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A knock on his door startled the Frenchman who had been reading a newspaper. After folding the paper and placing it on the table, Francis stood up and walked up to the door and opened it.

"Matthieu?" he asked, chocked to see his adoptive son standing outside the door with his signature red hoodie under a trench coat. Raindrops dripped from the younger male and he shivered lightly. Fatherly instincts put in as Francis reached out and pulled the Canadian inside the house, closing the door, "Mon petit, you're soaking wet! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, papa. I just have to get out of this coat and have a cup of tea," the violet-eyed male said in his hushed voice. The Frenchman nodded and helped the Canadian to remove his coat and then ran to his kitchen to make some tea.

'I wonder if Matthieu likes Earl Grey … Like Angleterre … Arthur,' Francis thought to himself and smiled by the thought of Arthur. He and the Brit were going out later that week. Arthur had however refused to call it a date, to Francis' amusement. "Francis, it's just two friends meeting out town, no bloody date" he had said, that foolish Brit. Chuckling to himself, the Frenchman did not notice the Canadian that now sat down by the table.

However, when the younger blonde coughed, Francis spun around very gracefully, something that Antonio had taught him from the Spanish dances, "Uh, papa … There's something I'd like to ask you."

"D'accord. Ask away, Matthieu," Francis nodded before striding over to sit down on the table next to his son. He noticed the younger's struggle for the correct words, but he remained patient about it. After all, this was his dear Matthieu. The boy he had learned the French language, and who now also used it as one of the two official languages in Canada.

"Well … Alfred … Alfred proposed to me yesterday …"

"QUOI?"

"H-he asked me to marry him, eh!"

"I understand that, Matthieu! Did you turn him down or why are you here?" the Frenchman's eyebrows furrowed and the Canadian twiddled his thumbs nervously.

"Non, papa, I accepted, but … W-wouldyouliketogivemeaway!" the shy male hid his now red face in his hands, "B-because I couldn't ask Arthur, since he didn't really take care of me for that long and you're like a-a real father to me and …"

The young male ranted while the Frenchman still tried to make out what the Canadian had asked. The rant about Arthur and the father ship didn't really interest him. Dieu! What had the Canadian asked him?

"Matthieu!"

"Y-yes, papa?" Matthew finally stopped his ranting and looked into his father's blue eyes, finding comfort in them as they reminded him of Alfred's blue eyes.

"What was it that you asked me? You were talking too rapide," Francis chuckled as his son blushed again. He patted the blonde's head, being very careful that he didn't touch that one haircurl located in the Canadian's hair. The Vargas' brothers weren't the only ones with special haircurls.

The shy Canadian slumped where he was sitting and mumbled out the words instead of trying to just shoot the words out, "Would you like to give me away? … At the wedding?"

Francis' features softened as the question this time reached his ears, "I would be honored, Matthieu. I will do it with pride. I'm so happy for toi … And for Alfred aussi ofcourse," the Frenchman's lips turned into a huge smile as he ruffled his son's hair with care. The other laughed with a light blush on his cheeks.

"Merci, papa. It really means a lot to me …"

"Anytime, Matthieu."

"God," muttered Arthur before he took another zip of the tea he had ordered and glanced over to the Frenchman in front of him, "I can't believe that Alfred is getting married. To Matthew, none the less. Didn't we raise them to be brothers? Did we do something wrong?" the Brit sighed.

The news of his former colonies' engagement had come as a shock to him, just as their relationship from the beginning. As individuals, he had nothing against them (not counting the countless times he fought with Alfred over small things just as much as big ones) as individuals, but to see them together had been very awkward to him.

"Non, I don't think we did anything wrong. Like I've told Matthieu countless times: Embrace love, don't run away from it. You'll be sorry if you do," Francis' voice carried a tone that Arthur rarely heard and it made him smile, just a little.

"Sounds like a really good advice …" the Brit said, zipping on his tea.

"He's not the only one who should follow it, Arthur."

"I have no idea what you're talking about right now, Francis."

"I think you do, Angleterre."

"Oh, so we're on nation name basis now? Well, France I don't understand what you meant by that statement. Is that so hard to understand?"

A chuckle.

"… What's so funny, you bloody frog?" A frown.

"Toi are, Arthur," Francis said and chuckled again. Arthur's eyebrows furrowed in confusion, but his face looked softer than it had before. He enjoyed the Frenchman's company, although he rarely admitted it, to himself. He would never admit to anyone that he even was out with Francis. Not on a date! It wasn't a date … Or was it?

"Funny, in my arse …"

"Oh, I know many things you can have in your arse –"

"SHUT UP!"

A plate being thrown. Splashing and two voices joining in laughter. The two blondes couldn't ask for anything else. Except for the fact that one of them were going to be forced to pay for the plate.

Another update, woh! I'm still alive, I promise!

Here's the (unnecessary, maybe?) French - English dictionary
Matthieu - Matthew in French
Mon petit - My small (My cute/My little) | Affectionate
Papa - Dad/papa
Angleterre - England
D'accord - Okay/Fine
Quoi? - What?
Non - No
Rapide - Rapid (quite obvious)
Toi - You
Aussi - Too ("*** too")
Merci - Thank you/Thanks

I'm sorry for the small amount of FrUK-moment in this, I just had to throw in my daily dose of AmeCan. xD
However, I'm thinking about throwing in some l'amour in the next chapter!