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Chapter 5

Amelia woke to a loud crash in her maid chambers. "Amelia!" She heard a man's voice yell. "What are you doing still asleep?!" The man yelled. She sat up with her hair standing up in different directions. She rubbed her groggy eyes and looked at the direction of the man's voice. "Morning." The girl yawned and stretched. She snapped out of her sleepiness and looked at the man to find out it was the prince himself. Prince Charming himself. She sarcastically thought. Amelia looked at the other cots and found that she was in fact the only one in bed, and how the hell did the prince remember her name. Impressive.

"Why didn't they wake me up?!" Amelia groaned and flopped back down on her bed, throwing her arm over her face. "It does not matter. You are my personal maid and have responsibility. First one is to wake up early and on time!" He barked at her in a lecture. The blonde girl snuck a peek at the man from under her arm with her face in an annoyed frown. Gods she wanted to stick her tongue out at him and tell him to shut up.

Ivan stood and waited for a minute before growing impatient. "Get up now!" He commanded and grabbed the girl's leg and dragged her off the bed. "Hey! Ouch!" She yelled and her arms scrambled and flailed on her bed for something to grab on to. "Are you up now?" Prince Braginsky chuckled. Amelia huffed and stood up to the man. "Now I am, thanks to you." She growled at him.

The prince smiled and chuckled again. He saw that she was wearing a white tank top that rode up to her stomach from him dragging her. She also wore very short black shorts that exposed her whole leg. The prince blushed deeply and looked at the ground. "Listen your majesty," Amelia began to say. "I would appreciate if you left me so I could get ready." She snorted at him and gathered up her mandatory uniform. The girl lazily walked to the bathing room and slammed the door loudly. The prince laughed and left the room while whistling a Russian lullaby. This is very fun. He laughed to himself and walked up stairs to his study room.

Amelia ran up the stairs after getting ready, her hair still damp from her bath. The America girl gripped the handle and pushed the door open, walking in without knocking. It wasn't that she purposely didn't knock, it was that she forgot.

The maid adjusted her skirt so it didn't bunch up and looked up to see Ivan sitting at his desk, bent over with his head in his hands. "Prince Ivan!" She called out and ran a crossed the room to make sure he was okay. She was trained to fight and protect always. His head snapped up with a glare clearly on his face from the intrusion. "Why did you not knock?!" He roared out and stood up, rounding his desk. The girl stopped and felt cold sweat bead on the back of her neck.

The memory of her walking in on her past master filled her mind. The memory of him hitting her so hard repeatedly was burned into her body's memory. "I'm sorry!" Amelia immediately shrieked, bent down and put her arms around her head. Her whole body cowered and shook, expecting a lethal hit to come into contact with her body. Ivan stopped his approach and felt a weird sense of panic fill him to see the girl react that way. Has she been hit before? He asked himself and felt strangely upset about that.

"Why do you cower?" He asked her and walked up to her. The woman released her head, stood up but kept her eyes closed. "I am sorry. I was expecting punishment." She simply said to him then opened her eyes.

"Punishment?" He asked her when he saw her beautiful crystal blue eyes. "I forgot to knock Sir. It will not happen again." Amelia answered and slightly bowed in his direction with her head down. "Da. Very good." He simply stated and wasn't sure what to say. The female noted the silence from the man and looked around his study room. She recalled this was the place where she and the prince's younger sister had fought.

"What work do you have for me sir?" The girl asked him with her blue eyes locked on his face. Ivan looked at her then around the room trying to find something. Having a maid was harder than he thought. "Re-organize the books, by the title of the book." He said to her and was satisfied with himself. Amelia kept a groan to herself as she noted how this whole study room was practically a library.

She sighed and made her way to the first book shelf and looked at the books. "These are already organized sir." Amelia said to him while looking at the book because they were indeed all organized alphabetically. Prince Braginsky wanted to slap himself as he remembered he had organized it all just a few weeks prior.

"Do you want me to clean sir?" She asked him and looked at the dust on the bookshelves and how the whole room could be a lot cleaner. "Da. That would be good." He added to her with a very small smile creeping on his face.

She nodded and went to fetch the cleaning supplies. "Amelia." He called out to her with his thick accent. She looked back when she reached the door to him. "Don't call me sir." Ivan said with a smirk on his face. She felt her face go red and she glared at him then turned out of the room.

Amelia collected cleaning supplies, towels, and dusters then headed upstairs. She rounded the corner to find Natalia leaning against the wall with a knife in hand. Her violet glared at the maid with anger and hatred. The blonde woman huffed and walked passed to princess. Natalia was shocked that the lowly maid just walked passed her without fear. "Hey!" The princess yelled out with an angry voice.

The maid didn't look back at the silver haired girl and just continued on her way into the study room. As soon as Amelia walked in the room and shut the door, she felt her knees shake. The woman leaned against the door for support. That damn woman terrified her to no end. The maid then remembered that she was in the Prince's study room and glanced over to his desk. She saw him leaning against his desk, arms folded and watching her. "Something the matter?" He asked her with his eyes cold.

