Still In Love
I do not own Hetalia or parts of The Parent Trap that I used
Chapter Two: Code Red Situation
"You're going to WHAT?" Elisa exclaimed loudly.
"But you can't! I thought you were GAY?! Why are you bringing home a woman? She's a witch! Ma lei è il diavolo incarnato! Lo vedo nei suoi occhi. Non si può sposarla! Assolutamente no, io lo proibisco!"
"Hey, hey, slow down!" Antonio gaped. Elisa stopped abruptly and put a hand over her mouth. "When did you learn Italian?"
Elisa smiled awkwardly. "I, I learnt it at camp." she lied. "But the point is Papa, you can't marry her! What about my Dad?"
"Your Dad?" Antonio confusedly pointed at himself.
"Lovino, what about Lovino." she asked, small tears forming in her eyes. Antonio 'ohed' then frowned.
"He may have been your other father when we adopted you but we're not together anymore okay? If you get to know Marianne I'm sure you'll like her."
Elisa refused to go along with it. She crossed her arms and puffed out her cheeks. This tramp was messing with Noella and her plans!
"Where did you learn his name anyway? I never told it to you."
"Oooh uhh Kat told me." she said, satisfied with her own lie. Antonio sighed once again.
"Anyways, you're running our plans! I cut my hair for you, I ground my teeth for you, I BIT MY NAILS FOR YOU!" she said in a huff, picking up a pillow and smacking the sofas.
"Noel what are you talking about? Look, just try to like her, I know you two will be best friends-"
"No." she said, cutting him off. "I'm not going to try and I'm not going to have dinner with you two either!" she said and with that, she stormed off to Noella's room, still crossing her arms. The living room had two exits and she used the one that led straight to the stairways so that she didn't have to pass the dining area and see Cruella De Ville.
"Noel wait! Noella come back here!"
"What's wrong?" Marianne had come in through the door just in time to see Elisa leave and was holding a glass of wine in her hands. "She did not take the news well it seems." she said smiling.
"I just wanted you two to get along." Antonio said sadly and sunk into a chair. Marianne tsked and sat on Antonio's lap while wrapping her arms around his neck. Wine glass still in hand.
"Tonio, you have to see this in her perspective, she had only just come back and then you show her that you have a new number one in your life." She kissed him firmly on the lips. "Let me have a talk with her, we can have some grown up girl bonding time." she chuckled and traced a finger on Antonio's now red lips. When she stood up, she drained her glass of wine and set it down on the table.
"I'll be right back Toni~" She walked a model walk, making sure to accentuate her hip movements with each step. She found Noella's room and identified it as it was the door that now bore the sign 'KEEP OUT'. Ignoring it, she turned the knob.
"Noelle~" she called in her singsong voice. Elisa jumped and hid her cellphone. She had been trying to get a hold of Noella to tell her the horrible news. They needed to mend it as quickly as possible.
"Can I help you?" she asked, trying not to be too unfriendly.
Marianne smiled was going to sit next to her on the bed but cleared her throat and decided not to after seeing Casper At Elisa's foot, growling at her.
"Well, I just wanted to have a little chat. Your father and I are very much in love and whether you like it or not, he has a new woman in his life." Elisa scoffed.
"Yea, a new woman to suck his fortune away." she said coldly. "I know your type."
Marianne's smile disappeared, so did her accent.
"Look sugar, your father and I are going to get married in two weeks and nothing you do can stop it. So why don't you play the nice daughter and pretend to like me?" She then smiled sweetly, one hand on her hips.
"I don't think I will." Elisa replied, smiling just as sweetly. Marianne's smile turned upside down.
"How cute." she said sarcastically. Then left, closing the door behind her harshly. Elisa flashed her middle finger towards her direction and threw a pillow at the door. She then went back to dialing Noella's -her- cellphone number.
"Come on, come on, come on." she said desperately but was startled half to death when her sister finally picked up.
"What's up? What's wrong?" Noella said quickly.
