The North American Trio

So Many Eyebrows

"Matthew, Alfred come along now your uncles will be here at any second" Arthur said when he walked into the twins bedroom.

"But dad, I don't understand why we have to wear this frilly outfit." Alfred protested holding his hands out showing off his outfit that held in his opinion too much lace.

"Because Alfred, you have to look presentable when you meet them for the first time and we can't have you look anything less than the perfect gentleman." Arthur chastised fixing some of the buttons on Alfred's vest.

"Papa said that only peasant should wear this clothes," Matthew spoke for the first time looking in disgust at all the frills and ribbons.

"Well I don't care what that frog-," Arthur took a breath "I don't care what your Papa says here you shall wear what it is proper to wear.''Arthur said doing the same to Matthew as he did to Alfred.

"Now they should be expecting us in the parlor, so I expect you two to be in your best behavior. Understood." he stared pointedly at the twins remembering all the times they had gone outside only to come back covered in mud.

"Yes father" the twins said together heads down almost the exact same except for the red outfit Matthew had and the blue one Alfred wore.

Arthur walked down the staircase to the parlor where his siblings were, Matthew, and Alfred not far behind him.

"Matthew, Alfred, these are your uncles, go ahead and properly introduce yourselves." Arthur said, holding their shoulders. In front of them were four men with all different heights and hair colors of varying shades of red though all held the same eyebrows as Arthur.

"Good day sirs, my name is Alfred Kirkland and I represent the 13 colonies, it's a pleasure to meet you" Alfred said bowing down.

"Bonjour messieurs, my name is Mathieu Bonnefoy otherwise known as New France, it is nice to finally meet you." Matthew said following his brother's movements.

"Aw look at the little lads, I'm your uncle Alister or otherwise known as Scotland Iggy's oldest brother" Alister said with a smile ignoring Arthur's murderous look.

"Well I'm Ciarán or Ireland and this is me twin brother Seamus or Northern Ireland-" Ciarán got cut off.

"- and who is older than you might I add," Seamus said teasingly. "It's a pleasure to meet you both might I add I think twins are better than most people" He said with a wink.

"Anyway shall we continue" Arthur said through gritted teeth trying to be as polite as possible.

"Yes well I'm Emrys but you can call me Ty for short and I am Wales the 2nd oldest of the family." He said, shaking the twins hands.

"Why Ty? That has nothing to do with Emrys?" Alfred wondered before Arthur hit the back of his head for his question. "I'm sorry Sir it was wrong for me to say such a rude thing to you my apologies." Alfred hung his head in shame.

"No it quite alright Alfred," Ty glared at Arthur "and please call me Ty I don't want any of this 'Sir' nonsense when you are part of the family."

"Papa says the same thing but Mr. Arthur thinks it best that we act proper and not like the savages we grew with." Matthew said plainly.

"Is that so?" Alister said glaring at his youngest brother, hands tense though his voice was even.

Ty sensing a possible fight provides to talk to try to divert their attention.

"Anyway Alfred the reason they call me Ty because it's a shortening of my welsh name Tywysogaeth. England thought it was too hard to say so he told me I had to have a simpler name so I chose Emrys which is still welsh but easier to say" He said with a small smile.

Matthew furrowed his eyebrows in thought. "That reminds me of how Mr. Arthur told us we must change our names because otherwise we sound like quote unquote "bloody savages that have no real purpose other than giving free land" and that it was unbecoming of proper gentlemen."

"Is that really what-" Alister started before being held back by Ty.

"Is that so?" He asked before continuing. "Would it be okay for you to tell me your names, I promise you won't get in trouble." he said glancing at Arthur in a way that if he punishes them hell make sure he will never procreate again.

"I mean, we had a lot of names and they changed from where we were but our mama called me Maska," Alfred said simply.

"And she called me Kanata," Matthew continued.

"Well it is a pleasure to meet you Maska and Kanata" Ciarán and Seamus said at the same time together.

Arthur looked absolutely aghast angry that they decided to use the savage langue but not able to discipline them and tell them to forget about it until his brothers left and seeing as how his brothers where looking at him and the two colonies they were planning on overstaying their visit by quite a bit.