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Ivan's mind was blank and he only saw his wife as she fainted in front of his eyes. Soon, his precious little wife is lifeless on the couch. He didn't notice YueMei shouting at Arthur to call his father and a doctor. His heart was beating quite loudly in his chest and it was a beat of fear. Fear of what had just happened to his wife.

"Ivan, it's going to be alright." A sweet voice snapped him out of the trance and he suddenly felt a lot of adrenaline rushing through his system. He promised Yue he wouldn't act on violence anymore but he needed to hit someone.

Shaking off the hand on his forearm, he went to hunt for that man that caused his wife distress, ignoring the shouts of his name.

"Ivan!" Amelia shouted to the retreating Russian and she turned back and forth between the people busily making sure that Yue was alright. She had a sudden feeling that Ivan was up to no good, so she took a breath and run straight for him.

The tall Russian's face was usually a peaceful child like face that everyone thought looked ssuspicious, but now his expression was darken. His brows were furrowed and his usual smiling lips were drawn down with a frown. His unique eyes were also different, for anyone with a will to live would have avoided him as he quickly strode with his long legs along the Kirkland estate, looking for his prey.

He went to the kitchen and saw the Japanese man talking to the cook. The anger in the Russian's system boiled tenfold. He now plans to kill all of us?! Ivan's mind was in so much rage that his senses were gone and were replaced by pure animal instinct.

"You!" His voice was harsher than necessary and the cook shivered in fear. The Japanese man just nodded in acknowledgement of his presence, however Ivan wouldn't have any of that. He pulled the short Asian man by his collar and looked him in the eye.

"You're Yue's brother." It was more of a statement than a question. If the Japanese man was afraid, he didn't show it in his face as he stared right back at the intimidating Russian.

"Hai." He replied in a clear tone. Ivan then landed a strong blow Kiku's stomach. Kiku gasped and tried holding his abused abdomen and found it futile with the Russian still holding his collar. The servants in the kitchen were screaming now and running out get help.

"You caused Yue a lot of pain, little boy. I should return the favour." He deliberately threw the shorter man across the room. Kiku tried to grab onto something, but only knocked some pans onto the floor causing the room to echo with the sound of metal hitting the stone floor. If he hadn't learned any martial arts in the past, he would have knocked out cold by then. He growled in pain as he rubbed his abdomen, thinking how the painful landing on the floor will surely make his joints sore in the morning.

Ivan wasn't satisfied with it. He needed more, he needed to see those dark endless pit of emotionless cower in fear. He took out his knife hidden in his pants and went straight for the Japanese man still crouched down on the floor.

He sliced the knife through the air, causing the man to scream in pain as the knife broke the sensitive skin of his shoulder blade.

Ivan then laughed as he saw the crimson liquid flowing from the now stained knife and the upper shoulder of the man that caused Yue so much pain.

"Ivan!" The Russian's mind snapped out of its delusional state and turned unhappily to the intruder. There, standing in the doorway was no other than the annoying American he called sister-in-law.

"My gosh." Her face was priceless as she saw the scene in front of her. Ivan crouched down on the bleeding Japanese man with a knife still dangerously hanging in the air.

"Amelia, what is it? I hear screa-"Arthur stop short before his wife as he too saw the scene. Ivan clicked his tongue between his teeth in annoyance and stood up to walk past the couple.

"It's your problem now." He said before walking back to the salon to find his wife.

"Kiku, are you're alright?" Amelia quickly run toward the man and tried helping him up. He looked up at her with a small smile on his face.

"I'm all right, Amelia-sam-" he wasn't able to finished his sentence before darkness consumed his sight. The last thought was that his guilt has finally had been released.

"Arthur! Help me with this." Amelia commanded her husband like a general as she grabbed a random cloth and tried stop the blood from the wound.

"Bloody hell, Ivan had opened a deep one. This will definitely scar." Arthur said in shock as he saw the open wound. His robe will also be a ruined, he thought, as it was stained with blood as well a cut on the shoulder blade.

Mathilda stared speechless at the scene in front of her. Yue was still unconscious but the people surrounding her weren't screaming or running anymore. A strong hand was placed on her shoulder and she jumped a little in surprise.

