Yami Ryo: Wow, this got 3 reviews within ten minutes of being posted! I love you all! You make me so happy! (sniffle)
Disclaimer: Yami does not own hetalia. That should be pretty damn obvious.
Warning: Yaoi, sort-of engagements, cursing, weirdness, and pathetic attempts at romance by the author. Btw, It's only rated M cause that's how I rate everything for 'just in case' purposes. I tend to put a lot of violence and cussing in everything so...Oh! I'm adding oc's from this point on cause I know nothing of Sealand and this is about to go totally AU.
Chapter Two: We Can Do It
Sealand looked out at the ocean base that was both him and his home. If he was going to be a great nation worthy of his Alfred then he needed to get to work to make himself bigger. He smiled determination gleaming in his eyes, Alfred believed in him and as long as that was true Sealand knew that he could be everything that Alfred believed and even more. For himself and for Alfred he would do this. He quickly made his way to his leaders office, she was a stern woman, her name was Audrey Steel. Tall and intimidating but Sealand also knew that she was a dreamer, kind, and sincerely wanted the best for everyone. He knew that if there was anyone that would help it would be Audrey. She always listened to him when he wanted to talk and now he had ideas. So many ideas.
He opened the door to her office without knocking and saw her folding some papers quietly at her desk. She paused and looked up when she heard the door open and her stern cold features softened with warm kindness.
"Peter. Come here." Audrey beckoned with her hand. Sealand walked over curiously, Audrey smiled and held up a folded diamond with a little triangle of paper sticking out of the top.
"What's that Aud?" Sealand asked curiously. Audrey grinned and grabbed the triangle and shook the paper, the diamond immediately unfolded into an origami lily. Sealand stared in awe. "How'd you do that? !" He demanded amazed, Audrey chuckled.
"I'll teach you, but first how was the world meeting?" Audrey asked gently a motherly expression on her face. Sealand beamed at her a dreamy smile on his face.
"I'm going to marry America!" Sealand announced his cheeks flushed red, Audrey's eyes widened.
"Really?" Audrey asked shocked.
"Well, not yet." Sealand amended embarrassed. "First I have to meet all three of America's conditions!" Audrey frowned in concern.
"What are these conditions?" Audrey asked hoping they would not be conditions that were utterly impossible.
"Well the first one is I have to be taller than America so we have to expand! I want us to be way bigger than America so I can protect him from perverts like France!" Sealand said scowling with resolve. Audrey smiled fighting the urge to laugh.
"I see, and what were the other two conditions?" Audrey asked kindly.
"Oh yeah, well the second one was that I can't already be in love with anyone else so that'll be easy but the third one was that I need to get him one thousand blue roses." Sealand told her. Audrey nodded and smiled.
"If we work hard it's not impossible." Audrey told him honestly. Audrey was actually greatly relieved, these conditions were not totally impossible tasks. They simply needed to be creative.
"I want to grow blue roses for Alfred myself." Sealand told Audrey hopefully, Audrey bit her lip.
"You can't just grow blue roses...you have to genetically engineer them." Audrey told him. Sealand scowled and shook his head quickly.
"We can figure it out! I know we can." Sealand replied confidently, Audrey smiled and nodded.
"However we may have trouble expanding Peter. We can't just walk up to any land we want and take it." Audrey voiced her concerns. Sealand grinned widely.
"That's why we won't expand on land. We're going to expand under water." Sealand told her with a confident grin, Audrey looked at him in awe.
"You're a genius." She voiced amazed. Sealand beamed.
"I want to be a husband my future wife can brag about." Sealand told her happily, Audrey smiled.
"You will be. Together we'll make you the most amazing nation anyone has ever seen." Audrey promised. Sealand and Audrey sat down together and began to draw up plans and designs, they would do everything they could to prove America right. Sealand would show everyone that he was something amazing.
~8~
Sealand stood in his doorway using a marker to mark his height. Pulling back he grinned at the mark, it was a good four centimeters above the last mark, he was growing. He could hardly wait to show America! It was getting close to the time of year that the world meetings took place. For the past year Audrey, the engineering staff, and the architecture staff had been working hard to begin expanding their little country. The whole place was buzzing with energy and excitement, everyone eager to contribute to making their own proud nation. Making a nation was something that had never really been done before, the very idea left everyone striving to achieve things that had never been thought of before. Sealand had never felt more proud of his own people.
