Feliciano's room was dark. The blinds were drawn and the only person who moved was a dark figure. The room's owner was laying on his bed with a towel on his head that was soaked in cold water. The other figure sat beside him reading a book and every few minutes he'd take the towel off of the Omega's head dip it in the wide bowl and replace it smothering back the wet hair.

Feliciano's amber eyes opened and then closed again as his head seemed to pound. He search frantically wondering if he reached heaven, but the images of last night was horrifying, the worst Christmas he experienced.

"Ludwig?" Feliciano asked as he held out his hand, he felt it be clasped in a slightly damper hand.

"Yes Feliciano, how are you faring?" An at ease chuckle passed Feliciano lip as he squeezed harder on his Alpha's hand.

"When you're here, I'm perfect." He smiled pleasantly looking over at the Alpha who brought his hand up to his lips and kissed his knuckle.

Feliciano liked this needed attention, it was just pure Ludwig. Though, he did wish to have Ludwig in bed with him, giving him the extra needed snuggle, but nobody was perfect. "Oh my, I forgot something." Ludwig reached over at the desk lifting up the glass pitcher that was empty and he grabbed an envelope from under the pitcher with Feliciano's name addressed and near the back of the table he grabbed a small paper wrapped gift. "Your mother found this in your brother's room. It looks to be your Christmas present." He looked the gift over and set it on the side of the bed helping Feliciano up.

From his pocket, Ludwig produced a box of matches. He struck the match against the sole of his shoe and lite the oil lamp on Feliciano's side table. Feliciano opened up the letter since it wasn't waxed sealed and pulled out the piece of parchment. He chose to read it inside his head so if Lovino said anything private Ludwig wouldn't need to know.

'Dearest little brother,

I am terribly sorry I left so sudden, Antonio had planned to take me away though I did not know it would be so soon and sudden. We are traveling down to Spain where we can get married and make a living on our farm. I wish for you to be at the wedding, you would be my extra special maid-of-honor, but since we are doing it in secret I don't want father finding out.

I met Ludwig when we were running out. He seemed to be a nice guy with enough heart to go around. You choose well for Alphas little brother, but still know I don't like him because he looks capable of gutting a cow.

Tell father that you wish to marry Ludwig no matter what. If he tries to talk against you, tell him to fuck off.

I'll write soon,

Lovino Romano Vargas-Ferandaz'

Feliciano smiled, giggling at the last part. Lovino acted very proper, but he was actually a bit vulgar and truly violent. Mama used to say that Lovino would cry the most when they were babies and get angry when he couldn't get something while Feliciano was the God sent baby.

"What's in the box, Luddy?" Feliciano's delicate hands touched Ludwig's much stronger one's and he looked up at the Alpha with big amber eyes.

Ludwig gulped, his hands coming around the quaint box, "it's a gift. From me. For Christmas," his voice wavered slightly as he presented the box.

Feliciano's cute mouth turned into a shock gasp, "But Ludwig! I haven't even got you anything in return. It would be wrong to take such a gift."

"No," Ludwig took Feliciano's hand and wrapped it around the box, "take it, please, it is a pleasure to court you and as Alpha I should present the courting Omega with gifts," his smile probably could win himself award.

Feliciano looked the gift over giving it a silent shake and then decided on it being to wrapped for him to hear inside. He stripped the box of the paper and opened the tiny white box to be greeted with a breast pin the size of his palm. It was decorated with pretty jeweled flowers and the metal looked to be handcrafted.

"Do you like it?" Ludwig asked as he leaned in close, "I actually made it with the help of my brother. He isn't the best with metals, but he did give me those jewels." He said quietly with a sincere smile.

"I absolutely love it!" Feliciano exclaimed hugging the Alpha close, his head pounded slightly, but nothing he couldn't survive from. "You out done yourself Ludwig. I will make sure to show Mama when she comes up." Ludwig laughed in relief and pressed his lips into Feliciano's hair kissing him slightly. It was a shy kiss to the forehead, but Feliciano liked the attention. He truly wanted Ludwig to kiss up his neck, marking him up, making all the Alphas know he was taken, but Ludwig pulled away quickly when the door was open. Feliciano slid the letter and gift under his pillow and shimmied down into the blanket as Ludwig poured in the rest of the water into the basin beside the bed.

