Winter Nightmares

Chapter 1: It's only a dream…

Russia slowly leaned back against the wall, dropping his blood-stained pipe to the floor. He didn't move from there, his eyes stared off to the bloodied wall across from him. He was blank, no expression, no thoughts, not after what he had just done. He slowly turned his eyes down to see what he had done. He was still blank, slowly snapping back to reality. When he did, his eyes widened at the horror he had done. "M-…Mat-Matthew?…." He chocked.

The floor was covered in blood, splattered everywhere, pools of it under the monster's newest victim. He laid on his front, his head titled to the side, his violet eyes still open, but now dull and blank. He was covered in blood from the cuts, bruised, his cheeks still wet from his last fearful tears, he was pale; he was gone. Russia slowly came down to his knees and looked over the boy's lifeless body. "M-Matthew…" He chocked out again. He slowly put his hand to the side of the boy's face, feeling how ice cold he was. Russia's blank expression slowly turned to horror and sorrow with the realization that this was real to him. "M-Matthew…" He slowly put his hands up and grabbed onto his head. "I'm so sorry… I'm so sorry…It's my fault…" He pulled his knees to his chest and put his head there, covering himself with his arms. "This can't be happening… No… No…No…" He whispered, he reaped it over and over, this can't be happening, he slowly looked up again, seeing the blood made him feel sick.

"It's all your fault Russia,"

OO

Russia jumped awake.

He laid there silently, a bit shaken up still. It was only a dream… Only a damn nightmare… He thought to himself as he closed his eyes once more. Just to stay sure, he opened his eyes again and looked over for a familiar face. Canada still slept there, gently breathing, holding onto Kumajirou, peacefully. Russia smiled a bit in relief and closed his eyes again, it was just a nightmare… it wasn't real…

That won't happen….

Russia slowly fell back to sleep, only to wake up to the sun shining in. He didn't see Canada, so he knew the boy was already up and around, so he got out of bed and made his way downstairs. Ever since winter started, his nightmares were returning with a force, Winter never let him have peace; it seemed Canada couldn't get any peace either. He walked into the kitchen to find him on his cell phone again, talking to his boss, leaning over the counter top. Russia peeked in, Canada saw him and pointed to the breakfast he had already made for Russia; the Russian was used to the boy cooking for him, he liked it… he really liked it. Russia gave a little smile to him and scooped up the plate to sit and eat, though he almost sat on Kumajirou, and quickly moved to an open seat.

He ate quietly, looking at the boy talk with his boss, clearly annoyed and angry with certain things. Russia figured it was best not to get involved and he continued eating. He peeked back at the boy every couple moments, only to look away when he was the boy was getting more annoyed and stressed by the minute. Finally, he hung up the phone and plopped it on the counter, not caring if it broke or not; he didn't want another phone call. He took a deep breath out and held his head in his hands. "So, what now?" Russia asked, he was getting used to the calls for the boy.

"Well, everything is messed up…" Canada said looking up a bit. "Let's just say I'm not gonna have a break anytime soon. The only bright news is I'm off for Christmas day, not Eve, but day… It kinda works…"

"Really? You're that busy? What's going on with your country huh?"

"Stuff…Lots of stuff… I have to sign things, my boss needs me to do some things, I'll have to go do business work with England and his brothers a day after new years." Canada sighed. "Everything is such a pain lately…"

"Matvey, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it da?" Russia placed his plate in the dish washer and walked behind the boy.

"I guess so…" Canada said. Russia wrapped his arms around the boy's waist and kissed his cheek.

"I think someone needs to relax a bit da? You're so tense." Russia moved his hands up the boy's side. "I can fix that you know." He started moving his hand toward the boy's "special" curl, until Canada stopped him.

"I'm sorry but I'm just not in the mood."

"You shot me down?…" Russia pouted a bit.

"Sorry Russia."

Russia sighed. "It's fine, I know you're just too stressed out right now. Try not to stress yourself out too much though da?"

"Yeah, got it." Canada kissed the Russian's cheek. "It'll be fine. I at least get Christmas day to rest up.. That's only a couple days away, so I'll just last out the next few days."

"Da. Positive attitude." Russia said, then paused. "Damn that reminds me, I have to go back home to do my own things too. I suppose I'll leave tomorrow or the next day then."

"I can drive you to the airport if you leave tomorrow, if not you'll have to get a taxi."

"I'll take up on your offer." Russia said. "I'll get a ticket later then."

"Okay," Canada gulped down the rest of his coffee and placed the cup in the sink. "I'm gonna go finish up some paper work."

"Da. Me too." Russia said as the boy scooped up Kumajirou and started toward the stairs. "Remember, don't get too stressed out."

"Yeah, I know."

