I finally started writing my new story! This was requested by KatyMakenshi, hope you like it! I have to say I don't think its nearly as good as my first book but oh well. Also if anyone can think of a title I will love you forever! I spent hours just sitting there staring at the screen trying to think of a title... so for now its gonna be Untitled... Rated M for future chapters, so there's something to look forward to!^^

Latvia was curled up behind a thick bush just outside of Russia's estate. Russia had been in a particularly foul mood recently after Lithuania had left for America. Latvia's usual hiding place of the cupboard under the sink had been destroyed after Russia had gotten drunk and searched for the small nation to take out his anger on and bashed in half the cupboards in the kitchen searching for him. Latvia figured the safest place to be was outside, where there was so much land that Russia wouldn't be able to find him. He had been sitting in the shrubbery for several hours when he heard footsteps approaching and saw the shape of a person walking towards his hiding spot. His shaking got worse as he shrunk back to keep from being noticed. He yelped when a sharp stick dug into his palm, he then put his hand over his mouth to keep any more sound from passing.

"Latvia, it's me. Russia has drunk himself to sleep. It's safe to come in now." He jumped up as soon as he heard Estonia's voice and he ran over to hug his brother.

"T-thank you. It was getting c-cold…" They walked back to the house in silence, and walked into the house quietly as to avoid waking the, now unconscious, large nation lying on the couch in the living room. Once they were safely in their shared room they let out a sigh of relief, "D-do you think he'll w-wake up while w-were asleep?" worry obvious in his voice as he started to shake again.

"Don't worry, he drank so much I doubt he'll even remember what he was angry about" He was trying to reassure his little brother but was felling kind of wary himself.

"W-why was he angry?"

"Um… I think it had something to do with a broken glass…"

"I-I broke that… I t-thought I c-cleaned it up…" The small boy's shaking sped up significantly.

"Don't worry, he'll forget it, now let me see your hand, you hurt it, right?" Latvia held out his hand to let his brother inspect it.

"It's not that bad, let's just go clean it out and put a bandage on it. You always seem to be hurting yourself…" He guided his brother into the bathroom and ran lukewarm water over the small cut and wrapped a bandage around it. "Now let's go to bed."

They walked into the bedroom and crawled into bed, Latvia feigned sleep to keep from worrying his brother but finally the cold was too much for Latvia and he quietly slid out of bed and walked over to his brother, "It's cold… C-can I sleep with you t-tonight?" There was no response. "Are y-you awake?" still no response. He pulled the covers back to see that his brother was gone. He walked over to the door and opened it, looking down the hallway, he didn't see anything so he took a step out, still nothing. He walked down the hall and looked around the corner into the kitchen, the light was on but no one was there. "Estonia..? Are you there…?" he whispered, trying not to wake up Russia sleeping in the other room. He heard fabric rustling in the other room so he quickly ran back to his room.

When he got back, Estonia's bed was bare, there were no sheets, or blankets, or pillows. It was just a mattress on an iron bed frame, and the end table was empty. He was about to turn around and look out the door and down the hall again but he heard heavy footsteps coming down the hall. He quickly fell to the floor and crawled under the bed just in time as the door swung open.

"I know you're in here little Latvia. You've been a bad little dog, Da? Running away from your master." he walked over and stood next to the bed, Latvia could have reached out his hand and touched the larger nation's boot. "You're just too predictable." he flung the mattress up, leaving Latvia exposed.

"Estonia!" Latvia screamed, he curled up in a ball, escape wasn't looking very promising. Russia grabbed the small nation's ankle and jerked him out from under the bed frame. Latvia cried out as he was drug out of the room by his leg.

Russia drug him outside and put a collar around his neck with a lock, and tied it to a pipe on the side of the house by a chain. Tears were streaming down his face as he awkwardly crouched on the snowy ground, trying not to further injure his leg. "I don't want to do this little one, if you would just follow rules than this wouldn't need to happen." he kissed the small nation on the forehead before walking back into the house, leaving Latvia curled up against the side of the house, shivering and rubbing his hurt leg.

"Latvia?" It was Estonia, he was walking out of the forest behind the house, " what are you doing out he-" he paused when he saw the chain and collar. He walked over and wiped the tear of his younger brother's cheek.

"W-where were you…? What h-happened to your st-stuff?" he was frantically trying to grab onto his brother for comfort, "P-please don't leave me!" he was sobbing again as he tried to pull Estonia closer, burying his head in the older one's chest.

"I won't, just let me go for a moment, I'll be right back." Latvia reluctantly let go and watched his brother turn and walk into the house. A couple moments later he walked back out with Latvia's jacket, and a couple blankets. " Here" He handed Latvia the jacket and unfolded the blankets, carefully laying them over the small country. He slid his back down the wall so he was sitting next to his little brother. Latvia leaned his head against his brother's shoulder as he felt the warmth come back.

"T-thank you for not l-leaving me…" he mumbled as he slowly fell asleep…

Sorry it's such a short chapter! I wrote it in Psychology while I was supposed to be writing an essay about my personality... I figured the entire essay would be me telling happy little lies so I spent my time on something better! And now I'm on winter break so I should be adding new chapters about every couple days. I was getting irritated while writting Lithuania in the last story, there's just something I don't like about him, so I took him out of this one, sorry to the Lithuania fans out there! Hopefully the next chapter will be more interesting... Please comment and tell me what you think!^^