Salvador - One year old
Helena - Nine months old
Sunneva- One year old
Cecilia - Four months old
Wilhelm - Three months old
Aaliyah - Three months old
Prussia yawned, groaning, when he shifted to sit up when he felt a comforting warmth and weight on him and his lashes fluttered open when he smiled softly with a little breath escaping his nose. Mia was lounged out on his chest, her small body a comfort, even if his stomach was still sore at times even if he gave birth about three months ago her weight was light yet still comforting with body heat. She'd tired herself, predictably, from the time midnight ticked and it became March twenty first she was a ball of happiness that shrieked, jumped and wrestled with her sister. She was utterly ecstatic about being seven years old, more so than Astrid, but she was seven now.
She'd tired herself out, obviously, and so had Prussia. While he was much older, an adult, he was just as excited and with the sleepless nights Wilhelm was providing Prussia found sleep a merciful thing even now. He blinked groggily as Mia made a soft noise then curled into his chest and he smiled rubbing his eyes with one hand carefully. He wondered where Wilhelm was when he realized there was soft, murmuring voices in the kitchen, and he squinted. The couch was comfortable but he wanted to get up and walk around with his stiff muscles. He attempted sitting up and Mia curled into his chest tighter, like a small dark haired kitten and he smiled shifting his arms around her back and under knees then stood in one smooth movement.
She remained asleep, thank God, and he smiled. His birthday girl was all tired out and it was the cutest thing on the planet! It was like holding a tiny female Austria! He smiled a little more and tilted his face down and pressed a kiss to the top of her head making her sigh happily and he walked to the kitchen only for his good mood to sour slightly. Hungary was standing there, her green eyes meeting his, Austria's violets raising and took in their daughter sleeping in his arms still.
"Vhere's Ast und Fritz?" Prussia asked hearing how groggy and husky his voice was but didn't bother clearing his throat as he was planning on going back to bed if the remaining three kids were asleep. Austria smiled softly turning bodily to face Prussia.
"Astrid und Fritz are upstairs in the play room, playing vith the toys. I put Mia's presents in her room so she can play vith them vhen she gets up in the morning." Austria replied when his violet eyes locked onto Mia again with a strange look in his eyes and Prussia smiled.
"Und vhat about Wilhelm?" Prussia asked then tilting his head when he noticed the bundle in Hungary's arms and squeezed Mia subconsciously. "Is he in bed?"
"Ja, he is. He vas pretty tired, just like it's been a long day for us all." Austria replied then shared a smile with Hungary who gave a hesitant smile to Prussia who couldn't move his gaze to her, ignoring her rather beautiful and because he did this he didn't shriek at her and they didn't fight but they were far from being best friends and the bundle in her arms was the major set back.
"I'm going to put Mia to bed." Prussia finally mumbled before fleeing the room with the seven year old sleeping happily against his chest. Austria watched him go and felt a little pang in his chest and sighed out gently before turning to look at Hungary.
"I'm sorry, he's having a hard time. Wilhelm is taking much of his attention up und the girls growing up, Fritz learning how to valk und even learning new vords, he's been stressed. I'm not blaming it on you at all though! It's no ones fault but he he should come und look at Réka at least once." Austria sighed out when he adjusted his glasses, pushing them up with his pointer finger, when he smiled softly holding his hands out. "May I hold her?"
"Of course!" Hungary replied brightly as she stepped close to Austria and placed the baby in his arms. He looked down at the baby and cooed at her smiling. She had her father's face, that was for sure, and he stroked the little wisps of silver hair decorating her head and her pale lashes parted to lift and reveal the brilliant green color of her irises that she inherited from her mother.
"Oh, she's beautiful! You make beautiful children, Elizaveta." Austria complimented when he tilted his head then. "But vhere are your children? I thought Ileana vould be here vith Levi."
"They're vith Romania for the veekend." She replied smiling gently looking at her daughter and smiled a little more. "Levi is happy to be a big brother and Ileana is happy to have a little sister."
"I vould imagine!" Austria let out a laugh as Hungary smiled when he looked back down at the silver haired, green eyed baby. "It's remarkable how much she looks like Wilhelm! They both got their Vater's silver hair, that's for sure."
