AN: Hola!

Here's the new chapter for you. This is the earliest you will get one on a weekend! I swear it is! Oh! Did you guys know that Feliciano and Lovino's human last name isn't Italian? Vargas is actually a common Spanish last name!

To those who reviewed:

ThatRandomReview: Vash is awesome..and sehr overprotective! He views the Vargas brothers as his kliene Brüder, so it's natural that he'd kill to protect them. And you did not miss a name. I didn't include one. But..considering the group that Lovi just gone 'done' messing with, I think it's fairly easy to guess what kinda person it was. And panic attacks..definitely not fun. They fucking suck and drain ya of energy. I'm sorry you've had personal experience with them. Finally, finally, things are looking up for Feli and Lovi!

Spamano4ever: Yes, he is!

Penguin Braginski: Finland appearing as Santa..? Hm..I hadn't thought about that yet. He does that in the show and manga, though.. I guess he will be in an odd sort of way. Thanks for that reminder! I owe ya big time! And Lovi is doing better.

Enjoy.

The days before Winter break were calm. The entire school had a festive air. The art and drama classes had decorated the school.

Lunch was full of chatter, as normal, but Lovino was smiling more. "This looks amazing. This is the best time of the year for this school, because hardly anyone's willing to break the festive air to start shit with others,"he said softly. He smiled at Feliciano. "Did you have fun helping decorate?"

Feliciano grinned brightly and nodded. "I did!"he said. "Now. More importantly, have you signed up for the Winter show? It's the last day before break,"

"Feli, I can't."Lovino said. "I have work, and that show will cut into my work hours because it's after school."

Francis rolled his eyes. "Give me your phone,"he said to the elder Italian.

Lovino shook his head, so Vash snatched the phone from him and called Lovino's work with a look to Lovino.

No longer than a minute later, Vash spoke. "Yes, sir, I was wondering if there was any way we could get Lovi to work a bit late this Friday due to something at school?"he said softly.

Lovino huffed. His boss was well acquainted with Vash. This was going to be fun.

Vash smiled softly. "Thank you, sir. I will have him in as soon as it's over, I promise."

With that, he hung up and handed Lovino his phone back. "You can come in late, so long as you work hard."

Lovino sighed. "Thanks, Vash."he said, rolling his eyes. "But I was perfectly fine with missing the show,"

Feliciano frowned. "But you haven't played since before you got hurt! I miss hearing you play. Please, Lovi?"

The look on Feliciano's face made Lovino sigh. "Fine."he huffed. "But I have to find a song,"

Feliciano's grin came back full force and he shot up to give his brother a tight hug. "Grazie, Lovi."

Lovino rolled his eyes, ruffling Feliciano's hair before he let his brother go back to his seat.

Feliciano automatically curled up against Ludwig when he sat down and Lovino offered a smile. After all the help that the German had given to him and Feliciano? He'd earned the elder's respect.

As such, he said nothing about it and the group continued on with a new topic.

Roderich came up in the middle of something Vash was saying, surprising the Swiss. The Austrian had been missing for the first half of their lunch hour, but nobody said anything, considering the smile showing on Vash's face right then was a rare thing.

"What kept you? You said you'd be along shortly, not half an hour later,"Vash said, but the scolding tone was soft.

Lovino shared a look with Feliciano before both brothers rolled their eyes at their 'older brother's behaviour before returning their gazes to the couple curiously. It was odd for Vash to act like this.

Roderich gave a faint smile, stealing a kiss from the Swiss before he spoke. "I'm sorry it took so long.."he murmured. "But I have my reasons."

Lovino knew at that point that this would go one of two ways - either it would be really sweet, or it would end in a fight. And seeing as he knew that today was supposed to be special for the two - being two years that they'd been together now - he didn't want it to end in a fight.

Francis seemed to recall a conversation that Roderich had had with the Italian brothers around him not even a month ago and gasped quietly before a smile showed up.

Feliciano looked over at the frenchman curiously before he looked back at the two who were speaking quietly, to the point that even Lovino couldn't hear them.

Roderich glanced at the others before he pulled Vash away from the table to speak with him.

Lovino seemed to realize what was going on because he grinned. "Aw, no way..he was planning that for today?"

Feliciano tilted his head before he smiled. "Seems so."he replied quietly.

