Feliciano woke up the next morning in Alfred's arms. A gentle smile reached his lips as he thought about what he and Alfred did last night. He yawned and tried to get up but Alfred's arm was around his waist and that was keeping him in place.
"Alfie, wake up my love." Alfred groaned and woke up. His baby blue eyes were opened in a sleepy haze and he had to take a moment to adjust to the bright lights. Feliciano kissed his nose.
"Hey there handsome. Have a rough night?"
"*chuckle* Only because you wanted it rough. You stay here while I get breakfast." Alfred started to get up and get dressed but Feliciano held his wrist.
"I love you and I would never say anything to hurt you but there is no way in hell me and the bambino are eating a big breakfast from McDonalds two times in one week."
"Fine! You can go make breakfast while I wake him up." Feliciano smiled to himself knowing he'd won this time. Alfred put on some pajana pants and walked out of their bedroom and to Ezio's room to find the little kid curled into a ball under the covers. Alfred quickly went over to his bed and started to shake it. As a result of the shaking bed Ezio sprang up and looked around the room to see his father at the end.
"Daddy!" He whined as Alfred picked him up and kissed his forehead.
"What did I do this time?"
"You shook my bed."
"Sorry but I was worried because you were curled up in a ball. Why were you a lump anyways?"
"I was curled up because you and Mommy woke me up last night! Mommy was yelling 'Oh my God! Alfred you're killing me!' and you were saying 'Keep it up baby I'm getting close!' What was it about Daddy?" Alfred paled.
He was so sure that Ezio was asleep and couldn't hear them. Oh shit. How could he explain this to his innocent baby! On one hand he could tell the truth and face Feliciano's wrath and have to pay for Ezio's therapy or tell a lie and keep Ezio's mind innocent until his teen years. Better to go with a lie, Ezio already learned some curse words from Antonio and Francis and if he learned anything else other than that at his young age, Feliciano was gonna flip.
"Daddy?"
"Mommy and I were playing a game!" Alfred blurted out.
"A game?"
"Yea. We were playing... uh... Bouncy Bed! I was winning last night and that is why we were saying those things we were saying."
"It sounds fun! I wanna play!"
"No! You're too young to play little dude. Its a game for Mommies and Daddies only. You can't play until you're older and get married." Ezio laughed and kissed his dad's cheek as he was being carried out of his room. They went to the kitchen and Alfred placed Ezio on the ground while he made his own way over to the little Italian making breakfast. He wrapped his arms around his waist and peppered his neck with little kisses.
"Ve~ Alfred quit it! I'm trying to cook breakfast for everyone and I don't want to burn anything!"
"But you're my cute little Feli, I want to."
"Don't you still have to do your morning workout to do?" Feliciano changed the subject.
"I'll do 'em after I eat. And little Ezio can help me, right?"
"Si Daddy!" One hour later Feliciano was finished with making breakfast and the family of three were eating until the phone rang. Curious, Alfred got up and went to answer it.
"Jones residence, Alfred speaking."
"Oh great it's the hamburger bastard!"
"L-Lovino?"
"Hey! It's fratello now, brother-in-law, seeing as how you married my little brother and knocked him up with a little bambino."
"Wait, how did you find our home phone number and know about our son?"
"There is something called looking someone up on the internet, idiota."
"Alright... Do you want me to get Feliciano for you?"
"Could you get him for me? I need to talk with him." Alfred walked into the kitchen and handed the phone to his husband who looked at him with a confused face.
"It's your bro." Feliciano looked surprised as he took the phone from Alfred and exited the kitchen.
"Lovino?"
"It's been a while my little brother. How have you been?"
"Good. Me and Alfred got married and have a five-year old son named Ezio. How has life treated you?"
"Fairly. I got settled down myself and got married and have my own three-year old daughter named Lucianna."
"Who did you marry? Is it Bella? You know, the Belgian girl you got lucky with at that one party?"
