They walked for several hours. The snow started to let up when they first left, after five hours it had completely stopped. Now they were walking through around 7 inches of snow, which for toki was up to his knee. But for some reason unknown to skwisgaar it didn't seem to bother him. They still walked hand in hand. In his eyes it was like he was helping a little brother cross the street.

They found a town, did their pass, except now skwisgaar had toki to distract the venders while he stole things. Got more food, another blanket, a pack of cigarettes, stole a couple wallets; got around 47 bucks. They ended up buying a few things. They got toki a belt to keep his too big pants up, he also stole skwisgaar one; silver skull buckle on a black belt. They also bought a plastic tarp to lay on the ground. They did this with each town they hit. Got as much money and food as they could carry, ended up buying another back pack to carry the food in. They'd steal what they could, and leave before they were caught. They made camp on the middle of the forest to limit they chances of being stumbled upon.

Each night skwisgaar taught toki more about the guitar, where to put your fingers for each note, how to change the strings, how to tune the pick ups. He wanted toki to be able to play with him some day. Each day skwisgaar felt more and more responsible for this little kid. It seemed with each passing day that they were just brothers out camping. Days turned into weeks, which then turned into over a month, it was taking longer to walk there than skwisgaar previously thought. He wasn't to mad though, at least he had company. And each time they hit a town skwisgaar would leave toki in a toy store or a candy shop to find a woman to lay with. It would usually take no longer than a couple hours, he'd fuck her, wait for her to pass out, and steal as much money as he could. He got so got at this they had almost 5 thousand saved up.

He could easily just buy them tickets when they get to the docks. Toki would put on his charms and get a free toy or some free candy, toki's sweet demeanor and seemingly helplessness made it pretty simple for him to con almost anything out of anyone. Skwisgaar knew that, unfortunately toki was too innocent to do anything more than just steal things. So it was up to skwis to do the dirty work. He didn't mind much either. He got his dick sucked, and he got good money out of it. He didn't care how the women felt when they woke up, he only cared about himself and toki.

They were only about a day away from from the port, just outside Lillehammer, when toki seemed to get all jumpy. "This is where you ams froms?" Skwisgaar noted. Toki simply nodded his head. Skwis pulled him close and draped his arm around toki's shoulders. "Everytings ams be alrights. Wes just skip goings into towns and sticks to de woods." Skwisgaar instructed. Toki slinked into his side and stayed with him. He kept his head low and walked quickly.

About an hour outside of Lillehammer they stumbled on a small house on a large farm. Toki's eyes grew huge. "Dis ams your houses?" Skwis questioned in disgust. Toki slunk more into his side more than ever. There was a figure in the window. Toki almost seemed stoic at the sight of the man. Skwisgaar drug him away before the man could make it to the door. "I'lls keep yous safe." He whispered as they walked. He wasn't even sure if toki had heard him, but that didn't matter. What mattered was getting to the port.

They got the small town that harbored the port. A small fishing town. There were plenty of shops to go into to kill time before the next boat docked. They were gonna make it. America was so close. Skwis decided not to leave toki alone this time, seeing how shaken he was worried skwis. So they went to a candy shop so he could get the kid some candy. The idea of that automatically made toki happier. They had a day til the boat left, that was too long for skwisgaar's taste.

They were looking over the selection of chocolates when the door slammed open. There In the doorway stood an old man, dressed in a black robe, he looked like death. Skwisgaar couldn't figure why he'd come onto a candy shop, but one look back at toki he figured out why pretty fast. The man shoved past skwisgaar and grabbed toki by his hair and drug him out the door before skwis could stop him. "What ams the hells does you thinks you ams doingks?" Skwisgaar yelled as he tried to pry the mans hand off of toki. The man said nothing as he turned around and hit skwisgaar hard enough to knock him out. His last memory was of toki screaming trying to reach skwisgaar.

~authors note~

Relatively short chapter that skipped over a lot of time which could have been used to showing bonding and all, but I think I caught the gist of how close they got, I mean, how many times have you seem skwisgaar set his guitar down in the show, let alone share it with some one? That's right, none lol. I skipped a lot of time cause I wanted to get straight into the action. But don't worry, there will be flash backs to their time together so you'll still get to see it! I hope I'm not giving too much away. Anyways, leave feed back and all that, blah blah blah, bye!