L:   Iremacht woke up before anyone in the guest wing. He knocked on Germany's door first.

"Take your time," he told his cousin as he was getting dressed. "I'm going to check on Polds. Don't wake up Vater yet—he's probably been kept up all night."

"Why?" Germany asked.

Iremacht explained and Germany's eyebrows arched. He nodded in understanding and, when Iremacht left, went downstairs to ask for some extra coffee.

Iremacht went down the hall to the Mandarian wing and found Poldara's room. He noted that MA's door was slightly open. Like MA, Iremacht avoided it and went straight for Poldara's door.

M:   When Belarus woke up, she was confused to find herself in MA's room, sleeping in his bed, being spooned by him. The memory of last night then came back and she giggled a little and shuggled further into the militant's embrace. A few minutes later, MA woke up and smiled at Belarus.

"Good morning Bel," he murmured, "how are you feeling, anything hurt?"

"Not at all," Belarus reassured him, "you were amazing last night, I'm still surprised it was your first time."

"I'm a man of many talents, Bel, I guess we discovered a new one."

They both chuckled and snuggled for a little bit more, then decided that Belarus should head back to her room and change before Russia woke up. Even though MA brought their clothes to his room with them, Belarus decided she would wear a robe that MA had to go to her room.

MA wanted to help take her to her room but they both decided it would be safer if he stayed in his room in case Russia saw them. Neither believed that Russia would hurt MA, but it was better safe than sorry with him since he had a short fuse when it came to protecting his sister.When MA opened the door for Belarus and kissed her cheek when she walked out, neither noticed Iremacht down the hall.

L:   Iremacht heard their door open. He reflexively turned towards the sound. All he saw was Belarus wearing nothing but a robe while kissing MA before he whipped back around and blocked Poldara's door in case the kid came out.

"Mornin' lovebirds!" Iremacht called. "You two are looking cozy. Hope it was worth keeping half the house up last night."

In his bedroom, Wehrmacht finally woke up to sunlight on his face. He squinted at it, grumbled, turned around, and continued snoring away. He was pretty much spread-eagled on the bed, with his wings pooling off the edge.

M:   MA and Belarus jumped at Iremacht's voice and MA reflexively tried to cover Belarus with his wings, but he forgot that he was only wearing boxers so when he stepped out he ended up giving Iremacht more than he bargained for.

Belarus realized what he did and pushed him back into his room before the German became scarred for life, though it was a little late for that. A comical crash sound came from inside the room but Belarus ignored it and pulled the robe closer to her

"H-hi Iremacht, um ... what do you mean by keeping the house up, we made sure to be quiet last night," she said, she knew there was no point in lying since Iremacht clearly already knew what happened, but she didn't realize he was referring to MA's wings.

L:   "Yes, you were probably trying your hardest to be quiet," Iremacht said. "But MA doesn't need to make noise to make noise, as I've been told by the poor winged folks up here." Iremacht raised his voice to call out to MA. "Your wings even made my Vater blush! It was hilarious, keep it up!" Then Iremacht promptly let himself into Poldara's room with a snicker.

Downstairs, Germany had a tray of plenty of coffee to support the whole house. He was soon joined by France, and he explained to her what Iremacht had told him. She shook her head in amusement.

"Oh Bel, she put my advice to good use," France said. "Sounds like she gave MA the time of his life."

M:  "Shit," could be heard coming from MA's room, Belarus sighed and just left for her room.

Russia and Kaz had come downstairs two, not running into Belarus or the Mandarians, and joined Germany and France. Kaz had bags under his eyes from being kept up all night, he took his coffee and downed it in one go, causing Russia to shake his head and give his little brother his own coffee.

"I very much appreciate what you did France," Russia growled sarcastically, "I'm sure MA truly enjoyed the 'advice' you gave to Bel."

Kaz shrunk a little as Rus said that and slowly backed away from in between the two countries.

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Poldara was still fast asleep despite Iremacht yelling in front of his door. He was sleeping with both Flurry and Tank smothering him, though he was cuddling Flurry's butt pretty hard.

When Iremacht opened the kid's door, both dogs jerked their heads up and softly growled at him, they were always protective of Poldara when he slept.

L:    "Easy there." Iremacht held up his hands. "It's just me. I'm here to check on Polds but it looks like he's out cold. Did MA keep him up too?" If that was the case, Iremacht was going back out there to strangle MA.

Downstairs, France rolled her eyes at Russia. "I'm sure they BOTH appreciated it. Would you rather your sister gone in blind? MA clearly didn't have any experience so someone had to have some idea of what they were doing in the relationship."

At that moment, Wehrmacht trudged down the stairs. His feathers were very crumpled because he had bundled them under the covers to suppress their vibrations. He looked haggard as he plopped down on the couch and gratefully accepted the coffee Germany handed to him.

M:   "I would have rather she didn't go in at all, France," Russia snapped, "my little sister and my best friend were going at it while I was under the same roof, how the fuck do you think that makes me feel."

"Russia, remember what I said last night," Kaz interrupted.

"I am not acting like папа, it is my job to protect my younger siblings."

"Do you really think that MA would hurt Belarus, do you honest to god believe that the man who was rescued by our sister from Ukraine would be abusive to her?"

Russia opened his mouth to retort, but Kaz had a point, so he dropped the subject and just went to sulk somewhere else.When Wehrmacht came downstairs and plopped on the couch, Kaz inhaled sharply.

"I wouldn't sit there if I were you," he warned, "you don't know if it has been cleaned yet."

