They waited patiently for Italy and Romano to come back, all doing whatever they wanted to waste the time. Queen Liz Ten took Clara on a tour of the Starship and the Doctor had followed along after he had finished preparing the room, glad to explore the ship without trying to save crying girls or tortured Star whales. Romania had sat, in varying positions over time, in a chair and read through what seemed to be a never ending book to Roanoke, but she put the idea off as magic. America had gone off to a main street in hopes of finding what he called good food.
Roanoke, on the other hand, had found a quiet area to herself to think about her new, upcoming life, how she would have to adjust to life, yet again. Of course, she felt confident that she could live life well in the Void or even when she had been born, but this was a new time period with new rules. Women can wear pants, have jobs, vote, and a number of other things, all that she had seen in one or another of the clips she watched while in the Void, but never got to experience.
There was also the thought in the back of her mind, that even with a body; would she be human in life years or nation? And if she would still be a nation, what would she represent? Her little settlement was long gone and all her people turned into grass and trees. America might give her an area of his ship, but he would have to get approval from the other two nations he lived with, and that could be problematic.
But before she could really dig into these worries, she worried about how England was handling being stuck in the Void alone. He had seen her use the viewing area, so would he be looking at his past or at other timelines? Roanoke could account to the fact that being left to memories and other people could be devastating to the mind. She had rebounded quickly to being normal, but would England be able to do that as well? He had lived much longer than she had, and he probably had more regrets than she did, seeing as how he had fought in battles and killed people over time.
Plus, time moved differently in the Void. He could have been in there for a hundred years while only a few hours had passed for the people here. On the other hand, he could have been standing where she had left him for a few seconds. That would be problematic in its own respect; it would be hard to convince him that she had been out of the Void for a few hours, figuring out a way for them both to live outside of the Void.
Roanoke decided that she would deal with that problem when she got there. Better idea than stressing out over it now anyway.
She got up and walked back to the room Romania was in reading his book about magic, another thing that she would have to get used to as well, and where America said that he would be once he was done eating. On her way there, she had to stop. Italy and Romano were dragging their freshly made Gollum to the room, so she moved in to help them. She was slightly surprised when she saw what it looked like.
It was her from when she was really small, which surprised her. She had not expected the two Italians to know what she had looked like. The Gollum was short, about the size of a five year old, her human age when she died, and had the exact details of her face and hair. The only thing missing were her glasses to go in front of her green eyes, but her brown hair was made perfectly into her usual bun. What surprised her even more were the clothes that the figure was wearing. Her favorite dress.
"H-how?" She asked the two.
Italy was the one who spoke up, "America came by where we were working, about to start forming the body, and he told us what you looked like and what you liked to wear!"
"Yeah, that Hamburger-Bastard was the one who asked that we mad you like this, so you need to go thank him."
"But you two still formed the Gollum, so thank you," She said, trying to hold the weight of the clay figure even more.
"Whatever," Romano muttered.
They continued to carry the figure before Roanoke stated a question, "Why isn't it alive? I thought Gollums were clay figures that could move around and do simple orders."
"Fratello and I didn't do any of that because Romania had to do all of his spell things to get it to be able to hold you!" Italy said before turning into their prepared room.
"Oh, ok." They put it down in the middle of the room before Roanoke looked around to see who else was there. America was eating some food off in a corner, smiling at her. She went over to him, "Thank you for telling them about what I looked like."
"Welcome! Do you want some of my food?" He asked, offering her what he would call a French fry.
"No thank you, I'm not hungry at the moment," She said before turning around and seeing everyone else. Italy and Romano were off to another side, talking about something that she could not hear. Clara and the Doctor were back, but Queen Liz Ten was not, probably off somewhere else doing work. The Doctor and Clara were talking to Romania, probably about the spell that he would soon have to cast on the clay figure of her. Romania nodded his head and mentioned for the other two to get out of his area, which Roanoke guessed was the area drawn out in a chalk circle on the floor.
"What's he doing?" She asked America.
