Vatti!!GermanyXFem!ChildReader: Leader of the Band

Vatti!! Germany X Fem! Child reader: Leader of the Band


An only child
Alone and wild
A cabinet maker's son
His hands were meant
For different work
And his heart was known to none


“AAHHHH!!!” , a scream of a 7-year old child was heard in the dining room. Ludwig rushed to see what had happened to his child. “ _________  , what’s wrong?!! What hap--….”, Ludwig was cut off as he saw his daughter, ________ , her (favourite breakfast) was spilled all over her clothes. And as he observed his surroundings further, he saw that _____’s dolls and toys were scattered all over the floor. He place his hand to his forehead and heaved a sighed. “V-Vatti…. I’m...-…”, _______ ran towards Ludwig and gripped hard in his shirt and cried ,”-…Vatti!!! I’m sorry I did a mess!!! P-Please don’t spank me!!!!!”. Looking at his daughter, he knelt down to adjust to her height and pat her head. “It’s ok. Don’t do it again next time alright?”, Ludwig said in the most calm voice as possible ignoring the fact that his very clean dining area was now a horrible sight. _____ nod. Her tears won’t stop flowing. She felt really guilty. Ludwig hugged her daughter in a tight ,but not too tight, embrace and rub her back and saying soothing words to calm her daughter. After a few seconds, his daughter stopped crying. He looked at her eyes and said, “Let’s give you a bath, ja?” his daughter nod in response “j-ja” then he carried his daughter and give her a nice warm bath.  


He left his home
And went his lone
And solitary way
And he gave to me
A gift I know I never can repay


2 years had passed. Ludwig was in his office signing his paperworks. He received a mail 2 days ago from the military to recruit him and send him for war since his the best among the higher ranks. He sighed after he finished signing the last paper then thinking what will he do. He can’t just leave his 9-year old daughter alone since there’s no one who will take care of her. He can’t trust his older brother , Gilbert, since he’ll  keep bragging always on how awesome he is, he’ll always invite his “friends” (the bad touch trio) whenever he wanted  and, worse of all, he could teach unnecessary things to spoil the innocent mind of his daughter. He deeply thought of what will be the best decision for his daughter.Suddenly there was a knock on the door which brought him back to reality. “come in” he said and later on his daughter’s head appeared in his office door and she entered the room. “Vatti!” his daughter shout as she ran towards Ludwig. “Vatti! Today’s Saturday! Let’s play!! Let’s play!!!” his daughter said as she climb in her father’s lap and reached for his cheek and stretch it like it was some kind of clay. “_____, please stop it,” He said as he grabbed his daughter’s hand and removed it gently from his cheeks. “ I have something to discussed with you meine liebling.” _____ tilted her head to the side and asked, “Vatti? Is something wrong?”. He can’t just tell his daughter that he’ll be away for a long time at war for who knows when he’ll return so he simply just said, “Starting tomorrow, I’ll ask my friend from Hungary to take care of you for a while because I’ll have my business trip. So behave well alright?”. His daughter nod quickly not knowing the truth that her father will be away for war. After Ludwig saw the response of his daughter, he put her down on his lap.After putting her down, his daughter suddenly hold his hand in a firm grip and started pulling him. “What’s wrong, ______?” he asked. “VATTI!!! LET’S PLAY PLEASE!!!!! I WANNA PLAY!!! IT’S SUNNY TODAY SO LET’S GO!!!!!” she excitedly claim as she started jumping up and down while holding his father’s hand. Ludwig chuckled at the cuteness of his daughter and stand up not wasting an opportunity to spend his last day at home since he’ll be packing his baggage later and he’ll be on his way tomorrow. “Alright. I’m coming.” Ludwig said as he carried her daughter and spend the rest of the day staying beside her.


A quiet man of music
Denied a simpler fate
He tried to be a soldier once
But his music wouldn't wait
He earned his love
Through discipline
A thundering, velvet hand
His gentle means of sculpting souls
Took me years to understand


5 years had passed and _______ grown up a bit. She’ll be celebrating her 14th birthday next month. She now lived at Elizaveta’s house. She grew bored each day but she’s excited to show her father the new piano piece she just composed when her tutor, Roderich, taught her at the early age of 9. Because of nothing to do, she keep on walking back and forth in her room. She missed her father so much. ‘What took him so long in his business trip. Is his business more important than me?’ , she thought. She sit on her bed and keep on squishing and stretching her new frog stuff toy, which Elizaveta gave her to cheer her up, to make herself do something instead of just walking around. She sighed and grabbed a chair, stuff toy still in hand, and sit near the window. She gazed her eyes to the stars which lighten the sky. A tear flow down from her cheek as she remembered the days her father was beside her, playing with her, and spend most of the time with her even though she was often scold a lot for not able to clean her bedroom. “I missed you so much, Vatti…” she said as she break into a sob. She can’t stop her overflowing feelings towards her father. Oh how she missed him so much. Those sweet goodnight words and kisses he’ll always do before she went to bed. She sobbed all night and later on fell into a deep sleep, dreaming about those days with her beloved father.  


The leader of the band is tired
And his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs through my instrument
And his song is in my soul
My life has been a poor attempt
To imitate the man
I'm just a living legacy
To the leader of the band


Ludwig sighed in relief as he escape from the grenade that was about to hit him. ‘I must live…for her.’ He thought as he held out a picture of _____ and him from his pocket. He stared at it for while and kissed the picture, “I’ll be home soon liebling. I promise.” he said in a whisper tone as he put back the photo in his pocket and went back and focused on his mission.


