Here is the next chapter, hope you like
I do not own Hetalia or anything really
Also is Ukraine's name Katyusha? I don't know her real name or if she does have a real name…
Translations:
Mon ami: my friend
Mon petit lapin tout blanc: my little white rabbit (I don't know why but if France was to nickname Canada something it would be this, maybe beacuse Canada was like a shy bunny rabbit when he was found or something?)
Papa: Dad, or daddy (I so didn't know papa was a French word!)
Mademoiselle: young woman/girl or unmarried woman (Did I spell that right?)
Je suis un idiot!: I'm an idiot!
Merci Papa: Thank you dad/daddy
Matvey: Russian Equivalent to Matthew
Mi amigo: my friend
Chapter 3: YOU'RE A WHAT!?
Mattie sighed and put her hand under her chin as Alfred went on about global warming and how they should build a robot or something with aliens to fix the problem, she wasn't sure, she wasn't listening really… God she was bored… She started to tap softly with the pencil in her hand as she grew more bored and she sighed again as Alfred and Arthur got into another fight.
She knew if this kept going on, than it was going to take until the end of the meeting before she could talk in front of everyone… Suddenly she felt something hit her knee from under the table. 'What the?' Mattie thought as she looked down once, only to see Gilbird on the ground jumping to her knee while he held a white rolled up paper in his mouth, she glanced up and saw Gilbert at the end of the table staring at her for a second, and nod before turning to look at Ludwig.
She smiled and reached down to the paper and made sure no one was watching her pick the paper out of the mouth of Gilbird, she watched Alfred and Arthur keep fighting while Francis tried to say something about love and whatnot, she bit her lip and put the paper on her notebook and unrolled it. She glanced down and nearly chocked on her laughter.
On the crudely drawn picture was a badly drawn Alfred with dorky glasses, and big goofy teeth saying something along the lines of "Aliens! My War! I'm a Hero! (not!) I rule!" and he was wearing a frilly dress instead of his uniform, behind him was an Arthur with bad teeth and a mean look as he was trying to push a heart eyed and naked Francis off of him who was holding a bottle of wine, next to them was the words "True love!"
She bit her lip at trying not to laugh at the crude picture but was failing at it, she stopped when she noticed some people in the room had looked at her because of her snickering, she looked down at the paper and wrote on it "Nice to know what you think about-" but before she could finish, a hand reached down and snatched the paper away from her.
Mattie looked up and paled as she realized Arthur had stopped his fighting with Alfred, while Alfred was fighting off a 'I want to hug/grope you' hug from Francis. Arthur raised an eyebrow at the picture and frowned a bit before looking at a sweating and worried Mattie. He then said "Matthew, what is this about? Who drew this?" Mattie looked down and blushed embarrassed that her 'Father' had saw the picture her boyfriend drew. Alfred stopped and so did Francis, both looked from over Arthur shoulder and frowned "Hey, I do not wear a dress! And I am a Hero!" Alfred protested to the picture, France still frowned but didn't say anything.
"Matthew Williams, answer me when I'm talking to you… I want to know who drew this picture…" Arthur spoke in a tone that meant he wanted an answer, now. She bit her lip again but stopped when suddenly Gilbert spoke up "Hey! I was looking for that picture!" everyone at the meeting turned at Gilbert who said "I must had lost it the last time the awesome me, was here, thanks Canada, I guess you must have found it huh?"
Mattie stared at a smirking Gilbert who got up and walked over from the far end of the table to Arthur and Mattie, he smirked and snagged the picture of Arthur who glared at him along with Alfred and surprisely Francis. "Now why would you draw me like that mon ami?" Francis asked with his frown and glare. Gilbert shrugged and said "Don't know, just felt like it…"
Arthur glared at him and said "You, and I will have a talk about your crude drawing after the meeting Prussia…" Gilbert shrugged again as he rolled his eyes and said "No sweat off my awesome nose, eyebrows…" another frown and Arthur said "You better learn to keep that mouth of yours silent boy!"
