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April 2, 20XX
Paris, France
Of all the things America had been expecting, such a serene, soft-looking face had not been one of them. The woman’s dirty blonde hair is styled into a strict ponytail at the crown of her head, hazel eyes stern and contradicting the soft slope of her cheekbones. Her unpainted lips are curved into a small smile.
While one dainty hand dangles a nightstick by her side like a young girl will casually hold an umbrella, her other reaches out to brush calloused fingers over America’s cheek, tracing upward to graze against the blood caking the right side of his head.
Against his wishes, America flinches away from the touch.
“How skittish,” she says with a laugh, wiping the stray flakes of blood off of her hand onto her black cargo pants. Her accent is painfully American, and America feels an entirely unphysical twinge of pain lance through him at the insight into her nationality. “I’m actually pretty disappointed in you, Alfred. I had thought it would take more than a stun gun and one knock to the head to capture the United States of America.”
The surprise garnered is enough to make his heart skid over itself.
“W-what the hell are you talking about?” America asks after a beat, as calmly as he can manage. “Are you insane?”
“There’s no need to play dumb, America,” and she has the gall to giggle, the twitter of a tiny bird. “I know exactly what you are.”
Uncomfortably, America grips the arms of the chair he is bound to –Flex cuffs, he notes inwardly; he’s held down by Flex cuffs- ignoring the twinge of his increasingly white fingers.
How does she know? How could she have possibly found out?
“You must be crazy,” he says, swallowing to loosen the tension pulling at his throat. “I’m one of the President’s aides, not a country. If you haven’t noticed, countries are bodies of la-aah! Fuck!”
She removes her fingers from his head wound, and America fights not to vomit as the pain and flash of vertigo send his stomach roiling. She is no longer smiling.
“I told to stop playing around,” she scolds –because her tone could be called nothing else but that; America’s been on the receiving end of enough scoldings from England to be intimately familiar with the sound of a good tongue-lashing. Her eyes are cold, formidable body unyielding in its stance, so very confident. She is sure in her knowledge, positive that she is right.
It is discerning, and America feels a tingling along his spine.
“I’m not,” he growls at her. He catches her gaze and holds it, challenges the authority he can sense her trying to establish. “I’m not the United States. A person can’t be a fucking country, you crazy bi-”
This time, America is prepared for the blow. He chokes back his scream, refuses to allow her to hear his pain, even as the ringing in his ear becomes a metallic screech that pierces his brain like a bullet and the world tilts on its axis beneath him.
“I don’t like liars, Alfred.”
America smiles sharply in return, all cheek and bravado he doesn’t really feel. “And I don’t like being kidnapped by an unbalanced psych patient with a sadistic streak.”
She draws back her hand, ready to strike, and America closes his eyes, steeling himself for another blow.
It does not come.
“Fine.” When he opens her eyes she is back to her inhumanly calm demeanor, nightstick returned to hovering near her hip. “It doesn’t matter whether or not you admit it. I know the truth, and that’s all that matters. I don’t need you to confirm what I already know for me to fix you.”
“Fix me?” he questions, and the words feel like lead on his tongue, heavy and hard to articulate. Dread settles like something solid in his stomach.>/p>
“Why else do you think I went through all this trouble to collect you?” She sighs with a shake of her head, looking so sincerely upset that America’s not sure what to make of it. “You’re letting yourself become so corrupted, Alfred. It’s sickening, and I’m not going to let it continue.”
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