Sorry for the long wait. I've had a major writers block and have been busy so I'm sorry. Enjoy. ^^

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Back home, or, at least this was Canada's new home now, Canada sat in the living room thinking to himself all he could hear was the clock ticking and the baltics whispering about him. He didn't mind it much though, he simply ignored them.

"He's been sitting there for a few hours now" Estonia said.

"A-Are you sure he's alright?" Latvia asked.

"Yes... he's just going through so much right now" Lithuania answered, "Poor guy, he's taking this hard"

"Well, he is a westerner, they take their freedom quite seriously"

"What are you three doing here?" Russia asked wearing a creepy smile.

Estonia and Latvia froze in place and slowly looked behind them as they trembled in fear.

Lithuania did the same, only he was the one to speak,

"W-We were just c-checking up on C-Canada, sir"

"Oh really"

Russia walked over to Canada and stood right in front of him. Canada snapped out of his thoughts and looked up at Russia.

"I have a job for you"

"Yes sir?"

"I want you to clean this entire house... Every inch of it"

This whole house! The house was so big it was impossible for just one person to clean it. It would take hours.

Russia leaned in close to Canada's face and smirked.

"Do I make myself clear, Canada?"

Canada nodded before remembering he had to answer Russia.

"Y-Yes sir"

"Good"

Russia then walked off to the hallway, but he turned around and crossed his arms as he looked at Lithuania.

"show him what he needs to do"

"Y-Yes of course sir" Lithuania said as he walked over to Canada, "Come, Canada"

Canada followed Lithuania to a closet somewhere in the hallway just under the stair case. He opened it and handed Canada a broom, duster and dust pan.

"Start off with these and well, I believe you know what to do with those..."

"Yes"

Canada put the duster and dust pan aside and starting sweeping the floors. As he did so, Lithuania went back to Russia.

"Lithuania, you will cook dinner" Russia said as he pointed to the kitchen.

"Yes sir"

Lithuania walked into the kitchen and began cooking right away. Russia then turned his attention to Estonia and Latvia.

"You two... will clean the outside of my house"

"Yes sir" Estonia said.

"B-But it's so cold and i-it's getting dark, uh, s-sir"

"Latviaaa!" Estonia shouted. He immediately covered Latvia's mouth and ran outside with him after quickly putting their coats on.

Canada saw the creepy smile on Russia's face, though, he looked a little annoyed. But, he said nothing as he continued cleaning.

Canada worked hard for hours, once he was finished the downstairs he worked upstairs, he dusted the counters and hard to reach places. He swept and mopped all the floors, he cleaned all the windows and even cleaned the walls and ceilings. He cleaned lamps, curtains dressers beds and after supper he cleaned the dishes and the entire kitchen. He worked upstairs and downstairs over and over. Seven hours passed by, it was three in the morning when he had finally finished. He was so exhausted; he just wanted to fall into bed and sleep. He didn't even have the strength to walk all the way upstairs. Canada just decided he'd collapse on the ground, so he did. He closed his eyes, but before he could even get too comfortable he heard footsteps coming towards him.

Canada opened his eyes in time for the footsteps to stop right in front of him. He looked up with tired eyes to see Russia was looking down at him. Canada did a good job right? He cleaned everything... Was Russia watching the whole time?

"You're tired already?" Russia said.

Canada felt a little anger in his heart for Russia at the moment, but even if he wasn't tired, he wouldn't show it. ...jerk... he thought as he looked away closing his eyes. Russia wasn't going to do anything for Canada anyway, but Canada awaited any punishment that came his way. A smack to the face, a kick in the stomach, anything. He then felt Russia's hands on him. Canada was too tired to move away so he let Russia do what he wanted, but Russia did not hurt him. He picked him up in a bridal style and headed upstairs. It was strange, he was so caring right now, he didn't seem like such a bad guy.

"You do realize, you'll just have to get up in two hours from now, Da?"

Ok, maybe not all that nice, but still, Canada believed there might be a small light in him just trying to shine through the darkness. Once Russia made it to the baltics room, he lay Canada in the bed gently. The baltics all had to share one really big bed, there was enough room for at least five.

"You'll have to tuck yourself in, I'm not going to mommy you"

Canada couldn't help but smile at him.

"I know" Canada said.

Russia nodded and left the room closing the door behind him.

Canada began undressing, once he was in nothing but his underwear he stared at the clothes, they looked too much like pj's to be underwear. He shrugged and decided he'd sleep in them. Once he put his glasses on the small dresser next to the bed, Canada tucked himself in then yawned before closing his eyes and falling asleep.

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Two hours later, Canada could feel someone shaking him.

"Wake up Canada" Lithuania's voice said.

"I don't want a burger, Alfred" Canada groaned as he turned over in his sleep.

