Hey~ Here's another chapter for all my dear readers ^^
I hope this one is enjoyable as well. There's friendship, pain, hatred, mad people, heroism, love and your daily dose of drama!
This sounds like some kind of awkward soap series.. Would you guys watch this story when it would be aired, as an anime of course. (Of course you would, it's anime.. and Prussia's there, that makes it more awesome, da? ^J^)
Enjoy~
Liechtenstein and Ukraine sat in Ukraine's room, both crying; though while Lili tried to calm herself, Yekaterina didn't look anywhere near stopping.
Lili hugged the woman and rocked her gently back and forth while muttering soothing things.
"Lili", the blonde woman sobbed, "It's always like that! When one of them gets mad, they start fighting! Like animals, and they look murderous and always get so injured! But worse of all is that they enjoy it!"
For a moment the little blonde blinked; she was past tears now, and started to think of how and why such a thing would occur.
"They like beating up each other to the verge of death! And then they don't want any help! Everyone knows that if one of them is in a really really bad mood that they can start fighting any moment! It's always like that! Always!"
Lili noted that Katyusha was starting to sob less, "The only good thing about it, is that they both are calm and look more peaceful afterwards."
"Are it only Ivan and Gilbert who get in those fights?" she asked and the Ukrainian nodded while calming down a little.
"I'll ask Gilbert why he does that later, okay?" she wiped of the tears on Ukraine's face, and noted that from this close, it was much more visible that the woman looked very tired, almost worn out and older than she appeared at first.
But she smiled, they both gave each other a warm smile and a hug; Liechtenstein realised, she had to tell Ukraine who she was.
It was dangerous, yes, but first of all Lili hated lying, and the second reason would be, that if something would happen, Ukraine would already know.
Yekaterina would not lose all trust and break the bond between them because Lili lied, instead, she might even help Liechtenstein.
A sick feeling washed over the little girl; I am using everyone that cares for me to my own advantage.
She pushed it away, because she knew that such feelings would only disturb her and in this house, every move seemed potential to change your future into better or worse.
It were the optimists that hoped for a better change and the downcasted persons that did not believe for better things and took things as they were.
"Katyusha, I have to tell you something", in her little head, it was so easy to think of the right thing to do now, but the words slipped away and her mouth felt dry.
The woman smiled softly, "Da?"
That was a word Lili didn't knew how to think of, used by both a fearsome maniac, and the memory of the bloodied, messed up room flashes back up through her memory, and on the other hand the kind lady that held her in a hug now.
"Can you, keep a secret?" she muttered softly and Ukraine's face turned a bit surprised and then a soft expression, serious but kind, covered her face.
"Da, I won't tell anyone", she assured and for a second Lili felt a bit too belittled again.
She licked her lips and parted them, "I know why you are here, I know who you are and I know whom Ivan is. I know why he keeps you all here."
Ukraine's face turned more serious, but before she could speak, Lili inhaled again and spoke.
"But, I want you to know as well", her stomach twisted, she looked down on the carpat and Ukraine frowned.
"Know who I am and why I am here?"
Lili averted her eyes from the floor and looked in Yekaterina's eyes, "Ukraine, I want you to know who I am. Please, listen to me."
Her blue orbs were soft and she gave a little smile, an assurance to Liechtenstein that she was ready to hear whatever news Lili would share.
"I am a nation as well. I am the representation of the principality of Liechtenstein. My tiny land is situated between Switzerland and Austria, underneath Germany. I have close bonds with Austria though now I'm mostly relying on my brother, Switzerland. Just like him I am neutral."
Her breath was a bit shaky, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you before, I was scared."
She admitted honestly how she felt and Ukraine blinked in surprise, "Liechtenstein?"
"Yes. But I have no international or special issues, cases or reasons to be here! My stay here has nothing to do with neutrality, other nations, past wars, the Cold War or anything like that", she quickly said and hoped that her little talk was convincing enough.
Ukraine smiled, "Okay, I believe you. And I won't tell anyone!"
For a moment Liechtenstein thought she found peace in herself, and that everything would be fine.
She hugged the tall woman tightly, "Thank you so much! It really means a lot to me! I don't know how to thank you!"
"I'm always willing to listen, and I'm glad you trust me, Lili", she said and Liechtenstein couldn't express how happy she was to have befriend a person like Ukraine.
