Characters:
Matt Bragiski (Chloe)/2p!Canada
Oliver Kirkland (Cupcake)/2p!England
Allen Jones/2p!America
Lutz Bielscmidt/2p!Germany
Nikolai Braginski/2p!Russia
Lovino Vargas (Boss Romano)/Romano Italia
Benny Scmidt/Luxembourg
Romeo Vargas (Nonno)/Ancient Rome
(Detective) Yao Wang/China
Jett Cook/Australia
Lorenzo Armati (boss of the Flaming Knives)/2p!Veneziano
Sarah Jones (Mommy)
WARNINGS; casual/ignorant transphobia, violence, blood, death
Matt skewers a chunk of green pepper onto the skewer Oliver has passed down the line. "So where did the vegan shit come from?"
"Saw a documentary, went veggie," Allen says, "Didn't really eat much dairy already so I just… ended up vegan."
"That's it?"
"What? You want me to say I saw God?"
Matt snorts. "Did you?"
"Not once in my fu-dging life. You?"
"Nope. Just a lot of Greek people."
Allen laughs.
"What about Germans?"
The group whirls. Lutz stands, barely two feet from behind Nikolai. A holster is strapped to each thigh, guns rest by his ribs, another holster on his forearm, and a lazy smirk glinting in the flicker of the fire.
"Who the fuck invited you?!" Allen screeches.
"Lovino did," Lutz says innocently,
"Like fuck I did!" Lovino stands, pulling a gun from under his jacket. Oliver holds up a skewer in warning, Allen grabs at his jacket behind him and pulls a gun of his own. Nikolai reaches into the fire, pulling out the leg of a table, end ignited.
"Look, it's just business, let's all calm down," Lutz says.
"Yes!" Benny agrees, standing and storming around the group to stand firmly between them, "No mafia shit on my property! Drop your weapons!"
"Not until he drops his," Lovino says.
Romeo sighs. "Benny, friend, just get out the way."
"No. This is my property, and if you do not drop your weapons I'm calling the police."
"You mean Detective Wang?" Romeo says plainly.
(Jett doesn't laugh.)
"He's paid off. He turns a blind eye to me, to Lovino, and he had the heads-up about a stalker. He'll just hang up on you. Get out of the way."
"What makes you think I'm the stalker?!" Lutz says, clutching his chest in offence, "I'm just here for a family reunion!"
"No one comes that strapped to a family reunion," Allen says.
"You weren't invited to any family reunion anyway," Matt says, pulling himself up.
Lutz gasps. "You would purposely exclude your own brother?"
"Yeah. You were an ass," Allen says.
"I was not!"
"You ran me over with a go kart! Three times! You put me in hospital!"
"That was an accident."
"Three times!"
"Not that part, the hospital part."
"What the fuck, Lutz?" Matt cuts in.
Lutz double-takes, staring at Matt in shock. "I thought the religious school was meant to make you into a respectable lady."
"It failed on multiple levels."
Allen and Nikolai both giggle.
Jett sighs, standing and joining Benny. "You," he points to Lutz, "Get the fuck off my property."
"What?" Lutz deadpans.
"You heard me. I own this place now, and you're not bastard welcome. Get. The fuck. Out."
"Or what. You heard Nonno, the police don't give a fuck."
Romeo stands, grabbing Benny and Jett by the arms and dragging them away. Nikolai pushes Matt in the direction Romeo heads, towards the shed to safety, but Matt doesn't move.
"It's two against one, you potato bastard," Lovino says.
"Five, really," Oliver adds.
"Two of us with guns, please shut up Cupcake."
Lutz nods, tongue pressed against the inside of his cheek, hands raised in a mock surrender. "Alright, you've got me. Now what?"
"Get the fuck outta here."
"Can't do that. Orders from the boss you see. You know the mafia; you can't just not do what the boss orders."
"Go to your boss, tell him you were outgunned, and that Boss Romano says he's a dry, useless cunt."
(Oliver flinches.)
"I'm not saying something like that to my boss's face. Not even when he's in a good mood. All I need to do is kill you. Don't be selfish."
"Are you fucking serious?" Matt says.
Lutz pauses. He looks Matt up and down. "I thought you'd be more like Mommy."
"You thought wrong."
Nikolai's grip on his flaming torch tightens.
"And she's not your mom," Allen says.
"No, but seriously, like," Lutz holds his hands out in front of his chest, cupping non-existent breasts, "You don't even look like a woman, what the fuck?"
Matt storms at him, Nikolai almost dropping the torch as he tries to grab him. "There's a good fucking reason for that."
He raises his hand, skewer tight in his closed fist. Lutz catches his wrist, seizing Matt by the shoulder and trying to push him away. Matt head-butts him square in the nose, and Lutz yells, pulling away.
Allen drops his gun, running forward and grabbing Matt by the arms, trying to pull him away. Nikolai throws the torch back into the bonfire and puts himself between Matt and Lutz, 'accidentally' trampling Lutz's leg. Matt yells, swearing in a mix of Russian and English and Canadian French, both Allen and Nikolai trying to calm him down.
Lutz pulls himself up, grabbing one of the guns out of its holster. He aims for the back of Nikolai's head, but staggers as Nikolai gets shoved backwards into him and misses, shooting uselessly into the air. Allen freezes, habitually scanning the group for injuries.
Matt breaks from his grasp, barrelling past Nikolai and slamming the side of his fist into Lutz's throat.
The gun clatters to the ground, Lutz hand dropping to gently touch the skewer sticking out the side of his neck. He coughs, thick red blood dripping over his lips and chin as he sways.
Matt shoves him, and Lutz stumbles dazedly to the ground. Matt kneels over him, seizing the skewer and pulling it straight out. Blood spurts from the wound, veins severed, the grass gushing crimson. His arms and legs convulse in pain and breathlessness and panic.
Nikolai crouches quickly, wrapping his arms around Matt's stomach and trying to pull him away. Matt wraps both hands around the end of the skewer and slams down, straight into Lutz's eye.
Lutz stops moving.
Yep.
Random headcannons;
Yes, Lutz is banging Lorenzo/the boss
Yes, Lutz purposely injured Allen a lot as they grew up
Some random info; when I first wrote this fight scene, Lutz survived with a gunshot wound to the shoulder and a skewered hand. Nikolai was uninvolved in the fight. Matt had kicked Lutz in the crotch and the face, similar to 'The Fight' that got him sent away to school in the first place.
I don't remember why I changed it, but I do prefer this one.
Also, the Vegan Conversation is a slight joke on myself. I headcannon that in canonverse, food shortages in the 2p!verse lead to cannibalism, and Allen was so disturbed by some of the things he saw in this time that he stopped eating meat and animal produce. Especially when it comes to canon!Oliver, it an be hard to tell exactly where (or who) this produce would have come from.
In human!verse, it's a lot less deep/horrifying/revealing. Just 'watched a documentary'.
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Next chapter: Lutz is buried
-Laurel Silver