Chapter two:
A/n: Like OMG'S! so sorry for the long updates on everything people! Seriously, life's been so hectic that I have not had the time to sit down any fucking where, and type for a good while to at least get a half-assed chappie of any of them out to you guys! Anyways, against my better judgment (or rather author is too lazy to get good info) I have decided to include the states*knows this is overly done* in this fic, and I'm also including other oc nations that are like Italia for better understanding in future fics. Also, I have up to chapter twelve written out…so I have a lot of catching up to do*sweatdrop8 I'm still gonna tweak a few things here and there so this might end up being like technically my fourth revision of this over thinking story which is more than most stories I've done…ok now that this ridicoulsy long expiations is over…*drum roll please* here's chapter two of baby mine 2.0~! enjoy~!
Italy and Germany worked together to clean out a guest room that the child would sleep in until she went away. Italy had been thinking of things he could do to make the room pretty for her while she was there, while Germany was busy thinking of the more practical things. Still, the room held an air of uncomfortable silence between the two allies. The babies occasional fussing, hat was always easily fixed, only occasionally broke the uncomfortable silence. However, as always, Italy was the first to break the silence.
"Germany, I was thinking of her name." Germany glanced at Venezinao through the corner of his blue eyes, expecting him to continue on.
"Ja?" He finally spoke up when he noticed his friend would not speak any further until he had said something to spur him on. He couldn't help but notice the little furrowing of his eyebrows for a second before they returned to normal, and the Italian looked at his German friend.
"I was thinking, maybe, Italia." Germany smiled in amusement, and raised an eyebrow.
"After you?" He teased slightly, and chuckled under his breath, which made the weak nation rather uncomfortable. He began shifting uncomfortably, and looked at the baby, who was squirming for the German commander's coat.
"Well, at my place, Italia, is also a name we give our little girls. It means little Italy." Germany nodded slightly, and looked at the baby. He pulled her back when she attempted to butt scoot near a pile of boxes. She pouted at him a second before she entertained herself with a piece of paper. Germany sighed, and sat back on his hands, which were behind his back. He didn't comment on Italy's explation of the name.
"We should take a break, and buy her things she'll need." Italy nodded, and looked at the baby. She caught his stare, and pouted slightly, turning her head away from him as she continued to crinkle the paper.
"Ve~ Germany, why doesn't the baby like me?" Germany sighed, and looked at the child, who was now smiling. Of course Italy would be worried about the baby liking him. Italy constantly worried over anything he thought didn't like him, even the cat. He sighed again, and looked at his friend, trying to say something reassuring, which he knew if he didn't do something, he'd have to listen to the idiot complain about it for the next three weeks.
"I'm sure she does, but we need to focus, Italy. We need to get her things." Ludwig hoped that this would get the Italian's easily distracted mind back on track. He was thankful it worked when the Italian's whole face lit up.
"I can do that~! I know exactly what little bambina's need~!" Germany looked at him skeptically, and then shrugged slightly. Better let him do it, and save himself the trouble of dragging a half naked child to the market for clothes.
"Alright, I'll move the boxes into the empty room across the hall. Why don't you go get the stuff while I clean?" Italy nodded, and looked at the baby.
"Ve~ What about the baby?" Germany looked at the giggling child, and shrugged.
"Don't worry, I got her." Italy nodded, and stared at Germany a moment before smiling at Italia.
"I'll be right back~" He sing-songed to her, but the baby didn't seem to notice he had spoken to her, much less when he had left the room. Germany looked at the child, who looked at him grinning widely.
"Hmm, come on, Let's move some of this stuff." Italia blinked, not moving a bit, but let her eyes follow him around as he began piling boxes on top of one another, and moving them around.
It continued like that for a while. Italia would let her eyes follow Germany around, making sure to always keep him in her line of vision, while he moved boxes to the empty room. Germany was getting increasingly tired, and a bit agitated, and it was during his agitated moments he wised that Italia could be a little bigger and a little stronger so she could help him move the damn boxes.
It continued like that until the door swung open, and two voices immedtaly filled the hallway. Germany sighed and picked up the squirming child, holding her to his chest as he prepared himself for what he knew was to come.
"Keses, what a cute little human girl west. I can see why you, of all of us, decided to take her." He laughed, and looked at Italia who looked at him, and then squealed before hiding her face in Germany's chest.
"Ve~ I don't think the baby likes strangers." Italy noted as he walked past Prussia, and entered the room, setting a few bags down on the floor. Prussia smirked, and walked over to the baby.
"I'm no un-awesome stranger~! I'm gonna be her awesome uncle, and she will be my awesome little minion~!" Germany sighed, and looked at the baby. He'd be damned before he let Prussia turn this child into another hell raiser, and general annoyance to everyone. The world had enough of Prussia alone, they didn't need another one. Prussia looked at Germany, smirking slightly."Don't worry West, I'll be sure to teach her everything! I know your busy, what with the war and everything, so I figured I could take care of her while your off playing war. She'll be a strong, awesome fighter by the time she leaves!"
