"Norge! Norge Norge Norge Norge!" Denmark called out cheerily, pounding on his friend's door. "Norge! Open up! It's cold!" Finally, after more harsh knocking, the door opened up to the resident Norwegian's glaring face.

"Hei Dan." He greeted blankly, but not sounding too annoyed. "What do you want?" The Dane grinned, adjusting his scarf.

"It's December and that means it's nearly Christmas which means we need to spend way more time together and decorate trees and bake stuff and-"

"No." Norway cut across him. "Christmas also means I'm still very busy. Unfortunately for you I can't afford to spend anymore time with you than I usually do. Some of us actually plan on getting work done on time." Denmark stopped and pouted slightly.

"But Noooorge, it's Christmas! You're meant to stop working and spend time with family and lovers." The shorter man lightly blushed at the word 'lovers' but ignored it. He sighed, stepping aside to motion the Dane in.

"I knew you would complain about this," he mumbled. "So I prepared you something. Just come inside already, I don't want to waste any more heat." Denmark beamed and hurried inside, eager to ask questions. "Now be quiet," Norway beat him to it. "And stay here. And take your boots off tidily. I'll be right back." While he walked upstairs to fetch the mystery item, Denmark did his best to remove and place his boots in an orderly fashion, not spreading snow everywhere.

The Norwegian seemed to make a point to be quick whenever he was leaving Denmark unattended in his house, so there wasn't much of a wait until Norway walked downstairs, carrying a large red and green box. Denmark stared oddly at it as it was handed over to him.

"This is in exchange for not bugging me this season, got it?" Denmark shifted the box in his hold while he nodded, listening to the contents move around. Norway rolled his eyes. "Don't do that, you might be breaking things." He took the box back and led him into the living room where he could safely place it on a table. "You can open it you know." He clarified. "Otherwise I wouldn't have given it to you this early." The Dane grinned like a child and happily took the lid off the box, peering inside.

His joyful look quickly changed to confusion at the sight of the contents. Two layers of smaller paper boxes of many different shapes and sizes were organised near-perfectly in the box. They were all numbered on the top and from a quick inspection Denmark could guess there were about 25 smaller boxes. "Nor, what's all this?" Norway gave him a 'you-are-an-idiot' look before replying.

"It's like an Advent calendar. You know, there's a box for each day, so each day you don't have to annoy me." Denmark's face lit up in understanding and his happiness returned. He picked up the paper box labelled one and looked at it. It was about the size of a ring box, but he knew already that it wouldn't contain anything like that.

"So I can open this one today?" Norway nodded, taking a seat.

"Yeah, but no peeking at the other days or I'll have to set my troll on you." He reminded him casually, but Denmark was already set on opening his little box. Picked off the lid and tipped out the little prize; a piece of dark chocolate. "That's usually what's in the modern ones," Norway commented. "So I thought I should start with that. They won't all be food though, so don't get your hopes u-" Denmark cut him off by wrapping his arms around Norway's waist and squeezing him, chocolate clamped between his teeth.

"I can tell I'm gonna like this already~"

AN: This has been going on deviantart since the beginning of the month and I'm finally gonna get around to putting it on here too. Deviantart version may be uploaded faster due to it being easier, but all of it will end up here.

Also, I've been informed that in Scandinavia Christmas is the 24th, not 25th (my mistake), but there will still be 25 stories with Christmas celebrated on the 24th.

Enjoy~

(Also, apologies for spamming people who have me on alert with all of these chapters at once. ^^")