(A/N: Yola! Thanks to all of you who bared with me through the long break and last chapter's absurdly long A/N and short story.
I want to thank you all for reading again, and I want to especially extend my thanks to The Fairy Cake, last chapter's reviewer.
Remember that Hetalia doesn't belong to me, and neither do the pictures these are based off of. If you want these aforementioned pictures, please just ask! Anyhoo, this chapter's EngBela was requested by Mamma Russia. I really don't know how to pull off a pairing, and I never would have entertained or wrote about EngBela if not for the pic this was based off. So, I can't say you can expect a really realistically/well-executed crack pairing here. More like just a crackishly-executed crack pairing really. I hope to someday have the talent to actually take any two random people and make a coupling between the two believable. :DDD
Enjoy reading after you have rid yourself of any and all expectations!)
No matter what, Arthur couldn't have her.
Even though she was right in front of him and she had whispered, "Take me" with a voice so soft he could hardly believe it was her, he could not have her.
Her cold blue eyes searched his imploringly, looking almost vulnerable. Her lips were tugged into a frown, twitching every so often to let Arthur know she was doing this reluctantly. She grasped his tie with her gloved hands and he raked his hands through her long, golden hair in a rote movement, hardly paying attention to what he was doing. Everything evidenced towards her being there...not just another one of his faeries playing a trick on him. This was no apparition, this was the true Natalia who had run to his side and begged him to take her.
He turned his head stiffly to the side and retained composure, knowing that he couldn't take her, even though he so desperately wanted to. Even as she offered herself to him, she was still Ivan's, and she always would be, even after Arthur had his way with her. He could barely stand to put his hands on her just knowing that she might as well have had Ivan's name tattooed on her forehead- not that Ivan acknowledged ownership of the semi-psychotic girl in front of Arthur.
Her gaze grew colder when Arthur became unresponsive. She was certain that he liked her...even if he acted all tsundere about it like her big brother. But Arthur had never run away from her screaming, at least to her knowledge. So she wondered why it was taking the damn Brit so long. Deciding to be helpful, she undid his tie and pressed a kiss to his lips, which were cold and tasted faintly bitter, like tea.
"Why...why are you doing this?" he asked through a voice trying too hard to be steely, as his green eyes began to water. He furiously swiped at his irritated eyes, hiding any evidence that he was tearing up. He was pretty sure he knew why she was here, but he had to ask anyway.
Natalia shook her head angrily, Arthur's rejection hurting her pride. She glanced back at her pocket as if deciding whether to fish her knife out or not. She refused to answer his question, because she was only human, and she could only take so much of her brother's rejection. Not that she will voice any of this aloud...Arthur has seen her too vulnerable already, and she doesn't like it. She wants to hurry up and use him for warmth then discard him, like she used to do with Toris...she didn't understand why Toris had stopped responding to her advances either, just like Arthur was right now. Men were hard to understand.
"I- I don't want to be Ivan's substitute." Arthur choked out when the silence became too tense and her hand was too worringly close to the knife pocket. Natalia shot him a piercing glare but also dared him to continue with her eyes. She was curious as to how this sentence would end. "I can't." He says the word "can't" as if he's trying to send her all of his thoughts and emotions through one word, even though it's impossible. She didn't seem to care much about how he was feeling anyway.
But even as the girl of his dreams hissed and retreated, undoubtedly seeking someone else to comfort and warm her, all Arthur knew was that he could never touch her, no matter how hard he tried. He wanted to go let out his frustrations in the corner, but he supposed he should go warn Alfred that Natalia was searching around for a temporary Ivan replacement again. Not that the bloody git ever listened- Al would always welcome her with open arms, and Arthur wondered why the girl didn't just go to the eager American in the first place when she desired a man to be in the arms of. Maybe she was afraid of growing emotionally attached to Alfred (he had a way of stealing your heart, just like she did. Arthur would know).
She had many males wrapped around her little finger- all except her precious brother, ironically enough- and Arthur knows he's not special. Toris was special: she had always gone to him until he had backed out because of pure pain from the on-and-off relationship. Alfred was special: she almost never went to him for fear of being caught up in him and having messy emotional strings attached. And of course Ivan was special... Arthur was just another replaceable man, one who had probably pissed her off by refusing her proposal. But Arthur wiped at his eyes again and resolved he wouldn't let his favorite woman toy with his favorite friend. He was off to find Alfred and keep him drunk and in sight for the next few hours.
(A/N: And then Arthur got drunk before Alfred, Al snuck off and got used by Natalia, and Arthur was utterly useless in preventing Natalia from toying with Alfred. That's my head-canon ending for this. Um...so...yeah. Thanks for reading!
DON'T HURT ME. But DO review, please. Because it would make me the happiest person alive~ Well actually a mass crossover between Hetalia, Phoenix Wright, Professor Layton, Detective Conan and Homestuck would make my life, but you get the point. ;D
I wrote this one awhile ago and I thought I was gonna be too lazy to touch it up, but then I looked over it and saw how wussy and non-England like I made England. Along with just generally stupid diction. :| So I ended up changing some of it, at least...
Anyhoo, you know the drill. If you want, you can recommend any of these drabbles for me to post next, and I'll see what I can do: AmeBela, AmeViet, AustraliaWy, AusHun, BelaRus, FraSey, JapTai, JoanFrance, PolHun, PruHun, RomanoBelgium, UkrRus, and VietFra.)
