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[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

[If you have a keen nose or happen to be passing by the spaceship, if might become apparent that someone's spent the better part of the day baking with maple syrup. (Adversely, if you happen to be inside the spaceship, chances are good you've already found the freshly baked stash of maple cookies big enough to feed the Royal Canadian Air Force (circa 1946, though) and are stuffing your American face.)

Should the maple not entice you, maybe the young nation in braided pigtails and an oversized sweatshirt repeatedly whipping a small rubber ball at the side of the spaceship will. With the stick in her hand, she catches the ball neatly no matter which way it bounces back to her, running back and forth to catch it, only to jerk the handle of the lacrosse stick, sending the ball soaring back to the outer wall of the spaceship once more.

It's obvious Canada is taking this as a serious bout of training, cursing those rare times she misses. It's been too long since hockey season ended for her and she's gotten slack at finding people to play lacrosse with her. She misses being able to pour herself into her national sports, letting herself get caught up in the fun and comraderie of the game, whatever it happens to be.

What probably isn't obvious is how sad, homesick, or absolutely tired of being forgotten she is.]

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[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

I know, we all want to go home and we will. It is just a matter of when Maggie.

[Holds her close and pets her hair.]

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

It's not fair, Katyushka.

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

I know, it is hard but we will go on.

[She rubs her back and holds her tighter. Ukraine is one of the few that doesn't mind having people cry on her for all of the times she cries on others.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Th-thank you.

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

[Rubs her back and hugs her tightly for a moment before letting go of her enough to look down at her with a soft smile.]

Any time, okie?

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

I appreciate that. A lot.

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Is no problem. [Gives the younger nation's hair a soothing pet. She knows what loosing people close to her is like.]

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

You really are just like the Ukraine I've always know.

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Well, I would like to think we are same person, just in different bodies and from different universes. It makes it easier to think about.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

It does. Still takes some adjusting, though.

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you are strong Maggie. I know you will get over this.

[Gives her another warm and reassuring hug, big sister Ukraine to the rescue.]

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Always welcome.

[Very squishy hugs, but she means well and is glad she can make Maggie feel better.]

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Would you like to come inside? I have cookies.

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Okie, I can smell them. Baking with maple syrup again, da?

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Yes. I was miserable, I couldn't help myself.

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Cookies are always good, they cheer me up when I make them.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Me, too. And America likes them, so there's another point for them. They won't last long enough to go stale.

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Good, t'en t'ey won't stay long. But I've always liked your cookies, they're nice.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Does the Canada you know bake, too?

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

He does, he has brought me maple candies several times for my birthday. Matvey is very kind, and I know that he likes the painted Easter eggs I've been sending him for a long time.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

He sounds nice. And I bet your eggs are just the prettiest.

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

[She blushes at that and fiddles with her hair clips] Thank you, and Matvey is very kind, very much like you but you're more... outspoken. It is nice to see.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Outspoken? Really?

[dewy-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

More than me, you get to point where you just say it how it is. I...do not.