Thinned Ranks

[i_got_5_meters]

"Hey Birdie. Are you looking for your meds?" Gilbert peaked his scruffy head through the door of the hut when he heard the rustling within. "You gave them to me when you got loopy on them the first time, remember?"

The patchy-faced albino stepped into the rustic hut and flopped down onto the fur covered bed he and his genius boyfriend shared,

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[i_got_5_meters]

Eduard wasn't phased one iota seeing Eeva unclothed in front of him or of undressing in front of her himself as they had indeed spent a lot of time throughout the years in such a state while going to saunas...but knowing that Gilbert was watching him was another matter. Sure they undressed in front of one another almost every day, but the physicist still found his insides buzzing like a hive of insects on occasion when faced with those red eyes admiring him.

Shaking such things from his mind, Eduard slid into the water with Eeva, leaning back slightly so she could get the water through his hair. "Jaa, you got me pretty good, E. Though I suppose I had it coming this time. I left it far more open than last year when I catapulted all of your underwear into the middle of the lake." Oh that had been SUCH a brilliant success and one of his favourite camp pranks to date. He prepared for a bop on the head as Eeva washed the honey from his hair, but he wasn't sure just how much she still held that prank against him.

"Hey newbie." Gilbert addressed Linus with a bit of a splash. "What's got you so quiet? What? Haven't you seen people naked before?" When the lanky Finn sort of mumbled at him and wiped the water from his face, Gilbert all but facepalmed and rolled his eyes. "Jeez, we're going to have to get that big V off your forehead sometime, ja."

[tino_suomi]

"I've seen plenty of people naked." Had been Linus' mumbled reply. It wasn't as though he hadn't spent his own life in and out of saunas where starkers was the tradition. But Eeva, even in a setting not meant to be sexualized had the power to rile him right up. He was quiet because he'd been transfixed by cleaning Eeva's hair, as though he was analyzing the differences in shade between each individual strand and committing it to memory, yes, stored right there in his mind-room next to the periodic table.

"When's not for me to decide." Linus mumbled, Eeva was too engrossed in conversation with Eduard to be paying either of them any mind. "I mean, it's not like I become a different person afterwards. Right?"

Meanwhile Eeva did indulge in her moment of retribution (she'd had many, but this was just another one) "I had to go commando for a whole day while I waited for something to air dry inside the cabin because it started raining outside." She harped, flicking Eduard's ear before returning to focusing on a particularly stubborn clump of honey in his hair. "This was a good one though, sad we can't use it on Tino, Bear would be horrified and kill us dead."

[i_got_5_meters]

"I don't think he would kill us, E. He would probably thank us for giving him a reason to go 'clean Tino off' so to speak." At that mental image Eduard shuddered with a a slight grimace on his face. He didn't want to have a thought like that floating around amidst the equations in his head, although in his absent friend's defense, he and Gilbert most likely put unwanted images into their housemates' heads simply by their bedroom being the closest one to the kitchen where most people spent their time.

"I don't know, stretch." Gilbert shrugged. "Birdie over there was just as awkward as you are before we got together. He had no idea how awesome he is." The german stopped himself before he ended up getting too sappy in front of the newcomer. "You should build her something, ja. Birdie got me by building me something seriously awesome. Make her something and you'll be set." Then Gilbert looked around as if he expected somebody to jump out of the bushes. "Don't tell the Danskie I'm giving you advice, ja? Against the rules and scheiße."

[tino_suomi]

"There are rules?" Linus questioned, raising an eyebrow and casting shadows over his sharp face. "New-Guy rules or Virgin-Rules?" He sardonically added.

Eeva groaned. "No mental images PLEASE! It's like mentally walking in on your little brother." She quietly wailed, as though rubbing her forehead would clear the images away.

[i_got_5_meters]

"Ja there are rules, but I've said too much already." Gilbert tapped a pale finger to his nose to signify a secret being kept. "Don't worry too much though. You're Birdie's friend now, so you'll at least make it out of this camp in one piece. That's not saying you're going to make it out of here without a couple flagons of mead under your belt. Saw some of it stashed in the mess hut a while ago and we are SO raiding that bitch." Oh yeah, you bet he'd been eyeing up that cask in the hut and was now planning on upping the "awesome" at dinner later on. Got to man up the newbie and get everybody having a good time!