"But, if you're not here for international business, then why did you came all the way here?" the woman asked with honest curiosity.
Lili blushed softly when she thought about what had drawn her here, her dear knight, but a pained feeling waved through her body when she thought about how things turned out.
"I guess I, followed my heart", she stuttered a little as she spoke shyly and Yekaterina smiled widely.
"Really? How did your heart lead you to this place?" she asked as if Lili was about to tell her a bedtime story.
Liechtenstein sighed softly, "Someone took it away. He ran of with it and got caught. That man ended up here, and so my body felt awkward without heart. It felt cold, strange, as if it were not mine. So I went after that man that took what was mine."
Ukraine listened closely, "Sometimes, I wish I could take it back. Sometimes I wish he didn't have my heart."
"Who is it?" Katyusha asked as she was completely clueless, and her big light blue eyes sparkled softly.
Lili smiled a little, she thought back at the little good moments they had, just enjoying each other, enjoying the warmth and the life they breathed into each other.
"It's Prussia", she muttered and her lips nearly didn't move, so silently that it was barely audible in the comfortable room.
"Lili, if you love someone, you should speak about him with love! Don't be ashamed to feel such a warm and human feeling towards a person."
Liechtenstein was a little shocked about those words; honestly she had expected all kinds of comments about Prussia or how naïve she was to come here just for something like that.
"Katyusha", she said softly and a graceful smile played on her lips, "Thank you."
Yekatina smiled brightly, "So~ Prussia? Tell me more!"
Lili laughed softly, she loved how relaxed the Ukrainian woman was, how the whole terror of the hell they lived in didn't seem to affect her good-natured heart.
When she spend time with her, it felt like, for a moment, the horror around them wasn't there, like everything was completely fine.
"It happened several months ago actually, but we lost contact back then due to circumstances", she whispered and a genuine smile curved her lips.
She started slowly, carefully telling Ukraine a few things she knew she could entrust her with.
The girls were talking about love like two best friends in high school would do, sometimes softly giggling.
Later that day Russia was walking through the hallways of his precious house; he just came from the sort of gym on the second floor.
After he had stitched himself up and taken care of his own wounds, he had ignored the ache of his body and done his everyday exercise.
Now heading to his own study he sighed when he saw the mess they left.
Shelves had fallen or even broken and chairs were thrown over the room, books lay everywhere and his desk had been broken in half, streaks of blood coloured the walls, floor and some furniture as well.
He started putting the shelves that looked good back in place and putted the books back, in alphabetic order.
Ivan went back to the hallway, his body was terribly aching and even bending down made him moan in pain inwardly.
Though he wouldn't say that to anyone and cursed himself for his weakness, he wanted to call someone to clean the mess up for him.
Nobody there, he sighed softly, when it were regular chores or things that had no meaning to him, they were always there.
Yet when he felt he actually could have some help, when he had cursed himself for his weakness and wanted to call someone, there was no one for him.
Knowing his huge house it could easily take over 10 minutes to find someone, he didn't went to look for a nation.
And even when he would find one, he needed the luck to find someone else than a nation like Latvia or Poland, because they'd probably made it worse then it already was.
Slowly he turned back to the room and started cleaning and fixing whatever he could; he spent too much time in this study to wait with the cleaning and fixing.
Afterwards he sat down on the little, old cough; he couldn't fin the strength to get to work now, and he hated feeling too weak for such things.
Lately though, he had felt terrible like this a few more times, he detested to admit it but his body was weakening.
His body was slowly starving, aching more and more, it hurt, his body, his country, his people.
Ivan pushed those thoughts away, but his mind swirled to the past, how many times, he asked himself, how many times hadn't people hated on him.
England, Austria, Japan even somewhere he reminded that that stupid little nation had gone against him.
The memory revived and he remembered when in 1945, every nation returned the refugees that had gone against communism.
Every nation, even stubborn England, had given him his people so he could punish them, send them to work in Siberia for the rest of their crappy, worthless lives.
Every single nation he had intimidated, except one.
That little nation, that little one next to stoic Switzerland, it had been just a little girl.
And she had refused to give him the people that didn't want to go back to Russia, his people, what kind of sick things must she have been thinking.
