Latvia was sitting at his desk working. He had a lot more work than usual. He hadn't seen Estonia and Lithuania for several days and their jobs had to be done as well. Since Latvia was the only person left, he was the one who had to do it. In the afternoon, however, the work had became too much for him so he had fallen asleep in the middle of everything.

The first thing Latvia saw when he woke up was the clock, it had become night, it was five hours since he last remembered that he had looked at the clock. The first thing he knew was that he had a pain in his back so he got up from the chair. He needed a fire before it got too cold.

Latvia stopped, many hours had passed, it was winter ... the fire should already have gone out but still it was not cold at all.

When Latvia turned his head towards the fireplace, he saw that there already was a fire burning there, and someone sat in front of it, with his back to him in a chair and read something. Latvia stood up to go and see who it was. When he did this something dropped down to the floor, something that had been lying over him and kept him warm. Latvia saw what it was, a big, long military coat, in other words, he knew who it was who had lit the fire, and who was still sitting there in the room with him.

"So you're awake?" Latvia heard the voice from the other side of the chair and stayed up, he recognized that voice only too well, it always made him tremble.

"Mr. Russia sir? What have you come here for?" Russia put down the book he had been reading and looked at Latvia.

"To tell you the truth, I was just passing by and thought I should come in to ask how things were going and then I saw that you had fallen asleep, the fire had gone out and the window was open. A few more minutes and you had frozen to death. What is wrong? "

Latvia froze, he remembered that he had opened the window for a while when he felt it was too hot in the room, but when he looked towards it now it was closed and next to the chair where he had been sitting was Russia's military coat that Mr. Russia must have placed over him.

"Honestly I do not know what is wrong." Latvia replied with a sigh. Then he looked down at the floor first, and then up at the ceiling instead. "Everything is wrong!" He exclaimed, without thinking about that it was Russia he was talking to. Russia got up and starded to walk against Latvia.

"What do you mean that anything is wrong?" He asked. "Where is Estonia and Lithuania?"

When Latvia answered that question, he did something he had never done before when he answered one of Russia's questions, he looked straight in his eyes.

"I do not know where Estonia and Lithuania is, I haven't seen them in a week. And it's not just them Poland and Finland, and many others are also missing. Something is very wrong!" Russia listened but had some difficulty taking Everything in.

"Are you sure they're gone? I mean, they might just have something to do so that they forgot to tell anyone" Latvia shook his head.

"Estonia, Lithuania and I were called to a meeting by Mr. Austria for a little more than a week ago, not even Mr. Austria himself appeared" When Russia heard this, Latvia actually thought that Russia seemed a little frightened. Austria never forgot a time, if he didn't show up at a meeting then it was definitely a sign that something was not right, and the fact that he himself had called to the meeting, which he then did not show up at just made it even more obvious.

"You're right, this is worrying!" Russia agreed and began walking around the room. "We must try to figure out what it's all about, it's clear that something is wrong"

"Hm Russia sir?"

"Hm?" Russia was still thinking for himself but he stopped to listen when Latvia called for him.

"I have made a list of everyone who ..." he began.

"... Everyone who is missing?" Russia suggested and lit up, that kind of list was a good start. Latvia nodded, sighed, and then took the courage to look at Russia.

"Miss Belarus was also invited to this meeting at Austria's house, she didn't show up either..." Latvia broke off when he saw Russia's gaze when he mentioned Belarus. He knew that Russia had problems with her but as she after all was his sister, Latvia had first thought that he wanted to know. Now Latvia thought that he had been wrong, but that idea turned out to be completely wrong.

"Do you think that Belarus has got problems?" Latvia actually felt some relief to hear the concern in Russia's voice.

"I think that everyone we have not heard from the last few weeks has problems! The only question is what kind of problem," he replied. Then they heared a sound from the hallway and Went out there.

-o-o-o-

A letter was lying on the floor, what was strange was that the post didn't use to come at that time, the fact was that Latvia had already received his mail earlier in the day.

"Who brings you letters at this hour?" Russia asked a bit surprised and wary. Something was not quite as it should be here that was obvious.

"I don't know, not the Postman anyway." Latvia responded at it and then he looked at Russia. "What do we do with it?"

