Darkest Sunset II (faith)

The shadow in the darkness

Italy's POV:

    I woke up heavy breathing, all of sudden after I feel into emptiness in my dream. I looked at the time: 1AM. Pretty late. I layed back down to sleep again, but I kept thinking about the weird dream I had... Was it true? Was it a sign? What could it possibly mean... Maybe it was just a random dream. After all the stress that happened lately with Germany I guess I could have expected this. I kept trying to fall back asleep... 2AM...3AM...4AM...still awake. I looked on my other side at Greece sleeping peacefully, lucky him. Didn't want to bother him, so I slowly sat up, and stared at the window then got up tiredly and walked away. I clearly couldn't sleep anymore tonight, my thoughts were bothering me too much while I was taking my coat and silently left the house, going for a night walk.

    Walking through the empty streets and little parks around, I felt a bit better as the weak wind was slowly blowing my hair and face and had the sensation of being alone. But after some time I didn't feel that anymore... Something felt wrong. I looked around stopping my walk, and checked the area carefully with a look, even though I couldn't see much because of the darkness. It didn't seem to be anything, so I kept walking, this time faster. I didn't have the power to fight back whatever was following me, too tired for this right now.
    Suddenly I heard a sound of wings pushing in the air to start their fly, and withing a second I was down to the ground, slammed by someone. I immediately recognized the bloody eyes of the shadow in the darkness that was staring at me, about to bite my neck with his huge sharp teeth.
    "Let go, Romania!!" I tried to push him off. He immediately let go of me, and stepped back letting me free.
    "Oh, it's you" he said with a poker face "Shouldn't you be sleeping?"
    "I would be if some things wouldn't stress me so much..." I sat up, cleaning the dust off my jacket.
    He just nodded , and looked away. He was still very upset at me... If only he'd know I didn't do anything....
   "I was about to feed myself, you're lucky I recognized you, even if you deserved to not be right now." He said as he stood up and fixed his pointy fancy hair.
    "You still think I did it, don't you? You really think I would do that after you spent a whole life with me."
    "All the evidences lead to you, I didn't want to believe it but who else could have been? Did you know that he's not able to talk anymore?!" He raised his voice. For a second I froze after hearing what he said, trying to process the information.
    "Surprised now, huh?" He turned his back to me, preparing to leave "I still don't want to believe it was you... It's impossible... But you're the only option, brother."
    ".... So you're just leaving me now too? When I need your support the most? You're all just gonna hate me now? Fine! But you're all going to regret this, it wasn't me and I'm not gonna waste my time to prove it to imbeciles like you who think someone could kill his own brother!" I let all my thoughts out, without even thinking before of how much I'm expressing, and looked straight at the man who stopped walking away. He looked behind, at me, making me observe pity into his eyes. He walked back and hugged me, placing his huge bat wings to cover us:
     "I don't hate you, I still love you as my little brother.... But I can't stop being upset. Everyone says it was you, how else would he'd be in your basement, with the chains you owe around his neck? It doesn't make any sense."

    I felt his warm affection. Suddenly nostalgia hit me, back in the times when we used to take care of eachother in our childhood, especially him since he was older. I hugged him back slowly, without saying anything and appreciating the hug very much, I really needed that from my family.
    "Whatever you do, take care" he placed his hand on my shoulder and patted it, then within a second he dissapeared flying away into the darkness.

    I remained silent on my whole way back home, my mind being cleared of all those bad thoughts now, I just needed sleep.
   As I entered the house and looked at the time, I observed it's been 2 hours since I was outside, no wonder why I was much more tired. I could barely stand and walk, so I put my jacket down and went back straight to bed and layed down harshly. Greece was still there sleeping, seeming like he didn't get bothered by any dreams like me.

   "Italy, wake up it's 9AM already!" I felt a hand softly shaking me, and the voice kept going "Come on wake up"
   "Let me sleep....." I answered weakly while turning my back to him and hope he's gonna leave me alone.
   "We have work to do today, we're gonna be late come onnnn.... When did you go to sleep? I told you to not stay up late" Greece kept trying to wake me up. I stretched then sat up, and opened my eyes to look at him, and he seemed a bit worried
   "Jeez you look horrible..."
   "Thanks."
   "No that's not a compliment, Italy. I'm serious, you look like a train hit you, how much did you sleep?" Then he started fixing my messed up hair carefully
   "Um.... It's not that I went to sleep late, I couldn't sleep, that's all... I think I slept around 3 or 4 hours..."
   "3 or 4 hours?! But that's very bad, why couldn't you sleep??" Then he stopped and sat down next to me "Are you still upset about those things?...."
   I looked at him, and realized how much he was worrying about me. I didn't want him to be so stressed about my problems so I tried to make up a lie:
   "No, no... I'm uhh... Dreaming some things about what happened, and it won't let me sleep" Suddenly I failed, not being able to think of a good lie.
   "Oh... Still haven't cleared your mind hm? I told you everything it's gonna be fine, okay? You should stop stressing so much... We're gonna find a way out of this and end it." Greece tried to comfort me.
   Usually these things wouldn't work on me, but hearing his caring and soft voice made me feel better, so I nodded to make him know I understood.
   "I will, I will try. Thanks"
   "You don't have to thank me. Come on let's get ready" He smiled to me then stood up and walked away.