Saying 'no' to a nation like him, though he had mixed feelings about it.
On one hand, who did she think she was, he could crush her this very day if he decided to do so.
But on the other hand, it was strange for him to see someone that didn't fear him.
He vaguely remembered her, she had looked straight in his eyes and clearly spoken to him why she wouldn't obey.
She had been an annoyance, yet he not only bared such a feeling, he also was very interested in her.
Sadly enough they hadn't had any contact after that.
He would like to know more about her, but he guessed she would never want to be near him again anyway.
There was a curiosity for her in him, why wasn't she scared? Why were the lives of his people, that needed punishment for disobeying, so important to her?
He closed his eyes, the vague hints of blood, dusty wood and old literature filled the musty, not fresh air.
Suddenly the image of the girl appeared in his mind, it was clear, too clear, it were those eyes, those blonde locks and those soft features.
Lili.
Prussia sat on a little chair in a bathroom and sighed deeply.
"You always get yourself totally in trouble", the blonde said and disinfected the wounds on his back.
"You look like a mess, unfabulous and everything. Why would you like, fight with someone like Russia. I mean, he's like a huge, unbreakable bear-monster-thing made of steel and hate and stupid."
Gilbert looked at the bitchy face with the two vivid emerald eyes in it, "He's not unbreakable."
Poland rolled his eyes, "Yeah like duh, but by the time that killing machine with puppy eyes breaks, our backbones will have totally been his breakfast and our souls will be devoured."
"Puppy eyes?" he actually didn't mind some of the senseless talk with Feliks, because it was an easy distraction of all the things that bothered him.
The Pole shrugged, "They can be really cute, I've never seen someone with violet-purple eyes like his anyway. It doesn't even seem healthy. But it's like he stares deep into your soul, and is not satisfied."
"Belarus had violet eyes, and Canada", he said, hissing softly at the burn of the alcohol as Feliks roughly wiped over the wounds.
Feliks bend down to get the bandage out of the First Aid box, "Belarus' eyes are like, violet-bluish. As for Canada, I don't know, but if he's the brother of America, their eyes might be alike too. I thought America had bluish eyes as well, or that's what Liet like, told me."
After wrapping up Prussia's back and stitching some wounds Poland sighed satisfied, "You're like, patched up. Next time you get beaten up I'll give you a slap in that un-awesome face of yours."
Gilbert quickly protested, "I'm very awesome!"
"Yeah, show your awesomeness and get me paluszki, like you totally promised", the Pole huffed and Gilbert grinned.
"Ja ja, I'll get you those things", when Prussia asked nations to patch him up, they usually wanted him to do a chore for them, or even more, or they wanted something more expensive then a little treat.
He was lucky that the Pole usually just wanted a snack and someone to nag on.
Gilbert carefully put his clothes back on and they left the bathroom; on the way down Feliks talked all about how Belarus was being a bitch towards Lithuania all for that annexation form so long ago and what a brother-obsessed freak she was.
He gladly agreed on it, though he knew he found her body very attractive.
She had the looks of an aristocratic female, a gifted body, yet she was cursed with bipolarity and a brother fetish.
Her only brother happened to be Russia of course, which made everything ten times worse.
If she was as pretty on the inside as the woman was on the outside, he could imagine him falling for her, though it felt weird, and he thought back about Lili.
He missed her very much yearned to hold that slender body in his bruised arms.
"Oh my God, did you hear that?" Feliks suddenly said and Prussia shook himself away from his thoughts.
He blinked and listened to the silence while Poland frowned concerned.
"Yeah, um, heard what exactly?" he said and the Pole sighed while rolling his bottle green eyes, slightly darker then Lili's beautiful orbs.
"Were you even listening at all? I was like totally talking about what a douche Estonia was last weekend, you know what he did-"
Gilbert cut him off with a serious face, "Yeah he's a douche now what was I supposed to hear just a moment ago?"
Poland pursed his lips, "You're totally ill-mannered, isn't that un-awesome of you?"
"What the hell is your problem?! Are you PMSing or something?" he snapped in annoyance and the Pole looked taken aback before his face turned on 'bitchy' mode again.
"Pfft, You're just a total fail. The sound I was talking about was like a scream, but I guess that's not even something special anymore. How many screams haven't we heard echo in this butt-ugly mansion already, right?" Feliks brushed his thin fingers through his hair.
