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The next morning she came downstairs, already showered and dressed, nearly bumping into a long figure with short blonde hair and glasses.
"O-oh, I'm sorry!" she said when he almost dropped a pile of papers.
He got a hold of it and frowned at her, "No problem, who are you?"
She blinked, not knowing whether to say the truth, "A guest."
He only frowned more, "Strange. I'm Eduard. Toris should be in the kitchen."
His words were quickly spoken before he continued walking away; she felt impolite that he had said his name but she only named herself as a guest.
Lili frowned and continued walking; she had to stop after a few minutes though with the painful realisation that she had no clue where she was.
She turned around, but all the hallways were the same yet different and her head felt dizzy and light while she kept on walking and trying to recognize some of the decorations through the long corridors.
With every door that passed she wondered what kind of rooms there were here because there were far more rooms then only for basic kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room; unless he had those on every floor.
At a certain point she thought he must have at least ten toilets and hundreds of guestrooms.
She kept walking on faster and faster, not running, but her steps were short and quick.
Then she bumped into someone, both bodies crashed into each other as they walked at a rather high pace and they felt back.
Landing on her buttocks, she winced a bit before looking up at the other person.
She had kind of expected an immediate apology, and already opened her mouth to say her sorry when the other person spoke up.
"Ow, watch out!" this person said and she looked up to face a pair of bottle green eyes; slightly darker and more flashing then hers.
They expressed more raw and clear emotions than her soft, sometimes a bit hazy green pupils.
The man in front of her had also fallen on his butt though he was rather occupied fixing his blonde hair that dangled above his fine shoulders.
Unlike most men she had seen in this house, this guy has a slender body; he was thinner then the others and had a finer build with some almost feminine features.
He wore a green uniform with a sort of cape.
"I'm really sorry, I didn't meant to do so", she said politely and unconsciously she pouted.
Liechtenstein was pretty much trained by Switzerland to cause as less trouble as possible, because trouble could mean loss of neutrality and of course because it was generally bothersome.
Meeting so many people in such a short time period was quite stressful for the girl; she had no clue who they were, who was trustable and who she'd better avoid.
She already forgot the name of that other guy she just ran in and here was the next one; Lili started to doubt whether she had thought good enough about coming here.
Her main focus had been Prussia, Russia and general Communism and issues.
Not meeting another bunch of nations and maybe even causing problems by constantly disturbing them.
Also, if she didn't get a map of this labyrinth called a house, she'd fear getting lost and never being able to find her way back.
"A-ah, yes", he suddenly jumped up and looked like an animal that had just survived a car crash; his eyes big and cautious like a kicked puppy, while he slowly backed away.
The only difference was that he looked at Lili as if she were the car that could still hit him any moment; she gave a little smile in the hope it would look somewhat comforting and less like a possible threat.
It was a strange feeling, because tiny, cute Lili had never been looked at as if she could do any damage.
"I'm so sorry, but I'm lost, could you please help me to find my way back?" for a moment he just stared at her as if the car had just spoken to him.
She almost laughed at his face, and thought to herself what a poor nation had been so unfortunate to get caught by Russia.
The silly guy was probably going through quite a lot; she hoped he'd come out alive.
He looked pretty frightened already, and she was just tiny, nice Liechtenstein; a shiver swiftly tiptoed over her back as she thought what this poor guy would have to stand while he looked to afraid and, actually quite a weak person.
"No" he stated shortly, averting his eyes and subtly backing away more.
Lili blinked and tried to process that, "No… ? Why not?"
Her eyes widened when she thought about him just running off and leaving her behind to rot away in the middle of nowhere.
"Like I know where we are!" he then huffed, as if he were trying to just convince her to go away with his great attitude.
She kind of pitied him; this must've been quite a living hell for a scared person like him.
"W-wait, you are lost too?" she uttered, realising how far away from 'civilisation' they probably were.
"Otherwise I totally wouldn't be here! Lets just like, go on, if we keep going we'll totally find our way through!" he said, it sounded like he more often did this.
Just not giving up until you got what you wanted, stubborn but she doubted he'd get far with that; it sounded like a lame excuse to go on with things.
But they continued walking, practically ignoring each other as he walked a few feet ahead, looking around warily for any sign of life.
Finally they arrived at the living room, through some wicked door that she hadn't even seen before.
She entered the room behind the blond to see everyone was at the table.
Russia, Lithuania, Prussia and a few other guys were enjoying breakfast.
She had to restrain herself from leaping forwards and hitting Prussia in the face for leaving her alone to wander in this mansion.
