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Landon flinched as Ludwig slammed his fists into the table at his unintentional insult. “H-hey! Take a chill pill!” he yelped. “I wasn’t targeting you only!”

Once it seemed that the German wasn’t going to do anything more, the Californian settled back to watch and listen. His mood only darkened as one by one, Alfred shot down every one of his states’ protests to go with Andrew, culminating in his effectively calling Georgia a d**k for putting his dinner plans over a national meeting. Having already heard Christian’s side of things, Landon held considerably more sympathy for the Southerner, and Alfred’s black-and-white dismissal angered him—as had everything else his boss had said. He glared darkly at the ridiculously hostile American. “Screw you, Al,” he murmured softly. “I’m going too.” He was impressed with Leilani’s outburst and decided that he, too, would head to the park anyway. After all, no one had proposed any search teams whatsoever, and the park still seemed like the best place for action.

It seemed that everyone was breaking for somewhere—ostensibly, everyone was headed to the park anyway, despite the fact that no plans had actually been made. If there was a mob going, it would be much easier to hide himself in the crowd! Landon bolted from his seat and was about to head out when Charlotte stopped him at the door with an unexpected apology.

It took him a few seconds to remember what she was talking about—that instance in the café when she had slapped him in the cheek for falsely accusing her of messing up his hair and steal-playing with Andrew. The Westerner smiled crookedly and placed a hand on her shoulder. “It’s all right, Charlotte,” he said softly. “I’ve already put it out of my mind. Now then; how about we head on over to the park right now, before Al catches up to us? I’d like to finish that airplane game you botched in the cafeteria, and I bet you want to too. If we get there first, maybe we can play with Andrew and Alistair before Al finds out.” Landon’s eyes glinted mischievously. He released his hand from Charlotte’s shoulder and made again for the door, but was this time halted by Leah’s blatant accusation of him for doing absolutely nothing. “Yo! Massy!” he called out indiscriminately to the air. “I haven’t done nothin’ yet! Don’t you go framing me now!” So long as nothing came his way for Leah’s false accusation, Landon had no need to retaliate. After checking that his Desert Eagle was safely in its holster, he ran out the door to the park, hoping to catch a quick break with Andrew.








Out of San Francisco: Slow down!

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Georgia snorted and glared at Alfred while mumbling, "If you trusted us, we might start trusting others..." He looked to Elizaveta and his expression instantly softened-- after all, he wasn't mad at her so she did not deserve getting the stink eye from him. As hot-headed and rebellious as he'd always been, he tended to be good about not lashing out on those who didn't deserve it... Most days. "Thank you, Miss Elizaveta..." His words were extremely sincere and vulnerable, despite how few words he did say. It really was nice to find a friend in his fellow Newspaper Club member. She really was a sweet woman, not that he had once doubted it at any point of his knowing her. Hell, even as a kid Germany had spoken of her quite a bit, so he had known for years even before having the chance to meet her she had to be a sweet person.

He heard the pain in his little brother's voice and looked over in time to see Andrew run out the door. He got a look on his face like he'd just been punched in the stomach and quickly took the Hungarian's hand, not even looking to her. "Ma'am, pardon my saying this, but I do hope you run fast. Anyone going in our little group best be fast runners too, because I'm not about to lose sight of him." He then let go as he took off out the door and made a line-- not necessarily for the park, but more towards the wood-line along the park as his eyes kept stead-fast on Tennessee.

Germany stood the second Andrew's feet hit the floor and cussed under his breath. Without a word, he followed the blond trio and Hawaii's lead on running out of the cafe to make sure that the small boy would be safe.

Charlotte heard her sister say something about a movie? "Isn't just called 'Ghost of Georiga' and that it's by the same folks from Haunting in Connecticut?" she asked looking somewhat confused with the movie's title. It wasn't intended for Florida to be there for watching the horror movie in the first place. Then again if he hadn't of been there....

She shook away the thought to pay attention back to Landon. Only to hear Andrew running off and the Californian's response was act like nothing happened and go catch Tennessee to play with him. Oh yes, that's the very reason why they came to this meeting in the first place, not! Each second they spent was another second made on Lili's disappearance. Plus there was no telling if Alistair was a friend or foe.

In annoyance, she watched as Georgia, Hawaii, and Germany took off after Andrew, Arthur and Landon. As many times as she had to run after Tennessee years ago, Charlotte could of easily caught up, but everyone wanted to be the stupid doggone hero! In all of her emotional stress, she very much wanted a drink at the moment. But they weren't at a bar and there were too many people left behind, meaning they needed to quickly split into more groups or whatever to cover more ground and find Lili soon.

Fuming still, the Tarheel looked around and thankfully found an ash tray nearby, meaning she could smoke without having to worry about needing to step outside. In the next second, a R. J. Reynolds cigaret was already lit and in her hand. Her second stress smoke of the day. "So what are gonna do now that those bozos jump the gun and took off?" she asked for those that still remain. Looking over, America didn't look so well either. Charlotte held out her carton to offered him a drag although she said nothing to him.

Everything seemed to fall apart the second the little state took off. But made they could quickly think of a new plan. No doubt, Vash was going to go after because of Andrew being his only lead in finding his sister, and Elizaveta was just as worried as Italy on Germany's condition. Yet, he couldn't leave behind the ones looking down right about now.

"We'll can still keep the frontline and backup group, its just that our members will be different than planned." Feliciano answered the girl. "Si? We can't all go at once so those still willing can keep a close watch on the others while the rest can still search or remain here until we're needed. Sound good?" It was a simple idea and Italy was debating on whether or not he should stay behind after all since he wasn't good when it comes to fighting.

Italy went over to America and gave him a nice pat on the back. "You were a good friend to Signorina Liechtenstein too. How about a nice Torta di Mele to cheer up before heading out?"

Seeing Andrew take off, Cherelle's eyes widened. He was going alone! She couldn't let him do that. So she slipped out the door too, following the suit of a few others who had noticed Tennessee leave as well. Even though no one wanted her in the group with her boyfriend, she was too concerned, especially with only a few people noticing his exit. At the very least she wanted to be able to keep an eye one him. She wasn't going to be as outgoing in announcing her decision to stay with Andrew, she was just going to go with it.

[I was going to have Sey speak up and say something along the lines of "Okay, if were doing this, then let's do it" and try to get everything organized, but this works too... Seychelles probably wouldn't have been the best one for the job of getting it together anyways, but I had figured better her than no one]

Anton Zhelev
The Friendly Senior

Anton really just sat there listening as they were going though everything they needed to do in order to rescue miss Lili. Some agreed with certain things, some argued about it. With all these people helping out, they'll find the girl in no time. he noticed his friend, Anica, leaving the café in a bit of a huff. It wasn't too often he'd see that. he decided to see if he was all right. He saw him outside, smoking his cigarettes "Здравейте моя приятел. I haven't seen you all day today. Are you feeling okay?" He normally smoked when something bothered him. if he had to guess, it was the garlicky smell from the Italian.