Back in Poldara's room, the two dogs glanced at each other, then Tank started licking Poldara's face to wake him up.

"No dad, I don't wanna go to school today," Poldara said, half-asleep, "I wanna be a burrito."

The dogs cocked their heads to the side in confusion, then turned to Iremacht for help.

L:   Iremacht snorted at Poldara's sleep-talk and walked over to his bed. He leaned over so he was very close to Poldara's face and whispered, "What's this? A delicious burrito waiting for me to eat it? I'm going to gobble you up and chew you to bits."

He raised his hands, grinned mischievously, and, quick as a viper, started tickling Poldara with his fingers to mimic sharp teeth.

Upon hearing Kaz's comment, Wehrmacht shot up off the couch. He spilled his coffee in the process, burned his hand, and nearly dropped the cup.

"You've got to be joking," he muttered, looking awkwardly around for a napkin. Germany gave him one, along with a new filled cup. Wehrmacht cleaned his hand and used his other to sip his coffee while standing.

"Guess he kept you up too?" Wehrmacht asked Kaz, noting the bags under his eyes.

M:   "Yup, though I'm sure it wasn't intentional," Kaz said, finishing up his second cup of coffee, "it's hard to control the vibrations under intense emotions, I wouldn't know since I haven't done it before, but you know what I mean."

"We sure do," someone said, everyone turned to the staircase and saw Mandara and Poland.

"On behalf of my brother, I want to apologize for him keeping you two up late," Mandara said, "I was going to have the chefs make some of our strongest coffee but I guess you all are pretty well covered."

"I could use another five cups," Kaz groaned, then yawned as if to prove a point.

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Poldara blinked his eyes open at the voice and groaned with both tiredness and confusion, but was forced into a massive fit of laughter when the tickling started.

"Aha, I-Iremacht - what the - HAha," Poldara couldn't make any coherent words from how bad he was being tickled.

Flurry and Tank didn't seem to appreciate the tickle torture Poldara was receiving and tried to grab Iremacht's shirt to yank him off of the kid.

L:   When the dogs pulled him back, Iremacht lost his balance and fell onto the ground. He was still laughing though, at how much Poldara was laughing. It was contagious. When they both finally calmed down, Iremacht got up and said, "Time to wake up, kid. I bet everyone is downstairs already. Chop, chop."

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"Where are those two anyway?" Germany asked. They all looked upstairs and Wehrmacht inhaled sharply. "Please tell me they're not going to go at it again in the morning."

"It's not uncommon," France shrugged.

"But Poldara ..."

France's eyes widened. "Oh non, can he feel it? DID he feel it?"

M:   Kaz, Poland, and Mandara all exchanged worried glances, none of them thought about that before, but Mandara waved his hand dismissively.

"Well, he does have sensitive wings for a kid, but if he felt it then he would have gotten up to see what was going on, then promptly run to our room when he did," the country explained, "but he didn't and I checked on him periodically throughout the night, he sleep through the whole thing."

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MA met Belarus at her room and walked with her downstairs, holding hands. When they arrived they saw everyone staring at them and they both sighed.

"Alright we get it," MA grumbled, "we kept everyone up with my wings, I'm sorry, I didn't know that would happen."

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"I'm coming, I just need to get changed first," Poldara said, sitting up, "Flurry, Tank, can you please escort our guest out of my room."

The dogs happily obliged and continued to yank on Iremacht's clothes to get him to move.

L:   "Yeesh," Iremacht said as he was pushed out by the dogs. "You two are real overprotective. Where's Mandoria when you need him." He tapped Poldara's door. "Hey Polds, I'm going to go find Mandoria, meet me downstairs."

MA and Belarus had already gone down so when Iremacht descended to the living room, he was standing behind the pair.

"It's fine," Wehrmacht was saying to MA with a smile. "We felt how happy you were."

"And we're all happy for you too," France said. She glared at Russia. "ALL of us."

M:   Russia, who came back from wherever he was sulking, growled at France and glared at MA. The militant rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly and stepped away from Belarus.

"Cut it out Rus," she scolded, "your acting like-"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence, Belarus," Russia snapped, "I have been compared to папа enough times today and I won't tolerate it anymore."

"Then stop being oppressive for christ's sake," Kaz shouted.

Russia whipped around and clenched his fist like he was going to punch Kaz, but when he saw the fear in his little brother's eyes, he sighed and turned to MA and Belarus.

"Fine," he shouted to MA, "go on and fuck my sister you pervert, I hope you get a good long laugh out of it!"

Russia turned around to leave but pointed to France, "this is all your fault, France, and I swear by Stalin that I will get you back for this."

With that, he shouldered his way past the country and stomped off to the backyard, leaving everyone very confused.

L:   "Well that was something," Iremacht said, slipping out from behind MA and Belarus.

"Guten Morgen," said Germany. "Is Poldara with you? I hope he didn't hear that."

"He's upstairs changing. His dogs kicked me out." Iremacht glanced towards the backyard and asked, "Russia doesn't have hidden wings, does he? It sounds almost as if he felt the whole thing."

"It's a brother instinct," Wehrmacht said. "But I didn't expect him to be that mad."

France sat down in a chair, contemplating whether or not to take Russia's threat seriously.

"That's unfortunate," Iremacht commented. He headed for the backyard.

"Machty, where are you going?" his father called after him.Iremacht waved his hand without looking back.

"I need to find Mandoria. Don't worry, I'll be fine. Poldara should be coming down soon so watch your mouths."