Claire POV
After four run ins with airport security, getting lost twice, almost getting thrown off the plane because Italy tried to smuggle a cat aboard, and nearly getting my eardrums burst by Germany yelling about said cat, we finally arrived in London.
Germany called a taxi to pick us up from the airport and we drove straight to England's house, which is humongous! It's a huge red and white brick Victorian mansion surrounded by thick hedges with oak and chestnut trees scattered throughout. Italy springs out of the car and runs to the front door and rings the doorbell about fifteen times. "Hey lay off on the bell, will you?" I say, he really does act like a little kid sometimes!
"Ve, I'm just excited to see England again!" says Italy bouncing on his heels.
The door slams open revealing England looking ticked off, "What the hell are you-" he cuts off seeing that it's me and Italy standing there. "Oh, I apologize Claire I thought you were someone else, come inside." I suppose he must of had quite a few doors broken down by America being impatient and busting in, I think as England leads us into the house.
"So why did you call us over?" I ask curiously. "To finish preparing the reversal spell I need to be able to sense your aura which would be a bit difficult with you in Germany." says England. "Oh" I say dumbly as he leads us down a staircase and into a dark room. Once England turns the lights on I see that we must be underground since there are no windows, the room is rather grungy looking and the stone floors and walls are pretty dirty but judging by the amount of books and dirty dishes scattered about he must be down here quite often.
"Come stand next to this" says England motioning at a runic symbol painted on the floor in the center of the room. I walk over to the symbol and England picks up a leather bound book and flips to somewhere in the middle. "Try to stand still or you may unbalance the spell" says England. He starts to chant the spell, it sounds like gibberish to me but the symbol starts to glow so it must be working. Italy is standing in the corner fidgeting looking like he wants to say something but he's obviously freaked out by the chanting so he keeps quiet.
"Huh, that's strange" says England ending the chant and snapping the book shut. "What's wrong?" asks Italy finally coming to stand next to me since we entered the room. "It looks like I won't be able to send Claire back to her home dimension until the next full moon which is the 31st, and that is a particularly powerful time for black magic to begin with."
"That's only four days away!" I say, I hadn't realized I'd be able to go home so soon, I do miss my friends and I'm sure my family is wondering where I am, but I can't just leave these guys and never see them again! "Well America has dragged me into his annual Halloween party so you'll be able to see the other nations before your departure" says England. He sounds a bit morose as he says this, he must not of thought I'd be leaving so quickly either.
England goes to open the door so we can all head upstairs, but when he goes to turn the doorknob the door swings open smashing England to one side and pinning him to the wall.
"Hey Iggy whatcha doing?" says America loudly looking into the room. "Oh hey dudette what are you doing down here?" America lets go of the door and walks over to me. The door slams shut and reveals a furious England, "You bloody git! I told you specifically to never enter this room again and then you practically attack me with the bloody door!"
His forehead is starting to turn a nasty shade of purple, he's going to have one hell of a goose egg momentarily. "Well what were you doing behind the door?" asks America looking puzzled. "I wasn't behind the door you idiot I was- nevermind there's no use trying to explain it to you" ends England exasperated."Umm England your forehead" I say worried. England reaches up a hand to feel his head and winces when he finds the goose egg. "Come on, lets get some ice on it before it gets any worse" I say grabbing his hand and leading him out of the room and up the stairs. I stop at the top of the staircase realizing I've never been in the house before so I have no idea where I'm going but England realizes what's wrong and points down the hallway. I resume pulling him along and find the kitchen and make him sit down on a chair while I rifle around and make a makeshift ice-pack.
"Hey lass you don't have to go to all this trouble" says England protesting, I turn around and I'm about to put the pack to his head when I see that the goose egg has almost completely shrunken to nothing. "Huh?" "We nations tend to heal very quickly so something as insubstantial as a bump on the head isn't anything to fuss about" explains England. "Oh, well you could of told me that earlier!"
"Well I don't think you would of listened to me either way" says England. "Hmmph" I turn and start to put away the things I had taken out. I feel a hand on my shoulder and England turns me around, "But it was a very kind of you to go to such trouble for me, a certain Yankie would never as much lift a finger to help me. So thank you Claire." He blushes as he says the last part and looks down at his feet, Awww, he is so adorable when he blushes! I lean forward and give him a giant hug, he just stands there shocked for a moment but after a few seconds he relaxes a bit and gently hugs me back. When I let him out of the hug he harumphs embarrassedly and says "Well we should go see what Alfred is doing, I don't want him unattended in my house, last time I left him alone I ended up with an entire cabinet of china shattered and a broken window."
"Eeeenglaaannnddd" yells America from somewhere in the house, England starts to run towards the yelling, what has America done now?
Wow I'm at chapter ten already! Sorry I took so long to update! I'll be trying to write longer chapters in the future, so lets see where that goes, haha.