A/N: 'Allo again my pets! I am baaack! And significantly less heart broken. I have made a decision. I am going to dedicate this Ryan. But not just him. I've heard recent stories from my readers and others who have lost friends and family and those dear to their hearts recently and in the past. So this is for all the lost loves. Though they will never come back, the still have a home in our hearts.

Now moving away from depressing and sad thoughts, My blessed reviewers! You guys rock and roll all night, but I don't know if you party all day long too, any way, y'all is sweet!

HermesChildOfRain

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Axelgirl14

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In magna voce clamo, "Eugepi, amicis meus, carpe noctem et lege! Lege, lege!"

I will give a free personalized casaraptor drawing to the first person who can actually correctly translate that and give me the language its in, except for you Hermes, you already know. You must have both to win. And please, don't use Google translate. I tried, it doesn't work.

Feliciano was sent home early the next morning after a somewhat awkward good bye from his promised. Ludwig didn't quite know how to act around the excited and bouncy omega, and in return he didn't know how to act around d his alpha with out freaking him out. But it was still sweet.

Feli walked home by himself, Felicity and Berlitz having disappeared into the high hills and thick jungles around the volcano's base. They didn't return until late the next night, with Berlitz nudging occasionally at her cheek, and cooing lowly to her. In return, she would nip him playfully when he got too insistent, bit eventually the blue casaraptor left for his once again, home.

He managed to stay away for a day to eat and get some much needed deep sleep. His heat had drained him, and after his rather emotional reunion, it had become apparent how weak he felt. So he kept to himself long enough for him recover his strength, and for Ludwig to think on things a bit without him around to muddle his thoughts. But he couldn't stay away any longer than that.

Felicity awoke him with insistent calls from the beach bellow his window the next morning. She was ready to see Ludwig for herself and damnit the sun was up already she wanted to go! She stamped her clawed foot on the ground when he groggily lifted his head to look out the window. His smile widened instantly and he threw the expanse of white cotton he'd used as a blanket off and scrambled to pull on some clothes and get outside.

Lovino was outside with Pele, just bringing the last of his belongings to his new home, the one he and Antonio now shared on the north end east end far back in the jungle. He was vaguely confused by the red and tan blur that rushed by him until he saw his brother hit the sand running. Felicity met him half way on the beach and he easily swung up into his well worn saddle.

"Hey where are you going!?" He called just before the pair took off. Felicity snorted her impatience tossing her head and stamping her foot leaving another deep impression in the sand. Feli grinned patting his shoulder to calm her down before looking up st his twin.

"To see Luddyyyyyyyyy!" Felicity hardly waited for him to finish before taking off with a pitched keen and a hop in place. Lovino and Pele slowly turned their heads to fallow as they disappeared down the shore line. The younger twin chuckled shaking his head and turned back to his casaraptor.

"One of these days he's a gunna hit a tree or something doing that and I'm not a gunna be the one to help him when a he does." He mused to the reptile. Pele cooed his agreement and tossed his head lightly in a nod. He smiled and pulled himself up into the saddle and, with one final glance at his childhood home, turned into the deep jungle and left for his new life.

Feli laughed, genuinely laughed and held tight to the harness as Felicity added an extra bounce in her quick step. Her long legs easily traversed the thick foliage when they turned into the jungle towards their destination. He had Ludwig had agreed that he would help the blond recovery his memories, and today he would begin that task. They were meeting on ground level, below his home, and from there Feli planned on taking him to places where major things had happened to him.

As expected, Ludwig and Berlitz were already there and waiting. He had always been early or right time, and that trait stuck with him still. He was sitting tall and straight in the saddle, a blank stare in place as he looked off to his left. He appeared utterly uninterested, bored perhaps, but with nothing better to do. The muffled thuds and rustle of

their approach made him jump to attention and his blue eyes focused in on him quickly. Feli smiled brightly at him standing up in the harness to wave at him. His posture relaxed and he returned the gesture almost shyly with a slight smile. Berlitz needed no command and trudged forward and greet the red beauty before him. He she-raptor trilled in return and playful numbed his cheek before sidling up to next him so their partners could talk.

"Vee~ Good morning Ludwig, feeling better?" Feli greeted with a cheerful smile and bright tone. His smile grew a bit and he gently ran a hand over the bandaging still wrapped about his head. The goose egg that had previously been there was now just a small bump, with some long but shallow scrapes.

"Much better. Kiku says the bandages can go by tomorrow. And Good morning to you too." He answered letting his hand fall back to the hand hold loop of the harness. This was very good news to Feli and he smiled brightly.

"That's good. So," he said looking a bit more serious, but still quite happy, "where would you like to start?" He asked. He wanted Ludwig to pick the things most important to him and go from there. They would eventually get to the more miniscule and mundane things. Though some of those may never be recovered as Kiku had told him. Ludwig appeared thoughtful for a moment.

"Vell, vhy not just start vith the beginning? My childhood is fuzzy but intact. So let's start vith the time right before that attack. Vhen I met you." Ludwig explained lightly, with a still thoughtful look in swirling blue eyes. Feli's heart could have gone soaring I to the sky to join the birds at those words. Start with them? He could do that. And he knew just where to go.

"Vee~I know just a where to go then! Fallow me!" He said nudging Felicity forward. She flicked her tail playfully at Berlitz and took off at a not quite break neck sprint. The blue casaraptor wasn't far behind catching that thickly plumed rainbow tail that flickered in front of him. Feli giggled, yes giggled and had tears in the corners of his eyes from the speed. Ludwig too was chuckling mildly to himself as he hunched over in the saddle. Jungle thinned to meet shoreline and they raced just under the tree tops where the sand and thick soil met.