Papa walked into the room with Alpha Benjamin following him. Feliciano saw he had gauze wrapped around his knee and a patch on his cheek. He must have been overreacting, Feliciano knew he didn't hit him that hard, a simple slap to the cheek.

"Don't get up." Ludwig ordered breaking the silence as Feliciano tried to sit up again. Grumbling slightly the Omega laid back down and let Ludwig take the now lukewarm towel off his head and dip it into the ice water placing it back on his head.

"How are you feeling my boy?" Papa asked sitting on the chair on the other side of Ludwig. Ludwig didn't want to ruin the moment and grabbed the book he had taken from the shelve of the room and began reading on the place he left off on. Benjamin was sitting at the post of the bed looking away.

Feliciano couldn't even comprehend words from his father's. How was he doing? Why would that rat want to know that! He was almost hit by a carriage and was ran into the road by his soon-to-be-Alpha. "My head and legs hurt Papa." He said simply as he laid on his bed gazing to the sky.

"You worried me. You came into the home looking like you were about to die. Mama was in a blind panic, you scare us sometimes. We thought we would lose another son." He whispered stroking the top of Feliciano's hand.

"Lovino isn't gone. He's alive and in Spain living the life he should be here." Feliciano growled springing up, his eyes narrowed in sudden anger. Ludwig caught the damp towel from his forehead setting on the side table.

Papa looked taken back from the hostile behavior of his usual smiley, sunshine son. The lamp glowed in a way to accent how much anger the boy held in for so long. "I am unhappy and you know that. So leave, I wish not to see your face again today or I'll be sick as well." His nose scrunched up and his shoulders were clenched to his body as he pointed to the door.

"How dare you talk to your father like that after he shows sympathy to your wounds." Benjamin growled and grabbed Feliciano hand, though his arm was hit away by an elbow. Ludwig sat back after the quick attack and continued reading the book. "Oh, Mr. Silent. You got something to say?" Benjamin asked getting in Ludwig's space bubble.

Ludwig simply shut his book and set it gently on the table. "I wish for you to not touch an Omega in such aggresive behavior. They are suppose to be treated like dolls, good to look at and bought by one's who love them and wish to care for them. To show off to friends and to spoil rotten. Never for harsh behavior or to be thrown around." He took Feliciano's hand gently setting it back in his lap and pushed him back down on the bed. "Rest, you are not to be bothered by high stress levels. It's bad for someone's health." He ordered and Feliciano huffed.

Papa seemed to perk up, "so... Ludwig, you pursue in medicine?" he asked with a Cheshire grin.

"Not exactly," Ludwig deadpanned as he grabbed his book opening it to its marked page. "I simply learned from my brother and grandfather of how to take care of the sick. When I was a child I would catch sickness easily so I took from my grandfather of how he cared for me." He informed and Feliciano looked at the Alpha out of the corner of his eye.

"That's nice... well not the sickness, but how you took over medicine from your grandfather. My wife is very close to her dad and my children the same." He chimed and Ludwig looked up at him with a bored look.

"That's very nice Alpha Vargas." Ludwig did a side glance over at Benjamin. The room still had the hanging tension and Ludwig assumed it wouldn't go away until Papa and Benjamin would leave.

"Uncle! Uncle Gino!" Francis's voice came from the bottom of the steps. Ludwig furrowed his eyebrows smelling the air, he smelled Francis and the familiar scent of his older brother, a faint linger of Lovino's smell and Mama's, but something hung in the air, he couldn't place it.

"Excuse me, I need to talk to Nephew. Stay." He ordered to Ludwig, but grabbed Ben by his arm and hauled him out the door. Francis was standing by the steps with a look of hatred and loathing.

"We need to talk," Francis started and Gino sneered his way.

"Where's your prostitute, boy, he follows you everywhere." Gino taunted and Francis seemed to growl louder.

"I came to talk peacefully, not this bull-shit that you are trying to pull. What are you doing Uncle, your children are revolting!" His voice rose as he seemed to shout.

