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I (obviously) like her with England and Russia, and I think she could make a really strong relationship with China if she had the chance (and maybe something more). I also pair her with America and sometimes Canada, though not France, though I can see the two also being good friends.
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ItaLiech fanboy : I love Liechtenstein~
Faint Hearts
A frown stuck itself to her face just moments after the small Germanic nation had woken up. She'd quickly cast her gaze out the window, only to notice the thick blanket of snow the had covered nearly everything in sight. There were still snowflakes falling down from the gray sky, sticking to anything it touched, since it was cold enough outside for it to be there. She'd been told beforehand by Ludwig that snow often did fall around this time in Bayern, but she hadn't paid it much mind at the time. Now, she was upset, for she hadn't brought gloves or extra jackets, except for the bright orange one Vash had given her.
She wasn't a fan of the cold either; she sneezed a lot and it made her face turn a blotchy red and she felt disgusting and stayed inside all day, with just a cup of hot chocolate and the TV for company.
She just sighed and hopped off the bed, leaving the black-and-white checkered covers a tangled mess from her fitful slumber. She slipped on her bunny house shoes and yawned, making her way over to the small kitchen the house held. Since she and Ludwig were rather close, he'd kept a house for her in his country (despite the obvious complications that could come between the two at any given time), and she'd appreciated it. Vash had gone off to do some training, and hadn't wanted to leave her all alone in the house, so she'd made her way up to the house in Bayern just the day before.
Sisia turned the Tassimo machine on, placing a beige mug underneath and popping some milk into it, watching with great boredom as hot, fresh milk poured from the coffee/tea maker into the mug. Soon after, she had her fresh cup of chai tea, and she switched the TV on, prepared to have a boring, cold day, seeing as she was most definitely not going to run out and play in the snow.
A few minutes into some Disney movie from America, translated to 'Bärenbruder 2', she heard a knock at the front door, and she quickly scampered on over, straightening the front of her nightgown before opening it, finding three people she was surprised to see—Gilbert, who rarely visited her and often playfully teased her, Matthias, who she didn't interact with much but still considered a brother like friend, and Arthur, who she often met up with on the weekends to simply chat over some cake or to show off some handkerchiefs they'd both made. Blush dusted over her pale face when she realized how underdressed she was in front of the men, and she began stuttering things before Matthias simply chuckled and scooted inside the house, shrugging the snow off his black coat and hanging it up on a little green hook on the wall.
"Lilli, it's nice to see ya!" He bent down and squeezed her tightly, nearly suffocating her. Gilbert and Arthur came in quickly after, slamming the door behind them to get rid of the numb cold, also hanging up their coats and strutting into her living room as if they were regular visitors. Taking a deep, shaky breath and wrapping her arms around herself, she followed them with a puzzled look and asked,
"Wh-what are you guys doing here?" She was very well aware of their bad drinking habits (though they didn't appear to be 'smashed' at the moment), and was sure that if Vash discovered that they'd come over, they'd be shot as many times as he had bullets. Gilbert whirled around with a wide grin, his crimson eyes glittering.
"We just came for a visit! It's not often you're separated from Switzy, y'know," he chortled, clutching his stomach. Sisia frowned again, but scuttled over to the leather sofa and acted as if they weren't there, continuing to watch the translated movie.
"Oh, Brother Bear," remarked Arthur, who'd rested his head on the top of the couch. "Alfred showed that to me once…" His face twisted in disgust. "I couldn't get through it since he spoiled the entire damn thing for me. Stupid American," he mumbled before knocked to the floor by the excited Matthias.
"hey, Lilli, Lilli! Do you have a game we can play?" he asked, his eyes wide and droopy like a begging puppy's. Sisia place her face into her knees, unsure of what to do—what was one to do when three alcoholic men came over for a little 'visit'? As if noticing her discomfort, Gilbert sat down next to her and slung his arm around her, saying,
"Ludwig'll be on over soon, lil Birdie~" Gilbird, who was nestled atop his head of silver hair, chirped and flapped his tiny yellow wings before nuzzling back into his owner's head again.
"Really, what are you guys here for…?" she asked quietly, her face still buried between her knees. Gilbert chuckled again, pulling her closer.
"To have fun! Y'see, Liza and Little Master are off somewhere, and Vash is out training, and we've all got nothing better to do, so…here we are!" They were interrupted by the sound of something crashing, and Sisia jumped off the couch in shock. Matthias had stumbled over a blue mopping bucket and tripped into the pantry room, landing face first into the wooden shelves that held all the food, and somehow knocked it over, successfully snapping it in half and spilling every single food item on it in the tiny room. Sisia's eyes widened and her mouth dropped. Gilbert just continued his laughing and Arthur gasped in shock, appalled at the Nordic's clumsiness.
