Huh. Strange, coming out of all of you. You guys must really love this.
/= "Servant of Evil –classical- Instrumental" =/
When Feliciano have finally recovered all his energy back, Ludwig escorted him down to the pub. He looked up and saw Yong Soo explaining the whole plan that he had told Charice before. None of them seemed that happy (especially Alfred, who totally wanted to do this alone), but after a quick explanation why, he decided that he might as well go with it.
"So…that's all of us…except for Antonio and Lovino…" Arthur looked up. "The story's technically done, so we should be able to get them back here."
"It's not done!" Charice pointed out. "What about kuya?"
"…right…him…"
The group sat there for a minute as Feliciano was led into an empty seat. The way that he was escorted into it and felt Ludwig slide the chair into place just made him oddly happy…albeit embarrassed (for strange reasons). At the door, he could see Alfred staring out for a few minutes before looking up.
"They're here, guys."
"W-wait…what do I do?" Charice pointed to herself.
"Tie your hair up. You look completely different with that outfit on you." Li Xiao smiled. "And the fact that you have your hair pin back means that he will be unlikely to make the connection."
"…that's the kind of stuff you find in badly written fanfiction…"
They waited for a few minutes before they noticed Antonio and Lovino walking through the door, all dressed up in their formal attire. It was then the small group realized that Ludwig was still in the room…and the minds of each one of them started to melt down like ice. Feliciano looked away, hoping that Lovino wouldn't notice him. He could feel Ludwig's finger rub calming circles on his back, and it was accenting the blush on his face.
"Is that…?" Lovino's voice wavered.
Here it comes…!
"…Ludwig?"
Holy crap, this is badly written fanfiction…
"You're…you're alive…"
Ludwig's finger continued to rub Feliciano's back until Lovino brought himself to move forward and hug him. While the idea of Lovino and Ludwig hugging each other while the both of them were willing to would have been great in any other form of context…what it was now made the majority of them rather sick. Li Xiao was holding Charice's leg down because she was obviously about to rage at any point.
"…Antonio…how?" Lovino turned to him. "How did you…?"
"W-we were just passing by when we saw the village being attacked." Antonio had a sad smile on his face. "There were no survivors when we walked in…he barely escaped with his life…"
"…we?"
"My companions here." He gestured toward the table next to Ludwig. "Without them, I would've died from the soldiers that were there."
"I-I see…" He nodded to all of them. "I must thank you all."
"No problem. We did what we thought was right." Li Xiao said with a smile. "We are all humans, after all."
"Yeah. Totally human." Charice looked at Lovino right in the eye. "And with all the blood that he was leaking, we kinda assumed that he needed the care, that's all."
"I'm glad you saved him…really."
This really is a bad fanfic…
"Um…" Ludwig blinked. "Who…are you?"
That made both the Italian brothers jump and someone to start snickering (damn you, Gilbert). Lovino was staring at Ludwig in shock for a few minutes before his gaze turned down to Feliciano, who was now a few feet away from jumping in shock. His face suddenly changed shape and they could hear growling.
"Why do you look like me…?"
"V-ve…?"
"I knew it! You're working for that damn witch queen too, aren't you?"
Five seconds later, Lovino had pinned Feliciano down on the ground with his hands grasped tightly around his neck. The whole group stood up in shock as they watched Lovino begin to strangle him, Matthew quickly trying to pull him away. All they could hear was Feliciano whimpering pathetically for air, not even trying to pull his fingers away.
"You're not going to conspire him against me, dammit! He's mine, and mine alone!"
"No, Lovino! Don't do this!" Matthew screamed. "You can't kill him! He has nothing to do with the queen!"
"Don't lie to me!" He threw Matthew off. "Why does he look like me then?"
"Hey!" Antonio grabbed his shoulders, pulling him back. "Don't hurt him; he's already been through enough!"
"Since when? You know that the queen has that strange affinity for voodoo magic!" Lovino screamed. "He was made because he knew that Ludwig was going to be saved! She wanted to break me! That bastard!"
"No, Lovino, no!" Antonio's face suddenly got serious. "You don't understand!"
"…fra-fratello…"
Lovino paused, looking down at the boy underneath his fingertips. He wasn't making any move to pull him off, but instead was opening his eyes to look at his brother. Golden eyes looked back at him, slowly watering up as he felt the fingers twitch back and slowly move.
