I sat at the dining table, grumpily glaring at Prussia as he sat down across from me. I'd finally gotten out of China's hug, no thanks to any of the nation. He had broken his promise and it was fair to say that I was fairly annoyed with him. Well, I was actually annoyed with all of the nations at the moment but Prussia was going to get this majority of the annoyance since he had outright promised to wake me up if something was happening. He hadn't.

Prussia looked at me, an expression of caution looking back at me. The wariness he was displaying towards me made it obvious that he knew I wasn't happy with him, as if the glare hadn't been proof enough. "So…" he said, attempting to sound casual as he tried to figure out how to word his next statement. "Was your nap restful?"

My glare intensified, thus helping to lessen the blurriness some as well. He obviously wanted to get whatever I had in store for him over with. But I wasn't going to let him off that easily. We may have been in a life threatening situation but that didn't mean I had to let something like this go. No. I wasn't just going to have at him. I was going to make him suffer by dragging it out somewhat.

"I suppose," I said, my tone as calm and casual as I could possibly make it. "I've definitely had better naps. But, hey, I can't really complain considering the situation."

Prussia raised and eyebrow, his guard obviously being raised. He knew I wouldn't let this go so easily. I didn't like just sitting and waiting. I didn't like letting other people do things while I was 'protected' by them. He knew this from before I'd left, yet he'd blatantly ignored that fact. "Oh? That's good…" he said. "I was hoping you'd be able to sleep a bit longer so we could just put you into one of the beds."

He really was trying to draw it out of me, wasn't he? "I suppose that would've been nice for you," I said, slightly shrugging.

Prussia sighed and gave me a pleading expression. "If you're angry, which you obviously are, can we please just get this over with?"

I looked away slightly, crossing my arms. "I'm not sure what you could be talking about. I mean, what reason would I have to be angry with you?"

Prussia reached over, gently grabbing and pulling one of my hands towards himself. "Please… with the type of situation we're facing I really don't want to spend any of it with one of us being angry at the awesome other one."

I glanced at him and saw the look on his face. He didn't look as though he were sorry at all, which he probably wasn't, but he did look sad. I sighed and turned back towards him. "Fine…" I said. "But just get one thing straight first. I'm the awesome one in this."

The tiny smile playing on my lips cause one to appear on Prussia's face as well. "You think so?" he asked, slightly raising an eyebrow at me.

"No…" I said, my smile growing slightly. Prussia smirked, looking as though he thought I might take back what I'd said. As if. "I know so."

Prussia laughed slightly, shaking his head as though he were disagreeing with my declaration. "If you say so."

"I do," I said, giving America and Canada a friendly smile as they sat down, Canada beside me and America beside Prussia.

"It's good to see you're feeling better," America said, his voice much more fun, loud, and all around… America-y than it had been when we'd all been in the cell.

I grinned, happy to hear the happy tone coming from him. Though I'd been in too much pain to really notice at the time, it hadn't sounded right for him to be so serious and sympathetic. Not that I hadn't appreciated it, it just seemed slightly weird to be coming from America. "Yea, thanks for everything back there…" I said, slightly blushing from remembering that he'd been one of the ones to hug me.

"Aiyah!" China cried out, sitting on my other side and hugging me again. "You're just too cute when you blush! It's adorable, aru!"

I cried out in surprise, tumbling over into Canada. This however caused Canada to tumble out of his seat, China and I going down with him. "Ow…"

"That hurt, aru," China complained, still holding onto me.

I squirmed to get free, Canada crawling out from underneath me and standing up. I looked up at him, a pleading expression on my face. He looked back and shook his head, his blurred features looking slightly amused. "A-ah, China… maybe you could let go of her?" he asked.

China frowned and relinquished his hold on me, getting up and sitting at the table with crossed arms as he muttered about how he couldn't stand the cuteness though. I sighed and got up, looking at Canada with an appreciative smile as I did so.

I turned, hearing someone clear their throat, and saw Germany looking at us all with a serious expression. "I hate to ruin the fun that seems to be going on but… we need to all figure something out. We've lost the one escape rout we seemed to have."

I blinked. Escape? There'd been a way to escape? And we'd lost it? What the hell had happened while I'd been asleep? I looked around at the different nations, wanting an explanation. Prussia looked at me with an expression that easily expressed how much he had seemed to have hoped I wouldn't have had to find out about this.

The escape route they'd found… could it have been the rope ladder? If so, that would mean the running prior to arriving in the safe room was after Britain had managed freeze Steve. That meant that Spain and Romano would be arriving not too long from it, didn't it? Well… at least if this was completely following the HetaOni storyline, I was pretty sure it did. It'd been so long since I'd actually watched the HetaOni videos that I wasn't really sure of anything.

No one spoke. Why weren't they talking? Why the hell was everyone looking away as soon as I looked towards them in hope of explanation? Did they think I shouldn't know about what was going on for some reason? What reason they could have for that, I had no idea of.

I picked up my chair, turned it around, sat down. "What escape are you talking about?" I asked slowly, looking at Germany with a cautious expression.

It was obvious they didn't want to tell me for some reason. If I was going to get them to talk, then I'd have to keep my cool and be careful with how I worded things. Japan, who was standing not too far away from Germany, shifted somewhat uncomfortably as he began speaking. "Britain, America, and I found a rope ladder in the basement we were all in."

I looked at Japan, a nervous knot tying itself inside of my stomach as I figured out was coming next. I licked my lips and swallowed, my mouth becoming unbearably dry and my throat tightening as I did my best to hold my composure for the upcoming event I was sure to find out about. "A-and?"

"And it's gone now. End of story."