"Oh, were you lost?" Lithuania couldn't say any more because the blonde next to Lili opened his mouth.
"Totally lost! Liet I swear if I get lost again I'll totally get you back! I'll make you wear an ugly dress and send you to the city for groceries!" he shrieked.
Liechtenstein was surprised that he talked loud and almost rude like that, hadn't he been the shy, stray guy just moments ago?
He sounded like a lady that was left in distress and then had to make her own way out while the prince, in this case apparently Lithuania, had just let it happen.
Then he ran over to Russia, grabbing his shoulder and shaking him while yelling in his face, "Omg you really have to like, freaking do something because if I get lost again I'll totally scratch your pretty little eyeballs out with my beautiful sharp nails!"
So far the shy guy; there was a blonde screaming and complaining to poor, polite Lithuania and now he was almost cussing in Russia's face.
That man was digging his own grave.
But Russia pushed him away smoothly, not even looking irritated.
"Kolkol~" he mused with a rather entertained expression.
Liechtenstein shook her head; this world was so new to her, these people would sooner or later seriously freak her out, she could tell.
When she averted her eyes from the scene that man was making she noticed the empty place between Prussia and Russia.
Rapidly she tiptoed over and sat down, shooting a short glance at Prussia with a kind smile, making sure others wouldn't see.
"Good morning", she greeted them and Russia smiled at her.
"Guten Morgen", Prussia said and he sipped from his coffee but behind the cup his lips curved in a little smile and a very soft, almost invisible blush coloured his cheeks.
She wore the same sweater and skirt like yesterday, but to him, she'd look cute in everything.
"Did you sleep well?" Lithuania asked with a polite smile and for a second two guys, from which one was the blond guy with glasses she had bumped in, shot a confused frown at the brunet.
She smiled a sweet smile, "Oh yes, thank you for asking, sir. How was your night?"
It had been drilled in her head to be polite in every case, but now she felt like she'd better stay the polite, nice girl.
"Yes, yes. Would you like some tea, young lady?" he asked and she hesitated on whether calling her a young lady was very safe.
Hence she giggled childishly and blinked a few times with her big, shiny, sparkly eyes when she answered him, "Oh sir, I would love some tea!"
Russia looked at her with almost the same sparkly eyes and a little adoring smile as if he was a little child himself and looking at his most precious toy.
It both creeped Liechtenstein out and yet soothed her to know she was still in probably the safest position.
Prussia though was getting pissed of as he saw her drawing the attention of both Lithuania and Russia a lot and a little streak of jealousy prickled his chest.
After breakfast Russia stood up as the first one of the table and announced, "Lithuania and East Germany, take care of the guest. Go with her to the market today and buy her some clothes, da? Latvia will take care of Lithuania's chores, and Poland does East Germany's."
Most nations practically ran off the table to do their chores and avoid the Russian while Toris and Gilbert came to Lili; she was standing next to Ivan, who took something out of his jacket.
A worn out, brown wallet rested in his big hand and he quickly took out some coloured papers that he handed to her.
She looked at them, purplish papers, yellowish ones, and a bunch of green ones.
Her eyes wandered over them and she started counting the numbers; soon she was above 8000.
Money.
Liechtenstein almost dropped the money in the palms of her hands, "Sir, this is too much!"
The big sum of money burned in her hands; for her, money was something terrible.
People never had enough of it, they always wanted more, and when she was on the verge of life and death, it had also been because of money.
But Russia laughed a bit and shook his head slightly, "нет, it aren't that much roubles, take it and buy yourself something nice, da?"
Prussia huffed, he knew that if it were euros, then it would've been much, but these were roubles and were worth much less.
Before Liechtenstein could argue he shot a warning glance at both Lithuania and Prussia, turned around and left, leaving the three of them behind.
The moment Toris closed the door behind them, Prussia jumped in the air, "Ja! Freiheit!"
Lithuania laughed a bit, and they started went to the back of the house where two snowmobiles stood, waiting to be used.
"I didn't know there were snowmobiles here", Lili said, she had heard about them but Vash would of course not spend any money to that if they could go by foot.
"Yeah, you would think that the Soviet isn't making much progress. But Ivan actually sometimes spends days in his study or experimenting or whatever. I heard America was feeling good about his science, but it's not true that we're all behind them."
Prussia talked with a mixture of annoyance and yet he didn't seem to completely hate it.
"There are some less nice experiments, but yeah, rather that then living in a house of straw", he added while they took the snowmobiles.
