The nest morning Lovina didn't have a shift, but Felicia did, and so she stays at home, with Alfred. She looks at him, trying to figure out what he was thinking. Was it likely that he didn't care too much for her, or was planning on leaving to live with Kiku and Heracles.
"Lovina...you're crying..." Alfred leans forward and brushes a stray tear. She swats his hand away, and turns her body completely.
He ignores this body language completely and hugs her from behind. "Come on...Lovina...what's wrong?" he shifts her onto his lap, and cuddles her. As the days went on, he was more and more affectionate with her which she slowly got used to. "Lovina I-"
A small crash is heard cuasing Lovina to jump up and grab a wooden spoon. With shaky hands she walks to the room and opens the door. A loud scream follows.
"PERVERT! BASTARD! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY HOUSE!" she screams at the stern looking blonde male.
"Will you relax already...?" The male has a very thick German accent. He frowns at Lovina and lets out a small sigh. "Look...I'm your cat..." He sighs deeply again. "Germouser..." the way he said the name dripped with annoyance and intense dislike, almost as if the name itself was cursed. "I...woke up like this...after making a wish..."
The very night before Felicia was sitting in her room in tears. She held Germouser close and looks on at a picture of Alderic and herself. It was one of the last times she saw him alive, and everyday he was gone, was just another rip added to her heart.
Germouser did his best to be the comforting cat, he purrs for her, cuddles into her, and much to his dislike even licks her cheek.
With all of his efforts, sadly little is left to console her, but Felicia does let him know she appreciates what he did for her.
"Ve...I wish I could see him again...I wish that you could be him Germouser..." she lets out a heavy sigh, and lies down. She softly cries herself to sleep, leaving Germouser to ponder what she had just told him.
He couldn't stantd to see her like that, and so he made the wish.
Lovina sighs as she gets clothing for Germouser. Now they had to deal with another guy in the house. She watches as Alfred talks to him in that annoying cheerful way. Well, at least there was that to be thankful for. She gives him clothing, and walks away, expecting him to dress on his own.
"Ve?" Felicia is on her break when she sees Germouser. "C-che cosa..." She leans forward and touched him. "You...you look like him..." she tears up and starts to cry. Germouser sighs, and hugs her, holding the poor girl close, while Lovina gives him a death glare.
"Hey, what's with the unaweso-oh gott...b-bruder...I...I..." Gilbert's eyes widen in shock and fear. He tries to find words, but is shocked beyond belief. He turns and gets Mr. Beilschmidt, who in turn pauses and stares at Germouser.
"Aldaric..." he lightly frowns at the male before him. 'No...' He couldn't believe any of this. His son was declared legally dead a while back, so why did this have to happen...did this mean he was back? "Who are you...?" he looks at the crying Italian, and sweatdrops because he knew that soon Mr. Vargas was going to be in here soon to comfort his favorite granddaughter.
Lovina stands up and walks over with a small frown. "You might not believe this...but this used to be a cat..." she sighs as he gives her a questionable look. "He used to be Germouser...but now...I don't know anymore..."
"Ve?..." Felicia is more confused. She knew Alfred and Canada turned human, but now Germouser was human? "The...the angel made you human Germouser? But...but why?"
"As a...pet..." he sighs deeply. "It was inappropriate to let you suffer like that. It was best to make that...wish ...so that I could be better suited to help you." He mutters with a very faint blush over his fair skin. Felicia giggles, and hugs him.
"Wishes...angles?"
"Don't be so quick to judge them~" A familiar voice said, as the all too familiar Mr. Vargas walks in. "I met an angel once~ Beautiful woman too, and she called herself Angel Eireen, or something like that~" he grins. "But the point is she made wishes come true~" He looks at Germouser and Felicia and smiles. "Is this young love~?" he teases the two, causing Germouser to turn dark red, and Felicia to have a light pink dusting on her tanned complexion. "You know...he could pass as one of your sons...Did you have a one night stand?"
"You know I'm not you..."
"You wound me" Mr. Vargas feigns heartache as he looks at Mr. Beilschmidt. He then looks at Germouser. "Looks like you need a little help...don't worry~ I'll help you free of charge~ Just make sure to make my little princess happy~" he smiles as he gushes on about how adorable Felicia was.
Lovina clenches her fists and storms out of the room in the midst of her grandfather's ramblings. She always did hate how he showered her little sister with affection, while she, the eldest granddaughter, was treated worse than second rate.
Alfred sees her and goes over while trying to be comforting, but there is very little that he is able to do. "Come on Lovina...please smile?..." He hugs her close.
