Hello and welcome to my new story! This was just an idea I came up with and just had to write it. Please tell me what you think of it.

Life is like a ticking clock,

Constantly ticking down the hours, minutes, and seconds of our lives.

Uncertain until the clock strikes.

Anonymous.

Ludwig glared down at the book of quotes his brother Gilbert had given him trying to figure out how much trouble he would get into if he just burnt the stupid book.

The blonde knew exactly how long he had till his 'clock striked' he had known since he was a child.

At the tender age of four he had been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer. The stupid disease was so rare that not only did it not have a cure but it didn't even have a name!

At the time his parents had been told that he would never live to see his fourth birthday but there he was age seventeen sitting in his empty semi-private hospital room thinking of throwing the damn book out the window.

While he was glaring daggers at said book his afore mentioned older brother walked in. Gilbert Beilschmidt along with their four other siblings and their grandfather were the only family Ludwig had left since their parents had died in a plane crash two years after he was diganosed.

"Lutz your favorite brother awesome bruder is here!" the albino yelled as he walked through the door followed by their younger sister Lily and her older twin brother Vash

"Shut up dickwad we're in a hospital!" Vash growled as he smacked Gilbert in the head

"Big brother you shouldn't be hitting Gilbert." Lily told the two in her quite voice before walking over to Ludwig's bed

"How are you feeling bruder?" she asked sweetly causing Ludwig to give her one of his rare smiles

"I'm tired and my head hurts but other than that I'm fine." He replied as she smiled in return.

Once everyone had said hello Gilbert asked a nurse if Ludwig could get out of bed and go downstairs to the courtyard garden. When the nurse said yes Ludwig got up, put on his robe and slippers, and then joined his siblings in the elevator.

"So how are grandfather, Roderich, and Berwald doing?" Ludwig asked as they walked into the garden

"The old man's fine, Roderich got accepted to teach at that music school he applied to, and Berwald met some Finnish kid that goes to school with us and is planning on starting a toy company in Sweden with him once he graduates." Vash listed as Ludwig nodded

"So has grandfather said if I could go back to school yet?" the tall blonde asked causing his siblings to freeze.

"Kesese why would you want to go back there? I've been out of that high school for six years. You don't need to go to school!" Gilbert grinned as Ludwig glared at him

"Grandfather said that if my tests came back clean then I could go for my senior year. I've been stuck in this hospital for three straight years and I'm tired of everyone treating me like I'm made of glass!" Ludwig growled

"Yeah but can you blame us? I mean you weren't supposed to live past the age of three. You've cheated death for fifteen years so why risk it?" Vash asked him

"Simple has it ever accrued to any of you that for once in my life I don't want to be treated like a sick person?" Ludwig asked before turning around and heading back to his room.

As Ludwig was waiting for the elevator doors to close someone stopped them with their arm before two people quickly ran in letting the doors close.

"See fratello I told you we would make it!" a boy with soft looking auburn hair, gold eyes and a strange curl on his left side smiled.

The other boy looked exactly like the one that had spoken just glared. He had bark brown hair with red highlights, greenish brown eyes and a curl going towards his right.

The only other thing the two had in common besides their appearance was that they were both wearing the same high school uniform that Lily and Vash wore. The two boys finally realized that they weren't alone in the elevator and turned towards the blonde

"What are you staring at bastard?!" the darker haired one demanded

"Lovino be nice!" the happy one scolded before giving Ludwig a huge smile.

"I'm sorry for my fratello." He smiled as the doors opened on Ludwig's floor

"Its fine. Please have a nice day." The blonde smiled before getting off leaving the two brothers behind as the elevator doors closed.

"~Ve Lovino he seemed really nice!" Feliciano grinned as the rode the rest of the way up to their floor

"You idiot did you notice what floor he got off on?" the older of the two asked

"No why?" the younger wondered

"He was clearly a patient here and he just got off on the cancer treatment floor!" Lovino snapped as his brother realized what his brother meant

"Oh so that means I'll get to see him more often then!" he smiled before his brother lost it.

"You're not sick! All of the stupid doctors are wrong and the one we're going to today will prove it! He's the best in the business and he'll prove that you're not sick." Lovino told him with pure determination in his hazel eyes before the brothers fell into comfortable silence for the rest of the ride.

Yep so both of them are sick! I already know how I want have things play out so please review and tell me what you think of the story!^^