disclaimer: APH does not belong to me.

I forgot to mention, I have a tumblr...I didn't update it for nine months. BUT (I know you're not suppose to start a sentence with that word) I will be going on it more and posting things about the stories I'm working on. The url is just my ff name and then the usual tumblr url. I will be putting more attention to it.

The three that are under major editing are 'What they don't know can't hurt them', 'dreams', and 'Will the House of cards fall down'. I will be working on some new things like a fem!UKxJapan and a Rapunzel with Hetalia characters and different story plots.

Alice walked around her house. Michael followed her. "I told you to stay in bed" she said.

"But my lady" Michael said. I promised to serve you for the rest of my life-"

"I know Michael, but this is a rest day for you, what we nations do must not become your concern" suddenly he grabbed her hand.

"I know the deal of the duel, and I highly disapprove of it"

"So does Mathias, I'm pretty sure that Spain has a slim chance of winning since he disapproves" she said.

"My lady-"

"Please Michael, just rest for the day." She said.

Spain woke up and saw something resting against the wall. It was his ax; he looked at it and wondered how it got to England.

"I managed to bring it here overnight" someone said. Spain looked towards the chair by the window to find Gilbert.

"If you're going to fight, you might as well fight with all you've got. You and Mathias have the same weapon type, so I suggest you to fight strategically." He said. "If you really want Alice back, then you would get up no matter how many times you fall, Mathias highly disapproves, so he will be giving it his all…." Prussia said as he walked to the door. He looked at Spain before he left the room. "Good luck"

Antonio sighed and picked up the ax. "So it starts" he said.

Portugal ran through house until he got into the garden.

"I came as soon as I heard the news-" He said. He looked at the Dane swinging his ax around. "You can't be serious" Portugal said.

"Oh it's serious, your brother wants to court her again" He said.

"You were only supposes to stay for a DAY!" Portugal said. "What would your government think-"

"They don't care about our personal problems" Denmark said. "Plus, I'm worried about Alice, she agreed to the conditions" Portugal sighed and looked at the garden.

"Where is she?" he asked.

"Bath" The Dane said as he threw his ax to the target across from him.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Portugal said as he barged into the bathroom with clean towels. Alice just stared at him and looked.

"You know what's beautiful about our friendship?"

"What?"

"We're comfortable enough to walk into each other taking a bath and not giving a damn about it or even getting the feel to bed each other" Alice mused as she leaned to the edge of the tub. Portugal sighed and grabbed the chair by the door. He placed it right in front of her and sat down on it. He placed the towel on his lap and looked at her.

"Back to my question, what were you thinking?"

"That your brother would lose"

"That's impossible he has the personality of the bull-"

"Then that means that Mathias has to simply treat him like a bloody bull to win"

"You dare suggest a thing like that?"

"You were the one against your brother winning in the first place, now that I presented you with this idea you're suddenly on his side?"

"I'm not picking sides Alice, I just want you to be mentally safe"

"That's impossible considering where I stand now" She mused.

"Alice…Do you still have feelings for my brother?" At this Alice fell silent. She looked at Portugal straight in the eyes and furrowed her eyebrows together.

"I don't know myself, I mean….what if he.. what if he actually means it this time?"

"Alice, trust me, When Antonio said that he 'loves you' when you were together, he meant it." He just stared at the girl. "My brother may be all devilish if he wants to, but he can't hide his feelings of love from the person he really wants."

"If he wins, what would you do?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"I'm giving you the choice to do something"

"I don't know"

"You don't know"

"It depends on the situation"

"Situation? Exactly what kind of situation do you need in order for you to act?"

"One where your Monarch would send me a letter to get you out of trouble."

"huh" Alice said as she grabbed the towel from Portugal's lap. She stood up and wrapped herself. Portugal sighed and just sat there in front of Alice. He watched as she stepped out of the tub and walked to the door that leads her directly to her room. He sighed and stood up, following the girl into her room.

"Our relationship is too…."

"Too what?" Alice asked as she turned to him. He smiled and kissed her forehead.

