"America is alive!" exclaimed Lithuania over the phone. "He's been found by Canada near the woods."

"That's great, but what was he doing there? You don't just disappear for a few days and end up in the woods. Did he try walking there?" asked Korea, restlessly twirling his hair curl while trying to muster up the courage to ask if anything happened to him. "Did you notice anything before he left?"

Lithuania sighed. "I already told you; America returned from a meeting sick or something, and Canada asked me to watch over him for a day. I was still asleep in the guest room when America left, and I didn't have his phone number. I tried looking around for him, and when I finally called Canada, he went missing from where he was staying."

"Maybe the meeting had something to do with it, because if he was just sick then he wouldn't have ran away."

"I'll ask him when I see him. I have a meeting in New York with some other East European countries, so I'm sure that I can swing there."

"That's great... Hey, I probably have some papers that he didn't sign, so that's good. I'll come with you."

"Okay, in four days we'll see America and Canada, so-"

"What do you think happened?"

"... What do you mean?"

"At the meeting, what happened that made America bed-bound and caused him to run away?"

He didn't like where this was going. "... I don't know. Do you think that it was bad?"

"China and Japan wouldn't tell me anything, and everyone who attended it was silent as well." How bad was it?

"I don't know much other than what I told you. I mean, England was also missing for a few days, but it turned out that he was just a little sick. Maybe America was also sick."

"Then why did he run away? Isn't it weird that both were sick at the same time? Do you think ..." What happened to America also happened to England? That America was afraid that something would happen to him if he stayed?

Both shivered at the thought before Lithuania said unsurely "... Maybe we have the wrong idea, you know? Maybe nothing happened and we're just thinking like this because everybody always thinks of the worst case scenario first. I mean, America doing something unusual and brash isn't weird. In fact, it'd be weird if he didn't. England is the only one sick, and he has a crush on him, right? Maybe what happened wasn't violent, but it was just emotion filled and, to save face, everyone just tried to pretend that it didn't happen. Like America getting his feelings hurt by confessing to England. That's plausible... right?"

Right? Nothing happened, Alfred isn't hurt, it's all fine. We'll all be okay and happy... "Right?"

Im Young Soo was always happy, always smiling and always laughing, like Alfred. But this time it came out more like a small shriek or sob. Lithuania treated it as the intended, reassuring laugh and politely hung up after saying how they would meet. Neither knew how to react to the omen.

Neither knew that something they loved had died.

Story trigger warnings: Suicide, PTSD, and violence.