baby mine

chapter 13

Chapter thirteen:

    Things changed for Italia a few days after she returned home with her Ludwig. Sure, at first, he was happy to have her home. He talked to her a lot about her time with Italy, and even chuckled slightly when she said:

        "Itawy tired to kriw me when he teafh me to swim!"She crossed her arms with such a cute pouty look that Germany couldn't help but shake his head in amusement. They spent some together after that. Ludwig mostly spent time with her while he did paperwork. He considered himself lucky that she wasn't a child that would bother him while he did this important work. He was lucky that she would sit, and keep herself busy with whatever he gave her to mess with while he worked. And if she was bored, or wanted to do something else outside the office, which hardly happened, she would leave the room and come back when she wanted to see her Ludwig, which always a short period of time after she left.

    On her fifth day of being back in Germany is when her Ludwig changed. He acted sort of distant towards her, and seemed to throw himself even more into his work than before. Italia wasn't use to that, and felt a bit abandoned again, but to keep her feelings down, she busied herself doing minual, pointless things. For example, she cleaned up her already cleaned up room by organizing her dolls, and stuffed animals. She would organize them depending on what she wanted to do. She would organize them for a tea party, or dress them up, and pretend she was going on some fancy ball. She didn't see much of Prussia, but when she did, she managed to get him to play a game or two with her. He seemed, when she saw him, intent on keeping her mind from wondering, but it did at times. Germany was gone on missions more often than he use to be. Sure, Italia missed him, and the old relationship they had, but she didn't question it. After all, if she did, she knew he wouldn't answer her. So what was the point in asking if she wasn't going to get an answer anyways?

    “Ehh? What’s wrong Lil Awesome? You’ve been down lately.”Italia shrugged, looking down at her hands.

    "Nofhing."She answered softly as she shook her head, and busied herself with her dolls.

    "Something’s wrong. What is it, Lil Awesome?"Italia shook her head, frowning even more as she arranged, and re-arranged her dolls. She never knew exactly how she wanted them until she started organizing them. Prussia frowned slightly, and shook his head as he handed her dolls. She would take them without words, and move them around."Is it Italy? Do you miss him?" Italia froze slightly, and looked into Prussia eyes with slight surprise. He wasn't normally so insightive...Italia shook her head slightly to rid herself of her thoughts."It's ok to miss him."Prussia said swiftly, putting a hand to Italia's back. She stiffened up, and looked at him.

    "What happwen to him? He nber round no wore."Prussia sighed, and looked around to make sure Germany wouldn't pop out of nowhere to hear him talking about this. He had a habit lately of appearing out of nowhere like a ghost, and Gilbert sure as hell didn't want his little brother catching Prussia talking to Italia about this subject. Especially because Ludwig had told his older brother specifically not to mention Italy to Italia at all. Something about not making her sad, and all that, but Prussia mostly tuned him out like he did times when Germany was lecturing him about something or another. But then again, Prussia's other side argued, what did they really have to hide from her? He didn't think they should be keeping something important from her. Especially considering she was really close with him....

    "Well, Italia, it's hard to explain, but sometimes people have to do things that they don't want to do to save themselves in desperate times. Even if it does mean turning their backs on their friends, and family, they do what they must do to survive. So, Italy....Well.... You see, Italy and West have been fighting these people that came to visit us for some time now, and Germany thinks we can win, but everyone else knows we can't win. So, Italy went over on their side, and is now waging war on West. So now, he has to work real hard to keep us ok, and safe, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't care about you any less than he did before. He is just really busy, and he's going through some stuff. It's nobody's fault, but their own."Italia nodded, but she was confused. Why did Italy have to go away? Couldn't he have stayed here with her, and her Germany? Then, at least, everything would never have changed.