"Hahaha! Infiltration complete! Now, to get rid of the obstacle in the way of my supremacy… that annoying little sister!" Sadiq was shown his suite only a minute or two earlier, and was making himself comfortable in a blue velvet chair laying in the streams of sunlight filtering in from an oversized window. He slid off his mask, to reveal his haunting cyan blue eyes, the eyes of his commoner mother.

Sadiq knew how lucky he was that no one in this unassuming kingdom knew of the small desert kingdom to the far east that he called home, the one where only a few years ago a commoner boy had overthrown the royals and taken dictatorship.

A maid knocked at the door, startling him. He quickly replaced the mask upon his face. "Come in, babe. Heh. Don't be shy."

A cute brunette servant entered. (He'd heard someone say her name around… Elisabeth? Lizzie?) "Prince Sadiq, tea?" she asked, coming in with a huge silver platter.

"Yep, bring 'er here." He chuckled. As she bent over to set the platter on a table near him, he lifted up her dress and smacked her rear. With a startling yelp, she jumped, spilling the tea a bit as she hurriedly dashed out of the room. He heard her long string of curse words from outside the door.

He laughed, at her weak female-ness, and her inability to do anything about being harassed that way, at her helplessness in opposing him. Someone with his status could do anything they wanted to her, and if she said 'no', she would be in trouble. It was all too sweet.

"Hahaaa it's good to be king!" He shouted victoriously in the empty room.

Little did he know, that there were two potty-mouthed women standing outside the door who had witnessed the entire thing.

/

The very second Felicia got back to Keiko's house, she wanted to clean. When she was upset, she had always begun cleaning, proverbially sweeping the mess out of her life. Normally, Felicia acted like a bit of a slob, but back in the castle, she was well-known to help Elizabeta when she had too much on her workpile.

She searched every inch of the tiny apartment for something to tidy up, and her efforts went fruitless. The only messy areas in Keiko's house were her bed, where the sheets were in a huge jumble around a still-sleeping Greek that Felicia dared not touch, and the mess she had made herself that morning in Keiko's closet.

As she took the small job, she remembered… she had left the wig with Ludwig.

/

Ludwig was in need of assistance. He really hadn't meant to make Felicia so upset… he hadn't even known it was her until she was leaving, for crying out loud! He approached the bookstore. When he was little, his grandfather, Fredrick, had told him that any problem could be solved with a book. The advice had held true. Books helped when his brother had a very bad infection, and no one knew what to do to ease the pain. Books had helped when Ludwig needed to learn a new language. Even Gilbert agreed, because after grandpa died, books of the stolen variety helped pay the rent. Books truly had helped with everything.

He finally was in front of the bookstore. Just his luck, it was closed. After two years or so in this town, he had found this book to be the most useful. However, there was one other place he could go, but only if he felt as if he were cornered into the most desparate of situations.

As Ludwig made his way to this place, he decided that this qualified as one.

He knocked on the door. Some of the old, chipping blue paint came back on his hand. The door clicked as someone on the other side unlocked the knob. "Yo, whazzup?" It opened, creaking loudly as the owner of the residence recognized his visitor. "West! Mein Gott, how are you?" His albino brother squeezed him in a fraternal embrace. "Haven't seen you in waaay too long! Where've you been the last three months?"

"Hello, Bruder..."

"Have you gotten taller? Damn, Luddy, you have to stop growing! You're already taller than the awesome me!" he pouted, all the while somehow still smirking.

"I'm… I want your help. Do you still work for the undercover agency?"

Gilbert burst out laughing, as if this were some sort of anecdote. "Hell no! I got fired for 'disorderly conduct'. Pssh. Its just that those sissies don't know how to take an awesome joke." Ludwig guessed that Gilbert had crossdressed and flirted with the other men, too. What was truly pitiful was that it was his brother easily passed for female after having access to the Undercover Agency's disguise closet, where he had obtained makeup, a golden blonde wig, and a lacy pink dress that made men's faces melt into a firey blush. Ludwig wasn't sure he would ever get over his brother messing with him like that.

Silently, Ludwig 'hallelujah'-ed. On the other hand, his plan to have his brother spy on Felicia and see how angry she might be with him, then find the best way to apologize. "Where do you work now, then?"

"Castle. I'm a knight! " Gilbert beamed, obviously proud of himself. Ludwig knew full well that it was his older brother's childhood dream to be a knight. "So, what were you here for?"

He shoved aside his embarrassment and asked what he came for. "I-I need advice… about a girl."

/x/

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