Thanks again for the reviews to all of you! I'm sorry it has been a while since I updated, but I'm out digging all week. I'm also still looking for a Beta.
Disclaimer: I don't own anyone of them except Olivia!
Text looking like this means it's Swedish.
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Grissom looked up as he heard a knock on the door to his office
"Catherine told me, you wanted to see me", Greg said.
"Yes, I wanted to ask you a little about Scandinavia", Grissom answered and gestured for Greg to sit down in the chair on the opposite side of Grissom's desk.
Greg hesitated for a while.
"I won't put up with any more of those foot experiments you do."
Grissom smiled.
"It's nothing about you Greg, I promise. I just want to ask you since you talk so often about Pappa Olaf. Have you ever been to Scandinavia?"
"Yes, when I was ten I travelled through Norway, Denmark and Sweden with my mum, grandma Tove and Pappa Olaf."
"That's great! As you might have heard I'm going to Sweden."
"Oh! I know just the place for you then. In Stockholm, at Hagaparken there is this butterfly house called Fjärilshuset."
"Really?!"
"Yes, I remember Pappa Olaf saying something about a song called Fjäril vingad syns på Haga that was written by a guy called Bellman in the 18th Century. I remember it mostly because Pappa Olaf told me Bellman mostly wrote songs about drunken people he met around Stockholm. Where in Sweden are you going to?"
"Gothenburg, but it seems as if I have to visit that butterfly house as well. I have to go to Stockholm anyway. The plane lands at Arlanda. Then they told me to take the train down to Gothenburg since it is cheaper and better for the environment."
"Yes, they usually take the trains more often than they take the plane. Maybe because it's not as big as the US. But as you said it is better for the environment and if I remember it correctly, the Scandinavian countries are much cleaner than most other places you could visit in Europe."
"How was that expression you told me once?"
"Som man reder så liger man?"
"Yes, that one… But it was Norwegian right?"
"Actually it's Swedish in the beginning and it's more common over there than in Norway I think. The Swedish version is: Som man bäddar får man ligga. Was that all?"
"Yes, thank you!"
When Greg had gone, Grissom picked up the phone and called the number he since a long time had memorised in his mind.
"Sidle"
"Hi honey! I will change the tickets so we will have a few days in Stockholm before we go to Gothenburg. Greg told me about this butterfly house I feel like checking out there."
He could hear Sara smile through the phone.
"You never ever change, do you?" she said and he could hear the love in her voice.
"No, but you still love me, right?"
"Of course! Eeeeeeeeeeeeh Brass is here. I need to go check on the body now. See you later!"
"Yes, love you!"
He hang up and sat for a while just looking at the phone. How come he missed her as soon as she wasn't in the same room as him?
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Alice had just put Olivia down for the night. Olivia looked like a younger version of her mother. She had her brown hair and her big, round eyes. They where blue, but not her mother's dark blue but the ocean blue that her father's eyes were. Alice had just finished reading a chapter in Mio min Mio to Olivia and now she was almost asleep. So Alice tucked her in and started singing the lullaby she always did at the same time she quietly stepped out of Olivia's nursery.
Nu lilla humla (Now little bumblebee)
Nu ska du sova (Now you'll sleep)
Alla små ungar (All little children)
I sina sängar (In their beds)
Och deras mammor (And their mothers)
Och deras pappor (And their fathers)
Alla ska sova för nu är det natt (Everyone will sleep because now it's night time)
Sova ska också vareviga katt (Every cat will also sleep)
Kossor och kalvar (Cows and calfs)
I sina hagar (in their meadows with fences)
Alla små föl (All little foals)
Och alla små grisar (and all little pigs)
Alla kaniner (All rabbits)
Alla små lamm (All little lambs)
Nu ska de sova för nu är det natt (Now they will sleep because it's night time)
Sova ska också vareviga katt
Skogar och hagar (Forests and meadows with fences)
Åkrar och ängar (Fields and meadows without fences)
Blommor och fåglar (flowers and birds)
Och alla små kryp (and all little bugs)
Allting som lever (All that's living)
På hela jorden (on earth)
Allting ska sova för nu är det natt (Everything will sleep because it's night time)
Sova ska också vareviga katt
Alice made sure Olivia was asleep before she closed the door and went to sit down on the couch in front of the TV. She turned on the news. It always made her sad, but there wasn't anything else on at that time she could watch.
Not long after that, the telephone rang and she got up from the couch to get it.
"Alice Levander?"
"Hi, it's Sara!"
Alice smiled at the familiar voice. It was a long time since they had talked.
"Hi! Are you coming next week like you said?"
"Yes, we will, but Grissom has changed his mind a little. He wants to go to Stockholm for a couple of days to visit some butterfly house there."
"I know where it is. Do you want me and Olivia to join you there? That makes it easier for me to pick up your train tickets as well and Olivia and I can come pick you up at Arlanda airport."
"That would be great! But isn't it to much trouble for you to come up there just for us?"
"No, I have my father living in Sigtuna which is really close to Arlanda and only 40 km away from Stockholm."
"Then it's settled! Kiss Olivia from me!"
"I will!"
When she had hung up, Alice began to think about what could happen if she took Olivia to Stockholm… Gunvald was still there as far as she knew. What if he would see them? She should contact him. She knew he probably had the right to know about his daughter. But what if he didn't want her? Alice could live with the fact that he didn't want to see her anymore, but what if he rejected Olivia as well? Could she live with that knowledge?
She shook her head, telling herself she didn't need to have those thoughts. Stockholm was a big city and there were not much risk they would run into each other. And if they did, then she should think about a way to handle the situation then.
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Mio min Mio (Mio my Mio) is a book by the famous Swedish children's writer Astrid Lindgren. She is mostly famous for the books about Pippi Longstocking!
The song Alice sings to Olivia is also made by Astrid Lindgren (music by Georg Riedel) and comes from the films made of the books about "Barnen i Bullerbyn" (The children of Noisy Village). I thought it fitted good in a story with Grissom and Sara since it contains bugs and animals and Grissom loves bugs and Sara loves animals. If you want to hear it look me up at You tube. My name there is Milanima. The video's name is Alla ska sova.
(It's sad you don't know more about Astrid's work! – Most of her books are famous in other countries but not in the English speaking countries besides Pippi of course - I will tell you more about her in later chapters because she most play a big part of Olivia's childhood as she is to every Swedish child.)
Gris in Swedish means Pig. It makes it very amusing reading the CSI books and most of the fanfictions when someone writes Grissom's nickname and spell it with just one S.