"No! Besides, I got an ass kicking from her boyfriend when he found out I slept with her."
"Then who did you marry?"
"None of your damn business yet! Look, Nonno called me and said he wanted his family to get together for the summer and that includes us." Feliciano's heart stopped when his grandfather was mentioned. He was still alive? Well, Romulus did have the heart of a stubborn bull. There was silence over the phone for a few minutes before Lovino said something.
"I should probably mention that he wants us to fly out to America this summer so I was giving you a call before you opened up the door to see a crazy old Italian man at the doorstep."
"What?"
"I said-"
"No, I heard what you said but you all are coming HERE? To AMERICA?"
"Si. Grandpa said that he would visit and this little family reunion is the chance. Plus he wanted to see how his little Feli was doing and all that nice shit."
"Nonno could have told me this himself instead of you having to call me! What was he thinking?"
"He wanted it to be a surprise for you. I called you on my own will." He chuckled but then the thought of his parents crossed the Italian's mind. What would they think about how he was living now?
"Um, Lovi, will Mamma and Papa be here too?"
"Of course. They're family too. Why do you ask?"
"Do you remember the night I left Italy?"
"I do. Papa was so pissed and Mamma was crying so much that they declared your room off limits."
"How are they?"
"To be honest I haven't seen or talked to them in six years. I imagine they're still pissed about some life decisions I made."
"Fratellone, what kind of life decisions?"
"L-Look, I'll tell you everything when I get there. Now if you'll excuse me, Lucianna is running around because someone thought it would be a good idea to give her a lot of sugar and I need to stop her before she breaks something." Then the line disconnected.
Feliciano sat in the arm chair with disbelief. He couldn't belief that his family was coming over. Now this created more stress on him because now he had to clean the house up and try to be happy so that no family turmoil turned up. Great. Just absolutely freaking great. He got up and walked to the kitchen just in time to see Alfred and Ezio still eating.
He rejoined them at the table and started to pick at his food. Alfred noticed what was happening. Feliciano was getting worried about something which will end up stressing him out later. Alfred started to sense something off here. His husband was awfully quiet for now and it was starting to scare him.
"What's wrong?" Feliciano looked up.
"Ezio, would you mind taking your breakfast and going to the living room? I have to talk with Daddy." Ezio knew what this meant. Either he was in trouble or something was happening that he can't hear about yet. He got his plate and left the kitchen leaving his parents in the kitchen staring at each other.
"I know why Lovino called."
"Why?"
"Apparently Nonno wanted to get the family together and come to our house for the summer and it was supposed to be a surprise but then Lovino called me ahead like the nice fratello I know he is so I don't see Nonno at our doorstep looking like a crazy old Italian man popping out of nowhere."
"Wait. When you say our house do you mean we're going to Italy after you told Ezio we couldn't go or do you mean they're coming here to America and they're staying here in our house with us?"
"The second thing Alfie. He would be mad at me if I said we were going to Italia after I told him we couldn't go. I need to get the house cleaned up better and have to check everything we baby-proofed when we were having Ezio because my brother has a three-year old daughter named Lucianna and he got married to who I have no idea."
"You have a niece? I guess now you're Uncle Feliciano." Said Italian chuckled and kissed Alfred.
"Hey, you're my husband so you're also going to be Zio Alfred whether you like it or not."
"I'm already an uncle amore, just not to anyone on your side." Feliciano shivered and leaned into the blond's arms.
"My love you know what it does to me when you use Italian to talk to me."
"I know and I love it."
"I love you." Feliciano said as he kissed Alfred again. With Alfred at his side he felt like he could get through his family visiting. Hopefully some family tensions will be relieved.
Over the next two weeks, Feliciano had been busying himself around the house making sure everything was perfect before everyone got here. He hadn't seen them in such a long time and he wanted their home to give them the right impression about their home life. Feliciano took a look at the clock noticed it was an hour until the plane touched down.