"That will only be a couple of years, Burder. In a few years, she'll be able to take care of herself, and as long as nobody else knows about her, she'll leave just as fast and easily as she came. Don't get too attached." Prussia rolled his ruby-colored eyes.
"Yeah, yeah. Just because she'll be here for a short time doesn't mean I can't teach her all the awesome stuff I know!" Prussia looked at Italy, who was noticing the exchange between the two brothers." Well, I better get the other stuff. You play nice with the kid now West." Prussia chuckled, and left the room. It was at that point that Italy stood, and walked to Germany.
"Ve~ Germany, since Prussia's teaching her some things while she's here, can I teach her some things as well?" Germany sighed, and nodded. He didn't feel like arguing with either today.
"Ja, fine." Italy cheered, and left the room to get the other stuff as well.
Germany sighed, and looked at the baby, her eyes half-lidded. She played with his Iron Cross idly while she sucked her thumb.
"Seems, everyone will be more attached to you than I originally planned. Maybe you'll stay longer." He smiled at the thought, and sat down in the middle of the floor.
It took ten minutes, but they were finally able to get everything into the room, and Germany handed the child over to Italy while him and Prussia began assembling the things that needed assembling, which took another hour or two, which by that time she was fast asleep.
Italy gently laid the child in the new assembled bed, and covered her in a pink, wooly blanket.
"Sweet dreams~" He kissed her forehead, and walked out with the others.
However, the night was anything but peaceful. Italia was constantly crying when She woke up either alone, in the dark, or both, and only really calmed down when Germany came in to calm her. So basically, Italia had kept Ludwig up all night, which wasn't good considering there was a world summit the next day. The last thing he needed was to be falling asleep. After all, what if he missed something important because he fell asleep? After all, it had to be urgent, or important, or both if the nations were holding a world summit during the middle of the war. And how would it look on his part, the essential "bad guy" of the war to fall asleep? Well, it wouldn't do at all…
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"Ok, if some emergency happens, you page before you burst into the room like the last time, you got it? And it better be a real important issue and not because you couldn't find your stupid thing ok?" Germany had just finished Prussia how to care for Italia, all the information he had gotten from Italy who had driven himself to the meeting. Prussia rolled his red eyes, and nodded."Now, if you need to buy food there's money in the jar in the kitchen cabinet. If you're gonna get beer or whatever, please don't drink in front of the child, and at least stay sober enough to actually keep a good eye on her. Oh, and don't waste all the money, we might actually need it with the baby-"
"Ok, Ok, I got it. Now if you don't hurry up, and get out of here, you'll be late. I think being late is worse than falling asleep. Besides, you'll be gone for the max of what five six, eight hours? What could happen between-"
"If you make a mess clean it up. The last thing I want is to come home after a stressful meeting to a messy house that I will have to clean up sinc-"
"Just go West!" He all but pushed him out the door. He couldn't help but slip back into big brother phase as he locked the door, and looked at the baby on the couch." Now that he's gone, let's have some real fun,eh?" He picked her up, and went to his room in the basement." Stupid West doesn't think I can take care of you at all! I suppose he forgot how I raised him, and look how well he turned out! Well, while you're with us, I won't let you turn out as boring as him. I'll teach you all the awesome stuff that he won't let you know. Like how to pick locks, and how to do all the neat stuff I know how to do." He laughed to himself, and sat the child down on his bed as he began shuffling through some things.
Time passed too slowly for Germany at the meeting. He was anxious to get home, and get away from the tension in the room. He mentally shivered at the mess he imagined he would walk into when he got home, and dreaded it at the same time. He finally snapped to it when Hungary nudged him, and gestured to England, who was standing, talking about something.
"…here is where we believe the general location of the rather large island has appeared." Germany noted the red dot on the map, and noticed it was closer to Britain than anywhere else. If here to guess, probably little less than a month or two away from the older nation"…it seems though, nobody has seen the repersentive of this particular nation." The former pirate looked at a certain blue-eyed nation as if he were thinking of something." America, you were the first to discover this new nation. Why don't you give the rest of the information we may need." America nodded, smiling his classic smile, and moved to the front of the room, where Britain had moved slightly to the right to give his former colony the respective attention.
"Right! So like I was taking a ship over to Britain's place like a few years ago when I had noticed this like new piece of land. I was curious about it, and I was totally lucky enough that the ship had to land. Well, I got off on this really awesome beach dudes! There was like white sand, and there were trees, and all kinds of weird things all over the place. So, being the awesomely smart hero I am, I decided to explore this new country. Like, duh, what else was I going to do? So, anyway, we found all kinds of new things that I certainly haven't seen before. I snapped photos of the kinds of things I found, if you all would like to see." America paused as people in the room, Germany and Italy included, looked through the different kinds of photos.
Germany was in awe, not that his face betrayed the emotion, of what he saw. The different kinds of trees with different animals hanging off of them or trying to hide themselves in the colorful shrubs, the flowers that he was certain looked much better in person. He almost wanted to go there himself. He glanced over at his Italian friend who was excitedly trading photos with an equally excited Spaniard, and an indifferent brother. Everyone looked up as America cleared his throat, and continued on with his speech.
