"Mr. Vargas, you may see him now."

It took me about two seconds to jump off the couch and hurry inside the room where Lovino was resting.

"How are you feeling?" I asked, holding on to my brother's hand for dear life.

"It hurts." Lovino rasped.

"Should I get a doctor?" I asked, reading myself to stand up again.

Lovino squeezed my hand.

"I don't want to be alone." he whispered.

I nodded quietly and sat down again.

"How is Toni?" Lovino asked looking at me with pained eyes.

"He's stable." I said with a sigh.

I wished I could have given him a happier answer, but for the time being, that was as happy as it was gonna get. Antonio was still unconscious and the doctors weren't sure if he'd ever wake up.

"Feli, can I tell you something?" Lovino asked.

"Anything." I said, reassuringly.

"The day of your party, Toni and I decided to take the bus, and it turned out Francis was on that bus."

"Mhm?"

"Toni being Toni he instantly started talking to him and..."

Lovino chocked on his words and a few tears escaped.

"I don't know, I just got so very jealous, so I kept being angry the whole way through the party." he continued. "And then when we got home we started fighting and..."

"You broke up?" I asked squeezing my brother's hand tighter.

Lovino nodded

"You do know I was intending to kill myself when I jumped off the bridge?"

I nodded, and just the thought brought tears to my eyes again.

"Toni stopped me and told me he loved me." Lovino said with a fond smile. "You know, one day, I wanna marry him. And though I will say it's stupid, I'll be wearing a big puffy dress and a veil."

I chuckled at the image that was all too easy to picture.

"You'll be a beautiful bride."

"Just like you, Feli." Lovino whispered. "You know, I don't hate Ludwig."

"Really? I'm so happy!" I squealed despite myself.

"Hey, I didn't say I liked him!" Lovino whined but he chuckled so in the end, his attitude was only halfhearted. "I love you, Feli. You know that, right?"

"Of course, fratello."

"And I always will, even if..."

"Please don't say it." I begged squeezing even harder at his hand with tears in my eyes.

"It's the natural circle of life."

"I don't want to."

"I would hit you, but my arm is sort of weak at the moment."

Just then, the door opened and a doctor looked in with a grim face.

"Mr. Vargas." he said, looking from me to Lovino who was looking back at him with pleading eyes.

Something told me there wouldn't be any happy news for Lovino.

"Your friend, Mr. Carriedo Fernandez, died about a minute ago." the doctor declared sadly.

"Lovino, I'm so..."

But I didn't get to finish my sentence, cause within seconds, the grip on my hand slacked and the fragile heart of my very own brother stopped beating.

"You would think the bride would be smiling at her own wedding." Ludwig said softly and embraced me from behind.

"I'm sorry, Luddy." I said and dried away the few tears that had escaped. "I just wish Lovino and Antonio could have been here. Lovino would have grudgingly told me that this dress matched me."

"And then he would have told me how stupid I looked in a suit." Ludwig added with a soft smile. "I know you miss them Feli. But they're here in spirit, and Lovino is proudly telling Antonio everything that I did wrong today."

"Number one. Existing." I said with a soft giggle.

"Number two. Looking stupid." Ludwig continued.

"Number three. Letting Francis lead me to the alter."

"Number four. Letting Francis even enter the building."

We continued like this for a while, remembering just what Lovino had been like, and what he would have said during the wedding.

"And at last." Ludwig said, placing a soft kiss to my lips. "He would hug you and tell you how unbelievingly proud he was of you."

I hugged him tightly and let another few tears slip. After a couple of minutes of just being together, a voice called from down the hall.

"Feliciano!" I looked up from Ludwig's secure arms and spotted Arthur walking towards us. "A word with you please."

"I'll talk to you later." Ludwig whispered and kissed my cheek.

"I finally figured out how to save your brother." Arthur said.

"Vee?"

Arthur sighed and sat down on a couch that was conveniently placed in the hall.

"Sit down, Feli. I'll explain everything."

"So what you're saying is... that I can go back in time and stop their fight from every happening?"

"Yes, exactly." Arthur exclaimed. "You told me that the entire fight was because they met Frog on the bus. None of that would have happened if they never got on that bus."