"We have a code red situation! Biiiiig trouble, Papa has gotten himself a tramp!" Elisa reported.
"What? Like, a mistress?"
"Well if Papa and Dad were still married yea, she would be the mistress. But the point is, she's ruining our plans! They're getting married in two weeks!"
"What?" Noella screeched on the other line. "Shoot! Dad is coming back, I'll call you later!" Before Elisa could complain, Noella hung up and she cursed. She fell on her bed and stroked Casper absent mindedly -he had jumped up on the bed-. This was going to be a long night.
Noella paced around her room. She had just gotten back from the airport and now Lovino and Feliciano were downstairs talking to their father. She made an excuse that she was sleepy but she was nowhere near drowsy. When Elisa had called her, it was around ten thirty, now it was nearly twelve and Noella was unsure if she should call her back.
"She can't be sleeping, not after hearing such a news." she said to herself. "But I don't want to wake her if she is, it might have taken a lot of effort!" She sighed and collapsed on the bed. A few seconds later she was snoring like nothing ever happened.
In the morning, she was woken up by a harsh sounding ringtone. She grumbled and picked the phone.
"Yes?"
"You said later!" Elisa spat out, saying each word venomously. Noella winced.
"Elisa, Its seven in the morning!" she said whimpering.
"It's early enough! Now, what do we do about that French demon!" Elisa yelled again, determined to wake her sister up. She had spent the entire night getting an hour of sleep.
"I'm sorry! Uhm, okay I got it! You act as undesirable as a daughter so that she would never want to marry-"
"Elisa? Who are you talking to?" Their grandfather had just walked inside her room.
"Uuuh, I gotta call you back." Noella said quietly and threw her cellphone on the side.
"A friend." she said simply grinning.
"Oh, a friend." Grandpa Rome said, chuckling.
"Since when did you have a friend with the same name as you?" Noella started to panic.
"What?" she said in a high pitched voice.
"What are you talking about? What name what." But Noella knew she had already been exposed.
He looked at her suspiciously.
"Who are you my dear?"
Noella wilted in her seat and looked up at her grandfather with a teary expression.
"I'm Noella." she said quietly. Her grandfather's mouth fell slightly open but he smiled gently and pulled her in a side hug.
"What a beautiful girl you have become." he said and placed a kiss on her forehead. Noella smiled in his arms and enjoyed the embrace.
"You have to tell Lovino." he said after a while. Noella frowned in his arms. "But then he'll switch us and I've barely spent a day with him."
"Noella, from the beginning this arrangement was very childish, you should have known about your sister, it was unfair to you girls. I'm sure you can convince my son to change his mind." he said grinning. Noella grinned back and released the hug.
"Sorry Grandpa, we have some pressing issues on hand, I need some privacy." she said with a straight face, her grandfather looked at her amused. She picked up her phone as her grandfather left and saw that she didn't actually hung up the call.
"Eli? You still there?"
"Yea, I heard everything!" Elisa replied, no longer angry at her sister. "He found out so quickly!" she whispered, as if their grandfather could hear.
"Well, I guess I didn't exactly act you out very perfectly, I'd still say it was alright, Dad doesn't know and I pretty much spent the whole day with him."
"Well, I agree with you, I don't want to switch back so soon! I think we should go with your plan and stop the witch from wanting to marry Papa, then we reveal ourselves and try to sort out a better arrangement." Noella nodded from her side of the line.
"It sounds good, good luck! I'll help as much as I can, maybe I can prank call her or something." Noella said. "Oh don't waste my phone card," Elisa snapped. Then as if she remembered something, she muttered a little 'oh'.
"Neolla, I'm going to put you on speaker, why don't you say hello to Casper?"
"Casper? Did he sleep with you?"
"Yea, he crept in my bed, I think he likes it because it smells like you."
"Casper?" Noella said after she heard a small beep, signally she had been put on speaker phone.
Casper's large face jolted awake and he looked around confusedly.
"Casper it's me, Noella!" the dog barked happily and tried to lick the phone.
"Alright, I'm going to go down for breakfast, have fun with Dad!"
