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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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[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Ha... Does America ever make you watch or read those weird science-fictions where there are alternate universes where everything is opposite?

[sellchelles.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen a few of his movies at the Deepam.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

D'accord, well, this is like that. There's an opposite universe where all the nations you know have the opposite gender of that you know. Including yourself.

[sellchelles.livejournal.com]

Seriously? That's so weird! How is that even possible? I wonder what boy-me is like … what's your name, by the way?

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how it's possible, but I can tell you he's very nice when he's not pulling my pigtails. I'm Canada.

[sellchelles.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that. He'd better not pull mine if I ever meet him.

Canada?! S-so I guess you're my sister instead of my brother … it's nice finally understand what Mr. -- I mean, Miss Austria was talking about, even if it's a little confusing.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Oh, you've met Miss Austria... But, yes, I guess we just sort of switched. It's nice to see you again, even if you're my little sister now. Oh, umm, Ukraine from your Earth is here, too, actually. So I'm getting used to hearing about me being a boy. Sort of.

[sellchelles.livejournal.com]

Yup! And I thought that this was all England's fault at first since he's always dabbling with strange magic but there's no way he could have accomplished that kind of feat on this scale.

Either way it's nice to see you too … it's a little frightening to be whisked away from my home like this so I'm glad there's at least one familiar face!

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

No, it's not England. She was stuck here, too, for a while, though. I'm assuming you've already read all the welcome material on the Queen? And that's about all we know about her, except that things here can get very manipulative when she wants them to be.

[sellchelles.livejournal.com]

[ The situation was still more than a little strange but at the same time all Seychelles could do was adjust. It was something that she had gotten quite good at over the years and, besides, this Canada was just as sweet as the one she had always known. Family was family, right? ]

Yeah! I did but what I really want to know is how the heck she gets away with all that. Surely someone would have noticed that so many people have gone missing by now? Isn't this whole setup more than a little illegal?

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

The thing is, we don't seem to actually go missing back home. I mean, some of us are from different times -- America's from 2010 and I'm from 1970 and Miss Lithuania's from the 1600's -- and obviously things have gone on with us being here, but as if we were home. Tu suite? Somehow, either when we go home, we go right back to where and when we were or... something else entirely is going on.

[sellchelles.livejournal.com]

So … so does that mean that my boss won't yell at me for being gone so long after all?

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

So long as it works for you the same way it's worked for the rest of us, I suppose so. We're all in hot water with our bosses if they notice, though.

[sellchelles.livejournal.com]

They'd totally understand if we explained the situation to them though, wouldn't they? I mean, it's not exactly our faults we were kidnapped … then again, you kind of have to be here to believe it.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if they would believe it, no... I know I wouldn't, unless I was stuck here myself.