Okay so hello! Exciting right? A new chapter! YAY! I think this was a bit longer to upload than I said, but I don't believe it was THAT bad this time right? Anyway, I have one more week of school before my holidays so look forward to quite a few updates coming you're way. Another thing, my friend (who has never seen hetalia BTW) wrote…well I'm not really sure how to describe it. But he wrote it while I was talking to him about this story and it is based around the same time as this chapter, he added another character and it's pretty short but honestly it is extremely hilarious, especially for Australians like us. I will be uploading it to under the name he gave it "Ashes to Ashes, Kisses to Lamb" and I recommend you all go read it, if only to be confused by my friend. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter! I will hopefully get the new one up ASAP. Yada Yada Yada, all the usual stuff. Y'know~
"-Something Green" Feliciano said nodding and turning back towards the road.
"Something green?" Lili replied, "Is it…the trees?"
"Nope, not the trees."
"The grass?" She asked.
The Italian shook his head in response, "It's in the truck."
"Is it…" Liechtenstein gazed around the vehicle for a few moments and sighed a little, "Gilberts backpack?".
"Nope." he hummed gleefully.
"I give up then."
"You can't give up! You only took 3 guesses!"
"I'm not good at this game though Feli!" She whined.
"It's eye spy? Everyone's good at it. Didn't you ever play it before, like with Vash?"
Lili shook her head, "No we didn't play to many games, just spoke really, and I never got a chance too play games before I met him."
Feliciano frowned a little and let out a sigh, "Okay, well I'll teach you all the games I know. We'll be like brother and sister!" he paused for a moment "I always wanted a sister."
"What about Lovino?"
"He's a boy…?"
"I know but, couldn't you have put a dress on him or something? It would be close enough." She giggled
Feliciano let out a deep laugh "Don't ever let him hear you saying that Lili".
She shone a large grin back at him "So how long do you think it'll be till we get there?"
"Rome or the lake?" Feli asked turning off onto a smaller road from the highway.
"Both."
The Italian hummed in thought "Gilbert says we'll get to Rome in about 2 days, I say two and a half but I guess it depends. And we should get to the lake in about five minutes." A smile had grown over his face at the thought of visiting Lake Transimeno, as it held many memories for him and it was one of his favourite places in the whole world so naturally he wanted to share it with them. The road grew more cracked and bumpy as they drove on and eventually it turned to a simple dirt path amongst the empty fields. There were plenty of more popular spots around the lake, but he decided it best they stay somewhere that is less likely to be full of flesh-eating monsters, even if it is just for the night. Besides it was one of his, and lovino's for that matter, favourite spots and he didn't think they'd be missing out on much. "There" he exclaimed pointing to the small blue line that had appeared on the horizon, "we'll be there in no time."
"It's very…secluded" Lili said looking around to find not one building in her line of sight.
"It's safer this way. besides its not far enough from the highway to be a big difference."
"I guess so." She paused and spun around on the chair to look in the back seat, "Should we wake them?"
"Maybe. I want to get some firewood and make a fire so unless you want to do that tent up on your own you are probably going to have to wake Gilbert up."
"Oh sure. Leave the girl with the injured leg to do all the heavy lifting" Lili mocked, sliding back into her seat.
"I'm definitely the one who bandaged that almost everyday for a month, and you won't be complaining when we have the biggest campfire ever" Feliciano smiled.
She smiled back at him "Okay, Okay I'll do it. AND I'll wake Gil up, Not letting him get away without doing any work. Should we wake Meagan up too?"
Venenciano shook his head "She looks more rattled then any of us, I think we should let her sleep as long as we can."
Two minutes later the truck pulled up beside a dilapidated jetty that seemed to zig and zag every which way. It was the way Feliciano remembered it, though that made it seem a bit fake and unreal, which he supposed it was. He walked down past the jetty too a row of trees to gather the firewood, smiling as he heard the familiar groan of a sleepy Gilbert being woken up.
About an hour later the smell of smoke began to fill the air around the jetty, emanating from a large pile of branches, dried grass, twigs, and a few logs, which was situated beside the tent. The four of them surrounded the tent all busy making dinner; which, despite the fact it was simply 2 cans of beans and some hard candy they'd found at a petrol station, needed four chefs to complete it.
"So Meagan, you say you were here on holidays right? Well where are you from?" Feliciano asked sliding the frying pan which contained the two cans onto the fire.
"New York" she smiled poking at the fire underneath the pan. "Born and raised there."
"An American then? I wonder how bad all of this hit him" Lili said to herself absently.
"Who?' Meagan asked a little confused.
"Oh we had a friend who lived in America, none of us know how anywhere outside of Europe's being affected, so who knows how they're going?" Gilbert replied taking a seat next to Lili and waving one of the hard candies before her eyes in an offering.
Meagan seemed particularly amused by this and had to stifle down a laugh "Jesus, next thing you'll be telling me is you know a man and a woman from each continent and you've built an arc for them all".
"Who says we haven't?" Feli laughed snatching 4 of the hard candies from gilberts hand and sharing them with Meagan.
She smiled, though he could tell there was a bit of her that thought it was possible. "Anyway" she spoke up again after a few moments, "I hope it's fine over there and I mean I don't see why it shouldn't be! It's the land of the free not of the dead! But…I can't help but wonder why they wouldn't have sent help yet."
"I'm not too worried about what happened to the rest of the world. I just want to know though! It would be nice to know if there's any point in looking at the faces of every survivor we meet for something familiar, or if that person just isn't here." Lili mumbled through the candy in her mouth, "It's not really fair is all."
"That'd be too easy for the apocalypse Lili" Gilbert hushed into her hair.
"T'would be nice though. To know what happened to all those people." Meagan sighed as she spun the cans over. Lili was asleep before the beans were ready and Gilbert decided to pass and join her. Feliciano and Meagan didn't manage to save any though and devoured it all quite quickly. Afterwards Meagan told him about all the things she'd seen since it started. She told him of the panic that filled Vienna when it first started. Of a man who had saved the sisters. Of the people they met and travelled to Rome with. Of the old church they'd hid out in. Of her plan to fly back to America. Of the 'herd' that tore her apart from her sister. But Feliciano was too tired to understand most of what she said, try as he might and in the end he decided that if he wanted to reach his brother tomorrow, he would have to sleep and the two of them retired for the night.
OMG I'm writing at the end of the chapter?! WHAT IS THIS!? No but, I thought it was necessary to apologize for my complete lack of much of anything happening in this chapter. And in a lot of my chapters for that matter. I got a comment from a friend about this and I was worried you guys might be upset about it! I swear it's ALL important and leading up to things but I can try and make it more interesting if you're getting bored? Let me know guys!
