Alfred sat glumly in the dark in his room, drinking whiskey and cursing his paralyzed boss and trying to ignore the shots from Sumpter. She slipped in to say goodbye, already dressed in crisp grey, the military cut fitting neatly on her angular form.
“Darlin’,” she began hesitantly, her smooth tenor voice heavy with a worthless apology.
“You’re leaving me,” Alfred said bitterly, and it wasn’t a question. “You’re leaving me for him. With him.”
Texas kissed his hair, light as the breeze rifling the grass of the plains.
“Part of me – a big part of me – really wants to stay,” she whispered.
“Then stay,” Alfred told her.
She left without saying another word. The next time he saw her, it was over muskets, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Alan. They looked fierce and beautiful, and Alfred ached for both of them before he pulled the trigger.
When Alfred dragged Alan back home, both of were them blood-drenched, Alan thin with hunger, shivering and sweating with sickness, and burned all along his side, and Texas came stumbling after. Somehow, while Alfred struggled with internecine Republican fighting over the precise wording of loyalty oaths, Alan faded resentfully back into him in a flurry of voting registration laws and lynchings, their skin turning a slightly darker tint around his fresh scars.
Alfred expected Texas to finally melt into him too, but he just scowled and propped his feet up on his own side of the Mississippi and tugged the brim of his hat down, still thinking of himself as a nation within a nation.
~*~
“What are we?” Alfred asked into Texas’s collarbone, decades later. “Are we still married? Are we exes? Husbands? Are we, I don’t know, related now? Something?”
Texas rolled his eyes, shoved America onto his back, and jacked both of them fast and filthy with a handful of slick black gold.
“Stop worryin’ about it,” he growled. “You’re my country. You’re the greatest nation on Earth and that’s all I need to know.”
“You’re a crazy, gun-toting racist,” America pointed out, between gasps and breathy moans.
“So are you, sometimes,” Texas countered. Which, okay, point, but at least Alfred was trying.
Texas, Alfred decided, was really far too well hung and too good with his cock for someone who hadn’t even had one a century ago.
Texas’s booming laugh told him he must have said that out loud.
“My pussy was younger than that when we got hitched,” Texas told him, grinning as wide as his skies. “I was a savage lil’ boy with feathers in my hair and a hankerin’ for crocodile meat before Spain took me away from France and I saw those gorgeous, ruffled skirts for the first time.”
Alfred could see him, all sun-washed gangly limbs and ground-in dirt, racing mustangs bareback through the wilderness just to feel the wind on his young, girlish face.
Alfred rutted against Texas shamelessly, arching and coming with a reverberating groan.
“So, wait,” Alfred asked, ignoring the disgusting black-and-white mess between them, finally able to think about what he’d been told. “So, if you keep up the pattern, I should get my wife back in a century or two!”
Texas chuckled and rolled him over, knocking his knees apart and pushing inside him.
“Oh yeah,” Alfred groaned, then – “I think that’ll be nice. Having a little woman around the house again to clean up and cook me deep-fried TexMex.”
Texas snorted and jabbed his prostate, making Alfred writhe happily.
“Now, don't you go bein' bitchy just 'cause everythang’s bigger in Texas.”
"Wouldn't dream of it," America replied.
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SO NOT FAIL. I challenge anyone to a good ol' shootout if anyone don't agree this is one of the best fills in the meme. Cos it is! Alfred-and-Alan and how Texas was a little boy and then a girl and every single line of dialogue....oh, and THIS image: "Alfred could see him, all sun-washed gangly limbs and ground-in dirt, racing mustangs bareback through the wilderness just to feel the wind on his young, girlish face"
No wonder Alfred wants to keep Texas as close to his eyes as much as possible.
And this? "“Stop worryin’ about it,” he growled. “You’re my country. You’re the greatest nation on Earth and that’s all I need to know.”
<33333
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At first my hetalia head-canon for Texas was so messed up, because I always saw the annexation as a wedding with bride!Texas, but everyone else sees Texas as a guy, and I can see why. When I saw this request, everything just sort of fell together.
I was a little worried about the dialogue, I'm so glad you liked it!
Those were some of my fav lines two. *grins like a maniac*
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i want this to have a movie poster so that the tagline can be 'everything is bigger in texas. except boobs.'
by which i mean WOW. i really enjoyed this - the different historical periods and the changes Texas goes through and the mutual love and the accent guh...fantastic job anon ♥
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In my head, Texas's breasts are small because by the time they first have sex, she's already starting to slide back along the sprectrum toward masculinity, but I couldn't think of a way for Alfred to notice larger breasts during their first meeting without him sounding too much like France a pervert.
