Title: Coffee & Tea: A Hundred Day Challenge

Series: Axis Powers Hetalia

Pairing: America & England

Rating: K

Genre: Romance, Friendship

Warning: Alternate Universe, Human Names

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction by a fan for fans. Axis Powers Hetalia rightfully belongs to Hidekaz Himaruya.

Author's Note: Thank you for the reviews and for adding this story to your favourites/alerts, guys! Sorry for not updating the past few days, there is NO internet here and we get blackouts every day for three hours. APH 100 Day Challenge was made by kimchi71399.

Edit: My good friend, E. L. Ash, so kindly beta-d this for me. And even though a hundred days is over/has passed, I'll still continue this.

Day 11: Someone's Hero

It was a hot summer's day in the large playground but despite the heat and last night's news warning everyone about heat strokes and dehydration, many children still ran around the playground to chase and play with each other. Alfred F. Jones was one of those many, if not foolish, children running wildly across the grass and heat.

He was chasing a rather loud German kid who had just moved in with his family recently. Alfred didn't really like Gilbert, self-proclaimed as Almighty Awesomeness, because he was obnoxious, loud and really mean to his brother, Matthew. Just a couple nights ago, Matthew ran all the way home thanks to the German meanie.

"He's a monster!" Matthew had cried all night and refused to leave the house for the playground ever since.

That was one of the reasons why Alfred was chasing Gilbert but for the simple-minded little boy, the most important reason was that they were playing Police with Gilbert being the villain who was wanted Dead or Alive for two pieces of chocolate and Alfred was the last remaining police to capture the dastardly villain.

"Stop villain!" Alfred scream, his body coated with sweat and stench as do most his peers. "You ain't getting' away!"

Gilbert yelled something back in German and the only words Alfred got out of him was the word 'Almighty Awesome', which Alfred guessed to be the only words the kid knew in English.

Alfred continued to chase after the light haired boy past the 'whirlpool of death', a couple rounds around the 'slippery cliff' and across the 'no man's desert' before Alfred succumbed to the heat and dizziness and fell ungraciously on the sand.

"This is it... I'm... going to die..." Alfred muttered to himself dramatically as he rolled on his back to face the unkind brightness of the sun. He squinted his eyes and let his head fall back down in defeat, "Looks like I'll-"

"Oi, walrus, don't hog the sand box to yourself!" Alfred turned his head slowly to the side and saw a group of three kids glaring at him. To Alfred, they looked like the second-rate lackeys in the cartoon shows he watched regularly.

The one the centre began to step towards him, probably to hit him so he would leave, when he was stopped by a shot. The three second-class villains gasped towards the direction of the shot, yelled something that Alfred was too tired to pick up on before they were shot at once more, this time it wasn't just a warning shot. The three boys ran for their lives and for a moment, Alfred thought his life would be spared but no, the heat was too much.

He pictured his mother in his head, reaching out his hand to touch her, wanting to tell her one last that he loved her and that it was never Matthew who stole the cookies-

"What on earth are you doing?" Alfred's vision of the sun was blocked by a lady with a parasol who stood before him, scowl on his face but before Alfred could beg for help, the stranger pulled out a gun and aimed at him.

Alfred had a gut feeling something grand would happen today, he just didn't realise it was his death but he had been ready for this since... he wasn't even sure since when, but he knew he was ready to-

Squirt.

Alfred blinked his blue eyes as he felt something wet and cool coat his face over and over again. The stranger standing before him shooting at him with a water gun.

"Get up, idiot." The stranger scolded using a tone that reminded Alfred of his mother. "You're going to get a heat stroke if you sleep there. Move."

The shadow kept shooting at Alfred and each time the water landed on Alfred, he felt a little bit better with the cool liquid running down his body and some of it getting in his mouth. Slowly, he found the strength to sit up on his own, ready to thank the damsel who rescued him from terrible death- Alfred blinked, his vision getting clearer now. His damsel wasn't a damsel. She was a he who had a parasol and his pet caterpillars were on his face.

"Didn't you listen to the news last night, idiot?" Alfred saw the boy scowl, not knowing what to call him yet until mid-nag, it hit him.

"You're my hero!" Alfred beamed at the kid, not noticing him cringe. "You saved me! Wow! You're hero!"

"Bloo—you really are an idiot." The stranger glared at Alfred before turning around and marching towards the nearest public rest room or bird bath to refill his now empty water gun.

Alfred was about to give chase when he was picked up by his mother and brought over to the car so that they could head back home. Feeling a bit dejected that he hadn't gotten a name from his saviour, Alfred vowed to himself that he would try to be more heroic in the future because according to his simple and young mind, it was the only way he would meet his hero once again and then, he could give him a proper thanks. And ask how he trained his caterpillars to stick on one spot on his face to look as if they were eyebrows.

The End

Author's Note: Yesh~ It's a friendship fic between toddler!Alfred and toddler!Arthur. Heehee~ I whipped this up rather quickly while taking care of Moti (the dog that inspired me to write the previous chapter) so I apologize for any mistakes, I'll correct them once I get back to the city. And thank you for reading, guys!

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