A short, short time ago in a country on the west side of the pond,

A poor, broke authoress sat on her bed, listening to VOCALOID and trying to figure out why she was having such a hard time writing this one stupid song-fic. Then she decided,

"Meh, forget it. Yao, Kiku you're dismissed."

She looked up and saw that they were both asleep.

"Aiyaah, am I really that boring?"

The poor, now depressed author moped for a while before her current muse quite literally slapped her in the face.

"Lian!" the author yelped," What was that for?"

"Ri-chan, you know that you're an at least half-decent author so get off your butt and think of something!"

"I've got it! If I can make it through a few absurd pairings, crack!fics and character deaths, I just might be able to gain some popularity!"

"No yaoi or lemons though right?' Kiku asked fearfully, having woken up at some point during this conversation.

" Of course not! That's what Nyotalia's for!" the author smiled.

Korea and France yelled something nearly unintelligible that sounded like a complaint.

The author sighed.

"You know this is exactly why I don't write the two of them that often…"