#01 - Ring
If Ireland had received a ring throughout their marriage (or at least the closest thing nations could consider a marriage) he knew he would've crush, stomped and threw the thing behind him only to go back and re pocket it.
#02 – Hero
As England sat watching the film with his older brother Ireland, he couldn't help but question why almost every villain was English only to get a simple: "Well, ye have done some pretty awful and stupid things in the past, boyo…"
#03 – Memory
Ireland couldn't really remember visiting England much when he was a brat, he just told Scotland to have fun and buggered off, but he had to wonder if he had visited and helped out more would they be closer nowadays?
#04 – Box
Every Christmas England received a large box from Ireland and inside there would be a smaller box and a smaller one and a smaller one until he got to one that was filled with nothing and he couldn't help but feel that was probably more than what he deserved.
#05 – Run
On one of Ireland's rare visits (he tried to put one up at least once a decade) he thought he'd mess around with the little panic stricken England so he quickly brought their mouths together, what he hadn't expected was to be running off a minute later with England in hand from a very angry Scot.
#06 – Hurricane
England noticed that whenever Ireland visited it was like a hurricane had ran through, Scotland would be angry, annoyed and hung over, Wales would refuse to speak English for at least a week and everything in his office would be either knocked down or rearranged, but even so they were all glad their brother was as lively as ever.
#07 – Wings
Ireland laughed into the snickering Scots shoulder; they had to remember to take a picture of their brother in that stupid angel get up next time.
#08 – Cold
England was frozen he had been waiting outside his own house for the last three hours Ireland had changed the locks and was very clearly smashing every glass item England owned; how come every time his family were angry, even when it wasn't at him, they had to smash his house up?
#09 – Red
Ireland hated looking at any red crosses it always reminded him of his brother's flag and reminding him of England just made him angry and confused: did he hate the bastard or did he love his brother?
#10 – Drink
England found it greatly annoying how Ireland could out drink him about four times over and still be relatively sober, and he was about to tell him that but found it much more entertaining to sleep against his eldest brother's chest and listen to his relaxing Irish accent.
#11 – Midnight
Ireland always refused to stay past midnight when England decided to go drinking with him, because although his brother was more than willing to stay till the crack of dawn he wasn't sure he could trust his self overly intoxicated with England around (after all he didn't want to accidently become a part of the United Kingdom again).
#12 –Temptation
England had always been tempted to kiss Ireland, talk to him, do something to get their relationship to be a little smoother than what it was now, but he didn't want to freak his brother into thinking he was trying to make him rejoin the Union.
#13 –View
When Wales not to kindly questioned why he was over in England for the first time after he broke from the Union he couldn't help but jokingly tell him: "site seeing, you know admiring our brother's vital regions."
#14 –Music
When England found out his eldest brother could play the violin and snuck out at night to play away from the mayhem that was their household, he couldn't help but silently follow and fall asleep while listening to the beautiful tune.
#15 – Silk
If Ireland remembered correctly, which he did, Arthur's hair used to feel like silk… and nowadays he had to wonder if he slipped his fingers through the blonde locks… would they feel the same?
#16 – Cover
England found a hand tightly clamped over his mouth as Ireland dragged him into another room for cover as an angry Scottish voice howled bloody murder, now why was he always forced in between Ireland and Scotland's arguments?
#17 – Promise
Ireland had promised his self he wouldn't think about England after he had left the United Kingdom, but he found it becoming harder each day especially seeing as he had a new Nation on what used to be just his land.
#18 – Dream
England couldn't possibly dream of a perfect world where everything went his way, he was too pessimistic about life, but he knew that if he ever did dream of a perfect world he'd have his brother Ireland back on talking friendly terms.
#19 – Candle
In Ireland's house in the room that he used as an office there was one picture of each of his brother's framed up somewhere, on his desk sat the picture of England and in front of it sat a candle and no matter how times he told Scotland it was so he could imagine burning their younger brother, the Scot knew differently.
#20 – Talent
England couldn't honestly say he had a proper talent his country managing to be a be quite good at a lot of things but never being the best at them, and Ireland couldn't bring his self to tell him that he thought his only talent was being a whining brat.
#21 – Silence
Ireland enjoyed loud noises so when he found their whole family, minus England who looked like he was holding his anger back, arguing he was actually enjoying his self, and when he woke up the next morning a black eye in place and England's living room destroyed once again by their family and England himself silently watching over him and their other badly bruised brothers, he couldn't help but think that maybe he enjoyed silent moments like these just as much.
