"That vas a fun day, vasn't it?" Prussia questioned his two daughters who bobbed their heads quickly, his gaze leveling on the car seat holding the six moth old and he smiled when he heard gurgling burbled sounds leaving the baby and even found his eyes flicking to Austria who was sitting in the driver's seat this time. THe Austrian smiled softly at his daughter's rather enthusiastic responses and both parents shared a quick look when Prussia turned to loo out the window feeling a stab in his chest. Guilt is what it was. See, Prussia always had it be known that when he was with a partner, a boyfriend or girlfriend, that he was faithful. He would never do anything to question the trust he would work to build between himself and another person but he was absolutely faithful and even loyal to his partner no matter who it was. He even held loyalty to some that he had dated, one of which was Hungary. "Vould you girls like to do this more often?"

"Ja! I lie playing with Giovanni und Wolfram! It's fun to hang out with Onkel Feli und Onkel Luddy! THe park vas so much fun too!" Astrid babbled with a sparkle in her ruby eyes as she leaned forwards against her seatbelt as she smiled widely at her father who smiled right bac at her gently. "I vould love nothing more if ve visited vith them more! It vould be fun to get avay from the house once in avhile! Right, Mia?" Her sister nodded eagerly and Astrid then turned her attention to her mother happily. "Do you thin we'll see more of Giovanni und Wolfram vhen ve go to the Vorld Academy?"

"It is quite possible, liebling, that you could see more of your cousins." Austria replied with a smile on his lips, violet eyes flicking over to Prussia who forced himself to meet that gaze as evenly as he could when the phone between them in the cup holder vibrated and the brunette turned his head slightly to peer at his phone meaningfully before looing up at Prussia."Vould you mind getting that for me? It's probably Hungary, I told her to call me vhenever she can because she just seems off lately. You've noticed, haven't you? There's something...jumpy about her, like a child that's done something wrong." He paused then bit his lip and released it to speak again. "In fact you've been acting like that too. Vhat is going on vith the two of you? Is there something going on that I should possibly know about?"

Prussia parted his lips to speak but his throat refused to spit out a word, his lips trembling with the string of words they wanted to form and yet his mouth was suddenly dry with the thought that now was the time to own up to his lover. That now was the time that he had to tell his lover just what happened over the weekend when he went to speak to the Hungarian woman. Yet he choked out a quiet sound that registered to his ears faintly as a rush of air leaving his lungs instead and his gaze dropped from Austria to h8is fingers twisting in his lap like he was one of the girls being scolded. He knew that now, with the girls in the car , was not the time. He new it wasn't so why were the words bubbling on his tongue? Why was he so closed to telling his lover everything that happened? He was thankfully interrupted by Amelia's sweet voice. "Mutti, I like to see Giovanni, Wolfram, Onkel Luddy und Onkel Feli but it's an awfully long drive isn't it?"

"So vhat? Ve hardly ever make the drive to see our Onkels! Ve should start seeing them more! After all vho knows vhen ve'll see them again!" Astrid protested as she then looed at her brother for a moment then bac at her obstinate sister. "Vhat about Fritz? He should get to know Onkel Luddy und Onkel Feli too! Ve only know them so vell because ve visited them all the time growing up und Fritz should be treated to the same thing! I like seeing our Onkels drive be damned!"

"Oi! That's a bad vord, you shouldn't be saying that!" Austria yelped as he looed at his daughter in the rearview mirror at the sight of the flush crawling up her cheeks at being called out and yet the Austrian frowned severely as he looed bac to the road. "I know you picked that up from your father or from Romano but I vould appreciate it if you could possibly eep that nasty language out of of your vocabulary,understand?" Austria didn't have to look to know his daughter was hanging her head remorsefully and he flicked his eyes up to meet Amelia's in the rearview mirror once more before looing bac to the road. "And as for you, Mja, I understand that this long drive makes you sleepy und the last place that you vant to sleep is the car but I have no problems vith driving out so far. After all these visits are as much for your father as they are for you girl and your brother."

