A/N: 2P!Italy x 1P!Germany. Short chapters. Might be OOC, since I don't know much about 2P!Italy... Well MEH, I'm still giving it a shot :) Sorry if there are any formatting errors, first time posting here so...
"V-Venecia... Veneciano..."
His lip trembled as he rolled the name out on his tongue as one would roll a pair of dice on a table. He could play it out over and over, taste the words leave his lips again and again, but nothing will ever make him match that name to the character before him.
Said character simply chuckled and neatly wiped away a smudge of blood from the corner of his lips with the back of his wrist. A smile played along the edges, but the eyes were something different altogether. They weren't closed dreamily the way they usually were, nor were they wide open in the cheery air that had surrounded him, no. They were narrowed slightly; just enough to twist the otherwise innocent expression into something smug with a touch of cruelty.
"Missed me, Ludwig?"
One thing was for sure: The Veneciano that stood before him was not the Veneciano he last remembered.