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berwaldsverige

Heading "Home" for the Holidays...

Jun 03, 2011 01:43

Berwald was packing his very small suitcase. He had absolutely no warm clothes worth bringing to Finland. He dressed in his warmest sweatshirt and jeans and had every intention of buying a parka in the duty free airport shop when they landed. He'd shop for winter clothes once he got to Finland.

He was nervous, sure he had talked to Tino's family on ( Read more... )

mummi, tino, home, live rpg, love, life, berwald, holidays, hana

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tino_suomi June 3 2011, 06:45:43 UTC

"I know I know I know I'm just too freaking excited to be going HOME!" He cheered, doing circles with Hana, who was as excited as her tiny biped... even if she didn't know why entirely! The leash was enough reason to be flying out of her little white fur. She had no idea that once she was carried out of the car and her humans gave her a little treaty that she would be waking up in a strange place full of strange new smells and a new grandpa for her! Hana was getting a load of crap for Christmas, but the new Grandpa was going to be her favorite. (Tino was sure of this at least ( ... )

berwaldsverige June 3 2011, 06:55:20 UTC

"Great, The cab will be here any time. God Jul, gott nytt år to you as well, may your flight be safe. We'll be back January 6th, that gives us a couple of days to readjust to island time before classes start again." Berwald said stooping to get Hana in her carrier just as the cab honked outside.

tino_suomi June 3 2011, 07:10:55 UTC

"I got her, don't worry, you get the bags out there before the cabbie gets impatient." Tino chortled, snatching up the puppy as she, in her excitement, ran away from the daddy that was trying to pick her up. "We're going away for a while Hana-Banana. Let's get you in your gay-as-hell carrier." He would forever tease about it! No exceptions! And it wasn't her he was teasing as Berwald's point did apply to her. She was a little girl. Pink was suiting to her... just not her daddy. With her all packed in safe and cozy he threw his duffel bag over his shoulder and scooped her up. "Bye everyone. See you soon!" He paid one final wave behind him as he dashed out behind Berwald into the December mist-that-would-be-rain-any-second-now.

berwaldsverige June 3 2011, 07:27:52 UTC

The thankfully made it to the airport with time to spare to get through security and get to their gate without rushing.

( ... )

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tino_suomi June 3 2011, 23:57:13 UTC

The big man released his son to stare at Berwald for a moment. He eyed the giant up and down with a stern look on his face before coming right up on the Swede, ignoring the offered hand entirely, and scooping him up into a bone-crunching man-hug! Berwald's arms were pinned to his side and he was picked right up off his feet. "Det är Eino, du känner mig! Hoho! Det är skönt att träffa dig också!" He cheered, crushing the Swede a little harder before putting him back down on his feet and grabbing a hold of Berwald's right and hand shaking it vehemently. "Did you boys have a good flight? Tiina's still at home with Mummi, she's practically flying off the walls!" Tino couldn't help but laugh at the display of affection. They were really excited to be meeting Berwald finally.

((From this point on we can assume that when we write in English they're speaking Finnish.))

berwaldsverige June 4 2011, 00:12:45 UTC

"Ti and I slept most of the flight trying to get on local time. Is there a place where we can take Hana, she's probably bursting by now." Berwald asked as the first wave of

C O L D

hit him from the airport doors and they weren't even outside yet.

"Good God, I forgot how cold it is... I promise not to argue and protest when you tease me for being a cold wimp my blood has thinned. I voluntarily turn in my viking card." Berwald said as he shivered head to toe.

tino_suomi June 4 2011, 01:54:33 UTC

Eino held up a plastic bag. "She can do it outside if we pick it up." He offered bashfully.

Tino merely laughed once they reached the 'outside air'. "Ber-Bear, it's not that bad! Isi you're going to have to crank the heater."

"Done and done." The jolly fat man laughed as he fiddled with something on his touch-phone. It was probably synced with his car and he was starting it and turning on the heater from there.

Tino grinned. "You won't be mad if I tell you your next present is in the car right?" He bat his eye lashes at the freezing giant.

berwaldsverige June 4 2011, 02:07:07 UTC

"You're an immmmmmmmmpatient devil." Berwald said his TEETH WERE CHATTERING and he felt like his insides were being tossed around a spin cycle. Poor Hana didn't like it either she tinkled and peed and then cried to be picked up again. Berwald stuffed her in his new parka against his body heat as they hurried to the car.

"Oh God I have to ggggggggggget uuuuuuuused to this agggggggain."

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tino_suomi June 5 2011, 07:42:33 UTC

"OKay... but it is gratuitous." He warned, dragging Berwald up the first flight of stairs again and pushed the drop down stairs back up to reveal a door that had Moomin stickers way down low on it... as though they would have been put there when Tino was little and they simply were never peeled off.

Inside... it was like a little kids' room... complete with an ancient looking set of height marks on the wall beside the door with the date and Tino's age in years and months scrawled next to each line. Just looking at it one could see he shot up a lot when he was a kid, but around now he was petering off, growing less than an inch a year in some places.

It was like the moomin hous gift shop exploded.

berwaldsverige June 5 2011, 07:47:17 UTC

Berwald couldn't help but smile and drink in the overdose of CUTE. He lovingly traced the height marks with his finger stopping at eleven. "This was the mark where I fell in love with you." He said then stopped at 15... "This is the mark where you fell in love with me." He added then grinned.

