There was the sound of soft crying as Iceland tapped on Denmark's door. Almost at once, the sound stopped and the sound of bed springs followed it. The door cracked open and half of Denmark's face appeared. His usually bright blue eyes were bloodshot and dulled. Iceland didn't act like he noticed- he never did. He knew Denmark would be crushed should he bring it up, something Iceland didn't want.
"New letter from Norway," he said, words clipped and calm- almost too calm. Denmark's hand darted out to grab the piece of paper presented to him. He disappeared behind the door and there was the sound of paper ripping. After a long silence, Iceland could hear the paper being crumbled. He didn't need to ask- he knew what would be written in Norway's tiny and angry script. Another cease and desist order- stop contacting him, stop sneaking to Sweden's house to see him.
If only Norway would see what Iceland did. How Denmark went over to his bed and sat down. How he crumbled the paper, smoothed it against his knee. How he clung to that bit of paper like it was his entire soul- only because Norway wrote it. Iceland would love to show his brother how his words killed the Dane seated in that room.
All Iceland could do was slip into the room, sit down next to Denmark. The Dane curled his arms around him, clinging to all he had left of Norway who he held so dear. Iceland would pay no mind to the tears wetting his shoulder or how roughly Denmark clung to him. It didn't matter to him. He just wished he could do more, instead of sitting there until the Dane had worn himself out enough to drop to sleep.
AN: Based on a bit of fanart, and my basic understanding on history... The gist of what I got was was that mainland Norway in one way or another got torn from Denmark at some point about...1816. And proceeded to become one with Sweden, or something. Denmark was left with the possessions he totally jacked from Norway. (Iceland, Greenland...something else, I'm sure.) So- he gets to live with Iceland. I figured Denmark would be pretty torn up over it.