Hey everyone! So here is the next chapter. Probably going to end this soon because I think I know how to do it but I also kind of just want to move onto something new. Anyway, enjoy!

Chapter 14

(Italy's P.O.V)

It had been almost a month since the invasion had ended. That's how long I had worked to keep Germany alive and well. Even though there wasn't a lot that I could do for him or that I could do to help him stay his happy self. I still tired everything that I could think of.

Soon his strength began to weaken and he could barely walk, let alone stand up without some form of assistance. But he still tried nonetheless. It was heart breaking to see him try to follow me and end up just falling into a heap on the floor that was still desperate to be by my side whether he could walk or not. He probably would have crawled the whole way if I let him instead of helping him up.

Part of me wanted to make myself believe that he still loved me in some way and that he wanted to be with me because of his feelings for me. But the rational side of me knew that he only stayed with me because he was commanded to do so by the lead Picto before they all left and didn't take him.

Now he couldn't walk at all and he stayed mainly in the spare bedroom that I had put him in since we had arrived home. I had slept on the floor for far too many long nights because I just couldn't leave his room and I didn't want to make him uncomfortable.

I stroke his pale white cheek as I look at his literal blank face and try to picture the old features that used to be there. The bright blue eyes, the carefully slicked back hair, the tiny smile that would sometimes grace his features and light them up in a way that I had not seen more than a handful of times and the way his gaze softened just for me.

"Germany, I miss you so much. Its just not the same when I can't hear your voice. Even when you are mad at me and are yelling and scary. I miss that too. But mostly, I miss your kind braveness that you always displayed for other people, when they didn't get on your nerves anyway. I need you back Germany, I'm lost and scared and I don't know what to do anymore. I feel so hopeless but I know you want me to be brave and to keep smiling. So I'll smile for you but I'll be waiting for the day that I can smile and actually feel it again because until I see the real you that I fell in love with, I'll only feel numb where the happiness should be."

The tears fell heavily as I whispered to him. Watching as they landed on his skin and lightly brushing them away when they did. Smiling to him even though it both did not reach my eyes nor make me feel any better than I had for almost a month now. But because I promised the man I loved that I would keep smiling.

I leaned forward slowly and placed a gentle kiss on his forehead, the tears still spilling from my eyes and staining the bed sheets that Germany laid on. Staring through a haze as his breathing began to get shallower and knowing that he wouldn't be with me for much longer.

I laid my head on his chest and began to weep bitterly. Gripping the sheets so tightly, I thought for a brief hysteric minute that they would rip and that I would have to get Germany some new ones because he can't sleep on ripped sheets.

If only he were just sleeping and when he woke up he would be back to the normal Germany that I miss so much, I thought to myself.

I sat up slowly and sat back on my heels as I once more sat kneeling on the floor by his bedside. As I had done for many weeks and wished once again that something would come and save him. That something would just pop out of anywhere for all I cared and save him and make this nightmare stop. But…my wish always went without being granted.

I sighed loudly as his breathing got more and more spaced out and as it slowed to an inhuman pace that no one could survive doing. At least not for very long.

"Germany…don't leave me. Please." I whisper once again.

I turn his face to mine and gently kiss where his lips would have been for the last time. Feeling the sadness grow heavy in my chest as I do and slowly put my head in my hands as my shoulders are wracked with shoulder shaking sobs that escape me harshly.

Goodbye Germany, my love.

And that is the end of this chapter. So tell me what you think. Until next time!

~ Jade Keeper