Hart: So, are you guys ready for something new? We sure hope so! Because now, you're getting to get into the heads of New Mexico and Washington! You know… Nina and Lilli? Yep… so please enjoy the show!

Raindrop: We only own Lilli, Nina, Micky and Rayne, not the states they represent.

NINA'S POV (this is going to overlap a bit, then go parallel)

I watched, amused as my twin sister was hiked over Matthew's shoulder.

"Aloha ohana!" she waved at me and our foster sisters.

"Wish me luck, Daddy," she sent Alfred a suggestive wink. Then, she and Matt were gone.

All the other nations looked towards the three other states.

"So… does this make you guys my kids?" he looked at Lilli. She shrugged.

"I guess, but aren't I older than you?" Lilli laughed. Alfred looked at her curiously.

"I'm nineteen…" Alfred admitted. Micky burst into laughter. I gave her a look of curiosity. I'm a person of few words, I believe that that's part of the best thing that makes me… well, me.

"What is it my little summer cocktail?" Ivan smiled at her.

"Lilli is twenty-two! Alfred officially has a "kid" that's three years older than him!" Micky was laughing like a hyena at the situation, and I let out a good laugh as well.

All the nations started slowly cracking smiles, and before you could blink every country had burst into uncontrollable laughter. Alfred was looking around the room with a helpless look in his eyes.

"But, that's not fair!" he wailed finally, glaring down at Lilli.

"And why is that?" she taunted with a wicked look in her eyes. Vash (Switzerland) looked at her like she was his reason for breathing, and I urged Micky to look in that direction, to see what I was talking about. She gave me a look that practically screamed

'WE ARE SO GETTING THEM TOGETHER!' and I nodded discreetly eyeing Antonio when I returned my look to Micky, she gave me a devious smirk.

"Because!" Alfred screamed, "You're legally allowed to drink in America! I'M NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO DRINK IN AMERICA! AND I AM AMERICA!"

Lilli just shrugged. It wasn't that big of a deal to her.

"You've got a fake ID don't you?" Micky scoffed. Alfred shook his head. I clucked my tongue as Arthur chuckled.

