Hinga, Dinga, Durgen, We Think We're Vikings

[tino_suomi]

It was early, normally what Tino would consider far too early to be waking up. But with how early it had actually been when they'd fallen asleep. (Had his watch, which he'd set to Sweden Time after landing, been right when it said it'd only been 8:30 when they finally passed out?) Then again, everyone had been jet lagged and with the sun having

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[tino_suomi]

"If I made another axe I'd have to have it shipped to Copenhagen, I don't know how the school would feel about me owning one on the island again after what I did with my last one... I didn't display it, not even after getting home for a few days over break before going to Oslo. I kindda put it in the attic and there it's going to stay for a while, I don't want to look at it. But my bearded axes I'm still okay with. I'm excited for summer break as well, I'm going to go on the faire circuit and see how well I can do at some of the Viking sport competitions. I almost won axe throwing last year, maybe this one I can bring home a victory. You know what Svenk," And here he gave Berwald an affable punch in the shoulder. "over the summer you should pack up the wife and bring yourselves to my home for a week or two when the viking games are on. I bet you could do a fair job competing in the hammer throw. I think it could be a lot of fun, and, after all, after this little adventure's over you could say we came to visit your home land, so now it'll be my turn to play host. We graduate halfway through May for goodness sake, we could do it in early June, the week of our birthdays, and have one insane blow out. And I will even play good host and *choke* buy Swedish beer for you."

[berwaldsverige]

Berwald actually had the good presence to LAUGH at that. "Don't hurt yourself doing those back-handed compliments now." Berwald chuckled handing Mads a carved bowl and a block of sandpaper for him to smooth while he started carving another.

"That sounds like a lot of fun actually. I'm not half bad at hammer throw. I had a love affair with Thor comics when I was ten." Berwald admitted as he chipped wood to form a big shallow bowl.

"Maybe I can get Tino to forget about my birthday if we're too busy celebrating yours the day before." He added still dead set against celebrating his birthday if he could help it.

[tino_suomi]

Mads didn't have to be told, asked, or instructed, as soon as the trencher and sand paper fell into his lap he absentmindedly went to work sanding the bowl smooth.

"I know your birthday suck Svenk." He offered. Tino'd told him. Mads could only imagine how bad it would suck for to go through that day every year and hear people who didn't know wish you a happy birthday, when how could you ever be happy on the anniversary of the day your mother died in a horrendous car accident and you nearly went to meet St. Peter with her? Especially knowing now that Berwald spent a great deal of his early childhood blaming himself for his mother's death.

"But Tino's persistent, he'll probably want you to have a gift and a cake and someone to sing to you. So, here's what you do to divert Tino and get your way. We just say that we don't want cake and a hullabaloo two days in a row, so we'll celebrate our birthday party as a joint thing, one cake, one song, on my birthday. That way we don't have to be cramming festive on a day where you want kept solemn out of respect. We have fun on the fifth, spend the sixth in a more reserved way, return to life as is on the seventh. Tino will learn, after a little while, that you just can't handle a birthday party. He's still young and thinkin' that you missed out on lots of childhood things that he wants to give you. Hur, well, except you did the Sittin' on Santa's Lap thing backwards. After all the kids got taken back to their dorms it was kindda funny seeing Santa sitting on your lap in his big chair telling you about all the things he'd been asked to get them for Christmas." He smiled. He really wished he'd had a better holiday season himself, but that was in the past, and life was starting to trudge on, and Siguard was beginning the process of healing from the separation from his brother.

"And, you big nerd, I'm not surprised you liked those comics." Though, the Dane would never confess how much he'd loved Dam Trolds as a kid... and that he'd had an obscene collection of them... if the Swede and Finn came for a visit over the summer Mads would have to hide all childhood pictures of himself and that embarrassing collection. ... as well as the handful of his collection that still remained...

