A silent man is the best one to listen to-Japanese proverb
Lithuania always believed feeling sorry for something defenseless and innocent, was very easy. That sympathizing with a helpless sheep, was always much simpler than understanding the wolf. And after knowing Russia for just about his whole life, he could confirm that the sheep/wolf analogy probably applied to them too, with the three Baltic's playing the innocent, fluffy sheep, and Russia being the big bad wolf.
As if all good and all bad could be separated like that, and didn't live together in the soul. As if one could exist without the other. And he couldn't bring himself to hate Russia, despite anything that happened, because he knew he wasn't the innocent sheep people made him out to be, and Russia wasn't the evil wolf.
Lithuania didn't know very much about how the war was going, but from what he could tell, not good for . He decided it was best to keep quiet and be extra nice to him, and advised Estonia and Latvia to do the same. The days passed like the falling autumn leaves, and the Baltic's had gotten to know their mutants better and better.
Fatvia loved jumping into piles of leaves to Latvia's amusement, and they'd roll around in the red and yellow garden together. Boneliet has advanced his stick catching abilities, and could sometimes catch the stick before it even hit the ground. Lithuania had a dog once, when he was younger (Or a cat? He couldn't tell), but being with his Bonie filled him with the same kind of joy he felt back then.
Truth be told, he missed having someone greet him and show him affection. Boneliet's favorite food was raw meat, and Lithuania would throw him a wing or a leg whenever he cooked fried chicken or soup. Bonie would jump up and catch it in his teeth, before ripping it apart and eating it on the floor.
Mealtimes were probably Lithuania's favorite, because he loved spending this time talking and laughing with his brothers. The food was delicious, especially when Estonia offered to cook, as he made the best sweets too. Actually, it wasn't uncommon for Fatvia to put a paw on the table and run off with a Kringle or a curd snack.
Shreduard much preferred rye bread over sweets or meat, so he'd be there to munch pieces of it out of Esti's hand whenever Esti was home from the market. When he wasn't eating bread, he was feeding his milk to Fatvia and Boneliet (which Lithuania thought was disturbing but didn't question), or burying things in the garden.
Estonia was the one in the household responsible for yard work, so he kept an eye on Shred and Fatvia while he raked the leaves or gathered the last of summer's berries. Lithuania stayed in the house cooking and cleaning, and trying to keep Boneliet from chewing up the furniture.
Sometimes Fatvia would yap at him outside the window, and Lithuania would throw down a cookie to keep him quiet. Sometimes, Fatvia did a funny thing Lithuania called fat-loafing, where he's get up on a chair and tuck his paws underneath his body, making himself look like a fat, furry loaf of bread. He stayed like that for hours, but jumped off as soon as he'd see (Which he almost never did, because Russia was always either away or in his study.)
Latvia was the one in the household with the least amount of work, and only really did anything when Lithuania or Estonia asked for help. He'd spend his time mostly playing fetch with Fatvia, climbing trees, reading cheesy romance books, and ruining Estonia's leaf piles.
had forbidden the mutants to sleep in the house, so they'd often sleep in the garage huddled up against each other. Lithuania would usually sneak into the garage and bring his Bonie to the already crowded bed, thinking didn't know (he probably did, though).
Boneliet slept on top of Lithuania, his head lowered between his paws. Latvia was worried Fatvia was down there all cold, but Lithuania assured him he saw Fatvia sleeping soundly, cuddled up against Shred.
Latvia looked satisfied with that, and Lithuania fell asleep with his favorite animal pressed against his chest. It's been a two months since they were somehow gifted with these strange abominable creatures, though Lithuania wasn't young and by no means a stranger to strangeness. But this was something truly special, and Lithuania had to wonder if one day he'll be sadly thinking back to times like this.
These beasts have become family, just like Estonia and Latvia, and have become as usual as seeing the sun go down at the end of the day. Anyone who would have seen him cuddling a freaky science experiment would turn their nose up in disgust, but Lithuania didn't care. There was only him and his family in the world, and anyone else didn't matter.