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Ch. 48 Swimming

America pulled his boyfriend toward the ocean. He, Canada and the Kirkland brothers were spending the day at the beach. England let himself be tugged along since America said he was going to teach him to swim. He didn't know how. He never learned and nobody knew he couldn't swim except for America, Canada, and Germany who all found out because he had nearly drowned in front of each one at some point in his life and each one saved him. America was the last one to find out a few months ago so he was putting his foot down and making him learn. England sputtered when he got him so deep he couldn't touch the bottom and America held him up swimming along.

"Best way to teach someone to swim is to make them learn in the water they can't touch the ground in."

"America in case you haven't noticed. That's the fucking reason I nearly drowned in front of you! Because it was too deep to stand in!"

"No it was because you were panicking. You need to be calm when you swim. So calm down and take deep breaths. I'm right here." America said smiling. He held England up making him breathe. "Now learn!" he cried dunking him under and swimming out of his reach. England surfaced thrashing.

"AMERICA!" he screeched. America grinned.

"Come on dude! You're staying up! Stop panicking and swim!" he cheered. Then a boat went zipping by and a rope caught on America's arm and drug him along.

'Why the hell does this always happen to me? My luck is terrible. Now I'm going to die because the only idiot that could have saved me because he was nearby is being drug by a boat. Everyone else is close to shore. I'm dying alone in a watery grave.' England thought thrashing to stay up and watching America be drug far away. 'He deserves being drug around by a boat.' He thought next bitterly. A wave sent him back under. He thrashed back up fear consuming him completely.

"SCOTLAND! SCOTLAND! ALBA! SCOTTIE! ALBA HELP! SCOTLAND!" he screamed as he was staying up temporarily. He went back under when another huge wave crashed over him. He clawed upwards trying to surface again but couldn't. Waves kept rolling into him. He felt his breath knocked out of him. He started choking and gaging as he was shoved around under the water. He felt the water filling his lungs and everything started to fade away. Before black completely consumed him he thought he saw green eyes. His eyes drifted shut and he felt strong arms wrap around him before he felt nothing and let unconsciousness take over.

Ireland bolted up from his beach towel hearing Scotland scream. Scotland never screamed. He sounded so terrified though. He started running toward the water and saw him wading through it fast. Ireland noticed the bundle in his arms. England's arms and legs swung limply as Scotland waded with him in his arms. His head was against his shoulder eyes shut. Ireland ran to Scotland heart racing.

"What happened?"

"I heard him yelling so I started making my way over there. I saw him go under from the distance. He got knocked around and drug a lot so I had to find him." Scotland breathed still moving fast but tears dripped off his chin. "He's not breathing. Ireland he's not breathing. He's not breathing. He's not breathing." He rambled.

"Scotland calm down and let's get him to shore. We'll do CPR. He'll be fine ok? Our baby brother will be fine." Ireland said laying a hand on his shoulder as they made their way to shore.

They laid him on the sand once there. Wales and North ran up. Ireland started CPR instantly. Scotland sat numbly. He couldn't think. He just sat blankly staring at his baby brother's still body.

'Why aren't you breathing? You're supposed to be ok. Why wasn't I there in time? Why didn't I follow you two? What the hell happened?' Scotland thought.

After a few minutes England rolled over coughing and spewed out water. Ireland rubbed his back as he puked all the water up into the sand. England panted when he was done then hands snapped him over. He blinked as arms kept tightening around him. He heard whimpering and sobbing. A wet face pressed against his cheek. He felt the hot tears drip on it. Ireland smiled sadly watching Scotland fall apart. He was holding England tightly body shaking with sobs. He had his cheek pressed against England's. His eyes looked pained but relieved at the same time. Scotland clung to England like his life depended on it. Which in a way it did. To Scotland his little brothers were his world. They meant everything to him. He knew England could come back to life but it could be a few hours or a few days or a few weeks or even months. They couldn't choose when they could come back but they could as long as they had land. But the thought of losing England at all terrified him. As did the thought of losing any of the little brothers he had taken care of for years.

"Alba?" England murmured.

"I'm taking you to the hospital to get you examined to be sure you're ok. Then you're going to bed. You hear me? Right to bed." Scotland breathed.