Alfred for the first time in a long time agreed and said "Yeah, and why the heck did you draw me in a dress?!" and once again Gilbert shrugged and said "Don't know, just did…" and before anyone could say anything Gilbert smirked and walked back to his seat near the end of the table as Ludwig glared at him and made a mental note to scowled his brother after the meeting.
Gilbert sat down for a moment before lazily placing his head on the table for sleep, his red eyes peeked out to his girlfriend who seemed to be writing something, he watched her smile grace her lips and he smiled to himself in his arms before closing his eyes for a few minutes…
He snapped out of his almost sleep when he felt a paw touched his leg, he nearly jumped up when he felt it but being the awesome Prussia he was, he didn't. He looked down under the table and saw Kumajiro holding onto a paper in his mouth, Gilbert smirked and reached down to pick the paper out of the mouth of the polar bear, once he got it, he petted Kumajiro once before waving his hand under the table for him to leave.
He moved his hand that had the paper up in front of him and unrolled it to see what was written, what it said was "Hey thanks, if they found out you sent that to me they would had thrown a fit… Anyway, what I was saying on the paper was its nice to know what you think about my family Gilbert, because after I tell them, they're going to be a lot worse than that… By the way… Take a look on the back of the paper…"
Gilbert blinked and turned the paper around and snickered, on the paper was a picture of a very good drawing of Alfred in a ballerina outfit while Arthur was in a maidens dress surround by fairies and looking very girly, while Francis was skipping in a field of flowers naked and the only thing covering him up was a single rose. On the bottom of the picture was the words "Beat that." and he grinned at the thought of him and his girlfriend having a drawing war.
He glanced up to the other end of the table and saw a smirking Mattie who looked away to see Alfred and Arthur fighting again.
Oh, it was so on!
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During the rest of the meeting, both lovers sent funny, crude drawing after drawing. Sometimes it was funny other times it was just plain sad, they didn't get caught this time though, both held down their laughter better than the first time so they could keep playing this game of drawing wars. Both of them used their pets/companions to send the picture under the table so no one would see them.
Mattie had just gotten the newest picture that was sent by Gilbird again and she silently picked it up without looking under the table, she kept her eyes on Alfred who was now talking seriously about important matters again. She looked to the other side of the table across from her and saw Francis smiling and holding a rose as he talked softly at Arthur who was about to punch the French man in the face.
She was hoping to see another picture but frowned a little when she opened the paper, but her frown went away when she read "Yo, babe. Ludwig said we'll be leaving in a few minutes, it now or never Mattie. And remember. I'm running out these doors when your brother and fathers try to kill me. Met me in the lobby after a few seconds because I'm going to run to get my bike, when you see me outside the building run over and get on. I'll leave Gilbird with you so you can put him and Kumajiro in the bag. -From, with awesome love, the awesome Gilbert!" she rolled her eyes at the last part but smiled softly before placing the paper under her notebook that was on the table.
Suddenly she heard from Alfred "I think that covers everything, any questions?" when no one said anything for a moment he smiled and said "Cool, I think we ca-" but his sentence was stopped when Mattie spoke "Alfred… I have something to say… If you don't mind…"
Everyone at the meeting stopped and turned to the nation that looked down at the table, some blinked trying to remember who this nation was but most nations now had began to remember Canada from the Winter Olympics that was hosted in his nation land not to long ago, not only that but the kid's team won fourteen gold metals which was a new record for the number of gold medals ever won by a single country at any Winter Olympics! And who could really forget that awesome and nail-biting hockey match between America and Canada at the end. Not only that but it was also said that Canada had the largest supply of freshwater too!
Alfred blinked and said a bit confused "Sure Matt, go ahead…" Mattie nodded her head and rose from her chair. She looked down the table and saw people staring at her, she bit her lip and spoke.