#22 – Journey
When England was younger he demanded Scotland to tell him how to visit their brother Ireland; he ended up being kicked in the sea and being told to swim in that general direction, sadly back then he wasn't quite sure how to swim or how to move a boat.
#23 – Fire
Ireland squeezed onto England tightly as he screamed and cried his eyes out; Ireland kissed him softly, bit down on flesh, even let the brat's nails scar his own flesh, anything to help him through the pain of a whole city and all its people burn to their death.
#24 – Strength
England knew that Ireland was stronger than him, even if it pained him to admit it, so it wasn't all that surprising when he found his self being trapped beneath his eldest brother, and his arms being pinned above him as Ireland left his mark all across his neck and chest.
#25 - Mask
Ireland rested his hand absentmindedly on England's cheek having his thumb gently rub the flesh underneath and he had to wonder why he couldn't feel the mask his brother wore that hid the pirate and brat within.
#26 - Ice
England had to curse his luck when the ice and snow around his house was so bad that even Ireland and Scotland had trouble standing up right and he swore straight out when he found out his whole family was going to have to stay the night, looks like he was going to lose more furniture.
#27 - Fall
Ireland knew Scotland loved their brother (even if he was never going to admit it or show it) and after a nights thoughts he had to sigh when he realised that he may have also just a little bit fallen for little England.
#28 - Forgotten
When England was younger he had always felt left out and forgotten, because Ireland was hardly around and when he was he completely ignored the little boy and went straight to Scotland.
#29 – Dance
Ireland grudgingly had to admit that England could dance very well; he could dance a lot of different dances, he even proved he could dance HIS dance, so of course when Ireland got the chance he showed the brat who was the better dancer, by successfully dipping the said brat back before he could fight back and grinned down at him before continuing to dance flawlessly.
#30 – Body
England wasn't quite sure what to think when he walked into his house to see all his brothers stripped naked and arguing about something about battle scars and he was going to completely and utterly ignore them, of course Ireland made that quite impossible when he trapped him against the wall and started stripping him of his clothes as well.
#31 – Sacred
Ireland somehow found his self tied down one night after separating from the Union with England above him and he was totally willing to kill the brat, he wasn't going to become a part of the United Kingdom again but all his brother did was gently kiss him across every bit of flesh as though he was telling him he was sorry for setting foot on his sacred land.
#32 – Farewells
Farewells hurt and England would admit that his and Ireland's had to be the worst, because after all England found his self with a bullet through his shoulder and a black eye while his eldest brother had his own bullet wound through his leg and neither were quite willing to stop the fight there.
#33 – World
Ireland never did turn up to those stupid World meetings, he wasn't going to risk bumping into England, (or Scotland or Wales if they decided to tag along) there was after all no need to drag the whole world into their family quarrels.
#34 – Formal
England preferred to wear his punk clothing over that annoying suit and tie any day and he found his self muttering this to Ireland one night when he was drunk, sadly he didn't expect to wake up the next morning with a note stuck on his forehead from Ireland explaining how he had burned all of those annoying suits, and he let out a very long chain of swear words, didn't Ireland know he had to go to a meeting that morning?
#35 – Fever
Ireland wasn't sure why England caught colds and fevers easily he just did, and it was through his fever induced haze that he would confess to the most absurd things, such as secretly listening to Ireland play his violin at night; how'd he'd much rather listen to that than Scotland's bagpipes.
#36 – Laugh
England would never admit to how much he loved listening to Ireland's musical laugh; he especially wouldn't admit to crying the first time he heard his wonderful laugh: knowing that Ireland would probably never laugh knowingly with him around.
#37 – Lies
Ireland was lying to his self he knew, when he saw his younger brother he instantly told his self his stomach ached, because he saw someone he hated, but he knew he was lying, but he didn't want to acknowledge that he loved the brat; that he still messed him up when he wasn't even a part of the UK.
#38 - Forever
England knew from experience that forever was a lie, people died and Nations faded away eventually; though most would feel sad at that fact it made England smile, if nothing lasted forever, neither could hatred.
#39 - Overwhelmed
Ireland was positive that England wouldn't be able to survive as a Nation and would fall before he even hit puberty, so when he decided to pay Scotland a visit one day he was greatly shocked to see the brat was almost as tall as him and Scotland, not to mention the said brat was in pirate clothes and was more than willing to fight back against his brothers.