Feliciano went to the workout room in their home to see Alfred doing push-ups with Ezio on his back. He smiled at his husband and son. Marrying Alfred and having Ezio were the best decisions he ever made and if his parents didn't think so, screw them. His family was perfect in his eyes. Alfred noticed him and flashed his trademark grin.
"Hey babe! What are you doin' there?" Feliciano was brought out if his thoughts when he remembered why he was there.
"Their plane is landing in an hour and I figured I should head there now so I can meet them at baggage claim."
"Ok. Try not to fight with your parents!" Feliciano chuckled a little and left his husband and son. As soon as Feliciano left, Ezio got off his father's back and Alfred stood up.
"Are we still baking cookies for them Daddy?"
"Of course we are dude!" Alfred smiles and went up the stairs. Ezio followed close behind them and they started to work on the cookies.
When Feliciano got him with his family he was nervous, mainly by how the state of everything would be by the time they got back. He trusted Alfred to keep things in order but Alfred can be a total slob and end up making a mess. Taking a deep breath, he got out of the car and walked to the door.
"Is this where you live?" His mother asked as she looked at the house.
"Si, do you like it?"
"It could use a better job on the exterior. The outside paint looks like it's about to chip off by itself one by one." Feliciano wanted to just tell her to shut up and the house came with this kind of exterior but he didn't want to fight. He opened the door and was relieved to see the house in the same state it was in when he left. He turned to everyone and held the door open.
"Come in and make yourselves at home." His family walked in and his parents carefully surveyed the place. His father let out an impressed sound.
"Not bad for an American home." Feliciano was really fighting off an urge to kick his parents out but he was going to be nice and pretend everything was alright between them again. A tap on the shoulder made Feliciano turn around to face his brother who was holding his daughter. Lucianna had Lovino's brown hair and her eyes were a mixture of blue and green and the rest of her looks definitely are a mixture of Lovino and Ludwig.
"So, where's your husband and son?"
"Hm... When I left Alfie was doing his daily exercises with Ezio. Either they're still down in the basement or they're taking a nap."
"A nap after exercise? Typical Americano." Mr. Vargas quietly snickered to himself. Lovino rolled his eyes.
"Papa hasn't changed. You should go find them before he lets out his inner meanie." Feliciano was about to ask why the change in words but then he remembered he was holding his daughter in his arms. The lighter haired one left everyone in the living room and was about to head for the basement when he heard a slight ding. He looked at the stove and opened it, taking out some chocolate-chip cookies. Alfred must have made these with Ezio. The basement door opened and Alfred and Ezio came up the stairs.
"Mommy got to them before we did." Ezio pouted. Feliciano put the tray on the table and picked up his son.
"Did you and Daddy make these cookies?"
"Si. We wanted them to be a surprise but Daddy wanted to eat some cookie dough before we came up to take 'em in the oven."
"Hey! It's not my fault the cookie dough looked good." Feliciano chuckled a bit.
"Alright, enough you two. Let's go and meet everyone." The three walked out to where everyone is and he felt Ezio's face go into the crook of his neck. He could tell he was shy by the way he was acting.
"I'm sure most of you have met Alfred but you've never met our son before. This little shy guy is Ezio." The younger blond gave a small yet shy wave. After Feliciano introduced his son to everyone, Alfred showed everyone to the guest rooms while Feliciano talked with his brother while their kids played with legos.
"So tell me, what's been happening with you the last seven years fratellone?" Lovino sighed and looked at his daughter.
"You see, sometime after you left Italia, Ludwig came by asking for you because he wanted to take you out for a date but then I told him you had left for America so he took me out to my favorite restaurant. After that we started dating and with each date we fell in love with each other. He proposed six years ago and when we told Mamma and Papa... let's just say it wasn't a happy affair."
"What happened?"
"Like I said on the phone, they weren't happy with some life choices I made and after fighting with them on marrying Ludwig instead of Antonia we moved to Milan and then that injection from that Japanese guy came out. It took sometime for Ludwig to convince me to get it and when we did, I got pregnant with Lucianna and we've been a happy family since." Feliciano nodded and looked at his niece. She was certainly a cutie no doubt.