"…fratello…"
"…Feli…?"
Lovino launched himself backwards as he finally felt Antonio's strength pull him back, seeing Feliciano coughing and gasping for air as Ludwig and Kiku checked up on his condition. He had seen that look on his face before…so many times, so long ago…and he was the cause of it…
"…b-bastard…"
"That's it. YOU MUST REMEMBER, DA ZE!"
*grope*
"I'm in on this too! No one harms Feli-chan and gets away with it!"
*tackle-glomp*
"Hey! I WANT IN ON THIS AWESOMENESS!"
*vital regions SEIZED*
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"CHIGIIIIIIII!"
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"You better be bloody grateful that we saved you."
"I know…I had enough of a hard time kissing the potato bastard, so don't make me do anything else…"
"S-sorry…" Charice rubbed the back of her head, feeling the wound. "But we had to make you remember, you know."
"Geez…you didn't have to force me to…" Lovino looked up. "So now what?"
"Well, we're just missing one person right now and we need to get him back." Kiku stated, folding his arms.
"That shouldn't be too hard, compared to the story right?" Alfred asked. "Come on, the story should totally tell us where he is!"
"He'll be in the center square at three o' clock." He answered. "But knowing the time here, he'll be most likely to be there already."
"Then let's go!" Charice stood up. "Rizal might be there already, but he needs us! He has to be!"
"Yeah…" Matthew stood up as well. "W-we should see if he's there…"
"Point taken." Gilbert lifted up his fingers. "I lead!"
"Screw that, I lead!" Alfred pointed to himself. "I'm the hero, after all!"
"Yeah, well I'm awesomer than the hero! You know, the cool second-in-command!"
"Sorry, but that title belongs to me aru." Li Xiao waved his hand. "Now you two can bicker like girls while I lead the way."
"HEY!"
The whole crowd marched forward, hearing Alfred and Gilbert bicker with each other like little girls and Ludwig being forced to smack the both of them every few feet or so. Antonio was about to head forward when he realized that Lovino wasn't part of the group. He turned his head around and saw him glaring back at him.
"I need to talk to you, bastard."
"…Lovino…"
"You haven't said a damn word to me ever since you got here! You out of all people should've known that I wasn't in my own head!"
"But Lovi-chan, if I tried to tell you the truth, you wouldn't believe me!" Antonio waved his hand around. "I couldn't afford another headbutt to my stomach in this time and place!"
"Not that! Why then, haven't you tried talking to me when we were in the damn raid?"
That was when Antonio got quiet.
"Answer me, dammit!"
"Because…you looked happy."
"Eh?"
"The entire raid, you kept saying how it was all for him…how this was for revenge for her killing your beloved. You were so into it…crying when we had our target…telling me that he was happy now…" Antonio smiled. "You never said anything like that to me. Ever."
"Antonio…"
"I only live to make you happy…and if it meant that you were your happiest with him, then so be it. I've hidden my emotions before; this time wouldn't be anything different-"
"BULLSHIT! I WASN'T HAPPY!"
"Lovino?"
"I wasn't happy because that wasn't the real me! You know the real me more than I knew myself; I thought we had this established!" Lovino screamed. "Are you saying that this false sense of happiness for a man I had LOATHED this entire time was going to mean more to me than the crap I have to deal with you every single day? BULLSHIT!"
"…I…"
"You know me, Antonio. I've told you that I put you above all else." He was crying now. "I don't care what incarnation of me tells you otherwise…or are you really that dense of a bastard…?"
"…oh, mi tomate…" Antonio held him close. "I am never dense when it comes to how you feel…"
"…you…bastard..."
The two of them stood there for a few seconds, holding each other and allowing the Italian to sob quietly into the man's chest and hearing the other one try not to cry as well. All Antonio could do was smile through the tears and be grateful that he had what was his back in his arms once more…and once this was all over…he would never let him go…
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"Um…Li-chan?"
"Yeah?"
"Should we get them?"
"They're in a moment; leave them be. It's not three yet anyway."
"Don't tell me you're completely romantic now."
"How can I not be? You'd be leaving me if I wasn't."
"…true…"
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God bless updates. As long and…LONG as they were.