"Hello… My name is Matthew Williams, also known as Canada in case of those that don't know…" she bit her lip again and looked down, Alfred, Arthur, and Francis all wanted to jump up and help the younger nation with whatever was bugging him, but they held themselves as they thought 'Come on, he's a grown man for goodness sake, its not good to smoother him…'
Mattie took a breath and said "What I'm going to tell you is a secret that I've been hiding for most of my life, something I do believe most of you will understand, but that still doesn't mean I didn't deceive any of you…" some stared at him for a moment not understanding as France, England, and America looked confused and concerned "Matthew what are you-" but once again, America was cut off when Canada spoke again "This secret was never known by anyone but my bosses and someone I truly trust with my heart…"
She looked at the end of the table and noticed Gilbert was about ready to run for the door incase any of her 'family' was going to attack him. She gulped and said "For a long time, I've been pretending to be someone I wasn't… I'm still the same person really but I'm not what everyone thinks I am…" she took in a breath and reached for the zipper to her jacket knowing this was the only way for them to believe, she bit her lip once again and pulled it down.
In a flash she pulled her arms out of the jacket arms and pulled the jacket off so everyone could see the white T-Shirt she wore under it for the first time, everyone's eyes in the room widened but Gil's as they heard her say.
"… I'm not really a man… I'm a woman…"
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"Comrade-Matvey is a woman?" Ivan, said for the first time not saying the word 'Da?'
"WHAT!!!???" Screamed most of the nations including England, France, and America. The others that didn't speak were frozen stiff at the woman in front of them, many holding blushes on their face which irked Gilbert a bit. The other nations eyes roamed over her body and more nations blushed harder at the face and hair that now matched the body. Some always wondered why Canada sounded girly and looked a bit girly…
"YOU'RE A WHAT?!" Screamed out England, France, and America as they shot up from the table with their faces red, they were confused, a little disbelief, and properly angry. Mattie flinched at their loudness but spoke "I-I was never a man, I was always been and will always be a woman… I'm sorry I didn't tell you but please, believe me I had a good reason…"
"Y-You can't be a girl Matt! You're my brother! Brother!" Alfred yelled out with a blush on his face as he pointed to her chest as he said "Your not suppose to have those! Your suppose to be a boy!" Mattie bit her lip and took another breath of air before saying "Alfred… I never said I was a boy when I went to live with you and Arthur. Francis was the one that said I was a boy was he not?"
Soon enough everyone shot a look at Francis who was stunned before saying calling her the nickname he had given her when she was child "But mon petit lapin tout blanc, I thought for sure you were a boy when I found you, why did you not tell me you were a girl when I found you?… But that would explain on why you took baths by yourself when I took you in…" soon enough everyone's eyes were on her again, she shook her head and spoke "I didn't know what I was when you found me Papa, before you found me I thought everyone was the same as me. But when you took me in, I believed I really was a boy and it wasnt until I was taken to Arthur and Alfred and when I started to get older, my body was changing and I noticed I was not changing into a young man, but a young woman, I knew I was not a man then, and I didn't tell anyone…"
"Why didn't you tell me Matthew?!" Arthur yelled out not liking the fact he was not told he had a young woman in his care in the beginning, he never told anyone, but he really wanted a daughter to take care of instead of sons.
