Ok so this chapter is pretty much about Gilbert and Ludwig and the first time they meet Ivan.

Character's in this chapter.

Russia-Ivan

Germany-Ludwig

Prussia-Gilbert

Lithuania-Toris

Chapter 10. Memories.

Earlier that day.

Toris was helping Eduard drag the corpse of Natalia's latest toy to the incinerator in the back of the converted warehouse when Ludwig walked around the corner. When the tall blonde vampire saw the smaller brunette vampire he advanced on him with a very annoyed frown on his face.

"Toris where is Ivan?"

"Oh L-Ludwig um Ivan went out about an hour ago. Urr is there something I can do for you instead?" Toris asked as he dropped the corpses feel.

"Nein I wanted to update him on the new target I've been following. I was hoping to get it done as soon as possible. If you no when he'll be back that would be gut."

"Ah sadly I don't know… umm but as soon as I see him I'll let you no… is that ok?"

"Ja that would be wunderbar. Danke Toris." With that he left the two other vampires to continue their work.

X

Ludwig walked through the maze of hallways and stairs until he was standing outside his and Gilbert's room. He knocked three times on the closed hard wood door before opening.

"Gilbert are you awake?"

"Whaaaat West! Go away I'm sleeping" his brother moaned from under the pile of his and Ludwig's bed sheets.

"It's been over a day now. You know you can't hide away in here forever."

"Like hell I cant. You try having that bastard in you all night and see how you like it."

Ludwig sighed and sat on the bed next to his brother. Pushing a hand under the covers he ran his fingers through Gilbert's white hair.

"You know the boy I've been following I watched him today with a group of other teenagers. The same ones from that club we went to. They were laughing and joking with each other the way we used to when we were younger. I thought of that time when you were ten and I was seven and you convinced me to make mud pies with you in the kitchen for vati's birthday at five in the morning. We made a mess of the kitchen and when we took the tray of mud into his room I tripped and the tray went flying. You remember don't you? That look on his face when he woke up covered in mud….. you remember what happened next right?"

"…..He said whose idea was it and I blamed it on you and said I was trying to stop you."

"And in the end we both got a spanking."

"Haha ja I remember… Ludwig how did we end up here."

Ludwig didn't answer. He just sat there stroking that soft white hair and thought back to that rainy night in Germany fifty years ago.

X

"Nein nein NEIN Gilbert… P-please just hold on a little longer please… don't close your eyes please… SOMONE PLEASE HELP… please…"

"да I will help you so you can stop crying now."

Ludwig looked up at the tall figure standing before him in the rain. Ludwig was on his knees holding his brother dyeing body close to his chest. His chin and nose were nuzzled into his white hair that was becoming flat and wetter by the second. Crimson eyes began to close as blood continued to pool from the stab wound in his chest.

"I could smell him from five streets over. He is losing blood too quickly and will die very soon."

"NEIN please help him please I'll do anything just please save him."

"Very well… he is quiet pretty. I have never seen anyone who looks like him before and I have been around a long time."

"Please… just help him."

The man fell to his knees so he was about the sameheight as Ludwig and began taking his dyeing brother from his arms.

"What are your names?"

"Ludwig… and he is Gilbert."

"Humm Ludwig and Gilbert… I am Ivan very nice to be meetings you… oh I am sorry I am not very good at the speaking the German. You speak English?"

"Yes."

"Good then that is what we will speak from now on yes."

"Yes."

"Good now I will take him with me and he will be all better so goodbye Ludwig" Ivan said standing with Gilbert in his arms.

"NO please wait I want to stay with him."

Ivan stopped walking and thought about his plea.

"….Umm ok you may stay with him… but you will haft to go through this as well if you really want to stay together that much."

"What do you mean?"

Ivan turned with a grin to steer at Ludwig before turning his gaze back to Gilbert. Dropping the albino's legs he held him up by his shoulders before biting into his neck and drinking heavily.

"NOO" Ludwig yelled scrambling up from his Knees and running to grab Gilbert from the man's arms. With his fangs still sheathed in Gilbert's neck Ivan wrapped an arm around his waist to keep him up right and with the other, curling his hand into a fist he sent Ludwig flying into a wall as he reached them. Drawing his fangs from Gilbert Ivan said "he has lost a lot of blood so I did not have to take too much. The less human blood is in him the more I can give witch will make this a lot easier when he changes."

