Chapter 7 'Meeting England's Family'

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This Chapter is dedicated to Dangara2610. Thank you for the ideas for this chapter! And being an awesome person in general and the reviews always make my day! :-D

Edited: 10/08/2018

Australia awoke to strange voices coming from downstairs, leaving his little Koloa friend sleeping on his pillow he stood up on shaky legs. He still felt weakened and a bit sore from the week before so he slowly crept down the stairs putting more weight on his right side to try and quench the ache on his left. He strained his ears to make out the voices, he recognised England's voice immediately but the others were unfamiliar. It sounded like a female's voice and three males, and they had very strange and distinctive accents.

Australia's curiosity got the best of him so he slowly walked down the hall. He peered through the small gap in the door to fully hear the conversation.

"You could have at least sent a letter telling me you were arriving," England muttered in annoyance, he glared at the group in front of him, "Or not come at all.

"Be nice tae yer family" Spoke the tallest man with a thick accent.

"Yes well, as it so happens I am quite busy" announced England

"Too busy to visit yer family?" shot back another male voice. His voiced was also laced in an accent that was a bit different from the first stranger.

"Well you four aren't the best representations of siblings" England argued, "And since when do you just pop in for morning tea anyway. Wasn't only just a decade ago that you said you can't stand to be in the same room as me?"

Australia figured that whoever these people were didn't get on well with England. Speaking of England, he caught the eyes of his father.

"It is very rude to eavesdrop," England directed at him, "Come here lad, there's some people I want you to meet"

'Want' is a very strong stretch for England. Personally, he would have preferred it if his older siblings didn't visit but they had a right to know who Australia was and vise versa. They were family after all, a very dysfunctional one at that but who knows, maybe that would change. Though England doubted that very much, he never got along with his older siblings.

Crimson flooded Australia's face at being caught eavesdropping so he mumbled a small apology as he shuffled into the room and stood next to his dad. He peered up at the other nations curiously. They all looked like England and had the same eye colour and eyebrows as him.

"Oh England! Who is this cute little nation?" asked the female who placed her hands on her knees and bent down to eye level with the Australian nation. Her long orange hair that flowed down her back fell in front of her shoulders.

"This is Australia, I found him on one of my expeditions. Australia this is Ireland," England introduced the female, "Northern Ireland," one of the males smiled at the young nations with bright orange hair and freckles, "Wales," he looked almost just like England but taller and his blonde hair was slightly darker, "and Scotland" He was the tallest out of the all of them and he had dark red hair. But one thing that Australia noticed was that they all had different shades of green eyes.

"They are your aunt and uncles," England introduced with a little reluctance.

"G'day! Nice ta meet ya" greeted Australia. He didn't notice the tired and annoyed glance from England for his choice of words. Poor England, he did try to teach him to be well mannered and to use formal words.

"Hello there laddie," spoke Scotland, "See England, you could learn a thing or two about manners from yer colonies."

England just muttered darkly but then directed his gaze onto his older brothers and sister. "And what, pray tell are you four doing here?"

"Well as we tried to tell you before, we stopped by to visit our brother" Explained Northern Ireland. Ireland crossed her arms and scoffed lightly and nudged her twin roughly in the ribs.

"Ow! Well, we visited and dragged Ireland along" reinformed Northern Ireland, who rubbed the injury he sustained from his sister. "Our bosses thought it would be better and more efficient to run our country if we had some form of communication between us"

Things were obviously still tense between Ireland and England after the rebellion. He remembered reading it in one of his father's history books, something he was proud to say that he had managed to finish the first two volumes. Australia shifted uncomfortably, he was unsure about what to say to quench the heavy feeling in the room. Thankfully, the tension was interrupted.

"Well, why you catch up with them I can take care of Australia and show him around England for a bit" Offered Ireland somewhat tersely. She wasn't too keen on the idea of being in the same room with her younger brother.

Australia eyes lit up with excitement, he loved to be outside every chance he got. England never really let him all that much, he was always made sure to occupy the small nation with his lessons, and when it wasn't learning it was chores. He did get to spend some time outside but it rained very frequently in England's home and he didn't want to get sick. He noticed that Ireland's expression softened at his excitement. England on the other hand, seemed hesitant.

