#fryingpangle

"I was going to go and count the money we don't have, to pay the soldiers we can't get, so I can train them how to use guns we can't afford, to perform better in battles we probably won't win," he said, wryly. Austria would have chastised him for the joke at any other moment.

"That sounds awful," she said, wide-eyed and earnest, beginning to climb atop him. "Never mind. It will cease to be a problem after the peace treaty."

"Because we'll be bankrupt?"

"Indeed."

the earth watches the moon, but she's looking at the stars;

“I have had quite enough of your perversion.” Austria pressed the barrel hard against the artery beneath France’s jaw. “I will not let you degrade another Archduchess as long as I live. I know what goes through your head when you do it.”

France grinned, strained. “Just a bit of fun. You used to be fun, Autriche. Now you are so temperamental. Go on and do it if it pleases you, I, unlike you, am no prude.”

“I don’t want your grey matter all over my dress, however little of it there is.”

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chapter 7 (napoleonic wars...) now up!

warning: explicit/ever so slightly violent.

prussia/austria, austria/hungary, france/austria, europe/austria

please note this is nyotalia x canon mashup.