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Chapter seven
"Wow, it looks just like the terminal in the states," Julia commented as she waited for her suitcase with her father.
"Yep, here's your bag baby," America said while reaching for the bag; keeping his daughter in his sights at all times. Once they had their bags, it did not take them long to leave the place and reach their hotel room. From there they had a pleasant night as they waited for the next day.
"Okay, now you stay close to Romano and don't get lost. And here's some money in case you find something you want to buy. I'll see you right after the meeting, okay? And Romano, I had better not hear that something went wrong, got me," America said the next morning as he left Julie with Romano for the meeting.
Romano scoffed and replied, "Ya, ya, don't talk to me like that. Come on, kiddy, I was asked to make today as jam-packed as possible."
"Okay, bye Daddy," Julie said while waving to America and eagerly following the slightly annoyed Italian. As they left, America watched them until they were out of view before turning and walking down the hall to the conference room. Once in the room, he sat down and dully looked at the file in front of him; spending more energy in wondering where the other guy was going to take his little girl.
Canada noticed the sad look on his brother's face and asked what was wrong. In response America answered, "Julie went out sight-seeing without me, instead with Romano. My little girl is growing into someone who doesn't need to constantly be with me. Sigh, it's like the first day of kindergarten all over again."
"It's not too bad, I mean it has to be better than leaving her alone for three days," Canada rebutted.
"You would think so, wouldn't you," America mumbled, only to have their conversation stopped when Germany called the meeting into order. The North American nations noticed someone missing, however, causing America to ask, "Why isn't Prussia crashing the meeting like usual?"
The others paused for a moment before Germany cleared his throat and answered, "I told Prussia that if he finished a list of chores I gave him I would buy him a keg, so he stayed home to finish the list."
America seemed to buy this, and so the meeting began. As the meeting went on, Romano led Julie to a quiet plaza where three other people were standing with their backs to them. To get their attention Romano called out, "Oi, Tomato-bastard and others, we're here!"
The threesome turned around to look at them, confusing Julie when she noticed that they were China, Spain, and Prussia. Curious, Julie looked up to Romano and asked what they were doing here too. To this Romano answered, "They figured that they would spend the day with us too, but only if you promise to keep them a secret."
Julie loved keeping secrets, she personally thought that she was very good at it, and eagerly promised under the idea that more people would mean more fun. Spain smiled at her and began to walk towards her while saying, "That's good. Now before we have fun you just have to do a couple things for us, okay?"
"What kind of things?" Julie asked.
"Well, first we need to go to Roma's and Italy's house for a little bit, okay? Just need to pick somethings up," Spain answered.
"Oh…okay," Julie answered happily. With this they walked the few blocks to the house and sat in the living room while China grabbed something in the bathroom. After a couple seconds of sitting, Julie asked, "So now what?"
"Well, we still need to get those few things, but you can help," Spain answered, making Julie give a confused look and ask how.
China entered the room at this point and said, "We just need to get a few DNA samples from you. Just think of it as like at a doctor's visit, aru."
"I don't like doctors. And what do you want samples for," Julie commented while clinging to her body in a way to hide her bare arms.
"Well, we're trying to figure out who your dad is," Romano answered, causing Julie to look even more confused.
"But I already have a daddy, you don't need to look for him," Julie reasoned.
"That's true, but you see, you are a very special girl, aru. Unlike other little girls, you have two fathers," China answered while swabbing her shoulder with an alcohol rag. Julie did not like this, however, and swatted the hand and rag away.
China sighed and tried to think of something to do. If she got too upset then she might tell America about this; and that would not end well for anyone. An idea then came to him upon hearing her whimper out, "I don't like shots."
"It won't last long, and after a quick shot we can go do something fun okay," Spain said encouragingly.
"I said, I don't want a shot and I don't need you to look for another dad," Julie slowly and carefully said, shrugging off China's hand when he tried grabbing at her to hold her still. The four adults all stared at her for this, thinking of how she did not sound like usual. She did not whine when she said this, nor did she sound happy or any other emotion they had come across with her. Instead, she sounded very angry in a threatening kind of way which placed Romano and Prussia on edge.
"Maybe a blood test would not be the best…we could always just grab some of her hair or a mouth swab. Bet she would awesomely not be as pissed if we did that instead of this," Prussia commented towards the others, earning a huff from Julie in the process. The adults were all acting so interested in finding a person who could not possibly be related to her to even fully care about what she was saying; and due to her looking so young she had learned early on that if you wanted someone to take you seriously you would need to work for it.
The adults seemed to agree with Prussia's comment, causing China to put down the syringe and pick up a small pair of scissors. He then said, "Alright, Julie, no shot. Instead we just need to cut a little bit of your hair and then you can forget about this for the day, aru."
"No! I don't want to have some stupid test!" Julie shouted while getting off of her seat; startling the others in the process. While they were startled, Julie decided that she did not like how her vacation was going and simply wanted to go back to her dad where people acted a little less weird around her and actually tried to make sense. Following this desire, she began to run towards the door and out of the house before the others could catch her. Her problem then became, which way exactly was the building her father was in?
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