Gino came down the clothed steps glancing over at Benjamin who didn't seem to listen to Francis. "They are fine, you come to my home yelling at my teachings, but you don't have kids," his smile grew, "or is your Omega pregnant with another's sperm, he is a prostitute," he laughed and Francis fumed, his fist going to smash in his uncle's face, but he was pulled back.

Francis turned his head and felt like Gilbert was a savior. "What changed! You turn into a beast, what changed!" Francis shook his hand in vain in front of Gino.

"I am just looking out for my children. I would rather my Feli marry a man with class, rather than a bastard." Gino spat.

Gilbert's eye seemed to twitch, "watch your language Alpha Vargas, that is my little brother your speaking of."

"I can say whatever I want The 1st Alpha of the Beilschmidts. Francis said himself that a pretty she-Omega broke an engagement by breeding with another Omega. I'd Hate for that getting around town." Gino walked to a red couch sitting down with a sigh.

"Oh pig muck, my brother was over her before she broke everything with him. He wanted bigger fishes, but he felt guilty about breaking the line," Gilbert snapped looking at Francis.

"What about Lovino," Francis walked to the mantle, his body was being intently watched by his uncle as he picked up the black and white picture of Lovino. "A beautiful flower isn't he, I'd call him a rose, beautiful to look at, but thorny," he smiled slyly and let his finger gaze around the side, "only a few people have tough enough skin to pick roses off bushes, but when he finds his special person the gardener clips him off the bush!" Francis took the picture and slammed it on the wooden piece.

"Anyone with a brain knew Lovino loved Antonio and I'm not just being bias, because Toni's an old friend of mine," Gilbert voice came into the conversation as he was sitting on a overeat. "Toni would send letters to me that were address to Lovino, some times even packages came. When I got letters from him they were flimsy and one page while Lovino was getting long thought of items and poems of love. You are a cruel man Gino, the love was young and fiery and you squashed the flame!" Gilbert stood up his voice echoed off the tall cathedral ceilings. His hand found a glass vase on the side table, to prove his point he grabbed it and slammed it to the ground. The vase shattered into pieces and Francis jumped back.

"You two better shut your holes, you're a bunch of liars. My children love me!" Alpha Vargas jumped up.

Francis turned his head looking longingly at the old pictures, his fingers found a tiny picture of Feliciano when he was just a little baby. He remembered the young child, he would play with his hair and his first words were pasta. Francis's hand went to his long hair that was pulled back into a tight bun. Arthur had something about cutting it, he truly knew it was going long, but he still remembered those days when he had shoulder length hair, he was a rascal at school, played around with Antonio and Gilbert to the sun-set, but sometimes they would talk about their dream Omegas and life beyond.

"They used to love you, I used to love you, but Uncle Gino you are dead to me," Francis looked back at Gino with sudden cold eyes as he stepped over the broken vase and he left with Gilbert whose face was scrunched up in confusion and hate.

"Don't let them bother you, sir, they mean nothing." Ben tried sitting down next to his soon-to-be-brother-in-law.

"Never mind, I know that." Papa snarled pushing past the Alpha and stomped upstairs. He planned to go upstairs and kick that blonde Alpha out the window, but when he opened Feliciano's door the room was empty. The bed laid neatly made and the book Ludwig was reading was sitting on the side table with a note on the top.

His feet dragged him to the paper and he picked it up look it over.

Gone out, don't bother looking since I'll bring him back at nightfall.

-Ludwig.

Alpha Gino sat down on Feliciano's bed and cradled his head in his hand, wondering where he went wrong as his wife watched from the door frame with a look of pity.

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COMMENTS AND ANSWERS

Hantatamago2204: HEHEHE, I am a normal fast person so I tend to speed along stories without thinking. I try really hard sometimes to slow down and edit closely, must of slipped my mind since I have no Beta and have to look over everything :3

GUEST: Vince is the decent one while Benjamin is the horrible man. Lovino and Antonio will come back, so don't worry. (Though Vince won't be)

RitsukaOkami: YAY colorguard buddies~ The show went well though, I guess hot compresses help :3