...Hello again... I am so sorry guys. I haven't updated in three months! Three months! I'm so sorry, school's been hell for me the past months so I haven't had any time to write! But finally, I'm back!
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But well, here you go; finally a new chapter :)

Germany's Pov

I stared at the messy map in front of me. Sighing, I looked at my grinning brother. "Gilbert, this is stupid. It will never work."

"What are you talking about? Of course it will, the awesome me made it!"

"Bruder. This. Is. Stupid."

"Ve~ I think it looks like fun!"

"Hai, agree. It could use some changes to improve it, but otherwise I think it's a good idea."

"Feliciano? Kiku? You guys agree with them?"

"But of course, mon ami! After all, this is our fantastic plan!"

Sighing louder, I looked down at the paper again.

OPERATION GETTING-THE-TOMATO-LOVERS-TOGETHER!

(I AM AWESOME!)

Suddenly, I felt an arm snake around mine. "Per favore, Luddy? Won't you help out?" Feliciano said, giving his biggest puppy eyes. In the background, I heard Kiku snickering. He'd been acting...How do I put this….A little weird since the day he came back to school and found out that Feliciano and I had started dating. Not in a bad way though, just...weird. Perhaps weird didn't describe it well enough. Though I'm not sure what word to use to describe him... Fanboy?

"Luddy!" Feliciano whined. "Please!"

"Ja...fine…" Pretending to not hear Feli's happy squeals, I turned to my brother. "But like Kiku said, this plan needs improvement. First off, I think we should change this part…"

The plan was...pretty simple. First off all, we had to make sure Lovino and Antonio were separated. We figured that splitting into two groups and dealing with them one by one would be more effective. Having Feli, Kiku and I deal with Lovino would, hopefully, seem less suspicious too.

It was simple while we had classes. Since Antonio, Francis and my brother were two years over us, we could avoid each other with ease. Meals weren't much of a problem either. Gilbert and Francis made one guy from Slytherin and one from Hufflepuff keep an eye on our two victims. I mean….friends.

However, just as Kiku, Feli and I had left the potion classroom, after our last class for the day…

"Scheisse! Code red, everyone, code red!"

"What is it now, Gilbert?"

"Antonio is gone!"

"It's your fault, Gilbert! You were supposed to keep an eye on him!"

"No, you were supposed to do that, Francis!"

"I knew this would happen.." I sighed to myself. Feliciano smiled and hugged my arm.

"Ve, don't worry! We'll find him! He's probably just in the dorm or something!"

"Feli's right, it's nothing to worry about." Kiku said. "But I must agree with you, this was bound to happen." He added quietly, looking at the two bickering friends.

"At least we know where Lovino is." Just to make sure I was right, I looked over to the Slytherin table, where Feliciano's twin (thankfully) still sat. "We'll do like this." I announced. "Francis and Gilbert, since it's your fault…"

"Hey!"

"You know it's true bruder, now let me continue. Since it is your fault, you should try to find him while Feli, Kiku and I continue to keep an eye on Lovino. Try to be as quick as possible in your search. We need to put the plan into action before the dinner."

"Yes, Sir!" Gilbert saluted ironically, going as far as clicking his heels.

"Just go find Antonio…."

Laughing obnoxiously, Gilbert grabbed Francis's wrist and dragged him away to search for the Spanish boy. I heard a giggle behind me, and soon found myself dragged into a hug by Feliciano.

"You sounded so cool, Ludwig!" He giggled happily. "Like a real military officer!"

"Ja...well I...um…." Kiku let out a quiet snicker and my face went red yet again. Goddamn face! "We...we should keep an eye on Lovino."

"Perhaps we could invite him to study with us?" Kiku suggested. "That's less suspicious."

"That's a great idea Kiku!" Feliciano beamed. "FRATELLOOOOOOO!"

"WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW?"

We dragged Lovino with us to the library. The angry Italian kept mumbling things like 'why do we have to study now, idiotas' and 'I'd rather stay in my dorm'. However, he didn't make any attempts to run away, and followed us like a rather angry and irritated puppy. Professor McSnortsbottom almost ran past us in the corridor, which was rather unusual for her. Our, let's say easily irritated, professor would usually give someone a good scolding if they ran in the corridor. When Professor Golgindove hurried past us as well, I raised my voice.

"Excuse me, Professor? What's going on? Is something wrong?"

She stopped dead in her tracks, turning to face us with a white, nervous face. "Oh nothing you need to worry about, Mr Beilschmidt." For a split second her eyes gazed over to Kiku, before returning to meet mine again. "There's nothing for you to worry about." She repeated.

Our professor hurried away, leaving us standing there, staring after her like four quiet idiots. She couldn't seriously believe we wouldn't understand something was wrong, could she? Of course, we couldn't know exactly what it was, but she had looked at Kiku in a way that indicated that he was involved. The only thing I could think of would be his brother, but wouldn't she have told him if that was the case?

We stared awkwardly at each other. Feliciano was the first to break the silence. "It's probably nothing serious! Let's go to the library!" He said, smiling his typical Feliciano smile.

