AN: Hi.
Here's a new chapter for you.

To those who reviewed:

Spamano4ever: I'm quite sure. I don't try to unless it has something to do with the plot, I promise. I'm not that cruel. Yet. Lovi is the best brother in the world! Well...in some cases. If he gets depressed? Not so much.

Shiralala: I'm glad you enjoy it. It just hides from people. Like Canada, it's invisible a lot of the time! Kidding. I dunno, I never really pay attention. I try to update everyday, so that's probably why that happened. And as far as the side pairings go, all the ones you listed were right, and there is a current touch of Turkey/Greece because of the Sweden in the cosplay group at my school requesting to see that as a side pairing for at least three chapters. Then I could do whatever the hell I wanted as far as that pairing goes.

Anyways. Hope you enjoy.

Lovino was really getting sick of nightmares. He glanced at the clock beside his bed to see neon numbers flashing at him. Two-thirty in the morning. He groaned, sitting up and rubbing at his eyes for a moment. He knew he wasn't going to go back to sleep after the nightmare he'd had. Just then, his door opened and he looked at it, his guard flying up until he saw Feliciano standing there, rubbing at his left eye.

"Fratello?"

Lovino blinked. "What?"he asked. But he didn't snap like he normally did.

Feliciano hesitated. "Can I stay with you for the rest of the night?"he asked quietly. "I can't sleep."

Lovino half smiled. "Get over here."he said softly, patting the empty side of his bed.

Feliciano entered then, closing the door behind himself and moving to burrow under his brother's covers and curl up.

Lovino shifted to lean against the headboard and let Feliciano rest against him. "Get some rest, Feli. You'll need it tomorrow."

Silence fell for the longest before Feliciano spoke. "Will you sing me something? Please?"he asked.

Lovino looked down at his brother with soft eyes and nodded, preceeding to sing softly in italian, something that set Feliciano at ease and let the younger of the brothers to finally drift to sleep.

Once Lovino was sure he was asleep, he stopped singing and stared at the cieling in thought. He was okay with being alone, he was used to it. But Feli..he needed someone around to help look after him. Which is why Lovino let Ludwig anywhere near his brother. Because he knew that the german truly cared for his brother.

Lovino ended up dozing back off as well, letting his head rest lightly against Feliciano's.

The following morning, Lovino woke to his alarm and reached over to cut it off, shifting slightly and managing to wake Feliciano up before he started getting ready, leaving his brother to get woken up fully.

Feliciano was a bit slower about getting up that morning, but as soon as he was up and ready, he was the same hyperactive boy he normally was.

The younger italian ended up dragging Lovino into the school building that morning, since Lovino was lagging behind a bit due to being a bit less energized than his brother.

Lovino was just happy to be able to sit down and curl up against Antonio, letting the spaniard wrap his arms tightly around him.

Feliciano kissed Ludwig's cheek as he sat down, and Lovino gave a soft smile at that before he let his eyes slip closed again, relaxing once more.

Gilbert raised an eyebrow, looking over at his younger brother. "Hat er ignorieren dass?"he asked curiously.

Ludwig shrugged. "Ja, ich denke schon."

Gilbert blinked in surprise but let it go.

Antonio looked between the two. "What are you two on about?"he asked curiously from where his chin was resting on Lovino's shoulder lightly.

"Nothing. It's just, Lovino normally snaps at Ludwig when those two get so close."Gilbert said softly. "It's odd for him to brush it off like that, because he's so protective of Feli."

Lovino growled, but spoke. "I ignored it because he makes Feli happy. As long as he doesn't hurt Feli..then I don't care. But the minute that Feli gets hurt by him, his head's coming off."he said, opening his eyes to glare at the german before glaring at Gilbert as well. "Sorry, Gil, but not even you will stop me."

Feliciano frowned. "Fratello! Be nice to Ludwig! He's not done anything!"
"Yet."Lovino pointed out, then settled back down.

Antonio smiled softly. "He does it because he cares."he said softly.

Feliciano nodded once, but still frowned slightly at his brother.

"At least he's okay with you two now."Francis pointed out. "Used to, he hated you guys even being friends."

Feliciano nodded again and let it drop, going back to his conversation with Ludwig, who looked a bit lost.

That morning was one of the less eventful ones. Lunch, however, things started to get a bit less calm. Lovino was fuming when he came into the cafeteria and took a seat with the others.

Antonio frowned in concern, reaching out to pull Lovino to him, only to be pushed away by him. He sighed. "What's going on?"he asked quietly.

Lovino shook his head, his eyes dark.

Feliciano looked at Lovino. "Lovi, what's wrong?"he asked. "It has to be something important, or you wouldn't get this upset over it."

That was true. While the elder italian was a bit more sensitive to things, he didn't tend to react like this around his friends unless it mattered to him a lot.

"Nothing for you to worry about Feli."Lovino answered quietly. "Just some guys being jerks as usual, let it go."

Gilbert frowned at the tone in Lovino's voice. It was definitely more than just people beng jerks as normal. "I want to know who they were and what they said."he said, glaring at the elder italian.

Matthew sat up straight, getting out of the direct line of fire so that Gilbert wouldn't accidentally hurt him and then have Alfred after him.

Lovino shook his head, but said nothing.

Berwald and Tino entered then, and Tino, who was always useful to people trying to get information, started jabbering when he sat down, looking at Lovino. "Are you okay? You looked like you wanted to murder them or something."

Lovino sighed and shrugged it off. "Yeah, yeah, it's fine. Let it go."

Gilbert took in the expression in Lovino's eyes. "It most certainly is not fine."he deadpanned. "What was said and who was it?"

Lovino hated when his friends got like this. They always went over the top. "I said it's nothing, okay? Just the normal, so let it go."

Tino seemed to realize that Lovino wanted to handle it himself, because when Gilbert looked at him, he spoke, agreeing with Lovino. "Yeah, it was nothing. I was just worried it had bothered him..."

Gilbert could tell it was a lie, but he let it go anyways, knowing that Lovino really didn't want to talk about it.
Feliciano frowned but said nothing about it. He'd let his brother deal if he wanted to deal. It was what they did. If they wanted alone time, they'd get alone time.

Things settled back down after that. Surprisingly, Mathias didn't manage to get himself hit by Lukas for being an idiot at lunch that day. But it was only a matter of time.

The group split for the remainder of the school day, meeting up again after school. They all headed to Antonio's house to hang out for a while after school.

Lovino stayed out to the side, working through his thoughts in silence until Antonio plopped down beside him and took one of his hands quietly.

While it wasn't expected in any form, Lovino was glad that Antonio had done that. The support was nice.

Here ya go. Hope you enjoyed.