Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia
Chapter nine
"Daddy?" Julie asked awkwardly. She had been dragged back to the hotel room and sat on the bed in silence for over ten minutes, with America refusing to say anything to her since leaving the conference room. At the moment, America had locked himself in the bathroom and for all she knew he had simply vanished.
Leaning against the thin door, she was able to hear slight movements along with the noise of sniffling. Worried, Julie called out, "Daddy, I'm sorry that you're upset. But talk to me."
America still did not talk to her, but she could hear him walk to the door and open it. She looked up at him to see that he had in fact cried moments before, but he smiled softly at her and said that it was alright.
With him outside, Julie gave him a worried hug and said again that she was sorry before asking, "Daddy, do we really have to go home right away? What about your work?"
"Work can wait for a little bit. At the moment my job is to make sure that you stay okay. I'm sorry for leaving you with those jerks earlier," America answered.
"Bet your boss isn't going to be too happy about that," Julie commented. She then walked back to the bed and sat down in thought.
America sighed and sat down next to her before saying, "Look, I don't think we can get a ticket for today, so how about we go around today for vacation? Just the two of us like usual."
Julie was silent for a moment before looking back at him and asking, "Daddy? You said that you would explain to me what was going on."
"I know, Baby, it's just, I kind of wished that I wouldn't have to tell you. Or you know, wait until you were a little older," America stalled, causing the girl to pout at him until he explained, "You know how sometimes in those shows I sometimes watch bad men hurt girls in certain ways?"
"You mean like in your detective shows and SVU*?" Julie asked for clarification.
"Ya, in those shows. Well, not everything in those shows is always far from the truth, and very often bad things will happen," America said.
"I already knew that daddy, but what does all this have to do with how the others were acting?"
America paused for a moment before continuing, "Well, fourteen or so years ago if this was one of those shows the other guys who wanted your DNA would be the bad guys who get locked up."
"But, they don't seem like the bad guys from the T.V. shows…what did they do anyways? Why are they so bad?" Julie asked, giving her father a confused and pleading look.
America paused and looked down for a moment before saying, "…You know how in Jurassic Park some of the dinosaurs change gender so that they can have kids?"
Julie thoughtfully nodded trying to follow the scattered logic, causing America to continue, "Well, for some time your daddy used to be like that and turned into a-a girl. Then during my time as a girl they did some really bad things to me which ended up with you coming about."
"Me…so then…they," Julie began, putting the pieces together in her head. As the pieces went together, her face depressed and she gave America a large hug and said she was very sorry; both of them at that point holding back tears.
Before America could respond, a knock came to the door. The two looked at the door as another knock came followed by the noise of a quiet voice calling for them. They both knew who the voice belonged to immediately, causing Julie to get off the bed, sulk to the door and open it for her uncle Canada.
"Hey, is everything okay?" Canada asked awkwardly while looking in at the room.
Julie slowly shook her head and said, "Daddy was just telling me about what all of this is about. Canada…did you know about all of this?"
"Everyone did, it's just that America decided not to tell any of them about you. He was kind of afraid that something bad would happen to you," Canada explained.
"But…I don't understand…how could they do that and get away with it?" Julie asked.
"Well, I'm not too sure how they could do that either. I mean, America may have been cute as a girl but to get together and-never mind. As for getting away with it, there was not much that could have happened to them since they can't exactly go to jail and with how connected the world is it would have ended badly if your dad declared war on pretty much every super important nation out there," Canada explained.
"I don't like it," Julie commented.
"No one does, but there's nothing to be done about it now," America responded shakily before turning to Canada and asking, "What are you doing here?"
"I came to check on you. Some of the others were going to come instead, but I guess I got here first," Canada answered.
"I see…come on Julie, you wanna go out for a little bit?" America asked.
"…Sure, I guess," Julie answered while walking out of the room with him. Canada decided to follow them to a small café, wanting to make sure that the two of them were going to be alright. He really could not help it, he knew that the story was a lot for any kid to listen to and that America hated thinking about it, but at the same time it was a story the both of them needed to know.
After getting their drinks and sitting down, Julie finally asked, "So then Daddy is technically my mom then…but then who is my dad?"
"I don't know baby, I never had a test done to find out and I never really cared to find out," America answered bluntly.
"But maybe it would be good for me to find out, I mean with when I grow up and stuff," Julie commented.
The two adults looked at her for a long moment as they took in what she said. At last America said, "I don't know baby, I mean, they probably just wanted to meet you for their own selfish reasons like to make themselves seem better or something. You don't really need to worry about them anymore."
"But Daddy, it might be interesting to learn more about where I came from and…wait. Does all of this mean you lied to me in third grade when I needed to write a paper on where my family came from? And you said that my mom was some chick who ran off one night?"
"It wasn't a complete lie, your mom-the girl me- really did disappear shortly after you were born not to return. And it was for your own good, I figured. Even so, what if the guy doesn't want to be a dad to you anymore?" America said, blushing at having to remember the story he told her when she was younger and asked about her mom.
America pouted and said, "We'll never know if we never try to find out. Please daddy, otherwise I'll call you mommy from now on."
"Baby, please I really don't want to go through this right now," America pleaded.
"How about a compromise. You two could just live your lives like normal for a couple months or so and if Julie still feels that way after some time to let all of this calm down then she can take the test," Canada said in a compromising thought. The other two thought about the idea for a moment before agreeing with the idea and promptly changing the topic.
*= I also do not own Law and Order SVU or Jurassic Park, but I figured that it would be easier for America to explain it with the help of shows/movies the girl most likely saw.
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