Writer's block is the only reason I am starting a new story. Anyone reading this who has read any of my older stories and is waiting for an update I am sorry. I just can't figure out how to put down what happens next. So please forgive me.
On a completely different note I saw a trailer for the new PotC movie. I did not realize that fem!Spain would be in it. Go figure. That really has nothing to do with this story though. I have a list of ideas I've been keeping and I'm just going to move on down that till I work through my blocks.
Ok enough rambling on to it then.
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They were doing it today. Germany was officially going to be reunified. The wall had already come down, it was just a matter of signing the papers to make it all official. Ludwig looked across the table to his brother, the man that raised him, the one that had always been there to save him when the world tried to destroy him. Ludwig had tried to delay this signing. The wall had just come down, it had been decades since he last saw his brother, let alone been able to hold him. It was too soon for him. He remembered when he and Gilbert had first been reunited, his brother had come up to him smiling that same smile he always had, clapped him on the shoulder and asked him where they could get a beer together. He acted so nonchalant about the whole thing, like he had only been gone a few days or even hours. They had gone out and caught up after that. Since then they went everywhere together, they knew their time was short.
Ludwig's mind wandered to when he and his brother had been about to enter the meeting room where Ludwig's boss was going to sign the unification papers. Ludwig had almost not wanted to go in. Gilbert wouldn't hear it though.
"Ludwig, it will be alright. YOu made it through the last forty or so years without me. You'll be fine when I'm gone." He had looked at him then and smiled. "No one really needs me anymore anyway." Ludwig had been shocked at his brother's statement and just watched him enter the room. Of course he was still needed, Ludwig needed him. He had tried to find out how Italy had managed to save both himself and his brother during their unification. The Italian had just frowned and said it was because they each had their own capitols. Ludwig was sure there had to be more to it than that but Feliciano had shaken his head and said that Romano was more representative of the church than the state. So there was nothing to be done to save Gilbert. Ludwig had then realized that GIlbert must have known all along that he would die once the nation was made one once again. He had spent the last forty years coming to terms that he would die when he was finally released from Russia. Why hadn't Ludwig understood that?
Now here he sat as the papers were signed to make Germany whole once more. He watched as the final signature was added, his eyes never straying from his brother. He watched as he seemed to grow even paler. He watched the brilliant red eyes grow dull an lifeless. his eyes never left him as he watched his brother dissolve before his eyes. A soft thump was heard by Ludwig as Gilbert's clothes collapsed to the chair and floor. Standing, his face an emotionless mask, he strode around to the chair that had been the last place his brother had been. He knelt down as the delegates in the room watched him and gathered the clothes and the Iron Cross that had been his brother's most prized possession. He held back the tears until he made it to the hall, then he simply let them roll from his eyes. He had arranged to have Feliciano pick him up from the capitol building, he knew he wouldn't be able to drive himself. Feli had promised to make dinner that night. They were going to have Gilbert's favorite with beer from his favorite brewer. It would be a farewell party for the beloved older brother that had been lost.
Um ok, that was sad. This is only a prologue. Next chapter will be what happens next, um ok that was obvious I guess. Anyway what is with me and always doing sad stuff for these two. I love the German brothers, they rock, but seriously they have to be the most angsty pair ever.
So this was all done from Ludwig's POV. I hope I did him justice here, he's less teary but he's not heartless either. I like the way I wrote this much better than how I wrote the similar scene in Saving the Lost. Anyway please review.