"Just...just stop" she frowns at him., while trying to push him away. He pouts and hugs her closer. "Enough Alfred..."
"Lovina?" She cringes when she sees Antonio walking towards her. "What...what's going on?...why are you with this guy?...is he your boyfriend?" there seems to be a sign of hurt in his question.
"Yeah I am~" Alfred laughs as he looks at Antonio. "She's just the best~"
Lovina was too much in talk to even say anything. Not only did Antonio see her with him, but now he just misread the situation. She feels her face turn red, but then feels a pain in her heart when Antonio looks sad.
"Well...I see..." he walks off without another word..
Lovina turns and looks at Alfred gaping at him, until she finally gets her words back. "W-what the fuck is wrong with you? No...you're not my boyfriend..."
"I'm not your friend? But...but Lovina" he pouts more and causes Lovina to go to a brick wall, and facewall. "Lovina?"
"No...you idiot...he meant more than that, as in what you would call mates!" She is in shock at how cluelessly naive he is. Yes, this was still her cat, but sadly no, he wasn't too bright even after the time he spent with her. "Maybe you're my friend...but" she sighs and puts a lock of hair behind her ear. "I draw the line at friend...
"Oh...I-I'm sorry." he nervously laughs.
"Just don't let it happen again."
The next day Germouser is given the name Ludwig, and is sent to live with Mr. Beilschmidt, who will help him adjust to being a human. He gives Ludwig his last name, and in a sense adopts him as his son.
Meanwhile Lovina decides to bring Alfred to one of the fastfood places that he wanted to go to. They get up to the drive through, and Lovina tells the person taking their order to wait a moment, before telling Alfred what they have.
As if my instinct, Alfred choses a cheeseburger, some fries (he had always wanted to try them before) and a soda. Lovina rolls her eyes, but she turns back to the drive through, and starts ordering the food. She sighs and drives to the drive through window, and as soon as she pays for and gets the food hands it to Alfred.
"You better not make a mess" she frowns at him. She watches in disgust as she devours the burger, and then does the same with the fries. "Use the bag for the garbage..." she sighs. "Look...I have an emergency shift, so I'm going to drop you off to hang out with Kiku, if that's alright..." He nods happy to see his new friend.
A while later Alfred is sitting in Kiku's living room watching a show that was about a young hero, who with his best friend fought evil and saved princesses. He is watching Adventure Time with Finn and Jake. He watches Finn with a sense of fascination, feeling a wish to be able to go on adventures like that.
"Kiku-san, that's so cool~!" Alfred smiles as he bites into a snack. "And Finn...he's just so awesome~ but why is the pink haired chick being so cold to him?..." he trails off when he sees the fire princess. "Woah now she's really cool~" He chuckles.
"Alfred-san...she's evil..." Kiku sweatdrops as he looks over at Alfred. 'Not to mention she has the whole hot and cold act like Lovina-chan...hmm...' Kiku starts to think as he looks at Alfred, pondering his character type. He was definitely the heroic type, or rather the type who aspires to be that type, but he was loud and bold...yeah he did have similar motivation to Finn. Kiku thinks more about Alfred and then his thoughts turn to Lovina.
"Kiku-san?" Alfred looks over when he hears a soft chuckle. Kiku is very faintly smiling to himself while pondering something. Little does Alfred realize, or even understand just how much of an otaku Kiku could be. "Dude? you ok?" Alfred seems more nervous as he sees a small glint in Kiku's eyes but that will last only for a moment.
"Alfred-san...could I ask a favor of you?" Kiku finally asks.
"Sure...no problem Kiku-san..."
Heracles sits outside, and pets some kittens that he took under his wing. He enjoys their company, even if sometimes the soft mewls of them could get annoying. He feels a kitten jump on his chest, and start batting at his hair, while a few of them play with his baggy t-shirt.
With all due respect, he is capable of taking care of so many kittens, and for quite a few years he raises them, as if they were his own children.
Sadly, since he and Kiku are both male, it would be impossible for them to have a child of their own, or rather have a child of their own that would be conceived the stereotypical one point they considered a surrogate, but it never really did want a "kitten" of his own with Kiku, but no, he wasn't trying to compensate by having a lot of kittens with him.
He pets the kitten, softly smiling at her. She is a little fluffy black kitten with a weird serious expression, kind of like Kiku. The only difference between the two is Aki was a little more bold than Kiku and she would often act more affectionate. At times Heracles wishes that Aki was how Alfred was in the sense that she could be a human, and he could raise her even more as their child, but he was still happy for the time they spent.
Aki purrs as she cuddles into Heracles. She feels happy that she has a family, even if it were a larger family and she has plenty of other kittens to play with. Sometimes she wishes to stand out more from the others, so that she could get more affection, but a kitten can dream, can't she?