Lili looked up at Prussia, "If you want to go away, then how come you don't do it on moments like this?"
Well, they were outside, and Russia was inside, but with some preparations it should be perfectly possible to escape, right?
"Nein Lili, it's like one of those less pleasant things that fat scientist does. We're chipped; he can navigate us and knows where on this freaking globe we are", that surprised her, but she couldn't say anything back as they started the snowmobiles and the roaring of the metal creatures filled the air.
Lithuania sat on one of them and Prussia grabbed Liechtenstein; he pulled her and helped her into the seat.
He sat down in front of her, "Lilichen, hold onto me, this is going to be a rough ride."
She could hear his enthusiastic smirk and wrapped her arms around his torso as she pressed her chest against his back and laid her head affectively against the upper part of his back and beginning of his neck.
The energy and excitement that flooded through Gilbert's veins and pounded through his heart only got stronger when the vehicle shot forwards.
The machine roared and growled underneath them and Prussia only went faster and faster, racing over a path through the forest and keeping distance from trees.
Lithuania followed closely behind them, but seemed to drive safer and not as fast.
Lili held on tighter to the Prussian and he sped up, all his energy in his tensed muscles, his biceps and triceps that helped him control the thing and balance, his calves and thighs that held his figure from falling of the speedy machine.
It was a moment Liechtenstein felt happy though, the adrenaline in her own body made her forget all trouble of the last few days and filled her with warmth.
It was also the close presence of Prussia that made her heart pound wildly and she pressed her nose against his clothes, inhaling his scent.
The smell of sweat, the woods, gunpowder, hints to the scent of the fireplace and a vague presence alcohol.
So manly, Liechtenstein enjoyed it while inhaling deeply every time, ignoring the gust of cold wind that regularly blew in her face and filled her lungs with coldness as well.
Eventually they arrived at Moscow; their snowmobiles were locked at the edge of the forest and they walked through the city in silence.
Her eyes wandered over the houses and the families; people just continued living, but it had always been like that, hadn't it?
People that were born in war had to adapt and to live in it, they didn't have eternity to live in like the nations did.
Some children ran laughing through the street, playing and looking carefree as if Communism was a little wicked bedtime story, way from reality.
What caught Lili's attention was that almost every person on the street greeted them and gave them a warm smile, even when Prussia only huffed at it, they did not look offended.
Luckily there was Lithuania, because Lili would've been ashamed to walk around with such a grumpy man; she poked Prussia with her thin finger.
"Was?" he snapped, but his face softened and he looked between apology and confusion at her.
"Smile Liebling, why do you have to look like a sour, old man", she pouted and Toris laughed a bit but kept himself wisely out of it.
Prussia huffed another time, "These people don't deserve my smile."
"These people have done nothing wrong to you", her voice was stern again, and it reminded Prussia of a nagging mother.
Lithuania pretended to be focussed on their environment and the way while he listened carefully to what the serious voice of little Liechtenstein had to say.
He wondered whether she tried to play adult or whether there really was an intelligent, strong woman behind that cute and innocent figure.
"These people, Russians, have enslaved the awesome Prussia, and many others. Our blood is on their hands and our pain is on their minds and our suffering-" Lili cut him off.
"No, no!" her voice was high but not girlishly, high pitched, her eyes were widened but her eyebrows slightly knitted together in a frown, as if he had tried to convince her that Vash married a Turkish goat.
"Gilbert, this, are the people that work from the moment the sun rises until it sets, this, are the people that desperately keep doing everything with sweat, blood and tears for the little money they spend on their family, this, Gilbert, are the people that don't do anything but work for the noble, eat old bread and sleep on hard beds without pillows! These Russians have done nothing wrong and if I would ask anyone here, whether they wanted you, or any German, or any Lithuanian or any whatever human to suffer for the good of Mister Stalin, than what do you think would they say?"
Silence trapped them; she smothered all the thoughts that had fired up in both Prussia and Lithuania away, and the touch of the hushing fingers of silence also froze their movement.
Both men stared for a moment at her, Prussia's face was unreadable and she felt a blush warming her cheeks.
But she pushed away her hesitance and kept the protective air for these people up; her glance was directed straight into Prussia's red eyes.
She felt a relieved feeling rolling over her when his face softened a bit, the questioning, surprised, even slightly unsatisfied emotion in his eyes had been replaced by a subtly more kind expression.
But she didn't allow her body to show any change, her legs just a bit wider set, shoulders and chest defending and that stubborn streak through her mint green eyes.
