Take The Pieces One By One - Hetalia Drabbles
World I Wanted At My Feet
Genre: general, overall
Rating: PG-13
Characters: America, England
Warnings: ugh, tons of angst, sorry about that.
Disclaimer: yeah, don't own Everything He Ever or Hetalia
Notes for the series: This is not the meme you might think it is. There should be more than ten (well, barely) for starters, and most were not written strictly to the length of the song, although you can be assured that at least the skeleton of it was. Some of them clearly surpass that limit, and I would be sorry but I'm not. Basically I'm just using music to spark off a quick idea. If you follow the Hetalia community on Livejournal, you may have already seen this posted about a week or so ago. Broken into chapters for sheer arbitrariness' sake. Kthx.
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He should be happy, he thinks, mind as numb as the drenched skin the rain pours ceaselessly over. He got what he wanted, in the end, without resistance. He got what he wanted. His land is his. His people are his. Nothing left to stop him from becoming who he knows, one day, he's going to be.
But mud splatters navy knees, and rain soaks and darkens brilliant red to blood, and shoulders are shaking, and the rain is too heavy to tell, but the wretched involuntary hitchings of the other's breath tell him that he's crying. And that's not what he wanted, this is not right, he was supposed to hate him, to fight him, to make this easy by pushing away as hard as he was pushed, but of course nothing is ever easy. Did he think he could just walk away like that? Did he really think he could leave, and cause no one any pain?
The world is rain, and mud sucking at his boots, dripping empty fingers hanging uselessly at his sides, cold and grey and body hunched in on itself, shoulders slack with betrayal, back tense with the need to hide it away, to pretend it doesn't hurt as much as it does. And there's a void in his heart where he had always been, and as he forces himself to turn away, he hasn't decided yet whether it feels like birth, or like ending, or more than a little of both.
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