I actually never thought I'd really get this far, this is the longest story I've written to date. I'm listening to sad songs from cartoons so that's not helping my sad mood either. Okay enough ranting:

Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia or the title/song.

It was dead. The castle and everyone who lived inside were dead.

That was the simplest way to describe the Solarian castle. Word travels fast in the castle, so by a few days, all the soldiers and workers knew that Alfred had fought with his father. They all knew that the Prince and Princess had both been found with Lunars, the story had been twisted in various ways, but none of them were brave enough to actually ask the royal family the truth.

It were tense.

Alfred wouldn't even look at his father. He didn't talk to anyone unless he had to. He shut himself in his room for days, barely anyone was allowed inside. Maddie wouldn't leave her room for anyone either, people said they heard crying outside her door.

Alfred sat on the floor of his room, papers with unimportant information surrounded him. Being King seemed so small compared to the thought of being with Alice. He would choose her over King any day. He carried her necklace around everywhere, but careful to not show his father.

Sol was sleeping on one of the packets, probably crumpling it but he didn't care if the cat shredded them. The wall interested him more than those papers.

It was June 15, his coronation was creeping closer, yet he couldn't think of anything but her. He felt dead without her. Funny how love could be so great and so terrible at the same time.

There was a knock."Come in." Alfred called, knowing it wasn't his father. The King was not stupid enough to fight and Alfred wasn't stupid enough to go looking.

"Your Highness? I brought you some pasta, to cheer you up~! I also brought Lovino, he wanted to know what actually happened and Toris came, too." Feliciana came in and sat on the floor across from him, followed by her brother and Toris.

"Thanks." Alfred took the plate she offered and started eating, he hadn't actually sat down at a meal since before everything happened. Most meals were just brought to him in his room.

"So were you banging the Lunar Princess or what? These assholes keep telling me different shit." Alfred almost spit out his mouthful at Lovino.

Feliciana and Toris both looked horrified,"Lovino! You're not supposed to ask that!" The chef cried to her brother.

Alfred managed to swallow,"Uh- Well- Alice and I weren't- Well, we never-"

"Yeah, that answers my question, what was the deal with her?" Lovino interrupted.

Alfred looked at his plate quietly,"I love her. And now shes gone."

"They killed her?!" Feliciana cried looking like she could break down and cry right there. They were definitely an odd pair of siblings.

"No, but we're never going to have a chance, not that we had one before anyway." Alfred ate his food as the other three exchanged looks.

"Well, you're just a ray of sunshine." Lovino muttered.

"This is why I never take you places! You're mean to everybody!" Feliciana whined.

"Your Highness, I would like to apologize, I am the one who suggested you to date the Princess. If I had not then you and your father wouldn't be-" Toris got interrupted.

"This fight isn't your fault. Most of it isn't even about Alice either. I've felt like that for a while. The real problem is I'm going to be King in 19 days and I can't forget about her." Alfred sighed and leaned back.

"He's freaking heartbroken and he's being put in charge of the kingdom." Lovino commented,"We should move."

"I think we should go, sorry about Lovino~! I hope you're better soon!" Feliciana grabbed her brother and rushed away. Alfred watched them leave then looked back over at Toris.

"I suppose I should get back to work. If you ever need someone to talk to, I am always around, Your Highness." Toris stood and left quietly. They had gone as easily as they came, the Prince guessed he was just unbearable to be around right now. That was fine, he felt unbearable on the inside, too.

Alfred sighed and looked over at his papers. How was he going to be a decent King feeling this miserable? Love really was torture. But it had been so great with her. Sol meowed for attention, just barely distracting the Prince.

The next morning Alfred went down the hall to Maddie's room. He needed to get away from his overwhelming birthday and he needed to at least try and talk to her. The Prince knocked on the door, there was no response. He looked down the hall to see a maid notice him and immediately turn the other way. That's fair, he'd do the same thing in her shoes.

"Maddie? You in there? It's Alfred!" He called and knocked again. Again no response. The Solarian sighed and tried the doorknob, it was locked. "You know I'll stay out here until you let me in." It was silent for another minute.

Then there was a click and the door opened a crack, all he could see was one of her eyes. Some of the rumors must be true because her eye was tinted red from tears,"Is it just you?"

"Yep. Can I come in?" Alfred smiled at her, weakly, she already looked done with him.

"Fine." She opened her door just wide enough for him to come in, then shut it and locked in behind him.

"How have you been?" He asked.

"I didn't want to be wrapped in, with politics, I just wanted to be left alone with him." Maddie came right out with it.

"I know, I'm sorry. I didn't want to wrap you in either." Alfred apologized.

Madeline sat on the bed and leaned on the bed post,"We were going to run away, after you became King and Gilbert got his things together. We were going to go off to those building in the distance-"

"The slanted ones from their bedroom. I thought about running, too. I couldn't leave you to rule, though." Alfred plopped on her bed.

"He saw me as just Madeline. Not Princess of Solar. Not your sister. He saw me as me, without any other titles." She whispered the next part so low he barely heard the words,"I wasn't invisible to him."

Alfred frowned and ended up hugged her,"I'm so sorry. About dragging you into this all. About getting you caught, and about not noticing you when we were younger. About how they treated you."

"I know, you didn't know about half of it until recently. I don't blame you. You're hurt, too. You're going to be King and Alice is gone." Maddie whispered.

"I know, but I don't know what to do." Alfred whispered back.

These last two chapters have had some sibling warmth so yay. I mean I wouldn't know how siblings are I'm an only child, haha.

I'm bored often.

I wrote more in the last day than I wrote in the two days before that? The difference between writing filler and writing plot.

Update: I like Lovino.