OMG, anon, you have no idea how much I agonized over the accent. It's so hard to write dialect in a readable way when so much of the standard pronunciation is non-phonetic. I'm sooo happy it worked!
I'm so happy you enjoyed it!
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Seriously. The plot was rich and had the potential to be unclear- but you made it beautiful as well as easy to follow (and become engrossed by). The imagery was complex but vivid and the characterisations...
by God, anon. So many authors would stumble on it. But no- you did not. You made them really real.
Have you written any other stories on the kink meme? Or do you mind linking me to anything you've done already? I know it's meant to be anonymous, but I am INCREDIBLY impressed. Beyond that- I want to read more of your work.
I've only been in Hetalia fandom for about a month now, so I don't have outside fic for it, but here's everything else I've done in the kink meme so far (warning: I was really proud of this one, YMMV on the others)
Texas!anon is floored. This was hot and awesome and so accurately describes America's relationship with Texas. Please allow me to marry you, for also writing the Carmen Sandiego one, that blew my mind as well.
In my head, the last scene is set, like, sometime between 1890 and 1929. Maybe a little later. But it's definitely before the civil rights movement, since Texas has been male for less than a century, and he made the final switch over during the civil war. I'm pretty sure current!Texas is less of an asshole. (Though he's still a little...hmmmm...whacko.)
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-18 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)“Darlin’,” she began hesitantly, her smooth tenor voice heavy with a worthless apology.
“You’re leaving me,” Alfred said bitterly, and it wasn’t a question. “You’re leaving me for him. With him.”
Texas kissed his hair, light as the breeze rifling the grass of the plains.
“Part of me – a big part of me – really wants to stay,” she whispered.
“Then stay,” Alfred told her.
She left without saying another word. The next time he saw her, it was over muskets, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Alan. They looked fierce and beautiful, and Alfred ached for both of them before he pulled the trigger.
When Alfred dragged Alan back home, both of were them blood-drenched, Alan thin with hunger, shivering and sweating with sickness, and burned all along his side, and Texas came stumbling after. Somehow, while Alfred struggled with internecine Republican fighting over the precise wording of loyalty oaths, Alan faded resentfully back into him in a flurry of voting registration laws and lynchings, their skin turning a slightly darker tint around his fresh scars.
Alfred expected Texas to finally melt into him too, but he just scowled and propped his feet up on his own side of the Mississippi and tugged the brim of his hat down, still thinking of himself as a nation within a nation.
~*~
“What are we?” Alfred asked into Texas’s collarbone, decades later. “Are we still married? Are we exes? Husbands? Are we, I don’t know, related now? Something?”
Texas rolled his eyes, shoved America onto his back, and jacked both of them fast and filthy with a handful of slick black gold.
“Stop worryin’ about it,” he growled. “You’re my country. You’re the greatest nation on Earth and that’s all I need to know.”
“You’re a crazy, gun-toting racist,” America pointed out, between gasps and breathy moans.
“So are you, sometimes,” Texas countered. Which, okay, point, but at least Alfred was trying.
Texas, Alfred decided, was really far too well hung and too good with his cock for someone who hadn’t even had one a century ago.
Texas’s booming laugh told him he must have said that out loud.
“My pussy was younger than that when we got hitched,” Texas told him, grinning as wide as his skies. “I was a savage lil’ boy with feathers in my hair and a hankerin’ for crocodile meat before Spain took me away from France and I saw those gorgeous, ruffled skirts for the first time.”
Alfred could see him, all sun-washed gangly limbs and ground-in dirt, racing mustangs bareback through the wilderness just to feel the wind on his young, girlish face.
Alfred rutted against Texas shamelessly, arching and coming with a reverberating groan.
“So, wait,” Alfred asked, ignoring the disgusting black-and-white mess between them, finally able to think about what he’d been told. “So, if you keep up the pattern, I should get my wife back in a century or two!”
Texas chuckled and rolled him over, knocking his knees apart and pushing inside him.
“Oh yeah,” Alfred groaned, then – “I think that’ll be nice. Having a little woman around the house again to clean up and cook me deep-fried TexMex.”
Texas snorted and jabbed his prostate, making Alfred writhe happily.
“Now, don't you go bein' bitchy just 'cause everythang’s bigger in Texas.”
"Wouldn't dream of it," America replied.
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-18 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)No wonder Alfred wants to keep Texas as close to his eyes as much as possible.
And this? "“Stop worryin’ about it,” he growled. “You’re my country. You’re the greatest nation on Earth and that’s all I need to know.”
<33333
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-19 12:01 am (UTC)(link)At first my hetalia head-canon for Texas was so messed up, because I always saw the annexation as a wedding with bride!Texas, but everyone else sees Texas as a guy, and I can see why. When I saw this request, everything just sort of fell together.
