At the end of last night Vash had begrudgingly allowed Prussia to join the game, and every time Lilli saw Gilbert she would ask him the same question that she had asked Vash. As soon as Prussia answered yesterday's question, Vash shot him out of the house…

But today was the day before the ball, so Vash and Lilli had to enjoy their sun rise for a smaller amount of time. As they walked down the hill, Lilli turned to Vash, "Vash, do country personifications get older?" Vash stopped and he seemed to be thinking. "I think we do, but very slowly, for example in human years England is only 23, but the country of England was formed in 937, so he would be 1073 years old. Get it?" Lilli smiled and nodded, but then she frowned. "Vash doesn't that mean that we will get older and older depending on how long our countries last?" He nodded, and Lilli remained quiet, staring at her feet. Seeing her face Vash didn't ask for an answer, instead grabbing her hand to lead her inside to pack the remainder of their things.

As they both walked to their rooms, something occurred to Lilli, she had never been to France's house. "Vash, I've never been to Francis's house…is it big?" He stopped walking to turn around to face her. "Yes, it's huge, in fact, we don't even need a hotel, he has enough rooms for all the countries to sleep in, although, I'm going to make sure that your room is far far away from France." She giggled cutely and went into her room. After packing a week's worth of dresses for various meetings and events Lilli gently took out the fancy dress and placed it in a separate compartment carefully. She packed other necessities before zipping the bag and dragging it out of her room. She left it outside her door to grab a secret plushie of her brother that she took with her everywhere. As she went back into the hall she saw her brother going down the stairs, both of their suitcases in hand.

Vash called a taxi to take them to the train station. They would be taking a train to Paris with a stop in Lausanne. He set the bags down and then called for Lilli to come down. She hid her plushie in her coat pocket and slid into the taxi. The driver got them to the station in record time. They paid for their tickets and got on the train about five minutes early. They took their seats quietly and Vash allowed himself to relax slightly.

Lilli noticed Vash's momentary relaxation and used this time to pull out her iPod and a book. She relaxed herself as the train lurched from the station, but noticed that this had the opposite effect on Vash. He tensed up and squeezed the armrests on the seats. She giggled to herself and placed her book back in her carry on. She turned her iPod on and gently and slowly placed her hand on top of her brother's before gently closing her green eyes.

Vash jumped slightly as he felt a hand on top of his. He relaxed a bit when he remembered that the only person sitting next to him was Lilli and looked down at the girl. She had her iPod on and her eyes were closed. She had a small smile gracing her face and she looked beautiful. He tried to shake that thought out of his head but found it was etched in there. Vash looked quickly out the window to distract himself, but just got motion sick. He sighed and closed his eyes, feeling his hand close around Lilli's subconsciously.

Lilli smiled as she felt Vash's hand close around hers. Suddenly she felt a tap on her should and looked up to see the conductor. She grabbed the tickets with her free hand and gave them to him with a smile. He punched them and handed back the punched ticket walking to the next passengers. Lilli looked at her brother for a while, his eyes were closed and his breathing slowed in his state of sleep. She noted how peaceful he looked and how he didn't seem annoyed at someone for once.

Suddenly she felt another tap on her shoulder; she turned quickly, feeling the pistol on her hip shift with the sudden movement. She turned to see Elizaveta smiling down at her, a suitcase in her hand. "Lilli, fancy meeting you here! Could we sit with you and Vash?" Lilli smiled at the older nation and nodded quietly holding a slim finger up to her lips. Hungary nodded with a smile on her face. Roderich came in quietly behind the female nation nodded in acknowledgement toward Lilli and sat down next to his ex-wife/ girlfriend. "Hello Liechtenstein, it's nice to see you, how have you been?" Lilli turned her iPod off to not be rude and answered the polite nation. "I'm fine Mr. Austria. Vashin and I are just on our way to France's house. I trust you have been well." He nodded as an answer and Lilli let to conversation go at that point. She never liked talking to him anyways, he was too uptight. Abruptly Elizaveta straightened up and began to talk. "So Lilli, how has your mission been going?" Only Elizaveta knew how Lilli felt about Vash, so she told her about her plan. "Slow, and little progress but I have a feeling it will work, and Prussia wants to help too." Elizaveta frowned at this and took her frying pan out from nowhere, but Lilli assured her that it would work. Soon Elizaveta fell asleep and Roderich was engrossed in a big boring looking book. She took this opportunity to check that Vash was still asleep. Once she was positive that he was she rested her head gently on his shoulder, and fell asleep.

Roderich looked at the scene before him in mild amusement. Liechtenstein and Switzerland were both asleep, with Liechtenstein's head resting on Vash's shoulder. Hungary was also asleep with her head resting on the window. He leaned back into the unclean seat and continued to read his book, "Classical Music and Its Origins". There were 3 hours to kill and this book was his way to kill it.