A/N: Written by Ilovezim123 and posted by Piscean6724.

America Should Have Stayed In Bed-10

The A shift of station 51 all arrived at the mansion at the same time.

Johnny was the first to say anything about the color. "Wow. That's a hellofa lot of pink!"

America came out as he said this. "Yeah that was my daughter's idea." He lead them to his backyard where there is an Olympic sized swimming pool and a trampoline that's close enough to the pool to jump in from it. There is also a tree house with a zip line that also goes over the pool. All in all it's a kid's paradise.

The two DeSoto kids looked around in wide eyed wonder. America smiled at this.

"You guys go have fun."

Without waiting for a second invitation the kids ran off to play in the tree house. Rachel stood up from where she had been sitting on a lounge chair. "Hey guys, glad you could make it!"

Rachel was wearing a lovely red, white and blue dress that looked like a flag at the top and bottom with a tie-die like pattern in between. L was wearing a one piece flag suit.

Joanne DeSoto and Emily Stanley went over to Rachel and started cooing over how cute L was. Dixie and the doctors arrived shortly after them and went to join the other ladies. The boys went over to America's massive grill to cook all the burgers and hot dogs for the large party that was going to happen soon.

The states and a few of the Countries that Al had invited started to arrive. The only country missing was England. America was used to that, he had invited the blonde nation to the parties ever since he stopped being mad at him. 'Maybe I should ask France, I mean they are neighbors and they did found Canada together. So maybe he knows.'

He goes over to where France is cooing over baby L and making Canada blush with embarrassment as he told tales of what it was like when Canada was a baby.

"Hey France could I talk to you?"

"Of course Alfred, excusez-moi ladies I shall return." He kisses Rachel's hand and follows America back into the house.

"What iz it you wanted to azk me?"

"Why does Iggy not come to my parties?"

"Well you see it's like zis, you zee zis day az a triumph, but 'e zeez it az a great failure. And some yearz 'e gets zik. That usually 'appens when 'is economy iz 'aving trouble."

"So he won't come because he's a sore loser?"

"Non non zat iz not what I meant!"

"Then what did you mean?"

"Let me put it to you zis way. If one of your states decided to break away from you 'ow would you feel?"

"I guess I would feel lousy. But I would get over it and be happy that they are happy. I don't see where you're going with this."

France sighed. "Zat iz what you would do. But Angleterre Zeez it az you mocking 'im. And 'e 'as 'ad so many people leave 'im over ze yearz," Here France paused and a slightly guilty look passed over his face.

"Even I 'ave done it."

"You have? When?"

"After we founded Canada we 'ad a fight. I said some things and 'e said some things. It was a mess."

"Wow I guess I never thought about it like that. Do you think I should talk to him and tell him I forgive him?"

"Zat iz up to you. I can only advise you to be gentle with him."

"I'll give him a call."

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While France and America were having a heart to heart, Johnny was talking to Rachel and finding out that they had similar backgrounds because he was half white half Native American and too much of both to be liked by either race. And Rachel was half elf half vampire so she didn't really fit in with either of those races either. She was telling them about life in Wammy's house and how competition ran high there.

"None of us were normal kids there. Me, L and this other boy from our age group named BB or Beyond Birthday were the strangest. BB was always envious of me and L. Me because I liked L and not him. And L because he had me. He ran away one day and we thought he had disappeared." She paused as she saw America and France come out of the mansion.

America cleared his throat loudly. "I'm going out for a bit. There is something I have to do. I won't be gone long. So have fun and stuff." He said all this but his heart wasn't in it.

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Meanwhile in the hotel room he was staying in for the world meeting England was laying collapsed on the bathroom floor. The tv in the room tuned to the world news channel. The anchorman was reporting on the strange thunderstorm that had just suddenly started. But England didn't hear any of it.