[berwaldsverige]

"It's actually a very short drive across the Öresund Bridge that connects Sweden to Denmark. It's probably just a half hour by car from Copenhagen to the cemetery where my mother's ashes are interred at St. Petri Kyrka in Malmö. I'd like it if we could all drive over and pay our respects on my birthday. Call it sad or silly, but I really want to sort of, introduce my new family to her. Maybe create a nicer memory in the doing." Berwald said softly as little curls of wood formed as he carved.

"After that we can just walk around the city for a while. I haven't been there in almost eight years, I'm long overdue in paying my respects. Malmö has a lot of beautiful parks, my mother loved them, maybe we can have a picnic afterwards, just a quiet day." He added setting the newest piece in the collection for Mads to smooth while he started on a larger serving bowl.

"And I like it when Santa sits in my lap. That's my present from him." Berwald added with a cheeky grin and wink. He would have never in a million years ever thought he'd be sitting with Mads, talking about "family" in the same breath and actually meaning it...

Mads was the closest thing to a brother he was ever going to have, and that included his real half-brother.

[tino_suomi]

Mads was still working on his first one when he asked: "Did you grow up in Malmö or is your mor just interred there? Tino said you went to Stockholm to poke the Troll King or is that just where your far's office headquarters is?" Maybe it was a series of invasion questions, but he really wasn't one to ignore such things when they popped into his head. He wouldn't mind taking a solemn day for his fellow alpha male.

"Well that does sound like a great plan. I'd be more than willing to have you guys over for a few weeks. The house is big and lonely with just Siguard, me, and the maid who speaks mostly Turkish. Not that I don't love the private time, but it kindda sucks that we don't really have family to spend the time with. I mean, okay, YOU don't either but you're kind of now a member of Tino's family so you've got a family to slobber all over you and stuff... me and Siguard got no one between the two of us so you guys are like our family if anything. Breaks for us stops being a time to be with family and feel like a time AWAY from the family." He confessed. "Though I know you gotta go on some big camping trip this year it seems. Tino and Spects do nothing but talk about it."

He took a deep breath and blew the sanded dust away from the trencher before getting to work on the next one.

"And, fella, you know that makes you Mrs. Clause. You sound like the one from that Rudolph movie. 'Eat, Santa, eat! Who ever heard of a skinny Santa!?' You do have some kind of chub fetish don't you?"

[berwaldsverige]

"Mom is just interred there. My father moved his firm to Stockholm a couple of years after she died. We lived there when I was little." Berwald explained as he carved.

At the reference to his "chub fetish" he laughed.

"I'm guilty as charged. Just as you have a costume fetish... and you're welcome for bringing you here and pandering to your deviancy." Berwald winked with good mirth as they worked on the plates and bowls.

[tino_suomi]

"And rough play. Don't forget that. Nothing is better than being bitten. I don't know why, but when I have little bite marks all over me I just feel alive! And Siguard's got sharp little teeth!" He shivered with a smile. "But he'd kill me if he heard me sharing our deepest intimate secrets."

[berwaldsverige]

"Yes, he would kill you... do keep sharing. He can put you out of our misery." Berwald gave an evil grin as he tossed another plate at Mathias.

Berwald's stomach growled, protesting too much work and not enough breakfast. "Speaking of Siguard I hope he feeds us soon. I have no idea where Tino vanished off to with Eeva." Berwald commented not concerned, he knew Tino would eventually turn up and take pity on him sooner or later. No doubt Eeva had him doing a chore as well.

[tino_suomi]

"come on, let's go see if my wife is ready to feed us. Eeva's all hold up in the crapper looking for Spects and Tino. Siguard was tending the food last I saw. Come on, I'm hungry enough to eat a buffalo." He scooped up the pile of trenchers they'd made and carried them along with him as they made their way to the great hall, seeing Siguard serving up oatmeal, but Linus being the only other person in the room. He was nose deep in a cup of percolated coffee, Siguard sitting with his own already to his lips as he made more. "Morgen." The Fenno-Swede greeted, still a little groggy. "Morgen." Siguard said as well to Berwald, offering to scoop him out some oatmeal.

[berwaldsverige]

"Good Morgen." Berwald said setting his hastily made additional food vessels on a table and held one out to Siguard.