"Good luck with Papa!"
And with that they hung up. Noella considered going back to sleep but if Elisa always woke up this early she thought she ought to too. She begrudgingly went down for breakfast and felt a beautiful smell of waffles grace her nose. She floated over to them and saw her family in the dining area. Feliciano was helping Adrian make the waffles while Grandpa Rome sat reading the newspaper. Lovino was drinking coffee while scribbling some notes down on a piece of paper.
"Morning!" she greeted. Heads turned and she was welcomed with smiles.
"How would you like your waffles Elisa?" Adrian asked.
"The usual please." she said grinning. As they made breakfast she stared at Lovino. Her father smiled at her and muttered a halfhearted 'good morning' but he continued to write. She tried to read it upside down and saw that the words 'coffee', 'powder' and some additional notes in Italian.
"Dad, are you going to work today?"
"I'm sorry dear, the restaurant can't function without me just at the moment, I'll have to leave soon and I want you to stay here. I'll be back before lunch alright?"
Noella sunk in her seat and pouted. Lovino smiled gently and poked her in the forehead with the back of his pen. Meanwhile, Elisa had come down for breakfast. Katyusha looked at her shocked.
"You, who only wake up early for school is actually awake at eight am?"
"It's not that surprising," Elisa tried to defend herself, "I woke up cuz I was hungry." Katyusha seemed to be satisfied with that answer and started layering a tower of pancakes. Elisa gulped as maple syrup was poured over her mound of food.
"I'm not THAT hungry," she gasped, wondering if this was a normal serving size. Katyusha put her hands on her hips.
"You know you've gotten weird," her eyes narrowed. "I'm not sure if I want you going back to that camp." Elisa tried to act innocent then realised one important thing.
"Where's Papa?"
"He's still asleep, you may be adopted but I swear you have his blood flowing in you." Elisa giggled and ate only three sheets of pancakes. She trotted off before Katyusha could scold her and she went to wake her father up. She was going to ask if she could come to work. There, she would sabotage Marianne and expose her true intentions of marriage. However, she was stopped in the hallway by the one and only demon herself. She gaped as Marianne stood in the middle of the hallway. She was wearing a bathrobe and smiled serenely when she saw Elisa.
"Good morning princess~" she hummed. Elisa's mind went blank.
"Off to see your daddy?" Elisa gritted her teeth and ran past her without another word. She found her father's bedroom quickly and wrenched it open. Antonio laid on his bed fast asleep and did not hear Elisa stomp towards him.
"Why did that horrible woman spend the night here?" she shouted. Antonio was woken with a jolt.
"Wha zit?" he asked as he looked around confusedly. Elisa was reminded of Casper.
"Why did she stay over?" Elisa asked again, a little more quietly this time.
"It was late Noella, and it's so early now..." Now Elisa was reminded of Noella. Elisa huffed and sat on the bed. "I thought I was the only girl allowed to sleep in this bed." she pouted. Antonio smiled.
"Oh Noella, you still are. She slept in the guest room." Elisa smiled a relieved smile and hugged him around the waist. Antonio chuckled and tightened the embrace.
"Noella, I won't force you to be friendly with her just yet and I'm sorry for yesterday, you've only just come back. Why don't you and I spend the whole day together, just the two of us, okay?" Elisa beamed and dived in for another hug.
"I'm just going to get changed okay? Wait for me outside." she nodded and merrily skipped outside. She made her way back to the dining area and looked at Marianne with triumphed eyes. She had the absolute best day with her father. They went out for churros and ice-cream. They walked hand in hand at a park where Elisa insisted on feeding ducks. Elisa asked Antonio to take her to the many beautiful historical sites at Madrid, which he raised an eyebrow to, but complied. He enthusiastically talked about the history of his country to his daughter who listened with sparkling eyes. Noella would often shrug off history lessons though she enjoyed those of culture.
"You've changed," Antonio said after a while. They were walking on a magnificent bridge still hand in hand. Elisa tried to look innocent again.