"So, anyway, I searched everywhere and found everything but what should have represented the Island. The few inhabitants I did find had never seen a child like us running around." Germany's eyes kept switching between the photos, and looking at the photos set before him. Something was bugging the back of his mind, and he just couldn't put his finger on it."The Island is pretty large, so it's important that everyone keep a sharp eye out for a new nation running around if any of you decide to go here." America had hardly finished talking when everyone began speaking at once, annoying the two up front.
Germany stayed quiet, is mind thinking back to the day before, and finding Italia. It had made sense that she was human, and yet…He couldn't shake the feeling that came to him. He couldn't help but have a strange feeling that the day after he finds her, this is what is bought up. A new nation, and a missing rep of that nation. Could it be that she…No, it couldn't be. She was a human. A human child that was left alone in an abandoned hospital. It was nothing more than that he was sure.
Germany's mind finally tuned back in when America began shouting over everyone.
"Hey guys! You know the rule, first come first serve! I found it first, so I'll be the Big Brother!"
"I think not, you're too far away. The nation should be mine, since I'm closer."
"Dude, I don't think that's such a good idea." Britain and America then began fighting along with everyone else already arguing. The only two staying out of it were Greece, who was actually asleep, and Canada, who was once again forgotten. Again Germany shook his head; no she was just another child. Another human, of course there were ways to tell otherwise, but he didn't think they were nesscairy. Not in the least bit.
Meanwhile, Prussia was sprawled out on his bed, Italia on his chest, while he read outloud from one of Germany's journals. Italia was half-asleep, her blue-ish eyes were half-lidded staring at the pages with unfamiliar scribbling on them. He her head rested against the Prussian's chest, the sound of his heart, a surprising rapid beat, and muffled yet amflied voice vibrating throughout his chest was a comforting, familiar thing to the child as she sucked on her thumb. She allowed the familiar beating of the heart, and vibrating voice rock her to sleep.
Prussia smiled slightly as he heard the child's gentle snoring coming from the child. He threw t he journal somewhere in the mess of a room and cradled the child to his chest before he walked back up the basement stairs to rest her in her crib.
"Pss, who does West think he is, thinking I can't take care of you? I'm awesome, so of course I can take care of you." He grumbled for perhaps the fiftieth time since his younger brother had left."And look at you now, you're sleeping like a fucking rock." He smiled proudly to himself as he covered the child up, and waited a few seconds before walking out of the room.
He had settled himself down on the couch, listening to something playing on the radio, and getting comfortable so that he could follow the child's lead, and take a nap. Not thirty minutes into the nap than he was rudely awoken by the shrill cry of the baby. He didn't move. She just wanted attention, and it would go away in time if he just ignored it. That was one thing Germany didn't do, and that's why she kept him up all night. That was one thing he would need to learn about children if he was seriously going to keep her for a few years. However, the cry continued for a good ten minutes, and soon turned into a screaming type of cry before Gilbert got up in annoyance, and went to her.
"You're being un-awesome. What's wrong with you?" Italia looked at him, and he noticed her eyes had turned to a darker shade. He shook his head." You must be hungry, come one." He sighed, and picked up the child, who immedtaly began sucking her thumb as she leaned against his shoulder. He raised an eyebrow at her before he began rummaging through the fridge." All that's here is orange juice. But West and me like to save that for breakfast since it's such a bitch to make fresh, but it's all we have. So it'll have to do. Now where the hell did Italy put the bottles and all that?" In a matter of fifteen minutes, he had the bottle made, and fed the child, who began suckling on it.
When the bottle finished, Prussia set the bottle on the counter, and began to bunch the child in his arms. She let out a tiny burping sound, and a blush immdetaly came upon her chubby cheeks. She looked at him sheepishly, like she knew it was something bad. Prussia merely laughed.
"Ahh, don't look that way Lil Awesome! It's a natural reaction, and it means you liked the meal. Besides, you should hear the ones West gets when he's drunk." He chuckled slightly."But don't tell him anything about his drinking, because he won't like it." Italia giggled slightly, and rested her head against his chest, again enjoying the beating of his heart, and again sucking on her thumb. Gilbert chuckled slightly, and walked into the living room. He again sprawled himself on the couch, the baby on his chest. Both quickly fell asleep.
A/n: Hmm this chapter actually wasn't much different that my handwritten version, which is good. The only difference is the ending is a bit different, but oh well~! At least I got it done right? This chapter is actually a little spoiler for later on, and for those who have read the original version you know what that is ;). So on that note, maybe it's not so much a spoiler as it is….Well, idk what XD maybe it's just giving more background on Italia. I did get more creative for her country name, but that will be revealed later on. So, what's in store for the next chapter? What does Ludwig do with the new information? What will happen with Italia? Well, do you know what to do? You tune in for more~! Remember, reviews make my heart go yaay~! Extra cookies for anyone who can guess where I got that from. Hatsa la pasta~!