"We're too comfortable around each other"

"Don't blame me" she said.

"Do you need help with your dress?" Portugal asked as Alice walked over to the curtained area.

"Yes, yes I do"

"Well hurry, from what I heard downstairs, Hungary came in advance"

"WHAT?" Alice asked as she poked her head out. Suddenly there was a knock.

"You know Alfonso, you should really let a lady help Alice put her dress on" Portugal smiled and looked at Alice. She shook her head and frowned.

"I'm sorry Elizaveta, but it looks like the Lady of the House would like me to help her change"

"oh that's some lies….wait…She's serious?"

"Very much"

"…"

"But I do have to go and make sure Denmark puts on the proper armor" He looks at Alice who gave him a glare.

"YOU BASTARD YOU'RE DOING THIS ON PURPOSE!" she whispered.

"YOU NEED MORE FEMAL E FRIENDS" He whispered back. Alice just glared at him and disappeared behind the curtain. Alfonso let Hungary in and pointed towards the closed curtains. "She's behind that, good luck trying to help her" Hungary smiled and just decided to wait for the girl.

"You got your corset all tight and tied?"

"Yes"

"Alfonso helped you with that?"

"Yes"

"Are you really going to let these boys have a duel?"

"Yes"

"Is that all you're going to give me? One word answers? Alice, my dear you are speaking English, you know what people outside call your language? The language that-"

"Takes and borrows" She said as she said as she drew one of the curtains. "I know what people say, I have to be aware of everything"

"Then are you really going to let these boys have their way with this nonsense of a duel?"

"Listen Elizaveta, I don't even know where Spain got the idea of the whole 'throw the gauntlet challenge' I hardly remember any of the duel in my 'kingdom'."

"So are you going to let them-"

"I have to, Denmark grabbed the damn glove, and both of the men want to proceed, honestly these men could've just done away with words, rather than this ax fight"

"What if Spain wins? Will you really spend one whole week with him?"
"It's only a week"

"A week is enough"

"What? You think that seven days is enough to make someone fall in love?"

"Honey, it takes one moment for someone to fall in love"

"What makes you say that?"

"Because I know"

"Of course." Alice said as she walked past Hungary to sit on her bed. "Spain will lose"

"What makes you say that?"

"Because he's against Denmark, you honestly think that the guy responsible for me will just let me go like that?" Hungary then thought about it and sat by Alice on her bed.

"Exactly what does Denmark mean by being 'responsible'?"

"To watch over me" Alice said. "Don't tell me that you all thought that him being responsible meant he took my virginity"

"NO, definitely not that…..okay, that's what we all thought"

"Why?" Alice asked as she stood up. "I mean why do you guys care about who I slept with for the very first time? I mean, I don't consider him as a first-" Alice stopped herself and looked back. "What I'm trying to say is that whoever was my first should not be a matter to anyone"

"But you would usually have a connection-"

"That theory does not have proof" Alice said. "It does not have any proof what so ever. I don't feel some sort of attachment to anyone, especially Denmark"

"I'm not talking about us being tied through our countries Alice, but tied through emotion"

"I'm not emotionally tied to that man in any way Elizaveta, enough with this connection scare, what are you really here for?"

"I'm here to warn you"

"Warn me?"

"About keeping the secret from Antonio"

"How much does Europe know?"

"Only a handful of Europe knows"

"A handful?"

"Nearly every Germans know, Spain is in the dark about it, I'm sure North Italy and Holy Rome doesn't know a thing about it…Belgium and Netherlands knows nothing, but this secret will get out somehow, Antonio has the right to know"

"What he does not know can't hurt him, give me a good reason for him to know"

"He was going to be the father"

"'was going to be the father', that's not enough of a reason to tell the man"

"It was the very reason why you could not chase him at the day you two decided to end your union" Alice then quieted and looked at Hungary.

"My inability to chase after him was because of my will, if I wanted him to stay I would have ignored the pain and kept running-"

"YOU HAD A BLOODY, QUITE LITERALLY A BLOODY CUT ON YOUR ABDOMEN; YOU THINK YOUR BODY WAS GOING TO IGNORE THAT?"

