"Alfred doesn't play hockey with Matthew anymore because he's afraid of the monster his brother becomes on the ice."
~Source Unknown ( i tried and tried to find the person that drew the pic, and put the quote on it, but i couldn't. If you know, plz tell me.)
Alfred watched as Matthew slammed Russia into the wall; before he laughed and skated away.
Alfred didn't play hockey with Matthew personally anymore. He didn't like to see the darkness that clouded Matthew's bright eyes when his feet touched the ice while he had a hockey stick in his hand. He didn't like to see the monster that hid behind the calm polite façade. The way something in his face seemed to crack apart.
It reminded him too much of the monster that hid in himself, of the monster that he nearly made his brother into.
He had wanted to protect his brother; in the end he almost broke him. He stopped playing, started watching closely in case his brother would ever need him to help hold back the monster.
And if he ever saw that careful mask of calm on his brothers face crack every time one of the other nations ignored him because he was too polite to be heard, he never said anything he just waited till after a meeting to take his brother out to the hockey rink and let him get it out of his system and repair the mask he held onto tightly.
He can see it in his brothers eyes every time Matthew has had a bad day. That Matthew is afraid of his own power, because Matthew knows that if he falls he'll take the world with him.
Alfred is always there when Matthew needs him, because Alfred loves his brother and if he had to make a choice between his brother and the world…
He would choose Matthew, and they would destroy the world together.