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Chapter two

Norway awoke with a soft groan. He slowly opened his eyes to find that he was lying down in a hospital bed with the noise of the other Nordics talking in hushed tones outside. Gingerly, ran his hand through his hair and tried to remember what happened. He then remembered. He was hit by a car while getting the girl into Denmark's car, only to then have the Dane speed off to the nearest hospital.

"The idiot could have just called an ambulance," Norway thought to himself only to see if he could sit up more. The injuries received looked worse than they felt, but that could have also been from the painkillers. They consisted mainly of a bruised shoulder and ribs, a broken arm and a bad headache; all things that would heal quickly due to him being a nation.

After looking at the wounds, his attention was drawn to the little girl curled up in one of the visitor chairs. She was fast asleep, looking as if in a troubled dream. The other Nordics then entered the room, waking her up when Denmark called out happy to see him awake.

"How are you feeling Norway?" Finland asked, not noticing the girl wake up.

"I'm fine, nothing serious," Norway said while glancing at the girl who rubbed her eyes. She then stared at the group in silence as Norway continued, "Call a doctor in so I can be discharged."

Ansfrida then got out of her seat and walked up to the bed while saying, "What do you mean nothing serious? You were just hit by a car you should stay here so they can make sure you're alright."

Norway gave a slight smile before patting her head with his uninjured arm's hand. He then said, "I'll be fine. It'll take more than a car to keep me stuck in here."

Ansfrida looked down as if in thought, only to then look up when she heard Iceland leave to get the doctor his brother requested followed by Denmark asking, "So ah, who are you anyways?"

"Ansfrida…and who are you guys supposed to be?" she said while staring up at the strange men.

"Um well, I guess you could say that we're his brother's," Finland said while pointing at Norway only to receive an unsure look from the girl.

By that time Iceland had returned with Norway's doctor, causing the group to step away from the bed so that the doctor could check over Norway. After several moments of this, the doctor agreed that it was alright for Norway to leave, causing the patient to sit more in bed and fight back the urge to wince.

"You can't be serious," Ansfrida said, watching Norway get out of bed with the help of the Dane.

"He's a f'st he'ler," Sweden replied.

The doctor then looked back at Norway and asked, "Is there anything else I can do for you?"

"Can you give me a phone so I can call someone? I want to have the adoption papers sent and waiting for me at home when I get there," Norway stated.

Upon hearing the words "adoption papers," the rest of the Nordics plus Ansfrida gave the man a shocked look. Norway then paused at their looks and waited for the doctor to leave before placing a finger in front of his mouth and asking, "Can I trust you guys to keep a secret between family?"

"Sure I guess, what kind of secret," Denmark asked, confused as to where this was going.

Norway then glanced at the girl and said, "I want to adopt the girl because I'm her father."

"…What?!" the group asked in shock. The girl then stared harder at Norway before completing some quick math on her fingers.

At last she said, "But you can't be my dad! I mean you look like you'd be at least ten years younger than my mom and I doubt she had a baby with someone that much younger than her!"

"It's a bit complicated, but that hairpin you got from your mom is the same one I gave to your mother, Ingra," Norway began only to be grabbed by the arm by Iceland and ask, "You can't be serious. Do you know how much trouble you could get into if it gets out you have a kid?"

"That's why I told you guys to keep it a secret," Norway said calmly, continuing to watch as his daughter wrapped her mind around what was happening.

"But you know it's only a matter of time before someone finds out, I mean, with how connected the world is these days," Iceland persisted.

"The others will only find out about her if you guys talk about her in front of them or post something about her online," Norway said, now glancing at the others to make sure they understood that it was possible to hide her.

"Why is he not supposed to adopt me?" Ansfrida asked softly.

"Well you see, Ans, Norway and us are kind of…special," Finland began while looking down at the girl with a worried smile, "That's why we don't grow old and why it's alright for him to be discharged so soon. But you see, our friends who are also like us came up with a rule long ago that we're not supposed to have kids with our residents. So if the others find out that he has a little girl he could get in trouble for it."

"Norway? And what kind of trouble?" Ansfrida asked.

"Yup, if what he says is correct, then your dad is the personification of the kingdom of Norway," Denmark said while ruffling the girls long, blond hair before continuing in a more serious tone, "As for the trouble, it could range anywhere from simply separating the two of you to worse; mainly for you."

"…I don't understand. Why is this such a big deal?" Ansfrida asked.

"Why don't we discuss this more at my house," Norway said calmly after replacing the phone which was brought for him. The others agreed to this idea and were soon driving to Norway's house.

It was not a long drive from the hospital, and the house was rather spacious as the girl discovered. As they walked into the living room and sat down, Ans could not help but pet the fox thing in search for comfort, the only thing she had with her which still made some amount of sense after having her world suddenly turned upside down yet again.

Before going back to the serious topic of why she was supposed to be a secret, Finland proclaimed, "Well, since it looks like we're your new uncles I guess we should introduce ourselves. My name's Finland and the silent guy next to me is Sweden."

"My name's Denmark, also known as the king of the North; alright Princess?" Denmark said while giving the girl a wink at the princess part, causing her to roll her eyes at the cheesy nick-name.

"I'm Iceland, and you can just ignore the loud one," Iceland said while signaling Denmark as the loud one. Ans nodded slightly at this, thinking that so far Iceland was the only one who actually made sense.

Norway then sat down after faxing the papers back to the correct office. As he sat down, Ans stared at him for a moment before asking again why he was not supposed to adopt her. Norway then answered, "When a nation has a child with a mortal, the child will tend to have the potential to be very powerful. Like how you seemed to have gained a knack for magic from me. In the past, before the rule saying we were not supposed to even think about having a child, the children would work as a great asset for diplomatic marriages and as generals to lead against opponents. This in turned caused them to be targets and in the end cause more issues than they helped stop. Because of this, it was decided several centuries ago by both us nations and our bosses that we were to pass a sort of truce to not have children. In the end, it tends to be more adventitious for us anyways, because very few children are born with immortality."

Upon saying the last part, the room fell silent as they thought about the response. At last Ans said, "So it's pretty much a way to protect yourselves… I guess… Still sounds like a lot of people sticking their noses where it doesn't belong."

Several of the others could not help but smile at the last part of Ans' statement, only to have Denmark respond, "Well, from a military point of view it was looked at more as checking the balance of power. But your idea can also be right."

"So if you're going to be staying here with Norway then you guys are going to need to get some stuff since I think all Norway really has for you right now would be a spare bedroom," Finland said happily, trying to get passed the topic of the rule.

"Later…nap first," Norway answered while reclining back and closing his eyes. Despite the fact that he was well enough to leave the hospital, his injuries still hurt and he was tired.

The others seemed to agree with the idea, only to have Ans then ask, "But what if you can't adopt me because I already have a guardian anyways?"

The other Nordics had not known this fact, and stared at the two of them for a moment before Norway said, "And what court would give some stranger a girl who has a perfectly good father? Besides, unless he's my boss I can simply have any reason for you to stay with him overthrown."

With this said, Norway went quiet as he fell asleep.

History thing of the day: Balance of Power

The whole balance of power idea originally came from Italian city-states in the Middle Ages (or so i remember from history class) with the main idea being if one city state grew too powerful the neighboring cities would form an alliance simply to defeat the more powerful one and knock it down a few pegs. This was then transferred to being used with countries.

The reason for Denmark bringing the 'balance of power' as an excuse to not let nations have kids would be that the kids could give that nation's army an advantage against the others and could theoretically lead to a breeding race to get more 'super-soldiers' than the opponent.

Anyways, hope that helps explain~

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