"West, come on. Take a break." The blond was in his work shed making clocks for Francis. I knew he hated it but he wouldn't stop for a break.
Feli, who was still finding reasons to stay with us, cleaned the house and made our food while Ludwig and I worked.
The war had been hard on all of us. It split up the bad touch trio though francis had tried to not let us get punished too much. Rodrich and Elizabeta had split up. Russia was going thourgh goverment changes. I could feel myself lose power everyday, while my brother gained power.
"No we can't take a break we need to get this over with as soon as possible. I can't take being punished for helping our brother." He hit a nail harder then nessisary and I flinched. He could be pretty scary.
"You just need a break. All you have been doing is working in here and meeting with our new furher. You are stressed. Just stop take the afternoon off and you'll feel better." I placed my hand on his shoulder hoping to calm him down, but he shrugged it off.
"Our furher says that we are capible of so much more." He turned and looked me in the eyes. "I believe him. We can do more then work all. Our people are sick and tired of this depression. I can feel it and I know you can too." He was right. I could feel the hunger and sickness and anger our people felt, it came with being a nation, but I could also feel the sadness and lose and knew that if we tried to get revenge we would only cause more.
"I don't like the furher. He creeps my out. His ideas are too out there. I think he has a bad influence on you." I turned away unable to look him in the eyes any longer knowing I was being a coward. I didn't want him to not need me anymore.
"He is not a bad influnce. Hitler thinks we can restore me to the empire I used to be." I glanced and saw the wistful look in his eyes. I hated to fight with him, epscealially when he thought he was right.
"You don't need to be an empire. You are fine as you are now. Being an empire isn't all that great. Take my word for it." This made him angry.
"What would you know!" He was yelling at me now, and shoved me into the wall. "You gave up your empire, mine was taken from me!" I turned to face him trying not to show on my face how much that hurt.
"I gave my empire up for you so you wouldn't have lost everything." I could see gult about what he said start to register in his eyes. "If I could go back in time and had the opion to change it, I would do it over again." I p7shed him out of my way and silently walked out.
Feli was in the other room setting the talbe for lunch and I know he had heard everything. He remained quiet though. I knew he had sepectded that Ludwig was the same Ludwig that he had met before and I am sure that the argument just confirmed his sispitions. However at lunch when we all at togather he acted normal.