"Let's go make you one!" I grinned, being devious. And so, we made America, Belarus, and several of the other nations some fake I.D.s so that they would be able to drink in America's country. The ones we missed were seventeen and younger as we thought that they wouldn't be able to pull off the whole "looks older than they are" thing.

~~~~~~~Time Skip From New Mexico~~~~~~~~

It had been a few hours since Rayne had left. Micky had mysteriously disappeared… I wondered absentmindedly where she had gotten to. The doors busted open, with Rayne marching in a bit before Matthew, a very defined purple/blue bruise on her neck, and also a very red patch of skin on her left wrist. There was a defined red line, with a bow tied, outlined in black. A red string of fate. In Asian legend, the string connected two soul mates together. Upon closer examination, I realized that Matthew had a matching tattoo, but it was around his right wrist. Rayne, noticing my gaze, blushed darkly.

'You've got some 'splainin' to do…' I gave her a look. She sighed, but nodded reluctantly.

"Where's Micky?" Rayne asked, noting the missing state of Texas. The words had barely gotten out of her mouth, before the window across from us shattered, and she screamed in pain. A bullet was lodged in her left arm, dangerously close to her new ink spot.

"MOTHERFUCKING HELL MICKY!" my twin screamed, "I JUST GOT A GODDAMNED TATTOO THERE!"

"How do you know it was her?" Tino (Finland) wondered. A little flag popped out of the bullet. She read it, irritated.

"That's how," Rayne growled, showing the note that read "Love you, sissy"

"B…but how?" Tino was shocked.

"You're not the only eagle eyed sniper," Lilli mentioned casually, before shooting a bullet into my twin's right foot.

"WHAT THE FUCK LILLI!" Rayne was hopping on one foot. She made the mistake of looking at the wound in her arm. She was extremely terrified of blood, the sight, the smell, the feel… it was enough to make her pass out.

"Oh… look, there's blood…" she murmured, before blacking out. Matthew rushed to catch her as she went limp.

"Maple!" he exclaimed.

Micky burst into the room hooting and hollering. She and Lilli did a high five.

"Seriously?" I deadpanned. They looked at each other, then back at me.

"YEAH!" they laughed with wide smiles.

"Seriously?!" I gestured to my twin in Matthew's arms, now being shifted into a more delicate hold: bridal style.

"Fuck!" Lilli and Micky shouted.

LILLI POV (What? We warned you!)

We were rushing Rayne to the nearest hospital, and all I was thinking the entire way there was that not only was Rayne going to kill me, but I was really worried for her. We hadn't noticed before, but she had lost a lot of blood from her arm.

"Micky, you idiot," I growled. Micky had tears in her eyes, as did Nina.

"I didn't mean to get so close to that vein… But the good thing is that I didn't hit it," Micky was close to sobs. Nina flinched.

As we got to the hospital, they automatically took Rayne into minor surgery, so that she could have the two bullets removed.

We were now going through the questionnaire.

"And, did she collapse due to lack of blood?" the nurse was asking.

"No, she's got hemophobia. Fear of blood," I answered. The nurse nodded, and walked away, and led us to a room within a few moments.

That was fast, but if this was a hospital that nations came to, they must have been very good. Rayne was laying in a bed, looking very fragile. Matthew sighed, and went to hold her hand. Tears pricked in my eyes, and I excused myself, wanting to release my emotions in solitude, and silence. I was staring out a window, looking out into the sky, when I heard someone clear their throat behind me. I turned, and blushed to see Vash standing there.

"Vash…" I trailed off, letting my cheeks flush.

"You shouldn't bottle your feelings up," he came to stand closer to me, not even turning to face me.

"I don't cry in front of people," I said plainly.

"I'm not just anyone you know," he replied, just as emotionless.

"Well, you're still a "people", so…" I trailed off.

"I'm different, I can prove it," he turned to me then, and looked me directly in the eye. My breath hitched, and my heart leapt into my throat from the intensity of his stare. Not trusting myself to speak properly, I just started back to Rayne's room. When we got there, she wasn't in her bed, and everyone was looking down, and very solemn.

"Where is she?" I started freaking out, looking around the room. Nina started crying, and my mind automatically went to the worst possible situation.

"Where is she!?" I was going out of my mind. No one would meet my eyes.

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"BOO!" Rayne jumped out from behind me and onto my back. I screamed.

"Rayne! You're ok!" I wrapped my arms around the petite brunette.

"That's what you get for letting Micky shoot me in the wrist!" she pouted. I sighed, I did kinda deserve that…

"Still, it was no reason to scare the shit outta me!" I growled eventually, and my sisters realized that that was as close to an "I know" as they would get. Rayne nudged Micky and Nina.

"Good work guys," she grinned. I growled, and all the nations started laughing.

"You were all in on it!?" I was furious, and I turned towards Vash, who was looking down guiltily.

"You too?" I was quiet. He just nodded. I stormed out of the room and ran off.