"Really? How come it's for Vati as vell?" Amelia asked straining against her seatbelt curiously, her violet eyes alit with curiosity as she drilled her stare into the bac of her father's head but he never turned to loo at her so she did the next best thing in her mind to do. She pressed her feet against the bac of his seat and kicked lightly making him bob yet he didn't break in his silence and even if she dared to kick harder she knew it wouldn't rattle the answer she wanted from her father out of him but she could try couldn't she? She tried for a harder kick hearing his head thump against the headrest and soon enough she was kicking wildly against the seat. "Vaati! Come on, tell me! How come the visits are for you as vell? Tell me, tell me!"

"Now you knock that off right now, young lady!" Austria scolded as he too one hand from the wheel to swat her calf making her draw her knees close to her chest in response and his lips pinched together for a moment at his response. It would be seen as the improper response to a child wanting answers but how long would Prussia let her kick at the seat? How long would he sit there until he blew up or even gave in? He didn't know but as he glanced at the Prussian from out of the corner of his eye he sighed looing up at his daughter's teary gaze in the rearview mirror. "Mutti's very sorry that he smacked you, sveetheart, but you can't go acting like that just because Vati von't answer your question. It's not right to kick at Vati's seat like that, it's very childish."

"But she is a kid!" Astrid jumped in for her sister's defense as she noticed the tears beginning to trickle down her sister's pale cheeks and her ruby eyes flared at her mother as she strained against her seatbelt then threw her arms around her sister tugging her head to her chest and began stroking the chestnut brown locks of hair softly. "You need to be nicer too, Mutti! She just vanted Vati to answer! It's not a big deal!" She hugged her little sister fiercely, a hand rubbing circles into her back softly and slowly in order to help soothe the whimpering girl. So protective Astrid was over Amelia.

"Vould everyvun just shut up for now? Please?" Prussia finally got out in a thick, choked voice making three pairs of eyes flic towards him but he focused his gaze out the window next to him in order to ignore those heavy weights on top of him, to breath without feeling like he was being smothered. For he was surely, slowly becoming smothered with each passing moment as he watched the snowflakes streak past his window as he tucked his hands between his thighs feeling his heart thump unevenly against his chest. Soon, so soon would he be telling Austria the truth and he wanted a moment of peace, of the general feel of their family before it was all over for surely Austria was going to force an ultimatum on him as soon as he found out. It was going to be a fight of proportions that Prussia knew it would be a fight of proportions that they never had before and yet the words were right there on his tongue waiting to be spoken. Yet there was the knowledge that he was facing the end of the very thing he wanted to preserve the most.

"Finally home, finally hooome!" Astrid sang the words delightedly as she swung her legs joyfully then turned her attention to her little brother who was cooing to himself at the sound of the sung words and the albino girl giggled happily before smiling at the baby. Prussia sighed as they pulled into the driveway, unclipping his seatbelt as it whizzed into place making both girls stare at him curiously before reaching to do the same thing happily and Austria shot the Prussian a loo of reproach as Astrid leaned forward to the edge of her seat, her head popping forward to loo between both her parents as Austria pared the car and she smiled brilliantly at her father as her hair brushed her chee lightly. "Aren't you happy that ve're home, Vati? Oh, Mutti, could ve order out for dinner? I've been wanting crab ra-rangoons? Is that what they're called? i really want some! So could we please order out? Pretty pleaseeee?"

"Oh I don't see vhy not." Austria sighed out as he unbuckled himself then pulled the eyes from the ignition causing the headlights to flicker before going out dropping the small family into darkness but Prussia was already opening his door stepping out into the snow which crunched beneath his boots and was opening the door for Amelia and Astrid. Austria climbed out of the driver's seat with the ice crunching lightly beneath his boots as he opened the bac door and began to unbuckle the straps holding Fritz's car seat in place. He gazed down at the face that so much already resembled his fathers from his proud eyebrows to the slant of his little jaw and even the slope of his nose, all things that Austria already adored about his little son as he tugged the car seat from the bac seat into the crook of his elbow. He shut the doors carefully as not to wake the sleeping babe who was snoring lightly, a rhythm resembling his father's and Austria smiled adoringly down at the baby before beginning his wal around the car when he noticed Prussia was holding the door open wide allowing the girls to run in shouting their hello's to their cats and the Prussian smiled at Austria.

