Adventures of the Golden State (Hetalia)
Author: Ashynarr
Summary: Under much protest and complaint, I've decided that since I have nowhere else to put these, I'm going to share some of my state OC drabbles to see how people like them. Mostly focused on California, but will feature other states.
Disclaimer: Hetalia's not mine.
Warning: State OCs, SPAAAAAAAAAACE
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"Sam, get your ass out of bed!" Isabel called through the closed doorway, causing both States currently occupying the bed to groan.
"Can't it wait?" Sam called back, refusing to do more than lift his head from the pillows at the moment. Sue grumbled curses in Dutch and curled closer, hand clutched to his side.
"Well, if you want to miss the Juno insertion, then fine, stay in bed, but Al's already got the TV set up for it."
Shit, he'd almost completely forgotten about that thanks to the general craziness of the 240th Independance Day celebration, the light buzz of alcohol, and the past hour he'd spent with the love of his life. With a greater groan he rolled over, ignoring the complaint from Sue as he rubbed at his eyes, grabbing for his shirt and thankful they'd been too worn out from the party for more than kissing. "I'll be there in a minute."
"Is this one such a big deal?" Sue groused as she slowly started to follow his example, running fingers through her hair.
He couldn't stop the brief frown at that, because yes it might not be too exciting to just see a bunch of people talking about what the mission would be doing and following a bunch of data from a probe millions and millions of miles away, but to him and Bella and Al and the others still up for this, it was the promise of a whole new line of study into the origins of the solar system, and the most in-depth studies of Jupiter itself ever put together and launched.
Well, he conceded, space simply wasn't the thing for everyone. Pressing a final kiss to Sue's forehead in apology, he left the room, closing the door behind him before making his way downstairs, grabbing a beer from Rose, and settling onto the couch besides Bella.
"Finally got Sue to let you out of bed?" The Californian girl teased. "Can't imagine she was happy with you."
"Nah, but she'll forgive me," He replied, popping the can open and taking a sip. " 's something that's only gonna happen once, after all."
Bella sipped at her glass of water, the background noise of the Juno team explaining the mission to the general public ignored for the moment. "I know, right? It's not like we can just dump however many millions we spent on this again if this somehow fails, not with how much Congress sucks balls."
He could help but snort in agreement. "Maybe our next mission should be sending a probe there to try and find intelligent life. Or more cash."
Bella threw her head back and laughed, drawing attention from the rest of the room. "God, wouldn't that be a fuckin' miracle? I doubt NASA'll consider it a good investment even if I butter it up, and I don't even know how I'd spin it so the politicans don't catch on and get pissy at me again."
"No insulting the government this late in the day," Alfred chided lightly from behind the couch, leaning on the back so that he was between them. "Maybe tomorrow, after most of us are over our hangovers."
"No promises," Bella and Sam replied together, offering grins at the roll of his eyes as his gaze flickered back up to the TV.
"Urgh, how fast is this going to be?" Sue asked from the doorway, making her way to the couch and flopping down next to her boyfriend, accepting the offered water from her friend with a sigh.
"Burn's in two minutes, gonna last about fifty, and then it'll be reorienting itself and getting back into contact by one am," Bella explained, drawing another sigh as Sue cuddled into his side.
"What's it about, anyways?" She asked next, glancing up to Sam. "If I'm going to be staying up for this, I at least want to have some idea what you all are cheering about."
"Well, it's going to be studying Jupiter for the next couple of years; radiation, heat, composition, convection currents, that sort of thing. We're hoping that it'll give us a better idea of how the solar system formed, since it's been big enough to influence the orbits of the rest of the planets pretty much since it formed."
"Shame it's gonna break so fast, but not much we can do with all the radiation it's gonna be dealing with every orbit," Bella took a sip from her glass before continuing. "I'm still betting the little lady is gonna last longer than expected, probably push at least two full years before deorbiting."
"Just because the rovers were overwhelming successful doesn't mean anything," Rose countered from her own seat. "They aren't dealing with nearly as much energy as Juno will be."
"So? Hubble, Voyagers One and Two, heck, even Wise have all lasted way beyond what people expected. There's no reason I can't hold out for an extra handful of orbits before the equipment all breaks down."
"Guys, burn's starting in a sec," Alfred interrupted, silencing everyone as they waited, with NASA, for the signals indicating a successful burn.
It took another twenty seconds, but the relieved cheers from NASA were quickly followed by the small group in the room, friendlier chatter starting back up as they were reassured the probe was doing what it needed to do.
"It's weird to hear Isabel and Rose arguing over something other than Disney," Sue whispered to Sam, a light smile on her lips as he tightened his one-armed hug around her briefly.
"Eh, it's just something to kill the time - we never know just how long these thing'll last, and Bella's hoping that this probe'll last long enough for an excuse to turn the probe to the moons for an orbit. Rose would rather use extra orbits for more Jupiter data, but honestly, no one in this room'll complain about any extension to the plans if it does come along."
"Mmm," Sue replied. "Wake me up when something happens then."
"Of course," Sam replied, deciding that overall, this was as good an end to the 4th of July as he could have hoped for.
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AN: So I wrote something for the 4th of July, but probably not quite to the norm. Or perhaps it's more appropriate because, c'mon, you can't tell me Alfred didn't make this particular birthday Jupiter-themed just because of this event? It might or might not be a bit late because I only just thought about this myself, but hey, it's done and it counts so there.
(Rose=Florida btw)