REBEL

Lilli

"Here we are." Lilli said, opening the doors to the makeshift headquarters wide.

"Not to shabby, heh." Matthias commented, smiling half-way.

"Thanks. Now.. There should be some bandages over here somewhere..." Lilli trailed off, opening various cabinets, peeking in them, before finding the right one. She pulled out several rolls of gause and bandages, alcohol, cotton balls, and a few towels.

"Lots of stuff." Emil commented offhandedly.

"Well, yeah. People are bound to get hurt." Lilli answered carrying the supplies to the living room, beckoning the trio to follow her.

Once in the living room tended to Lukas' and Emil's minor injuries, before instructing Matthias to lie down on the couch.

Lukas and Emil peeled off his clothes and Lilli has verrry thankful Matthias wore boxers. She inspected the damage.

"... This is really bad. I'm not as good as Elizaveta when it comes to taking care of fatal wounds..." Lilli said, pursuing her lips frustratingly.

"I'm sure I'm fine!" Matthias said, smiling.

Emil pressed on a wound, making it bleed faster.

"Holy shit! That's a lot of blood! Ow ow ow ow! Ice, stop iiitt!" Matthias took back his statement, wailing painfully.

"E-Emil! Please don't do that! You'll open the injury more!" Lilli panicked, waving her arms everywhere. Emil looked at her, sighed, and lifted his hand, going to perch on the ottoman. Lukas snorted quietly from the loveseat next to the couch.

Lilli bit her lip, lightly pressing a towel onto his injuries, soaking up the blood, before picking up the alcohol and a few cotton balls.

"Okay. This is going hurt." She said, not even daring to sugarcoat it.

"I know, I know, Mom." Matthias muttered jokingly. Lilli glared at him lightly, and pressed an alcohol soaked cotton ball onto his biggest injury.

"OW OW OW OW OW I'M SORRY OH HOLY COWS IT STIIIIIIINGSSSSSSSSS!" Matthias shouted loudly, flailing. Lilli lifted the now red cotton ball.

After a long hour of cotton balls, wailing, and bandages, Lilli was done, and frankly, she was tired.

"Idiot." Lukas said blankly to Matthias, poking his ear.

"Hahah~ Never change, do ya Norge? Spare a wounded man, won't ya?" Matthias laughed goodnaturedly, still lieing on the couch. The couch was blue, but after the previous hour, the cushions were a rather funny looking purple-red. Lilli made a note to get Elizaveta to fix that. While Lukas and Matthias chatted/fought/joked/ whatever they were doing, Emil had stolen Lukas' seat, sitting silently.

"Uhh..." Lilli started, trying to think of a conversation starter. Emil looked at her, attention gained.

"Do you like cats?" Lilli blurted, then turned red and slapped herself mentaly. That was stupid!

Emil started blankly, making Lilli blush more. She must look like Lovino by now.

"I actually do. Their cool." Emil answered smoothly, smiling slightly.

"Yeah. Really cool." Lilli said awkwardly. Silence again.

"... What do you think about puffins?" Emil asked this time, and Lilli wondered how he didn't sound like a total idiot asking something random.

"Puffins are really cute. Really super cute." Lilli replied, thinking of Emil's Mr. Puffin, and wondered where he was. Emil nodded, agreeing quietly.

" What do you think about... me?" He asked softly, then turned a slight shade of red, obviously he did NOT mean to say that out loud. Lilli turned bright red, sputtering.

"Uh?! W-what I think about you?!" She stuttered, not sure wether to freeze or freak out.

"Uhh... Sorry. You don't have to answer that." Emil looked off to the side, awkwardly shifting.

"U-um... I'll answer it." Lilli said, also shifting slightly, "I think you're really nice, a-and kind, and stuff, and that you have a good character and managed your country well, um... And your.. kinda... attrmmmmmm.." She mumbled the last word, blushing even more.

"Huh? What was that last word?" Emil questioned, truely curious.

"I said.. You're kinda attmsnnsnadsse." She said quietly.

"I still can't hear you."

" I said you're kinda attractive!" Lilli finally blurted out, covering her mouth and hiding her face right after. Emil's jaw dropped a bit, and he blushed a lot. Matthias's jaw was on the floor, an Lukas had his eyebrows raised.

"Well... uh, I, er, eh... You're pretty cute too." Emil said back, blushing more and looking away.

Matthias's jaw went through the floor, and Lukas' eyebrows went through the cieling.

Lilli just blushed and offered a really super tiny shy smile, which Emil returned.

"Lovebirds. They. are. everywhere." Lukas commented, shattering the moment and chucking the remains out the window into a garbage truck.

Both puffin-lover- albino and gun-fanatic#2 blushed even brighter than Lovino, and protested immediatly.

Matthias snickered, "Hit it on the head, Norge." He agreed, inspecting the duo.

"You know, I've never seen Ice blush that red before!" the Dane exclaimed suddenly, "Not even when we forced him to call you 'Onii-chan', Norge!" Matthias looked ready to faint from shock. Lukas nodded, noting to press this matter farther when he and Emil were alone.

Ah. Peace in the middle of a war. It's lovely.

GILBERT

"so, this is our plan! Stick to it. NO EXCEPTIONS!" Gilbert hollared to his companions, slapping a paper down. Everyone looked at it.

"This can't work, can it?" Jessica questioned, eyebrow raising.

"It can't." Lovino commented flatly.

"It will! See, if Lizzie does that, then Belle is free to do this, and then that triggers the cue for Switzy to do that, and then we can go on instinct from there!" Gilbert walked them through it, pointing to different places.

"Huh. It does look pretty fault-proof if we do it that way." Monika said, tilting her head. Matthew nodded.

"I guess..." Jessica huffed, crossing her arms.

" Alright. It's about 11:00 p. m. It's time to set this baby in action." Gilbert said, smirking.

Everyone nodded, setting game faces on. Or poker faces. Either one works.

They snuck around the tall building that held all the power countries. Meaning, China, America, England, France, and some various others. The building was a dark black, no windows, but doors on each side, and a wall around it, the wall also having a door on each side, like Ivan wanted someone to break in.

Elizaveta went ahead knocked out all the guards in a 20-meter radius of their entrance, and the group filed in. Then, Belle picked the lock at the building's west door, and Vash went ahead, shot security cameras with a paint ball gun, before switching to his good ol' rifle. They got into the next room, which had three other hallways and a tall staircase.

"Alright everyone, instinct time! Split up into twos!" Gilbert said to everyone, running east with Monika following him. Jessica rolled her eyes, but her and Matthew ran west. Belle led Lovino north. Vash and Elizaveta shared a look, shrugged in sync, and started running up the spiral staircase.

The thought running through every single one of their heads?

The game is on, Ivan Braginski. What is your move going to be? The pieces aren't setting themselves up for you anymore. Bring it.