Berwald stripped naked, hanging his clothes on a tree branch and jumped right into the mountain water fed river. It was freezing cold. Just like he felt inside at the moment. He used sand from the bottom of the river to scrub his skin RAW. He wanted to just wash away all that pain, all the memories, all the part of his nature he hated ( Read more... )

The night air was crisp as Berwald lead Tino toward the lake, the temperature was chilly and there was a soft, latch ditch effort snow falling as they walked. Springtime in Sweden this far north was much later in arriving than on the island. Berwald tucked Tino under his arm and cloak as they walked, the northern lights dancing across the sky and ( Read more... )

Berwald grinned as he dragged all sleeping inhabitants of his household into the living room. Beside him was a sweet looking old lady.

"This is our pet-sitter, Mrs. Giovanni, she'll baby-sit while we're away so Hana and Wiggins will be well looked after." He began as everyone blinked sleepy-eyed and Mrs. Giovanni just sat to start playing with an ( Read more... )

It was after school on Tuesday, Berwald was sitting in the living room with his laptop, stalling doing his homework. The Call of YouTube was strong this afternoon. Tino and Siguard had gone grocery shopping, Mathias was sitting at the kitchen table eating a sandwich and Gilbert and Eduard were in the backyard.

Then Berwald started laughing...

and ( Read more... )

Once everyone had wrapped up their morning fishing adventures and gotten the catches into the kitchen for the mad chefs to work their magic on the meat, Berwald headed up to the flybridge to take the ship back to the sandbar to drop Anchor. It was time to let everyone enjoy some water sports well AWAY from where they had seriously chummed the water ( Read more... )

Once out to where the sonar was indicating large schools of fish, Berwald showed Tino how to turn off the throttle and shut off the engines. Eduard was rousing the sleepy heads still in bed, if they wanted to fish, they would have to get up on deck. The early-birds would get the fish.

There was coffee and continental breakfast of fruits and pastries ( Read more... )

 Berwald untangled himself from sheets, blankets and one gorgeous pile of TINO (He was getting great at not waking Tino up ( Read more... )

 Berwald and Mathias BLINDFOLD a pair of Unsuspecting lovers (Tino is excited naturally at the surprise and Siguard is naturally NOT AMUSED) and drive them to the Marina and carefully lead them to the "Surprise ( Read more... )

 Berwald was up early as usual, starting the coffee pot long before anyone else stirred in the household.

Everyone had been up late getting Tino's long time friend, Eduard, moved into the house since his dorm had almost burned to the ground.

He was being especially quiet as to not wake Eduard since his room was closest to the kitchen. Berwald let ( Read more... )

 ((A Soul Deep and Sorrowful Farewell))

The ride to the airport early the morning of the 26th was subdued and Eino and Tino left Berwald to his withdrawn contemplation. They knew today was going to be very difficult and he was getting to an inner place of strength to carry out what was long overdue.

The Flight itself was just under 55 minutes and ( Read more... )