AN:Thank you to the two reviews so far and for the congratulations, I really appreciate it. Also, in case anyone is wondering, I have based the kids off of actual anime characters, appearance wise at least (though not sure if I ever actually describe their appearances in here...). Juliet is Koko Kaga from Golden Time. Feel free to ask about any of the other kids as they come up!:EN
Chapter 1 - Honey Honey
"Oi the hell are you guys doing just sitting inside? Can't you come help your important guests get situated in this old shack."
"Old shack?" Feliciano laughed as he came out the side door to the kitchen of his villa, "I take great offense at that, brother."
"Uncle Lovi!" Juliet shouted as she ran out the door behind her papa and raced to throw her arms around the young man standing before them.
Lovino Vargas hugged his niece tightly and laughed a bit before he released her.
"Juliet Vargas, is it possible that you've gotten more beautiful than the last time I saw you?"
"Well she is my daughter after all." Feliciano grinned and came forward to hug his brother as well while Juliet greeted her two cousins.
Lovino snorted.
"And you never get less full of yourself, fratello."
Feliciano just continued to grin and he turned to the young person standing a bit behind the others.
"Kazumi, it's good to see you again as well. How are your parents? And your siblings?"
The girl brushed a few strands of her dark, brown hair back behind her ear and smiled.
"They're all doing really well, thanks for asking."
"It's been ages since I've seen Kiku. Remember, Lovi? He and Heracles got married and had Perseus before we even came to this island. And then Kazumi was born just a month before my Juliet. Such a wonderful coincidence, right Lovi?"
"I guess" Lovino shrugged, "Roslyn was born not too long later you know."
They both looked at Lovino's eldest daughter who was currently trying to extricate herself from her cousin's hug while her brother, Serefino, laughed profusely.
"What is with all the commotion?" An annoyed voice suddenly called from up in the villa.
Everyone in the courtyard looked up to see the man who was poking his head out of one of the upper windows.
"Arthur" Lovino humphed.
Feliciano grinned and waved.
"Arthur, come on down why don't you? And where is your lucky boy?"
He turned back to his brother with an even wider grin.
"Arthur's boy, Andrew, is the lucky man at tomorrow's shindig you know."
Lovino smirked.
"I imagine he must not have as bushy eyebrows as his mum then. Ow!"
He glared up at Arthur, rubbing his head where the large chip of wood had hit it.
"Next time you comment on them it will be the whole planter box on your head, git." Arthur snapped and slammed the shutters.
"Ah it's like the old days again." Feliciano sighed with happiness.
"Yeah" Lovino muttered, still rubbing his head, "Great."
Juliet started laughing and then grabbed Roslyn and Kazumi by the wrists.
"Come with me." she said excitedly to them, "We have lots to talk about. Lots."
She ran with them back into the kitchen in order to grab her bag from off the floor before she took off on one of the trails by the villa.
~*My my*~
"So what is it you had to take us so far away from the villa to tell us?" Roslyn folded her arms and looked at her cousin in suspicion.
"Well, it's a secret that I can't tell anybody else." Juliet smiled nervously.
"Juliet" Kazumi practically whispered, "You're not pregnant are you?"
"No! No!" Juliet laughed and dug in her bag, "It's this."
The other two girls looked at the book in her hands in confusion.
"What is that?" Roslyn asked first.
"This..." Juliet grinned and opened it up to the first marked page, "is the journal papa kept the year he was pregnant with me. And these..." she flipped to three different pages in turn, "are copies of pictures I found in one of his trunks a while before."
Roslyn and Kazumi stared at her in shock.
"Juliet, are you trying to tell us that this book is important because it contains information on your...your..."
"My dad. Yes." Juliet nodded excitedly and sat down on a nearby rock with the journal open on her knees.
"I cannot believe you found him!" Roslyn exclaimed, coming over to sit on another rock by her cousin.
"Well actually...not exactly. Not entirely."
"What do you mean, Juliet?" Kazumi came over to lean against the rock on the other side.
"I think I should read you some and you'll see." Juliet smiled and flipped the journal back to the first marked pages, "July 17, what a night."
"Should we really be reading something like this?" Kazumi tugged at her hair nervously.
"Oh relax, Kaz." Roslyn waved a hand, "It's not like we haven't read stuff like this before."
"Yeah but that wasn't about one of our parents."
Roslyn shrugged and nodded at Juliet to continue.
"Ludwig and I took a stroll along the beach for awhile until we were far from the villa and any watching eyes. We talked for so long about so many different things that I can't remember any of it to write down. What I can report, and really want to, is that I got him to dance with me on the beach. And we kissed on the beach. And...I'm no longer a virgin."
"Oh my gosh!" Roslyn exclaimed, "I can't believe he actually wrote that!"
Kazumi was blushing ear to ear.
"Well it is his private journal after all." Juliet laughed and continued on with some of the other things that had followed in the next days.