MICKY POV (Sorry! It wouldn't make sense without this little bitty POV switch now)

The twins and I, plus all the nations watched as Lilli stormed out of the room. Vash watched after her helplessly, looking like he was torn between what he wanted to do. I looked at the twins, who had just shared a bit of a twin-lepathy talk, and they nodded.

"Then go after her!" the three of us shouted at him. And his little sister nodded at him too.

"Go big brother," Lily (Liechtenstein *unofficial and yes we have a Lilli and a Lily. They are pronounced the same) encouraged him. He nodded, and dashed out the door and she smiled.

"Should we go back to the worrd conference buirding?" Kiku smiled. Everyone nodded and instantly, that is where we were. It was like "POOF" and we were there.

"I'm sorry for shooting you in the wrist…" I murmured to my foster sister.

"It's fine," Rayne said, "just don't do it again."

"How about we all try not to wound each other?" Nina suggested. I sighed.

"I'll try," I grumbled, pulling them into a separate room from all the nations.

"Ok, who all do we have to get either together, or to admit that they're together?" I grinned wickedly. The twins joined in with my Cheshire cat grin, and looked towards each other. They looked at me, and we all had the same idea.

"Vash and Lilli," we all said simultaneously. I smiled. Lilli deserved someone that made her happy.

"Hong/Ice" Rayne smiled softly. Nina nodded excitedly, and took out a notepad so that we could make a list.

"Den/Nor!" I nearly shouted. They laughed, and Nina wrote it down anyway.

"USUK for sure! We have to get Dad to admit that Artie is our mom," Rayne burst out laughing. We continued with our list, and when we were done, we heard a commotion in the conference room. When we walked in we could see Ivan… yummy… but he was towering over a shivering Raivis (Latvia). Before I could stop her, Rayne's nine mill glock was in her hand, and she stomped up to the overbearing Russian, and slapped him with it. The room stilled, and everyone was looking at her. Raivis was shocked, and Ivan was pissed to put it nicely. I put my shotgun to his head, and Nina had her swords to his back. He started his

"Kolkolkolkolkolkolkolkolkol…." chant, and I growled as Rayne moved Raivis behind her.

"What do you think you're doin' sug?" I asked my Russian. He blinked. He turned to face me, to see a gun in his face.

"You were going to shoot me, my love?" he looked at me, confused, and saddened.

"Only if you were going to hurt my sister," I looked at him.

"She slapped me. With a gun," he countered.

"You were intimidating a child!" Rayne screamed, interrupting our talk. I shot her a look, as Nina sheathed her swords. Raivis blinked. No one had tried to defend him before… he looked shocked. Everyone's eyes were on Rayne, as she tried to find the right words, as not to upset the Russian, that definitely towered over her.

"You don't mean to, but you come off as a bully, Ivan. You're an amazing friend, but friends do not control other friends. I was just scared for Raivis, I didn't purposely attack per say, I was trying to defend. I'm sorry if I caused you harm," she looked down, not willing to admit, but slightly afraid of the Russian.

"Ivan, honey, I know that you want to have a family. I will help you make a family if you want me to, but we have to work together to build. Family is something that is extremely important to me, and the only reason I was threatening you, was because Rayne is part of my family. She and Nina are my foster sisters, they've had a tough time, and I'd like to make their lives less difficult, now that they're somewhere that they can trust. Would you let me help you with a family?" I looked up at my Russian lover. He looked shocked and then slowly tears started to drip down his face.

"Did I say something wrong? I'm sorry sweetheart," I was trying to fix whatever had made him cry, and he just smiled. A smile of complete and utter adoration and happiness.

"No, you said something that I never thought I would hear. I would love that, my dear," he pecked me on the forehead, not wanting to strain his neck to get to my lips. I looked up and pouted, and then he kissed me on the mouth. Rayne giggled, and clapped before walking ever so slyly over to Matthew. I just closed my eyes and enjoyed the kiss, until Alfred started throwing a fit.

"Dudette! You're like, my kid and you're kissing one of my enemies!" he started, breaking mine and Ivan's liplock, "And you! You're like… dating your UNCLE dude!" Rayne blushed darkly, subconsciously hiding the way to large and noticeable to hide hickey on her neck. I just flipped him off, and Nina's eyes flitted to Antonio briefly, before returning to our "dad".

Lilli and Vash picked the absolute wrong time to walk in, hand in hand, and Alfred continued his rant, personally, I drowned him out until Vash decided to end it.

"Will you just shut the hell up!? Now, before I knock you out with my peace prize!" My sisters and I laughed hysterically at the Swiss' comeback, and Lilli rolled her eyes, as Lily clapped for her brother. Alfred stopped and sighed.

"I wanna go swimming!" Rayne exclaimed, before covering her mouth.

Well, that was that, please stay tuned. The next chapter is just gonna be hilarity… just plain hilarity. We hope you're enjoying this story as much as we're enjoying writing it. Have a great day guys.