Sealand rushed from his room to find Audrey. Running down the halls passed engineers and mechanics pouring over blueprints and carting supplies and tools Sealand grinned brighter. He looked out of the underwater portholes and saw people in scuba suits working torches and moving large heavy pieces underwater putting together more of his 'land'. He felt pride swell in his heart and ran faster. He could hear Audrey's familiar voice barking orders and reprimanding slackers. Audrey believed in Sealand as much as he himself did, she was completely committed to making him great, to helping him achieve his dreams and earn his wife. With a leader like Audrey and the hard working dreamers that were his people Sealand knew that they would be able to do it.
Skidding into the room Sealand almost laughed at the sight of Tobias Marquis sitting on a crate and getting reamed by an irate Audrey Steel. Tobias was incredibly lazy but was also the head of the engineering department and an utter genius. Tobias looked completely uninterested in Audrey's lecture and like he was fighting an epic war against sleep. Tobias spotted Sealand and grinned waving.
"Yo Pete!" Tobias greeted cutting off Audrey's lecture that he was not listening to at all. Sealand laughed and ran up to them while Audrey smacked Tobias upside the head.
"Marquis! Listen to me when I talk to you!" Audrey scolded. Tobias rubbed his head where the lump was forming and pouted.
"Mean." Tobias whined. Sealand laughed at him.
"Guess what! I grew four centimeters!" Sealand announced proudly pointing at himself. Audrey and Tobias beamed at him.
"Wonderful! I'm so proud of you!" Audrey said her face softening to a more motherly expression.
"Good job bean sprout. Pretty soon you'll be able to prove your manhood to America." Tobias told him waggling his eyebrows suggestively, Audrey hit him in the head with her fist.
"Shut up Marquis." Audrey barked her expression changing to that of a dictator when faced with Tobias.
"Of course! When Alfred sees how big I'm getting he'll be my wife for sure!" Sealand responded confidently, Audrey sighed keeping a strait face while Tobias laughed. "Hey that reminds me. Did you make all the designs I need for the 'Secret Room' that I asked for Toby?" Sealand asked eagerly, Audrey looked confused and Tobias nodded with a warm smile pulling a scroll of blueprints from his tool box.
"Check it out. I think he'll love it, you'll have America head over heels for you with this." Tobias vowed confidently. Sealand eagerly unrolled the blueprints examining them in awe, Audrey tried to take a peek but Sealand quickly rolled it up and ran off with the blue prints to find the head of architecture and building production.
"Thanks Toby!" Sealand cried over his shoulder as he left. Tobias shook his head with a wistful sigh.
"Young love. I remember when I used to try to impress my crush." Tobias sighed. Audrey rolled her eyes.
"I can't imagine you trying anything." Audrey huffed.
"That's cause your old." Tobias retorted smirking, Audrey punched him in the head again and he whined.
Sealand ran down the many winding halls to get to the production office where he figured Sally Prosper the head of architecture and building production was pouring over designs. Just as he had thought Sally was giggling over blueprints making minor notes and adjustments and scrapping some designs completely to start over again. Sealand ran over to her and tugged her sleeve to get her attention.
"Sally! Sally!" Sealand cried eagerly. The rather young woman blinked in surprise and looked down at Sealand by her side.
"Hey Petey! What's up?" Sally asked with a warm grin. Sealand put the blueprint down on her table opening it so she could see.
"I need this built special! Can you build it perfect?" Sealand asked hopefully. Sally looked over the blueprint and grinned widely when she saw what it was.
"Not only can I make it perfect I can have it done in three months." Sally promised happily. Sealand beamed.
"You're the best!" Sealand cried hugging Sally tightly.
"I know." Sally laughed basking in the praise. Sealand let her go and looked over at the other blueprints.
"So what are you working on?" Sealand asked curiously. Sally beamed and pointed at one of the blueprints.
"This is a hospital, I figure we'll probably need this before anything else." Sally then pointed to another set of blueprints. "This will be a library, that will be one of the farms, those will be..." She continued on explaining each blueprint excitedly and which ones she believed held priority above others. Sealand listened intently happiness and pride swelling in his chest. Hours passed before Sealand's yawned and Sally decided it was time for bed. "You go get some rest. You have a lot of growing to do!" Sally told him with an excited grin. Sealand beamed at her.
"Okay! Thanks for everything Sally." Sealand replied sincerely. Sally hugged him tightly.
"No problem!" Sally told him honestly as he returned the hug. Sally let him go and he turned to leave.
"Night!" Sealand said as he left.
"Night Petey!" Sally replied turning back to her blueprints.
Making his way back to his own room Sealand felt so proud, things were coming together. His dreams were coming true, slowly but surely everything he'd ever dreamed would come true. Sealand took a moment to imagine how America would look walking down the aisle in a wedding dress and blushed brightly a grin splitting his face. He could hardly wait for their wedding day!
TBC...
Yami Ryo: This is shorter than I thought it would be...oh well.