May, 2011.
A world conference has just concluded with worrying facts for four of the European countries. Ireland, Portugal, Greece and finally Spain.
Turkey was told by his boss about Greece's state. His illness had gotten worse as the months passed and finally he'd fallen into a coma, urging the countries to get together and try to find a cure for the sick countries.
What is the sickness you might ask? The horrifying, frightful, and deadly,
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Turkey watched over Greece as he gasped for breath in his unconscious state. If his economy was completely destroyed he would cease to be a country and fade into the history books.
"Come on you idiot wake up, it aint funny no more. Herakles, nap time is over." Sadik grumbled at the comatose nation. But Greece did not awaken. His cats seemed to sense the impending doom of death and meowed mournfully. That just pissed Sadik off and he threw the cats out the window. In the other bed Romano was ordering the weakened Spain to stay awake. He had been falling asleep a lot recently and sometimes he didn't wake up until days later. Romano cried each and every second until the Spanish bastard woke up and then he would yell at him for scaring him like that.
It made Sadik uncomfortable that it was Spain's lover the one clinging to him and here was Sadik, standing next to Herakles, not saying it, but begging the heavens that the lazy, carefree, cat loving bastard would wake up and yell at him in any moment. He stared at Herakles' chest, to make sure that he didn't stop breathing.
Romano was clinging to Spain's hand pretending that the only reason he was crying was because he had something in his eye. Antonio smiled weakly through the pain and wiped the tears away gently with his thumb.
"Don't cry like that Romano, it doesn't suit you."
"What makes you think I'm crying you jer-" He froze as he saw Spain closing his eyes. "No. No! Spain don't leave me please…" He begged crying hard again. Spain forced his eyes to remain open.
"Hey… It's going to be alright Romano." He said gently. "We'll get through this." He said gently.
Ooooooooooooooooooo
But only a couple of days later Spain fell into a coma as his country shook from an earthquake that destroyed much of the small town it affected seeing as in his country the place was not prepared to withstand earthquakes. His people's hopes were diminishing as the days past. The government wasn't doing anything useful to help the crisis in Spain of unemployment.
Romano was convinced that what had to be done was for the Spanish people to stand against the government and say ENOUGH! We demand a re-election! But no. The rate of unemployment was at a horrifying 21% and not getting better!
"Spain… you must fight against your boss! He's not helping at all!" Romano begged the sleeping Spaniard but he would not wake up. In the end they were countries at the mercy of the intelligence, or mediocrity of their bosses.
Romano looked up at Sadik who was sitting beside Herakles watching over the comatose Greek. They looked at each other and wondered… where was this crisis going to leave them? What was going to happen?