Heracles wishes to act, but Greece is content simply to doze through life.

That is not completely true. There are some things Greece will wake up for, move quickly for. Like arguing with Turkey. Greece will always have enough energy to fight with Turkey. Heracles tries to understand where that comes from, but it happens so quickly, so suddenly, that Greece is already angry and Heracles finds that he is tired of the entire predicament.

Tired. Heracles finds that he becomes tired. Oh, what a laugh.

It is not that Heracles dislikes Greece (he could never hate him, he knew him too well, or maybe it was the fact that they were simply too close and Heracles was not allowed to do anything but care for his other half). Neither does he argue with him (for how can one argue with exhaustion? With laziness? Heracles is not a monochronic person, far from, but there is a certain point at which he is certain that Greece is simply trying to avoid something).

Was Greece always like this? Heracles finds it difficult to recall that far into the past. He cannot remember anything that is too different from now. It is all a blur, like a dream in his subconscious that is fading away with time.

Heracles finds that he does not remember nearly as much as Greece, that Greece has to remind him of things like he is constantly in a history class. Maybe it is because he is more Human than Greece. His mind cannot hold as much as Greece's, despite the fact that they share the same brain.

Yet Greece's facts seem to change. Maybe Greece cannot remember as much as Heracles used to think he could. For Heracles asks about their mother and there no longer seems to be any details. It is like Greece has forgotten what she looks like now. It has disappeared in the sands of time. It was another dream that she even existed.

Greece never seems to want to think about it too much. Heracles tries to grasp a hold of this idea and understand exactly what it is they are, if just to know why it is that he is simply a part of Greece's mind.

"Japan?"

"Yes, Greece-san?"

He was not Greece. He was Heracles. These things always bothered Heracles more than Greece. "Do you ever think there is much more to us than meets a Nation's eye?"

Japan stared at him for a few moments, wide eyes blank, before nodding. "Of course there is. There is no describing any of us easily, in any of our languages."

That was not what Heracles had meant. That was not what he had been asking. From the look on Japan's face, Heracles wondered if Japan actually knew what he was talking about. Greece told him later that he saw what he wished to see, there was no such understanding.

Greece says those words mournfully and Heracles understands that it is as much of a burden for him to hide Heracles as it is a burden for Heracles to remain as a secret. Why do they do this? Why does Heracles never push Greece to take this action?

Why does Heracles never take this action on his own?

"What would happen if I said you existed?"

"I do not know. I want to know. I am afraid to know," Heracles responded quietly.

Greece stared into the water thoughtfully as he washed the dust from one of his mother's old figurines. "Me too."

Maybe this is the case, Heracles thinks. Maybe Greece is not lazy – maybe the laziness is an excuse so he does not have to do the things which frighten him. Like face their existence. His and his subconsciousness did not seem to care. While in dreams, it did not matter.

Which was why, when Greece would sleep, Heracles would sleep too, instead of taking control of their body and doing the things he wished that Greece would do. Heracles wants to take action, but that is not true. He wants Greece to take action. He does not want to do it himself. So both of them will just sleep.

Greece is content with this. Heracles is more scared by the pacification.