Reopen the Golden Gates

Kids

Little feet against hardwood would be a heartwarming sound but it was quite the opposite at the moment as those little feet are here to wake up the eldest Hawaiian.

"Kalani!" The little voice giggled patting at the older teen's face.

"Ae?" The Hawai'ian kingdom muttered rolling over to face her younger siblings. Koa(Kahoolawe) and Malie(Oahu) were facing her. Malie's little smile and closed eyes weren't creepy, but Koa was staring into her soul.

"What?" Kalani asked propping herself on her elbows looking down at her younger siblings.

"Meaʻai!" the duo chirped, Kalani looked at her clock, 530. Dammit, there is no way the two were going back to bed with the sunrise so close.

"Alright, let's go" The teen led the two six year olds down the halls once they got to the kitchen the light was already on.

"Looks like Austin is already in the fields," Kalani noted seeing quite a bit of food missing from the fruit bowl and croissant chest. She looked over to the shoe rack but there were more than one pair of shoes gone. "Looks like David, Elijah and Sage joined him," she amended her mental note.

The Kingdom went about making a healthy breakfast, the duo have been on a bit of a fruit binge and she wasn't one to discourage eating healthy. They both dug into the strawberries and banana slices.

Hawai'i leaned against the counter reflecting. Her many younger siblings, but also her fellow dead men walking. Those being multiple, dead men walking.

The nations where coming in a matter of days, which means people will be learning of their existence. She was too wrapped up in her mind to hear the back door open, "Uhh, Kal?" Austin asked leaning against the cabinet pulling off his boots as his younger siblings did the same.

"Oh, yeah Aus?" Kalani asked looking over at her brother.

"Pop's is back," Austin said suddenly. That got everyone's attention.

"Repeat that?" Kalani asked of the Texian Republic.

"Pops back, he's with dad. I picked him up last night," Austin repeated firmly grabbing a coffee cup.

It took a moment before Kalani's brain kicked back into gear. "Stay here" with that she took off across the hardwood floors.

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Alfred woke up to the sun shining in his eyes. But he felt warmer and felt better then he normally did. He just exhalled and nestled closer to whatever warmth is under him, maybe it was his heated blanket? Did he leave that on? He slowly woke up and shifted to look at what was under him.

It took him a long moment before he sat up, that's when Gilbert started to stir but he snapped awake when Alfred grabbed his face.

"Alfred, what are you doing?" Gilbert asked, eyes focusing on those blue eyes and brown to blonde hair that hovered above him. Alfred's eyes laser focused onto Gilbert. Alfred dipped down and placed a firm kiss on Gilbert's lips.

Gilbert smiled into the kiss before sitting up and lazily looping his arms around Alfred's waist. "Good morning to you too," Gilbert smiled, placing a hand on Alfred's cheek.

"You're really here," Alfred whispered before dropping his head on Gilbert's shoulder. Gilbert smiled as Alfred shifted closer, and Gilbert slid off the bed still with Alfred. Alfred being the octopus of a nation he was held onto Gilbert with no help needed from Gilbert.

The door was pushed open and Gilbert turned to see Kalani looking into the room. "Koʻu mau akua" Kalani muttered before reated. Even though Gilbert had no idea what the ancient Hawai'ian meant by those words, mostly because he couldn't speak hawiian. But he knew very well that the others would be coming very soon.

Gilbert made his way down the stairs and sat down in the living room. Soon joined by Sage, Koa and Malie joined them on the coach. But Elijah and David decided the floor was much more comfy and grabbed pillows and proceeded to pass out on the floor not even processing that Gilbert was in the room.

Down the hall the Hawaiian banged on doors, a little earlier than normal but everyone was groggling and groaning. However they slowly did file out of their rooms.

Pennsylvania, hooked his arm around Leo's. It was an old habit that neither moved to break.

"Hey, Austin. Hrmm, ¿Qué hay para desayunar?" Leo asked, although he knew many languages he surprisingly didn't know spanish all that well, but talking to Austin, who knew spanish more than he knew english, was a good way to start.

"Pancakes, waffles, fresh fruit, milk and apple juice," Austin listed.

Klaus gave a laugh very similar to a certain Prussian.

"Oh yeah, Pops is in the living room," Austin bomb dropped.

Both Leo and Klaus stopped, "¿Qué?" "Er ist?"

Austin pointed to the living room, the Dakota twins looked at each other, they had come in at the very end of the convo, when Austin pointed to the living room. They looked at each other then bolted toward the living room.

"Dad!" both called out, their voices causing a bit of a vibration effect to the air.

Both Dakotas saw Gilbert and in their excitement they jumped over Elijah and dove onto the couch on either side of Gilbert. Both raiped firing questions, ranging from pollution, population, economy, to his personal life. However Gilbert had no time to answer any questions as Alfred shifted to be off of Gilbert's lap and pulled Oscar into his lap. North looked at his dad and huddled closer to him. Oliver gasped with jealousy, he clambered into Gilbert's lap.

More kids filled the living room, they sat around the room. Some on the floor and some sat on a couch, some sat on each other.

"Alright," Alfred spoke up, getting all of the children's attention as even the fallen republics and territories perked up from the kitchen. "Nations will be here in a week, the week of the fastival. For the first time we will have people from out of the country see what we can do and not just hear about it." There was giggling, smiling and glances state to state all while Gilbert was overall curious.

He of course had heard about the festival, Matthew had shown a rare sign of his super strength by slamming the doors into the wall despite not opening that way. That made the news very memorable.

"That means, you have to start cramming your practices this week instead of the next like you normally would." There was nervous laughter from some of the states, "So, eat breakfast and get cramming and you know who you are." Alfred said the last part in a scolding tone. The Dakotas left with the others, a few giving Gilbert a hug as they passed but they knew very well, Gilbert was definitely not going anywhere. Not when Alfred had a damn word to say about it.

Key:

Both Island of Hawaii:

Koa - Kahoolawe

Malie - Oahu

Leo(Leonardo) - New York

Texas State:

Sage - East

Elijah - North

David - West

Pennsylvania - Klaus

Hawaiian Language

Ae - Yes

Meaʻai - Food

Koʻu mau akua - My Gods

Spanish

¿Qué hay para desayunar? - What's for breakfast?

¿Qué? - What?

German

Er ist? - He is?