Ch. 26 One Word too Far

9foxgrl

Inspired by 91RedRoses

Fat

Ugly

Pig

Fat ass

He tried to appeal to them indirectly that he did eat healthy. Drinking only plain water, and eating only raw chopped vegetables and salad at lunch. But it didn't stop. Those words haunted America to the point the stopped eating the days of the Nations meetings. Even if he did eat anything he would immediately throw it back up the second he went in the restroom. It didn't matter that he barely had an once of fat on him, it had become a game so to speak with the other Nations.

Hey Fat ass, it's your turn.

Watch out, the wide load is coming.

Hey fatty, how many burgers are you going to eat today?

Those words hurt. Like a knife stabbing him in the back, carving each insult into his skin. After nearly a year of nonstop verbal abuse America would barely eat at all, not even at home.

His boss started to notice how thin the Nation was becoming at an alarming pace and became worried after he nearly fainted at a State function. He contacted Canada about it who also shared his concerns. America was stubborn about letting anyone see his weakness. He had seen America's torso the day before in their shared hotel room. He was literally able to count his ribs through the nations white tank top.

Canada tried to go visit to his brother, but he was swamped with work and would not see him until the meeting in D.C. that weekend. Unable to see another option he called Vinland.

Vinland was worried about what Canada had told her. She was always so busy monster hunting that she didn't noticed the pain her little brother was in. After slaying the last creature she was fighting she took off to her brother's house.

Upon arriving the door was immediately opened by Tony the Alien, one of the few non-human creatures on Earth that Vinland tolerated.

"Where is he?"

"Upstairs…it's getting bad. He refuses to eat much, and throws it all back up right after."

Vinland raced upstairs and found America hunched over the toilet, he had just finished throwing up the food Tony had made for him. She paled at how frail and thin he had become in the last months she had seen him.

"Alfred…" She gasped using his human name.

He looked up at her. She never used their human names unless she was emotionally distraught.

"Astrid? Am I skinny enough now? Will they stop making fun of me now?"

Vinland hugged him as he started to cry.

Canada was silently frantic when America didn't show up for the meeting that he was supposed to be hosting. Instead Vinland was there in his place looking as cold as ever sitting at the head chair.

"My brother is unable to attend so I am here in his place until further notice." she said as Germany took the roll.

"The fat ass is probably off eating or something." one nation muttered. The nations next to him snickered.

CRASH!

The nations jumped as the battle axe they had often seen America swing around during his fights with Vinland, and the pike end of a war hammer, crashed into the wall behind the ones who had snickered. As one they all looked at Vinland who was pissed and had a black aura of doom surrounding her.

"The next person…who dares insult my brother…either one of them…will have the choice of facing me one on one in the arena or being cursed to have every insult you utter carve itself into your flesh for fifty years." she hissed.

The nation who had insulted America snorted. "Yeah right bitch."

Vinland snapped her fingers. The offending nation then screamed as the words bitch painfully carved itself into his arm and healed over, leaving the word behind as a faint scar.

"Anyone else?" Vinland asked.

After no one spoke she stood up and got the meeting started. "The presentation I am showing will be on a serious issue going on in society that has been ignored for far too long. It has already caused the deaths of many across the world."

The attending G8 looked at each other with concern. What critical issue could they have ignored?

"What issue, Aru?"

Vinland clicked to start the power point. "Bullying."

By the end of the meeting all the nations who had teased America about his weight, even those who allowed it to happen right in front of them, realized in horror how far they had driven the man to wanting to kill himself. The extra detailed slides on eating disorders such as anorexia triggered by verbal abuse, one featuring a picture of a teenager who looked like a survivor of the Holocaust in the hospital, drove the last nail through. In order to make sure they understood the pain that they had caused she place a light version of her curse on all of them before the meeting was dismissed. While it would not carve their words into their flesh it would make them experience all the emotional pain they were causing.

"I wish you would let me at least hurt some of them Astrid, at least spill their blood a bit."

"Matthew, attacking them would only put you on their level, and triggering a war is not something that needs to go on right now. Alfred is going to need us as support right now, we need to be there for him." Astrid replied. "I'll be taking sometime off to stay with him and make sure he starts to eat properly again."

Matthew sighed. "You're right."

"After he gets better, then you can kick their asses."

*Vinland's human name is Astrid (divine beauty) Hedvig (contending battle). She a supernatural hunter (one of the reasons America has that show).

Bullying is a big issue in many countries. It doesn't have to leave behind bruises to be called bullying.