A/N: Gah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
I kept you waiting, sorry!
I don't own anything!
Draco rolled in his bed.
That moment.
That moment kept replaying in his mind.
"No."
"Oh really?" snarled Draco.
Then what happened next was a rush for both of them.
All Draco remembered is that he sent a hit to Gilbert's stomach.
And then he passed out.
Draco cleared his throat and sighed.
And what, he asked himself, was the point of this again?
There was an awkward silence.
I...don't remember.
Gilbert woke up.
Sadly, he was aching, and he was in agony.
Where am I? What am I doing here?
"Oh, you're awake."
Gilbert looked up.
"W-wha-" he began.
"Sh. Don't talk. Just...being awake wastes your energy, East."
That voice...
Gilbert couldn't place it. It was definitely familiar, but had a twinge he didn't recognise.
"You're just keeping him awake by talking, Ludwig. Please, let him in peace."
Oh! thought Gilbert.
"West, that you?" he croaked out.
"East, you...you remember?" asked Ludwig.
"I...remember? Remember...what?" asked Gilbert.
"The country names...you remember?"
Gilbert let out a slightly forced and definitely painful laugh.
"How...how would I forget? How could I?" he said.
"So...East...how did you get in this mess?" asked Ludwig.
"I don't remember."
Miranda stumbled and grabbed the wall for support.
"I...I can't..." she coughed, and collapsed.
Alfred ran towards her.
"Sis! Sis!" he shouted. "Help!"
Francis ran towards them and kneeled right down to her mouth.
He put his ear next to her mouth and sighed in what seemed like relief.
"She's breathing." he said, sitting up.
Alfred sighed as well.
"We might as well take her to the nurse. The same thing just happened to Lovina." said Athena, who was passing by.
She snickered.
"You should've seen Antonio's face." she said.
If this is happening to all the girls, then...thought Alfred, and he jumped up.
"ALICE!" he shouted and ran off.
Athena coughed wildly, and collapsed right next to Miranda.
Francis sighed and waited for the Professor to come and help.
Gilbert looked as the two girls came into the room and almost catapulted off his bed at the look of Miranda's face.
The two girls were rapidly growing pale, and the nurses were crowding around the two like bees.
"What happened?" he asked Ludwig, who had turned as pale as the girls on the bed.
"Feliciana." he said, and ran off.
Gilbert saw the other two come in, Alice and Lovina.
Alice was brought in by Alfred, who had looked like he ran three flights of stairs.
Lovina was brought in by Antonio, who looked like he had been crying for hours.
The boys were about the same shade of white as the girls in their arms.
Feliks followed right after, with Victoria in his arms, obviously looking like he was struggling to carry her, but doing it anyway.
Then Ivan came in, with Yin in his arms and a sadistic smile that very plainly said I'm going to kill whoever did this.
And just when Gilbert thought the worst was over, in came Ludwig, an extremely pale Feliciana in his arms.
Ludwig looked a mess. He was a mix of 'climbed up fourteen flights to get her' and 'oh Gott, is she going to be alright'.
Gilbert himself didn't look so great.
His hair was in a spiky mess, his eyes weren't shining red, and he had lashes and bruises all over.
So what happened to the girls?
Miranda was in a purple haze.
All the other girls were there too, but she found none of them could speak.
And what was worse is that they were in so much agony they couldn't move.
Without a voice to scream, they were forced to endure the pain in awkward and painful silence.
The only person who was relatively sane was Alice, who had long since got past the pain, and was walking around and trying to make sense of the place.
Miranda wanted to scream, and the only thing she wanted to scream was...
"GILBERT!" shouted Alfred.
Gilbert shot up, glancing at the outraged American.
"You did this, didn't you, with your freaky red-eyed albino power!" said Alfred angrily.
"What? What are you talking about? I don't have albino power! But if I did, it would be awesome." asked Gilbert.
"You're the cause of it all, you! You're the one responsible for my sister and Alice on that bed, you!" shouted Alfred, tackling the German in a tackle Alice would have said was 'interesting'.
"Stop!" shouted Ludwig.
Both Gilbert and Alfred looked up.
"It isn't his fault. If it were, Miranda, Lovina and..." began Ludwig, and a tear dropped. "And...and...and Feliciana wouldn't be there!"
"And you're saying Alice WILL?" shouted Alfred, angrier than before.
"Let me go!" shouted Gilbert, and struggled out of the tackle.
"I have a suggestion." said Kiku quietly.
"Shoot." panted Gilbert.
"We must find out who did this, and when we do, let's pound his brain into mush." said Kiku seriously.
The boys had a silent agreement over the last statement.
"So what do we do?" asked Alfred.
"Do what we do best-interrogate." said Kiku.
Alice found her voice coming back, and she was able to croak out that it hurt.
Miranda's eyes flashed open and she opened her mouth.
"W-where are we?" she said, both in agony, and in confusion.
Yin shrugged.
Feliciana was passed out from the pain.
Lovina was standing up and pounding on a glass wall.
"Is that the boys?" she asked.
Everyone ran to the glass.
"Ve, it is!" said Feliciana, and she coughed harshly.
"What are they doing?" asked Athena.
"It would seem, aru, that they are making a pact." said Yin.
"What's a pact?" asked Victoria.
Miranda shrugged.
"A pact is a promise." said Alice.
"Then we should make one too." said Miranda.
"About what?" asked Feliciana.
"To stay alive for them." replied Miranda.
The girls glanced at one another and silently agreed.
Just like the boys had promised to find who did this, the girls promised to stay alive for them, however the cause.
And sadly, none of them knew how much it would cost the both of them.
A/N: Wow, this was fun.
Do you think my chapters are too short?
XD
I'll be writing more!