"True that." She replied then smiled at Austria. "Roderich, I vant to ask you something."
"Hm?" Austria was looking at Réka and those green eyes, identical in color to her mother's, and lightly stroked her silken cheek. He realized that he now had two sons and two daughters which nearly brought a grin to his lips.
"Vhat vould you have done had ve stayed together? And vhy didn't you get angrier at me vhen he got me pregnant?" Hungary asked making large, surprise, violet eyes lift to meet Hungary's serious gaze. Her hands were clenched tight together, fingers locked together, and Austria blinked a few times then turned his gaze back to the baby in his arms.
"I...I honestly do not know vhat I vould have done. I can only imagine I'd provide you vith the baby you vould vant. But...I can't say I vould be faithful, I vould definitely try!" He mended his words looking up then, brows pulling together, he looked down. "But Prussia has alvays been that one person I can't ignore. He's ingrained himself upon me und I can't live vithout him. Not that I'd ever tell him! I'm happiest vhen I'm vith him not to say I vasn't happy vith you! He..just made me happier."
"I see." Hungary nodded then tilted her head. "And the other question?"
"Vell, I vas angry. Very very angry at him und you but I vas trying to be civil vith you as you are my ex vife. It just...made me so angry, to realize if he slept vith you who's to say he vouldn't do it vith someone else. Und...that scared me. A lot. I need him more than he realizes und our children, beautiful children he's gifted me, vould be fragments of him I'd keep if he ever left. I love him und put trust in him so him sleeping vith you, my ex vife, vas like a slap in the face." Austria paused when he heard a tiny squeal come from Hungary and he looked up with a fierce blush in his cheeks at her star struck face. Hungary was such a male on male relationship lover and fan girl that he felt self conscious. "Elizaveta..."
"That. Is. So. Cute!" She shrieked when Prussia came walking in with confusion on his face when he looked at the scene before him. Hungary's star struck, blissful face and Austria's bright red one with that bundle in his arms.
"Uh, this is veird. Vhat did I miss?" He asked squinting one eye at the pair who looked up at his presence when Austria shifted with his face still red, a pout in place, and he smiled at the sight of it. But his eyes, again, landed on that bundle, an action they'd done the entire day when he thought no one saw. He strangely wanted to see the baby, his and Hungary's, wondering who the baby would look most like when Austria walked the five steps to him, his violet eyes looking up at him from behind glasses and lashes.
"You need to see her, Gilbert. She's beautiful, she has your face exactly. It's hard now but she'll need her Vater someday, not that Macau von't be there for her, but she'll need her birth vater some day." Austria said when Prussia held his breath and eyed the baby like it would explode when he held his arms out with a new, disinterested look on his face.
"Fine! Just give her to me already!" He got out in a huff like Austria did when he got irritated. The aristocrat beamed at his lover when he shifted the baby over to Prussia who looked down holding his breath like, again, the baby was a bomb ready to explode.
He tried to keep his face disinterested but Austria could see how that baby's effect on him, how Réka already had him wrapped around her tiny fingers. Just like Astrid, Mia, Fritz and Wilhelm did. Hungary, Austria noticed, was also holding her breath, when he noticed Prussia stroking the wisps of silver hair on her head before speaking again. "I think she looks more like Hungary. She's got my hair but that's all I see."
"Nu-uh!" Hungary immediately jumped in rushing over to Prussia's side, her arm just barely brushing Prussia's when she reached forward stroking her daughter's cheek. "She has your nose, your chin und that eye brow arch. She might even have your cheek bones vhen she gets bigger so ve don't know just yet. But she looks like you, she only has my eyes."
"They look...nice on her. Hopefully her hair will turn brown vhen she gets bigger. I don't need three kids running around vith silver hair." Prussia mumbled but his lips were twitching into a grin and Austria looked at him with amusement shining in his violet irises.
"You vish. I have a feeling it's going to stick vith her." Hungary replied as Austria actually, with as much trust as he had, slipped out of the room to let Hungary and Prussia discuss. After all his heart was warm and he was actually pleased the two of them were talking when a yawn burst out of his lips and he looked at the clock. Maybe he could use some sleep.