"YES ELIZAVETA, I THINK IT WOULD HAVE"

"What are you two arguing about?" Portugal said as he opened the door. Hungary then stood up and looked at him and pointed at Alice.

"Don't you think that Alice should tell the Spaniard about the miscarriage?" Portugal then looked at her. Alice sighed.

"Exactly how many of you in Europe know about this whole miscarriage ordeal?"

"A handful" Alice mumbled. Portugal then looked at Hungary.

"I do feel that my brother needs to know about his 'child', but at the same time, I feel that for the meantime, for Alice's sake, I think that brother should not know"

"unbelievable-"

"Believable" Gilbert said as he pushed Portugal aside. "I don't think Antonio should ever find out, he doesn't need to, hell the mother didn't even know she was pregnant, so it was like it never happened-"

"BUT IT DID HAPPEN" Hungary yelled standing up, her finger pointing at Alice "SHE HAS THE BLOODY SCARS, THE NIGHTMARES, THE PAIN IS STILL THERE. SOMETIMES SHE WOULD LOSE THE ABILITY TO WALK BECAUSE OF SOME PAIN SHE FELT"

"YOU'RE RIGHT" Alice said as she stood up to face Hungary. "YOU'RE RIGHT. THE PAIN IS STILL HERE." She paused and walked to the window that gives her the view of the courtyard. She saw the Dane throwing his ax and looked away when Antonio, who was leaning on one of the pillars, looked up and saw Alice. "But I want to avoid seeing pain on his face. I want to avoid him feeling the guilt, I want to avoid seeing the faces he made when he was taking care of me after my abduction from the Inquisition." She then turned to face Hungary. "I can't tell him that I lost a child and that was the reason for my inability to chase after him. Though I will admit to the fact that I can't bear to be with him for more than a second without wanting to grab him and kiss him, and hug him. I want to be there for him but at the same time, I bear and hold secrets that can destroy what makes Antonio, Antonio. Romano already lost a mother, he does not need to lose his father." Alice was stopped when Prussia grabbed her by the arm and hugged her.

"Romano is outside waiting for his 'mother'" he whispered. "If the burden of keeping the secret is too much, then please just tell Antonio. Now Alice, please get yourself together, this duel is about to start"

"The skies don't look so great" Spain said as he walked into the courtyard.

"You tell me" Denmark said as he got up from his chair. "So are we really going to do this? This whole duel thing?"

"I guess, I mean you did pick up the 'gaunlet'"

"So you were serious?"

"Are you serious about Alice being kept away from me?"

"Very"

"Then yes, this is serious"

"I wonder what's taking them so long"

"Nevermind that mi amigo, you think Alice would let us fight if it rains?"

"What happens between our fight is not her decision, it's ours, so if you would like to fight in the rain then go ahead, I'm just going to let you now ahead of time that I'm not letting anything stop me from kicking your ass today, got that?"

"Well then let me just warn you now mi amigo, I will stop at nothing to get mi amor back"

"We'll see who gets what in the end" Alice said as she walked behind Denmark to pushed him out into the courtyard. At first the Dane turned back to her and kissed her forehead, "I'll win for you" he said with a smile.

"Just don't get injured to the point where your bloody government gets mad at me"

"I won't"

On the other side, Gilbert was talking to the Spaniard.

"Listen I have a strong feeling that you will lose"

"Me too, but I will be able to have my time with Alice"

"Antonio, before you fight, there's something that you should know"

"What is it mi amigo? Does it concern Romano?"

"It sort of does"

"Then what is it mi amigo, this duel can wait if it's about him."

"It's about a sibling Romano could've-"

"WE DON'T HAVE THE WHOLE DAY" Spain heard the Dane yell across the courtyard. He then looked back at the Prussian.

"It can wait" Gilbert mentioned. "Good luck"

Portugal sat next to Alice on the opposing side of the courtyard. "Who do you think will win?" he asked jokingly.