When it turned to rocks they descended to the beach and slowed to a trot to weave through the morning crowd of the Docks. The fishing boats would just be leaving for the day, and he caught Francis's boat out of the corner of his eye throwing out it's sails. In the shallow end the Freebird floated lightly, no longer listing to the side and ragged black sail torn down. It still had a ways to go with being sea worthy at all, but it wasn't sinking itself anymore. Ludwig spared the ship a soft glance before turning back and looking straight ahead again.

Just beyond the bend of the rocky shore on the other side of Docks, Feli dismounted to continue on foot. Ludwig hesitantly fallowed suite. Could the ground ahead be so hard to traverse that even a casaraptor couldn't do it? If so why where they here at all? Still he fallowed after the slightly younger omega around the jagged rock face ahead and found himself staring at a wonderland of a cove.

The water was crystal clear, and still somewhat high from the night, flooding the black basalt paths that twisted around the area creating many individual tide pools. There were forty to fifty foot cliffs surrounding the area and another path where the beach curved back around on the other side. The rock faces were jagged, an easy vertical climb, and in places so craggy you might even be able to walk them like steps.

Something about this place stirred something in Ludwig's head, bringing with it a touch of a head ache. But even more it stirred something in his heart. It was a fluttering feeling, like nervousness but not nervousness. It was sweet. He carefully fallowed after Feli as the lithe man waded out into one of the far pools at the dye of the cliff. Felicity and Berlitz had fallowed after them and the two easily trotted through the two foot water and settled into separate pools to soothe their dry scales.

Ahead Feli's fingertips just brushed the black rock surface of the cliff that he stood beside. He had a sad sort of look on his face for a moment before looking up the cliff. With sure movements, he began hauling himself out of the water and up the 'steps' carved by the ocean.

"Is-is this vhere ve met?" Ludwig asked watching him climb up to one ledge about twelve feet up and stop there. Feli nodded and surveyed the cove with a smile once again from his new vantage point. His smile brightened as his amber eyes settled on Ludwig bellow him.

"Vee~ I was here with a friend of mine, Elizaveta, playing in a the water. I had found a pearl in an oyster that had washed in. But when the shell cracked it flew out and landed in the water right there." He pointed to the calm glassy water bellow his rocky perch.

"I ran over to come and a try to find it, and just then Nonno and a my brother came to get us. There was a big bad a jungle cat sitting up here that neither of us had noticed at all." He said now gesturing to the outcropping step he stood on.

"While I tried to find a the pearl in the sand it attacked me." The idea set Ludwig's blood to racing. He didn't like the idea, no one would, but the fact that it was Feli seemed to make the feeling worse for him. He could clearly see the fear painting the omega's face as if it had happened but yesterday. And right now to him, it might as well have, it was a terrifying experience, especially for one so young. At this point he began climbing down from the high perch and back towards ground/sea level.

"It never got a me though. While everyone else told me to run, a spear came out of a no where and pinned the cat's head underwater just over there," he again pointed to the spot not ten feet from where he had said he had been standing, "and it drowned. Felicity snatched me away in the same instant. And then you and your brother came climbing down from the same direction." He drew out the path behind him as he stood on another step just five feet above the water.

"Gilbert and I?" The blond alpha confirmed. He was seeing things, images flash by his mind's eye. Large paw prints in fresh mud, a parting of bushes to spy a pair of children happily searching through the water for small treasures. A large black shape that shone unlike the rock around it and moved with thick muscle. The memory. It was so fuzzy around the edges, though Gilbert's loud obnoxious voice rung easily in his ears.

/i /"Look at the size of it, that thing is huge!"/i /

"Uh-huh. You came to make a sure I was okay. Though Felicity was hard pressed to let me go." Feli said with another nod as he jumped the last two feet into the water with a loud echoing, sploosh. "I made it out with the pearl, and I gave it to you then, as a thank you. I never knew what you did with it though." He said walking up to his alpha with a thoughtful smile.

"I don't know vhere it is right now either." Ludwig's mind was busy piecing together the fragments of images that had come back to him. The pearl wasn't in his memory just an empty hand held out to him but he knew it must have been there once. He made a vague mental note to look for the pearl when he returned home.

Feli looked at him almost expectantly, waiting for any sign that this trip had helped at all. The morning light shot fine gold through his warm brown eyes, making him loom quite dazzling, and Ludwig thought for a moment his heart reached out for the omega. But as quickly as it was there it wasn't, and he felt only that soft, sweet, nervous not nervous feeling again in his chest. He smiled slightly down at the man before him.

"There are memories tied to here. I remember the cat, its the one laid out on the floor my room isn't it?" He asked him. Feli nodded with a happily relaxed smile now. The skin had always been well kept, and while the thing still sent shivers down his spine, he liked it much better laid out rather than hidden away somewhere either.

"It's a the reason you have a paw print tattooed on a your arm." He added. He spared a glance at the black swirling ink on his left shoulder, and then returned his full attention to the omega in front of him. He nodded, understanding. After awhile, the print had bothered him. He had always known it was something important, he just never really knew why until now.

"So, if that's the beginning? What happened next?" He asked curiously. If he had reacted so well to this one, he wanted to see more. Feli grinned, showing a full set of white teeth. He really was quite beautiful in the yellow morning light, the way it crated a halo in his hair and turned his eyes molten. The way the water made his dark blue pants cling to his lithe figure...

No. No. He wasn't going to there. Not about Feli. He'd seen enough omegas done wrong by them, he wasn't going to start thinking like them.

"Vee~ Well..."

A/N: Sorry about this being a bit late by the way. I've been a bit caught up with home drama and attempting to find a job other than feeding my pastor's cats. So here we go, into the past to get through the future. This aught to be fun da?