Prussia found himself waking up again, later that night, to loud hiccuping wails in the room and he sat up groggily groaning. Austria was shuffling under the blankets mumbling incoherent words as Prussia slid out of bed standing up, wobbling furiously as he rubbed his hands over his face yawning loudly. "I got it." He mumbled back to Austria who's eyes fluttered open groggily spotting Prussia by the bed and rolled onto his stomach.
Prussia's hair was a bright silver beacon in the dark and he yawned loudly for the thousandth time as he rubbed his eyes again. He came to a stop at the bassinet looking in and smiled softly. "Wilhelm~" He cooed tiredly, sleepily, making the wailing turn to hiccups for a moment as large, wet violet eyes stared up at him. He reached in wiping his cheeks, wiping the tears away before picking up the three month old who cuddled into his chest whimpering. "You hungry? Or did you dirty your nappy?"
"Check his diaper anyvays." Austria murmured as he laid on his back, throwing an arm over his eyes. "Give him a bottle if he's still whining."
"I know what to do~" Prussia replied playfully walking to the changing table they had in the corner of the room, turning the little lamp on so he could see, and pulled the little pajama pants off that he'd dressed Wilhelm for the night only for the baby to whimper. "It's okay, Vati's taking care of it~" He checked his diaper, finding it slightly damp, and put a dry diaper on the silver haired baby and was putting his pants on when his little legs wiggled. "Hungry, huh?" He looked at the clock and laughed lightly. "You're vorse than your mutti, eating at three in the morning~"
"I never ate at three in the morning!" Austria whined loudly rolling on his side and sighing, missing Prussia's warmth already. "Hurry und come back to bed."
"I vill, I vill~" He purred then, Wilhelm wiggling a leg, walked out of the room as he made his way down the hall to the stairs. He stared down at Wilhelm feeling a little stab of grateful emotion that his son had Austria's look about him already, as he felt just a bit bad if his son had a duplicate with green eyes. The poor boy would be confused and probably think them twins! He walked down the stairs towards the kitchen when he heard the fridge door open and he squinted in the darkness, taking in the light under the kitchen door, and crept up to it holding the quietly squirming Wilhelm in his arms tightly. He took a moment before slamming the door open and a shriek got his attention and he blinked before snapping. "Astrid! Vhat are you doing raiding the kitchen at three in the morning?"
"I-I vas thirsty!" She stuttered with wide eyes, her hair falling over her left messily, her hair coming to her shoulders when she fingered the ends. "Vati, I know it's too early but can you cut my hair? Please?"
He took in his daughter's hopeful, almost desperate face, and sighed out lightly when he looked at the violet eyed baby in his arms. "Alright, I'll do it right after I feed Wilhelm." He watched his daughter's face light up as she clasped her hands together and smiled bright.
"Danke, Vati!" She chirped when she grabbed the milk and her cup, pouring her milk and sitting at the table while Prussia, one handed, made his son's bottle and had it in the warmer."Oh! Vati, I'm going over to Cristiano's to play today!"
Prussia smiled and chuckled softly in amusement. "Oh? If I knew you better I'd think you had a crush on the poor boy~" Prussia playfully stated when Astrid scowled, looking like her mother, before grinning and making Prussia grin with her.
"Nein~ He likes Austynn anyvay!" She replied nonchalantly as she gulped her milk halfway down and the bottle warmer beeped. She smiled when her father sat next to her, Wilhelm latching onto the nipple instantly and guzzling the warm formula like he was starving. "He eats so fast!"
"I know! I mentioned it to Mutti but he said it's perfectly fine! In fact, if I remember, you used to pack it avay like I vas going to take it avay." He replied with that grin and she giggled making his heart warm up. He wanted nothing but for his daughter to always be happy and he smiled at that. "Ast, you're going up so damn fast."
"I know! I can't vait to be ten!" She replied bouncing in her seat before gulping down the rest of her milk and Wilhelm's lashes closed as he gulped his warm formula, a tiny fist holding onto his finger as he ate.