He groaned in pain before poking his head out from underneath the shelves, a goofy grin on his face, thumb up to show he was okay.
"M-Matthias!" she shrieked, face paling considerably, "What the hell?" Gilbert choked on air at the little girl swearing and Arthur fell silent, backing away into the corner of the light green walls. Matthias' expression fell to shame and embarrassment, and Sisia marched on over to help the bigger, older man out from the mess he'd made. She glanced around at the enormous pile of canned food and all these other things (probably from America, she presumed), her blood running cold when she heard another knock on the door.
"S-Scheiße!" Gilbert cursed, trying to squeeze himself behind the wooden faux-fireplace that the TV stood on, glancing around in desperation when it failed. Arthur sprinted towards the door, yanking it open to reveal a rather surprised Ludwig, a few grocery bags on his arms. Arthur quickly turned around and whispered,
"Quick! Shove it all into the room before he comes in!" to Sisia, who nodded affirmatively and began pushing it all in with the help of Matthias. Arthur then returned his focus to Ludwig and chuckled nervously, trying to come up with something to keep him stalled. Ludwig arched an eyebrow and took a step in before Arthur screamed, catching the German's attention.
"Is something wrong, Arthur?" he asked, forehead crinkling in confusion.
"Oh, uh…umm…um…" He snapped his fingers behind his back, trying to think of something. "I…I see you stopped by a grocery store…erm…" An idea came to him. "D-did you get some strawberries?" he quickly asked, his words slurring together with the speed.
"Strawberries…?" Ludwig glanced into the few bags he had and shook his head slowly. "Nein, I don't…did you need some?" Arthur nodded vigorously and began pushing the German down the stairs, sputtering random things.
"W-well, I guess you'd better go get some! They're really important; we need them!" He stopped when they reached his forest green car and he rushed back into the house, shutting the door and locking it behind him. He sighed with relief and peeked around the wall, seeing the three (Gilbert had joined in while Arthur had occupied Ludwig) slam the pantry door behind them, breathing heavily. Sisia was the first to notice him and smiled weakly.
"Thanks," she said, out of breath. "But..where'd he go…?"
"He went to go get strawberries," the Englishman said, his face suddenly warming up.
"Strawberries, huh?" She tittered lightly. "I love strawberries…" Both Matthias and Gilbert dropped themselves halfway on the couch, muttering things about cheesecakes and paper planes and Im Yong Soo trying to grope them to see if they had boobs.
"I know," Arthur replied, making his way over to the kitchen. Gilbert noticed this, and began freaking out.
"N-nein! Ey, Arthur, c'mere for a sec!" The Englishman raised one of his thick, black eyebrows curiously, but turned around and went over to the Prussian either way. Sisia sat by herself on the third couch, trying to pay attention to the movie as she had been before the three had to interrupt her. The albino whispered something into Arthur's ear, which made his face turn a cherry red, and Matthias crawled over, commanding Gilbert to tell him what he'd said. It ended with both Matthias and Gilbert rushing up the wooden stairs, leaving a heavily blushing Arthur alone with Sisia in the living room.
Sisia leaned backward and tried to look up, but she assumed they'd run off into one of the few rooms she had on the upper floor.
"S-so, Sisia," Arthur began, catching the Liechtensteinerin's attention, "is there something you want to do…? Like, go build snowmen in the snow…?" She frowned again and Arthur bit his lip; this encounter felt a bit too much like the time he'd attempted to sweet-talk Natalya into kidnapping Alfred…
"I don't like the snow," she answered calmly, reaching over the armrest to grab a baby blue fleece blanket that had been sitting on a fold-up table. "Or the cold."
"Oh, I see…" he muttered, getting up off the ground to place himself on the couch next to hers. He couldn't understand a thing the movie was saying, though he didn't feel like asking the little blond to change the channel to something in English—that, he thought, would sound quite rude. "D-do you have a board game or anything…? Like Sorry?" She shook her head, her dark blue ribbon bobbing along with her. It seemed like she never took it off, like it was a part of her—like Ivan and the scarf Katyusha had given him when they were both much younger.
"…Do you want to watch something else?" Sisia suddenly asked after noticing the island nation's lack of interest with the current movie. He shrugged, pursing his lips.
"It's up to you," he said, and the room fell silent again. It was like this until there was a loud, ear-splitting scream from upstairs, and both sprinted up to see the ruckus. Matthias, once again, was in trouble —he was hanging halfway out the window, his legs flailing around in the air.
