Walking into the clinic a little earlier than normal, in hopes of avoiding Arthur, I was about to go back into the hall and wait, when a familiar voice sent chills down my spine.

"Lud?" I froze where I stood, the receptionist gave me an odd look when I turned, but I ignored her, my eyes glued on the albino on the other side of the lobby.

"Gi-Gilbert...?!" He smirked, but, it wasn't one that I had become used to, instead of threatening, it was, dare I say, kind. He sighed, his amusement fading when the only look he go in return was one of suspicion.

"You many not believe me but, I'm actually sober." He took a few steps closer to me, I was hesitant, but I didn't back away. "There is nothing I can say or do to make up for what I've done to you, but I want you to know, what I said to you at the hospital... I mean, you're my little bruder... I could never hate you..." Unsure of what to do, I felt my eyes starting to sting as tears started to weld up in them.

You should forgive him!

No! Don't!

You can just see he has changed!

He'll never change!

After a moment, I shook my head, becoming startled by how depressed he now seemed by my action.

"I can't... Three weeks sober isn't enough proof. Before I can trust you, I need to know that you won't get mad and try to kill me again. He nodded slowly, rubbing the back of his neck nervously, with a sigh he glanced around the room, seeming to try and search for something to say.

"Roderich said it would probably be a while before you started to trust me again..." About to answer, Romano's voice echoing down the hall stopped me, turning when he entered the lobby, he cut off in the middle of a word when he saw me.

"You son of a bitch!" I backed up a bit as he clenched his hands into fists, if he was really pissed, I bet he could actually do some damage, even with how small he was. "Do you have any fucking idea how much you've hurt Feliciano you bastard?! He thinks you fucking hate him, as do the rest of those idiots he hangs out with!" After a moment, Antonio ran out into the lobby, which coaxed Romano to dart out of the clinic, the Spaniard sighed, then looked over at me, his normally friendly eyes narrowed slightly at me. He turned quickly when Gil spoke.

"Kesese... Hey Toni..." Neither of them spoke for a while, then Antonio turned away from bruder, and looked at me.

"My office, now." Sighing, I glanced over at Gil, who was staring down at the ground, passing by Toni, I walked into his office silently, and the second he closed the door after him, his voice turned angry. "You have some explaining to do!" Flinching at his voice, I glanced around, trying to see if there was anything that looked like a camera.

"What do you mean?" I sat down after a second, crossing my legs in the chair, his green eyes were staring at me angrily, getting into my bag, I glanced at the front of the folder I had picked up after school, I hadn't even read the note, only checked for an X.

Two days down, you're doing good. Just don't crack under pressure.

Under pressure of what?

"You know exactly what I mean Ludwig! Romano is right, Feliciano was depressed over the weekend cause he wanted to get the chance to talk to you, but you wouldn't, yesterday he came home crying because he was afraid you were going to try and attempt suicide again, and Romano told me today that he's afraid you hate him and the others." Pulling out the folder, I opened it, flipping through the pictures from today at school, I had skipped lunch, so I went to those pictures. No one smiled throughout the whole time, and Feliciano looked really depressed, while Arthur didn't even touch his food, glancing up, Antonio was looking at me oddly. Looking around the room again, I didn't know if I should dare try to tell him, getting up, I moved over the window, where the blinds were drawn, checking outside, I noticed a small webcam at the corner of the window.

"Is this your camera?" He climbed up from he seat, moving over to the window, he shook his head when he saw it, pulling the blinds up, I lifted the window and pulling the cord through, finding the same type of box as the ones in my house. Closing the window and lower the blinds again, I tore the thin wire connecting the camera to the box, then pulled the head off the camera. Antonio was watching me confused when I threw it in the trash. "It's not even safe for me to talk in here... There is only one way I can talk to you... It has to be a room that you can't get to from outside, or that not many people know about... That was probably the only one, but I can't take any chances." He thought for a second, then nodded, as he headed for the door, I grabbed my bag and the folder, stopping for a second, I had an idea. Pulling out the other two folders, I tore the notes off from them, keeping them intact, only to find how they could hear me, a small, and I mean tiny, little microphone was stuck to the folder, tearing them off, I grabbed the folders and notes, heading after Antonio quickly. He lead me down a flight of stairs that were hidden behind a door, closing it after us, he flipped on a light, showing another door. Beyond that, lay a hidden concrete room.

"This is the safest room we have, it'll be okay for you to talk down here. Now tell me what's going on." Pulling the folders and letters our of my page, I dropped them all on the table in the room, the pictures spread out.

"I'm being threatened, if I talk to Arthur, or any of my friends, Arthur gets killed. If I tell authorities, or anyone, all my friends get killed... Everyday, they leave a folder for me, showing everything Arthur has done in school. It used to show me, but I found the camera's in uncle Roderich's house." He picked up the first letter I got, reading it over quickly, then flipped through the pictures, he sighed then shook his head. "And to be honest... I have been thinking about attempting again, but only to make sure I didn't break any rules... I could never forgive myself if something happened to any of them..."

"I have never had a patient that gets into so much trouble as you..." He stopped, then looked up at me, eyes wide. "Wait... Your uncle is always talking about how he has a patient that keeps talking about Arthur... He's a student at your school, I'll talk to Roderich tonight and we'll talk about calling the police. On Thursday when you come back, let me know if it's stopped, okay? We won't let anything happen to them, I promise. If you let me keep these as proof, we'll find out who it is." I nodded, then looked down at the ground, trying to think of an idea of how to get a message to Arthur without the stalker knowing.

"Do you see Arthur a lot in here?" He nodded, looking at me confused, thinking it over again, I hesitated, it had to be worth a try. "Can you do you best to be as cryptic as possible, but give him a message from me?" He nodded, smiling a little. "Tell him I'm sorry, and that I wish I could talk to him, but I can't..."

"Si, I can do that amigo, can I tell Feli that it should hopefully be only a few days before things will be back to normal?" I nodded, glad that I was able to trust Antonio, he glanced at his watch, then sighed. "Times almost up, we should be heading back upstairs." I nodded, waiting as he gathered all the pictures and letters into the folders, he followed me up then walked into the lobby with me, I wasn't surprised to see Arthur there. Sighing, I dropped my head to my chest, shifting my bag, I walked out without a word to him, glancing back, tears were welding up in my eyes. Two days was going to be hard... After a minute, I heard someone coming up behind me, glancing back, Arthur was standing almost right behind me, stopping, I turned back, having to bite my lip when I saw he was crying.

"Look... I-I don't know why you're doing this to us, but, if you want to come back, we're always waiting..." I wiped my watery eyes, and nodded. "Won't you at least say something?" I hesitated, and shook my head, backing away a bit. "...I'll be waiting..." Turning, I had to hurry away, trying to fight the temptation to hold him. Reaching the house, there was a folder sitting on the front steps, with a note taped to it like normal.

You sure know how to piss me off, but seeing as though I can't prove you broke any rules, they're safe. For now.

I sighed to myself, good, he doesn't know I told... Opening the folder, I was shocked by how recent the pictures were, they were of Arthur and I, when he was just talking to me. Looking around, he couldn't have been more than a few feet away from me on my way home, and I didn't even notice anything... Turning around, I scanned the block again, who the hell was this guy?!

Author's Note:

Okay, so maybe this chapter wasn't much longer than the last one after all... *Sweatdrop* I also know that this stalker thing seems to have been really short and pointless, but it'll come into play more later. Thanks for reading, and let me know what you think!