The woman just swallowed loudly and then produced a fake smile. "O-Of course not your majesty." She stammered out and quickly began to clean up the room. She began dusting and felt the man's eyes watching her. Amelia tried to ignore it and pulled out an extra chair over to stand on so she could reach the top of the bookshelves.

"You are going to end up getting hurt." The Prince called out to her. The blonde woman felt a vein twitch on the temple in annoyance. Damn Russian bastard. She thought to herself and climbed up on the chair. The top of the bookshelf was still too damn high so she stood on her tip toes on the arm rest of the chair. The girl laughed out in victory and dusted away. She had to dust down the shelf but it was getting too far away. The girl leaned out and lost her balance, falling forward with a shriek.

Amelia blinked open her eyes and saw that she didn't hit the ground; in fact she was a couple feet away from the floor. She looked over her shoulder and saw the Prince holding onto her. "H-how..?" She asked him in shock. "I saw the danger before you fell." He explained and was still holding the girl. The maid's face went red as she felt his cold but strong hands through her clothes. "Sorry..." She awkwardly coughed out and Ivan awkwardly put her down with his own cheeks flushing.

"You are not good at cleaning." He pointed out the obviously. The girl felt annoyance wash over her again and she refrained from clenching her hands into fists. "Y-yeah. I know." She answered him and ran a hand through her hair. "I am only good for fighting and destroying things." She barked out with her eyes closed and back to the man.

She heard him laugh darkly. "Is that so? Kolkolkol..." He laughed out and she felt herself shiver. The girl looked back around her shoulder with her eyes wide and jaw open. He grabbed both of her wrists and slammed her into bookshelf. "W-What are you doing?!" She yelled at him and felt her heart rate spike. "Show me how you fight back!" He smirked at her darkly.

Instincts kicked in and she pulled her hands towards his thumbs, breaking through the weakest part of his hold. The maid quickly side stepped before he could grab her and side kicked him in his ribs. The Prince cried as her foot connected with his side but he wrapped his arm around her foot and swung her body around, trying to smack her against the desk. The woman was trained for fighting and could see the future hit. Amelia spun her in body around in a spiral to loosen his grip and went to kick his face, which he blocked with his other hand.

The girl's hands connected with the desk then jump sprang from the desk and landed on the other side with a smirk on her face. "You are not bad." He sneered out with a genuine but devious smile on his face. "Not bad yourself, your majesty." She spat out with a teasing smile the last word with complete sarcasm. He just smiled at her with his eyes squinting from the smile. Her own blue eyes were bright and joyful from the test. "I want you to join me on my sparring lessons." He smiled at her and she flipped back her hair happily. "Count me in!" She winked at him with a thumbs up sign.

Natalia watched the whole fight take place and felt anger surge through her. How dare that woman treat him that way. The princess knew that her brother deserved so much more respect than what that woman was giving him. The silver haired woman walked away from the door and strode back to her own room. "Amelia... What is so great about her?" Natalia asked herself and looked into her bedroom mirror. Jealous ran through her veins because well, no one had ever loved her besides her brother. He was the first person to treat her like someone important. The princess sighed at the mirror and noted how pale her skin was, and plain silver her hair was. It didn't even have any shine. Her violet eyes were the only feature that stood out and had beauty.

The woman sighed and walked away to the window and looked out at the snow covered landscape. Natalia recalled the moment she first met her brother. They weren't actually related through blood; she was found and adopted into the family. "I can't even remember before that day..." She whispered to herself in a thick Russian accent.

That day Ivan was walking with Irunya through the snow after playing outside, building snowmen.

Natalia was sitting alone and crying from how cold she was. The only thing she had in possession was a single kitchen knife. Irunya heard the crying first and ran down from the path to find the girl. Natalia remembered looking up and seeing Ivan's beautiful face, with his gleaming violet eyes, ashen blonde hair and soft but subtle smile on his face. That day the girl remembered her heart beat fast and for once in her life, she felt warm.

"What is your name?" The young boy had asked her with the same, gentle smile. "N-Natalia." Was all the little girl could say. "Natalia, come with us?" Irunya said with a gentle smile. Natalia looked at Irunya and nodded in her direction. Even back then she wasn't good at showing emotions, especially happiness.

The young child was so happy that she just began to cry. The princess and prince looked at each other with a worried expression. They scooped her up in a comforting hug that made the small child cry even harder. They led her back to the palace where she was welcomed into the family with open arms.

"That day... was the first time I experienced love." Natalia whispered after remembering her first encounter with the siblings. The woman knew that she had to treat them with the most respect but sometimes her anger just got the best of her. Natalia would always watch how Ivan smiles at Irunya and cowers away from her. The young woman wanted to be loved so badly that her heart just dully ached almost constantly. Maybe I could talk to sister about it. She thought to herself and made up her mind that is what she would do. The silver haired princess set down her knives in a dresser drawer and left her room to find the queen.

**Ohhhhh the Belarus part touched my heart haha XD Well I liked it, sorry if you guys don't particularly like it but, oh well! Regardless, take it in my dears! I will have some more sisters bonding time in the next chapter as well as some RusAme! :D Please review or PM me about what you think about it! Thank you soo much! *bows* Until we meet again... that is until the next chapter! **