A/N: Final prompt, yay! It has been a fun ride, and I learned that I am capable of updating more than once a year if I put my mind to it! My New Year's resolution is therefore that I shall try to update at least once a month from now on.

Warnings: Italics means they're speaking in Dutch. I'm also taking a few liberties with how the actual New Years Dip goes for the sake of the story.

Prompt: New Year

Out of all the stupid things he has ever agreed to do, this has absolutely be the stupidest. What the fuck is wrong with him?! Why can't he just say no?! He looked to the side and saw his answer. Stupid Johan with his stupid traditions he wanted to share with him.

"Matt, I'm so glad to have you with me for this. This is going to be the best New Years Eve ever!" He said as he squeezed Matt's hand. He had such a sincere, happy smile on his face, and the way his sea green eyes were lighting up in excitement… How could anyone say no to that? A small, defeated sigh escaped him.

"No problem, Johan. You know I'm always up for trying out new experiences. Even when they are a little bit on the, uhm, extreme side."

"You call this extreme?" he said, trying to keep his laughter in check. "You pretty much walk around in your underwear during winter!"

"Compared to what I usually do on New Year's Eve, yes. This is pretty extreme. And walking in your underwear during winter is a hell of a lot saner compared to what we're about to do!" He huffed, crossing his arms.

The two of them were on the beach in Scheveningen, together with about 10.000 other people. Normally there wouldn't be anything weird about that, but all these people were there in their swimwear. That's right. Every single one of the approximately 10.000 people were at the beach, on New Year's Eve, in their swimwear. At least they bothered to wear a woolen hat and a pair of gloves. Matthew couldn't help but pinch the bridge of his nose as he shook his head in disbelief again. Was he seriously going to go through with this? He looked up and saw Johan's grinning face as he put on a hat of his own on his head before doing the same with Matthew, caressing his face afterwards. He felt the blood rush to his face. Yup, he was definitely going through with this. Dammit. He turned his head when he heard someone yell something through a megaphone.

"Alrighty, everyone, we're good to go in thirty seconds! Get ready!"

"What did he say?"

"It's about to go down, let's go," Johan replied, grabbing Matthew by the hand and walking a bit closer towards the sea. He heard people counting down around him. Crap, it was really happening. If he made a dash now, could he still get away?

"10!"

As if Johan knew what he was thinking, he gave Matt's hand a reassuring squeeze.

"9!"

Matt looked up to him, seeing that the smile was still on his face.

"8!"

Matthew swallowed.

"7!"

Johan winked at him.

"6!"

Matthew mentally slapped himself. If all these people could do it, so could he.

"5!"

He squeezed back.

"4!"

Johan saw that Matt finally made up his mind.

"3!"

They both looked towards the sea.

"2!"

They got ready to run.

"1!"

They ran towards the sea, jumping in it, followed by the rest of the people.

OHMYFUCKINGGODIT'SSOCOLDWHATTHEFUCKINGHELLWASITHINKINGARGHMYBODY

Matthew almost immediately rose up from the sea, arms wrapped closely around his body. He looked around to see if Johan was anywhere, when he felt another pair of arms around him.

"You and your people are the most insane inhabitants of this planet!" He shouted as he turned around and put his arms around Johan, trying to get warmer. Johan just laughed as he hugged back and started walking out of the sea, taking Matthew with him.

"What would that make you then?"

"An equally insane idiot for actually going through with it," he replied as he grabbed a towel or two and wrapped it around him. Slowly but surely the feeling came back into his limbs. He usually didn't mind the cold, but this was just too much. And they did this every year? And with so many people? He just couldn't wrap his head around it. They had to be insane, there was no other explanation. He took a look around and saw Johan chatting with a few other people. Everyone else was wrapped in a towel or already dressing up, but he was still only in his trunks. Matthew shook his head as he walked towards them and threw one of his own towels over him.

"Are you trying to get sick or what?"

"Anything to get me out of that meeting next week, haha."

"Nice try buddy, but if I'm going, then so are you."

"Sir, yes sir!"

They continued their conversations with the other people present, and watched the fireworks that the people from the organization let loose upon the skies, welcoming a new year. And when Johan took a hold of Matt's face and pulled him close to kiss him he decided that starting the new year with a splash wasn't such a bad way after all.

A/N: The actual New Years Dip is held on every January 1st, and is a proud Dutch tradition since the 1960's. When looking up info I found out that they actually do it in Canada too, but with way less people (only 2000 against the 40.000 in the Netherlands). So for the sake of the story, Matt never did it Canada because he doesn't know it even existed. Okay? Okay. :P.

Hope you enjoyed reading my take on the prompts as much as I liked writing it. May you all have a wonderful new year, cheers!