Your Words Warmed Me pt 4

15 Nov 18

Note: Russia/Ivan Braginsky's Curse is the ominous aura that surrounds him. I'd imagined it to be similar to a Cassandra Curse. It acts in such a way that it makes it so that no matter how Russia acts, people still think the worst of him. Inspiration of course coming from the ominous aura he gets surrounded by in the anime episodes.

Ivan went to the clearing. The Clearing. The one where he'd been so scared and called out for help so long ago. It was the only place he could think of where the General would come to meet him. He'd been trying to contact the man for days now, and growing more and more worried for Mathew the whole time.

Canada hadn't gotten worse, but he certainly hadn't gotten better, and even Nations have their limits with how much they can heal. He was, to put it simply, at his wit's end. He needed the General to give him another clue. Which would be a nice idea if the General were to ever show up but it seemed as if he'd vanished and even using his curse to his advantage to make the Baltics and other winter countries to call for the General didn't seem to be doing squat either. So, Ivan was, understandably, both very annoyed and frustrated. But he was also willing to do whatever he could to make sure Canada got well again. Hence, he'd had to leave the blond, and found it curiously hard to pry himself away from looking after the other violet-eyed Nation, so he could bring himself back to his land and go to the one place he thought that even The HGenerasl, cold many that he was, would be hard-pressed to ignore him asking for help from.

At first, after calling out, even begging for The General to come and help him with Canada, and growing more and more embarrassed by the minute when even his more heartfelt admissions of needing the smaller blond to get better were met with silence, he started to grow worried and fearful, to be honest, that he'd merely wasted time coming here and had probably even worsened Mathew's recovery by leaving him in the hands of Lithuania under threat that the brunette was to care for him, his Curse of course adding on its ominous nature and settling the "or else" quite nicely into the other's mind for him.

It was when he sighed, and started gathering his magic up to transport him to Canada through their Nation linked magic that he felt a chill settle into the air that wasn't there previously as snow started to blow around and blur his sight until Ivan had to shield his face even as he saw the beginning of a dark figure approaching.

The figure stopped, and Ivan felt that, despite the snow still swirling around, that it was safe enough to look up.

"So, you have come to ask for my aid then, little one?" The General asked.

Ivan's mouth twisted down. He wasn't little, and he didn't like how The General, despite his usefulness at times always seemed to view him as a child, but he would wait until he'd gotten the advice he needed before mouthing off to the ice demon. So he inclined his head in a short jerking nod.

"That would be helpful, yes." He replied after a pause.

The General nodded.

"Walk with me." He demanded.

And though Ivan did not normally follow orders, this was no ordinary being he was with. Hopefully, the other would prove again to be useful to him. And, beyond that, the other had far more power than anyone else that Ivan knew of. All of those combined to give a very compelling reason to do whatever the other said, so Ivan hurried along to walk alongside the dark wintry figure, waiting in silence for the other to begin, as he knew he would.

…

Ivan stepped out of the ley key he'd used to draw on his and Canada's Nation connection (helped along quite nicely by the wavy golden hairs he'd ahem lifted off of the blonde currently lying in a near constant state of hypothermia inside the house he'd stepped out in front of).

Despite the trouble, at least he know knew how to help the other.

What a curious Curse the other had.

What do you think? Anything I should add or am missing so far? What would make this better to read? Any scenes you'd like?

I'm all ears ;)