Mattie then said while looking down "I… I was scared…" soon enough everyone was confused again but then Mattie spoke again "I saw the way women were treated back then Arthur, abused at times, sold for money or to a bet, not allowed to fight back, woman were always discriminated… And when I found out I was really a woman I,… I didn't want to be treated like that, woman were always thought to be weaker than men and I already knew how it felt to be treated as a man, even if people thought I was a boy, I was treated as a equal, instead of some weaker sex. It was hard keeping this secret and I hope you can forgive me but… I just couldn't handle being treated like that, I had to Arthur, please believe me, if woman were not discriminated I would had told you…"
Soon enough the room was quiet as they took in Mattie's words, it was true, if they would look back in history, women were always thought to be the weaker sex and was always treated harshly and never fairly like men. It wasn't until more recently in the years did women start to get the respect and equality that men got. Women were often sold, betted on, abused, used for breeding at times to insure the men's bloodline survival…
"All these years, you did it to protect yourself…" Alfred said as he calmed a little down, he did, for once in his life, understand what his bro- no sister, said and meant. Mattie nodded and said "I wanted to tell you, believe me… I never meant for this secret to go on for so long but, it just happened… I did, a few times, want to just tell you just then and there but things happened… The world was changing, war was constantly coming and going, and I knew if I told anyone I wouldn't be able to fight in them. I would be told to stay home and make blankets or something, and I couldn't let that happened, I had to fight side by side with them, for them, my men and boys… I couldn't just let my men and boys, the same men and boys from my land, go out into wars without knowing that the very land they were fighting to protect was fighting next to them. As long as no one knew I was a woman, I would be fine. I would be able to keep fighting, like in 1812, or even during World War I and II, or any other war I went in. No one knew I was woman, I treated my own wounds if I ever got hurt, I hid my body in heavy clothes or even placed a metal or soft chest pad over my body, anything to keep my secret from spilling out…"
When she mentioned the two World Wars she had fought in, Francis eyes widened as he remembered seeing, him-No, her on the battle field, with a fierce, cold look, almost wild even. Fighting along side with the Canadians who cheered and respected her even though they had no idea she was woman, remembering how sometimes she returned with a shot arm or leg but she would smile and saying they got the job done or they won that round, how she could quickly shot a man in the head without trouble. Her eyes, the once soft, caring, and warm violet-blue eyes were cold, and not warm, like the coldest winter, during those battles, how she hardly showed mercy on the battle field but would silently cry when the fight was over.
Arthur looked down as he remembered how he asked him, no wait… her to join the wars she mentioned and remembered how at first she did not want to, always saying war was a meaningless thing but if it made him happy then she would, she will join. For him… He put his head down with shame as he realized he made a woman, a young woman at that, fight in bloody wars, where it was kill or be killed, if he had known, he would had never, not even if she could join a war because she was a woman and a nation, he would had never let her enter it.
Alfred eyes were wide as he remembered, and thought of how many times she fought in not only those wars she mentioned but others he knew she fought in. Now that he remembered it, she did get hurt a lot but would be able to stand her ground, with honor, and courage. He closed his eyes and couldn't help but regret the fact that he never noticed it, he should had been able to notice his brother was a sister. He opened his eyes and stared at the beautiful face of his sister and wanted his hit his head on something hard for never noticing how feminine that face was. He remembered on how they were kids, and when he still thought Mattie was a boy, that she would take baths by herself and when they were older he remembered how she would try her hardest to find a place to change or be by herself.
All the nations, including the women, looked at her with wonder, admiration, respect, and a little pity. They pitted her because she had to fight in wars with blood and death, most wondered why, why would she go to that much trouble to fight in a war, did she respect her mortal people that much to risk her life in battle, and most of the women in the room looked at her with admiration and respect, mostly because Canada, had shown the world that women could fight like men, women could get and give respect just like men, that they could fight with honor and courage like men, maybe even more!…
"Mon petit lapin tout blanc…" Francis started as he placed a hand on his frowning face and sat back down in his chair that was away from the table a bit, his heart ached at the thought of his old colony fighting in those monsterours wars. How many tears did she shed for her people and others? He would never know. How many wounds she had to fix by herself? He didn't dare think. How many times did she almost get caught? He didn't want to know how many times a man almost found out her secret.
Mattie smiled softly at him and said with light in her eyes "Papa, its alright. I'm alright, that was past and we live in the present, please don't worry to much about it…" Francis stared at the very beautiful smile and said "How on earth did I not see it? How could I not notice it before? That smile, it does not suit a young man but a young Mademoiselle… Je suis un idiot!"
"Papa…" Mattie said as she shook her head softly before stepping close to the first father figure in her life, she placed a hand on his hand that rested on the handle of the chair and sank down to her knees saying as she looked him straight in the eyes "Papa… Please don't worry like this, just smile and be happy… For me? Please… It's the only thing I ask for you to do…" he stared into violet-blue eyes that shined in a light of its own and a stunning smile that graced her lips.