"Ludwig is the one, there's no question about it. I've never felt this way before. I was never willing to go that far with anyone before him, and we've only known each other for a few days! He just makes me feel so...wonderful, and special, just for being me. He doesn't care that I'm a changeling. He doesn't want me to be a girl instead. Oh god he just, just...thrills me!"
"Oh god" Roslyn covered her face, "Uncle Feli is so dramatic."
Kazumi was still blushing furiously.
"And he nearly kills me anytime he smiles. I mean, he looks good no matter what, but his smile...oh his smile! And the way that he kisses me goodnight! And the way that he holds me so tight like he never wants to let me go! And when we are together...He just makes me feel so giddy and dizzy that I just feel like I want to sing! In fact I think I will now! I also think I'll show him my female form tomorrow!"
"I bet he did both of those" Roslyn grinned but Kazumi was looking serious now.
"So this guy Ludwig is your father then?"
Juliet's smile faded slightly.
"Here's where we encounter the problem. I know that papa really did turn into a girl the following day and that she and Ludwig...well you understand by now. But listen to this."
"I don't really know what to write. My heart is completely broken. See all this time Ludwig has been telling me he loves me, but now...he's announced that he's engaged. It's an arrangement that has been being planned for years in order to link his pack to another, and he told me today that the official mating ceremony is next week. I ran away from him shortly after that and came here. He's banging on my door right now, begging me to let him in and talk to him properly. Not as a girl which I still am. I think I will remain a girl until I feel all right again. But how can I ever feel all right when the man I am absolutely in love with is leaving tomorrow to be joined to another?!"
"Werewolf bastard!" Roslyn hissed, "How dare he play with Feliciano like that!"
"Yes I was quite shocked and mad when I read that but I think that Ludwig never meant to hurt papa, he did the right thing by telling him the sad truth, instead of just taking off without a word."
"I still say he's a bastard." Roslyn grumbled and folded her arms.
"Well I think papa recovered pretty quickly if this is anything to go off of." Juliet smiled and tapped the book.
"August 4, what a night. Antonio asked me to go walking with him on the beach. He had things he wanted to talk with me about and I in turn wanted to talk to him about stuff as well. I'm still completely in love with Ludwig, but Toni just makes me feel so at ease. He's so sweet, fun, and understanding that emotions overcame me and I kissed him. I won't tell you anything more. Everything else is private between the two of us."
Roslyn was looking so shocked that Juliet almost decided to stop reading there and just explain the rest of it, but she was already on a roll and Kazumi still looked confused.
"August 11, what a night. Alfred showed up again after a month and he seemed rather down so I offered to go on a walk with him along the beach. He admitted some things to me that I won't repeat here and I told him what I was able to. He was sympathetic to me and just so kind while being energetic and lifting my spirits up. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I kissed him, and other stuff that I won't mention here."
"Oh my god!" Kazumi exclaimed, which meant that the revelation completely deserved it, "So your papa was with all of those men?!"
"That's what it seems like." Juliet grinned.
"And you have pictures of all of them?" Roslyn asked softly.
Juliet blinked at her calmness and nodded.
"Yeah, I took pictures of the photos in papa's trunk and stuck them on the pages relevant to each man."
"Can I see?" Roslyn held out a hand for the journal.
Juliet blinked and handed it to her.
Her cousin flipped through a couple pages before she stopped, her breath catching.
"What is it, Ros?" Juliet asked with sudden concern.
"My full actual name is Roslyn Vargas Carriedo. Antonio is...my father." Roslyn slammed the book closed and looked back at Juliet with wide eyes.
"No" Juliet breathed and felt like she was sinking into the rock, "Seriously? He's the vampire that your mama got divorced from ten years ago?"
"The very same" Roslyn was trembling, "Juliet, you know what this could mean right?"
"That we might actually be half sisters." Juliet stared back at the other girl as if trying to pick out similar features between them.
Kazumi stared between the two in complete shock. Sisters?! The cousins might in fact be sisters?!
"Uh oh" Juliet gasped suddenly, "Now this isn't good."
"What?" Roslyn asked, practically dreading the answer.
"I invited all three of them to my wedding. Ludwig, Antonio, and Alfred."
"You what?!" both she and Kazumi exclaimed.
"I wanted my dad to walk me down the aisle but because I don't actually know which one he is I invited all three of them in order to physically see them and hopefully figure it out."
"Oh...my...god!" Roslyn sat down heavily on her rock, putting her face in her hands, "My mom...is going to kill you! He hates my dad so much! I'm kinda neutral about him myself, but mama...Even though it was a mutual decision, I don't think mama has ever really recovered from it."
"I'm so sorry!" Juliet gasped, "I had no idea he was...but...I just...I just wanted to know more about all of them. I wanted to know them. And possibly see which one means the most to me."
"I can't fault you for that." Roslyn groaned and stared out at the sea, "So...when are you expecting him? And the other two?"
"Today." Juliet whispered.
"Then I suggest we get back to the villa and encounter them, before they can encounter mamma."
"And papa too for that matter." Juliet agreed.
All three girls began sprinting as fast as they were able back towards the villa.