Hetalia: Axis Powers
Cafe Vienna
by lepetitfromage
Gilbert drifts from city to city, country to country, with no real goal other than the desire to simply be. Vienna is next, and there he reunites with his best friend, Elizabeta, who's got a job at her cafe, Nocturne, for him. It's about as normal as a cafe can get, except for one oddity: before closing each night, Liz takes a thermos of coffee upstairs and in the morning it's returned, empty and washed. Who is she taking coffee to? It's a tightly kept secret at Nocturne that Gilbert hasn't cracked yet. But discovering the man Liz is protecting now means nights full of drifting piano and pretending that he doesn’t affect Gilbert in the way that he is.