"Yeah, Feli's probably right. And it could be about anything. So let's…. Oh scheisse!" I cursed.

"So now Lovino is gone too." Kiku stated calmly.

"Scheisse." I mumbled again. "I knew this plan would fail. We should try to find my brother and Francis. We decide what to do from there."

"OH MY GOD LUDWIG! THIS IS AWESOME!"

"Shut up bruder… You lost track Antonio before…"

"Yes but now you can't complain about it! Kesesesesesesese!"

"Yeah, yeah… So what do we do now?"

"Eager to change the subject? Is it really that embarrassing for little Luddy?"

"Gilbert, shut up before I kill you."

"Yes, yes, that's enough." Francis calmly stepped in between my brother and me. "As much as I'd like to join Gilbert and tease you…"

"Francis you..."

"...I still think we should try to find our two lovebirds, oui?"

"How do we do that?" Feliciano asked.

"We should split up and search. We can reassemble here later if we haven't found them."

Francis nodded. "Oui, I think that's the best idea. Should we use the same groups as before?"

You might wonder how one loud Spaniard and one, when angered, equally loud Italian could disappear without a trace.

Unfortunately, I still have no answer for that.

As annoying and tiring as it was, an hour after we'd set out to search, Antonio and Lovino were still gone. Feliciano, Kiku and I sat at our meeting point, waiting for Francis and Gilbert to return.

"We saw Antonio!" Francis ran up to us, stopping with his hands on his knees. "You know the storage room in our plan? We saw him rather close to it!"

"And you didn't catch him because…?"

"Because it would have been suspicious and maybe because we lost track of him a little…"

"...I guessed that much. Where's Gilbert?"

"He's waiting for us back there. He stayed so he could see if Antonio came around again."

We hurried over to the place where Gilbert waited. Just like Francis had said, it was very close to the storage room. However, there was no sign of Antonio whatsoever. Gilbert said that we should try and look around here a little. At first, we stayed in one group. We'd split up enough as it was for one day and it had only given bad result. Then all of sudden, Francis spotted Antonios brown hair further into the corridor. We hurried towards him...But he disappeared. And he could have gone two different ways. Groaning, I grabbed Feliciano and Kiku and dragged them to the left while Francis and Gilbert walked to the right.

We walked along the corridor and as we came closer to the storage room, I started to believe we'd chosen the wrong path. Kiku stopped and picked up a piece of paper. I turned around both to ask him about it and tell him and Feli that we should go back, when someone jumped out from behind a state and grabbed me. Before I knew it, I was thrown into the storage room, Feliciano tumbling in seconds after me. The door slammed shut and everything went black.

"What the…? Gilbert?! If this is some kind of joke…"

"Ludwig?" Came Kiku's voice from the other side of the door. "Are the two of you okay?"

"Kiku!" Feliciano almost screamed. "It's dark and scary, please get us out!"

"Calm down, Feli." I mumbled and hugged him gently. "Don't worry, I'm here. We'll get out soon." Feliciano nodded a little, his head pressed against my chest.

"Who was it?" I asked Kiku. To my surprise, I heard a quiet laugh from the other side.

"Antonio and Lovino!" The amusement in Kiku' voice was clear. "Gilbert dropped the paper with our plan and Antonio or Lovino must have found it. And dropped it again,because that was the paper I found."

I rested my head against the door with a tired sigh. Though I had to admit it was rather amusing. The fact that they'd turned our plan against us, not that Feli and I was locked up in a store room.

"Don't worry." I heard Kiku say from the other side. "I'll go find Gilbert and Francis and get you out."

"Yeah, thanks." I heard Kiku walking away, his steps sounding more and more distant. I turned my attention back to Feliciano.

"Are you okay Feli?"

"Mhm." He nodded against my chest. "Because you are here!" He added and I knew he was smiling brightly. For the first time since we were locked in, I was thankful for the darkness.

We sat down on the floor, Feliciano still curled up against me. We sat in silence for a long time, not even Feli feeling a need to say something. Then he started singing. A slow, beautiful song in Italian. I had no idea what the words meant, but they sounded happy and love filled. The song was calming, almost sounding like a flowing river, and once again I was amazed by Feliciano's beautiful voice. The song began trailing off and Feliciano yawned. Soon, he fell asleep against my chest. I rested my head against the wall, and before I knew it, I was asleep as well, Feliciano's song still echoing in the room.

Let's steal a timeturner, go back in time and take a look from Spain's pov!

"Psst! Lovi!" Understandably, Lovi didn't see me. He was standing a couple of meters away with his brother and said brother's friends, turned away from me. The fact that I was hiding behind a statue probably only made it worse.

"Lovino!" I whispered a little louder. Now he seemed to hear me, turning his head in my direction. I looked out from behind the statue and waved at him. His eyes widened and he opened his mouth to say something. Quickly, I put a finger on my mouth, to indicate that he should be quiet, and motioned for him to come over. Lovino threw a careful glance over his shoulder, but the other first years seemed occupied with their conversation.

