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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[darth_eduard]

Just as the two of them were about to succumb to peaceful drowsiness, a loud string of colourful finnish curses rang out from the middle of camp through the silence of the cool day

[tino_suomi]

"You, son, of, a bitch." Eeva glowered, thick golden drops running down from the top of her head and across her face, dripping onto her clothes. "I should kill you where you stand

[darth_eduard]

Eduard tried, in vain, his very best to feign innocence as he approached the scene of the crime. The effort was all for naught as his face was alight with a stifled grin and tears of mirth still gathered at the corners of his blue green eyes. "Oh whatever do you mean, dearest sõsar. I would never do such a thing, especially to you now would I

[tino_suomi]

"That all depends." She shrugged daintily. "On how fast you can run. Ten second head start." That was generous for Eeva. Having a boyfriend must have really softened her up because under any normal circumstances she would probably have just tackled him and rubbed his head in the dirt. "And don't you worry Gil, I'm not going to get you for this. I'm gunning for something a lot smaller than bear. It's squirrel season." She glowered at Eduard, steadily approaching. "SO YOU BEST PROTECT YOUR NUTS!"

[darth_eduard]

Eduard's grin faded into a slightly nervous expression as Eeva slowly began edging forward. He had faced her wrath a good many times growing up and he knew just as sure as he knew the periodic table of elements, that her vengeance was something to be dreaded. "Ummm...E? Sa ei teeks paha sant...eks??" Eduard gulped, edging back further, prepared to use Gilbert as a pasty human shield.

Nearly as quick as the animals charging out of the bush during their hunting venture, Eeva seemed to make her move. Eduard turned awkwardly in an attempt to escape with his hide intact. He didn't want to end up like a wookiee taken captive by a trandoshan...skinned. The frantic physicist managed to make a few desperately scrambling strides with a milky-honey covered Eeva hot on his heels before tripping over his viking-era outfit. "Frak!" he cursed as he fell to the ground with a thud.

Eduard was about to pay for his moment of mischievous triumph, it seemed...

(Sa ei teeks paha sant...eks?? - You wouldn't hurt a cripple...would you??)

[tino_suomi]

"Sa ei sant!" Eeva belted in just about fluent (her pronunciation could be off on occasion) Estonian as she made a mad, sticky dash after her best friend in the fraking world. It looked as though she might have to give this battle up for lost, Eduard had become a little more athletic in his time living with her mini-jock of a cousin and the testosterone charged mammoths of the same household... when of course his true nature decided to shine from above and that was the have the hilariously terrible luck of tripping over his own damn clothes. It may have been scarier vengeance if she wasn't laughing about him falling as she came upon him to exact it

[i_got_5_meters]

This prank on Eduard's part had ended in a vastly different fashion than most of the pranks Gilbert himself had pulled off in his time. Most of his hapless victims (Mads and his bruder were common exceptions) didn't retaliate after the trap had been sprung, so he watched the scene play out before him with humorous interest. Seeing Eeva's vengeance was something to behold. THIS was the family he was getting himself into?? Gilbert, in his past, left his interactions with females to the realm of one night stands and for good reason, in his opinion. Estrogen was crazy stuff and his boyfriend now found himself on the receiving end of that craziness

[tino_suomi]

Linus had popped in just as Eeva had started chasing her compatriot around in her thirst for revenge. He stood back and let her have it. He was quite aware of the warning Eduard had given him, already. Eeva was a strong woman, in control of herself and her situation and she was not shy about her revenge. She was so spunky, and it was one of the things he loved most about her. While he'd always said he'd be content if a girl ever talked to him or gave him the time of day he had to admit that he preferred women who were self-aware over women who allowed themselves to be defined by their man. Self-Respect and confidence as sexy, flat out

[i_got_5_meters]

"Ihre übersetzung war in ordnung...neuling." Gilbert commented to Linus, actually surprised at the nearly spot-on pronunciation but not letting on to that fact as the newcomer was still under clear "virgin rules". It was a sort of hazing state that Gilbert and Mads had come up with in one of their crazy drunken moments for members of their football team, but had (after meeting him) decided it was more than appropriate to apply it to Linus as well. He was a member of their motley extended family after all and in their eyes deserved to be given just as a hard time as anybody else

[tino_suomi]

Linus scratched his head at Gilbert's comment. "Ja. Sorry. I only have German 101. You know, colors, numbers, I can basically speak fluently to a German toddler." He did, though, understand 'Neuling' he was a PC gamer who played shooter games, sometimes Germans played on their servers too, he was quite familiar with the saying and was even able to throw it back in some Teutonic faces after he'd fragged them and their corpses

[i_got_5_meters]

It took some effort but Gilbert was soon able to shake his mind out of the gutter and catch up with the group. Even after realizing the benefits of "one at a time", he still had a drive that could put a rabbit to shame on a slow day. Now that he had somebody important to him he was slowly starting to get better at controlling such urges when he had to. The flight over to camp was difficult though because there was nothing to distract him from his boyfriend's nerdiness. Damn that fucking Danskie for bating Eduard into a Star Wars rant... Gilbert now firmly believed that this recent turn on of his was karma kicking him in the pasty white ass for having picked on people mercilessly for much the same behavior over the years that he now found so appealing in Eduard

[tino_suomi]

"Well I would like to get undressed first!" Eeva harped as she struggled out of her clothes.

"I'll be in, just a moment." Linus appeased, getting his clothes off as well.

The thing about the Finns was that they didn't bother keeping their underwear on. They were going to wash their clothes while they washed themselves. Linus' clothes were rather clean, but Eeva was soaked through by the milk and honey and so he assisted her in washing some of the layers of her hangerok before they both just took to floating around as they both worked to get her hair as clean as possible.

Eeva chattered freely with Eduard, both accustomed to seeing the other completely nude or in various degrees of undress from their childhoods of participating in saunas together. "You're hair's still sticking straight up." Eeva commented, slashing a gentle wave over onto the back of Eduard's head.

[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

[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

[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.