[✤ACTION]

[Did you know that 945 Beulah Street is pretty much the ugliest house in all of Mayfield now? Because it really is. There's a giant banyan tree in the backyard thanks to Taiwan, and then she went ahead and painted the entire house orange a month or so ago ( Read more... )

( ✤BACKGROUND; off the phones )

[He snapped out of his droning a few hours ago.

-and then hadn't said a word about it, quietly checking a calendar- (Missed my own fuckin' birthday? Tch)- and ensuring that Taiwan continued to sleep safely in their bed. He'd silently checked on Saki and Mindy, as well, pausing only briefly at their doorways before gently picking up Chocomeltje ( Read more... )

[So. Never mind that he hasn't even met her. Never mind that she's been in Mayfield for all of a day.

Netherlands has somehow found out that a female Japan is now in Mayfield, and so all of Mayfield gets this phone message.]

Japan. The girl one.

Can I take you on a date?

[Netherlands hadn't bothered to contact others much during Mayfield's time as a Soviet town- he had been too busy running around assuring himself that Belgium, Canada, and the others he cared about were okay. He hadn't done his assigned job, either, but somehow avoided re-education entirely ( Read more... )

[The phone is picked up. For a while, there's silence and the sound of a cigarette being lit. And then,]

Happy Birthday, Canada. Even if it's here, I wish y'the best. Y'deserve it. All of it.

[A long pause, and then Netherlands' languid tone turns hard and determined.]

Listen th'fuck up! Today's Canada Appreciation Day because I goddamn say so! ( Read more... )

[Who remembers Netherlands' hot tub? You're all trying to forget, aren't you? Too bad. The hot tub is still where it always was- on the lawn of 945 Beulah Street- and it's still an eyesore, still covered in red christmas lights and cheap plastic palm trees ( Read more... )

[To say that he has recovered from the incidents of last week is a tricky thing; he woke up with his body wholly restored, but there had been repercussions to deal with. He's learning the hard way that phantom pain cannot be eliminated with a prescription, that nightmares of smoke and fire do not disappear so easily. But weaknesses are to be pushed ( Read more... )

[The heat is gone.

When he wakes up, he gives a strangled choking sound and half-throws himself out of bed, convinced that he is still on fire, that he is still burning alive, that his skin is peeling open raw and pink and then black and he's burning, burning, burning- he clutches at his arms and head and he can still feel it consuming his very ( Read more... )

...Guess we're going to have to try that world meeting thing again in a month or so. [He sounds apathetic, but he really wants to punch each and every one of you other nations in the face, including himself. WAY TO GET NOTHING DONE AT THE MEETING, EVERYONE. Awesome.]

Japan, you'd better not be under your blanket.

[Netherlands can be found at a ( Read more... )