Prompt – "I'm Sorry"

"I'm sorry"

Hungary turns up to face him with a curious expression, "What have you done this time Prussia? Did you set the fire alarm off again? Steal Austria's underwear again? Mess around with England's wand again? Or something new?"

"No," Prussia answers wondering if he's stupid enough to have really just started speaking his thoughts aloud, "It's nothing like that."

Hungary's looks even more curious now, hand on her hip and eyebrow raised with a small twitch to her lips. "What are you apologizing for then?"

"Nothing," Prussia answers, "Everything I suppose."

Hungary purses her lips thoughtfully and turns back to her cooking. "In that case I'm sorry too."

"What?" Prussia says now confused himself.

"For nothing." Hungary copies, "For everything."

"Why…?" Prussia asks. He hadn't really thought about why he was apologizing. He just felt the sudden need to for all those little things in the past, the teasing, the arguments, the careless insults as they competed.

Hungary turns her head ever so slightly so that Prussia can just see her smile. "Same as you right? Apologizes are a good way to move forward and start something new yes?"

Prussia smiles back, not his cocky smile but the smile he reserves just for Hungary, the only one who he's ever felt really knew him and what he was thinking no matter what. "Yeah, I suppose so."

Hungary's smile widens and she drags the seat out at the kitchen table. "Stay for dinner," She offers, "We'll chat and start once more shall we?"

Prussia pauses, it wasn't so much that he disliked the past, he'd lived in the present and enjoyed the good moments while he could. But this wasn't so much about forgetting but moving on and looking forward to enjoying those sort of moments in future.

"It's …. " Hungary adds temptingly waving her wooden spoon in the air.

"Yeah, the awesome me will eat your awesome food," Prussia says replacing his smile with his usual grin and settling back down in to his comfortable attitude.

The future may be something he could look forward to. But there was an element of the past he wanted to keep. And that would be Hungary, always willing to stay beside him.


Sorry this one's short. I struggled slightly more with the prompt although I do like what I did get. It's a day late too but I couldn't help that because my internet crashed last night.

I hope you like this anyway! - Sekaira