part 133 pricks on your finger

[aphanon_meme]

Just like sleeping beauty! Dundundunnnn. Good morning! Well. Morning for me! I hope your weekend went well!

Enjoy part 133! :)

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[reitgerte]

Leave your message. I will return your call. [click]

[bake_einsamcake]

[resignedly crumples up the list of problematic countries he had wanted to reach; now it's time for a personal call]

[dials, listens to the message]

Hello Österreich,

it's Deutschland. I'm calling because I would like to meet up with you, the sooner the better... there are some things we need to discuss. Please call me back.

[click]

[reitgerte]

[listens for a moment before sighing and making a small, barely legible note]

[would really prefer to call back in a bit, but 'the sooner the better...']

[dials and patiently holds the telephone to his ear]

[bake_einsamcake]

[answers immediately]

Österreich? I'm glad you could call me back so quickly!

Listen, can I come over? Or would you like meet somewhere else? I really have to ask you some questions!

[reitgerte]

You may come. [cleans some dried blood from beneath a fingernail] I cannot say that there will be enough supper for you, but if you have... questions, then I do not expect you to care.

1/2

[bake_einsamcake]

Alright, thank you. I'll be there shortly.

[click]

2/2

[bake_einsamcake]

[arrives not long afterwards, shakes Austria's hand in greeting]

I hope it's not too inconvenient, but I honestly couldn't just ponder this on my own any longer... should we take a seat?

sdfkjsdfljk sorry

[reitgerte]

[pulls out a chair politely] What is so pressing that even you could not think on it alone?

Hm, what for?

[bake_einsamcake]

[sits down, crosses his legs nervously]

Well, it's-- I have been wondering--

[just bursts out]

Why did nobody ever tell me that I was Heiliges Römisches Reich once? All this time I thought my history barely covered two hundred years when in reality I have been alive since the 900's! Frankreich told me that I lived with you and Ungarn and Italien, but I can't remember anything... even my brother never told me about my past, Österreich, why?!

My slowness

[reitgerte]

[somewhat startled by your outburst, but looks you firmly in the forehead as you continue, and shakes his head at the mention of your brother] It was not my place to tell; after your fall, you were not my charge. To be entirely honest, I expected that you would discover your own secrets for yourself, or that your brother, having realized the meaning of responsibility, would save you the difficulty.

Oh, don't worry! ♥

[bake_einsamcake]

I've always had problems with my memory, but--

Of course I read the history books, watched the documentaries, visited the museums, but I was never able to make the connection! God, I never even realized that Heiliges Römisches Reich had only one personification! For all I knew I could have been one of the small duchies that were part of the empire, if anything at all before the dissolution!

[gets up and starts pacing, trying to calm down a bit]

Österreich, I must rely on you to help me fill in at least some of the gaps. Would you... would you tell me what the relationship between Italien and me was like? Is it true that we were already friends as young children?

HOW CAN I NOT ah I mean okay

[reitgerte]

If you will seat yourself, and if you can promise not to panic more than is necessary, I will tell you whatever you want to know.

You were indeed friends. Italien was much the same as he is now. Ah, with a small exception... but his true gender was revealed to us as it became relevant... and I cannot help but think that he could not have grown to be a very different nation even had we known at the time.

Relax~

[bake_einsamcake]

[sits down and listens; nods]

Yes, I recently found out that I had misunderstood him for a girl back then.

...

[looks down at his hands, up at Austria, back down again; eventually blurts out]

Do you-- do you think we loved each other? Italien and I?

/sleep

[reitgerte]

We all had. It was not your usual... attentiveness regarding others.

...

[coughs lightly] You were children.

Good night! /o/

[bake_einsamcake]

Of course; I- I didn't mean-- love like--

[awkward awkward awkward]

I-- I was just wondering because when I saw little Italien on the meme for the first time I felt so... I don't know, h-happy, and when I met the other Italien as a child the other day I was suddenly all... I just don't know. It-- it was like the memory I have of falling in love with him during the war, but--

[/sucessfully making the awkward worse]

...

Ah... if-- if you will excuse me..!

[hurriedly gets up and strides to the door, face burning with embarrassment]

[stops and turns back at the doorstep]

Oh-- and I practiced waltzing! I got better.

...

Ah, have a good evening, Österreich!

[departs quickly, leaving an intense aura of awkwardness behind]

You silly

[reitgerte]

Of course not. I will admit that you had a particular -- [ahem; listens to him dig himself a deeper hole]

There is no need.

Deutschland.

Deutschland! [gets up from the chair and follows him -- ] While I am glad to hear that your waltzing has improved, there is no need to -- [walks quickly after him]