DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN BROTHERS CONFLICT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM
Louis could feel his hands shaking. Sweat was building up from his forehead. There was little to argue over the fact that the people in the picture looked easily like how his real parents probably looked. And the boy, the small boy, he knew it had to be him. There's was no way it couldn't be.
"Louis?" he suddenly heard Stephon say, "are you alright?"
"I'm sorry your Majesty, this is just, just, too surprising! I had no idea who my real parents were and I always tried to not not try and think about them too much since I was always under the impression they abandon me," Louis said, "but to find out they're dead and I may never known now, it's, it's...,"
"I know, believe me I know," said Stephon, "but do know, your parents did love you very much."
Louis' tears dripped down onto one of the photos he was looking at with his so called real mother hugging him close.
"What was this you said about you assuming you were abandon?" Stephon asked.
"I was, I was found outside a little road side store by the owners who said they had heard a car driving away before they found me outside their shop. Apparently that was enough to come to the conclusion I had been abandon and put in an orphanage where my mom found me and adopted me," Louis explained.
"A little Mom and Pop shop huh?" Stephon asked.
"I guess," said Louis.
"I do recal Walter mention the store and how he thought it was nice there were still businesses out there like that," Stephon said, "all the more proof that you are probably Walter and Georgette's son."
"I see," said Louis, "is his mother, my grandmother I guess, still alive?"
"No I'm afraid not. She died not too long after the accident," said Stephon, "however, I'm sure some of Georgette's family is still alive. It's been a while since I've spoken to them, but I'm sure her parents and her brother and sister are still alive. I can arrange for you to contact them if you want."
"Yes, yes I'd like that," Louis said softly. He figured he should learn more about his supposed real family.
"If you need some time alone Louis, I understand," said Stephon, "I realize this is a lot to take in."
"Thank you sire," Louis said as hd bowed and walked out of the room, "can I keep the album for a while?"
"Of course," said Stephon, "as long as you like."
"You're very kind your Majesty," said Louis as he walked out of the room. He kept his nose in the book, looking for pictures of his parents. All the ones he could find, they looked so happy and kind. And the ones he saw with him, it tugged at his heart, especially when he was with one or both of his parents. He sure seemed like a happy baby with them.
'I wish I could remember them,' he thought.
"Oh, there you are," he suddenly heard Kaname. Louis barely looked up at him. However his face showed enough to give him away.
"What's wrong?" Kaname asked concerned.
"I found out about my real parents," said Louis softly.
"You did?" Kaname asked.
"Yes, and apparently my father was a member of the royal family. His mother was the king's cousin," Louis told him.
"Oh my, what are the odds we had two adopted memebers of the Elence Royal family," Kaname said, as a slight joke.
"Yeah," Louis spoke.
Kaname took a deep breath, "I take it something bad happened to them?"
"They're dead. They were killed in a car accident and I somehow managed to survive and come to that little shop I was found at," said Louis.
"Oh, Louis, I'm so sorry!" said Kaname.
"Yeah, me too," said Louis.
"But now that you know, you can have some closer, right?" said Kaname.
"I guess," said Louis.
"Is there something else?" Kaname asked.
"The king said I still have relatives in France where my mother is from. He said if I want to, I can meet them. They'd probably want to meet me," said Louis.
"Do you want to meet them?" Kaname asked.
"I don't know, I don't know how to take this in general," said Louis.
He suddenly felt Kaname's hand on his shoulder.
"It'll be okay Louis, you'll see. No matter what happens, you have to know you are and always be a part of our family. You're my brother, everyone else's brother, and our mother's son. I'm sure she'd tell you the same thing if you spoke to her."
"You're right," said Louis, "Mayb I should call her."
"Good idea, you do. I'll even stand by as moral support," Kaname offered.
"Thank, yes, I'll probably need that," said Louis.
The two brothers came to Louis room and Louis picked up his phone.
It rang a few times before their mom finally answered.
"Hello, Louis, is that you? Is everything alright?!" she asked, her voice clearly filled with worry.
