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Unification
“Come on, West! What’s taking you so long!?” He could hear his brother yelling while he slowly and unnecessarily tidied the desk of his home office. Unneeded, as his desk was always tidy.
For the last few months he had been doing a lot of thinking about this day. Something about the upcoming celebrations had made him feel uneasy and nervous yet he hadn’t been able to explain what it was.
Until he did figure it out.
During another boring meeting that had been more chaotic than useful, the blonds thoughts had been wandering. Someone had shouted something at another person and Ludwig couldn’t even remember who it was or what had been said, but he had been frozen in his seat as everything finally made sense.
“What are you waiting for West, do you not want to go to the party?” Gilbert had appeared in the doorway, looking at him impatiently and ready to go out for the night.
How could he explain, that no, he didn’t want to go to some party tonight?
That he knew he should be nothing but happy to celebrate the unification of the country and felt guilty that he wasn’t.
He hesitated a moment to long with giving a reply and that was all the reason the elder brother needed to walk into the room. “Stop cleaning,” Gilbert ordered after a quick inspection of the desk. “It’s already clean.”
Ludwig did as he was told.
“Tell me what this is all about. You’ve been acting odd lately.”
How to explain?
“I don’t feel like going out tonight, bruder. I want to stay home.”
It earned him a weird look and more questions.
“Are you not feeling well? What happened? What’s the problem? Did you stop drinking beer again? I told you never to scare me like that again.”
And something in him snapped. “It feels like we’re celebrating that you came back, and we are, but it just makes me think of the time you weren’t here!” And he pulled his brother into a tight hug.
Just as he thought he was going to be pushed away, his big brother hugged him back shortly before stepping away.
“Go grab some beers and turn on the television. We’ll have a party of our own, West.”