Sorry for the late update. Holidays are nuts. Also updates are moving too Tuesdays, mondays are too busy.

Antonio and Lovino came into the dimly lit work room. Arthur clapped his hands and several more candles lit up. All the walls covered in book cases with a few chairs here and there. A fireplace and a cauldron sat opposite the door. Arthur pointed to the chairs, and they all sat.

"So you want to have a baby?" Arthur asked. "That's quite a big step. Especially if you want to do it this way."

"Well... It feels right." Antonio said taking Lovino's hand. "it's possible, right?"

"Yes. Lovino please stand, I want to take a look at you." Arthur said. Lovino nodded and stood. Arthur peaked around his waist. "Do you mind if I touch?" He asked. Lovino nodded. He placed his hands on Lovino's hips and then his waist. "Well, you're pretty close. We have three major things to do before you can start to reproduce. First is make your hips wider, than grow the reproductive organs and if you choose breasts for milk."

"I have to grow boobs?" Lovino asked

"If you want. Don't worry once you have child it can be reversed." Arthur said. "How many were you planning on having?"

"Well... Let's start with one?" Lovino asked. Antonio nodded. "One for now."

"Right. Well I'll brew you a potion. You'll take it twice a day for two weeks. Want to do breasts or shall the baby be on formula?"

"Lets do formula." Lovino said.

"Wait what about the birth?" Antonio asked.

"Well, when Lovino goes into labor, an exit will open that will close in a few days. After the baby is born I'll give you another brew that will turn you to normal." He said grabbing a book. "So as I was saying after the two weeks, you come back and I'll cast a spell and give you another potion you take once a day until you become pregnant. Then we wait nine months, the baby is born and then the after potion and you'll be back to normal." He said flipping the book. "Here's the potion. I'll have this brewed for dinner." He said. "Now, I may be stepping out line with this but while you are trying to have a baby, I would keep Dimas out of the bedroom. I'd hate for the wrong man to be the father."

Both Antonio and Lovino went bright red and nodded.

Dimas had taken his time at breakfast listening to Romulus talk about his glory days as a hunter. He never hunted wolves, mostly deer. He had amazing stories to tell. After which he went up to his office to go over some plans about trolls trying to attack again and keeping them out of the country. However, someone was in his office pouting in his window seat.

"What are you doing in my office?" Dimas asked. Marcello looked up, blushed and turned away.

"Sorry. I didn't know." He stood up to leave.

"It's fine if you wanna hide out in here." He said "I've just got paperwork to do so the company will be nice." He said sitting at the desk. "Marcello right?"

"Yeah... You're Dimas?" He asked and Dimas nods. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure." Dimas said

"Are you jealous of your brother?"

"I..." Dimas thought for a moment. "Sometimes. Not because he's King. It was supposed to go to me, but I turned it down. I'm not one for leading. I make schemes, and do them. Toni's the diplomat and I'm the crook. That's just how we are. But I am jealous of the way he is. He's so good, you know? He's almost too kind to be a real person."

"I... I know how that feels." Marcello said.

"I guess Feliciano is also too nice?" Marcello nodded. "Well, sure Toni is nice and has a great family... But then I remember I'm a lot tougher than he is. I'm a bit smarter than he is. I have my own strength and he has his... And that's ok."

"I'm smarter than Feli." Marcello said. "I'm the only one who reads."

"You're probably smarter than Lovino too. He's got street smarts but you ask that kid any scholarly thing and he'll pull a blank."

"I wish I had street smarts." Marcello said sitting on Dimas' desk. "But Feli never let me go anyway after Lovino vanished. And I sorta understood... But Lovino is fine and Lovino is a queen. Feli has nothing to worry about now! I should be allowed to make my own choices and go where I want!"

"Well, what do you want?" Dimas asked

"I don't want to be alone in a stuffy house babysitting a kid that isn't mine while my brother has a great life. I'm so bored all the time..." He gave a sigh "I want an adventure like Lovino had."

"I dunno. I was on that adventure. And speaking from experience... It brought great things, and was exciting at first. But... Marcello we all had to make impossible choices. We all almost died or lost each other over and over..." He frowned. "Lovino and Antonio had to do horrible things to just survive."

"But you did, something." Marcello said. "He fell in love. I want that too." Marcello gave a sigh and laid across Dimas' desk with no concern for the work he was trying to do. "Have you ever been in love Dimas?"

"I thought so once." He said. "But that didn't go the way I had hoped. Which is fine because now I see it was more lust than anything and now we're really good friends."

"What was it like?" Marcello asked. "Being in love?"

"It hurt." He said. "But it was also really nice because you got this feeling in your stomach when they look at you but it sucked because I wanted to be with them, but they didn't want to be with me."

"That's awful."

"Ah, well you can't help who you love. Sometimes you just gotta turn to sea foam and let the prince have his bride."

"You are the prince." Marcello said. "But I know what you're talking about. Little Mermaid, right?"

"Yeah." Dimas said "Seems fitting for the situation."

"Just so you know, I really like mermaid." Marcello said sitting up.

"You shouldn't." Dimas said, knowing the words held two meanings.