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Marzue: I've always personally loved messing with Norway...XD Also, I agree with you on the sibling thing. And, thanks! I definitely will put some more arguments in it, as well as make my chapters longer! ;)

Sigmatic: Those are awesome pairing names! And, who do you ship Wisconsin with? (Wisconsin's one of the ones I am stuck on) :)

Virginia stirred her tea a little before putting the cup back on the small plate. She was reading the Sherlock Holmes series, which, no matter what her siblings said, was a classic and needed to be read by everyone.

Well, everyone but Maryland. Her sister probably wouldn't understand what was going on if she tried. Obviously, it was Mary who lost more land in the creation of Washington D.C. Virginia was way too much respected to lose more land than her incompetent sister.

As long as she stayed away from Michigan and Ohio. She had heard they were trying to make the states that hate each other love each other...Virginia didn't see how that made any sense. Hatred involves dedication. If one were to fall in love with the person they hate, they obviously never hated the person to begin with.

On the other side, California always said that love involved dedication as well.

Virginia found herself thinking about Maryland once more. Her sister was so proud of her flag, yet she didn't realize how disorganized and weird it actually was. Virginia didn't care if it was the coat of arms of the Barons Baltimore.

That brought her to the topic of Baltimore. Being the drama queen she is, Maryland had collapsed in pain on May the first, the day that Freddie Gray's death was announced a homicide and the Baltimore riots began. She wasn't even this dramatic last time riots sprung up in Baltimore in 1968.

She was such a drama queen, and the worst part was, Maryland always thought to share her dramatic ways with the states that bordered her.

Virginia wasn't sure how much more the Delmarva peninsula could take.

"OOOOLLLIIIIVVVIIIAA!"

Speak of the devil.

"There's something I want to show you!" Mary burst into the room carrying a gun covered in special things Virginia had personally never seen put on a gun before.

"What do you want?" Virginia slammed her book shut.

"Now, Olivia, just because you haven't found anyone yet..." Maryland was going on dangerous ground.

Virginia fumed. "Don't make fun of my name."

Maryland stared at Virginia. Her sister rarely raised her voice at all; one of the only times Maryland had personally heard her raise her voice was during the Civil War. She was mad about how unfair the Emancipation Proclamation was and how the states in the Unions with slaves were traitors (Maryland winced every time she thought of that).

"All right..." Mary calmly sat down.

"Did you hear about what Michigan and Ohio are doing?" Virginia tried to have a calm conversation with her. "They are trying to pair up our siblings."

"That's not what I heard." Maryland began. "I heard that they are trying to prevent a second civil war."

"Really?" Olivia raised her eyebrows. She hadn't thought of that. "Any luck?"

"Well, from what I heard, Texas and Alaska stopped arguing, Michigan and Ohio stopped arguing, and California and New York stopped arguing." she listed.

Virginia's jaw dropped in a very unladylike fashion.

"I know! I think that they're plan might actually prevent another war." Mary smiled inwardly. "Then, I can keep my best friend Olivia with me!" she glomped her sister.

"Get off of me..." Olivia looked extremely disgusted. "I don't want inferior beings touching me."

"It's not my fault the government returned your land to you, but didn't return my land to me!" Mary stood up abruptly with her hands on her hips.

"Well, Dad obviously thought I was mature enough to have my land back in the retrocession." Virginia smirked.

"D.C. had to be somewhere!" Maryland protested. "I was told that it was an honor to have the capital made out of my state." she huffed.

Olivia only glared at her.

"What?" Mary smirked. "You understand why I'm superior now?"

"No...but you are really stupid. You do realize that that could have been a way to take away power from you and not make you cry." Virginia faked crying with her fists near her eyes.

Maryland glared at her. "Weren't we just talking about preventing another civil war?" she asked bitterly.

Olivia nodded sourly. She didn't like the thought of another civil war; South Carolina had been so insistent that she join the Confederacy. Secretly, she had soft spots for all of her older siblings, respecting each of them in their own special way.

Including Maryland. She never liked to admit that Maryland did fit in with her other older siblings, but Mary did have her place.

Speaking of preventing a civil war...

"So, you've heard," Michigan appeared leaning on one of the many posts supporting the house.

"Where did you come?" Maryland jumped so high she almost cleared the table.

"We've been listening in on states that don't get along." Ohio appeared on another post near Michigan's.

"You are not going to try to get us together, are you?" Virginia complained, picking up her tea cup once more.

Ohio and Michigan stared at each other. Secretly, they thought it would be funny if they did force Virginia and Maryland to get together, it certainly would boost homosexual people's rights. But on the other hand, it might make their entire operation come crashing down, kind of like the stock market before the Great Depression.

But that would be bad, and it might end in a civil war itself.

Michigan and Ohio would never forgive themselves.

"Not necessarily..." Michigan spoke for both Ohio and himself.

"We're just trying to get the states who fight get along." Ohio herself cut in. "To prevent another civil war."

"I've heard that before." Maryland stated dryly.

Before, of course, she stood tall and proud, putting her left hand on her hip and raising her right hand to the sky in a fist. She even put her right foot on the table she almost cleared earlier.

Thank God Virginia saved her tea.

"It's a brillliant idea! With no one fighting, there would be no conflicts. And without conflicts, there would be no hatred. If this plan goes right, JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL!" Maryland sat down calmly on a chair after that.

"And scene!" California and New York looked into the room where there precious scene was taking place.

New York put down his camera. "That was perfect!" he said after watching the video.

California jumped up and down. "Will it go on Hollywood or Broadway?"

They both paused. Everyone else in the room could practically sense a brawl about to start.

"There is no need to start a fight now..." a drop of sweat slid down Ohio's face.

Maryland decided to take things into her own hands. She was, after all, the daughter of the hero!

She started shaking.

"Mary?" Michigan looked over to his older sister.

"This is just to stop a fight between you two..." Mary pulled out a gun.

"Duck and cover!" Virginia yelled.

Only the original thirteen colonies knew what Maryland's gun did. The others did not, but they knew it did not shoot bullets. It shooted something else...

Virginia pulled Ohio and Michigan down, leaving only California and New York standing.

"Cali, that gun..." New York knew what was inside that gun.

And he did not like it one bit.

"What's inside it, if it's not bullets?" California stood confidently. "I'm sure nothing else could hurt me."

"Come on..." the eastern state did not want to leave his sister.

But it was too late.

Maryland put her finger on her trigger. "EAT MY CRABCAKES!"

What came out of the gun wasn't bullets, buy crabcakes.

California and New York were almost immediately covering in the cake.

"This is why I tried to get you out of the way." New York complained.

Michigan and Ohio looked up at Maryland in a new sort of light.

Michigan spoke up. "That was awesome!"

The other states, including the ones covered in crabcake, could only laugh.

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