Lithuania stared at her strong posture, the power and inner strength she clearly showed through it, her believe in what she said and more important, the way she said it; dragging her voice between anger, compassion and her wilful opinion.
He saw the contrasting emotion of determination and confidence, in her bright green eyes, against her stupidly sweet face.
She was a smart woman and not afraid to stand up for her opinion; her little fragile body was now standing up proud and secure, ready to defend.
And Prussia's eyes danced over her feminine little figure, strong and defending, her flashing eyes and golden hair that played with the wind, and all he could think of her was, Beautiful.
"Preußen, answer me, what do you think these people would say?" she lifted her chin a bit while saying this, making her posture a little more self-secure and expecting.
She would hold the warmth and energy that fizzed in her body and almost make her limbs tremble, when she saw an almost gentle smile on his sharp face.
"Meine Dame, will you forgive my rudeness", his voice was low and seductive and she'd love to leap in his arms and kiss him.
But she forced herself to stand still just a little more, instead of falling for his tricks she narrowed her eyes, "I asked you a question, meine Ritter, do not make me repeat myself again."
He blinked in surprise, and for a second hesitance prickled her mind, but he sighed in a surrender.
"Gut, Fräulein Lili, if you want my honest thought", and he paused in his sentence, making her fear a second that the moment was ruined, "I don't think they would've want anybody to suffer needlessly, no matter who it may be."
His voice was more silent, and for a moment his eyes were pointed to the ground, like little boy acknowledging he was wrong.
It even surprised Lithuania; Lili smiled warm and the bomb of happiness that cut through her stomach like butterflies with their thin, sharp wings, pushed her forwards.
She wrapped her arms around Prussia and he laughed a bit and hugged her back, then lifted her little face with his fine fingers.
For a moment it was just bright green against flashing red, staring through each other's eyes and loving what they saw.
But their eyelids fell down and their lips were slowly drawn together and sealed in a long passionate kiss until they had to pull away for breath.
The longing feelings grew and Prussia held her slender body firmly, as if she could slip through his hands any moment, yet loving, as if his force could crush her skin and bones underneath the pressure.
Their lips met again and his tongue slid over her lips and she hungrily opened her mouth, his tongue was just about discover her mouth for the firs time when loud couching disturbed them and she quickly pulled back.
Liechtenstein almost jumped out of his grip, but he held on to her and they both looked at poor Lithuania, whom they had forgotten.
"Oh!" was all Lili could force over her lips and a darker red spread over her cheeks as she looked apologizing to him.
Busted.
"Kesesese, what's wrong Lithuania? Jealous?" Prussia smirked and proudly laid his arm around her waist.
Lithuania blinked a few times, he looked as if he just witnessed the marriage between Vash and the goat; Lili felt bad when she saw the confused man just staring at them for a minute, trying to make the picture complete, but too many parts were missing.
"N-no, but, um, I'm just k-kind of s-surprised", he stuttered and softly ruffled his hand through his hair for a moment.
Of course, Lili realised Lithuania hadn't been aware of anything, the guy didn't even know why she came all the way there!
"I-I'm sorry", she stuttered, blushing heavily; Prussia grip around her only tightened.
"There's nothing to be ashamed of, Lilichen", he huffed and she looked at him indignantly.
Carefully but certain she pushed his hand from her waist; "Prussia", she hissed underneath her breath.
Luckily Lithuania suggested they should just walk on; which she gladly did and Prussia silently followed her.
It was quite cold though and she was happy to receive new clothes; they wandered slowly through the many colourful stalls.
Eventually she had bought a few sweaters, pants, skirts and other clothes; it were mainly childishly cute clothes that Toris and Gilbert chose though.
They said the clothes were like that because it was very important that Russia liked them and that he kept the innocent, sweet image of her.
After a while they bought enough clothes and were just strolled around, looking for a place where they could buy a cheap snack.
They soon found it and got themselves some food and a warm drink, because walking for a few hours through the cold had its effects.
In a little silence Lili remembered something she wanted to ask them and she licked her lips before parting them.
"Prussia, um, before we got here, you said something about you guys being, chipped?" she looked questioning at the guys and Lithuania sighed while Prussia's face hardened.
"Yes, it is true. All nations staying in Russia's house have this chip", Lithuania said and he looked uncomfortable.
She scanned his body quickly but no bracelets or necklaces but didn't found anything and her questioning glance returned.
"Err, it's underneath the skin", he muttered and her facial expression went from processing, to shock, to an even more questioning stare.
She inhaled and hold her breath for a moment, her lips parted, "What?"