"So fratellino, what's your story? What happened after you left?"
"Alfie and I got married like I said and then he got stationed here in New Jersey and we've been living here for the last seven years. But anyways, we got the injection and six months in, Alfie had to leave to go to war and he didn't come back for two years. When he did, our little family was complete."
"Military life sounds like it is terrible."
"It does, but I wouldn't have it any other way." As the two brothers talked, Lucianna and Ezio were on the floor playing with legos and they were building a tower. So far they didn't say a word to each other until Lucianna said something.
"Do you play with dolls?" Ezio nodded.
"Yea. I have some Barbie dolls and a few Captain America action figures in my room." Ezio sometimes played with toys meant for girls since Alfred and Feliciano were the kind of parents who didn't mind if he were interested in things meant for the opposite gender such as dolls for example. As long as their son was happy, that's all that mattered to them. Lucianna raised an eyebrow.
"Capitan America? Who's that?"
"You've never heard of Captain America?" Ezio asked in a surprised voice as his cousin shook her head.
"Io vivo in Italia, quindi non ho mai sentito parlare di Capitan America.*" She said in Italian.
"Ok, ho capito.**"
"Hai capito Italiana?***"
"Sì, la mia mamma parla italiano intorno a me e mi insegna il linguaggio a volte.****"
"Your Italian accent is nice."
"Thank you. Your English accent isn't took bad." They started to laugh as they continued to build their lego building. Feliciano smiled at how his son was getting along so well with his niece. It was laughable to see how Ezio can go from being scared of new people one minute then go to friendly the next.
"Your kids are getting along just fine." A voice whispered behing them. The Vargas brothers jumped a little and turned around to see their grandfather who chuckled to himself and sat in between them.
"So, I see you two have had a good life since you left the nest." Feliciano laughed as he watched his son play with Lucianna as if they's known each other forever. He almost thought of himself and Lovino when they were that young, playing with their toys together. It made him happy. Soon Ezio yawned and Feliciano knew naptime was going to happen soon. He walked over to his son and picked him up.
"Come on you, you're tired."
"But Mommy!" Ezio said with a groan mixed with a yawn.
"No 'buts'. It's naptime and you have to go to sleep." Feliciano kissed his forehead as he carried his son upstairs to his room. On the way up, Ezio ended up falling asleep which made the Italian giggle a little as he laid his son down in his bed. He smiled and kissed the boy's cheek then quietly walked out of the room. He went to the couch where Lovino was playing with his daughter on the floor. Feliciano chuckled and watched them.
"I thought you weren't that fond of playing with children fratellone~" Lovino rolled his eyes.
"She got lonely and was about to start crying if I didn't. You'd think jet lag would hit a three-year old fast but I guess not." Lucianna giggled and hugged him. Lovino hugged her back and looked at Feliciano with a mischevious smirk.
"Ehi, perché non vai abbracciare tuo zio Feli?*****" Lucianna let go of her mother and ran to hug Feliciano who smiled and hugged her back. She was definitely a hugger for one thing. Soon, Lucianna yawned and fell fast asleep in her uncle's arms. Feliciano handed her back to her mother and Lovino chuckled.
"I know it might be with time difference and jet lag but that's faster than me or Ludwig can get her to fall asleep." In her sleep, the child warmed into the Italian's arms and smiled a little. Feliciano inwardly smiled and thought, 'Maybe this won't turn into such a disaster.' Hopefully it wouldn't be a disaster.
Me: Ok, so here's chapter 2! If you liked then please favorite, review, or follow!
Translation attempts:
I live in Italy so I've never heard of Captain America.*
Ok, I understand.**
You understand Italian?***
Yes, my Mommy speaks Italian around me sometimes and teached me the language.****
Hey, why don't you go hug your uncle Feli?*****