I looked back and saw that Prussia was looking at me with a deadly serious expression. He obviously didn't want me to know what was going on, but I had every right to know. I was in just as much danger as everyone else. So why was he being so difficult?

I decided not to push the matter though. I figured there was something else in my mind that I would've rather known. "Can I know why everyone made such a mad dash to here then?"

"We were fighting that monster…" America said. "And we couldn't defeat it…"

"So I cast a spell to freeze it for a few moments…" Britain said, walking over from the beds and sitting at the table beside America.

I blinked. That wasn't how it had happened in the game. They'd managed to defeat Steve in the game. Britain had used the spell before hand… hadn't he? So everything wasn't the same. Or maybe it was a different time loop? If that was so… then it probably wasn't the last either.

As the thought of there possibly being multiple loops to still experience I began to feel extremely sick to my stomach. I stood up, knocking over my chair as I made my way to the bathroom, my arms wrapping their selves around my abdomen. Prussia and a few of the other nations stood up, looking at me worriedly. I stumbled, grabbing the door knob as everything seemed to fall out from beneath me. "Well shit…" I muttered, opening the door as I feel to my knees.

I crawled towards the nearest toilet I could see, several nations rushing after me. I reached the toilet, someone wrapping their arms around me as I latched onto the toilet. Everything was spinning… blurring even more.

"Things should be run this way! If you'd just give it a chance! People would respond to well to it!"

"What you're saying is ridiculous! It can't ever work that way! I can assure you that the people would never go along with anything of this sort!"

"I'll have you know that my ideas already have quite the following!"

One of those voices… it sounded like my country's leader… my boss. I didn't recognize the other voice though, it held no familiarity for me whatsoever. What was it though? What did it mean? Civil war had already been declared in my country, hadn't it?

I heaved, vomiting into the toilet as the person moved their efforts to holding my hair out of my face. Fairly soon any and all contents of my stomach, which wasn't much to begin with, were gone. But my body didn't seem done with trying to get rid of whatever was ailing it. An acidic liquid rose up my throat and made it's way into my mouth. I coughed the liquid out, just wanting whatever was happening to end. It did end after a while, but not until my throat felt completely raw and my mouth tasted horrid.

I leaned against the toilet and shakily flushed the toilet. I fell backwards, landing in the person's arms. I blinked and saw Prussia staring down at me. He gently stroked my face, allowing Germany to grab some toilet paper and wipe away any excess vomit from my face. Prussia lifted me into his arms and carried me over to the beds. I snuggled into the blankets, barely registering the fever that was slowly building in me.

After a few minutes I managed to make out the nations taking amongst themselves. "It's that war…" Britain said, his voice hushed but still reaching me. "It's literally tearing her apart. She can't deal with both the monster and the spells the war will put her into."

"The only thing we can really do as countries is wait out our civil wars, no matter how long they last," France whispered.

"But she doesn't have the ability to just wait it out! Not with that thing trying to kill and eat us at every turn!" Germany interjected, his voice slightly louder than Britain and France's.

"That's why she shouldn't be allowed to leave this room until we have a surefire way out. She's safe here and, considering what all is going on with her, it'd be best if she just stays that way," Prussia whispered, his tone harsh and adamant.

America scoffed. "Like she'd ever even agree to that dude," he said. "You know that as well as anyone. She's not just going to sit around if she thinks she can do something to help, even if it's something stupid."

"Sounds like something a hero-wannabe would do," Russia muttered cheekily. "Da?"

"She did say she came from America," Canada said, his tone holding an almost joking quality to it.

America let out an annoyed sounding huff as a few of the nations chuckled. "Whether she agrees with it or not doesn't matter," Prussia said after a few moments. "I'm not going to let her put herself in that kind of danger. Especially not with the condition she's in."

"But you're willing to make her watch as you put yourself in that type of danger?" Japan asked. "And it's not likely she'll just do as you say. She didn't the last time you tried to make her sit and wait while you went off to do something she knew to be dangerous."

Prussia didn't respond. Nobody did. The topic of conversation was done for now. The all departed and made smaller groups to idly chat in. One of them walked over to me, lying down on the bed and taking me into their arms. I forced my eyes open and looked at the person. "Prussia…" I said, my voice scratchy from how raw my throat now was.

Prussia shushed me, placing a finger over my lips as a slight blush rose in my cheeks. "Just try to get some rest," he whispered quietly.

I didn't feel up to arguing with him at this point, I just wanted to comply and relax in his arms. I could deal with the slight awkwardness it made me feel considering how nice and safe it also felt. I nodded, my eyes closing as I snuggled closer. "Actually wake me up if something happens this time…" I murmured.

"Yea…" Prussia said quietly, though I knew he was lying.

He wouldn't wake me up if something happened. He'd leave me sleeping and in the dark of everything that was happening around me. All I was at this point was burden. A blind, defenseless, and sickly burden. I'd have to fix that… I wasn't going to just sit around while everyone else fought for an escape. I was going to help… make sure we all made it out alive. Even if it meant defying what the others wanted me to do.

First thing was first though… I'd have to hunt down my glasses before once I was capable of sneaking away. And sneaking away… that wasn't going to be easy with the nations knowing I wasn't going to just listen to what they wanted and play house in the room.

Ah! I can update again! I've been without internet for the past few days so... yea. It was torture, but I do seem to get a lot more writing when the internet isn't there for me to be distracted by xD But I also play more video games and watch more of my anime DVDs so... it kind of balances out xP

Anyways... the civil war stuff gets in the way a lot xD I personally love the idea of America going through an identity crisis of some sort when he had his civil war but Marissa doesn't know what it's really over *coughcough*neitherdoIatthispoint*coughcough* so that doesn't really seem possible to me xP So she just gets to go through the torturous side affects of it that I think up xD I'm so evil xP