"It's not that difficult", Lithuania gave her a friendly smile as if it all was not that bad but his eyes were sad.
Prussia sighed loudly and zipped open his vest; his fingers danced over the exposed skin of his white neck and he stopped at a place.
"Here", he said and she saw there was a greyish little rectangle indeed underneath his skin; almost faded scar tissue made it clearer that there was something there.
She reached out for it carefully and touched his mildly warm skin, "Does it hurt?"
He laughed in a huffing tone and shook his head with a bitted smile, "Only when I tried to get it out."
"Get it out?" Liechtenstein asked slowly; she didn't felt like that had been a good thing to try.
His bitter smile didn't change, "I stole one of Belarus' knives; they're far sharper than most knives are. But I ended up turning on an alarm, nearly electrocuting myself and eventually my body gave in due to some muscle affecting poison that spreads in your body when the chip becomes damaged."
Lili blinked a few times while trying to process that, "Russia did that to you? To nations?"
He snickered as an answer and Lithuania looked away, sipping from his coffee.
"Liechtenstein, that man is crazy. He thinks he's a scientist or something. He tries out all kinds of crazy experiments! Whether it is to help people, like when he invented a plant that contains all things cows need, or just for the heck of it, like manipulating stuff up; it usually fails! The cow plant apparently wasn't liked by cows because of its smell. They didn't ate it, but it grew so fast that it was very hard to get rid of. And that's just one of the many experiments!"
Lili looked sad, she could see the Russian had sometimes meant well, but if things failed, they failed, not much to do about it afterwards.
"But that's not that bad, right?" it was weak, but there was a stubborn voice in her that kept on believing the good in people.
"Yeah, that wasn't that bad. But when he killed my dog, and then started experimenting with reviving, it was bad. For me!"
Prussia was getting seriously angry at the thought and Lithuania spoke up, "Eventually the experiment was life-saving."
Prussia gave him a hating glare, "He killed many of my dogs, before he could revive even a single one!"
Liechtenstein blinked, "Revival? Are you talking about medic things or black magic?"
She heard about some nasty magic Russia possessed but since they didn't mention anything about it she wasn't sure.
"No Lili, he drained all their blood out through a vital vein until their heartbeat and breathing had completely stopped. Then he linked those important veins with his machine. This machine could replace the functions of the heart and lungs."
Prussia's voice was bitter and cold while he spoke, but Lithuania frowned sceptically at hearing only the bad part of it.
"Once the experiment had succeeded, more dogs were tried out. All dogs that went through the tests then survived and continued to live like nothing such had happened. Their behaviour and everything was the same as before. It is now starting to be used for humans that need things like a heart transplantation."
Than Toris sighed, "Let it be, maybe we should head home now?"
His voice was soft and warm and Lili nodded with a smile.
When Lithuania put away their cups and plates and walked towards the exit, she and Prussia followed him.
A hand grabbed her by her upper arm and swiftly turned her around and her lips met the soft kiss of Prussia while Lithuania kept on walking, oblivious to what was happening behind him.
First she was too shocked to react but it didn't take long before her lips moved to his and her eyes closed.
Too soon he pulled back and they continued walking behind the Lithuanian that still hadn't noticed anything; both had a young, pinkish blush on their cheeks.
When Gilbert helped her on the back seat of the vehicle, his hands slid over her body lovingly and she wanted to get rid of the barrier of clothes between their skin.
He sat in front of her and she draped herself around his body and again wished it were their bare body's touching each other.
A sigh rolled over her lips and she took another deep inhale of his manly odour.
"Ich liebe dich", her words were silent, unheard and carried away by the wind that played with her blond hair, "Meine Ritter."
Guten Morgen, is German for Good morning.
нет (nyet), is Russian for No.
Roubles is what people pay with in Russia (like Dollar in USA and Euro in Europe).
Ja! Freiheit! Is German for Yes! Freedom!
Was, is German for What.
Liebling, is German for Darling.
Preußen, is German for Prussia.
Meine Dame, is German for My Lady.
Meine Ritter, is German for My Knight.
Gut, Fräulein Lili, is German for Good, Miss Lili.
Russian scientists did all kinds of experiments, and that of the cow plant is true, the revival of dogs as well. Look it up! Russian experiment revival, something like that. There's even a video about it somewhere, if you're a sensitive watcher I wouldn't watch it though, it's not that bad or bloody but not a nice sigh to see a living doghead (only a head, body is chopped off) or a dog being drained of his blood and stuff, and it's kind of cruel towards the dogs.
Ich liebe dich, is German for I love you.
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