"Uh? P-Please Canada, you have to get up"

Canada did not want to get up, he wanted so sleep so badly. He lifted his head to look at Lithuania and stared at him with tired eyes. His hair was a little messy too.

"When did you go to bed last night?"

"Umm... t-three... in the-" He yawned, "M-Morning..."

"Oh, I see, that will happen sometimes, though, it happened a little too early for you" Lithuania said as he hopped out of bed, "Well, get up, we have work to do"

Canada rubbed his eyes, then crawled out of bed and lazily got dressed.

Suddenly Canada and Lithuania heard a huge SLAM as if the door downstairs had been slammed open; the two immediately ran downstairs to see what the problem was only to find Russia at the broken door.

Latvia was trembling as he hid behind Estonia. Russia stumbled in with a bottle of vodka in his hand and an angry expression on his face.

"I know, what you all want" He said.

Estonia backed away with Latvia, Canada and Lithuania remained at the foot of the stair case watching. Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, they all seemed so frightened right now, especially Lithuania. Was he really this frightening when he was drunk?

"You all want, to leave" Russia said as tears filled his eyes, "I won't let you!"

Russia marched towards the baltics, Estonia and Latvia immediately ran away, Lithuania tried but Russia quickly snatched the back of his jacket before he could get away.

"N-NO! MR. RUSSIA PLEASE!" Lithuania begged like there was no tomorrow, and there might not be for him.

Canada stared, shocked. What's going on? What is he doing? Russia began dragging Lithuania down the hall, no, Canada could not allow this. Lithuania was too kind to have this kind of treatment done to him and whatever Russia had in mind for him, he didn't want to know, but he had to stop him. Canada grabbed Russia's arm not even thinking there could be a consequence for this.

"STOP THIS PLEASE!" He yelled.

Russia let go of Lithuania giving him the chance to run away but he quickly grabbed Canada's hair and lifted him off the floor making Canada scream in pain.

"Fine, if you want to take his place, you will..." Russia said as he glared.

Russia dropped Canada only so he could grip his hair again once he had fallen on the floor. He dragged Canada ignoring his screams. As soon as he reached the end of the hallway he opened the door waiting for them and entered closing it behind him. Russia threw Canada in front of him. Canada was too worried about his current pain, that he did not see Russia take the whip that was hung on the wall. Russia raised the whip high and before Canada could even turn to look at Russia the whip struck Canada's back causing him to scream in great pain once more. He quickly fell to the floor. Canada weakly tried to get back up but then Russia struck again making him fall back down. Russia repeatedly struck the screaming boy until he cried and bled. Finally, Russia stopped. He walked over to Canada, and leaned over him. He stroked Canada's hair and grinned.

"You are so much more fun, than Lithuania" He whispered into his ear.

Russia stood up, then walked out of the room taking a swig from his vodka. Canada didn't open his eyes, but he cried, tears streamed down his face nonstop, he cried in pain, in misery. This is the life he'd have to get used to, to live in fear. What had happened to that light inside of Russia? What went wrong? Then he felt a gentle hand placed itself on his shoulder. He opened his eyes. It was Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania was there too.

"I'm so sorry Canada... I should have told you about this" Lithuania said, "I...I didn't, expect him to get drunk so early"

"We're here for you now, i-it's ok" Latvia said soon after.

Estonia nodded.

Estonia helped Canada up and they walked out of the room as the other two baltics followed. They peeked out of the hallway, no Russia. Estonia took Canada's coat and under shirt off first then let him lay on the couch on his stomach. His back was in too much pain to pretty much touch almost anything, and the scars looked pretty bad. Lithuania got a wet cloth and began cleaning the scars.

Even with their help, even if they were scared of Russia too, even if they were so kind to him, Russia seemed almost kind at first too. Who's to say they wouldn't do the same? Perhaps this entire house was mad. From that horrible experience, it had turned Canada into a frightened child. A child living in an abusive family... of strangers. Canada closed his eyes and let the tears run down his face. Then he felt a hand on his face, a hand holding a tissue that wiped away his tears. He opened his eyes to see Latvia was the one wiping away the tears. Lithuania looked at Canada with a sympathetic face.

"...I cried too, the first time it happened" Lithuania said as he continued cleaning Canada's wounds.

"Lithuania..." Canada said softly yet with a shaky voice as he clutched the pillow his head lay on.

Lithuania stared waiting for Canada to say what he wanted, he didn't. However, It didn't take long for Lithuania to figure out what Canada wanted to say, he could see it in his eyes. Lithuania smiled softly.

"Don't worry Canada, we won't turn bad on you, just sleep. You really need it..."

"...But Russia..."

"He is out for now, Latvia will keep watch at the window to see if he's coming and i'll wake you once he does come, alright?"

Canada nodded slowly before closing his eyes and falling asleep.

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