"She's going to be alright, Mathilda." Gilbert assured her by squeezing her shoulder and she placed hers on top of his. Not a minute later, Ivan strode into the room with blood on his sleeves.

"Mein Gott!" Gilbert whispered as the intimidating Russian went to sit on the floor besides his wife, softly whispering to her.

"Ivan? Is that blood on your arms?" YueMei asked as she stared at her son-in-law still whispering at her daughter. He didn't replay, for the shout from Arthur caused her leave quickly.

They heard another scream and both Mathilda and Gilbert went out into the hall. There, Mathilda gasped at the bloody body of Kiku. YueMei was there also, shaking in fear at the mere sight of the Japanese man.

"I-is t-that Kiku?" Arthur and Amelia exchange a confused look but tried to calm her down so she could help him.

"How did yo- never mind. Mother ,please, Ivan cut him deeply." Arthur supplied but regretted it the moment he saw his stepmother's face.

"Ivan did this?" her face was either in pain or relief but it seemed clear to them that she didn't want to help the man.

"Mother, please, he might die from blood loss." Amelia, with her ever so eager to help others attitude, failed to notice that YueMei wasn't in the mood to help the man. Whatever happened in the past, he must had done something terrible to the Chinese woman for her to have such reaction, Mathilda thought.

It seems like a long moment before YueMei composed herself and instructed the two blonds to put Kiku on the another coach besides Yue.

"Oh my, the coach will be ruined." Arthur heard his stepmother groan, but he doubted that was she truly upset about.

Ivan gave a cold look to the fallen man, but did nothing more than that before returning to smile at his wife.

Ivan jerked when a shaking hand had touched his shoulder. He looked up to see Mathilda's scared face but he understood immediately what it meant. He was too big to be in the middle of the couches. So with one last kiss on his wife's brow, he stood up and went to the corner and observed the scene playing in front of his tired eyes. The adrenaline earlier had all but faded away, leaving him tired and worrying over his wife.

"What's wrong with this family?" Mathilda heard Gilbert whispered in agitation. He was a little shaken as well at what just happened. And it was only in the mid-morning. A servant came running in with boiling water as well as a bottle of whiskey.

Halfway through stopping the blood from over oozing out, YueMei stopped and remembered her daughter. She grabbed a small bottle from her gown and gave it to Ivan.

"Used this to wake Yue up." Ivan quickly took the clear bottle and Gilbert immediately knew what it was.

"Hey! Yue gave me that same bottle to wake Mathilda up." Gilbert sudden outburst wasn't missed and Arthur raised a brow at him.

"Why? I never heard her being sick." Amelia then gasped and her husband looked at her suspiciously.

"A-me-li-a." The tone was rather unsettling, he was glaring at his wife as though she did something wrong to provoke him. Amelia just gave a broken giggle and smiled her sweetest.

"I might have forgotten to tell you that Mathilda is with child and you're going to be an uncle!"

"What?!" Arthur's bellow had the rest turn to him and the Chinese woman glared daggers at him.

"If you're going to fight, do it away from here." She shooed the two 'useless' couple out of the salon.

Once out of earshot, Gilbert rubbed his neck and gave a weird look to his old friend.

"You don't have to act like it's the end of the world Arthur." Gilbert jested and was given a glare in return. The German prince rolled his scarlet eyes and gave a desperate sigh.

"Oh come on! It's not like you're going to be a father. And didn't you notice the bump." Gilbert pointed at the slightly swell on his wife midsection. She was wearing a dress that's twice her size in the middle (thanks to Francis for his sewing techniques), so it was barely visible if you didn't look closely.

"Gilbert." Mathilda's soft but stern voice stopped her husband from agitation the irritated Brit even more..

"Are you telling me that this was that the child was conceived the night you took her innocent?" If Gilbert hadn't known Arthur for a long time, he might have punched him in the gut already. But lucky for the thick brows Brit, he knew that his 'gentleman' side was just overtaking the conversation.

Then Arthur's eyes widened at the memory from a few months back in this very hall. He jerked a finger at his supposed close friend.

"Arttie, please stop." Amelia tried reasoning when she noticed the conversation was stressing her twin.