My brothers' lives were different
For they heard another call
One went to Chicago
And the other to St. Paul
And I'm in Colorado
When I'm not in some hotel
Living out this life I've chose
And come to know so well


2 weeks have passed and Ludwig’s boss finally agreed and signed his paper of resignation in exchange to be responsible in giving intense training for the coming of new recruits in the next few months. ‘Finally, I’ll be home.’ He thought as he start packing his things. He dialed Elizaveta’s number and informed her about his home coming.” Ludwig,” Elizaveta said on the other line “I hope you did not forget that your daughter will be celebrating her 14th birthday 2 weeks from now.” “Wait 14?!!!” Ludwig asked. He mentally facepalmed himself for forgetting the most simple yet the most memorable day of his daughter. He could hear Elizaveta sighed clearly on the other line. “I guess I really shouldn’t hope that you’ll remember it.” “May I talk to my daughter, bitte?”, he asked,eagerly to hear his daughter’s voice again. “Sure” Elizaveta replied as she hand the phone to ______. Ludwig swore that he heard the excited voice of his daughter in the other line and he also heard that her voice has a tint of crying. ‘I believed she cried….I’m sorry I made you cry liebling’ he thought to himself as he waited for the voice of his daughter in his phone. “VATTI!!!! WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG IN THE BUSINESS TRIP?!!!! HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ME ALREADY??!!!!!!!!” Ludwig pushed his phone a few inches from his ear or else he’ll be risking his hearing ability. He noticed that after his daughter said those words to him, he heard his daughter cried again in the other line. Ludwig was about to speak when ______ talked again, “Don’t you know how much I missed you?..... I….. I love you Vatti…. Please don’t exchange me to your work….” As she broke into another sob again. Ludwig was now guilty for not giving letters to his daughter these past few years since his boss was really strict that he won’t allow any letters or messages to be sent and gave them intense training to win the war for sure.Ludwig took a deep breath as he explained his reason, “ ________, I’m very sorry that I haven’t sent you messages to inform you how was I doing. As you see, my boss is really strict and he won’t allow us to send letters because he said that it’ll be a waste of time instead of train-…” he suddenly put a hand in his mouth.He won’t allow his daughter to know that he’d been at war. “What do you mean by training vatti?” his daughter asked. “uh…training. You know leadership training in running a business” Ludwig replied hoping that what he said might work. “Vatti, isa a leadership training take whole 5 years?” his daughter asked.Now Ludwig don’t know what to reply. His daughter grew smarter and wiser than before. “I’ll tell you when we meet, alright ______?” “Why?” “It’s a long story but please I’ll explain everything when I picked you up from Elizaveta’s house.” He said. “JA!!! I’M ALREADY EAGER TO TASTE YOUR HOME-MADE CAKE VATTI!!!!!” “ok. I’ll be going now alright? Bye for now ______” “JA!!! I’ll be expecting your arrival this day!!!” and with that the conversation ended. Ludwig was happy he heard his daughter’s voice again for a long period of time. After packing his things, he went to get his keys and went on his car. He put his baggage at the back of his car, started its engine and drived for hours until he reached Elizaveta’s house.Upon arriving the house he saw ______ sleeping in the bench waiting for him.


I thank you for the music
And your stories of the road
I thank you for the freedom
When it came my time to go
I thank you for the kindness
And the times when you got tough
And, papa, I don't think I
Said 'I love you' near enough


Ludwig parked his car in Elizaveta’s garage and went closer to see his daughter up close. He noticed that her hair grew longer and taller than before. He give his daughter a kiss in the forehead resulting for ______ to woke up. ______ (e/c) meet her father’s blue ones. As she saw her father, she throw her hands and glomped him. Ludwig chuckled as they both fell in the ground, his daughter still hugging him like she has no intention of letting him go. “ ______ let Vatti go…..Vatti can’t breath.” Ludwig said as ______released him. “I missed you vatti!!!” _____ said as she shower her father with her kisses. Ludwig kissed his daughter’s cheek and hugged her again. “I’m sorry I don’t have anything for your birthday, _______” . “You already give me my birthday present Vatti. You are my present this year Vatti. I loved to have you than material things which will fade sooner or later.” ______said as she was holding back her tears.  “So you don’t want any cake?” Ludwig teased his daughter. “NEIN!!!!  I can’t celebrate my birthday without Vatti’s cooking” his daughter replied. Ludwig chuckled as he stand up and helped his daughter to stand and they both went inside. After a few hours of chatting with Elizaveta and Roderich, Ludwig was dragged by his excited daughter and went to the piano room. “This is the piece that I compose myself when I celebrate your homecoming vatti” his daughter said as she begin playing the keys of the piano and the whole room was later on surrounded by ______’s melody. After the piece, ______looked back to her father and smiled. “I’m so proud of you, ______. Roderich, thank you for teaching piano skills to my daughter.” Ludwig said as his daughter hugged his arm. “I’ll be glad to help ______ anytime.” Roderich respectfully replied. “Vatti, can we go home now?” ___ asked as she yawn signaling that she was tired of the events that happened. “Why don’t we sleep for tonight here and we shall leave early tomorrow morning ja?” Ludwig replied as he saw her daughter rubbing her eyes. “I’ll arrange a room for the two of you.” Elizaveta replied. After a few minutes, Ludwig started packing his daughter’s bag in their shared room until ______snatched her bag away from him. “ I’m a grown up now vatti. At least, let me fixed my stuff and then we go to sleep.”  Ludwig smiled as he watched his daughter fixed her things. He still can’t believe how time flies so quick that his liitle daughter became a young lady right now. After his daughter finished her packing, both of them went to bed. “ I love you vatti” _____said as she hugged her father. “Ich liebe dich,______” Ludwig said as he give _____a final kiss in her forehead and they both fell asleep.  


I am a living legacy to the leader of the band