"Denmark, hands down." Alice said.

"Betting what?"

"A whole shipment of tea"

"I think my brother will get what he wants"

"What to spend time with me?"

"Trust me Alice, he will get more than just a week, he'll get more than that" Alice then felt her body jump when she heard metal hitting metal. She looked forward to see the two axmen going at it.

"Could they have chosen a better weapon?"

"What a sword?"

"Precisely, a sword and a shield". They heard another clang. They looked forward to see that Denmark was pushing Antonio back.

Alice looked across, looking out for a certain Italian.

Romano hid behind Prussia, well the pillar Prussia was leaning on. "You should come out and watch" Prussia said not looking back. Romano just stayed silent.

"It's stupid"

"What is?"

"This whole duel, it's unnecessary…I mean why can't Spain just talk to Alice?"

"Because Alice would not talk to him"

"WHY?"

"Because Alice could not stand to be with Spain"

"Because of the incident?" Romano asked as he took a few steps to stand by the Prussia's side.

"Exactly because of that. Now watch Romano, Spain is not only fighting to be with the one he loves, but to be the one he knows that you need, your mother" At this Romano stood beside the Prussian, hugging his leg. Prussia smiled and placed a hand on the back of the Italian's head.

"It doesn't look good" Hungary mumbled to herself.

"You tell me, you let these two go barbaric, all for what? a girl."

"Spain is serious"

"I know he is, but at the same time he could've thought of something different, instead of this horror show. What if Romano gets scarred because of this?"

"This will not scar Romano"

"I have a strong feeling that this Dane will try to kill Spain, trust me it'll be traumatic"

Denmark ran towards Spain and swung his ax. Spain on the other hand jumped over and brought his ax down. Denmark smirked and tried to swing his ax again, but this Spain dragged his close to him so the blades would hit each other.

"Hey, just so we can work together in the future, this battle would not hurt our relationship, right?" Spain joked as he pulled his ax back to him.

"Sure, like we have a relationship anyway" Denmark mused as he ran to the Spaniard again. Spain got ready in a defense position but was surprised when the Dane went from running to sliding onto him. Before he knew it, he was on the ground with his ax flying in the sky.

Alice stood up when she was the sight. She watched as the rain drop began to fall just as Spain's ax reached the highest height it could attain from the launch. She watched as the ax goes down, not only that, but when she saw the Dane bring his ax down on the ground next to the Spaniard, which pushed Antonio to roll into the direction his ax was bound to fall on.

"ANTONIO-" Alice yelled, but she was soon cut off. She looked to see that Denmark was looking at her. Alice turned and looked away when she heard the thunder. She looked forward to see the Spaniard kneeling on one knee; he was inches away from his ax. She looked across and watched Prussia push Romano to go next Hungary, who was in the shades of the courtyard.

"You had enough yet?" Denmark asked as he planted his ax on the ground. Spain smirked and shook his head and stood up and walked to grab his weapon. "That was a warm-up, give me your best, cabron" At this Denmark charged at him, Spain just used his ax, which was planted to the ground, and jumped over Denmark. A second after he landed with both of his feet, he turned on his left heel and kicked the Dane who was just turning around. Prussia smiled when he saw Lucas fall on his ass.

"LET'S GO SPAIN!" Romano yelled out.

Spain smiled and pulled his ax out of the ground and walked back.

"C'mon Denmark, I said give me your best"

"Oh you're just asking for it now" Denmark said.

"Oh no" Alice whispered to Portugal.

"Denmark…." Portugal said standing up and walked to stand next to Alice.

"He's getting all riled up.."

"The Viking and the Bull, who will win?" Portugal mused. At this Alice pushed him and began to walk along the sides of the courtyard.

