AmeCan Ice Creamery (Hetalia)

Author: Ashynarr

Summary: Since I know I have followers who do like AmeCan and those who don't, I've decided that the best solution is to make a new drabble archive to hold all my specifically shippy stuff. AmeCan, Canadacest, and Americacest all included in here.

Disclaimer: Hetalia's not mine.

Warning: 1pAme2pNyoCan, fantasy AU, dryad!Marie

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It was rare Marie found interest in something from outside the forest, and rarer still for it to involve humans. She had to admit, though, that a human willing to live and work so close to the forest wasn't exactly a common occurrence as it was, and if she was ever willing to admit to constantly watching him (not spying!) long after determining he wasn't a threat, well, could she be blamed?

The human lived on his own - well, unless you counted two horses, a dog, and a few cows and chickens company. He didn't seem bothered by the lack of companions, though, just cheerfully went about his short mortal life.

She hummed in thought as she watched him work from her perch in the trees, legs swinging idly. She couldn't imagine living away from all her trees - even if none of them had manifested like her, she could still speak to them and listen to the going ons in the far reaches of the woods without travelling too far from her ancient oak home. She didn't think humans had been too different in that regard, abet with each other instead, but it wasn't like she knew that much about them.

Marie found her thoughts disrupted when, by pure chance, the human looked up and caught sight of her. She froze, hoping she was still hidden by distance, but when he straightened up and started to shout she knew she'd been caught. Without a second thought she fell back, barely hitting the next branch before darting away, back into the safe depths of the trees.

'Idiot, idiot, idiot!' She hit herself in the head several times with the heel of her hands once she stopped, heart still shuddering from the panic. 'You got too careless and let him see you!'

She could only hope that, if she stayed away, he would eventually dismiss his sighting as a figment of the heat and go back to being blissfully unaware of her existence.

It wasn't to be, unfortunately, as not a week later she was awoken by someone shouting up at her from the base of her tree.

"Hey, miss, you alright? I don't think that's the safest place to sleep."

Marie pulled her legs in, trying her best to hide and groaning at her luck. She never should have let herself stay interested in a mortal.

"I'm not gonna bite, promise," He continued, oblivious or just ignoring her silent dismissal. "Just wanted to know who was running around in the woods watching me work."

Mentally weighing the benefits of staying silent versus actively shooing him away and not liking the results, she leaned over enough to give him a disapproving look. "Well, now you know, so you can go away. You don't belong here."

The human frowned, making her feel the slightest bit guilty, but really, everyone knew these were her woods-

"I don't think you do either, especially since fall's coming soon. Don't you have a home or something to go back to?"

"This is my home." Perhaps not everyone. "I don't need any sort of human shelter because, as you probably haven't noticed, I'm not human."

That seemed to shut him up, she noticed with some amusement; whatever he had been about to say died on his lips, his expression one of total surprise. It was her turn to be surprised when his face suddenly lit up in understanding, only for the next words out of his mouth to be "So you're that forest spirit everyone was about when I moved here."

There was no note of fear of disgust. That was odd; most humans didn't trust magical beings like her, especially the ones that looked human.

He huffed, sounding amused as he next told her, "I wasn't expecting you to be so pretty, honestly."

Marie's sudden flush was entirely out of anger and not embarrassment or flattery, no matter what anyone said later. "Excuse me?"

"Well," He shrugged, smiling up at her. "Most of them described you as some wicked beast who lured fools like me to their deaths in the depths of the woods or something like that. Which I mean I guess you sort of did because I'm here now but I don't think you're going to devour my flesh or something…"

His expression faltered as she continued to stare at him in bafflement. "...right?"

There was a long stretch of silence, broken only by his fidgeting when she continued to fail to respond. Finally, she startled him by throwing her head back and laughing, tears prickling at how hard her chest ached from the action.

He soon joined in, though his was not quite as enthusiastic as hers. Eventually the laughter died off, though she still had a genuine smile on her face. "They actually believe that? I haven't even talked to a human besides you in…"

...when was the last time she had spoken to one, actually? Surely when she was younger - but nothing she could definitively recall.

"...in, well, ever actually."

"Really? Huh, you don't seem that bad a person."

She shrugged. "Yeah, well, not much I can really do about people spreading rumors about me. I don't like going far from the trees if I can avoid it."

"Would my farm be too far?"

She looked back to him, and her surprise must have been misinterpreted, because he ducked his head and looked away suddenly. "I mean, I can't really imagine living on your own like this all the time, and I don't really get much company because of, well, stuff, so…"

Marie was about to explain that she had plenty of conversation with the plants around her, but they died when it struck her, looking at his small act of submission, that perhaps he was asking because he was lonely and was trying to save some face. It was just so- so-

"I guess I can give it a shot." He looked up, startled, and she shrugged it off. "You managed to make me laugh; you can't be too terrible a person to talk to if you can do that."

He laughed awkwardly, rubbing at the side of his neck. "Uh, thanks I guess. I'm Alfred by the way."

"Marie."

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AN: A 1pAme2pNyoCan fic to the prompt 'Dryad / Farmer AU'. I have no clue where I got the idea from tbh, but I guess this turned out pretty nice, especially since I finally decided how I picture Marie to be like.

I've noticed people tend to only like certain AUs or only the plain vanilla AmeCan stuff. Should I just… not bother with all of this? I mean I find it satisfying to be able to come up with fills for so many different pairings and prompts, but…