"It doesn't harm to read it ..." Russia said whereupon Latvia went up to the envelope and picked it up. It had a strange colour, it was pink. Why? Latvia opened it anyway and read it.

"It is a call to another meeting, but it says nothing about who convenes the meeting." Latvia looked up at the Russia. "Guess what they want to talk about at the meeting?" Russia didn't answer, so Latvia sent the letter to him. "They want to talk about those disappearances that you and I have talked about now." Russia read a little more in the letter.

"Come dressed up, it may be that we are monitored. Venue: Helsinki, Finland" Russia looked at Latvia. His gaze was both serious and worried. "Do you dare to come with me to my home?"

Latvia hesitantly looked at the floor just like Russia knew that he would do. "What are we supposed to do at your home?" He asked after a little iffy. Russia went back into Latvia's office and sat down by the fire again, Latvia followed him.

"Latvia listen, both you and I have lost people we like very much to someone who is willing to do anything." Russia looked into the fire instead of facing Latvia's gaze. "It might even be several who have disappeared, you know ... that we have not discovered that they are gone yet. In other words, maybe that meeting in Finland is our only hope of getting them back"

"What does that have to do with you?" Latvia asked, still feeling unsure whether it was a good idea to follow Russia.

"I think that Belarus may have tried to warn me," Latvia's eyes widened, if that was true it was almost unbelievable. "If she has, we might have important information about what is happening without knowing it. And the reason I ask if you want to join me is quite simple, I simply do not believe that it is a good idea to any nation whatsoever to walk alone right now. We do not know who will be the next victim. "

-o-o-o-

Russia and Latvia stopped in front of Russia's house. Latvia had decided that he dared to follow Russia after all. Despite all, Russia's sister was missing and he didn't think that Russia would do anything to her, at least he would not be so openly worried about her if he had done anything, it would simply not be like him.

Russia unlocked the door and walked over to the corner where he had thrown the letter that his little sister had written to him. When he picked it up Latvia called for him.

"Russia, you've got two new letters while you were gone." Russia turned to him. One of the letters had a pink envelope, similar to the letter Latvia had received, the second proved to be a new message from Belarus, the envelope was written in her handwriting.

Russia first opened the pink envelope just to confirm what he already knew, it was a call to the same meeting that Latvia had been called to. He then read through the two letters from his sister.

Meanwhile Latvia sat quietly on the other side of the room. He had a feeling that Belarus's letter could be quite private and Russia looked really serious when he read them. Latvia could almost swear that he even heard Russia sob one time, this was nothing he would dare ask him about but he was quite sure he had heard it.

It was first when Russia put the letters in their envelopes again that Latvia dared to ask him if Belarus's letters had given something. When the question was asked there was no longer any doubt that Latvia had really heard a sob. When Russia stood up Latvia could see that his face was completely covered in tears, and he could only nod in response. Russia was actually so different from normal that it was almost comical.

Russia sighed and wiped his face with his arm on his big coat. Belarus had actually wrote that she would never embarrass him about any marriage again if he helped her and this had been very difficult for him to read. He could just imagine how heartbroken his little sister must have been when she wrote those words. The first letter had just confirmed what had happened but there were also a lot of names of countries Belarus knew was captured.

Russia stood up. And Latvia suddenly thought that he seemed very suspicious, and he became more frightened than he'd ever been for him. But to Latvia's relief Russia walked into another room in stead of walking over to him.

A minute later Russia called for Latvia to come in to him.

"You were relieved that I went out right?" he asked. Latvia started shaking worse than ever, he almost started to cry. "Come and take a look at this, then you'll know why you were scared for real" Russia said.

Latvia barely understood what was happening, but his legs walked in to the other room anyway. And there his eyes grew. He stared at a computer screen that showed his room, where he had been working before Russia had appeared. Now the room was in total chaos. Latvia gasped, honestly he had suspected that Russia supervised him and the others but he would never for his life thought he would ever feel relieved over that fact.

"Someone has apparently been there after we left, and they seem to have been looking for you." Russia said quietly. Latvia nodded, then he asked Russia for something he would never thought he would ever ask him to do.

"Can you see what it looks like at Estonia's and Lithuania's homes?"