She soon gets bored and decides to explore, and so she starts to wander around, until the caught a strange scent. It smells like it could be human, but at the same time it could also pass for another cat. Letting her curiosity get the better of her, she goes closer to the scent until she's in the room with Alfred.
"Hey there~" Alfred smiles and picks her up.
"That's Aki-chan...she's one of our kittens" Kiku looks up from his sketch book. "I'll be right back." he quickly excuses himself, right as Aki starts to meow at Alfred.
'What are you' She leans up and licks his cheek. Something about him was off. To her, it feels like his scent was mixed. Half cat, half human.'you smell like one of us...but...you smell like my two leg...'
"I used to be like you..." Alfred casually replies. "One night I made a wish to be human...the angel made it possible..."
'Wait...a wish?...to be human?...but what's so special about being a two leg?'
Alfred laughs at this. "It's so much fun~ I get to eat foods I couldn't eat before, go to places I've only dreamed of...and best of all, I get to be with Lovina~" he softly smiles.
'the angry lady?...' Aki is more confused when Alfred nods. 'but...why...do you want to be her mate?'
Cue Alfred choking on his soda.
Lovina sighs as she sees Antonio and Julchen making out outside. Figures that once she broke up with him, he would start overdoing the public displays. She feels a pain in her heart, as slowly another emotional cut is added. With a suppressed sigh, she gets the trays, and goes back to serving people, even though she wanted to line up all of the happy couples, and with one swift but effective move of the hand, bitch slap them all.
She sees that Ludwig is blushing as Felicia goes on about something pasta related, while her grandfather was too busy with the one Lovina calls the 'evil potato boss', aka Mr. Beilschmidt.
"Lovina..." A soft voice interrupts her thoughts. She sees Lilli, Vash's little sister walk over to her. "Ms. Lovina? Are you well? You seem...sad." She looks up at Lovina with a soft look in her eyes. Even if Lovina was kind of foul-mouthed at times, she stood up for Lilli, which in return caused Vash to trust her more. "If you don't feel well, I could do the rest of the shift for you?"
"It's fine Lilli, and you need to get home to your brother..." Now Lovina feels bad. "And I think Irina wasnted you to have tea with her and Matthew.
"R-right..." Lilli trails off. "What's Mathew like? Is he nice too?"
"Let's put it this way, when your brother sees hos scared he gets, he'll know that Matthew isn't a threat..." Lovina sighs while biting at her lip. She flinches when Antonio and Julchen walk in, with Antonio grinning like the idiot he always is. Julchen rests her head against his chest, and gives Lovina a look that clearly says she's "better" than Lovina. Antonio is clueless to what's going on, and just keeps walking with Julchen as if he didn't know she was taunting Lovina. Unfortunately Antonio never was the sharpest tool in the shed.
Antonio looks at Lovina with a small guilty expression. Just days before he sat in his room, looking at the engagement ring he bought her, and he was ready to propose, plan the perfect wedding, and then find a comfortable job and start a large family with her. He always pictured himself growing old with her, and spending the rest of their lives together, with the remaining years telling the grandchildren about how they met and how they fell in love. Sadly in one mess, they lost that path.
Don't get him wrong, he cares for Julchen, but his love for her wasn't as strong as how his love for Lovina is. Plus she was a little too aggressive when they are together, and she was what many people would call bold. He does admire that about her, but at the same time, she makes him blush a lot.
Lovina is happy to be home, and not realizing Alfred is close by, she collapses onto her bed and cries into the pillows. She hates how quickly Antonio moves on, while she was alone. She hates how he chooses the "potato princess" who in high school was well know for partying, dirnking, and hooking up. It was very heavily implied that she and Anya had fling for a while, but broke it off. Many people theorized that was why Anya acted so coldly to Julchen, and why Julchen was never comfortable around her by the time they graduated. She lets out her tears, feeling her heart slowly break into pieces, that is until someone touches her shoulder. With a yelp Lovina looks up and sees Alfred.
"A-alfred..." She blinks away tears. "N-no...please...go away..." she gasps when he pulls her close, holding her in a gently protective way. As if by instinct she buries her face into his shoulder and cries.
"Shh...shhh..." he rubs her back in a soothing gentle manner. All he wants is for her to be happy. "It's ok..." he kisses the top of her head.
Lovina looks up at him, feeling this strange warm feeling. When he was still a cat, he would cuddle up to her, and purr to calm her down and now he's human and able to comfort her in a better way. She feels herself blush when he leans in and kisses her forehead, still grinning at her.