"Fine, but just keep an eye on him, he likes to run off. And don't give him any ideas with your rebellion" England warned her. He then gave Australia a small smile and placed a hand affectionately on top of Australia's hair before giving Ireland a glare before joining his brothers for a cup of tea in the garden.

"Let's go little one" encouraged Ireland as she led Australia away from the house by hand.

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England had brought a tray of steaming cups of tea and a plate of biscuits he had made the other day and placed them on the small table located in his garden. He sat down begrudgingly to face his brothers and sit through the forced pleasantries they would exchange. At least he didn't have to sit in his older sister's presence as well, she always never minded expressing her dislike for him.

He had just taken a sip from his tea when Wales spoke up somewhat awkwardly.

"So…you've taken in a new nation?"

"Yes," England answered frostily. He knew where this conversation was going, "Was it not obvious?"

"You think that's a good idea?" Northern Ireland asked. England glared at his older brother and was about to say something when his oldest voiced his thoughts.

"It's just after what happened last time. Yer sure you are able to handle him? We just don't want tae see you hurt like that again" Scotland said.

While England would have been touched that his brothers would show any concern about him, even if he wouldn't admit it, what made them think he couldn't handle Australia? Sure, the boy was wild and loved getting into trouble and skipping out on his lessons. But he still loved his child like any parent would. Besides, he promised himself that he wouldn't make the same mistake as he did with his former little brother.

"I can manage just fine thank you," England dismissed curtly.

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"So where are we going?" asked Australia, as he jogged to keep up with the taller women as they walked down the unusually quiet streets.

"Well, I thought that instead we could play a game of football, would you like that?" she asked politely.

"Sounds ace…but what's football?"

"Didn't England tell you?" Ireland asked surprised, "But no matter, Football is a game where you have two teams and you have to kick a ball around until you get it into the other team's goal."

When the two got to the field Ireland walked over to a tree where a small ball was resting against the soft ground. Ireland taught Australia the basics of football before they started a quick game.

Australia learned the rules and quickly adapted to the game so easily that Ireland was impressed. Australia had enjoyed the feeling of the soft grass beneath his feet and the wind that breezed past his face when he ran. The game went consistently well, Ireland ended up winning due to her experience but she had to admit that Australia had kept her on her toes; he was quite the athletic nations despite his size. The rush that he felt and the thrill of the game only intensified the young nations love for sport.

"That was so fun! We need to do that again one day" grinned an ecstatic Australia. Ireland began to smooth down his hair and brush any dust or grass off of his clothes.

"Of course! But…just don't tell England about this okay? He is still pretty angry with me." Ireland explained before brushing her own clothes off.

"No worries" promised Australia.

Besides, it wasn't the first secret he had to keep from England. If he still wanted to climb that really high tree and sneak out on the roof of the house to watch the stars at night it wasn't like he was going to tell his dad.

They set off to walk back to England's house. When they arrived England had casually asked them what they got up to, it sounded innocent enough but his older siblings could tell the hint of suspicion behind it.

"Not much really, just showed the young lad some historic buildings." Ireland answered causally to cover the lie. It had worked because England seemed to believe her.

Australia smiled up at England innocently, maybe one day he would ask England to play football with him, as the Englishman had yet to see how well Australia was at sports. Or maybe he could convince England to teach him how to play that game that he brags that his country can play the best, the one where you hit the ball with the long stick, for the life of him he couldn't remember what it was called.

I'm sorry, I can't do other accents to save my life :( but I promise I will try to get better. I would like to again give a big thankyou to Dangra2610 for the ideas for this chapter.

The game that Australia was referring to was Cricket. Australia and England have a long standing rivalry with that sport, and have a test series called the Ashes where the Aussies absolutely flog the British :D Well Australia has won 134 out of 330 games and so far England only has 106 wins but 90 draws which is really good. And yes, when Ireland observed how well Australia was at sport, we are known for our sporting culture and in particular our rivalries with England in cricket and don't even get me started on rugby and New Zealand xD

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