The Canadian Connection

Ch. 6 Steamy Train Rides

And now for something completely different yet oddly the same since it is, in fact, a linear story.

Natalia leaned her chin into her palm, elbow resting on the window sill of her personal train cab. She gave a heartfelt sigh as the scenery gradually moved outside of her window taking her further and further from the object of her affection, her brother. She didn't understand why her brother was so reluctant to marry her, after all the fact that they were siblings didn't bother her in the least. Rather, she saw it as a sign from the heavens that she should be with her brother forever. After all, she was the only one who appreciated him, cared enough for him to stay by his side forever so why wouldn't he reciprocate her feeling?

Natalia let out another sigh before turning from the window, pulling her knees to her chin and resting her head against them, saddened by her depressing thoughts of leaving her brother alone without her supportive presence.

A gentle and hesitant knock on the cab door shook her from her depressing reverie and she glanced at the flimsy entrance sharply, her eyes narrowing into slits at having been interrupted and the possible intrusion.

"Go away." She hissed at the person beyond the door, irked beyond belief that someone would dare to try and bother her.

"Um, M-miss Natalia. I-it's Eduard." Natalia's eyebrow rose in intrigued surprise. Why would Eduard bother her?

"What do you want?" She demanded with an acidic tone, somewhat curious that the man was not with her brother but mostly annoyed. She hoped the man wasn't developing an interest in her, Toris had done so much to her irritation and she did not care for another of her brothers minions falling for her.

"It's something private. M-may I come in?" Natalia rolled her eyes in exasperation before sitting down properly and smoothing some of the wrinkles in her dress out to make herself presentable.

"Very well." The sound of the doorknob turning reached the Belarusians ears and the Estonian man soon entered quickly, closing the door silently behind him as though the woman before him would start at the slightest sound and tear his throat out viciously, which in all honesty was not too far from the truth.

Eduard stood before the somewhat small woman and fidgeted nervously, gulping nervously. "Ahem, ah, Mister Ivan asked me ask you to do a f-favour for him." Natalia's eyes lit up at the mention of her brother asking her to do something, it was exciting.

Natalia immediately hopped from her seat and backed Eduard into a nearby wall, her eyes sparking in anticipation while her hands clenched and unclenched. "What does big brother want me to do for him?" She demanded from Eduard. The bespectacled man had pressed himself firmly against the wall, trying to get as far away from the terrifying woman as he could.

"H-he wants you t-to g-get him a b-briefcase." He stuttered out, hands clenching the wall as though praying the wooden structure would swallow him and free him from the Belarusian. Natalia's face fell and she pouted at the simple task asked of her. It was not the first time Ivan had attempted to rid himself of her by sending her after some pointless errand, but still she was already out of his sight so the reason escaped her.

"That's stupid," she bit out before flouncing back to her seat and plopped down on it, clearly disgruntled, "why would he need me to pick him up a stupid briefcase?" She muttered to Eduard who, contrary to having the woman put more distance between them was even more panicked. An unhappy Natalia meant an unhappy and possibly bleeding everyone else.

"W-well that's just it; you see someone else has the case he wants." Natalia perked up slightly at that, now more than a little intrigued by the possibility that this act may actually have a further purpose from just keeping her occupied.