He swallowed his bite of food before responding, "I dunno, I guess he's doing some of his weird magic stuff. It might take a while."
Just as he said this, Romania yelled out, "I'm done!" Roanoke went over to look at him and gasped slightly. Hanging slightly onto his leg was her. Well, her body. Without her in it. "Don't worry about her at all, she's empty. An Arthur until Roanoke comes back." He slightly messed up her body's hair, "Pretty well made, if I do say so myself. Completely flesh and blood."
The Doctor jumped over to Roanoke, "See? Your body is here, so you just need to go and get England back! Then everything will be over!"
"Everything will be over? How long has it been to be 'all over'?" She asked nobody in particular.
America spoke up, smiling widely, "Around one thousand seven hundred years!"
The Doctor smiled, "One thousand seven hundred and eight to be exact! Now come on! We got to get you into your space suit!"
"Where would that be?"
"England's room of course!" The Doctor said, pulling Roanoke out of the room behind him.
America quickly followed after the two, "Iggy's room? Can I come too?"
Roanoke laughed slightly, "You are kinda following us, you'd come no matter what I said."
He laughed as well, "I guess I would. I just want to see where he's been living all these years."
When they made it to his room, the Doctor and Roanoke just looked at the amount of stuff on the shelves attached to the walls, but America was more amazed at the actually items. He went to one thing in particular, a little white badge with a yellow star on it. He tried to go pick it up, but was met with resistance, "Force field," he muttered before speaking louder, "That's what I gave him when I had to go and leave for space years ago. I'm surprised that he kept it an all the other junk that we all gave him."
Roanoke felt amazed, "He kept all of that stuff to help him remember life back on Earth? That's amazing to keep everything in such well condition for such a long time it seems."
"Yeah. Most of my stuff is gone because of age, but he kept up with everything…"
The Doctor just went into a side room and grabbed a space suit and threw it at Roanoke, "Go put this on over what you're wearing right now then we'll take you out of here.""
Roanoke went into the other room, what she guessed was his bed room guessing by the bed and pile of books. She put the orange thing and helmet on over her clothes and stepped back out into the main living area, ready to go outside the ship. "Ready."
"Ok Roanoke, let's get you back in the Void!" The Doctor said, again dragging them both out of the room.
She was shoved out of the spaceship with only a cord holding her on and a few tools tied onto her belt to open up the crack. And a com unit, which America would occasionally start talking out of, telling her about random things ranging from food to a new band that he decided to listen to lately. She quickly worked on getting the just recently crack reopened, and eventually got it to break open.
White light started to come out of it and she was able to get the message of, "Going into the Void now," out before she was consumed by the white coming out of the void and passed out.
When she came to again, she saw that she was again surrounded by the all-white and back to being very little. And female again, which was oddly a relief. But she had more pressing matters to attend to than what she looked like. She had to find England.
"England! Where are you? England!" She tried calling out, moving in the whiteness towards where she had originally left him. The viewing area. "England? I need to speak with you about something important!"
She stopped yelling out when she heard a soft sniffle a bit away from where she was at that exact moment. Roanoke followed the noise to where she found the very young looking England curled up into himself, crying softly.
"England? What's wrong?"
Sniffles were her only response.
"Did you look at something in the viewing area?" He nodded slightly, "Oh." She moved down beside him, "Don't cry England. You're going to go home now. Come with me." She pulled lightly on one of his sleeves and made him stand up with her. She dragged him away from where he had been crying, just close enough for her to see what was on it (something she vaguely recalled being the American Revolution from one of the places she had viewed) before explaining to the distraught nation what she was about to do, "I''m going to drag us out of here. I want you to think about your body on the other side and how you want to be in there, ok?"
The nation nodded his head and wiped what was left of his tears from his eyes before grabbing her hand again. "Don't tell anyone about this, understand?"
Roanoke nodded her head in promise before she started to drag their consciousnesses out of the area that had been her home for almost as long as she can remember.
