A/N: First fanfic ever, sorry if it's a little cheesy, but on that happy note, I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I will own Hetalia when Sealand becomes a nation.
~Alfred's POV~
I looked at Rosa and Francis and smirked. "You two like each other donchya~" They both glared at me and yelled in unison. "No we don't!"
"You know you d-" I was cut off as Maddie grabbed my wrist. She had run up from behind and she continued running with my wrist in hand. "Maddie?! What's going on?" She didn't look back as she answered. "Just keep running." As she turned, I sped. She was forced to let go of my wrist. "Turn, Alfred. I'll keep going straight!" I didn't argue, Maddie doesn't lie about anything. Al turned and no longer heard Maddie's foot prints behind me, then I realized I heard two pairs of footsteps, not just one.
I stopped, no one was behind me. I heard a scream, gunshot, silence.
~Rosa's POV~
We were walking in silence. "You two like, donchya~" I glared at Alfred, a slight blush on my face. "No we don't!" I blushed more when we said it in unison, but neither of them noticed.
"You know you d-" He was cut off as Maddie grabbed his wrist. I swore that Maddie wasn't with us this time, Maddie was running with Alfred stumbling behind her. Just as they turned the corner somebody shoved me out of the way and I fell into Francis, who dropped me. I glared at him. "Thanks a lot, frog." I said sarcastically. I heard a scream that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, then a gunshot and all was quiet.
"Did you hear that?" He was pale and as I nodded he became deathly white.
~Francis' POV~
I looked at Rosa, she was so beautiful. I saw Alfred smirking, nothing good can come out of that, nothing. "You two like each other, donchya~" I had learned to control when I blushed, but I could see the blush on Rosa's face. "No we don't!" We had yelled in unison, which had made Rosa blush even more.
"You know you d-" He was cut off as Maddie grabbed his wrist. I noticed Maddie had come from behind. My cousin was so cute, but there was some urgency in her gaze. As they went around the corner somebody shoved Rosa into me, I was shocked and dropped. She glared at me, still on the ground. "Thanks a lot, frog." She muttered sarcastically. There was a scream, followed by a gun shot.
"Did you hear that?" I asked her. She nodded and my heart dropped.
~Alfred's POV~
"Maddie..." Her name came out no more than a whisper. "Maddie!" I wasted no time running toward the source of the gunshot. There I saw her, crumpled on the ground, her hand lay limply under her stomach, she was in a puddle of her own blood, her glasses were on the ground, smashed. "No... Maddie..." I felt hot tears welling up in my eyes as I knelt beside her. She was already gone. I heard footsteps and I balled up my fist and continued to sob.
"Alfred..." I felt a gentle hand on my shoulder. "Its going to be ok, we'll get her to a hospital and she'll be fine." I shook my head and looked into Rosa's green eyes. "It's too late, she's gone." I saw tears threatening to spill out of her eyes. "We still need to call the police." I nodded, not even hearing her. I was vaguely aware of Rosa and Francis talking to me. "Alfred, are you listening?" I just shook my head and looked at my twin. I felt tears streaming down my face.
I thought about how I was going to tell everybody, especially my parents, how would I break the news that their only daughter is dead. Blue and red lights filled the area along with the wailing of sirens.
"The police are here." I felt Rosa put a gentle hand on my shoulder. I stood up, still looking at my sister. "So did anybody witness this?" I shook my head and weakly said. "She was running and grabbed my wrist and dragged me until our second turn where she let go of my wrist and we split up, then I heard her scream and a gunshot." He nodded as I told him what happened.
"Was anybody chasing her?" Rosa answered his question. "I didn't see their face, they pushed me over and I don't think Francis did either." Francis shook his head. I watched them take Maddie's deceased body away. "Al are you ok?" I simply shook my head at Rosa's question and realized Francis hadn't said a thing. "I just want to go home." I pushed Rosa's hand off my shoulder and walked away, leaving them there.
I made it home just to be bombarded with questions. I told my parents what happened and collapsed in my room. I stared blankly at my ceiling when my phone rang. I looked at the caller ID and sighed. I wasn't in the mood to talk to anybody, especially my sister's boyfriend, but I answered anyway.
"Hello?" I could barely talk. "Hey, Al! I can't reach Maddie, so I called you. Vait, are you ok?" I didn't answer. "Vhat is wrong? Vhy aren't you answering?! Al, speak to me!" I continued to stare blankly at the ceiling and after a while I finally answered. "Ask Francis." And hung up. A couple minutes later I got another call from Gilbert. I answered. "Al, Francis von't answer, vhy are you acting so strange?" I sighed. "I don't want to talk about it, you'll hear about it at school tomorrow. I'll see you next week." Before he could ask anymore questions, I hung up and fell asleep.