"H-hold on, bro!" he screamed, and Sisia pieced together that Gilbert was also out the window, and that Matthias was trying to pull him up. Arthur rushed over and grabbed Matthias, pulling back to help heave Gilbert back through the window. They could hear his elated, though somewhat shaken, laughs, and the continuous chirping of Gilbird as he attempted to fly back in on his own.
"How did you guys do this?" Sisia asked loudly, grabbing Arthur and pulling with all her might. Within a few minutes, the Prussian came tumbling back in, a wide grin on his ghostly face.
"Holy shit, that was fun!" he shouted, paying no heed to the tangled mess of the three other nations. Matthias had fallen backwards, squishing Arthur into Sisia, and the three fell to the ground, Sisia on the bottom—like a game of dog pile gone wrong. Sisia struggled underneath the weight of the older, bigger countries and felt relieved when the gigantic mass that was Matthias finally untangled himself from Arthur and rolled off, quickly placing his hat back onto his head. Arthur jumped off of Sisia, face red, and Sisia sat up, eye twitching.
"G-Gilbert…." she began, face turning an angered red. The Prussian noticed this and began to sink back; Gilbird buried himself behind the thicker locks of his silvery hair. "You do realize this isn't exactly my house, right…? It still belongs to your brother…" She turned her gaze to Matthias, who jumped in fear. "And when he discovers that pantry…" The Dane gulped, trembling. "Felicks has told me that he gets really frightening when he's mad…" Arthur was kind of surprised when she didn't turn to face him and continue speaking, but also relieved. Gilbert then shot up and grabbed Matthias' wrist, gliding down the stairs to escape the little girl's wrath.
She then smiled cheerily and wiped some dust off her gown, standing up and offering her hand to Arthur, who'd seated himself by the door. "Do you want some tea? I don't think I've got some like you have at your place, but there's a Tassimo coffeemaker, and I've got some chai…" As she rambled on, he took her hand and pulled himself up, listening silently with a smile as she went on and on quietly and followed her to the kitchen, where she began making him some chai. Gilbert and Matthias were seated silently on the couch, eyes small and focused on the TV. The movie had passed and it was now some random movie that looked as though it had been made a decade ago, when American movies were much cheesier than they were now.
"Well, I guess we'll just have to wait until Ludwig gets back," Sisia said, giving Arthur his mug of steaming-hot chai. Gilbert shuddered in the background, giving Gilbird a speedy pat on his tiny little head before stuffing his hand back into the pocket of his baggy Levi jeans. "And if he really does bring strawberries…there's a poundcake in the fridge, and we can slice them and have some dessert, like last week!" she sang, skipping over to the living room. Gilbert glanced sideways at Matthias, who glanced back, and evil looks were placed on their faces. Gilbert's legs creeped out a bit, waiting for Arthur to hurry on towards Sisia. He went around her to go to the other couch, but as Sisia came along, she tripped over his foot, bumping into Arthur and knocking his fresh chai onto the carpet, and pretty much fell into his extended arms while Gilbert cackled and Matthias attempted to hide his giggling self behind the Prussian's figure.
Red-faced with splatters from the vanilla chai, Arthur growled and the two finally ran out of the house, scrambling over to Gilbert's bright red truck and igniting it, praying to God or whoever was out there that the Liechtensteinerin didn't unleash her full fury and wrath upon the two poor, innocent men. Sisia could hear Arthur's heart racing in his chest, and blushed deeply.
"Oh, uh…" Realizing she was still on him, she slowly began to rise up…
Until they heard something drop to the floor again.
Their heads slowly turned to see a shocked Ludwig standing there, mouth agape and eyes wide and bags deposited on the floor.
"….I can explain….?"
Ah, Bavaria…I live there. Well, it's called Bayern here in Deutschland (I don't know the English names to the other German states, since in my German class, the map only has them in the German names… T^T). Though I live farther up north…and we've been getting quite some snow, with huge snowflakes. I just over exaggerated it a little bit in this. :3 And I sympathize with Lilli in this…I hate the cold too; I want to go back to Phoenix, Arizona….Another thing is that the house is based off of mine, though mine is much bigger. xD
Liza is Elizabeta (Hungary), Little Master is Roderich (Austria), Matthias is Denmark, Natalya is Belarus, Katyusha is Ukraine, Felicks is Poland.
Here's some German for you English-speakers: the German word for living room is Wohnzimmer. If I remember right, the article 'der' is used for it…but I'm not sure...
As for the other fics…the PruLiech one, Resonant Hearts, will be posted first…and then after I get some progress done on that, Frantic Hearts (ItaLiech), and so on…~
And I just realized…2 more reviews, and I've got 50! :D I should do something special then…maybe a longer oneshot? Oh, that reminds me, that HetaOni oneshot'll be up soon, ItaLiech fanboy.
~~Moxie Rayne