This hasn't really been edited at all so sorry for any mistakes.

At the gasp, Russia's eyes narrowed, and he stuck the thermometer held lazily in his left hand back into Canada's mouth. At the beep that soon followed off from that, the platinum-blond's eyebrows lifted as the Russian took in what it read.

"Well, well, well, us Nations have fast healing abilities but this is quite impressive. First you go from still responsive with a temperature indicative of severe hypothermia to this where now you're at a normal body temperature and seemingly normal over the course of just a few minutes."

His deep purple eyes raised to look into Canada's lighter hue, and locked there. "Is there anything you care to tell me, Canada?"

Canada was speechless. Then he whispered, "You know my name?"

Russia frowned. "Of course I do. Are you silly? Now, is this linked to your weakness?"

His eyes glittered, dangerously. And Canada remembered how Russia was rumoured to be the most dangerous Nation among them on a personal level aside from his military or country state. He was a big man, and cunning too. And never subtle about what he wanted.

But what did he have to lose? He was disrobed and laid bare anyways. Why not do so with more internal things as well? Such as his greatest secret. The one secret everyone had and yet no one else knew, or was supposed to know.

"Yes, it does." Canada replied.

And Russia nodded.

"Alright." He said back. "Get changed when you will. Your clothes are right there." He called back, pointing towards the pile he'd left by the tub as he exited the washroom, closing the door gently behind himself.

Canada blinked, already feeling a chill as he was left alone.

Though that could also have been from beyond the door, maybe a draft had snuck in, but somehow he didn't think so.

He missed the larger man already. Though he was only on the other side of the door, the chill he felt radiating outwards again and threatening him with the enveloping freezing from before hinted at how much he needed the presence of the other. Russia had made him feel warmer than he'd felt in such a long time.

But that warmth was not to last. He barely knew the man. What could he do to make him stay close by anyway?

Nothing.

So he dressed. And, surprisingly, Russia was extremely considerate and protected him, keeping him in the room and away from the others and even bringing him back his notes to copy the next day until it was time for him to go home.

Away from the large Russian and the surprising warmth he carried for such an otherwise cold country.

Days later and Canada was still at home, alone. The cold had come back to envelop him again. The chill had crept into him and with each step away and onto the plane he'd felt it gather and pool beneath his body like an ice-covered pond. By the time he'd gotten off the plane, even wrapped in his usual casual hoody he felt no relief. Coming back home, he'd soon stopped shivering.

He was past that point so soon? Distantly, it worried him. but he didn't heed his body's call for what it needed. He couldn't satisfy it anyway.

This time, alone, no one besides his bear was there to hear him fall.

Only one other who had been with him as well since the dawn of his life knew what had happened and went to fetch the other man they considered a grandchild of sorts.

In a touchdown of blizzard that could not affect Canada beside the blizzard already raging inside his body, General Winter set Russia down on the blond's lawn.

"Help him." He commanded, and was gone.

Russia looked up at the cottage style house and nodded, his eyes steely with determination.

Even if he could not be helped with his weakness, he now had another clue to what Canada's was, and damn propriety but the smaller blond had grown on him and he couldn't just let him suffer if he could help. The General may be cruel at times, but his embrace also helped bring back life with the waters he left behind when his snows melted.

If Canada was suffering from the ravaging chills again, then The General already had his touch on the blond. All that was left now was for him to become better.

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