"Hello mother," said Louis as calmly, "I wanted to tell you something. It's really important."
"What happened dear?" Miwa asked trying to keep her cool.
"I found out about my real parents," Louis told her.
There was a long pause on the phone.
"What?" Miwa finally asked.
"The king told me," Louis explained, "the king told me who they were. My real father happened to be a memeber of the royal family himself, the son of the king's cousin."
"No," Louis was sure he heard his mom say softly.
"And that my mother was a French woman from a Aristocrat family," said Louis.
"Oh god, oh my god!" Miwa said, "are sure honey?"
"Most definitely, I've seen pictures," said Louis.
"Pictures?" Miwa said weakly.
"Yes mom," said Louis.
Miwa took a deep.
"Well I don't care, I don't care what they say. You're still my son, and your parents better understand how much I love you!"
"Mom, they're both dead," said Louis.
"Oh, oh my god!" Miwa said, "I'm so sorry."
"It's okay, but the king said I have relatives in France that may want to meet me," said Louis.
"Oh really?" said Miwa, "do you want to meet them?"
"I supposed I should, if I'm to learn more about me and who I am," said Louis.
"Well, do you know who they are?" Miwa asked.
"According to what I've seen, the Dubois Family?" Louis said looking at a sub-note under a picrure with what he assumed were his birth mother's brother and sister.
"Dubois?" Miwa repeated, "hmm, I wonder if that's any relation to the famous cosmetic family."
"You know them Mom?" asked Louis.
"Not personally, but I have heard and even bought a lot of their products," said Miwa, "but maybe I'm thinking of different family than your so called birth mother's family."
"Mother, please don't get upset," said Louis, "no matter what has changed, you're still my mom."
"Damn straight!" said Miwa, "well, take care darling. And do let me know when and if you decide to meet this other family. I want to meet them too."
"Sure Mother, as long as you don't get too upset about it," said Louis.
"I, will try," said Miwa, "how are your other brothers doing?"
"As far as I can tell they're doing fine. Ukyo went with Chi today to see how government works in this country. Sort of a way to get to know how things are in Elence," said Louis.
"Is she really? Well, she always has been a very responsible girl," said Miwa. "I hope she's still doing alright."
"We all do," said Louis, "I'll call you when I've learned more about this new development."
"Yes please do, or call if you need to just talk. I'm always here son," said Miwa.
"Thank you Mother," said Louis as he hung up.
"Well, she seemed to take it well," said Kaname.
Rintaro was taken by surprise with a hard slap on the back of his head.
"Owe!" he shouted as he turned around to see his wife standing behind him looking mad.
"What's wrong?" Rintaro asked.
"Why didn't you tell me?!" Miwa snapped.
"Tell you what?" Rintaro asked confused.
"Louis was a memeber of the royal family as well!" Miwa snapped some more.
"What, what are you talking about?" Rintaro asked.
"I just got off the phone, with my son!, and he tells me he's also a long last memeber of Elence royal house!"
"He is?" Rintaro said in shock.
"Yes! He found out his father was like a son of a cousin to the king or something!" said Miwa.
"Well, I didn't know. Believe it or not, there are some family memebers I've never met or heard of. I know there was some sort of tragic death right before Kanji and I came to Elence for our assignment. But I never got to hear the whole details or if they had a kid."
"Hmm," Miwa sighed as she sat down on the closest thing she could sit on, rubbing her face in frustration.
"Why, how is it, this country, this whole monarchy is slowly taking away our children? What's next? A duke's going to come forward and tell me he's Masaomi's real father?! Or I swtich Natsume at the hospital and the real third triplet has been living as a count all this time?!"
"Honey, calm down," Rintaro said as he sat next to his wife and held her close, "this doesn't change anything. We're still Louis and Ema's parents, we're all still a family. Everything will work out fine, you'll see."
Miwa pushed him away. "I'm sorry dear, but for now, I need some space and some quiet," she said as she headed to their suit's door.
"Where are you going?" Rintaro asked.
