heroescuties | [Axis Powers Hetalia, America/England: Talk Nerdy to Me]

Title: Talk Nerdy to Me
Fandom: Axis Powers Hetalia
Genre: Romance/Humor
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: America/England
Word Count: 628
Summary: America ~~blinds~~ gets England all hot and bothered with science.
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England shouldn’t be surprised by his phone ringing insistently at three in the bloody morning. America’d gotten better in recent years about remembering the time difference between them, but sometimes, he’d just be just so excited about something that he’d call anyway.

England supposed this must be one of those times.

Groggily rolling over and snatching his cell phone off the nightstand, he sleepily answered, “Hallo America.”

“England! This totally awesome thing just got found! I had to call you right away, because it’s like awesome layered on awesome!”

Shooing away his fairies laughing at him for doting on America in the middle of the night like this, England fluffed up his pillow and sat up in bed.

“And I assume you are about to tell me all about it?”

“Yep!” He replied jovially, and blast him; England could just imagine his excited grin.

“They found an articulated fossil of a Dimetrodon giganhomogenes!”America said, clearly bursting to tell all. “It’s the first one of this type found with a head attached. And…And it even has the fangs. It’s got the rib cage, and the fins, and it’s all articulated England! Can you believe it? All the pieces are still together!”

And on America went, scientific words rolling from his tongue as easily as the word ‘awesome’ did, and as always, England found his heart racing faster at each Permian geologic period-this and pelycosaur-that.

Bloody America and his blasted science. Always managing to get him all…bothered.

“I mean seriously, England, it’s so cool to find something from over two hundred and sixty five million years ago so well preserved!”

“A-America?” He had to fan himself now with a paperback by Agatha Christie that was on his bedstand.

“You should see the neural spines on it forming the fin. Maybe this specimen will help us figure out finally what the little guys used the fins for.”

“America.”

He took a deep breath, but plowed on nonetheless, “And since it’s a synapsid, with heterodont dentition, that makes it distantly related to modern mammals. The potential for science to discover thanks to this one fossil is going to be so awesome!”

“America,” England finally said firmly.

“Huh?”

England coughed. “Any chance you could be on the next flight to London?”

There was a pause, before America laughed lightly. “Oh man, did I…do it again? With the science talk?”

“Y-Yes. Bloody git.”

“Oh England,” he said, but it was endearingly. “I’ll be over as soon as I can catch a flight, is that okay?”

England felt a tug of a smile on his lips at that. Of course, Mr. Hero had to drop everything to accommodate the fact he’d turned on his boyfriend an eight hour flight away by babbling about science.

“You are too good to me, America.”

“You deserve the best, babe,” he quipped back, obviously starting to throw some clothes in a bag by the muffled sounds.

“Idiot.”

“I don’t know England. Would an idiot be able to say Sphenacodontidae and know what he meant by it?”

“Get your nerdy bum over here, all right?” England snapped, his face starting to get uncomfortably warm.

America blew a kiss over the phone. “Right. Heading out now, okay? I’ll tell you about how fossils can preserve blood tissue when I get there.”

England sighed. “Yes. Let’s save that for when you’re here, you babbling fool.”

“Love you too, England!”

“Same. Even if you are a right tease.”

“Sphenacodontidae,” America shot back tauntingly.

England swore. “I’ll switch to Cockney if you don’t stop.”

America gasped, “You wouldn’t dare.”

“Blimey! Get over 'ere now, yew 'ear? Nuff said, yeah?”

As America exhaled a huff into the receiver, England knew he’d gotten even.

“I’ll see you soon as I can, England.”

“Right yew will, love.”

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Notes:
[1] America's science babble is all about this Dimetrodon find in December of 2010.
[2] The Dimetrodon was a predatory synapsid genus that flourished during the Permian period, living between 280–265 million years ago. It was more closely related to mammals than to true reptiles such as lizards. It is classified as a pelycosaur.
[3] England resorts to using a Cockney accent.