I was a little worried about the dialogue, I'm so glad you liked it!
Those were some of my fav lines two. *grins like a maniac*
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-18 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)by which i mean WOW. i really enjoyed this - the different historical periods and the changes Texas goes through and the mutual love and the accent guh...fantastic job anon ♥
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-19 12:08 am (UTC)(link)In my head, Texas's breasts are small because by the time they first have sex, she's already starting to slide back along the sprectrum toward masculinity, but I couldn't think of a way for Alfred to notice larger breasts during their first meeting without him sounding too much like
Francea pervert.OMG, anon, you have no idea how much I agonized over the accent. It's so hard to write dialect in a readable way when so much of the standard pronunciation is non-phonetic. I'm sooo happy it worked!
I'm so happy you enjoyed it!
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-19 12:53 am (UTC)(link)...Did I mention it was ridiculously sexy? Because, yes.
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-19 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)LALALA I can't hear you~~~
(Anonymous) 2009-03-19 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)And I reject Himuruya's
realitycanon and substitute my own, because seriously, Texas was a country. Also, awesome.=P
Re: LALALA I can't hear you~~~
(Anonymous) 2009-03-19 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)Re: LALALA I can't hear you~~~
(Anonymous) 2009-03-19 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)Elegant silver specs => tough hornrims => badass dude shades
oh, yeah
IDKWTFBBQ
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-19 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)don't even think about mentioning AlaskaThis fill is so much win anon, it deserves a keyboard smash:
sdflakghwr;tuhQLAKWRHTW4IOA5Lq#$(^AFH
Also, stalker!Russia should have appeared when America asked Texas to become one with him, y'know, just for the hell of it.
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-19 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)stalker!Russia should have appeared when America asked Texas to become one with him
shut up, you. It was a proposal! It was sweet! NO STALKERS IN MY ROMANCE!
=P
love you, bb
*Roaring applause*
(Anonymous) 2009-03-20 12:09 am (UTC)(link)Seriously. The plot was rich and had the potential to be unclear- but you made it beautiful as well as easy to follow (and become engrossed by). The imagery was complex but vivid and the characterisations...
by God, anon. So many authors would stumble on it. But no- you did not. You made them really real.
Have you written any other stories on the kink meme? Or do you mind linking me to anything you've done already? I know it's meant to be anonymous, but I am INCREDIBLY impressed. Beyond that- I want to read more of your work.
Xx Anon
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-20 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)I've only been in Hetalia fandom for about a month now, so I don't have outside fic for it, but here's everything else I've done in the kink meme so far (warning: I was really proud of this one, YMMV on the others)
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=4514250#t4514250
Poland masturbates w/Germany’s gloves, Germany/Poland D/s
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=4510666#t4510666
France/Eiffel Tower, masturbation w/toy, hate!sex, geography and architecture!kink
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=4550858#t4550858
Russia/Canada: ON ICE!
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=3239626#t3239626
Poland. Potato!kink
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=4568778#t4568778
Rome/Germania, fellatio & intercrural
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=4637642#t4637642
S.Italy/N.Italy, twincest and comfort sex (also, rimming)
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=4641738#t4641738
France/UK, genderswap, seduction, Victorian repression
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=4644810#t4644810
Carmen Sandiego/US
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=4659146#t4659146
Prussia/Sealand – shota, tickle!kink, breathplay, dubcon, bondage
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=4703178#t4703178
harrytalia pt1
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/3274.html?thread=4693194#t4693194
Germania/Rome – death fic
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/4567.html?thread=5151703#t5151703
America/Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/4567.html?thread=5312215#t5312215
America/Japan, Free Verse
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/4567.html?thread=5329879#t5329879
Russia/America, BDSM, safewording, the safe word is “I love you”
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/4567.html?thread=6155479#t6155479
US/Texas, Texas is MTFTM
http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/4567.html?thread=6235351#t6235351
Financial Crisis Family Fic, Arthur, Alfed, and the states.
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-20 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)You've been up to a LOT.
I will go read.
Thank you!
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-22 03:37 am (UTC)(link)author is also Texas!anon
(Anonymous) 2009-03-23 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)I'm so glad you enjoyed!
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-28 07:31 am (UTC)(link)"You're a gun-toting racist"
"So are you, sometimes."
*squirm-happy sigh* I know my state isn't all right in the head yet, but our hand to God we're doing better. It's taking time but we're getting there.
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(Anonymous) 2009-04-08 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)This is another Texas!anon. I live in the more mexican part of Texas, ever heard of the city called San Antonio? Oh yeah~ ALAMO.
I loved it. All of it. You won my heart and even make me more proud to be a Texan because oh. This fic made me go: oh alot. It's so perfect.