He kept staring before a uneasy smile of his own as he said "Oh, mon petit lapin tout blanc… I'll try… For you…" Mattie smiled back at him and said "Merci Papa…" everyone in the room stared at the smile and some looked away from it because they found it far too cute, which really started to irk Gilbert badly now, but he had sworn to his girlfriend before they had left her house that he would not get jealous… Okay that smile on Russia's face was really starting to piss him off now.
"Matt…" Alfred started at he stared at his br- sister. Mattie looked at Alfred and got off from the ground, she stood and walked closer to her brother and said "Al…" his blue eyes stared into her violet-purple ones and he suddenly hugged her, she was a bit stunned but heard him say "You should had told me, I thought we were brothers, you should had… But I understand why you didn't… Just… No more secrets okay?…" she blinked a few times and nodded before patting his back saying "Yes, no more secrets."
Alfred let go and smiled at his new sister, now thinking on how he could be a even better 'Hero' to his now sister. Suddenly though, Mattie looked down to Arthur who was thinking hard and long about her words, Mattie had noticed his look and spoke to him "Arthur… I know you might be having a hard time believing I'm a woman but I am… I'm sorry I never told you and I'm sorry if I betrayed your trust but it was the only thing I could think of at the time… If things were different back then, I would had, I swear I would had told you… Please… Don't be mad…"
Arthur's head shot up and he turned to Mattie in disbelief, did she really think he was mad at her? For hiding a secret, an important secret at that, but a secret for a good reason? "No!" Arthur nearly shouted out, he stopped and calmed himself for a moment before sitting up saying "No… I'm not mad, I'm just bloody… Shocked, surprised, and a little hurt that I wasn't told this… But I'm not mad…" she smiled at him and he stared at it before some blush appeared on his cheeks, he couldn't help but find that smile cute.
Soon enough after that, people came up from their chairs and talked to Mattie asking her how hard was it to hide her secret, and most of the women in the room patted her on the back, saying she really showed the world what women could do if they set their minds on. Mattie spoke with Cuba who looked like he was going to pass out from the secret but soon enough he smiled at her saying "You had a good reason, mi amigo… I'm little hurt that you didn't tell me but I'll be okay…"
Hungary smiled and said "Me and you are a lot alike Canada, I believed I was a boy too but I convinced myself I was, unlike…" she stopped and glared at France, before continuing saying with a smile to the Canadian "You, who was made to believe you were a boy by France…" Mattie gave a uneasy chuckle at that but soon stopped when she noticed a distressed looking Ukraine.
She stared before pulling herself away from Hungary who was now glaring at France while muttering out the words "Stupid men and their stupidity…" or something around those lines, and she walked to Ukraine. Canada had known that Ukraine had a little crush on her boy-self and knew she would be a little distressed when the secret was told. She walked closer to Ukraine and spoke softly "Katyusha…"
Ukraine stared at the now female 'Matvey', and looked like she was going to cry a bit, Mattie spoke again "Katyusha… I'm sorry I never told you… I know I should had told you, you're a really good friend to me but… I… I'm sorry… I really hope this doesn't hurt the friendship we have… I've always looked up to you, you know…" and with that Mattie bowed sadly, Katyusha blinked pulling her mind away from her disbelief and hurt from before, she looked at the Canadians face that had hurt and sorrow all over it.
Katyusha's eyes softened before she smiled and hugged the Canadian. Most men in the room blushed and some nearly fainted from blood loss as they watched the two 'well-developed' females hug. Prussia blushed bright and looked away covering his face with his gloved hand thinking 'No, don't think about it, don't think about!' while some girls looked away with a small blush on their cheeks, most envying the two girls 'well-developed' bodies.
Katyusha's spoke softly "Its okay, Matvey. We'll still be friends okay?…" inside her heart hurt a little but she knew she could never bring herself to be mad at the other woman. Mattie smiled softly and returned the hug and saying "Thank you Katyusha…"
Both broke from their hug and smiled at each other, soon enough more people stormed around Canada asking her questions and some men in the room blushed as they got closer to the now female Canadian. Gilbert twitched uncontrollably when Russia walked right to his Canada saying "Comrade-Matvey… Even though you are a woman, are we are still playing Hockey this weekend, da?"