"Ok." England whispered not wanting to protest. Scotland was hurting and England wouldn't dare upset him more. His brothers were curled around him that night all clutching at him as they slept. Like a protective barrier around him to keep him safe. They all nearly had a heart attack seeing him not breathing.

A few days later they sat down with him warily.

"England. We've all been wondering. How did you drown? What happened?"

"America was trying to teach me how to swim and it went wrong." England muttered looking away cheeks pink embarrassed. He had always been embarrassed he couldn't swim.

"You can't swim?" Wales asked shocked.

"No." he said hunching his shoulder and ducking his head face reddening now.

"You were a freaking pirate! You lived on the sea! And you never learned to swim?!"

"It never came up until this year! I've never drowned before until this year! I've never needed to know before."

"Of course you needed to know back then! England you could have drowned back then!"

"Well I didn't! Plenty of pirates didn't know how to swim anyways!"

"You're learning."

"Tried that and nearly died."

"We're taking you to the pool and you're learning." North said sternly. England pouted and they rented out the whole public pool where they could be alone with him. "Ok how about I hold you up in the water and you practice paddling?" North said and bent England over and placed to hands under his stomach. "Lay across them and I'll hold you up." North said then looked up when England trembled. "England it's not that bad it…." He trailed off. "Are you laughing?!"

"Tickles!" England countered trying to shove his hands away in a fit of laughter.

"England you have to lay down and it won't tickle then trust me!" North said.

The next five minutes was North trying to find a way to hold up his ticklish baby brother without him thrashing and giggling. The other three watched laughing. England was too cute for his own good. They resorted to putting a life vest on him eventually so they could teach him the basics.

Scotland face palmed laughing hours later when England could only do the doggie paddle without going under. Their time was up so they had to go.

"Well at least we know if he falls into deep water now he can surface and doggie paddle."

"We need an in ground pool." Wales said.

"Agreed." North said wrapping an arm around England's shoulders.

"Let's go get ice cream to congratulate England on learning to swim even though he can only doggie paddle." Scotland said as they got into the car. "Also we are getting a pool and I will force you to learn to swim England."

"Only if I get ice cream every time after our swimming lessons."

"Fine." Scotland said laughing.

"Yay!"

The Kirkland's stared at England's giant ice cream sundae later.

"What am I America?! This is like fifteen pounds of ice cream."

"Never mind about us ordering we'll just share yours."

"Agreed."

Scotland smacked England's spoon down later.

"Is there pineapples in here?!"

"Yeah on the part I'm eating."

"YOU'RE ALLERGIC TO PINEAPPLES!"

"I LIKE PINEAPPLES!" England screeched grabbing a handful of the ice cream with pineapple chunks on it and stuffed it into his mouth. Scotland tackled him out of his chair and pinned him to the floor. "It's mine!" England whined around his mouthful.

"No! You're not eating that." Scotland scolded forcing England's mouth open and started digging all of it out of his mouth with his finger. Ireland started laughing. Scotland looked like a parent digging something out of their two-year-old child's mouth that they weren't supposed to have in it. North rolled his eyes and went across the street to by allergy medicine. England's pineapple allergy wasn't that bad. He just broke out in rashes but that was it. But still he shouldn't eat things he is allergic too. Ireland and Wales kept cackling as they listened to England whine and Scotland scold him. Their family was so weird but that's the way they liked it.

They were at home later when they remembered something.

"Wait where was America when you started drowning?!"

"He was being drug around by a boat."

"Why?"

"It was passing by and his arm got caught."

"Speaking of which we left them without a word. I feel bad about that. Though I did text Canada when England was at the doctor and told him what happened."

"Well America deserves it! He dunked me under! It's all his fault!" England pouted.

"Well then America will die." Scotland said snarling and flashed away.

"Oh shit." England said realizing he said to much then flashed after him.

He somehow managed to keep his boyfriend alive. Though he did have to go to the hospital. Stupid over protective big brother. Well at least no one died.

And that's how England learned to swim. Hope you liked it! This was inspired by a PM I was sent with this request for her friend.

Since England has been shown as not able to swim, she wants to see him swim (and maybe drown or maybe that's just me ^-^) and saved by the brothers. . . Or he is taught how to swim. . . Just something related to England not being able to swim (I don't know which ideas are from me 'cause we had a long conversation about this)

I hope you and your friend likes it! I had fun writing it! Thank you for the request!