There was something...painful in the smile, like the Prussian didn't want to smile but had too in order to put the Austrian's worries to ease and this made Austria's heart stutter nervously in his chest. He made his way around the car with Fritz's car seat held tight in the crook of his elbow as the child's car seat rocked against his thigh and he liced his lips nervously as he waled up the pathway to the front door where Prussia was waiting for him. There had been something in his ruby eyes that Austria didn't like t osee when he had glanced at the other male during their journey home and there had been something just...off about how the Prussian was reacting to the little things. Being solemn, quiet like his thoughts were curling into tight robes that bound him to one mood and something about that thought made the Austrian's heart sprint against his chest as he waled up the steps squeezing past Prussia who offered a little shoulder squeeze as he made his way past Prussia who shut the door after them. He heard him faintly over the thundering boom of his heart in his ears for the girls to go upstairs until dinner got there and Prussia turned towards Austria who was quickly rushing for the living room with the sleeping baby. Prussia himself hesitated as he felt his own heart throb with quic beats as he followed after the Austrian biting his inner chee for a moment as he paused in the living room doorway to watch the Austrian tug the tiny brunette baby out of the carseat and he placed said carseat on the coffee table. He shrugged out of his coat, draping it against the couch then reaching in to unbuckle Fritz then tugging him into his arms.

It was almost as if he was holding the infant to his chest as a talisman to keep Prussia from speaking but the albino let out a harsh breath as he looed at his lover sitting there reaching for the house phone next to him and he bit his lip nervously for a moment. It was heavy with the amount of words bubbling inside of Prussia that when he looed at his lover he found himself almost unwilling to spill the words that he'd been holding bac. He understood just what he did had been wrong and he understood that he had betrayed just about every promise along with every vow he had ever made to Austria years ago and he knew that he was going to break Austria's heart. He was breaking his own heart right now. Austria opened the drawer of the small table the phone had been sitting on to pull out the menu for Chinese food when Prussia swallowed nervously then clear his throat making those wide violet eyes lift up to him. "I have something I need to tell you, Roddy."

"Really, Gilbert? Because I need to call in the food before it gets too late und then I-"

"I slept vith Hungary last veekend." The words spilled past his lips so quickly that he couldn't even consider them,not even with those large violet eyes going cold and Austria's face freezing in the expression it had been in moments ago. He looed like an exquisite ice sculpture the longer the stared at Prussia and the albino flinched underneath that cold stare but he knew he deserved it. The guilt inside of him festered rather than lightened, swallowed pieces of hm rather than liberating him the way he thought it would when he finally got the truth out but with the tears filling those violet eyes he so adored he found there was no liberation. How could there be when the one he loved more than anything ws hurt so deeply by his betrayal?

"You...slept vith her?" Austria whispered with pain thick in his voice,his arms trembling lightly before standing up from the couch to place the baby in the playpen where he laid out on his bac peacefully dreaming while the Austrian Nation turned bac towards his lover. Outrage. Pain. Betrayal. They were all bubbling up inside of Austria the longer he laid eyes on Prussia and he found his hands curling into tight fists as he stared at Prussia before pointing a finger at the albino while trying to ignore the shaking of his fists. "You are a disgusting man! How dare you! Und I bet you vere drinking vith her veren't you? Did you plan this? Or are you going to say it vas an accident? Because last time I checked no vun visits a "friend" und ends up fucking them! How could you, Prussia? Mein Gott, did you even use protection?"

"Of course I did! Vhy-"

"So you did this intentionally? You slept vith her to prove vhat? How big of man you are? To prove that every vun vants you or something? Vhat vas the pointy of this, Prussia? To hurt me?" Austria couldn't stop the questions from spilling out of hm as he hurled each one at the Prussia who was surprisingly quiet underneath these accusations and the Austrian's hands tightened their fists causing his nails to bite into his palms as tears began trembling on his lashes. Prussia cheated on him. He never, ever thought he'd live to see this day. Never thought it could happen to him. "Is this vhy you've been so busy at vork? Have you been spending time vith her? Vas this some premeditated thing between the two of you? Gott I can't stand looking at your face right now!"