#40 - Whisper
England knew all his whispers would fall on deaf ears seeing as how Ireland was fast asleep, but he found it much easier to say sorry for everything he and his people had put him through; that he'd make up for it somehow… though he wasn't too sure how yet.
#41 - Wait
Ireland wanted to grab his brother, tell him to wait, knock some sort of sense into him, but doing so would probably suggest he was coming out of his neutrality; he couldn't do that for his people, he wasn't being dragged into another World War just to help his brothers.
#42 – Talk
Now that England though about it he and Ireland had never had a conversation that didn't end with one of them ending up hurting, physical or emotional, so whenever Ireland paid him a visit he always went straight to the defensive, how was it going to end today?
#43 - Search
Ireland grinned down at his struggling brother as he managed to undo England's clothing while keeping his arms pinned above his head, he was going to have fun trying to find all the mark left over from where his younger brother had had piercings.
#44 – Hope
When Ireland got his independence, everyone thought England would drown his self with alcohol like every time he lost some member of his Empire; he did, but beyond popular belief he actually drunk so he could forget his worries, he hoped his brother would be alright.
#45 – Eclipse
Ireland looked up at the lunar eclipse, the moon had turned such a lovely orangey red; Ireland couldn't help but curse and drink his anger away, why did red have to remind him of his brothers?
#46 – Gravity
"The larger you get, England…" Ireland paused and smiled sympathetically at his younger brother who was withering in pain from separating from another one of his colonies, "the harder you fall."
#47 – Highway
Highways were long, Ireland duly noted as he sped down one, Scotland glaring at Wales through the mirror in the seat next to him with their younger brothers in the back seats, Northern Ireland and Wales both clinging onto England for one reason or another and he couldn't help but wish he was Northern Ireland at that moment… maybe then this road it wouldn't seem so long.
#48 – Unknown
England glared at his older brother, there was no way he was going anywhere in his brothers country unless was somewhere he had already been, he didn't trust Ireland to take him to some unknown place, who knows when he'd be able to find a way home.
#49 – Lock
Ireland stared at the room that he had locked like he always did when he passed the room (in all honesty he tried to avoid passing the room for that exact reason) and he sighed, the urge to enter and be lost in the memories when he was a part of the United Kingdom, but like always he shook his head and walked away and repetitively told his self that it was better now that he wasn't tied to any of his brothers!
#50 - Breath
The room was dark, pitch black, they were stuck in there for a long while now and they were going to be stuck in there for God knows how much longer, but England was thankful that they were safe and alive; he found his self more thankful that he could hear his eldest brother's breathing though- he wasn't alone in all this, he wasn't alone in some strange place where the enemy could probably easily get them… he wasn't alone…
So… Well I made one for Scotland and England and thought hey why not make one for the other United Kingdom countries (though Ireland isn't considered one now it used to be so it counts), so I'm adding the other countries and their own love-hate relationship with Scotland's one. But, yes I'm trying to be careful with these stories for a number of reasons…
I'm English, Scottish, Irish AND Walsh (though I was born in England and grew up there my grandparents from Scotland, Ireland and Wales made sure to make me love the other countries as much as England by telling me stories of when they were growing up), so I'm feeling ever so slightly biased, because I love them all and I'm trying to make none of them seem bad at the same time as showing their not so nice side… it probably didn't turn out too well!
And well, in my mind although it IS their fault for what happens seeing as they represent their country, I'm thinking that their people also played a part; that as separate beings they probably had their own thoughts and feelings that wanted to contradict what they were having to do for their country; I'm hoping that sort of came out…
And not everything is historically correct, because I've added in my own little things, and because I couldn't be bothered to research EVERYTHING, I checked a few things to make sure I was correct but not EVERYTHING… So, yeah some is all make-believe scenarios between the Nations as though they were people not Nations, though of course some of it is true!
But yeah… So how I've portrayed them so far. Basically to the best of my knowledge Scotland and England's love-hate relationship is the most obvious among all the UK countries so I had theirs stand out stronger than the others, whereas Ireland and England's love-hate relationship is less let's torment their soul and more being wary around the other and trying not to destroy the sort of balance they have going. I was so tempted to make Ireland female but after reading a fanfic some where I just believe Ireland works better as a guy than a woman now(like all the UK countries, damn you amazing writers). But yes next up is Northern Ireland, and then our darling Wales! But yes, please read and review ^^