First of all, all credit goes to Merrine for giving me the idea of this. The first part (marked in _this_) will be the original story 'I love you' by Merrine. After that, it's all me. I hope you don't think of this as a write-off, I myself think of it as an 'alternate ending'.
PS: I'll also be changing Australia's name from Keith to Jett.
_Jett stepped forward again placing his hand on her cheek looking down at her eyes, he smiled closing his own feeling the softness of her skin. She was so harsh to him but he knew she was a sweet girl at heart and she was lonely.
He gasped feeling the blade slice across his cheek and stepped back looking at Natalia, "Don't touch me rat!"
"I'm sorry Natalia."
"I don't want to hear those words from you!" She hissed at him, "Words of a dirty street rat, I have every right in my mind to slice you in twain.'
"I deserve that."
"What are you a masochist?" She asked sneering slashing the blade across his face.
"Please stop calling me that, I hate pain!" He cried falling back into a corner looking up at her, she was truly amazing, strong hearted and beautiful.
"Then why do you keep picking fights with me," she asked bending down slowly drawing the knife down his chest smiling at his tears as they fell onto the blade, "it's almost like you want it." she said whispering into his ear.
"N-Natalia..." he coughed clutching his chest in pain, "I love you...why do you hate me so much?"
"What a stupid question," she replied moving his hands away delving the knife deeper and deeper into his chest.
Jett gasped coughing up blood, he grabbed up pulling Natalia down, and she glared at him, swishing another knife at him. "Don't touch me!"_
"You-you may not realize it, but you're doing something really stupid." Jett spluttered, and Natalia raised an eyebrow at his statement. "Arthur (England) and Kaelin (New Zealand) will be furious about this, and ol' Ivan (Russia) won't be too happy either, and I'm pretty sure you of all people don't want to make Ivan unhappy."
She stopped upon hearing his name, and then stared into nothing, contemplating on what had just been said, much to the pain of the man she had been stabbing. After finally realizing what she had done, a look of shock reached across her face. She dropped the knife in her hand and let go of the one in Jett's chest. "Oh god, what am I doing? Ivan will never forgive me if I did something like this!" She got down to her knees and started fumbling around, trying to figure out what to do. She then proceeded to remove the knife from his chest, which caused him to scream out in pain.
"Aaaaaaaaaggggghhh! That hurts you know!" Natalia then immediately stopped what she was doing and clasped her hands over her mouth.
"I'm-I'm sorry! I just don't know what to do!"
"Try calling an ambulance, see if- see if that helps." He said jokingly.
"Right, I'll go find a phone. Please don't die, Ivan and the others would never forgive me."
About a minute or so later, Belarus (Natalia) came back with America (Alfred). "Dude, Natalia told me what happened and we called an ambulance. Are you okay man?" He asked.
Jett Smiled. "Who, me? Nah I'm fine, just got stabbed in the chest, no big deal."
Alfred smiled back. "Nice to see your sense of humour is still intact."
"Come on, that's one of the things that will never leave me, you of all people should know that mate. So, you gonna help me get up or what?"
"Oh no, dude. You're staying right there until the ambulance arrives, but then again you don't have much of a choice."
"Fine, I'll wait. But if I die while we wait, I blame it on you." Jett joked. As the minutes went by waiting for the ambulance, others caught whiff of the trouble happening in the conference room. Of those people included Canada, Vietnam, Germany and Italy, all of them either waiting outside of the room or inside asking others what happened. A few painful minutes later the ambulance arrived, and Jett was whisked away, with Natalia and Alfred following suit.
At the Hospital…
Ivan and Arthur were standing outside Jett's hospital room, discussing about what happened earlier. Arthur was very angry about the situation, and Ivan was doing everything he could to calm him down and try and work out a 'peaceful' solution. "Look, I know she was just being herself, but being 'herself' nearly killed Jett! You're just lucky I didn't bring anybody else into this; otherwise this conversation might have been almost non-existent." Arthur said.
"I understand your pain, and believe me I didn't expect this, not even from Natalia." Ivan replied. "After hearing about what happened, I was just shocked. Something like this should not go unpunished, and I have already come up with an ample punishment, at least for someone like Natalia anyway."
"And what might that just be, out of curiosity?" Ivan walked up to him and whispered to him in his ear. "And you really think it'll work?"
"It might, it might not. Think about it; if nothing happens, so be it. But if it does actually work out, I think it could benefit all of us." They both peered into the room where Jett was to see Kaelin sitting next to his bed, head hung down and a look of sadness across her face.
"Are you even sure that Natalia will agree to this? I mean, she doesn't really care that much about anyone else but you."
"I have a good feeling that she will say yes, her willingness to make me happy and be with me is one of her few weaknesses. I don't really like the idea of exploiting this, but her attitude towards others is what made this happen in the first place. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go have a chat with Natalia." And with that, he walked away. Arthur then turned to join Kaelin just as Jett started to wake up.
