Starting Author's Note: Thanks for all of the nice and kind reviews from the first chapter! This is more angsty I guess. Rape is in the next chapter. Slight Naked Germany/ GerIta here.

Enjoy! R&R at the end, please!

I need a Hero to come and save me just in time…

I didn't know where the thought came from. All I knew was that I was stumbling in the streets clinging onto Feliciano for dear life. He was struggling to support me; I could feel his arm shaking… If I didn't cling to him then I would collapse and induce a panic from him. If I held on, he'd collapse, taking me down with him.

People stared. I held my head down to keep away from their gazes until I was lifted higher up.

"Feliciano, I'll take Ludwig from here," The voice said simply. I looked up to only see a black mop of hair, pale skin and glasses.

"Roderich… You don't have to do this…" I wheezed.

"I couldn't just watch poor Feliciano stumbling down the street and you both collapsing down the street and getting picked up by the body snatchers… I raised you both, remember? I plan on keeping mine and Prussia's promises to Grandpa Germania," He stated in the stern voice that I was used to as a child.

"Is… Is Bruder okay?" I found myself on the verge of tears.

"He's Prussia, the almighty 'awesome conqueror of vital regions', remember?" The Austrian scoffed.

I laughed. I made the sweet innocent sound for two reasons. The first was that he used my brother's favourite words in a sentence even though I knew he disliked my brother. The second was that Feliciano grabbed my hand and squeezed it tightly.

Austria kicked the door to my house open with his foot. The first dog to respond in a psychotic barking matter was the German Sheppard.

"Schweigen!" He yelled, causing the poor mutt to whimper. This was the voice from my childhood that scolded me when I committed wrong or was just plain stupid.

I stood there for a moment, wide eyed and pale from my hunches. The feel of the dead against my skin all over once again. The sensations of every sinful, homicidal act done in that hellhole on Earth, the supposed in-between of light and dark, overpowered my body.

Endless fire was the first thing to take its toll. The feeling of hot sweat from standing by the furnace to burn the stench of the dead away, making its stink reek the air even more. The feeling of heat against bare skin, alive with a beating heart… A beating heart…

I felt as if though someone had struck a match and poured gasoline over my body and tried to set me aflame. Pain shot up my spin as my face flushed. Beads of sweat dripped down my face like a faucet as the heat of my body increased.

"Italien! Feliciano! Italien! Help me!"I screamed as I pulled my shirt over my reddening chest. My breathing grew heavy as if a large weight was placed onto my chest. "I'm on fire! I'm burning, burning alive!" I started to rip my pants from my frame as both Roderich and Feliciano drug me to the couch with my pants around my ankles. I kicked them off and onto the floor. If I wasn't mentally breaking down at the moment, I would've picked them up and folded them back up into a neat rectangle.

"Ludwig…You're not on fire… You'll be fine…" He whispered as he kissed my cheek.

"Feliciano, I'm going to take my leave," Roderich said as he turned toward Italy. "Please take care of him for me… He's the only bit of my family I have left to cling onto…" He sighed. Austria went into the kitchen and soaked a cloth in water, straining the access and placed it onto my burning forehead. This was what he did when I was sick as a child.

"Holen Sie sich besser für unsere willen, Vetter."He whispered as he made his grand, yet elegant exit.

"Ve~" Italy sounded innocently. "I'll go get the blankets for you, Doitsu…"

"Doitsu…?" I asked with a half-hearted smile. It's been a while since you've smiled like that, Feliciano… He gave me a small smile before he retrieved the blankets.

He came back with a bundle of blankets in his arms. Italy threw them down onto the ground before giving an innocent smile to tug at my heart strings.

"You need to sweat out your fever, Ludwig. Get naked."

"Get… Get what?" I stammered.

"You'll get better faster because you're warmer when you're naked under multiple comforters."

"Uhm… Okay then, Feliciano…Whatever floats your boat…" I sighed. I scrambled out of my patched up underwear that Roderich personally patched up. I flung my aching, sweaty and burning body onto the couches upholstery.

"Sleep now Ludwig. I'll try and make something for you to eat, ok!" He smiled as he threw a few comforters onto me. I started to huff again as the pain intensified greatly.

"Get better, Ludwig…"He whispered as he kissed my forehead before leaving me to rest.

I nodded slightly as my eyes slipped shut.