who can say if I've been changed for the better

[vytis]

Who: Poland and Lithuania
When: March 17th
Where: the tavern
What: Lithuania and Poland both decide to go have a drink or five, having spent the last couple of days moping. They run into each other.
Warnings: maybe language?

[Lithuania hadn't really been doing much of anything since that meeting at Ukraine's house. He didn't want to call it moping but in his less proud moments (of which he'd had a few over the last two days) he knew it was, no matter how many times he cleaned and re-cleaned various rooms in the house.

Going to the tavern wasn't really a solution, but he reasoned it couldn't hurt, either, so here he was, sitting at the bar and staring at not much of anything. Even though this was the strongest drink they had, according to the bartender, Lithuania didn't think he'd be getting drunk very quickly with it.]

Comments

[vytis]

[Lithuania sighs again and is silent for a while, drinking, before he starts up the conversation again.]

I think I can feel them. [His people.] Or, I know I can feel them, but I don't know if it's really them or if--

You probably don't care.

[There's not an ounce of venom in it, just Lithuania stating what he's sure is a fact before he drinks some more.]

[likesottlyfab]

Why?

[vytis]

[Another pause, as he puts his thoughts together.]

They feel safe, but I can't see them or ask them if they are. I don't know if this is just how they felt a year ago when I was taken or if...

If Mayfield is just making me think I can feel them somehow. When Estija first arrived, he said something about--about what if when we're taken time keeps going, and if that's really happening...

[The alcohol's helped loosen his tongue enough for this sort of conversation, at least; that and being so used to Poland when it came down to it that somehow even if he wasn't sure they were ever really going to be friends again it seemed like it was okay to tell him this sort of thing.]

[likesottlyfab]

You should totally think whatever makes you least crazy.

So if you think it's them and they're saying they're fine, then they're fine.

[vytis]

[Lithuania's grip tightens on his glass.]

But what if they're not?

[Lithuania's eternal worried state has been eating away at him for over a year now in regards to his citizens.]

[likesottlyfab]

You wanna know what I think?

[Poland purses his lips, looking up at the ceiling of the tavern in thought.]

I think... that you don't like give them enough credit. It's natural and junk to worry, but I think you've done a good enough job to leave them alone for a while without them burning the house down.

Or leaving the bath water running. Either one.

[vytis]

[Lithuania blinks at Poland, a little stunned that Poland could say that sort of thing after the frankly awful time the two of them had been having at doing anything but arguing lately. Still it was a very Poland thing to say, with that often-relentless optimism the other nation seemed able to summon up in nearly any situation.]

I suppose you're right.

[He takes a sip.]

I'm sure you've nothing to worry about;there's nothing your people couldn't handle if they decided they were going to deal with it.

[likesottlyfab]

Yeah but, I want to hear it. Or feel it.

I forget how it works, everything's been gone for too long.

Even all my promises are gone. [He'd wiggle his pinkies at Lithuania if he had them. Instead he gets little stubs in his face.]

[vytis]

You'll get it back.

[Another drink finished, though Lithuania doesn't immediately call for another this time, at least.]

I can promise for you, I still have two.

[likesottlyfab]

Next time they call you in your head ask your people if my people are okay, okay?

[vytis]

Alright. They have to be, though. They're your people.

[likesottlyfab]

[Poland smiles at that.

Maybe they weren't friends anymore, but Poland liking Lithuania was probably never going to stop.]

Totally.

[vytis]

[Lithuania smiles a bit wider. Maybe they weren't friends anymore, but Poland wasn't always that bad.]