Ch. 7

"Pleeeease~~" Alfred continued to pout and stare up at Ivan with the puppy eyes. "I can't see too well without my glasses, and you broke them so it's even harder to see!"

Ivan let out a sigh and put a hand on his shoulder. "Alright, I vill help you. I don't see how you can go back vith your glasses like that and not have anyone ask you about vhat happened to them, though."

"I can just say I got in a fight and my glasses broke. I'm still upset about that though. It's not cool, dude."

Ivan rolled his eyes and walked to the front of the plane and looked up at the face. It was crooked and the eyes looked like an ameba, or a small child tried to draw a circle. The toothy grin had some of the teeth meeting each other at the tip and some had a large gap between them.

'It looks like it's going to cry…. Vell, if I looked like that, I vould cry too.'

"Thanks dude!" Alfred cheered as he handed Ivan the paint he had brought. "You gotta clean it all up before you start repainting it. It could take all night."

Ivan shot Alfred an irked look before leaving and coming back with something to clean off his horrible paint job. Normally, he probably would have put up a fight against extra work, but if he had learned anything in the past couple decades is that hard work is what you have to do and if you don't do it, bad things will happen to you. Of course, most of the bad things was even harder work.

It took Ivan a couple hours to scrub off the paint to the liking of the picky American before painting it. By the time he got the plane finished, the sun had set and the night chill came in. Alfred had fallen asleep using his jacket as a pillow, leaning against the empty fuel can. He shivered in his sleep and curled up to stay warm.

'Aww, you're not used to the cold, are you little American? Of course not, you'll probably catch cold because you fell asleep out here rather than inside your plane vhere you're hot head vill probably keep you varm. Vell, can't let him freeze or get sick, I vill hear about it and knowing him, he vould probably pull some stunt and blame me for it. The last thing I need him to do is take it out on innocent people vho aren't even Communist.'


Alfred woke up warm under a blanket. Was it a blanket? No, those are sleeves. He sat up and rubbed his eyes under his glasses and looked down at what was covering him. It took him a while to realize what it was without seeing its owner inside it. It was very warm, but as a hero, he doesn't need someone's coat, especially a Communist's! He tossed it off immediately and leapt to his feet.

The cold breeze kicked up and nearly froze him on the spot. Forgetting his sense of hero pride, he grabbed the coat and wrapped himself up in it. He picked up his jacket and frowned at how cold it was, except for the spot his head was resting.

'Where did he go? He's not here…' Alfred thought as he looked around. 'But he left me his coat… maybe he just went inside… AND LEFT ME ALONE IN THE COLD? How dare he leave me in the cold and go into a nice warm building. Asshole.'

"You're avake…"

"YOU DICK! YOU LEFT ME OUT IN THE COLD! YOU—what's that?" Alfred pointed to the two steaming cups.

"I decided to get out something varm to drink for you. Sorry it took me avhile to see if ve have coffee…"

"Oh… thanks." Alfred took the cup he was handed and took a sip after he sniffed it. Immediately he made a face that worried Ivan. "Ugh! This tastes like what horse shit smells like!"

"I'm sorry, I've never made it before. I tried."

Alfred smiled. "Well, I know how to tell a Commie from normal people. Their coffee sucks!" He let out a laugh before taking another sip to be nice. After all, he just had someone he came to kick their ass and had them refuel and paint his aircraft. That was un-communistic of him.

"You really don't have to drink that. I von't be offended if you dumped it out."

"Well, what cha got there?"

"Tea…"

"Ugh…"

"Spiked vith vodka. I found some…"

Alfred tossed the coffee out of the cup and poured half of Ivan's drink into his. "Thanks, dude!"

"I… I didn't say you could go and drink mine… but ok, greedy."

"Hmm? I'm not greedy. Hey, it's cold out here, man. Can we go inside?" Alfred asked, arms close and holding the warm cup tightly. Ivan was wearing a long sleeve turtleneck, but it didn't look too thick. He looked cold without his jacket. "I mean, you're not wearing your coat…"

"It's ok," Ivan laughed. "I'm used to this cold, da. It's nothing compared to the vinter. You should be going soon. I just checked to see if they vere still vaiting for your return. You shouldn't keep them vaiting, you know. It's rude."

