4: France/England
5: Spain/Romano
6: Sweden/Denmark
7: America/Canada
8: Russia/China
9: Austria/Switzerland
0: Lithuania/Poland