Thanks to guest reviewer I am now uploading this chapter again, hopefully you can read it now.

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December 24th 1969, Stockholm

"Norway, it's for you," Sweden said, offering the phone to the poorer nation. Norway cast a reluctant glance at the food, so much of it, before leaving the table and accepting the phone.

"Ja," he said as a greeting, he was silent a bit as the other spoke and the Nordics did not think too much of it until his coffee cup slipped and broke against the floor sending scalding coffee and glass shrapnel flying through the room. He didn't seem to notice. He just stood there, staring at nothing with the phone to his ear. Sweden hurriedly took it away from him, afraid that he would drop it too, and quickly apologized to whoever it was on the other end before ending the call.

"Hej Norge~ You okay?" Denmark asked, waving a hand before the frozen nation's face. Norway shook his head violently before replying.

"Yes, of course I am fine. Excuse me." He then proceeded to walk out of the room, broken glass crunching under his mended socks, and lock himself in the bathroom from where only second later could be heard the unmistakable sound of cheering.

Tino sighed and began cleaning up the mess while Sweden cleaned off the table. It only about half a minute before Norway joined them again. He raised an eyebrow at the mess.

"Who spilled the coffee?" he asked, aghast that someone could waste expensive coffee and a good cup that could hold for years.

"You did," Finland answered. Norway lifted another eyebrow secretly glad it wasn't one of his own.

"I better get another cup then," he said, walking through the glass again and into the kitchen. He passed Berwald on his way to the coffee pot, or at least he tried to, but the larger nation stopped him with a hand on his shoulder and pointed to the floor where he had walked. Norway turned and saw the bloody footprints.

"Oh." He would have to mend the socks again, hopefully he would be able to wash off the blood...

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"So, what was that?" Denmark asked. They were all seated in the living room, watching Finland pick glass out of Norway's feet. Norway just shrugged, hiding his mouth behind a new coffee cup.

"A phone call," he answered.

"He meant the cheering," Iceland said bored.

"That was a vocal consequence of said phone call."

"So ya went to the bathroom to cheer for nothin'?" Norway sipped his coffee wishing Finland was done so he could strangle the Dane.

"No, I vocally expressed my positive -"

"I think we'd really like to know what that phone call was about, Norway," said Finland, cutting off an explanation that would probably only be some empty words.

"Oh, it was nothing," he said, suddenly looking shyly into his cup. "They just found some oil of the Coast."

"You have oil!" Denmark yelled. Norway glared at him.

"How large?"

"Per did not know, but it is supposed to be fairly large."

"So you have money?" Everyone went silent for a moment, staring at the blonde. To think of Norway with money…

"Yes. I will have money."

They smiled that evening, even Sweden managed a lasting smile and he and Denmark didn't even argue. Even when Finland nagged Norway about using his new money to by some food because 'he was more skin and bones than meat' and he 'needed to stop looking like a walking skeleton', or when Norway made Iceland call him Big Brother, the smiles would still be there. They opened their presents and ate candy, Finland kept fussing over Norway's feet and made them all eat twice as much as they should have.

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He began the oil production in 1971, and by 2000 Norway was the third largest exporter of oil and gas, the largest outside the Middle East. In just 30 years Norway went from being a country of farmers and fishermen to be one of the worlds richest nations*. He suspected it then and later on he knew. The oil was the most useful Christmas gift he had ever received.

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Translations:

Ja (norwegian) - Yes

Norge (danish) - Norway

Author's note:

The Norwegian oil fund was in July 2015 worth 7 trillion NOK (799.8 billion USD), that is more than 1 million NOK per capita. It is said to be the largest stockholder in Europe and holds 1% of the global equity market.

I think his was a very important moment for Norway as it made him what he is today. ¼ of his entire income comes from the petroleum industry.

The 'Per' he is referring to is Per Borten, Norway's Prime Minister from 1965 to 1971.

I hope you enjoyed this one-shot, if you didn't like it please review and if you did like it then please let me know.

*Norway are the fourth richest nation in the world, source: .com(slash)the-23-richest-countries-in-the-world-2015-7?r=US&IR=T