In the Midst of the Confusion
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OMG I'M ACTUALLY ROLEPLAYING AS POLAND!
And this is dedicated to my friend Emily for all her AMAZING ideas. This chapter wouldn't be up without her.
Disclaimer: I don't even own the ship they Hetalia crew is sailing on let alone Hetalia.
Arthur felt his stomach drop and he would have swayed if not for being supported by a teeming mass of shoving bodies. Yao hadn't seen Alfred since the afternoon. Where could the immature American be? It wasn't the largest of ships; someone had had to have seen him.
"Sorry Arthur aru," Yao said. "I have work to do." The feminine Chinese man ran off, pushing through the crowds with ease.
"Who's Arthur honey?" His mum asked curious despite the panicking crowds around them.
"A boy I met," Arthur explained. "He's a crew member but his friend hasn't seen him since this afternoon."
"So is this possible boyfriend material?" His dad asked. Arthur just groaned and then slipped as the ship rolled violently. This wasn't he time for his parents to be worrying over his so far, non-existent love life.
Finally the small family made it into the smoke room on deck C. Finding a small place to sit, Roderich sat the family down. The port windows were shut firmly and boarded up to stop water from escaping into the room and crew members ran around serving tea and ice-cream. To the surprise of a blonde female stewardess, Arthur accepted the tea instead of ice-cream before asking her a question he had been asking to all the crew members.
"Have you seen Alfred around, one of your crew members?"
He wasn't expecting a good answer as all the people he had asked had shaken heir heads before rushing off. But he was surprised to find the blonde beam and nod.
"I was like, in the toilet before the warning like, came and he was totally in there with me. He was with me until like, the first mate said the captain wanted him. Alfred is like, actually really smart and good with boats."
Arthur progressed this information before staring at the dress the crew member was adorned in. One fact from the information he had gathered was bothering him.
"Do the crew members share a bathroom?" He asked.
"No we have separate ones for males and females." The blonde replied before skipping of. "If I see Alfred, I'll like, tell him that a blonde with huge eyebrows was looking for him."
Arthur just washed as the male crew member dashed off to offer people more food.
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Arthur felt like he had been siting there for ages. He was so bored. The blonde had come by a few more times to introduce himself as Felicks and tell him that no one was yet to have seen Alfred. All the news did was make Arthur feel worse and worse about his new found friend. Was it possible to have crush on someone if you had only just met them?
If luggage hadn't been allowed to be taken with you, Arthur would have flipped through some old diaries out of boredom and maybe even updated his recent one but he didn't want to be made to leave his precious bag behind.
A cricket team as singing 'We will not be moved' and other people began to sing.1 Arthur groaned. People trying to cheer themselves up was nice and al but it was so loud and repetitive. He heard people playing I Spy next to him and was almost tempted to join in, he was so bored.
Just as Arthur was about to jump up and scream out how bored he was, Felicks came back up with Yao at his side. Both looked very worried but determined.
"We're going to find Alfred aru. Would you like to come with us?"
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Ignoring his parents frantic cries for him to come back, Arthur shot off his fee and ran off after Yao and Felicks. They burst through a door and began to run down semi-flooded corridors.
"The crew are the only people officially able to actually move through the corridors at the moment aru." Yao puffed. ""This is the way to the captain's room where Felicks said Alfred was taken aru."
"I like, suggested you come too since you seem to have a totally cute crush on Alfred." Felicks almost squealed despite the dangerous situation they were in.
Arthur blushed, not having the strength to protest. Besides that would be lying wouldn't it?
"This way aru," Yao turned down a corridor but suddenly the ship lurched in the sea and Arthur who wasn't used to boats was sent tumbling down the corridor, smashing through a side door before rolling to a stop. He sprung to his feet immediately only to find the door of the room that he had fallen into was jammed shut.
"Felicks, Yao!" He called. "Help me!"
"Where are you aru?" Yao yelled. Obviously, he and Felicks hadn't taken a tumble like Arthur had.
"I fell into a room. It's right at the end of the corridor." Arthur yelled back. He heard the sounds of people splashing through water before there were some rough knocking sounds at the door.
"How is this like, even possible?" Felicks complained. "The door is totally stuck. This is like, stupid"
"I'll go find something heavy aru." Yao suggested. He seemed very calm for someone stuck on a sinking ship. "Come with me Felicks. We'll be right back aru. Just stay calm Arthur."
Arthur sighed as he heard the footsteps leading away from him before looking at the water that was up to his knees. Maybe he should have told them to hurry. If they didn't get back soon, the room was going to flood and he was going to die!
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"We are evacuating the ship. Would all passengers please head to the lifeboats on the starboard side? I repeat, we are evacuating! Women and children will leave first. Please proceed with caution. We are evacuating!"
Alfred turned to the captain after playing the message throughout the boat.
"I should go and help out," he said, hoping that he might find Arthur in the midst of the confusion that as sure to have broken out.
"Ok," The captain said. "I'm staying here though. The Wahine is my joy, I'm going to try and save it or at least the lives on it."
Alfred ran off, hoping that he would come across his new friend and maybe even future boyfriend. Instead he ran into Yao and Felicks who were lugging the frame of a window along a corridor2. It looked heavy, the circle imbedded with huge bolts.
"What's going on dudes?' Alfred asked. "You trying to steal from the ship?"
"No aru," Yao puffed. "Your new friend is stuck in a room. We need to break the door down aru."
"You mean Arthur?" Alfred cried, his heart suddenly picking up speed as he thought about the Brit stuck in a room that was slowly filling up with water.
"That's totally the one," Felicks confirmed the question.
"Let's go then!' Alfred cried, adding his hands to the frame to help pull it along. "Arthur needs a little help from the hero!"
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Arthur balanced on the deck as the room filled with water. His head would be under water by now if it wasn't for the table. Water was pouring in through the window which Arthur had been unable to close. It just kept getting pushed open again because the flow of water was so strong.
The ship shuddered and Arthur wobbled back and worth, trying to stay on the desk. He didn't want to plunge into the cold water that was now up to his knees whilst on the desk. Where were Yao and Felicks? If they didn't come back soon, he was in big trouble. Maybe they had found Alfred. Maybe his new friend was running to him as he thought about Alfred running to him. Ok that was a tad confusing.
More water poured through the window and Arthur looked around for a higher perch. Unfortunately the room held only a double bed, not a bunk. This meant that the desk was the highest thing in the room. There was no escaping the watery terror.
Arthur began to shake, not just from the cold but from the fear. He was going to die. He was too young to die. It was cliché but it was true. He wanted to live a nice long life; he wanted to see Alfred….
Arthur suddenly wanted to cry. He wanted to scream at the unfairness of it all. Why did he have to have met Alfred? Dying would be a lot easier to deal with if he hadn't fallen in love with the blonde. Why couldn't he see him one more time before the water claimed him?
Arthur shuddered as the water rose again. The ocean had decided his fate. He was going to die aboard the Wahine, alone and scared without even getting to say goodbye to everyone he loved…..
Ahhhh I'm evil, even to myself. Please review I you want Arthur to live…..PLEASE
1: In a My story book I read set aboard the Wahine; people spent a lot of time on the C deck signing. The cricket team singing 'we will not be moved' was taken from the book.
2: You know the giant things that surround the circular windows with all the bolts. Them. I don't know if you can remove them but I needed something that wasn't a chair or a table and those things look really heavy
