Cola Girl

Summary: An argument and a bet with England results in America going on a date with one of his citizens. What follows is an epic night with the world at their heels which America and his date will never forget.

Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia or the characters imagined by Hidekaz Himaruya. I have created a few OC's and interpretations of country personifications not yet officially in Hetalia yet.

Chapter Fourteen: Kissing Gives You Superpowers

America couldn't help hovering over both Ava and England. The two of them had been kidnapped right from under him and he had listened to France who had been insisting England had decided to seduce Ava away from America. If their kidnappers had been smart and just thrown away the cell phones so they couldn't be tracked they might've still been missing. Finding out that personifications of companies existing had been interesting or would've if the first company he met hadn't been an accomplice in the whole kidnapping scheme that Brian had engineered. A whole slew of police and federal agents were swarming the building now and America was pushed to the side of the action, waiting for everything to settle down.

America stood impatiently waiting outside all the yellow tape with the undercover agent Frank Leroy for over an hour while the police and CIA received statements from England and Ava over what occurred while they were kidnapped. Sideways was cuffed and mulishly silent as he glared at Frank and America both from where he was attached with a second pair of handcuffs to Frank's own wrist. As America impatiently tapped his foot he noticed that Frank seemed to be making considerable conscious effort paying attention to him.

"Hey you seem to be Canadian pal so what's with the seriously hostile interrogation eyes?" America finally asked to break the monotony of waiting for England and Ava to finish up.

"Sorry about that," Frank apologized even as he concentrated harder to perceive America, "you're much harder to pay attention to than Canada or Sideswipe here. I need to fully concentrate all my efforts to remember you're even standing there. It was much easier to see you and Mr England when Miss Adams was around."

"Who's Miss Adams?" America asked curiously and briefly wondered what it was that made Canada 'easy' to spot when eight times out of ten most nations forgot he even existed. Maybe Canada had a stealth mode unconsciously activated at all times?

Frank's intense expression as he focused on America changed to puzzlement, "Miss Adams, you know - the name of the lady you apparently are on a date with?"

"Ava's last name is Adams? Oh, that's cool," America remarked and perked up in excitement when he spotted Ava and England breaking away from the cops that were still congregated in front of the building. Ava looked exhausted yet cheery while the closer England came to America the deeper his irritated scowl seemed to become. Once England and Ava were about ten feet away Frank lost the look of intense concentration on his face and simply watched in unveiled intrigue as England marched straight up to America and began to scold him.

"Well thanks to you smashing into the room like a fool and drawing all that attention to yourself that idiotic citizen of yours, Brian, completely forgot about you as soon as you left him with the bobbies and now is spouting off idiotic nonsense about how I destroyed the elevator and office with telekinesis. Thanks to that and him blabbing about National and Corporate personas I've been told he's likely to escape criminal charges as he'll be able to claim insanity in court."

"Eh," America shrugged seemingly unconcerned, "with my court system being the way it is even if he does manage to get 'not guilty due to insanity' the court will still probably mandate a restriction order for when he gets released from the mental hospital plus he'll probably also get a "supervision and treatment" order along with it."

England puffed up like an angry owl and snarled, "Well once he's free you'd better make sure he stays away from Miss Ava or else I'll just give her protected refugee status and let her stay with me."

America's easygoing smile switched to a petulant frown as he said, "Of course I won't let him get to Ava again - I'm the hero remember? You and the Agent here can manage to settle this Corporate Entity, Sideways right? I need to bring Ava home since she's had a long night. Ready to get outta here, Ava?"

Ava covered the yawn that escaped her with her hand before she smiled at America and said, "You bet I am. The sooner I get home the sooner I can hit the hay. Thanks for the help Mr Leroy, keep Sideswipe out of trouble, he's feisty. England - hope to see you again sometime soon. Let's get going, America."

America took hold of Ava's hand and the duo headed away from England, Frank and Sideswipe and began to head back towards Ava's home. They walked in silence for a little while with Ava leaning casually against America as they walked when after a few minutes Ava suddenly began to laugh.

"What's so funny?" America asked with a smile at her shaking shoulders and gleeful expression.

"I was just remembering the look on Brian's face when you smashed through the office door like it was plywood. You were like a superhero out of a comic. Hey! I guess you don't really need a super power like we talked about earlier. You've already got super strength."

Blushing and embarrassed America replied, "I'd still rather have flying or teleportation if I could pick a superpower. Being a pilot and flying around in an airplane is fun and all but I've always imagined taking up to the sky to fly like Superman. Or if I could teleport I would've been able to rescue you faster. I'm good at being a hero and being at awesome at a lot of things but I apparently suck at this whole dating thing. A nice dinner and fun karaoke night turned into a failed infiltration mission and a high stake kidnapping! I just not good at paying attention or organizing things - even when it's important."

Ava squeezed his hand tight in an attempt to comfort him and said, "America, stop. So what if thing didn't go like you planned? So what if I got kidnapped by a stalker who thought I was literally the Coca-cola company. You're amazing, spontaneous and brave and you rescued both England and me without a second thought. I'm the one with problems you know - I'm shallow and was only attracted to you by your hair color when I first saw you because blondes are absolutely adorable to me. I'm also a compulsive collector. I've collected so much merchandise and clothes that thanks to my everyday appearance Brian legitimately thought I was the living embodiment of the coca-cola company. I'm not even joking when I say I buy something coke related almost every day and I'm even paying for school partially with a scholarship I received from the coca-cola company. I'm a joke."

Feeling his competitive spirit rise up even with a discussion as ridiculous as this, America argued, "No, everyone's allowed to have preferences and allowed to like specific things. I like that you like blondes (because I'm blonde so you like me) and coca-cola. I'm the one who purposefully ignores it when people dislike what I say or do because for the most part I don't care what they think. You actually pay attention to others and care about their feelings which says a lot about you."