"If you don't want mental images like that, then be careful if you ever come visit us on the island." Eduard chuckled a little sheepishly. "Ummm...yeah...because mine and Gil's room is the one closest to the common area." While Eduard was still very much a quiet person the vast majority of the time, there had been a number of occasions where he had stumbled from his room to the shower only to hear the television turned up louder than normal. "ANYHOW..." The bashful physicist coughed, attempting to straighten up his glasses until he remembered that he had left them on top of his clothes on shore. "Enough of THAT...what's in store for sustenance tonight, E?" Totally NOT trying to change the subject that he had stumbled into at all...not a chance...

[tino_suomi]

Linus snorted slightly as Gilbert swam off, continuing in his ministrations with Eeva's hair and starting to ponder what would become of himself thanks to the rules of virginity!

Eeva meanwhile relaxed into the scalp massage provided by her boyfriend and blinked her eyes open at Eduard's question. "I don't know yet." She responded. "I could cook, or we could take the van and head into town and get something to eat there. Up to you guys I suppose." She smiled, reaching out and petting his hair with the affection of an older sister.

[darth_eduard]

Eduard settled further down into the water and tipped his head back so he could look up at Eeva while she played with his hair. He was really going to have to brush it well to get it back into place later unless, of course, Gilbert somehow managed to rumple it again. "You know what? As much as this rustic experience has been a relaxing treat, the notion of migrating back to civilization sounds better than anything at this point."

Oh how great it would be to get back to cell phone service and his beloved technology! There were probably a million and one messages for him to check up on, but that was perfectly okay. The genius had had his fill of rusticness until the family camp later in the summer. That was going to be a handful this year...aside from Eeva and Tino, his families (Tino's family and his own) still hadn't met Gilbert. SO looking forward to that....yeah, right.

"What say you, Linus? Does the idea of upgrading from equations in the dirt to equations on diner napkins sound like a plan? Hopefully we can get reception in town." Oh yeah, he was ready all right. "Question though...do any of the three of us have our driver's licenses? Gil does, but when on more than two wheels his driving is...shall we say...interesting."

[tino_suomi]

Linus and Eeva both raised their hands. "We can both drive." They stated.

"Linus is better at it, he's been driving longer." Eeva attested though, Linus had been driving since high school Eeva only since starting university.

Linus shook his wet hair around and stated: "I do miss civilization food. Like chili and scoops." He smiled.

[i_got_5_meters]

"Alright then. It's decided." Eduard rose from the water, shaking out his hair. "I have all of the money and various other things that Berwald gave me back in the hut, so we are effectively free to spend the remainder of break how we wish. I would very much love to go somewhere with an internet connection and food that didn't try to kill me first."

"Ja, maybe it's a good idea if I don't drive." Gilbert stepped out of the water and out of his shorts in order to wring them out. In the light of day and without any clothing at all, it was evident that Gilbert had gotten a little more sun than he probably should have. For an albino like him that slight sunburn would cause more discomfort than for anyone else. "I can't read Swedish to save my freaking life and I don't want to get lost in the middle of buttfuck nowhere."

Eduard grimaced at seeing the difference in colour on his boyfriends skin, but didn't make too much of a fuss about it as they would be heading out of camp soon and would be where they could easily obtain some lotion for it. As Eduard climbed out of the water, naked as the day he was born, he couldn't help the excitement that spread across his face at the idea of returning to technology and convenience. "Blogs and coffee!" He mused. "So excited!"

[tino_suomi]

"Chili and scoops." Linus chortled.

"Oh my god, ketchup! I miss ketchup!" Eeva chimed, bouncing up out of the water with her boyfriend and charging back to the shore. Their clothes had been dirty and wet so there was going to be a starkers charge back to the huts to locate their civilian clothes that had been stripped off the day they'd arrived.

"Oh come on, I'm freezing my tits off, let's go!" Eeva demanded, wrapping her arms around her torso to hide the evidence of her chill.