Here's another deleted chapter~
Deleted Scene From: Chapter 17: Buy Me or die!
Country Doing Frugal Money Scheme: Belarus
Main Focus: Baltics Ambushed By Belarus.
The Baltic States are sitting in Lithuania's living room trying to think up of a plan to make money. They are all crammed together on the same sofa. In order, it is the owner of the house, Latvia, and finally Estonia. They stare dejectedly at Estonia's laptop. The screen has a blank worksheet in Microsoft Word. The blinking horizontal line seems to be mocking them for not having any words typed in.
Latvia sighs, "What are we going to do? We're pretty low on money because the other countries keep stealing them." Lithuania doesn't bother commenting on Latvia's bluntness this time. It is true what the small country has said. The countries (especially Russia) see them as easy targets to make money. The Baltics are often the unwilling 'customers' in their schemes. That is, when they even considered the loose term customer instead of robbing them.
Estonia replies, "Well, we need to think of something we can all do. Once we make some money, we need to hide it very well at home. It's best for our….situation… to not carry it all on our person. We tend to have our money stolen more often that way."
It sucks being such easy targets. Once a country glances their way, dollar signs light up in their eyes screaming, "Easy targets, easy money."
A door bell ringing distracts Lithuania from delving deeper into the sad reality of being bullied for money by stronger countries. The person on the other side of the door seems very insistent. The doorbell keeps ringing impatiently. He gets up from his spot. He wears a weak smile on his face. "I'll get it." He leaves them for the door. Once he gets to the door and reaches for the doorknob, the ringing eerily stops.
Lithuania stops his hand in place. He can't the shudder that passes throughout his body. He can't help but feel something bad is going to happen very soon, and he suspects that it involves the person waiting inside. He gulps. "I hope it's not Russia!" His gut is telling him it's not him. He doesn't get the same cold presence he feels when the dreaded person is within vicinity of him. It's someone just as bad and familiar.
He hesitantly opens the door, forgetting to peer through his peephole before doing so. He is confused. No one is at the door. He was sure the person was very eager to get inside the house, yet they're not there. Strange.
Screaming echoes in his house. He slams the door and whirls around, horrified. "Oh no, where are they! They were just there." Estonia and Latvia are missing. The laptop is in the same spot with the irritating blinking horizontal line.
An open window catches his eyes. He knows he closed all the windows before the Baltics held their private meeting. The screeching picks up again. Lithuania dashes down the hallway to the nearest scream. It was coming from Latvia's room. Lithuania slams the door open to a shocking sight. He slaps his hands to his face. He shrieks, "Who did this to you Latvia?!"
Latvia is tied to his chair by rope. There is tape on all sides of his eyelids, stretching them to make his eyes look like a wild animal. Latvia's chair is facing a computer that is playing a YouTube video of a teen showing his reactions playing the Slender man game "Slender: The Eight pages."
Latvia screams, "Don't turn around! The screen is getting gritty!" The video shows the player picking up a piece of paper from a car in the woods. The trees and haunting darkness creates a creepy atmosphere. The screen starts acting up. The player turns around to meet Slender man.
Lithuania scrambles with Latvia's computer. He turns off the screen and turns off the volume. Then he finally turns off the computer. The Slender man drama over with, he makes quick work untying Latvia from his chair.
Once released, Latvia flops himself to the ground. "I'm free!"
Lithuania lifts the Latvian off the floor. He shakes his shoulders hysterically. "What happened to you?"
Latvia cries, "It happened so fast! When you went to answer the door, Estonia and I saw Belarus getting inside from the window. We ran for our lives. I went to hide in my room, but she caught me quickly. And- And….." Latvia points to his computer desk.
He didn't notice the creepy teddy bears there. Then again, he was too busy dealing with the computer to notice them. He assumes the…..toys…if you can call them that are teddy bears because he recognizes the body of one. The similarities stops there. Instead of a regular teddy bear head, there is a head that looks disturbingly like Russia's head. The details are right down to his closed eye creepy smile. There are four teddy bears in total on the desk. Four disturbing toys too much.
Latvia picks up his voice. "….And then Belarus tied me to the chair and put on the v-video. She stole my money and left some creepy Russia's here. She told me she was punishing me for being a bad customer…" Latvia starts to babble on about Belarus' description of a 'bad customer' for not buying her merchandise in the first place.
Estonia walks in through the open door. He gives them all a sad look. "So you couldn't escape either."
Latvia whimpers, "Why didn't she tie you up to?"
Estonia sighs. "She caught me hiding in the bathroom. She demanded I buy her products or die. I gave her my money and she shoved some things into my arms and promptly left." He holds up the same Russia teddy bear. Except this one is wearing Russia's signature coat and holding a piece of cloth in the shape of a pipe.
They all shudder at the sight. The creepy teddy bears in the room makes it almost feel like the real Russia is in the room.
Another presence comes into the room. It is Belarus herself. Her glare on her face as usual. She's carrying a plastic black bag with some her creepy teddy bears sticking out of the bag.
Belarus holds out her hand to Lithuania. "Hand over money or die."
Lithuania feels love-struck despite the situation. "S-Sure. Anything for you." He takes money out of his pocket. He gently places the money on her hands.
She sticks the money into her pocket. She holds out her hand again. "Buy again or die."
"O-Of course." They repeat the money exchange again.
Latvia opens his big mouth. "She is a horrible business woman. Who threatens their customers with death and expects continued business in the future?" The Slender man video doesn't seem to tramutize Latvia enough to keep quiet. He just had to make a comment to get himself killed.
The atmosphere in the room darkens. Belarus is beyond pissed off. She glares evilly at Latvia.
Lithuania says, "Why couldn't you have kept your mouth shut?"
The main reason this scene was taken out because I felt I was getting into character abuse territory with the Baltics. Every time you see them in my fic, you think someone is going to ruff them up for money. I already got a review or two saying I have to be careful or I'll cross into character abuse with them. I didn't want to get a lot of reviews saying I abuse the Baltics. Damn Baltics, they're easy targets for money by the other countries.