"I've always been like this." Antonio snorted. Elisa giggled and she leaned against her father, still walking. She hadn't forgotten about their plan, she was just going about it differently.
"Papa, won't you tell me about Dad? Why did you marry him and why in the world did you divorce?" Elisa looked up to see his reaction and was surprised to see a pained smile.
"Well Noella, your father was very handsome, he had charming features and an adorable personality. He was quite rough with me but I knew he loved me too." Elisa was nodding proudly, agreeing with his description.
"We divorced because we had too many disagreements, some too difficult to get over. This was to keep us from seeing each other and I must say, I think it's for the better." Elisa pouted.
"But you miss him, don't you?" Antonio looked surprised, then he smiled.
"No, because I have you." Elisa realised his 'no' was rather forced and instead of choosing to think it could have been her imagination, she grinned broadly. The pair drove home after they reached the end of the bridge. Casper greeted them at the front door and then turned to show them who was still there. Marianne sat at the dining area, wine glass in hand and a cigarette in the other.
"Mari, I'm sorry but I don't want any smoking in the house." Antonio said firmly. Elisa silently cheered her Papa on.
"Oh right, I'm sorry baby." she put out her cigarette with an ashtray Elisa didn't know they had and swore she brought it.
"How was your day?" she asked with a smile, but Elisa knew she was furious.
"It was wonderful." Elisa replied. "We went all over the city, we had lots of fun all by ourselves."
"And," Antonio added forcefully, "it would have been even more wonderful if you came next time." Elisa's jaw dropped as the ball flew back to Marianne's court. She pouted angrily as Marianne kissed him on the cheek.
Get your stupid French lips off my Dad's property! She thought venomously in her head. She was referring to Antonio as Lovino's property which the two sisters often liked doing. Her head snapped back into the conversation as quickly as it left it.
"Speaking of the wedding, Tonio, I was thinking of staying at the hotel before we get married. We can check arrangements and make sure everything is in place."
"So soon?" he asked. Elisa nodded vigorously in her imagination.
"Well, we aren't inviting anyone else are we? It's just my parents, your family and a few of your friends." she said with that singsong voice Elisa hated.
"I suppose the idea isn't bad." Elisa whipped her head and asked her father why he would listen to the witch, again in her imagination. Elisa thought she was doing well keeping her father out of the witch's clutches but they had gone right back where they started.
"Then I'll book a stay at the Lusso, we can move in the day after tomorrow."
"That would be wonderful." she purred, Elisa was absolutely disgusted.
"Uhhh, I'll be in my room." Elisa said quickly then crouched down to Casper's eye level.
"Don't let that woman near Papa." she whispered, Casper seemed to understand her because after she stood up he went in between the pair and started licking his master's face while smacking Marianne with his large wagging tail.
She quickly went upstairs and dialed her number furiously. Her sister picked up a few minutes later.
"Is that you Belle? I missed you so much!"
"What? Noella it's me!"
"I'm so happy you called, what's up?" Noella said again. "I'm on the way to dinner with my Dad." she added, stressing the word 'dad'.
Elisa 'ohed' and ignored the fact that Noella kept making false conversation with 'Belle'.
"Big problem, you might have to reveal yourself much sooner than we hoped, the witch has convinced Papa to stay at the hotel until the ceremony, they're moving in the day after tomorrow."
"Oh my, I hope you have a lovely time in Greece! Which hotel are you staying at?"
"He said Lusso something?"
"Oh yes, that hotel! I've heard of it, I'll search it up and call you back soon! Bye~"
"Bye."
The two girls hung up the most exhausting conversation they had in their whole life and sighed. The situation remained code red, and Elisa wondered if she would be able sleep this night either.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this read.
I just used google translate for the Italian, if anyone can fix it I'd be glad!
Ma lei è il diavolo incarnato! Lo vedo nei suoi occhi. Non si può sposarla! Assolutamente no, io lo proibisco - But she is the devil incarnate! I see it in her eyes. You cannot marry her! Absolutely not, I forbid it