Spain and Denmark kept charging at each other, blade to blade, blade to the metal body, and sometimes a scratch to the armor. So far Denmark has a huge gash on his left shoulder, while Spain was sporting a bleeding cut across his abdomen. Denmark smiled and kicked the Spaniard right in the wound. Spain winced and let go of his ax. At this Prussia turned Romano around and covered the child's eyes by putting his hat on the child and pushing it down. At this, the Dane raised his ax and swung it into the Spaniard's shoulder. Spain dodged as fast as he can, but his armor suffered. He cursed as the swing drove him away from his weapon. He then looked at Alice. She looked at him with worry and constantly shook her head. 'Give up' she mouthed. He shook his head and removed his top armor off.

"Let's go Denmark, no armor" he yelled.

"ARE YOU INSANE?" Hungary yelled from where she stood.

"Allright" The Dane said as he threw the top of his armor towards Alice. Alice frowned when the armor splashed mud onto her dress. "That crap was just slowing me down anyways"

"We finally agree on something" Spain said as he ran, circling the Dane.

"The hell are you up to?"

"Something" Spain said as he stopped running and slid towards the Dane. Lucas smiled and moved away from him.

"You're not going to trip me this time" he remarked as he brought his weapon down. At this Spain grabbed the handle of the ax and used his momentum to pull the Dane to the ground. He quickly stood up and stepped on the Dane's arm as he took the ax from him. He swung down but the ax was blocked by Luca's arm. To all of the Nation's surprise, the ax only cut through about a quarter into the Dane's arm. Alice looked away, refusing to see the blood gushing out of her 'guard'. Denmark smirked and pushed the Spaniard off him using the ax. At this Spain kept his distance, trying to move slowly to his own ax. His pace was quickened when the Dane began to charge at him, this time he was swinging the ax around. When Spain managed to get his ax, Denmark swung his low, cutting into the Spaniard's leg. Antonio held a cry in his throat as he pulled away and got his ax's blade out of the ground and threw it to Lucas. This managed to give the Dane cut on the right shoulder, the angle of the cut being so close to his neck. At this the Dane pierced the Spaniard through, pinning him against the wall. Spain let out a scream. But the fight did not end there. Spain grabbed his ax and removed it from the Dane's shoulder and stabbed it again, Denmark on the other hand grabbed the ax's handle and pushed it so that it went from his wound to the Spaniard's shoulder.

"STANDS" Alice yelled as she ran and tried to get the Dane away from the Spaniard. "Lucas! Stands, stands, STANDS" she kept yelling trying to get him off the Spaniard. She could feel it, each time she tried to drag the Dane away from Spain, the more he pushed his and Spain's ax onto Spain, making his injury worst.

"Don't worry about me Alice"

"BELT UP" Alice yelled.

"Stands, Danmark, Stands" Alice kept telling, but to her dismay he ignored her. She then felt someone reach over her and touched the Dane's shoulder.

"Danmark, stoppe der dugor Alice graede" She looked back to see Norway in his dark violet cloak. At this Denmark backed off, bumping into Alice, who did fall back onto Norway. Norway caught her and turned her so that she was facing him. He stared at her face for five seconds, and hugged her.

"Look what you've done" he said to Denmark who turned around. He then looked at Spain, who was going between consciences and blacking out. "When I heard about the duel I was worried about you 'losing it' and you did, now look at Alice, the very person you were responsible of. Look at her, she's trembling." He said moving to his side when the Dane reached to touch Alice. "You have spilled her lover's blood all over her dress, do you know how much trauma that will be? And look there was a kid here for the god's sake. You let a kid see you like this? You let Romano see your stab Spain with your ax, which is by the way still stuck in him pinning him on that lovely wall." At this the Dane fell silent. "It's not his fault" Alice mumbled as she tore herself from Norway's comforting hold.

"It was mine, I let them have this duel" she mumbled as she hugged the Dane. She tiptoed and kissed him on the forehead. "You win noble knight" she said. Denmark smiled and hugged her.

"I'm so sorry" he whispered. Alice hugged back and then let him fall onto Norway. She rushed to Spain and slowly got Denmark's ax off of him.

"fool" she whispered. She slowly took the Dane's ax off of him and threw it to the ground. She caught the Spaniard in her arms and tried her best to hug him as loosely as she could. She fell on her knees cradling the Spaniard and laid him so that his back was on her lap.