"So I have to go back in time and stop them from going on that bus." I concluded.

Arthur nodded.

"However." Arthur continued. "Unlike the last time, I can't send you back to become a part of your old body. Instead this body will go there and well... vanish. But the Feliciano of that time still exists."

"I will do anything to bring my fratello back." I stated and stood up. "Just show me the way."

It was the weirdest feeling yet in my life, seeing myself (from another time) staring at me with questioning eyes.

"Vee~" he said suspiciously. "Why did you just black out my Luddy. We have a party to prepare."

"I'm you from the future." I explained.

"Okay ~" Feliciano said, gladly accepting that explanation. "But wow hit Luddy?"

"I freaked out." I admitted, looking at the frying pan in my hand. I suddenly got why Gilbert was so scared of it. "This is going to sound crazy, but I'm here to make sure that Lovino and Antonio misses their bus so that Lovino never fights with Antonio so that they never fell into that river."

"Vee ~" Feliciano said thoughtfully. "He can't know it's you, or there'll be serious problem."

"Either way, first we have to get to the bus-station near their house." I added.

"Vee, we'll take my car."

Feliciano didn't leave me room for complaints and dragged me along to the car. Oh how I'd missed it.

"I'll drive." I said, upon remembering just how I lost that car in the first place (bad driver). "Future Luddy made me take driving classes with him since he didn't trust me in the trafic."

Feliciano hummed a little as I drove as fast as I legally could towards where Lovino and Antonio lived.

"Vee ~ I've really changed alot since... now."

"Well, after Lovino died, I never quite turned back to that me." I admitted.

Feliciano only hummed in reply, as he probably didn't know how to respond.

"Hey, that's them!" he suddenly said, pointing over at Past Lovino and Antonio, walking down the street, and the bus was getting closer.

I stopped the car abruptly.

"We can't let them go on that bus." I reminded, careful not to be spotted by Lovino or Antonio.

"I have an idea." Feliciano said and got a rope out of the car trunk. "Let's trip them."

I couldn't even answer before Feliciano set to work on binding the rope. Strangely I now realized how Luddy must have felt whenever he saw me working hard. Soon enough, the couple neared us, as did the bus. In the bushes, on either side of the street, Feliciano and I waited, hands tightly on one end of the rope. The couple were busy talking to each other so they didn't notice at all. Just then, the bus stopped on the nearby bus-station.

"Fuck! That's it! We've gotta run!" Lovino exclaimed and made a move to run.

That's when Feliciano and I decided it was time to pull. With very little grace, my brother fell to the ground with an oof.

"LOVI!" Antonio cried out and hurried to his side, due to which, I let go of my end of the rope and Feliciano discretely pulled it in. "Are you ago, mi tomate?"

"Bastard..." Lovino muttered with a bright blush. "Fuck, we missed the bus. This is all your fault somehow."

Antonio chuckled and helped my brother (well past brother) up.

"Come on, let's walk to Feliciano's house instead." he said, taking my blushing brother's hand.

When I was sure I wouldn't be caught I left my hiding place and watched the couple.

"You should get back before Luddy wakes up." I commented, smiling a little at Feliciano.

"Are you coming too?" Feliciano asked.

"No, my future doesn't exist anymore, so I'm fading." I explained, feeling surprisingly calm about it. "I think I'm gonna follow Lovino till the end."

Feliciano gave me a big hug before he said goodbye, and left me to follow the happy couple ahead. It didn't take long to catch up on them, and it was a good thing they were so inlove, or they would have noticed me.

"Oh look at the sunset." Antonio said gleefully.

"It's beautiful." Lovino agreed. "Tonio, I know I don't say this enough, but... I love you."

Antonio responded to Lovino's words with a strong, passionate kiss.

"Te amo, mi tomate."

After a long kiss, the two broke apart and kept walking as I was slowly fading.

"Hey Lovi." Antonio said, grasping the other's hand.

"Yeah, bastard?"

"Can you imagine what kind of great difference could have been if only we hadn't missed the bus?"

"Don't be stupid." Lovino said, punching his arm. "What kind of difference can there possibly be just from us missing the bus? Seriously, sometimes you're just over-thinking it."