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Chapter ten:

Very slowly and carefully, the other nations moved America up through the tunnel to the outside. As they did this, China or one of the others constantly checked to see how he was holding out. His TPRs were dropping fast and every slight movement seemed to make him whimper or wheeze in pain.

While they did this, Russia, and D.C. waited above ground to make sure that Confederacy did not try anything. Confederacy was quiet for the most part in the beginning, and then she began to hum. Russia and D.C. allowed her to do this until she began to re-hum the song "Dixie." When she did begin to re-hum, D.C. told her to stop it. To this she looked up at D.C. for the first time and while smiling at him said, "So ya must be the District of Columbia, huh. It's been a long time. The last time I remember seeing ya, ya were only just a babe. Mind ya your still a little kid."

To this D.C. scowled at her and was about to respond when the others finally came out with America. Once he was out, they laid him down softly on the ground and continued to monitor him. As they watched, Russia came over and said, "I already called the authorities. They're sending a helicopter for America, which should be here shortly."

"And her?" Virginia asked looking at Confederacy. There was a pause to her question before finally being answered by Germany saying, "Let's just wait and see how America pulls through, Ja."

"And after that?" She continued.

"Well decide after we know about America," France said.

It only took a few minutes of waiting before the helicopter came for America, and by that time he barely had a pulse. The paramedics carefully loaded him into the helicopter and allowed England and D.C. to come with them. As they then flew to the nearest hospital, the others piled into their rentals and drove there; for the car with Confederacy, they had to make sure that she did not try anything.

It did not take the helicopter long to get back to the hospital, and soon had America in the surgery room to save him. About half an hour after they took America away, the other nations came to the hospital. Here they waited and waited for any news on how America was doing.

As the minutes turned into hours, the nations began to become even more worried. America was in very bad shape; being starved, cut, beaten, blinded, burned, and now having his chest cut opened. If he was a normal human, he would have most likely died long before now, but could it really kill America, the country? It's not like he would be the first nation to die.

Soon it was the middle of the night, and there was still no sign as to how America was doing. By now both of the Italys, D.C. and Virginia were fast asleep, and several of the others were on the verge of falling asleep.

The room they were in was rather quiet, but even so England whispered to France, "How much longer do you think this will take?"

In response, he looked back to the door, then France and said, "I don't know, but I'm hoping we hear any kind of news soon."

As they talked, Italy began to stir; so they stopped. Eventually, the time was five in the morning and the only one still awake was England. It was at this time that the doctor finally came out of the operation room to talk with them. The doctor looked tired, which was understandable since he had been working on America for roughly ten hours.

When the doctor walked onto the room, England got up and walked up to him. He then asked the doctor, "Well, how is he?"

To this the doctor sighed and said, "He came in pretty rough shape, but I think he'll pull through. We'll have to move him to a larger hospital once he's a little better and see how he does from there."

"I see, thank you," England began when he noticed some of the others begin to wake up. He then continued with, "Do you think we could see him?"

The doctor nodded and led the nations to his room. The room was rather small, so they were told that only five of them could be in there at a time and that America needed to get as much rest as possible. He then left, and a group of them entered the room to see him.

The first group to see him consisted of England, France, Russia, D.C., and Canada. They all had to admit that America looked quite different now that he was all bandaged, with several tubes bringing liquids in and out of him. They stayed in there for a while, looking over America and whispering; only to come out of the room when the others began to grumble about them taking too long.

America did not wake up until several days later, and even then it was only for several minutes at a time. For several weeks, all he could do was lie in bed and allow his body to heal. During this time, many nations and all of his states made sure to check on him and wish him well.

As the time went by, he did eventually get better. After a few weeks, he was able to get out of the bed for short walks as his bones healed and he regained his strength. Roughly a year later, his sight was almost back to normal; though he would never admit that it was now fuzzier when looking at things.

As for Confederacy, the others decided to keep her locked away until America was fully healed; figuring that he should have a say when it came to what to do with her. So for about one year she sat in a small cell, waiting for her warden, judge, and punisher to condemn her.

At last the time came for her and America to meet again. The two of them stood in silence as they looked at eachother. This lasted for several minutes until America said in a hoarse voice, "Are you still refusing to cooperate? I know that the southern states would like it if you came back."

To this she frowned at America and said, "We never did get along Yankee. Why should we start now?"

America sighed at this and turned to the men guarding the two of them and said, "Lock her back up."

The guards turned to America and asked if that was it. To this he said, "She may hate me, but I can't put myself at her level."

With that he left the cell room and compound, only to return once a year to check on her.

The End

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