Some froze at the very strange child-like smile that grace the taller man's face but suddenly Mattie's eyes sparked brightly as she said excited for the match "Heck yeah! There is no way I'm backing down from a Hockey Match! You better not hold back on me Ivan, because even though I'm a woman that doesn't mean I'm going to be soft on you!" this made almost everyone stare at Mattie like she had grown another head, except for Belarus who was madly twitching to reach for a knife because she didn't like the way her 'beloved' was smiling to the other woman.
Russia smiled again making some in the room stiffen and Arthur and France felt their 'Must protect darling little daughter away from evil men' mode go off, but before they were going to pull her away from the taller man, they stopped and pondered where did that come from? They never had that feeling before.
Alfred glared harshly at Ivan and nearly yelled out "Hey you Commie-Bastard stay away from Mattie!" he had, not to long ago, came up with a new nickname for his now sister, after all Matthew was no name for a young woman and so was the nickname Matt.
Mattie shot him a glare beacuse he named her the same name her boyfriend gave her and Russia just blankly stared at him as Alfred got between the two hockey rivals. Prussia sighed and unclutched his hand he had clutched when he saw the smile Ivan had given to Mattie, he was about ready to run over and punch him! He didn't care if it was Russia, even though the guy does scare the crap out of him! That was HIS girlfriend he was smiling at!
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Germany stopped staring at the now female Canada, and his wondering if she was the same woman he only once fought in World War I and II, the same woman that looked like a cornered wild animal on the field, the same woman who was not afraid to die, the same woman whose eyes looked like they were staring into his soul, the same eyes that froze him and his men those two times they had crossed each others path in both wars?
Anyway, Ludwig looked to his brother who was still sitting at the table and near the door, but his face seemed pissed off before it calmed down after seeing Alfred get in the way between Mattie and Ivan. Ludwig's eyes narrowed at this, why wasn't his brother freaking out like the others? Why was he still sitting down and close to the door? And why was he getting mad when Ivan and Mattie spoke to each other? His eyes suddenly looked at Mattie and noticed something on her neck, it looked red and it looked like a… Hickey?
He stared and blinked before looking back to Gilbert who was now staring with a calm smile at the female Canadian. That smile… He never had seen that smile before on his brother before, it looks almost like he was…
"Oh, Gilbert is very happy, ve… I think he might be in love……… I'm going to make pasta~" rang Feliciano's voice in the back of Ludwig's head and his eyes widened. There was no way! NO WAY! Ludwig looked back and forth from his brother and to the young woman in the room, suddenly, as if it was a sign that god wanted him to know it was true, Ludwig saw Mattie stare at Gilbert with a soft smile on her lips and a blush on his face, and in return Gilbert smirked softly and blushed a bit.
Ludwig nearly fainted when he realized his brother, GILBERT, the guy that went around staying he was going to invade people's 'vital regions' one day, was in LOVE! He mentally groaned knowing this meeting was not going to end well…
Mattie felt a small paw on her pant leg and looked down to see Kumajiro pawing at her with Gilbird on his head, she smiled down to her bear and picked him up as everyone stared at the cute scene, she cradled Kumajiro for a moment as Gilbird flew up to her head. suddenly Kumajiro spoke saying clearly so everyone could hear "Secret… Boyfriend… Tell…" before deciding he wanted sleep in his masters arms.
Everyone froze in their spots and so did Mattie, and Gilbert.
Then in a flash Alfred, Arthur, and Francis yelled out with much killing intent "WHAT?!!"
Mattie was still frozen where she stood and Gilbert gulped in his chair…
So… Wanna you think?
I do like this chapter, it came out very nicely, and it's a little long too!
As I said before in the other chapters, I'm sorry if some might be a little Ocish, I'm new to Hetalia…
Review if you like it, if you don't like it than don't review…
…Any spelling mistakes will be fixed later, its 1 in the morning and I would like sleep…