"Oh my gosh. You married her out of guilt in conceiving, didn't you? That's why you married her right then and there." A whimpered had both men looked at Mathilda's red faced.

"Arthur!" Amelia growled at her shocked husband as she cradled her twin, who had tears forming in her eyes. Realizing his mistake, Arthur's expression softened. He tired to apologized, but was stop from the German.

"Scheiße. Why do you have to be such an ass?" He took his wife from her twin and glared at Arthur hard on the face.

"Listen here, Brit. I didn't know that she was with child on our wedding day, but mark my word when I say I'm glad that I did what I did." He tightens his grip on Mathilda's waist, and looked at her troubled face. He brushed the tear stain away from her cheeks and smiled softly to her.

"She is my liebing now and that would never chance." Mathilda's gasped at the soft look that replaced the usual proud one on her husband's handsome face. He leaned down to kiss her lips and groped her bottom. When Mathilda squealed, he took advantage of her open mouth to taste her tongue.

Arthur and Amelia's mouth were jaw dropped at the scene unfolding in front of them, right here in the open. When Mathilda moaned, Arthur cleared his throat and took Amelia away from the openly passionate couple.

A doctor came half an hour after Yue had woken up. However, Kiku was taken care of first hhe looked at the slightly shocked pregnant woman.

"She and the child will be fine, just as long she doesn't hit her head and avoids whatever had caused her blood to drop that suddenly." The doctored said in a fearful tone as an intimidating Russian was emitting an unnerving aura behind him.

"Thank you doctor." YueMei shook his hand and escorted him out with Henry following behind.

Yue finished her glass of water and sighed rubbing her forehead.

"You're fine, da?" Ivan went to sit on floor next to her and stared up at his wife with an expression that caused Yue to smile at the cuteness.

"Shi. We are fine." She rubbed her swollen abdomen in assurance and was given a peck on the lips from the Russian.

"Now, can you tell me what had happened to Kiku?" Yue tilted her head to the sleeping Japanese man on the couch. His upper body was covered in white bandages. Ivan frowned and moved to block Yue's view from him.

"Nyet. You need to rest now." He helped her up and Yue tired to looked at her baby half-brother again but the Russian was not having none of it.

"Iva-"

"Nyet." His voice gave no room for argument and Yue let it go for now as he pulled her out of the saloon.

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The pale prince idly smooth his pregnant wife's stomach as they laid on the green pasture behind the Kirkland estate. Both stayed away from everyone when they were told by one of the servants that Yue was now better and that no serious harm was done to Kiku. So Gilbert took Mathilda out for a fresh air.

She might need it after all the commotions they had since arriving. It was hard to believe that it was not even lunch yet.

Gilbert ran through the events of the morning in his head. He had brought with them an unwanted man from the past of both Chinese women, and Yue had fainted at the sight of him. He chuckled at the very thought of it. He was really a demon in disguise to caused threse misfortunes.

Mathilda looked up as she felt Gilbert's chest shaking violently, and the sight before her puzzled her.

"What is so humorous that you are laughing all by yourself?" Gilbert looked at her, without removing the grin of his face and traced her slightly swollen cheeks. Her lilac eyes had returned back to its normal shine than before she was crying.

"Nothing, just thinking that what the priests said how I will bring misfortune to others is true." Mathilda frowned at her husband's dark humour.

"That's nothing funny, Gilbert." Gilbert chuckled some more but smirked when his wife said the next words.

"You said it yourself, you should not be bothered by other's thoughts. Where's the Gilbert that I know off accepted who he is?" Mathilda sat up and Gilbert followed, not liking the absent feeling his wife's warm body pressing down at him.

"Ja! And why did Arthur's words hurt you earlier when you know that I would never leave you?" Mathilda blushed but looked away from the smirking man.

"That's different." She weakly defended herself. She run her hands to her swollen tummy and sighed, staring at the distance. Even though it was noon and the sun was out, quite rare in England, the air gave a nasty chill on their coated bodies.

"I know I never cried that easily before." Gilbert turned to his wife when she suddenly started talking again. She turned to him swiftly and he jumped a little in surprise at the determination on her watery eyes.