Lovino looked back curiously before he smiled faintly and shook his head. "If he does and he mentions he spoke with us..Vash will kill us,"

Feliciano shrugged. "Worth it."

A few laughs sounded at the table.

The group heard when Vash gasped, making them glance over.

The cafeteria had fallen dead silent, allowing nearly everyone to hear Roderich's words.

"Vash..I know we've never talked about it. But I love you. Willst du mich heiraten?"

Silence fell for the longest moment before Vash nodded. "Ja. Ich werde dich heiraten."

Roderich grinned, getting up and pulling him into a tight hug.

Lovino shared a smile with his brother. They were glad the two were happy.

Surprisingly, nobody said a word to the two through the rest of the day.

The group ended up letting Vash and Roderich have time to themselves that day, knowing that they would more than likely mess something up for the couple otherwise, or at least run risk of doing so.

Therefore, Ludwig let Vash know that the Vargas brothers were going with them to Francis's house.

Vash nodded, giving Ludwig a faint smile before hugging Lovino and Feliciano and letting them leave.

Lovino smiled as they walked. "I'm glad he's happy. He's always so serious, it kills me."

"It's nice to finally see him smiling like that,"Feliciano agreed.

_S&S_-

The remaining days of school before break flew by and Lovino barely found a song in time for the show.

Thank goodness he had persuaded the others to let him choose a song that wasn't for Christmas. He couldn't stand the cheery Christmas music. Other than the cold, it was the only thing he hated about the holiday.

Lovino had decided to do an old Italian song that he knew Feliciano would recognise. He'd sung it for his brother before when he'd gotten scared during storms while they were home alone.

Lovino was one of the last people to perform, and he offered a faint smile when he came out onto the stage.

Throughout his performance, Lovino noticed the surprise on Feliciano's face, as well as the shock showing on some of the other students's expressions.

It wasn't normal for Lovino to go fully Italian in his speech or music, so when he did, it surprised many people.

As soon as the show was over, Vash moved to wait for Lovino to bid his friends goodbye so he could drive the Italian to work. The restruant was thankfully one of the nicer places in town, so it was hard to miss, even on a night like this - pouring rain and pitch dark.

Lovino waved once last time to his friends as he moved to Vash's side.

"Achten!"Gilbert called after the two.

"Nicht so viel Sorgen machen."Vash called back as he led Lovino out of the school.

Lovino showed up at Antonio's after work to spend time with the group soaked to the bone and shivering like crazy. Feliciano knew that Vash had dropped him off, but still. It was a long walk from the car to the door.

Antonio frowned, getting up and going to get some dry clothes of his own to give to Lovino. "Go get dried off and changed before you catch a cold, Lovi."

Lovino gave him a thankful smile and disappeared into the bathroom to do just that.

He came back into the living room not even five minutes later, his hair still a little damp from the rain, but not at bad.

Antonio smiled faintly and passed Lovino a mug of hot chocolate.

"Grazie,"Lovino said softly as he took the mug from his boyfriend.

"How was work?"

Lovino sighed, sipping at the hot drink. "Slow."he answered after a moment. "People don't venture out in this kind of weather to eat out very much, unless they're stupid."
Feliciano laughed lightly at that response. "You spent most of the night babysitting the boss's kid didn't you?"

Lovino nodded once, leaning against Antonio lightly.

The Spaniard smiled faintly, running his fingers through the Italian's hair gently.

Lovino ended up falling asleep like that not even a half hour later. He still held his empty mug in his hands, but Feliciano took that from him when he noticed his brother was asleep and Antonio smiled faintly, taking the blanket that Francis passed and placing it around Lovino before he wrapped his arms around the Italian's waist as well.

Tino blinked at this scene when he looked up from his book. He smiled. "Aw, how sweet,"he said quietly.

Silence fell over the group at that point. Tino had said it right. It was sweet. But nobody else dared say anything in fear of waking Lovino up and having him yell at them.

Still, it had been a nice day for the group.

I blame this on a conversation I had with our Canada yesterday in Art class..well, his art class, technically. I stayed after to show something to the teacher and was late to History as a result. Anyways. Not my fault. This one was based off of a uber awkward cosplay moment we had. The teacher enjoyed it, and the other cosplayers got a laugh out of it, so it was worth it!