#fedeleo

[teecupangel]

Fredrico/Leonardo: where Ezio gets to go back in time (thanks to Desmond who he drags with him) and they save his family. After Ezio gets to re-meet Leonardo and he is so excited to have his friend back (even though they have to start over), but to his horror Fredrico starts to flirt with the man.

Now Ezio loves his brother and knows he is a good man, but Leonardo was his best friend. A man Ezio grew to love very dearly. Had known for longer than his own brother (and isn’t that sad?) So maybe Ezio is a little…protective. He has learned to be in his older age. Protective of his home, his weapons, his friends, his family. His.

 (and if a certain time traveler now sits squarely in the ‘his’ category, well he isn’t going to say anything)

And maybe Ezio could handle his brother’s flirting if the man didn’t go about it as if he was a courtesan working the docks. He had noticed Fredrico had started to open his doublets and chemise to an obscene degree, even for him. It makes Ezio cringe. “God brother! Why not just go shirtless? It may cause less of a scandal.”

The worst part? Oh the worst part is its working. Leonardo was flirting back. (Desmond stop laughing, this is serious!) He is flirting back and seems to be rather appreciative of the display Fredrico is putting on. To add more to his misery, Leonardo doesn’t seem to be the only one. Ezio is pretty sure he has caught Desmond’s eyes lingering on the bare chest of his brother, but he really doesn’t want to acknowledge the ugly feeling that ignites in him.

TLDR: Ezio is determined to cockblock his brother and drags Desmond along.

Fredrico knows what his little brother is doing and thinks he is being an absolute brat.

Leonardo thinks that the reason they keep encountering Ezio and Desmond while trying to date is because those two are also dating.

And Desmond thinks Ezio is being ridiculous for a man who is technically 50+ in age.

Also:

“Ezio, I’m pretty sure I didn’t come back in time to be witness to your brother’s sexlife.”

“Shut up! They are NOT having sex!”

“Yeah, because you keep cockblocking him!”

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Just more Desmond and Ezio shenanigans in the forefront and Federico is both amused and annoyed but them.

They do provide a good distraction considering Giovanni wants Federico to look into this weird incidents involving Uberto Alberti and the Pazzis while Giovanni goes to Roma to make sure that there was no foul play over the death of Rodrigo Borgia.

(funny thing though, Ezio introduced Desmond as a ‘friend’ about a few days after Rodrigo Borgia died but that’s just a funny coincidence since it’s clear that Ezio and Desmond had been friends for quite some time now)

Hell, Federico had actually thought Ezio had a crush on Leonardo with the way he was being an annoying tag-along the entire time Federico was trying to flirt with Leonardo but noooo.

It’s not that.

Leonardo was a precious friend, his best friend (and Leonardo always looked so happy whenever he remembers that) and, really, at this point, Federico would just like Ezio to confess that he and Desmond were together.

(Ezio uses a pillow to scream his frustration about Federico’s misconceptions, Desmond just laugh it off and play the part because if he’s going to be dragged to Ezio’s misguided attempts to cockblock his brother, he was going to have fun on Ezio’s expense too).

Throughout this entire thing, Leonardo knows Ezio and Desmond aren’t together but he also assumes they’re dating to ‘ward off’ other people. He’s pretty sure Ezio believes he only likes women who is trying to mend his broken heart after being rejected by the beautiful la bella Simonetta and he’s too oblivious to even see dudes that like him and Desmond is the epitome of chillness and not looking for anything sexual or romantic (“I’m just appreciating the view!”) that Leonardo was sure there was some kind of tragic backstory behind that. He’s the one who tried to explain that to Federico who misunderstood Leonardo’s explanation and thought they were dating for real. (They weren’t dating at all, o dio mio!)

As payback though, Leonardo started to use Desmond and Ezio in his commissions… for the more compromising ones anyway.

(Ezio may or may not be the model for a few of Leonardo’s female paintings… no one can truly be sure… except Ezio)

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Despertae Free-for-all Battle Sunday in the Local Italian Colony," Toronto Star. September 23, 1912. Page 7. --- IN A SAVAGE FIGHT; 8 MEN WERE WOUNDED ---- Fought in Small Room With Knives, Razors, Pick Handles, Bottles. ---- ONE OF THEM A WOMAN ----- Some Have as Many as a Dozen Wounds - Two of Them are Still in the Hospital. ---- Because eight Italians, armed with knives, razors, pick handles, and bot- tles, fought last night in one small room with space so narrow that they had no trouble in reaching one another, there are two lying now in St. Michael's Hospital, and six others in number two police station, one of the latter being a woman. The trouble started between brothers shortly after nine o'clock in Guiseppe Bagnilio's boarding house at 103 University avenue, and came at the end of a day of celebration and drinking.

With each Italian bearing from one to a dozen wounds about the face and head, the police are naturally having trouble in determining just what charges of wounding to lay, so all are being held in custody for a time.

Huddled on the Floor. Twenty Italians live in the house, and it was some of those who couldn't get into the room to fight who sent the alarm to the police. When a squad of police arrived from number two, they found four men still fighting weakly with razors and clubs, the other four had been disposed of and were lying helpless and wounded in huddled bunches upon the floor. The moment the authorities arrived the remaining Italians were glad to give up the battle and nurse their wounds.

The police state that the bloodstained room looked something like a battlefield, from which they had to carry some of the wounded. At St. 1 Michael's Hospital, where several operating tables and the house staff of surgeons were called upon, it was found that Michale Puggnola, with a six-inch gash across the top of his head and minor cuts, was the most seriously wounded. Next came Guiseppe Paggiera, who at first seemed to have a fractured skull. and twelve cuts in all. These were the only ones with wounds serious enough to keep them at the hospital.

Found One Under Bed. When the police came to count up the inmates of the house and compare them with the list of captured they found one man short. Upon returning, they found Joe Canale lying under the bed, cut about the neck and too frightened to come out. Mrs. Bagnillo, wife of the proprietor, had her face badly cut up by a flying beer bottle when she attempted to rush between the combatants. The others who are wounded and in custody are: Rocco Leambardo, Donato Puggnola. Fedeleo Rosino, and Michale Paggiera.

All eight, the police state, are closely related, there being two pairs of brothers and cousins among those who fought.

The fight, they say, started between Donato and Michale Puggnola, brothers, and shortly shared by all. The cause of the war, as told the by an Italian priest, was the celebration of victory. All participants come from the little village of Monte Leone. Yesterday was St. Roch's day, and St. Roch is the patron saint of a small percentage of Toronto's Italian colony.

These wished to honor St. Roch, and the Monte Leones warned them that such would be dangerous. Then the St. Roch adherents gave in, called off their services, and it was while the Monte Leone clan were celebrating their victory over the St. Rochs that their spirits got beyond control