"I'm getting blood all over your dress" he said.

"Oh shut it, right now closing your wound is top priority" she said. "Alfonso, go get the medical kit in the kitchen" she said. At this she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to see that it was Norway.

"I'm sorry about this mess my brother caused, I mean I'm sure you did not mean the duel to go this far"

"I'm very sorry for letting him get hurt like this. I promised that it won't happen, not ever"

"Don't worry about it, plus, he heals faster than you, so he'll be fine."

"Please Norway, stay until Lucas gets better"

"I will, though I would like it if I were to go to a better location"

"I'm sorry, the weather of my country is to no one's liking"

"but yours" Norway mused as he elbowed the approaching Dane" He turned to him and glared. "I was expecting you to be more controlled"

"I was"

"Look at Antonio, you think this was you being under control? And for crying out loud, Alice was already speaking in the language you talk and yet you still did not stop, Damark, you were not in control, what if you lashed out and axed Alice?"

"I would never-"

"Go to the bloody cleaning room" Alice ordered as she turned her attention back to Spain. "Please Lucas, Michael is already there with the bed and recovery supplies, go, please" she said as she tried to assess on how to move the Spaniard. She signed and motioned for Prussia to come over.

"In the room across from mine there is a stretcher, go get it, but before you do I want you to go on the table in that very same room and grab the bottle. Sprinkle some of the water on the stretcher then come here. Ask Romano to go into the kitchen, Portugal should be there already looking for the medical kit. Tell him that he has to keep Romano occupied. Tell Austria to come over here and help you move Spain to the room right next to mine, from there I can tend to this idiot's wounds"

"Wait wait wait wait WAIT" Prussia whispered. "I'm sorry, did I just hear you say 'tend to his wounds?" Alice nodded.

"I can't send Spain back to his home with him looking like this" she said. "And rushing him out to a physic would just give everyone in the world a scare about a man who lived through his wounds-"

"HE'S RELIGIOUS, I'M PRETTY SURE THEY'D SAY THAT IT WAS HIS MIRACLE"

"WE CAN'T RISK THAT" Alice said. "Go. Just go and do what I told you to do" Prussia nodded and left, he motioned Hungary to carry the stunned Italian to the kitchen, while he pulled the Austrian close to him. Alice just sat there in the rain, next thing she knew she heard a laugh. She looked down to see that Spain was covering his face.

"Dios Mio" he said through his laughter. "I can't believe this"

"What can't you believe?"

"You're covering me from the rain, for crying out loud Alice, that's my job"

"And why is it your job?"

"because I'm the man"

"Sexist arsehole"

"Ladies are not to curse, am I right?"

"I'm just saying, just because I'm a girl does not mean that I'm not allowed to commit myself to womanly duties only, I have to do what-"She stopped when she felt the Spaniard hug her tight. "Idiot, you shouldn't have tried so hard"

"And why not?"

"I don't know, there's a part of me hoping that you were just fooling around"

"I never fool around when it comes to making Romano happy"

"You think that you getting butchered like that will make that boy happy?"

"No, I was hoping that me getting butchered like this would show you how serious I am about you"

"me?"

"Come back" Spain said as he looked up so that his eyes would meet Alice's. "I'm tired of waiting by the empty bird cage, Alice, come back"

"Spain just used his ax, which was planted to the ground, and jumped over Denmark" okay, for this, I want you guys to imagine the scene from 'Thor' where Loki and Thor are fighting and Loki just used his staff as a pole thing to kick Thor. o_o;;

Stands: Stop

What Norway said: Denmark Stop, you are making Alice cry

mwuhahahahahahahahahahaha (don't know why I did that evil laugh there)

Let me know what you think!

Again I'm so sorry for making you guys wait FOR THE LONGEST TIME on this fiction. I'm really sorry about the grammar and all of that improper English and the limited vocab.

Don't say goodbye the Dane just yet though. spoiler: He's going to help with all the fluff and asdfghjkl; moment for the next chapter.