"We need to make a 16 mark. That was a monumental milestone for us." Berwald said pulling Tino closer for a kiss.

"I love you so damn much."

tino_suomi June 5 2011, 07:52:12 UTC

"I love you too. We can do a height mark later tonight. Though, I have a feeling Mummi would already know what that is such a special mark. It's like she can sense it. I know she knows already... somehow... she does." He chuckled, then trying to coax another kiss out of the Swede. They'd done so little kissing in the passed 16 or 17 hours. He felt like he could explode!

berwaldsverige June 5 2011, 07:56:09 UTC

"That's all part of growing up Askling." Berwald replied, not needing much coaxing to dispense kisses.

"We should head back downstairs before they send up a search party." Berwald said taking Tino's hand to lead him back downstairs before the little minx fired up his engines, which was far too easy for Tino to do.

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tino_suomi June 6 2011, 05:50:09 UTC

"We tried to do our best by Tino. He's our little boy, half of me, half of Tiina and he's got everything I love in Tiina and everything I tolerate from myself. I do think the greater portions of his vices came from me, but don't let Tiina know I admitted it." He chuckled, putting a finger to his lips and winking ( ... )

berwaldsverige June 6 2011, 06:01:10 UTC

"I just want to end it officially with him. I've tried writing a dozen letters to tell him to go to hell, but I want to do it to his face. But I also don't want to upset his new wife and my brother and sister either. They are innocent in all of this. I'm thinking, since I'm here I take a day and fly over to Stockholm and visit him in his office. I doubt anything I used to have as a kid survived his excommunication of me from his life, but I only want pictures of my Mamma. I had a scrapbook I made when I was little, just after she died. It was sort of my tribute to her. I hope that at least still lives somewhere. That's all I want from him. I want to tell him to get bent and good riddance once and for all. I just want closure now. That chapter of my sorry life will be over after that. I have a much better family now and I really appreciate you all so very much." Berwald said fighting getting misty again.

tino_suomi June 6 2011, 06:16:35 UTC

"Well, you're welcome into it. I always wanted two sons anyway... a daughter too would have been nice... but we can't have everything we want in life. Hohoho, we'd actually had a name planned for a girl before we had a boy. We would have named her Aili, but we had Tino, and really couldn't pick a name for a boy, so we combined our names. TI from Tiina and No from Eino. Tino is not a normal Finnish name... it's made up." He laughed. "And if you want I'll go with you over to Stockholm so you don't have to go alone. You know what, no, I INSIST on going along. You've done enough all alone with no support. Let me be there. Besides. Maybe your father will be on his best behavior and be more willing to work with you if you have company, because I have a feeling he's the type of person who doesn't like to look bad to strangers but doesn't care if he's a piece of shit to his family."

berwaldsverige June 6 2011, 06:26:53 UTC

"I can only hope he treats my siblings better than he treats me. He blames me for my mamma's death. It happened on my birthday. We were coming home from spending the day at an amusement park and some guy t-boned us when he ran a traffic light. He impacted Mamma's door, killing her instantly, I was just bruised a little and had a concussion from smacking the window with my head. He said had it not been for me, we would have never been out of the house that day and therefore she would still be alive. He said, and I'll never forget it, 'Had I not been so selfish in asking to go to the park for my birthday, mamma would still be alive. It was all my fault she died.' I know NOW looking back that it was not my fault... but to an 8 year old? I believed for years, YEARS it was all my fault. To this day, I despise my birthday. Too many bad memories." Berwald sighed wiping the few tears off his cheeks. zit still stung to remember those words from his father and the scared little boy who still lived in Berwald still blamed himself a little bit ( ... )

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tino_suomi June 7 2011, 00:39:18 UTC

Eino stood to do the dishes. "If you wash them I'll dry them and put them away. Come on now Tiina if pandering about doing dishes makes him feel more like part of the family I'd encourage it."

"You just don't want to do them alone."

"... And there's that."

The conversation had both Mummi and Tino laughing at the chubby patriarch. "Come, Tino, the cake is done. You and I can decorate it." Mummi added, pinching Tino on the nose and directing his attention over to the oven. It only had 30 seconds left on the timer. What would be wrong with taking it out a few seconds early?

berwaldsverige June 7 2011, 00:48:47 UTC

Berwald grinned and rolled up his sleeves and dove right in. He wash then handed the dishes to Eino to dry and put away. They were done in no time and moved back into the family room to catch the end of the hockey game.

tino_suomi June 7 2011, 01:18:14 UTC

By the end of the hockey game there was a call from the kitchen. "Cake time." Tino smiled as he walked into the room with the cake, it was decorated in vanilla frosting that had been colored with blue food coloring and in yellow frosting it had written on it; "Välkommen hem."

berwaldsverige June 7 2011, 01:34:21 UTC

Berwald was touched, "Ah, tack" he said as he looked at the happy little cake sitting on the coffee table. He then had to quickly scoop up Hana who was heading toward CAKE!!!!! as fast as her little feet would carry her and she would have nosedived into bliss has Berwald not grabbed her.

"Tino you feed her too much junk, he's a sugar junkie now." Berwald chuckled as he tucked the puppy in his lap and Grinned up at Tino as he sliced the cake.

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