"Yeah? It's quite hard to believe." She ignored the sarcasm but continue to explain.

"I may be timid Gilbert, but I don't cry easily. Not since. . .not sin" Her words dried out and her eyes began to swell again with big fat tears falling down her cheeks. Gilbert jerked in panic wondering why his wife started crying again.

"Ficken! What's the matter?" He didn't know what else to do but pull her into a hug and smoothed her back as she tried speaking in broken English.

"I-I'm s-sorry. It's j-juuust that, I suddenly –hic-felt like crying." She covered her faced at Gilbert's jacket and tried desperately to breathe normally, failing miserably if you asked Gilbert.

"Mathilda." He calmed her with his voice and cradled her in his lap, trying to remember how his mother did it to him when he was having a bad day.

After a few minutes, Mathilda stopped her violent shaking and just breathe in deeply, concentrating on Gilbert's soft voice and his hand rubbing smooth circles around her back.

"Better?" Mathilda nodded but stayed right where she was, on Gilbert's lap being cradled like a baby.

"Gut." He kissed her forehead and turned up to the darken sky. Well, it was fun while it lasted.

"It looks like England will be having another heavy rain this afternoon." Mathilda turned to where Gilbert' was looking at and sighed softly.

"We should go in." Mathilda nodded and unravelled her arms around Gilbert's neck and both of them stood up. Hand in hand, they walked towards the back door and into the cozy home of the Kirkland estate.

Luncheon was quite awkward. Amelia kept nudging Arthur with her elbow to go apologized to Mathilda and Gilbert. They were the only couples here in the hall, since Ivan insisted that Yue eat in their room and YueMei, along with Henry and Hong, were with them. Kiku was given some time to heal on one of their guest rooms.

The tension was felt in the whole room and Gilbert just raised a brow at the two blonds across from him. He turned to Mathilda, who was nursing the soup and sighed. He stretched his long arms up in the air. Who cares about etiquette since they were with friends, more like in-laws now.

"Soooo~ got something to say, Arthur?" Gilbert taunted the agitated Brit and was received a scroll.

Arthur sighed and he might as well swallow his pride now when it was only them than later where it might be more witnesses.

"Mathilda." Said twin looked shyly at Arthur. She was never really good with meeting eye contact but her twin nodded her head with her huge grin and two thumbs-up which puzzled Gilbert.

"Yes, Arthur." A blush formed on the thick brows Brit and swallowed a lumped before continuing.

"I'm sorry for what I said before. I don't know what has gotten over me when I accusing Gilbert for being that low-"

"Ja rechts." Gilbert side comment was ignored by the over embarrassed Brit.

"I shouldn't had acted what I did earlier. Please do accept my sincere apology, Mathilda." Mathilda's mouth opened wide and Amelia patted her husband's shoulder with her wide grin.

"See, it wasn't so bad was it Artie." Amelia encouraged but it might as well be sarcasm.

Mathilda's eyes started to water again and Arthur panicked some more.

"No Mathilda I didn't mean to . . Bloody hell. I mean, what I'm trying to say is that I am sorry for acting all high and mighty and jump to conclusion. Please don't cry." Amelia was right beside her twin as soon as she noticed the tears in her eyes and comforted her.

"Maddie. Come now, don't be such a cry baby."

"I'm not~" She defended miserably with tears falling from her eyes and her voice cracking a little.

"I'm sorry Arthur. I didn't mean to trouble you-hic- its just that –hic- I feel quite emotional now –hic- a days." Mathilda said with tear stained eyes and her sleeves were soaked through.

"Kesese, it may be because of the baby that's she's acting like that." Gilbert was now practically immune to his teary wife, though it still pained him to see her like that. Amelia's head then quickly snapped up with excitement on her cerulean blue eyes.

"I remember now! Yue told me why she cried on my wedding day. She denied being a softy to me but said that it was her baby's doing." Arthur was a little pale but nodded his head in understanding.

"R-really?" Mathilda asked in a whisper when her crying stopped.

"Yeah! She says that its because of our home mine."

"Our what?" Gilbert blinked in confusion.

