A/N: This takes place before Arthur and Francis divorce and after Alfred decided to runaway. I also made two YouTube videos for this story. Even though this was meant to be a one-shot I saw people fallowing this story so I decided to write a second chapter but I couldn't think of what to write so, here goes nothing.

Warning: hints of America x Belarus

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Alfred pulled the blanket around him tighter as he tried to keep himself and Natalia warm. "Sure wished we had a better place to stay than under this bridge for the night right Nat?"

He met Natalia the day after he ran away from home. He just couldn't stand his parents fighting anymore so he ran away the first chance he could. He didn't know why Natalia was in the street as well. He asked once and she yelled at him so he never asked again. She helped him out. Told him the ways of the street and he told her why he ran away.

"Yeah." She didn't look at him like she usually did when she talked.

"Is everything okay Natalia?" She pulled away from him and he let her take the blanket with her.

"No, why are you here?" she looked him in the eye with a determined fire that made Alfred feel like an open book.

"What do you mean? I thought we were friends so-"he started but she cut him off

"Not that idiot. I meant here on the street. You don't belong here." She dropped her gaze back down and bit her lip before she said, "You belong with your family. I am sure they are worried about you."

"Nat?" he smiled and hugged her. "I'm sure they are fine. Besides I have you now right?" she shook her head before lying down on the card board that she was using for a bed.

Alfred lied down next to her to go to sleep but his mind would not rest. He started to think of what Natalia said. 'I wonder how they are doing. Is Mattie ok? Are they looking for me? Did Artie and Francis stop fighting?' And before he could stop it memories started to play in his head.

The first time they all went to Canada to play in the snow.

Of when Alfred got stuck in the rain and Matthew came with an umbrella and covered him.

Of when he was little and climbing up Arthur's shoulders and fell asleep and Arthur had to use his arm to keep him from falling.

Then of when he was really little Arthur walking him in a field rocking him to sleep.

Alfred sometimes wonders if that last one is only a dream. He was really young in the memory. Memories plagued his mind and he was blissfully unaware that the same thing was happening to Natalia.

Natalia's memories were not as sweet as her American companion. She does have a few good memories of her family but those are of her younger and small.

One good memory was her sharing a very long scarf with her brother and sister.

And then of her older sister hugging them for a family picture.

Her favorite is of when they were in a flower field and she decided to put some flowers in her sister's hair.

But then the sad memories start the she sees the scene in her mind again of her sister pulling her away from her brother as he sits in the table with a broken hearted expression on his face, and out into the cold snowy day they walked and both sisters not wishing to leave but having no choice in the matter. And she did leave her sister's house to find her brother but he was not the same when she found him. Whenever she sees a sunflower she remembers her warm hearted brother and the days in which he tried to grow on in their garden.

Both children huddled under the bridge longing for the comfort of the family they lost one by choice and another by force.

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Away at the Kirkland-Bonnefoy, Arthur was sitting in his favorite chair, staring at the rain outside the rain. There was a fairy that floated next to him. "Why are you sad, Arthur?" she asked.

He sighed before answering, "Because my small friend, my family is broken."

"Family? What is a family?" she asked. Arthur took a moment before he decided to answer the small fairy's question.

"Well, a family is…hard to explain." He thought of his family, Matthew, Alfred and Francis, "well you have caring and devoted hearts for those close to you." Francis chooses that moment to enter.

"Who are you talking to mon cher?" he asked as he leaned on the back of the chair Arthur was sitting in.

"I was talking to one of my fairies. I was telling her what a family is. I said it hearts full of caring and devoted hearts."

"Do not forget endless love to share that fallows you everywhere you go." Francis told him.

"Quite right you are love." They both knew wished that their love would reach Alfred who was out there lost and bring him home. All of a sudden Arthur stood up and picked up his jacket.

"Where are you going mon cher, it is pouring out there." Francis tried fallowing him.

"Out, I'll be back. Don't wait up for me." Arthur couldn't handle it. The wanted to find Alfred but he had to wonder why had he run away? Did he do something wrong? The thoughts had been bothering him ever sense Alfred left. He decided to get rid of these feelings the way he used to do back in his younger year, by drinking his sorrows away at the local pub. Unaware that because of this he would develop a drinking problem that would tear his family even more apart.

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Later on the rain had turned to snow and Alfred wished he could take himself and Natalia somewhere warm for the winter. That is when he decided they would go somewhere. He didn't want them to die out in the cold. He asked his uncle to find them a place to stay and like a good uncle he was he provided them with an apartment not far from where Alfred used to live. Natalia went to visit her brother while Alfred looked at their new home.

"Thanks Uncle Allistor." Alfred looked around the small apartment. It was big enough for two people.

Allistor patted Alfred on the head, "Aye, it's nothing laddie. And don't worry about paying. You can pay me back when ya get yourself a jab."He said ruffling up Alfred's hair.

Alfred pushed Allistor's hand off his head. "Alright I will. Thanks again though. You didn't have to help me but you did anyway."

Allistor smirked and lit a cigarette, "Well it's what family does boyo." Alfred fought to keep the smile on his face at the word family. "We help each other out in a time of need. And boy did you need it."

Alfred nodded and couldn't help but think about how his brother was dealing with being with his parents and their fighting. He really hoped Matthew was ok. And he also hoped Natalia was ok.

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Natalia packed a few belonging in a small bag to take with her to the apartment Alfred's uncle gave them. Her brother was not happy with that she was leaving again but he hugged her and told her to be safe and to visit her sister. Things would not be the same, they never will be. "You will always be my little sister and I will love you no matter what you choose." He told her.

"Thank you big brother. I am sorry I left you alone." She hugged him back.

He let go of her to give her a scarf, "It will be getting colder, take it. And if the American does something to make you upset you can come here and I will beat him with my pipe, da?"

She took the scarf and left to live with Alfred. She felt in her pocket for the burnt picture of her and her siblings. They could never go back but they were still family and not she had another member to that family.

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Arthur cried in the attic hugging one of Alfred's shirts. He just wanted his little boy back. His fights with Francis have been getting worse and worse. He was supposed to protect Alfred but he just drove him away. He wondered if he was safe. Was he cold? Was he eating well? Did he have a warm place to sleep? He missed the days in which the small boy looked up at him and they played dress up. He just hopes that Alfred would come home and they could be a family again.

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So this is before the last chapter based on the song "Always There" from Lady and the Tramp 2. Here we see how Alfred had run away and got his own place to live and the start of Arthur's drinking problems that lead to him and Francis fighting. This isn't meant to be an AmeBel story but it could be if you want me to make it like that. I don't see this pairing used a lot so I wouldn't mind adding that to the story. (even though I meant to make this a one shot I could add more chapters)

Also I have a video made for this chapter just look for 1821animegirl because does not let me put a link in stories.