"Alfred!" Matthew called as he ran after his brother.
He was ignored or possibly unheard with his whisper of a shout.
"Alfred!" he tried again. "Please listen to me!"
The older man stubbornly kept marching up to the waiting jet.
Getting fed up, Matthew yelled louder.
"America!"
Still not hearing anything, Alfred made to step onto the flight of stairs leading up to the small plane.
"THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!" Matthew screamed and his brother flew around.
"Whoa bro. How long have you been-?"
"SHUT UP! YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO ME!"
Alfred put his hands up.
"Okay okay!"
He moved away from the plane.
"Merci, Alfred. Thank you. Wait! Where are you going?" he asked in confusion as Alfred walked past him.
"Just follow me. I know where we can talk."
Silently nodding, Matthew turned around and followed his older brother to an empty meeting room.
"Sit down," he was ordered.
He sat.
Alfred took the chair across from his little brother and sighed.
"So bro, what did you need to talk about?" As Matthew opened his mouth to answer, Alfred said, "Make it quick. My plane is leaving soon."
That statement made Matthew flare up again.
"No! No it's not! You're going to sit there and listen to me! No matter how long it takes!"
Eyes widening in surprise, Alfred stared at him.
"You bro, when did you get so loud?"
"I can be louder than you if I want!" Matthew took a deep breath and started again, voice almost all the way down to where it was normally. "Look, I know you're mad at Germany for hurting Papa, but do you really think attacking him back is really a good idea? Jumping into something so big blindly is going to get you killed! Revenge is never a good reason! Wait a little longer. Try and figure out what Germany is planning and THEN attack him."
Alfred thought about what his young brother had said.
"Fine," he said after a while. "I'll wait. But if he hurts France again, then I'm going after him with everything I've got. You didn't see what he did! You would want to destroy him too!"
Matthew nodded.
"Thank you. If he hurts Papa again, I will help you. No one hurts our Papa and gets away with it but we have to wait." He paused. "What did Germany do to Papa?"
Alfred tensed and looked away.
"You don't wanna know," he whispered. "If I had gotten there any later, we wouldn't have had a piece of him to bury."
Matthew grabbed his arm.
"W-What do you mean?" he cried desperately. "Is Papa…i-is Papa…?"
He couldn't finish.
Alfred pulled his brother into a comforting hug.
"No. He's alive, but when he wakes up again he's gonna wish he wasn't."
"Take me to him!" he demanded through tears, clutching the front of Alfred's shirt tightly. "Please! Take me to Papa! Now!"
Alfred hugged his brother tightly and let him cry against his shoulder.
"No," he whispered in his ear. "Seeing him will just upset you more so wait until he's better to see him in England."
"I thought you were going to get him?"
Before Alfred could answer, a man stepped into the room with a quiet apology and handed Alfred a small note.
"We just received a message. Here you go."
"How did we get it?" Alfred asked suspiciously.
"Radio."
"Channel?"
"Eight."
Alfred nodded.
"Good. It's secure."
The man left with a nod.
Reading the note quickly, his face lifted slightly.
"I'm not getting him anymore," he said as he shoved the message to his brother.
'The injured dove is staying with me. It shows good signs and should heal. It wants to be sent back to the forest but is not well enough to survive. Please watch over the little bear for me.'
'P.S. Watch out for wild dogs.'
"What does that mean?"
"France is the dove," Alfred explained. "He wants to go back to Paris but would die instantly. You're the bear that Dad wants me to protect. And the wild dogs are Japan, Italy, and Germany; mostly Germany."
"Dad wants you to protect me?"
Alfred nodded.
"He doesn't want you to get hurt but I'm a hero and heroes never let anyone get hurt. Especially not their little brother!"
Matthew smiled slightly.
"Thank you, but I'm going home."
"What? No! Didn't you listen to Dad at all? Mattie?" Matthew kept walking. "Mattie? Matthew! Canadia? CANADA!"
He was gone.
"Damn. Gotta tell Dad."
Alfred quickly wrote a note on the back of the first one.
Giving it to an officer to send, he ran after his brother.
England was pacing around the kitchen.
The man in the other was sleeping again so he had time to fret and worry about what to do.
His radio piped up and a short message was said twice.
"The bear left. He's might try and get to the dove so look out for him. He'll get hurt if he sees the dove and so will the dove. I'm going to try and stop him, but I might not be able to."
"P.S. Thank you for the dog tip. You should probably dog trap the area around you just in case."
The message ended and he picked his headphones and microphone to tell the man he had heard.
He sighed and put them down gently.
"So Matthew is coming here? I have to keep him away from France. Seeing him will destroy him and he'll be hell-bent on destroying Germany." Arthur sighed sadly. "But not before he cries his heart and soul out. I can't let Matthew get hurt more than he already is. And France-" He stopped. "Seeing his son will destroy and watching his son cry over him will be the final nail and he'll be gone. I have to protect them both."
He walked out of the room, mentally taking note of the 'dog trapping' equipment he would need.
AN: I finally got around to this chapter. I wrote it like...last week but I was too busy (lazy) to type it. But I was busy with projects and hamework but now that exams are here (and I only have one) I can stay at home and work for you people! You better appreciate it!
Anyway, see ya soon!
Ah! Forgot to talk about this chapter! So Mattie! Mattie can be just as loud, if not louder, than his brother if he wants. It's just that he really doesn't want people to be upset with him and he gets nervous and afraid so he doesn't talk. And he's worried about his Papa so he's gonna try and get to him. Will he or will Alfred manage to stop him?
Oh! And the radio was originally a cell phone but I realized that the time period was wrong for that.
Now see you soon!