"I bet you can't!" Prussia smiled when he noticed Wilhelm had dropped off to sleep so fast he didn't notice and pulled the nipple of the bottle away from his lips and put it on the table. "Alright, let me put him in the rocker und I'll be right back to give you a quick trim~"
"Okay!" She replied cheerfully shifting her chair as he got up, walking to the living room, dragging Wilhelm's swing over and placing the small body in the swing and put it on a barely there swing to keep him asleep. He then turned walking into the kitchen grabbing his scissors from the wall hook they were on, and smiled combing his fingers through the silver length, silky silver locks glad there wasn't tangles within the locks. He got them smooth and neat before began clipping, the metallic snips loud in the room, and Astrid held still. He cut it in the same style he'd done it the first time and placed his hands on his hips.
"There ya go!" He stroked loose strands of hair off her and she jumped up smiling, her bangs longer than her chin slightly and she jumped on the balls of her feet. "Now, let's get you to bed so I can grab your bruder und get back to your Mutti."
"Okay!" She sang helping him sweep up her silver hair, throwing it away feeling like a big kid already, her smile never leaving her face when he picked Wilhelm up, out cold yet again and he was grateful for that. He stroked Astrid's short silver hair and smiled fondly at her and they'd just turned to the stairs when the phone rang shrilly making them both jump and Wilhelm to whine before settling back to sleep.
"Get that damn phone!" Austria shrieked from the bedroom and both Astrid and Prussia shared a grimace before he walked to the hall phone and rubbed an eye lightly before picking the phone up yawning out before he could get a greeting out.
"Ja? Who is it?" He got out after the yawn with tears pricking on his lashes and Astrid yawned before she could help herself and gripped onto his shirt, her head leaning against him just above his hip. He was ready for bed right now and he was more than certain his daughter was ready for bed when the words that shrieked faintly on the phone registered.
"Gil! I'm sorry it's so early, amigo, but I wanted to make sure you were coming to Cristiano's play date!" Spain babbled making Prussia suspicious because his friend sounded too cheerful. Like, beyond regular cheer and he voiced such out loud when he laughed sheepishly. "Oh yeah! I should tell you I guess!"
"Don't you fucking dare!" Romano screeched in the background and Spain laughed when the sounds of a struggle came and Prussia smiled. Ah, that was so like Romano~!
"I'ma tell you, Gil! You're gonna be an uncle again! Cause Roma is pregnant! I'll talk to you later!" The slam of the receiver was the last thing and Prussia smiled when Astrid's wide ruby eyes met his and he grinned down at her when she clung tighter to him.
"Vhat did Uncle Toni vant?" She asked tilting her head lightly. "Is he being silly again? Oh! Are ve going to play vith Cristiano?"
"Ja, ve are. It's his birthday today after all~ But let's get you to bed so ve can get up early to go und play vith him at his house!" Astrid was bolting up the stairs before the sentence was even finished and Prussia laughed loudly. Wilhelm remained asleep, silver lashes resting heavily on his flushed cheeks as Prussia climbed the stairs fast to his room. The floor squeaked a few times as he walked down the hall, catching sight of Astrid climbing into bed and laying down, when he continued on to his own bedroom. He shut the door quietly before walking to the bassinet and placing Wilhelm into it, glad when he remained asleep, and crept to the bed sliding under the sheets when Austria was sliding over quickly and cuddling into his side.
"Vhat took you so long?" He murmured wrapping an arm around his hip and nuzzling his face into his shoulder as Prussia hugged him to his chest tightly and sighed into his dark hair. He lifted a hand stroking the base of his neck where his hair was and Austria's lashes closed again.
"Life. But I'm back, aren't I?" He murmured kissing the top of his head gently and smiled gently. His children were sleeping, his lover was in his arms and the warmth was more than enough proof of that, and he was so happy he was sure his heart would beat out of his chest. He couldn't ask for much out of life anymore and he wondered, just briefly, if France and Spain felt hte same as he did right then. He then shook his head into the pillow with a wide smile as he squeezed Austria softly. No. No way could they ever feel this lucky and he buried his nose into Austria's hair and actually managed to doze of yet again feeling like the luckiest being in the entire exist of life.