"Yo! Yo, Germany! Take my hand, dude!"

I avoke from mein stupor to see America pushing past Russian soldiers and holding out a hand for me to take. I stared at it for a moment, but before I could ansver he grabbed mein hand unt dragged me right out of mein house, avay from Japan unt Italy.

"V-vait!" I shouted. "Japan unt Italy! Ve have to go back for them!"

"You're the wounded one, dude. The other two'll be fine. We had to get you out of there before Russia turned you into a Commie," America ansvered. I could tell by the tone of his voice that he vasn't going to let me go.

"Don't worry, dude. You're gonna ba okay," he reassured me as he dragged me along. I decided to stay quiet unt let him drag me.

"Woah, dude! What the hell's going on here?" America shouted ven ve reached his house. Russian soldiers were pouring inside. They seemed to be looking for something…

"Lithuania!" America shouted in a panic as the soldiers dragged out the brown-haired young man.

"Lithuania!" he shouted again as he ran to the soldiers in attempt to free his friend.

"A-America!" Lithuania shouted. "America, help me! I don't want to go back to Russia! Help me!" I noticed tears of desparation in his eyes. Vas Russia really that bad?

America did try to help, but he vas overpowered by the insane number of soldiers, unt his friend vas dragged away. Ven his home was empty again, America simply stared in the direction his friend Lithuania had been dragged off to vith desperate eyes. He then lowered his head slightly and grabbed my arm, vurdlessly pulling me inside vith much more force than before. He let go once ve vere inside, then went right to his telephone.

I didn't hear any of his conversation, nor did I care to. I vas tired, and all I wanted to do was sit down and try to catch up vith vat vas going on. I sat down in a chair in America's sitting room and looked around silently.

So the var vas over? I at least had a little comfort in knowing that. Slowly, my head turned to my shoulder, where a red arm band rested on my uniform. Anger started to vell up inside of me, and in van motion I stood and furiously tore the armband off of mein sleeve. Panting heavily, I looked at it to see the symbol for vat I hoped to be the last time.

It was a relief to see it finall off of mein uniform. Since the beginning it had all sickened me. Everything I had done made me sick to my stomach. The people I killed… Six million people… All for nothing. All because of me… There was nothing I could have done to stop any of it. No, I could have, but I vas too much of a coward to stand up to my boss. I vas veak, though I didn't want to admit it. I felt tears of anger and frustration that I couldn't help vell up in my eyes, and the strain from mein anger caused a sharp pain to go through my stomach. The pain caused me to fall on all fours and start coughing violently. I covered mein mouth vith mein hand, and noticed that the hand vas now stained red. Mein eyes widened in horror… Vat vas happening to me?

"Woah, woah, dude!" America shouted, noticing my hand unt running to my aid. He looked at the arm band, but said nothing about it unt looked back to me.

"Dude, you really need to lie down. You took a way bigger beating than you thought you did. Britain and France are coming over to help you out, don't worry." I looked at him in confusion. He vas so vurried about me… How could he suddenly be so sympathetic ven only an hour ago ve vere mortal enemies? Regardless, I allowed him to lie me down on the couch unt get me a glass of cold water. Apparently I had broken into a fever, and didn't realize until I lied down and started to shiver violently.

After a few minutes of lying down in silence vile the American watched over me, I could hear the sound of British and French bickering on the other side of the door. America perked up unt ran to the door before anyone even knocked.

"Both of you, get inside. He's not doing very good," America said, vich stopped the arguing fairly quickly.

"…Where is he?" Britain asked.

"He's inside, on the couch," America answered. "And he's not doing so hot.."