Disclaimer:Hetalia is the property of an attractive(have you seen Hidekaz Himaruya self portraits? Sure they're in comic form but still he's hot!) twenty-four old Japanese male. That is not me.

Child 8: North Carolina

North Carolina was a simple boy to please. The only things he needed to make him happy were a Pepsi, a doughnut (from Krispy Kreme only) and a good book made him happy. Yes, Jacob 'North Carolina' Jones-Kirkland was a simple person.

This allowed him to watch his more demanding siblings' lives carefully. He saw Anna sneak out with that motorcycle riding Zac Efron, he saw Utah cry for what seemed like a century when Joesph dumped her, he saw Massachusetts come home early or late depending on how you see things after her and Estonia's one year anniversary. He saw George come back with brochures for the army. Long before Emma made her sexual orientation know, he saw her and some girl kissing on the front porch.

He saw everything and everyone. That didn't mean he was forgotten, that just meant that he was reliable. A fixture that everyone was so accustomed to seeing on the couch writing or reading. Even his twin South Carolina was joked "If Jake leaves for boarding school the whole family will collapse." and you know what? It just did.

Jacob didn't leave for boarding school but he went away with the other members of Washington Predatory School's yearbook committee on a field trip to New York. Pops and Daddy knew about it but Alfred the intelligent hero failed to mention it to any of the remaining fifty kids when he and Arthur were called for the summit in Copenhagen. Tony, ever the family babysitter didn't bother to care about the mental welfare of the family even though he like everyone else needed Jacob.

North Dakota came downstairs whistling heading for the kitchen to get some leftover corn on the cob. As she passed by the living room going to wave hi to Jacob as he usually read a novel on the sofa her whistling faltered as she failed to see the tall, blonde, figure of her older brother.

"Guys," she called out to her siblings, "come here quick Jacob's missing!" the sound of bodies rushing down the stairs and the elevator opening and closing at every floor could be heard.

Once the family got down to the massively sized living room(the living room was probably the size of a regular home's kitchen and living room combined and then put on steroids) they gasped. Jacob, the fixture and last hope of sanity was gone.

"What happened!" Hawaii asked scanning the room with her eyes. "Jacob disappeared." California said breathlessly. "I think we established that." Massachusetts screeched raising her hand to hit her little brother on the head. Texas stopped her. "Hold down there. I don't think violence is going to solve anything."

"Then please tell us what are we going to do about our missing brother?" Oregon crossed her arms over her chest. "We are going to call him on his cellphone and if that doesn't work we are going to call the police." Illinois moved her hands up and down as if that would calm the massive crowd of teenagers. Delaware whipped out her cell phone from her Coach bag and pressed speed dial number 8. She tapped her foot and the rest of the family waited anxiously.

"Damn," Delaware said under her breath. "the only thing I got was voice mail." "Where could he have gone?" New Hampshire asked worry etched onto his face. When one of the Jones-Kirkland gets hurt, they all do.

In the Big Apple, North Carolina was having the time of his life. Him and the rest of the yearbook committee just got finished checking out Ellis Island and now they were heading off to their hotel to eat lunch.

His cell phone had rang once when they were on the boat leaving Ellis Island but it was Delaware. He figured that she just lost her credit card and wondered if he seen it. He loved his little sister but she did have some dependency on retail.

"We should check out the New York Public Library." Jacob suggested. He always wanted to see the prestigious gleam of the famous library Abigail may have memorized the periodic table but he memorized Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone.

"That's a good idea. Why not?" the yearbook supervisor/occasional Geometry teacher Ms. Hale chirped. The members of the yearbook committee told the driver of the private coach bus to take them to the library

Jacob was holding in tears when the bus reached the public library in Manhattan It was everything he ever dreamed of. God, he really needed to man like Tony always told him to. As he opened a book and began flipping through the pages, Ms. Hale called out for him.

"Jacob! I don't how to say this but all of you're siblings, the FBI, and an alien are outside the library waiting for you," Jacob gave her a puzzled look. "Waiting for you isn't a good term. I believe the correct term is searching for you."

Jacob ran outside to see his whole family ,minus his two parental units, in the busiest city in the world. "How the fuck did you guys mange to get here so quick?" "We called the FBI and they brought us by helicopter." George pointed towards the sky at one of the many helicopters use to bring the brood of shared genetic material.

"Why?" "We thought you disappeared or was kidnapped by foreign government spies." Georgia clasped her hands together and stared at her brother with relief-filled eyes. Jacob let his mouth hang out in shock. "I told Pops and Daddy that I would be going to New York with the yearbook committee before they left for the summit. I think Pops mentioned that he told Tony about it." The group turned and looked at Tony.

"What? Don't look at me that way. It's not my fault that Alfred and the British bastard decided to screw like rabbits and have more kids than I can keep track of. I'm not your nanny."

Author's Note: This was mostly to illustrate how tight-knit of a family the Jones-Kirkland's are. If one of them goes down they all go down. I'm kind peeved that I didn't give Jacob his time to shine because he is one of my favorites. I chose to make him a writer because so many of my favorite authors(including Sarah Dessen, queen of YA chick-lit) make North Carolina home.

Pepsi and Krispy Kreme's Doughnuts were both founded/created in North Carolina so they are the two favorite foods of Jacob.

I would also like to say that no other character brings me as so much joy to write than Tony. He deserves to be a major character in Hetalia. Or have fanfics solely dedicated to him. Think about how much he sees living with Alfred!