"I'm going to ask for my own private room for now," Miwa said, "hopefully in the same hotel."
"What?! Rintaro shouted after his wife right aa she shut the door behind her.
"No!" he said softly.
"Phew," Ema sighed as she came out of the latest meeting room.
"Doing okay Ema?" Ukyo asked.
"Oh, I'm sure everyone feels tired their first day of such importance," Ema said.
"Well some days you'll have less meetings you'll have to attend and if you really need to, you can appoint a representative to attend the meeting in your sted," said Richard.
"I'm already doing that for grandfather," said Ema, "I want to keep trying this."
"Very good," said Richard, "and at least this is the last one."
"Oh good," Ema said as she walked into the last room and sat at another round table. For most of the other meetings, shs hadn't been able to find much to say or contribute but still listen as carefully as possible. Most of the council memebers she had met seemed nice and cooperative. Some seemed a little too friendly and some like the memeber Alex she had met didn't seem to like her. Some seemed to be more eager to cozy up with Robert than her.
The type of people she was meeting seemed more confusing than the topics of the different meetings.
"Hello your higness," she heard Erica say from across the table, "how have your other meetings been going?"
"Just fine," Ema assured her.
"Good, they're not so bad once you get use to them," said Erica.
Ema nodded with a slight giggle. Soon the rest of the council memebers filed into the room and took their seats, including Robert. Ema groaned on the inside as he took his seat next to her. She hated the few other meetings he had been attending with her and how he always had to sit next to her. She had to try hard to let him bother her too much.
"Shall we begin? Erica asked at last as she motion for someone to start the slideshow.
"This meeting is one of sensitive information," Erica began, "as many of you know, Howerd Holms, the head of Holms construction and who recently asked us for a loan to help build some better quality homes and apartment buildings for some poor income families, been very successful with the project so far. However he has recently hit a small snag when trying to build in a certain neighborhood."
A picture of an old looking building appeared on the screen.
"This building is currently in one of the neighborhoods Mr. Holms wishes to build in. The residents of the building have refused to vacate and thus blocking construction. Mr. Holms has promised them all a new home, but they still refuse to leave."
"Did they give a reason?" Ema asked.
"Mostly that this building is very old and a lot of the current residents have lived there for many years. They don't want to give it up," said Erica. "What we need to do is appoint someone to go and talk to them personally. Do we have any volunteers?"
"May I?" Ema asked, "it sounds like a good chance for me to meet with people more."
"You wish to?" Alex asked.
"Yes, I do," said Ema.
"Well, I suppose we can if someone can go with you," said Erica, "and actually, I'd like to volunteer."
"Really? Thank you Erica," said Ema.
"Then it is decided," said Erica, "if it's alright for your higness, I'll make the arrangements for the appointment."
"Of course," said Ema.
"Meeting adjourned then," Erica said as she banged her gavel.
Everyone stood up and started to file out.
"So, Emma, what did you think of your first day?" Robert asked as he followed Ema and her group out.
"It was nice, I learned a lot," said Ema softly.
"Good, good," said Robert, "I'm sure Uncle and the rest of the family will like to hear about that on Friday."
"Friday?" said Ema and Richard as they and Ukyo stopped to looked at him.
"Oh, didn't you know? I arranged for a big family party at the palace this Friday so you can meet the other memebers of family, your real family," Robert said looking towards Ukyo with a smug look.
"That would be nice," said Ema.
"Why wasn't I informed of this?!" Richard snapped.
"Why would you be?" Robert asked.
"I'm head of security. I need to know if I have to make arrangements for keeps the palace extra protected!" said Richard mad.
"Oh, I'm sorry, but don't worry. Henry will take care of that," said Robert.
"Oh no! No! Henry will not handle that!" said Richard. He grabbed Ema by her arm and pulled her along.
"Come along Princess, I need to get to the castle immediately!" he said.
"Yes, of course," said Ema, a little confused.
'Meeting the rest of my other family?' she thought. She wondered if they were anything like the different council memebers she had met today.