His head throbbing Ludwig squinted open his eyes to see Ivan rest Gilbert's head on his chest. He then pulled up Gilbert's wrist and tore it open with his fangs to revile a bloody mesh of muscle bone and veins. He bit his own tongue and putting the wound over the opened wrist he let his blood flow directly into Gilbert's almost empty bloodstream. After a while Ludwig watched as Ivan removed him mouth and laid his big brother on the street rain lashing over him.

"You can wait for him to wake and be his first meal or I could turn you now and you may shear your first hunt witch would you prefer?"

"…What.. a-are you?"

"Hehe you are silly Ludwig is it not obvious what I am."

"…. Your….. A vampire."

"да."

"...I want to be with him. I… I don't want him to wake to all this alone."

"да very good."

Ivan pulled Ludwig away from the wall and bit deep into his neck much harsher then he had to Gilbert. After he had drained him to a point he deemed enough Ivan bit his tongue again as it had already healed and pressed it to the wound on Ludwig's neck. After letting his blood run through his body Ivan sat him down and rested his body against the wall. Ludwig just steered ahead at the body of his brother as he tried to stay awake.

"P… please… let me… let me hold him."

"Ok" Ivan waked over to the body on the ground and lifted him into his arms. He then walked back to Ludwig and placed him in his lap. Ludwig fell into an unconscious oblivion as he clutched his brother close to his chest.

X

"…..dy…lud….Luddy re ar…Luddy are you there?"

Ludwig's eyes opened slowly to the still night sky and pouring rain but it was the voice that pulled him back to reality. He steered down at his brother in his arms who was steering back up at him.

"L-Luddy… I I feel so empty inside. It hurts… it's like I'm so hungry. What's wrong with me?"

"I feel it to it's ok I promise it will be ok" Ludwig soothed nuzzling his face into white hair.

"When you both feel able we will go hunt."

The two brothers looked at Ivan standing in front of them as if they had just noticed him.

"Try to stand."

The two stumbled on to their knees and helped each other to their feel.

"Luddy who is this guy?" ummf I feel so hungry."

"He saved you… Us."

"да he is right Gilbert you would be dead now if not for me and he would be all alone. Now shall we go?"

The two not knowing what to do followed their maker into the rainy night for their first hunt and taste of human blood.

X

"Luddy….. I think sometimes… you should have let me die the night we were mugged and I was stabbed."

Ludwig's eyes narrowed at his brothers words. He pulled the sheets from over Gilbert and throwing them to the floor he pinned him on his back by his shoulders and knees. An enraged scowl on his face Ludwig growled "don't you ever say that again you hear me."

Gilbert steered in shock at his brother's harshness.

"I'm-I'm s-sorry Luddy…. I'm sorry."

"Don't you ever talk like that. Don't you ever make me regret doing this to save you. Don't…. you ever take like… like it would be ok for you to leave me alone." Tears began to fall from his Ludwig's eyes on to Gilbert's cheek.

Wiggling his shoulders free Gilbert wrapped his arms around his brothers back and pulled him close.

"I'm sorry Ludwig I'll never say anything like that again." He pulled his brother to his side and the two laid there together wrapped in each other's arms for the rest of the day as sleep took them.

X

A nock at the door raised Ludwig from his sleep and he looked over his shoulder as Toris entered the room.

"Ah you're here. Ivan is back if you want to go see him."

Ludwig looked down at his sleeping brother curled up in his arms and slowly untangled himself from him before getting of the bed and pulling the blankets over his sleeping body he then followed Toris out the room and though the halls until they were at the stairs to Ivan's apartment.

"Thank you Toris."

Toris left with a smile at his words leaving him alone on the stairs. At the top of the stairs he knocked on the door but before he could open it himself Ivan was already standing there in the doorway.

"Ludwig Is there something you need? I am busy right now."

"I just wanted to update you on the new target sir. Earlier I noticed him steering at a Dragool girl and his scent has become much stronger and I have a name as well Alfred F. Bonnefoy. That is all the information I have at this point…..sir!"

Ludwig just steered at Ivan as he broke out in laughter.

"Sir is something… wrong."

"Hahahahaha no no no Ludwig haha you have done very well that will be all."

With that he shut the door leaving Ludwig standing on the stairs.

'I guess I'll go back to Gilbert then' he thought to himself as he walked back down stairs.