AUTHORS NOTE: Alright, first off, be warned. This authors note will explain the concept of the story. It will ensure that everything is wrapped up, answering questions so everyone knows what happened. Warning: It will explain everything as it was put together in my head! So, this was what I imagined visually for this story to consist of, so read at your own risk! Btw, this will probably look like a huge wall of text. Sorry y'all :p Alright, phwew. Let us begin...
I tried to tie some things together through the last few chapters, but it was meant to be confusing. England is clinically insane in this story. The beginning of the story is meant to make it seem as if the hospital is out to get England, and that he was simply deemed crazy because of the 'hallucinations', or his imaginary friends. While he is convinced that they are real, he envisions himself being abused by guards, and befriends a new, yet very real hallucination, the Russian Zak. Zak was meant to show the beginning of a violent side to England's visions. England envisions that everyone but his hallucinations are out to get him, because his mind is subconsciously refusing to accept the reality that they aren't real. Later on, when Zak tells him to get the files, he is actually trying to help England retrieve his own files, so that he can understand the reality and possibly break the visions. The guard Munsun was my idea of the way England believes everyone to be against him, seeing that the guard abuses him, though it isn't really happening. The doctor never talks directly to the hallucinations, at least I don't think so. He does know about them, using the "death" of Zak to try and rid England of a hallucination. England has the other countries, especially France, convinced that the hospital is doing illegal things in an attempt to get out. I imagine Section 4 to be the section that England was actually held in, for the most unstable patients. France and Germany were diverted from it, who says the government cannot be at least a bit secretive? So, the story begins to divert from reality after the Doctor shows England his own files for the first time, which causes him to revert to a state of insanity. At the same time, an outer conflict is occurring, with the Prime Minister growing more paranoid that the other countries are trying to rescue a very insane England by any means necessary. Fearing America, he breaks the alliance out of pure paranoia that England would be dangerous if released. England's hallucinations grow violent, and he finally envisions Hook murdering France. This causes him to go completely mad, as the riots outside are becoming painful and spurring more problems in his mind. The doctor finally manages to break the hallucinations completely, reverting his mind to a calm state. At the last scene of Chapter 8, he then reverts once again to insanity, imagining that the Doctor set up and ambush to kill America and France. Chapter 9 shows his most unstable state yet, as he revisits the hospital and believes he has overcome the hallucinations, that he is cured and that the hospital has been shut down. Basically, Chapter 9 was England's mind going haywire. The only 'real time' sequence was the Presidential meeting. At the end of the chapter, he figures out that he may actually be imagining the entire thing, asking Alfred "am I awake America?" Chapter 10, the epilogue, is meant to cause you readers to think he may have actually recovered and have been released. The World Meeting is actually another hallucination, with Zak appearing to have returned, England's violent tendencies returning as well. The last part I imagined as a hazy post-surgery sequence, with England ultimately being lobotomized. This would make him docile and destroy the hallucinations permanently. This was the last option, and one that the Prime Minister and the Doctor did not want to use, though that is ultimately what happened. It is left up to the reader to decide whether or not the lobotomy was successful, or a failure. So, the lobotomy ultimately occurred during Chapter's 9 and 10, England seeing those things in his mind as the surgery is preformed. So, it is meant to be a dark ending, or a questionable ending. But that wraps it up completely.
OMGZZZZ! That was a ton of writing for an authors note. Well, it was more like an explanation. But yeah... There it is :) This story has been completely concluded. Hope you all liked it :p