When she came to be, she was still a short little person in a female's body, which under more criticism, was her own new body. She looked up and around for England, who was also waking up. She also looked at everyone else, getting used to seeing them from her different height. That would take some getting used to. She moved to the window that she had first looked out of when she had ''become' England to look at her reflection, even if she knew what she looks like.
But upon trying to walk, Roanoke realized that she still needs glasses. Badly, seeing as how she fell over a table that had been blurred out after her first step. America was the first one to notice that she could not see, so he offered her his glasses, which she gladly took because he said he could see fine enough without them.
She made it to the reflective surface and saw that her hair was still messed up from when Romania had messed with it when he had first made the Gollum real. She took her hair out of its bun and let it fall to her knees before putting it back up with practiced ease. She pushed her to big glasses up before turning to England and walking towards him, "I''m sorry I trapped you in there. Will you forgive me?"
"I'll forgive you," He said loud enough for everyone to hear him before lowering it so only she could hear him, "If you don't tell anyone about how you found me in there."
"Got it, thank you," She said before heading over to America, "So, Amer, what am I going to represent?"
He picked her up while saying, "I got a floor fifty-three that you can represent. Made up of one street and the houses hat come off of it. Rename the street Roanoke Street, and everything there is yours."
"Cool! When do we go there?" She asked, now asking the Doctor, subtly trying to get out of America's arms.
"After we drop Italy, Romano, and Romania off at their ships," He said before turning to England, "Will you be ok now?""
England seemed to bristle at the thought that he would not be ok, "Of course I will, that little thing can't throw me off!"
America laughed before saying, "Whatever you say old man," He spoke to the Doctor, "So, we heading out now?" The Doctor nodded, "Ok, so bye England! I'll see you at the next World Meeting," he paused before speaking again, "Canadia says hi." He walked out of the room, still carrying a slightly struggling Roanoke. He had grown a lot strong since he had last seen him.
Romano was the next one to leave with a quick, "Don't hurt yourself anymore Tea-Bastard."
Italy left after his brother with word of pasta being left waiting for him to eat with Queen Liz Ten.
Romania was the last nation to leave, "MT meeting after the WM. Miss it and be a loser, loser!"
The Doctor and Clara also left England after making sure that he was ok and that Clara actually met her country.
England was left all alone again, with only job, Queen, and memories. And the occasional meeting with the other nations, which was always nice.
Roanoke was officially stuck in the TARDIS, which had been an experience at first, it being bigger on the inside and all, but she quickly got over that when America had explained it to her. Now, she was with everyone else when the Doctor started to press buttons to get them back the Italy and Romano's ship. The good thing was that America had let go of her, letting her stand on her own again. After the Doctor ran around some more pressing buttons at what still seemed like at random to Roanoke, they were at the ship.
"Don't ever come back Bastard!" Romano yelled as he ran out of the TARDIS.
Italy ran out after his brother, "Addio Dottore! I left you some pasta in your kitchen! Thank you for saving my people multiple times!"
The Doctor just chuckled before heading to Romania's ship.
He exited with a thinly veiled threat, "Who knows what I'll do if you decide that it will be fun to land on me again, understand?" The Doctor nodded and he left with another big grin, "See you two at the World Meeting!"
America nodded back, even after the door had closed after the other nation. The Doctor just went around pressing buttons while Clara hung back, staying out of the way. Roanoke guessed that she was thinking about her whole experience the nations. Her included. She probably had come off as a scary person when she first came into the picture, but it had all worked out. England was back and she had a body and land again.
The Doctor landed on their ship, and they both left, America just giving a simple farewell and a laugh while Roanoke said, "Thank you for making sure that I got a new body."
She watched in amazement as the blue telephone disappeared before turning to America, "Why didn't you give him a real goodbye?"
America laughed before starting to move Roanoke down a white hallway, "He always shows up again sooner or later, past, present, or future, I'll never know. Now, you have just got to meet my bros Canadia and Mexico, they're the two other nations on this ship."
Translations:
Addio Dottore - (Italian) Goodbye Doctor