"Well, nice to see you're awake. How're you feeling?" Arthur asked as he entered the room.
"Pretty crap, but then again I did get stabbed. Heya, Kaelin." Jett Replied cheerily. She smiled and gave him a hug. "Careful on the stitches sis, I don't want my chest bursting and opening up." She let go of him and blushed. "How long was I out?"
"You were only out for a few hours while they did the surgery. We were completely shocked when Alfred called us. What were you thinking, doing something like that? Everybody knows that Natalia only really cares about Ivan."
"Look, I knew that. I just wanted her to know how I felt about her, regardless of what she thought."
Arthur sighed. "Alright, I can understand that; just don't get stabbed again okay? It was enough of a shock that you got stabbed in the first place.
"No promises mate, but I'll try." Jett joked. They all smiled and laughed a little. "Anyway, how long till I can get out of here? It feels like my legs have detached from my body."
Kaelin stood up. "I'll go and ask the doctor, be back in a minute." She said as she walked out. Arthur sat down next to Jett, stealing Kaelin's seat.
"So, how'd Ivan react?" Jett asked. "Come on; tell me, what did he do when he found out?"
"Well first off, Ivan found Natalia and had a stern chat about what she had done, and how he was rather disappointed in her. He then went to me and had a chat about what her punishment should be." Arthur answered.
"And what did you decide her punishment should be, out of curiosity?"
"That you'll find out soon enough, and besides, don't you remember the old saying, curiosity killed the cat? I don't know about you; but I don't we need you dying right now, would you agree?" They both laughed. After a half a minute of silence, kaelin came back with a doctor.
"Ah, Mr Kirkland, good to see you're finally awake. I trust you're feeling better?" The doctor asked.
"Well, I'm, feeling as well as I can be considering the stab to the chest." Jett joked.
The doctor smirked. "Well, I've always known you were a joker, considering I have to keep seeing you every fortnight or so to check-up on your nose. You're a very lucky man. The knife didn't puncture any of your organs, but it did get dangerously close to your heart, another centimetre and the knife would've gone straight into it."
"Wow, I didn't know it was that serious. So, how long till I can get outta here doc? I'm itching to go do some surfing with Leilani (Hawaii) and Alfred." Jett said, quickly changing subject.
The doctor laughed. "Unfortunately surfing will have to wait for a while. You'll have to stay here for a day or two while the stitches let your flesh heal back together. Once you get out, you won't be able to do any strenuous activities for about two weeks."
"Two weeks? Well, that sucks. Guess I can't really do anything about it, so I'll just stay here. Just make sure the TV here has some decent channels, or I'm outta here."
Everybody laughed. "Well, I'll do my best. Now if that's all, I have some other patients to attend to." And with that, the doctor walked away.
"Well I gotta go," Kaelin said standing up. "Don't worry about your house; I'll look after it while you're here."
"Thanks sis, just make sure to feed the koala, he doesn't like it when he's not fed." Jett said. She smiled as she left. "Well I don't know about you, but I think these next few days are going to be boring as hell."
Over the course of the next few days, Jett was visited by quite a few people, bringing him a mix of gifts, get well cards and flowers. Alfred brought him half a season of Superman comics, of which Jett read through in less than 3 hours ,being as bored as he was. Feliciano (Italy) and Ludwig (Germany) brought him some homemade spaghetti and meatballs, which all three of them enjoyed. Matthew (Canada), Kiku (Japan), Peter (Sealand), Antonio (Spain), Irunya (Ukraine) and Carlos (Cuba) sent a post card from the Caribbean saying how much they missed him and how much they wanted him to come with them, as they always loved an aussie barbeque. Among these cards and gifts, Francis (France) sent a rose, to which Jett immediately threw in the bin. After about 3 days, Jett finally got the all clear to go home. As he was heading out of his room, he heard Natalia and Ivan having a conversation in the hallway.
"But Ivan, do I have to? You know I don't, so why are you making me do this?" Natalia asked with great disdain.
"Because," Ivan replied "It's your fault he's in here in the first place. The least you can do is make it up to him. Besides, he says he does, so I don't see why you shouldn't make it up to him like this."
"But I don't love him!" She sighed. "You know what, never mind. If it makes you happy, I'll do it."
Ivan smiled. "That's good to hear, now he should be up by now, so why don't you go ask him?"
"Ask me what, Ivan?" Jett said, causing them to jump.
"Ah Jett, there you are! I do believe Natalia has something to say to you." He said, ushering her closer to Jett. She stumbled forward, with a somewhat uncomfortable look across her face.
"Umm, I was wondering, if, maybe… you'd like to…go out with me?"