OOO

Don't believe it… It's only a dream… It's not real…

The next morning Canada awoke to a cold and darkish room. He didn't want to get up, he slowly covered himself with the blanket more and tried snuggling back into it. He tried, until the alarm clock went off and he just had to get up now. He yawned, rubbed his eyes, then put his glasses on. He quickly put on a sweatshirt because of how cold it was. He picked up Kumajirou off the bed and started heading down stairs. He looked out the front door to see something he wished wasn't there; snow, and a lot of it. It covered the ground, maybe up to a foot of snow, it covered everything though. Canada sighed, he liked snow but not now, not today; he had to be driving through that, and now it would only make his day and the next few days harder.

He walked into the kitchen and plopped Kumajirou down on the seat. He gave the bear a small plate of fish and went toward the coffee machine, something warm like coffee would be nice right now. "Good morning." He heard Russia say. Canada turned a bit and saw the Russian standing there dressed in his regular clothing and scarf.

"Morning." Canada said and went back to making his coffee. "Want some?"

"Da." Canada grabbed another mug out for the Russian and made his coffee first. He slid it across the counter a bit for Russia to grab it while he worked on his own next. Russia took a few sips and watched the boy make his own, pouring a bottle of maple syrup in it like always. "You look tired."

Canada paused. "I-I didn't sleep well." He took a sip of his sweeten coffee. "Hey, is it cold to you? I'm freezing."

"Da, it's cold." Russia said. "Your heater break?"

"Probably…" Canada sighed. "I'll check it later, what time does your flight leave?"

"Noon."

"Oh we got time then."

"Matvey, it's ten o'clock."

"W-What? No way, my alarm is set for seven."

"Well I guess you set it wrong, because it's ten o'clock."

"No way…" Canada scratched the side of his head. "I know I set it for seven…"

"Maybe you slept through it and hit snooze?"

"I'm one of the unlucky people who doesn't have a snooze button…"

"Well I don't know then."

"Neither do I." Canada sighed and drinked more of his coffee. "I'm losing it I guess."

"Da."

"Okay then you want me to drive you now?"

"Please." Russia said. Canada nodded and gulped the rest of his coffee. He quickly grabbed his keys then.

"Into the car." He yawned a bit. Russia watched the boy go out first then followed close behind.

"Are you okay?" He asked. "You look really out of it."

"Yeah I'm fine, just tired."

"You sure? If you want, I can get a taxi."

"I doubt it'll be able to get here before time you have to go with all the snow on the ground, the streets are barely plowed." Canada said. "I don't mind really."

"Alright… If you say so…" Russia watched the boy put his heavy snow jacket on and flop up his hood to face the cold outside. He then put his heavy boots on and headed out the door, stepping into the deep snow. Russia closed the door behind and followed, the snow went up to the Russian's knees; it was high, but at least the roads were clear. Canada started up the car to warm it up and placed Kumajirou in it. He then grabbed the shovels in the back and gave one to Russia, the snow plows had plowed him in. They went to the back and started scooping, moving the snow out of the way, just enough to clear the way to get out; Canada would just have to add digging out the rest onto his already busy list later. They finished digging out and threw the shovels in the back again. Canada got himself into the drivers seat as he put Kumajirou on the floor of the car, Russia got into the passenger's seat.

The boy took a moment to sit there and just relax for a minute, he still felt a little tired. He rubbed his hands together to warm them up and then placed his hands on the wheel and started to drive out. Russia watched a bit in worry as the boy tried to focus on driving. "Are you sure you're okay?" He asked. Canada glanced over at him a bit and nodded. Russia looked away from him, he was worried now, it has only been a week since the boy started recovering from his short sickness, and all the stress was hitting him hard; he wasn't sleeping…

They pulled up to the drop off area of the airport and Russia grabbed his bag from the back. Canada watched as Russia looked through to make sure he had everything, his passport and such, then he looked over at the boy. "I'll try to come back before New Years." He said. He leaned over and kissed the boy on his forehead. "Try not to stress yourself out too much da?"

Canada sighed a bit. "I'll try." Russia gave him another kiss on his head before opened the door and getting out. "Be safe please." Russia looked back at the boy and save a little smile, same to you.

Canada sat there for a moment and watched Russia go into the building. He then took a deep breath out as Kumajirou climbed onto the side seat. Canada sunk a bit in his seat and looked over at Kumajirou, he smirked a bit and pet the bear's head, just a small moment of relaxation. "Back to work eh?" He said, the bear nodded. Canada sighed and frowned a bit. "Yeah… Back to work…" I'm too tired…

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Thank you~

YAY! Start of new thing :D So I'm sorry I said it would be up on Friday, I got distracted by the Olympics and then I finished and the internet went down from the storms again DX so NOW it's up

So, I'm getting parts of this story out right now. As of now, the first chapter, it's the calm before the storm. Winter's getting involved now, but their both ignoring it (but also neither of them know that winter is haunting each other, aka Russia doesn't know winter hurts Canada, like Canada doesn't know winter hurts Russia. It's like a secret). It's gonna be calm for now, then maybe between chapter 5 and 10 it will get worse for them da?