Prussia frowned, it was truth that many screams had already surprised the ones that wandered through this house, "Who screamed?"
It was another way to ask, 'who has Russia released his anger on this time?'
To his surprise, Poland shrugged, "I don't really know. But it didn't sound like it was a man. It was rather high-pitched, like a girl. It could be Latvia though."
Gilbert thought his heart had stopped beating, "Wh-What?"
"A girl or woman, maybe Ukraine, but I doubt Belarus would scream, unless she saw Russia doing Romania in the ass. It might be Latvia as well."
Prussia first made a very disturbed face before he shook the image out of his head, "Where did it come from, we got to go there, now!"
Poland frowned but pointed to the direction of the sound and Prussia started running towards the sound and Feliks gasped a moment before he started running after him.
"Hey! Don't just run away like that!" he whined but continued following the Prussian.
Not because he wanted to be with that red eyed idiot, but because he'd get lost in this labyrinth without him.
There was only one thought screeching through Prussia's head though, one thought that had made his heart skip a few beats moments ago;
Lili.
Ukraine and Liechtenstein were calmly walking through the hallway, chattering about animals; Lili was fund of dogs, cats and little and intelligent rodents like rats.
Katyusha on the contrary preferred horses and wildlife, she loved to see animals in their own habitat, outside, and horseback riding was one of her favourite sports.
They discussed having animals at home, their national wildlife and hobbies like horseback riding.
Suddenly Russia stood in front of them, and it had only taken a second for the tall man to grab her thin upper arm tightly and slam her against the wall.
Everything happened as if it was a movie, Lili couldn't move, the fear slid around her neck and she felt as if she couldn't breath.
Ukraine screamed in fear as she saw her angry brother holding the fragile girl and tears immediately welled up in her widened eyes and stroked her cheeks on their way down.
A deadly aura filled the air and it felt as if the oxygen slowly disappeared.
His violet eyes were intensive, sharp and light; his face was murderous and the way he looked on her promised a slow, painful death.
She stared right into those hard, cold orbs and her mind became blank; her whole body was stiff and she made no movement.
For a moment it was only Ukraine's sobbing that kept the deadly silence away and Liechtenstein swore she was on the verge of fainting or having a heart failure.
Her mint green, fearful eyes stared right into those murderous violet-purple ones, and a shiver tiptoed over her back.
"Liar", his word was filled with hatred and death; it seemed to shush all the life out of her.
Everything went silent in her head and she felt as if she wasn't in her own body anymore.
She felt pressure on her body, the silence scratching in her head and the fingers of death held her throat tightly.
But she was snapped out of everything when Ivan's menacing eyes suddenly widened in shocked and his head was hit by something so fast and hard that his whole body tilted and he fell to the ground.
Lili's body started to react and she was trembling and shaking, leaning against the wall because here legs were giving in.
Her breathing was fast and uncontrolled; only now she felt the sharp pain in her upper arm in the place Russia's big hand had held her.
She looked up from the monstrous stature, directly into bright red eyes.
The moment she saw those crimson orbs, the concern, tender emotion, the worry and pain, the regret and mostly, love, that moment, she felt like every fear and emotion was released from her body.
Every pain and worry damped away, she felt safe, and her eyes closed while she felt her body fall over.
She didn't even feel the ground when consciousness slipped out of her shocked body, but she knew that her knight was there.
Her knight was there, to protect her, to be with her, to take care of her, Prussia was there, for her.
Anyone please note the difference between how Prussia said the information about Liechtenstein to Lithuania, and how Lili says it to Ukraine.. :D
Can I say, cliffhanger? Or something like that? Da? Yes? Ja? Tak? XD
I mean.. they're all on the verge of life now, with that kind of Russia there. Except Ukraine, she'll probably be safe. Unless insanity gets to Russia, then she's not safe as well. That'd be a pity.
Anyway~ What did you guys think? Prussia and Liechtenstein happy ending? XD
Would you guys like to see insanity? Gore? Violence? Romance? Cuteness? Weakness? Fluff (.. if that's possible)? Confusion? Happy ending? Blood? Suffering? Forgivness? There's so much choice.. OH AND DON'T FORGET POLAND IS THERE AS WELL :DD
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