Germany x Reader - Through Torture and Pain 4

You didn't like it one bit once you were inside Ludwig's house again, you kept trying to confince him by asking where Feliciano was and if you should just look for him. Why did he care all of a sudden about your health anyway? Especially since he was so cruel before this, it's like he wasn't going to tolerate it if someone else besides him would deal any damage on you.

"Why don't you go look for them-"

"Lift your shirt" Ludwig ordered you at some point by raising his voice through your endless blabbering, which startled you slightly.. you sighed in the end.

"Yeah sure, whatever-" You were about to lift your shirt when you realized how much it would expose of your body. "W-wait, what?" You added after you cut yourself off, stepping back a few steps.

"Lift it" Ludwig repeated, this time sounding slightly annoyed. This startled you a bit, causing you to finally obey the man for once.

You slowly lifted your shirt, at least just underneath your chest. You blushed slightly when Ludwig carefully stepped towards again and started unwrapping the bandages around your rib areas, it made you flinch from the pain slightly each time he accidentally barely touched your skin while taking it off. But your eyes widened at the view once the blonde had taken off the bandages fully, it looked like a mess.. your skin was badly bruised and didn't look anywhere near normal anymore at all, and all that from the impact of hitting against the cliff.

"That doesn't look very good.. but it will turn out fine" You could barely believe how Ludwig remained so calm at this, but you reacted exactly the opposite of it.. you actually kind of panicked at the sight.

"N-no it won't, it will not be fine!" You half shouted this, causing Ludwig to get slightly irritated by your reaction.

"Calm down, frau!" He raised his voice in return. You fell silent to it immediately, and you could feel the tears well at the corners of your eyes.

You didn't know what to do, you felt horrible.. making you half-wish that you didn't get to see the messy state your body was in. Just when your tears were about to roll down your cheeks you felt Ludwig's arms embrace you once more from the front, you pressed your face into his chest.. crying silently.

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Somehow it seemed you managed to fall asleep earlier while Ludwig was trying to comfort you, you sleepily rubbed your eyes when you woke up. You were alone in the room now, it was probably about a hour or two ago since you fell asleep. But suddenly you remembered your body and to why you were crying before, you quickly rose the bed sheets, which was followed by a sigh of relief once you saw that fresh bandages were wrapped around you.

You didn't have a top on though, which made you blush slightly as you got yourself out of bed. At least you still had a pair of shorts on, you looked around the room, spotting a neatly folded shirt right next to the bed. Whether it was meant for you to wear or not you still decided to put it on, it was slightly too big but it made you feel comfortable nontheless.

You looked up when you heard some shouting, possibly coming from outside. You walked over to the window to look outside, you saw the back of Ludwig.. he was probably in one of his training sessions with the other Axis members. It made you think, no.. want something. It made you want to become strong too, but with your body in this state that would be something far away at the moment.

You sighed as you watched them, but your body suddenly jerked when you felt a sting of pain on you lower back, as if something pecked you. You let out a little yelp and you didn't even have to turn around for that question to be answered as a small bird suddenly flew right in front of you and sat down on the window sill, you were about to do something very bad to it until you got startled by a voice.

"West wasn't kidding when he said you were a mess" The voice said, and it was followed by a laugh. You turned around almost immediately to see a silver haired guy, his red eyes is what caught your attention immediately as they stood out quite a bit, he was leaning against the doorframe.

"And why should you care?" You blindly asked, you've only seen this guy a few times before.. but Ludwig always made sure that he would stay away from your room as far as possible, apparently he wasn't stopped anymore. You knew him as Ludwig's brother, and you heard his name was Gilbert.

"Well, frau.. the awesome me would take a lot better care of pretty women like you" Gilbert actually put up a grin when he spoke, which got on your nerves pretty quickly.

"I'm surprised you still trust my brother, tell you what, you should become part of me instead of West.. besides I heard him say some bad things about you a while ago" You pouted when he spoke, but somehow you became curious as to what kind of 'bad' things Ludwig might have said.

"Like what?" You asked, the obvious hint of curiosity was heard in your voice. And Gilbert looked almost satisfied for some reason.

"Things like.. having no faith in you, mainly because he says you're weak. It wouldn't surprise me if he throws you away in the end" You saw the smug grin on Gilbert's face, yet you actually thought about it.. what if Ludwig really was thinking like that? You weren't quite the optimist so it made sense to you somehow. You fell silent, and the Prussian noticed that.

"So.. if you want we could go to a less crowded place to talk" You were slightly confused to what Gilbert meant when he first said that, but then you reminded yourself of Ludwig. It was obvious that he was going to try to avoid any conflicts with his brother, especially since Ludwig did that to him when you were tortured before.

You took some time to think, you weren't sure what to do at all. Gilbert just stood at the door frame, and he offered you his hand to try to confince you. Of course since Ludwig wasn't inside with the two of you right now he couldn't tell you otherwise, so it was only a matter of minutes as you walked over to the Prussian and accepted his hand.

"Awesome!" Gilbert said as he started leading you the way.