"What the fuck bastard?"

"Shh, Lovi! Come on, I'm going to show you something!"

"Wha-?" Not giving him time to finish his sentence, I grabbed his wrist and dragged him away. More because of luck than good timing, Feliciano and the others didn't see us.

"Well, tell me. What was it you wanted to show me?"

I smiled and handed him a not so neatly folded paper. "You see, Gilbert dropped this…"

…..

"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? ARE THEY SERIOUS? I SWEAR I'LL KILL THOSE BASTARDS!"

Laughing, I snatched the paper back before Lovino could tear it apart. "Calm down, Lovi!"

"DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN, GOD DAMNIT! THESE BASTARDS WERE TRYING TO DO FUCKING MATCHMAKING!"

"I think it's funny!"

"What is funny about them trying to do matchmaking?" Lovino exclaimed, red like a tomato. "They have nothing to do with that and it's annoying and…." He continued his rant in Italian, making it impossible for me to understand. Spanish and Italian might resemble each other, but Lovi spoke too fast for me to understand what he said.

At least he never said he had a problem with the one he was matched with…. Said a little voice in the back of my head. Yeah, at least not in English, I thought back.

"Calm down, calm down." I laughed and put a hand on his shoulder. "I was thinking we could mess with their plan a little."

That caught his interest. "How?"

"Look here." I said, pointing to the messy plan. "They were planning to lock us up in this storeroom. Francis and Gilbert would be acting guards, while Feli and his friends would be to be the ones to lock us in. So if we do like this…"

Lovino grinned evilly. " Antonio you're a fucking genius! Let's give them a taste of their own medicine!"

I found myself staring completely dumbstruck at Lovino. He actually said my name. Usually, he'd just say 'bastard' or...

"Why are you staring at me, idiot?" Or idiot.

"Oh, nothing Lovino…." I laughed, but felt heat rise on my cheeks. Lovino eyed me suspiciously, but decided to let it go and grabbed the paper with the plan and my wrist.

"Let's go ruin their annoying matchmaking plan."

I grinned to myself. I knew Gilbert was standing just a few meters away, around the corner, waiting for the others. As soon as I heard them, I would walk to my next position, just a little further away. I just needed to know they were here. Minutes passed, I started to get bored, when I heard steps and a 'Hey, Gilbert!'. As quick as my body would let me, I got up from my hiding place and walked away to the next. Though I guess that wasn't really a hiding place, more like a waiting place. I just had to wait for them to see me, then I'd move to the final location where Lovi waited.

Again, they took their sweet time and waiting got boring. I considered throwing stones against the wall, both to amuse myself and to get their attention if they were close. But I didn't, mainly because they came around a corner and spotted me just as I was about to pick up a rock.

I walked forward again and hid behind the left stone statue, next to the storage room. I grinned to Lovino, who was hiding behind the one on the other side of the corridor, and made the thumbs up sign. Shortly after, we heard steps approaching, and Ludwig saying something. They came closer and closer, until they were so close Lovino and I could jump out and grab them. Together, we threw our two victims, Feliciano and Ludwig, into the tiny room, and hurried away as fast as my body would let me. I laughed loudly as I heard Kiku let out a surprised yelp as he saw us.

We slowed down our pace as I couldn't walk too quickly, but laughed and bumped into each other until we exited the castle and fell down in the grass outside.

We just lay there, laughing until our stomachs hurt. Then we looked at each other and started to laugh again. Finally, our laughter died down. I would be lying if I said I didn't feel exhausted and dizzy and that my heart didn't beat so fast it hurt. But I didn't care, because laughing with Lovino felt amazing.

"That…" Lovino began, his eyes still sparkling. "Was so fucking funny."

I smiled and moved a little closed to him, so that our arms were touching. He didn't move away. "Yeah."

"Though if the potato bastard touches Feli, he's dead."

I laughed at him again, it was so like Lovi to say something like that. "Yeah, it would probably have been more fun with Francis and Gilbert. Matchmaking them wouldn't work, they wouldn't dream of becoming a couple, they would have destroyed the whole room while trying to get out! But Feli and Ludwig make a cute couple." I pointed out.

Lovino snorted. "A potato bastard is always a potato bastard. Feli could do much better." He paused. "But… I know he makes Feli happy." He mumbled. "I just don't want him to get his heart broken…"

I smiled and took the risk to move even closer. "You're so cute Lovi. You really care about him."

"Of course I do, bastard. And if you tell anyone what I just said, I swear I'll kill you!"

"I know."

We lay there for a while and watched the sky turn into different shades of orange, yellow, red and pink. Sometimes, one of us would say something, tell a joke or a story. Then we'd just lay in silence for a little while. Lovino, much to my surprise, moved closer and rested his head on my arm. He mumbled something about killing me again, but without any real bite in his words. When the sky started turning purple and dark blue, we headed inside again, walking just a little closer than before.

(Just to make something clear; the hearth condition Antonio is suffering from is totally made up. A similar one might excist in real life, but I'm no doctor so I don't know. But this one is made up.)