"I could eat the entire pot, yes please." He said cheerfully and gratefully accepted breakfast.

"Did you put cloud berries in this?" Berwald asked seeing the little yellowish orange berries in the oatmeal.. He LOVED cloudberries.

[tino_suomi]

"Actually, yes, I did. It seems there was a bush of them nearby on the way to the great hall, the fairies pointed it out to me. I stopped and collected a cape full before coming to join Tino, Eduard and Gilbert here. Shortly after they left and Linus came."

"I like cloud berries." The Finno-Swede drawled, obviously very very very groggy still.

[berwaldsverige]

"Well tell the fairies thank you. They're my favorite berry." Berwald said smiling at the sleepy Linus across from him at the table.

Then he realized something Siguard said. "Wait.. Tino Left? Left to where?" Berwald asked now a little concerned. Tino had told him he was leaving anywhere. He could have driven them had it been important.

[tino_suomi]

"I think to speak to Eeva. You indicated that something was wrong with her to Eduard and Tino? I know Gilbert left with them to find her." Siguard clarified, Linus lifted his head off the table to open one inquisitive eye. Was that why Siguard was making breakfast today?

Mads responded to the question posed to him by his lover, as he seemed the one familiar with this situation. "She's all hold up in the outhouse whimpering and carrying on." He explained. "She said she wanted me to get Tino and Eduard for her. She mumbled as I left something about she didn't want me to get him." The Dane indicated, pointing (that's rude Mathias, you should know better) at the groggy Fenno-Swede sitting across the table from Berwald on the 'him'. Said Finno-Swede sat up straight, but furrowed his brows at the Dane.

"Why not me?"

"I dunno. She sure didn't sound happy is all. I had to shit so I didn't hang around to ask about whatever you did to piss her off. Otherwise I wouldda thought she'd ask for you."

Linus just glared down into his coffee, his fingers digging into the side of the table and his mouth set into a hard line. He wasn't sure what was going on for sure, but didn't want to get up and go talk to her, if she's specifically requested her family and had expressed that he not be present.

[berwaldsverige]

"That's not fair Mads, think logically. She's holed up in a bathroom and wants Tino, her family. It's not rocket science to put two and two together douchebag. And it's not that she is upset with Linus. She's needing something personal and is embarrassed to tell her brand new boyfriend. LOGICALLY that would imply something feminine in nature. Even I can deduce that mother nature is probably being a bitch to her right now and I'm usually dense as a post." Berwald said hopefully mending the rift Mads had caused by implying Linus had done something wrong. He was on shaky footing enough as it was. Berwald new what it felt like to feel unworthy of that's family's love at first.

"Don't worry Linus. I'm sure it's nothing you did, although your first week of vacation is going to really suck." He added smiling at the poor guy.

[tino_suomi]

Linus let out a breath of air he'd been holding. OH so that was it. Okay. Because he had no idea why Eeva would be mad at him. They had a relatively pleasant night. They're kissed and cuddled some, but she'd been gone when Tino'd come knocking on their doors. He'd imagined that she'd gone ahead of him to the Great Hall, and even when he arrived he figured she was off doing something. He wasn't about squashing her freedom (and what a free bird she was) as he usually felt confident that wherever she was she was doing so confidently. Now he felt embarrassed for her.

"I feel like I should go see if she's alright, but also don't want to embarrass her." He also mentally logged away that the Dane was a douchebag.

Said Dane just laughed. "I'm just teasing String-Bean, relax. Tino's probably just gonna have to run and bring her whatever girly bag she needs."

Linus sighed, and went back to sipping his coffee. "Still feel bad that she's freezing in an out house and I'm in here with warm coffee. But I can't really go do anything to go help her out hm?" He sighed, asking the Swede.

[berwaldsverige]

"Ah no. You're the LAST person she wants to see at the moment. You can be solicitous all day later though. I've heard some girls get killer cramps and not to mention the whole messy business has got to be annoying as hell. Just do nice things for her this week, earn brownie points as they say." Berwald offered his romantic advice... and let's face it, he was rather an expert on how to WOO that family.