~Rosa's POV~
I was surprised it wasn't on the news. Alfred was taking this very hard. I walked to school with Francis in silence. I got to homeroom and Alfred wasn't there, I hadn't expected him to be, but it just made me sad. Gilbert and Antonio started to throw questions at Francis as soon as he walked through the door, which was expected, but what wasn't was when Francis told them off and sat down in Alfred's seat beside me.
"Aren't you going to sit with your friends?" Francis just shook his head and put his head down. The teacher came in, face pale. "Francis and Rosa, I would like to talk to you two about what happened yesterday." I got up and Francis sighed and followed me out the room. Everybody was quiet, it reminded me of the quiet after the shot.
"Which one of you would like to tell the class?" Both of us shook our head and I noticed Francis was silently weeping. "Francis, would you like some time to yourself? I know you were close to your cousin." He nodded, not saying anything, but he had a distant and depressed look on his face. "Ok, go sit on the bench over there and come back when your ready." I tried to stop the tears, but I couldn't stop myself from crying as we entered the room. I felt people staring at me as I sat down. "I'm aware almost none of you know what happened yesterday." Everybody turned their attention as the teacher started talking, but before she could continue Gilbert butted in. "Where's Al and Maddie?"
"I'm getting to that, let's just go straight to the point. Madeline was found dead yesterday and I'm pretty sure Alfred is at home." Murmurs of shock went around the room. I saw tears form in Gilbert's eyes as Antonio tried to calm him down. Francis walked into the room, without making a sound and sat down beside me.
"Do you think Al will be ok?" I shrugged. "I don't know, they were really close. I don't think he'll be at school at all this week." He looked at his friends. He grabbed my arm and pulled me toward them. The whole class was whispering among themselves, the teacher wasn't even paying attention.
Gilbert refused to look at us. "Gil-" Francis started, but Gilbert cut him off. "Vhy didn't you guys tell me?" I heard the anger mixed with grief in his voice. "Nobody had the heart." I was slightly surprised at what Francis said. "We didn't even talk about it after it happened." Gil raised an eyebrow. "Even at the crime scene?" We both shook our heads. "I didn't tell my parents, Al's parents called. They said he hadn't left his room and he refused to eat, he's taking it harder than we thought." Gil blinked surprised. "I vouldn't take anybody died, not even Vest."
"They were twins."
"But still, h-"
"You don't understand the connection they had."
"I have a brother." "They were twins, they had a special relationship that very few people have. Gil opened his mouth to argue, but Francis started speaking before he could. "Al always joked about how he couldn't live if Maddie died, he joked, never thinking about if she really did die. He doesn't know what to do, his parents are barely ever home, he can't cook, he's terrible at cleaning, and he doesn't know how to take care of Kuma." Gil looked down for a second. "I never knew that." I looked at Francis, I've only seen him so serious very few times, the first was when his mother died, then when his father left him at the orphanage, when his little sister ran away, and when I was hospitalized after a car crash.
"Francis, are you ok?" He glared at me when I asked the question, it scared me, this was not Francis. "My cousin is dead what do you think?" He practically yelled, the entire class turned and just stared at him. Francis had never yelled at me, he'd never yelled at anybody. I felt a single tear slowly make its way down my face. "Sorry I asked." What I said barely came out in a whisper, I went over and sat by Lili, who just looked at me, not knowing what to say.
"Rosa..." Lili started talking to me, but I was vaguely aware of it and slowly drifted off to sleep with my head down.
~Gilbert's POV~
I couldn't believe he yelled, especially at Rosa. He didn't even notice that she was crying. I looked at Lili trying to comfort her and noticed Rosa was asleep in a matter of seconds. "Francis..." I heard Antonio trail off. The class had changed their attention back to whatever they were doing. "Why did you yell at her?" I was still looking at him.
"I don't know, I'm going to talk to her." It took him awhile to answer. "Not a very good idea, amigo." He glared at Antonio who shrunk under his gaze. "One, she's asleep, two, you hurt her feelings." I quickly saved Toni. "I know your upset, but try not to take it out on anybody and find something to take your mind off zhings." Francis thought for a sec and sighed. "Can't think of anything realistic."
"Vhat vere you zhinking?" I was a little worried by the 'realistic' part. He shrugged, which worried me even more. "Vhat are you zhinking?" He ignored me. "Francis, tell us." I pressed on. "You'll just have to watch." I felt worry grow in my chest. "I have a bad feeling..."
"Don't worry, I'll wait till after school."
"Zhat vorries me even more."
"You have nothing to worry about."
"When it's you, I vorry."
"It's not like we never worry about you."
"But still."
"Just wait."