Ava shook her head, not completely agreeing with his statement, "No, you do care. You're confident and honest where it matters and I know you do care what others think of you - especially England. You want him to support your choices and if he doesn't I can tell it would make you upset. You know it's true."

"I couldn't imagine a life without England or my brothers in it. We might argue a bunch but if anyone hurt them I'd probably scorch the entire world to avenge them. I lot of the time I'm mean and violent and actually like to fight," America admitted, "I know on the surface I'm full of excitement and I do love this life but underneath a lot of the time I feel a lot of anger and resentment for what goes on in the world. It's not very human of me."

Ava huffed at him but smiled and said, "Everyone hides aspects of themselves - not just you nations. We've both learned a lot about each other tonight but we're both still only scratching each others surfaces. I'm happy I got to go out with someone as extraordinary as you - I mean, you're America! Once this is all over and you don't have this bet to fulfill will you really want an ordinary human like me slowing you down?"

America stopped in his tracks, anchoring Ava to the same spot and adjusted himself to look at her. His eyes were stormy and severe and Ava gulped as she looked into his eyes. There wasn't a rush of images this time but a rush of sincere words, "You are far from ordinary Ava Adams. You faced what apparently is for a ton of people something that is mind-blowing and absolutely impossible and made it though flawlessly. You're fantastic and brilliant and brave and beautiful. I've put off dating for centuries because I thought it was pointless to even try but even though our date started as a bet over something as pointless as a year's worth of coffee and tea I'm glad I took England's bet - because I don't want just a date with and agreement for one more. I don't just want two dates or ten or a hundred. I want to ask you on dates until you say 'no.' I want you to know me more and for me to know you more. So tell me please - will you go on another date with me?"

Ava, blushing vividly, found herself falling into his intense blue eyes - deeper and darker and as open as the sea and sky both together and whispered, "Yes."

Smiling like a thousand stars America couldn't contain himself anymore and bent his head to capture her lips with his own. In the moment that America's lips touched her own Ava's eyes reflexively shut and America was disappointed for a millisecond over not being able to see them anymore but that faded away as soon as he felt a beat of her heart that with it brought forth a flood of images to their senses. America shut his eyes in a desperate attempt to follow them all - he could feel Ava's heart cry out with joy and love and pride and hope, all tied up with him - joy in his nature and all the flora, fauna and earth he physically contained - love as a solid patriotism but also personal as her heart swelled at the thought of all the good done through him in the world - pride in his victories and the triumphs of his people's - hope for the future and even better things to witness - a taste of cola flavored lips pressed warmly against his own.

For Ava the instant she felt his lips on hers there were fireworks popping and crackling and shrieking into a clear night sky raining down showers of gold and blue and red and silver like beautiful fire - the lingering taste of chocolate on the tongue melting into something divine - the almost overpowering scent of magnolia, roses and honeysuckle hanging heavy in the air - the caress of satin gliding smoothly across her skin - bubbles gently floating in the air with sunlight making them glow like floating crystals - America's own lips tingling like static electricity and pop-rocks up against her own.

Slowly and tentatively they finally separated from each other, hearts pounding like drums as they gasped in the cool night air into their lungs. Their eyes were now both open wide, both with pupils blown almost to the size of their irises. They both stared astonished as they gazed at each other in awe, feverishly taking the image of each other in trying to burn this moment into their memories forever.

America released his hold on her hand and broke the silence, feeling giddy all over, "Wow, that was something else. Have you been wearing coca-cola flavored lip gloss this entire time?"

Ava snorted with a suppressed giggle and pulled her lip gloss out of her purse, displaying the coca-cola logo to him, "I have vanilla and cherry cola ones too. I told you I have a problem. Are superpowers gonna be a thing with you by the way because I thought you said you couldn't teleport?"

America shook his head in denial, "I really can't teleport. Just ordinary boring super strength for this world superpower."

"Then why are we standing where we started in Long Island when we were just kissing in Manhattan?" Ava asked pointing to the street sign. America blinked in shock - Ava was right, there they stood on the sidewalk where they had met up earlier to begin their date.

America considered the mystery for a little while before he shrugged, "Who knows? Morocco managed to get space-time warping powers by driving so maybe I have time-space warping epic kisses? Want to try it out again and see where we go?"

America finished his question with a grin and somewhat comical suggestive eyebrow wiggle that he might have learned from watching France. Ava giggled and blushed before shaking her head and teasingly responded, "Only one kiss on the first date, America. Sorry - it's just a personal rule of mine."

America pouted in dismay and said, "I think this is one of those rules that was meant to be broken."

Ava shook her head stubbornly and cheerfully sing-songed, "Nope. Think of this an incentive to take me somewhere next time without telling the whole world about where we plan to go."

"Whatever you want, you've got it. Want me to take you home?" America offered and Ava pointed down the block over to where her aunt and uncle's building stood. Most of the windows were dark but several glowed from light from deeper within.

"If you want to walk with me three hundred feet you're more than welcome," Ava offered, holding her hand out for him to take.

He gladly accepted the offer and wagging his a finger with his free hand at her fake scolded, "Ava, Ava, you beautiful cola-girl. I'd walk with you around the world if you'd let me, so let's get you home."

END CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Thank you so, so much for your patience! One more chapter for this story and after that I might post a series of non-interconnected shots of this 'cola' universe. If I do I'll post a notice in this story to let everyone know. Again, I thank you all who have faved, followed and reviewed so far - especially you who have reviewed so far: Rising from the Ashes YOLT, ElricGurl the Hetalian, Carcrash87, trinityfox420, Aqila and Guest!