"It wasn't planned in the slightest bit! It's just something that happened!" Prussia threw hi hands out then whipped around when he heard feet on the stairs behind him and there were his two daughters staring at him with wide violet and ruby eyes. "You two get back upstairs! Now!" Astrid grabbed Amelia's hand and the two of them fled up the stairs quickly leaving behind their parents with little yelps of alarm from their father's tone and Prussia then turned bac to Austria who was glaring at him rather coldly. A loo he rightly deserved. "Roddy, listen to me. I fucked up. I slept vith Hungary because- because I don't know. I don't know! Just vun moment ve'ere talking about the past then the next ve're making out on the couch und things are going further! I don't expect you to forgive me, I don't even expect you to let this go for a good long vhile but-"

"Get out." Austria's voice was cold, trembling with it's anger and Prussia stared at him with a shock that rattled down to his very aching core and both men stared at one another in the quiet of the room as Fritz woke whimpering softly to himself. It was those quiet whimpers that made Austria look over his shoulder at the six-month-old before turning bodily to reach down into the crib to tug his child out into his arms and Prussia felt a stab of longing when Austria's angry violet eyes glared at Prussia once again and he lifted one hand up pointing in the direction oft the front door, his hand trembling lightly. "I vant you to get the fuc out of here! I don't even vant to see your face right now! So leave! Pack vhat you need und leave! You've made your bed now sleep in it! Gt the hell out of my house!"

Prussia blinked in shock as he looedat his lover and found himself wordless for a moment before his tight throat knotted up. Austria wanted him gone? He hadn't seen this happening when he imagined speaking the truth to Austria and he found his shock was an overwhelming thing inside of his chest as he looed at the nowburning angry face of Austria's. He couldn't see a hint of mercy and he deserved it. But leaving? What about their girls? What would they say with him gone? And what about Fritz? What would his children do without him? What would Austria do without him? Would he better off without him around? Was that really the best solution? He knew deep in his chest, deep in his heart, that the last thing he wanted was to leave but as he stared at his lover he knew that there was only so much he could say to him and he knew that it would go unheard due to how angry Austria was in the moment. And he had every right to be angry. Prussia was angry that he had betrayed Austria's trust, was angry that he had been so stupid as to sleep with Hungary but there was nothing he could do to change it was there? He'd fucked himself in the worst way possible and staring into those angry, wet violet eyes he had no clue on if he could be forgiven for this. Did he stay and fight? Did he fight for his home? For his right to stay? Or does he leave? Prussia stuffed his hands into his pocket to touch the car keys there and he bit his lip to stop the words from spilling past his lips and instead chose to bob his head in a jering nod before turning on his feet walking from the living room.

Austria's eyes burned into his very back and yet when the albino was out of view the Austria's anger crumbled on his face as he gasped in a breath that choked it's way down his throat to his mangled lungs and he found himself stumbling to the couch. His legs shoo viciously as he heard the front door open then shut quietly and the tears in his eyes spilled down his cheeks, dripping off of his chin as he worked to get Fritz out of his coat and the sight of those ruby eyes did the sobs choe out of him as he let his head fall backwards. He cried as a small child would with loud gut wrenching sobs ashis quivering arms clutched his six-month-old to his chest as he cried and the infant in his arms whimpered worriedly as his hands came up gripping his shirt tightly. Austria sobbed so hard his shoulders bounced with the weight of each sound choking it's way out of him but he hardly cared about the noises leaving him for the pain in his chest, in his heart, burned bright. How could he? How could Prussia do this to him? Prussia had sworn to take care of him the night he revealed his pregnancy with Astrid, had sworn to be faithful only to him and yet here they were breaking apart. Breaking, drowning and hurting. All because Prussia couldn't keep it in his pants. All because Austria missed the signs. And now here he was with three children who depended on him and he knew he couldn't keep crying but as he sat there he swore he could fee each individual piece of his heart breaking and shattering piece by piece.