Has anyone listened to Welcome to Night Vale? It's really good.

Disclaimer: Hetalia belongs to Hidekaz Himaruya. I own the state OCs and the story idea.

Living in Hell

Chapter 3

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"Alex? Who the hell is Alex?" Maryland asked, quite confused. Was Evelynn talking about one of the 2p states? Last he had heard, they were all fine. Well, mostly fine. New York was a zombie. But he still had manners and behaved. Although sometimes he slipped up and ate someone. That's kind of expected from a zombie though. It was still terrifying to see, however.

"Alex is my friend. He's a human." Evelynn clarified. She turned around to look at Maryland. "Can you let me go now?" Maryland did so.

"So, your friend Alex needs medicine?" Katie asked. Her 2p counterpart nodded. Katie sighed and ran a hand through her hair. "Don't you guys have medicine?"

"The kind he needs isn't always available. Besides, it's not like I can just walk up to a 'doctor' and get medicine." Evelynn stated, making quotation marks with her hands at the word doctor. "I mean, the humans tend to just give us things, but medicine is never it."

Maryland thought about this. "So you come here and steal our stuff?"

"Yeah, pretty much." Evelynn said, shrugging. Stealing may have been a horrible 'crime' here, but in Evelynn's world, it was necessary to survive. It wasn't a very big deal and if it happened to you, then oh well. Boo hoo. It was your fault for not hiding it well enough or for leaving it.

Everyone was silent for a moment. Evelynn then broke it. "Well I guess I'll come back later and steal it then." She turned to leave. "Au Revoir~"

Maryland and Katie looked at each other. Maryland shrugged and gestured towards Evelynn. 'What are we gonna do?' He mouthed. Katie shrugged. Evelynn could have very well been lying about Alex just to get the medicine. 'Let's ask her more about this Alex person.' Katie mouthed back. Maryland nodded and Katie opened her mouth to speak. "Wait!" Katie said, reaching her hand out to the capital. Evelynn turned around, a sarcastic smile on her face.

"Oh, you miss me already?"

Katie shook her head. "Please, I don't ever miss you." She took a deep breath. "Alright, that was a little out of line."

"Ya' think?" Evelynn snapped. She walked over to Katie. "Look, I only have so much time until Dad gets 'worried' about me and decides to come here. And, because you seem to not like that, I highly suggest being quick about whatever it is you wanted to do."

Maryland spoke up, "What kind of medicine does your Alex friend need?"

"Pain medication, heart medication," Evelynn listed. "These things are all rather hard to come across in our world. They're all in the hands of people who don't necessarily want to share. Ever." She frowned and looked up. "I come to this world to get his medication."

"Bring him by within the next week so we can see him." Katie said.

Before she could explain why, Evelynn shrieked. "Fuck no! It's not safe!"

"Evelynn, I'm fairly sure that our world is much safer than yours." Maryland tried to reason. Honestly, he didn't know why she would be so opposed.

Evelynn huffed. "Oh, I'm sure of that as well. However, taking him here is basically killing him! My mirror is at my house. Okay? And guess who else is at my house, at least most of the time."

"Your poodle?" Maryland guessed. Evelynn gave him a look. Maryland raised his hands up in defense. "Hey, your dog is freaking insane."

Katie sighed at her brother.

"Katie are you aware that you have a sighing problem?" Evelynn asked with mock concern. Katie glared at her. Evelynn smiled. "You know, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem."

"Ha ha, very funny." Katie sarcastically answered. Then she stood up a little straighter, trying to seem more serious. Which was kind of hard to do considering she was wearing a nightgown with a cat faces all over that said "All American Girl". Yeah, it didn't make much sense, but that was one of the reasons Katie loved it so much. The golden-brown haired teen cleared her throat. "So I assume the, ahem, problem at your house is your dad?"

Evelynn nodded, "He'd probably kill Alex."

"Why? If he's as sickly as you say, Alex shouldn't be a threat to Timmothy." Maryland reasoned. He and Katie snickered. God, 2p!America's human name was lame.

Evelynn rolled her eyes at their snickering. "Ah yes, but you see, dads tend not to like random boys coming home with their daughters." She picked away at the paint on her nails. "Anyways, why do you want Alex to come here?"

The other two teens in the room exchanged nervous glances. "Well, to see just how bad his condition is, and also to make sure he is indeed real." Maryland answered. He looked down, feeling just a tad bit bad for doubting Evelynn. He couldn't really explain it, but Evelynn was visibly concerned about her friend. If this was a lie, then Evelynn was a very good actress.

"Could you instead come to my world?" Evelynn wondered aloud. It was rare for the 1p!s to come to the 2p! World. Usually though, when they did, it was to get something or, in some even more rare cases, someone back that another person had stolen.

"Go to your world?" Maryland asked in disbelief. He had been there before to get his laptop back from 2p!Texas, and there was no way he was going back there!

Katie frowned. That was definitely possible, but even more risky. If they got caught by someone, they'd probably never come back home. She swallowed. "A-Are you sure that's t-the only way we can see Alex?"

Evelynn nodded. Katie's shoulders slumped down. Was it really worth it?

She weighed the options. If they did go and got to see Evelynn's friend, they could help save a life and hopefully they wouldn't ever be bothered by Evelynn ever again. However, if they went and something went wrong, they could be seriously injured or even worse, killed.

See, the personifications of nations/cities/etc were theoretically immortal. It took a lot to actually kill them. Normal methods of murder wouldn't work. If you shot them in the heart, for example, they would still live. Granted, it would take a while for them to heal all the way, but they would still be alive.

However, if they were in the 2p!World, this 'logic' didn't work. If they were harmed, they didn't begin to heal. To properly start healing, they'd have to go back to their own world. Since the personifications couldn't heal in a world that wasn't their own they could die. It was a scary thing to them and they never tried risking it.

"We'll go." Maryland decided. Katie's mouth dropped.

Evelynn raised in her eyebrows. This was a surprise. A pleasant one, but a surprise nonetheless. She quickly changed from her surprised expression and smiled. "Good. Be ready by this weekend. I'll come through Katie's mirror to get you two." Walking out the door, this time for real, Evelynn shouted,
"Goodbye~."

"Maryland, what the hay?" Katie snapped.

"C'mon Katie, have you ever seen her so sincere about something? I mean, Evelynn hates us but she's taking us anyway." Maryland explained.

"She could be lying! What if it's a trap?" yelled Katie. She looked Maryland in the eyes. "I don't want to lose you or any of our other siblings if we're bringing them. I don't like losing family."

Ahh this will be fun to write.

Also ALL HAIL THE GLOW CLOUD.

I'm sorry.

I have obsessions.

Anyways, today I just got back to Indiana. I had fun in Virginia and Pennsylvania, but it's great to be back.

Have a nice evening~ (It's like almost 10 here.)