"Fine, but I'm still vorried."
"Seriously, you have nothing to vorry about." He smirked after copying my accent.
~Rosa's POV~
I decided I was going to visit Alfred to make sure he was ok. There was one thing I was uncomfortable with, passing Francis's house. I noticed Gilbert and Antonio sitting on Francis's front porch, just them and nobody else. Their eyes lit up when they saw me and ran towards me.
"Chica, wait!" I stopped and looked at them. "What?" Gilbert stopped, panting for a sec. "Have...you seen...Fran...cis?" I shook my head. "Why?"
"We...can't...find him...anywhere. I worry...he's...found...something to...take his...mind off every...thing." He tried to catch hid breath and stood up straight when he finally did. "What's wrong with that?"
"The fact that it's Francis and he's unpredictable." I shrugged and saw him come around the corner. "He's there right now, I'm leaving before I have to talk to him." Once I started to walk away I he sped up. I turned and he was catching up to me. "Wait!" I didn't stop, but I did slow down. "What do you want?" I said when he caught up.
"I have a teeny tiny question I want to ask you." I scowled. "What?"
"Why are your eyebrows so bushy?"
"I swear I'm going to punch you." "Then why don't you." My response was punching him in the stomach. He grasped his stomach in pain. "I didn't think you were actually going to do it."
"You literally asked for it."
"But that wasn't what I was going to ask."
"I don't want to know." I started to walk away swiftly. "But I'm going to be completely serious, mademoiselle!"
"Fine, what do you want?" I whirled around to face him.
"Will you go out with me?"
"E-Excuse me?"
"Rosa, I'm being completely serious. Will you go out with me?"
"I-I, um...can I have time to think?"
"I guess..."
"Thanks, I'm going to go visit Alfred." He smiled. "Areviour."
*~*~*~Timeskip~*~*~*
After I walked for a little while, I knocked on Alfred's door. His mother answered. "Can I speak to Al?"
"Wait one sec." She closed the door and I waited. She opened the door a couple minutes later and signaled for me to come in. "He didn't want to talk to anybody, but I think that it would be good for him." She led me up the stairs and showed me where his room was and she left me.
I knocked on the door. "Al?" There was no answer so I went in. I felt him glaring at me as I entered the dark room and sat in a chair. "Why are you here?"
"I wanted to talk to you."
"I didn't."
"Come on, Al."
"I don't want to talk, go die." I felt truly offended by his words. "Al, you don't really mean-"
"I mean every single word of it."
"I miss you, Al."
"We all have different feelings."
"I had something to ask you, but I guess I could just say yes to Francis."
"What?"
"I like you, Al, but I'm going to say yes to Francis."
"Wait, Rosa-"
"Bye Al." I closed the door and ran down the stairs and through the door and called Francis.
~Alfred's POV~
"Wait, Rosa"
"Bye Al." No, no, no, no! I heard her run down the stairs and slam the door. "I like you, too..." I whispered to the darkness. I got up and changed my clothes. I made my way downstairs, but my mom stopped me.
"Where are you going?" I quickly slipped my shoes. "I made a mistake that I have to go fix." Before my mom could say anything else I was out the door.
I went straight to Francis's house. I saw Rosa sitting with Francis on the front porch, but what confused him was the fact that she was crying. I hid behind the oak tree in Ludwig and Gilbert's front yard. I just stood there confused at why she was crying. I watched Francis hug her and I felt my heart burn with jealousy. Am I meant to lose everything?
~Rosa's POV~
I just cried as Francis looked at me sympathetically. "I don't know why he hates me." I felt Francis pull me into an embrace, but didn't resist. I buried my face into his chest while I cried. "It's ok, he doesn't deserve you then."
"It just wasn't him."
"Is it like my father after my mother died?"
"I guess it is kinda like that." I stood up. "I'm going home and about what you asked me earlier, I don't know, leave my eyebrows alone. And yes." His eyes sparkled as they met mine. I wiped my eyes and walked away.
A/N: Haha, this is probably terrible and nobody will like it. It will remain a one-shot unless five people review, telling me to put multiple chapters or if I get bored of my friend telling me how crazy I am and how much I need help because of my random laughing fits while we're trying to plan her costume wedding. I GET TO BE 2p!AMERICA! But she won't let me be 2p!Iggy, rub my hands together evilly, dress up as my OC, or make a fake suicide scene :( I might just continue this story anyways. If I do continue there will be plenty of character deaths for you to cry over. And guess what! You get to chose who dies and whether or not Rosa should be with Francis or Alfred! The cover has nothing to do with the killer, it resembles Al's revenge. And for those of you who didn't know(it's rather obvious), Rosa is England.
Till then, Obviously Me.
