Wah chapter ten and I haven't even hit the main thing everyone is waiting for.

I'm such a naughty girl.~

~*~*~*~ The Magic In The Word 'Fate' ~*~*~*~

When they woke up again it was rather... Disturbing ?

No, not fact that they looked all fluffy and cute all together, but pretty much the fact that Francis had switch back to his normal self... And that since he was previously a bear... Mh...

Do bears wears clothes ?

Francis was the first one to wake up happily for him. He had to admit it was cute to have the three brothers curled on his chest, but he didn't really want Arthur to go all mad at him because of his current situation. Specially not in front of the kids. He strangely managed to get himself out of the room without waking them, which was some kind of an accomplishment at this point.

He only put pants and underwear on though, the house was way too warm to his taste and he has been forbidden to go switch it's heat since a little accident, but that's another story.

Otherwise on a more serious note, by taking a look at the clock, Francis understood that their nap only lasted a hour or so. It was the time to eat or to sleep either. Boredom was slowly making it's way up to his head when he heard screaming.

"Where's Fwancis ?! Did we kill him ?!"

Overdramatic Alfred will always stay overdramatic. The frenchman simply chuckled and made his way back into the library to see an half asleep Arthur lecturing a scared Alfred and a crying Matthew.

"My, my, such drama in this household." He smirked.

"Fwancis !" Matthew raised up on his legs and ran up to him , hugging him tightly. "I thought you disappeared..." He continued to sob, but more quietly.

On the other side of the room, Alfred simply sighed, glad he didn't kill the Frenchman, meanwhile Arthur stayed frozen there, trying to out all the pieces together.

"How pathetic of me, I miss your laugh." Francis smirked as he repeated what Arthur said earlier. "And that, only after a couple of hours under my bear state. Sureeeee."

"Stop teasing me frog." Arthur muttered, a blush raising up on his cheeks as he understood that the whole time, Francis was just being silent and could hear every single words he said. The missing shirt wasn't helping either.

"Now now, you can go play elsewhere, I have some things to talk over with your brother." The Frenchman smiled at the twins. They nodded and ran off.

Francis crossed his arms and stayed in the doorframe, the mocking smile not leaving his lips once.

"So, you said you had good news, but had to wait until I can 'understand' you, my ears are all open."

"I found the spell I was searching for to keep Alfred and Matthew' powers under control. I'll be able to send them to school as soon as their soon to be director accept their appliances." Arthur sighed.

"You seem, rather sad about ?"

"I'm not."

Arthur was a terribly bad liar, he didn't even try on this one. Francis walked up to where he was and sat down next to him. He wasn't going to leave until he know what was going through his mind.

"You're scared aren't you ?" The little twitch in Arthur's eyes told him he was right. "How curious, I don't even need magic to read you." He laughed.

"It's not even funny ! If they go to school, I won't know what happen to them for a certain amount of time. What if the other kids think they are weird ? What if they didn't like them ? What if the spell doesn't work ? Wha-"

"All that, are only what if." Francis said, putting his hand on the other's mouth to shut him up. "What if they found friends there ? What if they loved to go to this school ? That, we will only know if we try. We can't see the future, except for Alfred but he is a special snowflake, but if we try nothing, we'll never get anything."

"You're right." Arthur sighed, seeming to relax a little.

"What about your idea on going to college."

"I'm too old for that now. I'm already 19, got no scholarship under any forms. Why would they even accept me ?"

"Why being so pessimistic now ?"

"I'm not pessimist, I'm realistic."

Francis rolled his eyes. He wasn't an easy cookie was he ?

"I'm going to wait for the winter session and try my luck there... But not in the middle of the year. I'm not even sure you can do that."

"Well at least, you'll be trying something no ?"

"Mh." Arthur slowly nodded, but it didn't erase any of his worries. He wished he didn't have those. Sometime they would prevent him from sleeping at night. It was rather disturbing.

"Say, I think we should move in town if you want the twins to attend school. They'll be closer to their friends and you won't need to do any strange magic trick to guide them there."

Arthur rolled his eyes and looked away. The idea wasn't pleasing him much, but it had advantages he couldn't ignore. He wasn't sure if he was ready to join back the civilization just yet. At the same time, he had nothing to lose, or at least, nothing he could prevent from being taken away from him.

"Alright."

"Wait ? What did I just heard ? The mighty sorcerer Arthur Kirkland agreeing to the idea of the peasant I am ?" Francis smirked, goofing around.

"You heard me, don't make me repeat it."

"Oh but I have ways to make you repeat it."

"Oh really ?" Arthur said sarcastically, finally smirking back.

Francis simply nodded and started to tickle him. Of course, Arthur being really ticklish, was taken over by laughter, his stress being relieved. Being unable to talk correctly, his magic was useless.

"S-Stop !" His eyes were watering, he wasn't able to take anymore of it.

Francis stopped, more likely noticing the awkward position they were in. Arthur was pinned to the ground meanwhile he was on top on him. He simply looked at him silently for a while...

..And kissed him right after.