Alfred scoffed and downed the rest of the drink and made a face again. He handed the cup back. "Thanks… maybe you're not so bad, when you feel like being nice. Can I keep the jacket? At least until mine heats up? It's cold…"

"I vould vant it back soon…" Ivan raised his eyebrow. "It is my only coat… It vill feel quite lonely vithout it, but I suppose you can keep it, if you pay me."

"I thought you didn't care about money! That it was some kind of Capitalist thing…"

"It is, but I'm not talking about money." Ivan steps closer and leans in to whisper in his ear. "I just vant to show you how I am. You know, vhat it's like as a homo? You really shouldn't judge everyone because you don't know about them. If you got to know one properly, maybe you vouldn't be so against them… Same goes for Communists, but that's just asking too much from you."

'He wants me to be a homo? Gross… First Commie cooties and now homo germs? Is he trying to make me, what is it called… patient zero or something? No way in hell I'm going to do that, dude… but… this coat is very warm… How bad can it be? A kiss? I can always brush my teeth afterwards…"

"Ok! Nothing too bad dude!" Alfred smiled. "I mean, how bad can it be, right? What doesn't kill you makes you stronger! And I need to be stronger to be the best hero there is and ever will be!


'Did he seriously just say yes?'

"Are you sure you vant to? You don't know vhat I'm going to ask for yet…"

"No dude, sure, who cares. Not like anyone has to know about this right?" Alfred laughs nervously. "I mean… It's not like something you would go around telling people. No one just goes around and say, 'Hey! Look at me! I'm a homo!', right?"

"N-niet…"

'He seriously said yes… I… I don't know if I should be scared, happy, or shocked! Vell, he said yes. I vas kinda hoping for him to just say no so I can have my coat back… Oh vell, I'm never going to get another chance to do this again… Maybe I should just let him go and get my coat later.'

"So what do I have to do, dude? Clean up the mess around here? Tell you how to make real food and not suck at coffee?"

'A visit to Florida maybe?'

"Read the Communist Manifesto aloud to me."

"WHAAAAAT? Hell no, dude. I'm not a Commie!"

"You vant to keep the jacket for a little vhile, or freeze?"

"…Yes…" Alfred answered weakly hanging his head, hugging his own jacket.

"Then you vill have to read it all the vay through… vithout getting distracted." Ivan grins.


A/N: Many appologies for not posting. I have had a lot happen in such a short time and with how my work schedule is, if I'm not at work, I'm sleeping. Eitherway I have a few things to say to any readers of my other works:

'My Comrade the Nazi' will be updated extremely slowly (slower than my Communist Manifesto is taking in the mail. . .) because my historical books which I have highlighted and noted important/interesting things myself have been and still are 2,000+ miles from me. The importance of this is they were essecially my plot notes for the story and I want to as historically accurate as possible.

'The Love of Two Brothers' will have a single chapter left that is currently underway, but with my schedule who knows when this'll come out. Also, I have to sadly admit here that I have not watched the show in over a year and am completely lost. It was written and supposed to finish before Shippuden came out and quite honestly, I was only able to catch up to about episode 283. So if the last chapter is horribly messed up with the actual plotline, I have no idea what has happened since besides a bunch of character deaths so please forgive me! A

Lastly, I am currently working on another story (a sequal) and about to start one for Invader Zim. Dear God I know I am killing you all with the crappy update times and multiple stories, but since I'm going to be back in school in a few weeks and moving it'll be hell on all of us. More on me because my job is the graveyard shift and I'll have class all day. . .so. . .when you get lots of updates (if at all possible) you may not get any more for quite awhile. . . fair warning to what's to come and a painful reminder, this story is already completed and it's just up to me to remember to update instead of wasting time reading different stories.

If you want any details on anything or interesting about WHY I have been gone for so long so many times. . .PM me and I'll tell you why and hopefully gain some forgiveness from you my poor neglected readers. I am so terribly sorry, I'll try to be better at updating! Promise!