"Oh, no!" Gabriele shouted in horror as he ran down the stairs to reach his family, who's currently sitting on the floor with a bunch of albums on their hands.

Apparently, Pierre was already allowed to move around. The doctor told him not to strain his body too much since he's still not fully healed.

"What the hell are you doing with those albums?" He demanded but was given a stern glare from their father.

"I thought that I told you to watch what you say when Luca's around, Gabriele?"

The man groaned. "Yes, father. I apologize. I just didn't see my darling little sister."

Luca looked at him and childishly stuck out her tongue.

Amusingly, he did the same.

Achilles had to sigh before shaking his head. "Remind me again, Enzo. How many six years olds am I raising?"

Enzo and Pierre chuckled at him. Enzo answered him. "I believe that you have three if you consider Sydney as one, father."

The said man gave them a look of betrayal. "Enzo... How could you?" He then changed his accent to a more britrish way. "Blimey, my own brother has turned against me. I have never acted as such, brother mine. How dare you accuse me of acting like an utter child."

Everyone gave him unamused looks and Sydney just felt embarrassed all of a sudden.

"W-Why am I getting so many blank stares?" He laughed sheepishly.

Luca giggled adorably. "Because Juli was being silly."

Pierre nodded in agreement. "He was kinda silly, wasn't he, Lu?"

The little girl nodded. "The most silliest!"

Sydney couldn't help but smile at her. "Well, I'm glad that I'm sort of an entertainment to you, m'lady."

Gabriele snorted. "More of a bloody idiot if you ask me." He mumbled.

Sydney glared at him. "You're always such a grumpy old troll who lives under the bridge."

Before he could even begin to realize what he just said, Pierre and Luca cackled loudly, causing confusion to settle in for the rest.

"Oh my–!" Pierre howled in laughter, looking at Luca in shock and amusement while the little girl also laughed loudly. "H-He sang it! He sang it without even realizing it!"

Well, apparently, when Pierre heard Sydney say that, the guard immediately had a mental image of Sydney wearing Dora's clothes.

He imagines him wearing the t-shirt that doesn't fit him and shorts that would've looked stupid with the backpack and everything. Maybe even him saying:

Hola! Soy Sydney!

Maybe Gabriele could be Boots.

And they'd hug like Dora does when she sees Boots.

While Luca, well, the little girl thought that it was funny to hear Sydney say that since he looks all manly and buff and now he didn't even know where that song came from!

And he looks like a kicked puppy while staring at her and Pierre.

"What's so hilarious, piccola?" Enzo asks while hugging Luca closer to him.

Luca shook her head, her laughter slowly dying down. "Juli sang a song in Dora the explorer."

Achilles chuckled then. "Ah, I see. That would be funny isn't it, topolina?"

Luca nodded happily before looking back at the albums.

Sydney was playfully punching Pierre's arm while the man grumbled at him.

Gabriele looked at the pictures and then at his horror, he saw a himself as a baby.

An ugly baby.

"Oh, look... " Their father called affectionately. "It's little Gabriele turning two years old."

The said man sighed, narrowing his eyes down at the child in the picture.

Luca gasped and pointed it in excitement. "That's Gabi?"

Enzo nodded.

"He's got a sweet tooth before, Lu" Enzo informed. "He'd throw a tantrum if he doesn't get what he wants."

"In other words, he's an ungrateful little brat who throws the most nerve wracking tantrums." Achilles deadpanned.

Luca giggled. "Am I a brat, papa?"

Achilles' features softened. Of course she wasn't. Luca was a dear one when she was little. "No, little one. You were such a good little angel to everybody."

Yeah, she only cries when she's hungry, needs a diaper change or she's sleepy.

"Woah!" Sydney said when he looked at the kid. "Look out, big fat baby's here."

Gabriele gave him a withering glare that actually made Sydney cower away. "One more time and I will put a bullet into your head."

Achilles clicked his tongue in annoyance. "Boys. I said behave."

"You're talking to naughty children, sir. I believe that they won't listen well." Pierre exclaimed in amusement.

"My, my, my, Pierre." Sydney purred, moving closer to him. "D'you think that you have any rights to call me naughty? After what you did las—"

"Luca doesn't need to hear such things!" Enzo, mom made activated, said.

Gabriele rolled his eyes. "Move on to the next page, will ya?"

Luca blew him a raspberry and turned to the next page. The first thing she saw was a baby again with a cake in the middle of the table and a candle shaped as 1.

The little girl looked up at Achilles, expecting him to answer her but instead, Pierre did.

"Look, it's you, Luca!" Pierre exclaimed happily, remembering the time where Luca finally turned one.

He remembers it so clearly.

After all, he was the one who took care of her for a year. All by himself. And he was proud to be standing right next to her now.

The rest looked gloomy though. They remembered leaving her in the hands of a servant. They left her for a year. They didn't see all of her firsts too.

Luca noticed something in the picture and she frowned. "Where's everybody else?"

It was such an innocent question. It didn't mean to stab their hearts but it did. They were such idiots for leaving her alone.

At this, Pierre's smile had fallen. "Oh... "

He looked at the rest and he saw their faces hardened with regret and sorrows.

"They were in the background."

Luca tilted her head to the side. "Why?"

"B-Because... "

What should he tell her?

Because they didn't want to be a part in the picture?

They didn't want to be near her?

To be a part of that happy memory?

That will seriously break a six year old's heart!

"Because we didn't want to." Achilles answered sincerely. His hands were clenched in anger. "I'm sorry, Luca. That was taken at the time where we... "

"Where you guys hated me." Luca finishes with a knowing smile.

It was a time where they were still hurting by Maria's death. They haven't quite surpassed the five stages of grief.

Everyone, including Pierre, looked at her in shock.

How did she know?

As if reading their thoughts, Luca answered. "Papa, Enz, Gabi and Juli sometimes talk in the office and I hear it sometimes."

Pierre shook his head. "Didn't your brothers tell you not to eavesdrop?"

Luca pouted. "I told you that s' a gift!"

"And what do you think?" Gabriele asks, cutting in the brief happy moment. "Why aren't you angry?"

Luca leaned back at Enzo's embrace as she played with her eldest brother's hand. "D'you still hate Luca?"

They shook their heads.

And then she gave them her smile. A smile that just warms their hearts.

"There comes a time where papa and eve'ybody else gets hurt." Luca said lovingly, her tone was soft. It wraps them up in comfort when they hear it. "But we heal and we learn when to things go."

Actually, she learned that when she was tied down by Kale. Her thoughts back then were running wild because if it didn't then she'd cry and she wanted to be brave so badly.

Luca smiled sadly at them. "Doesn't matter if you hated Luca before. We're together now,  aren't we?"

And that's all it matters.

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