"Our hormone. Its HOR-MONE not home mine, Amelia." Arthur supplied and cruised at the same time. Amelia waved her hand in the air and patted Mathilda on her shoulder.

"Maddies' HORMONE-" She emphasized the last word just for Arthur. "It's unstable as Yue had put it. Since I'm your sister and the aunt of the new bundle of joy, I will help Maddie fight this hormone!" She excitedly declared and Gilbert had to laugh at the overly exaggerated twin. Arthur just rubbed his face in frustration.

Afternoon was much more peaceful. Since the rain was pouring nonstop, the whole family was stuck inside the estate.

Yue had tried convincing Ivan to let her go and be with Mathilda, but failed miserably. So here she was, laying on the bed, her head rested on the wooden board and frowning down at the chess board in front of her.

"Anytime Yue." Mathilda giggled at her friend's serious face concentrating on the board game. Half of her wooden white army were captured by Mathilda's advancing black knight and bishops.

Her small hand reached for her last knight but stopped when Ivan coughed. She then pulled her hand back and frowned at the board some more. Mathilda just smiled. She had all the time in the world and she was having fun seeing her Chinese friend struggling to remember which chess piece moves the right way.

"Aaaah! Just move a piece already!" Amelia screamed but was ignored. She had been doing that every time its Yue's turned to move and she was itching to just take over the game. After all, chess was a common game here and back in Boston.

Finally! Yue settled for her last rook to moved straight from the left. Ivan winced but wouldn't let it show. Mathilda's smile widened and moved her queen diagonally to her sitting-duck king.

"Check-mate." Mathilda smiled at Yue, who in returned frowned at the board and sigh.

"Xiangqi is much easier." Amelia shorted."Yeah right, with those Chinese words written on them, its much more difficult to handle than this." Mathilda just glared at her twin to be polite, not only because Ivan was smiling a little creepier but because it's the proper way.

A knock on the door had all four heads turned to the door, Gilbert entered the room and cleared his throat before letting Kuma paddled in as well.

"Oui Gilbert?" Gilbert sleepily looked from one pair of eyes to the other before sighing in defeat. Why did he have to lose to Arthur on this?

"Ah, well, YueMei just called me to tell you that Kiku is awake." Two blond twins turned too looked at the heavenly pregnant women on the bed. Yue just smiled and nodded her head.

"Thank you for informing us Gilbert. We'll be there in a few minutes." Both twins could have sworn that Ivan had a rather frightening aura that's evolving around the room.

A/N: THANK YOU SO MUCH INVISIBLEMANDA!

Sorry for the wait, I have been battling writer's block syndrome since my last chapter and hope this will make it up to it. I had a hard time writing this and fear that it might be a little too dark for some of you.

History facts:

I based Ivan and Kiku (more like a one –sided battle) fight with a real war between the two. And of course, China was the main reason for it, a little. In the peak of WW2, Japan made a treaty with the Soviet with a peace alliance, that they wouldn't bother them when they invaded China. Of of course the Chinese were frightened by this and they themselves had a secret meeting with the Soviets to support them or help them when Japan invaded. The Soviet accepts and went to be part of the Allied force and help fight back the Japanese in China's soil. Both team losses a lot of troops but in the end Russia won with crippling the Japanese army a little. (you may correct me if I'm wrong with this)

The liquid bottle I kept present is non-other than White Flower oil. I don't know if this product is available in the other countries besides Asia. I personally loved this oil, it helps a lot in my life. Benefits of using it are to fight mosquitoes away (I live in a tropical country, and mosquitoes are my biggest enemy here), smooth sore muscles when rubbed, and of course, the all famous ammonia init that helps a fainted person or dizzy person gain consciousness.

Chess, all time classic game in the world. It was first invented in India but because of its easy rules, they were a hit to the upper class people in England and then it went to the world. Chinese Chess or Xiangqi, as an almost same rules but the pieces are a bit different, instead of figures like the normal chess, it's all a rectangular box with Chinese letters to indicate what piece is what.

Bonus:

Mathilda may be a bit early in feeling those unstable hormones, but as everybody says, no pregnancy are the same. Good luck Mathilda! Lols.

Thank you for your patience with me and reading this, have a happy and blessed day everyone!