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This is Glimpses again. I thought I should add something about Finnish too and after quite long search I managed to get enough ideas for five short story. You will find a quite lenghty explanations at the end (sorry about that. I got carried away.)


"Is all the coffee gone?" Finland asked with a sad voice and walked to the living room with an empty coffee cup in his hand.

"Yeah", Iceland murmured, "sorry." Finland sighed and looked at his cup with a face of heartbroken man. He was really hoping it would be full of the delicious coffee but sadly the hoping wasn't really changing the fact that they didn't have any coffee left in the house.

"I can't believe it", he said, "who drank the last and didn't get a new packet?" Three of four nations looked at him and then turned to the Norwegian who was pretending that he was all alone. His coffee cup was still half full and he was doing a good job with ignoring others.

"Not my fault", he finally muttered after the glaring became too much. Finland didn't seem to agree with him because he gave him a bad look after hearing that.

"Norski", he said angrily and then turned to walk away. Five minutes later they heard him leaving the house with a door slam. Norway glanced up from the book he had on his lap and for a moment something seemed to trouble him.

"Why I feel like I was just insulted?" he asked out loud. The only reply he got was a shrug from Iceland and a grunt from Sweden. The Swedish nation actually knew the reason but he didn't bother with telling it. After all, it was kind of Norway's fault that there wasn't enough coffee for the Finn.


"How much?" Sweden asked, looking at the pile of wood Finland had collected on the yard. He didn't know why exactly the Finn had done that but there was probably some kind of good reason because Finland seemed to be happy about his huge wood pile.

"Hurumykket!" Finland declared proudly.

"No, I asked that", Sweden said and got a confused look from the Finn.

"Yeah, and I answered", he said, "it's hurumykket."

"Ah", Sweden muttered, understanding now, "so you don't know?"

"Jep", Finland replied, "I have no idea. Wanna count?"

"No", Sweden said, looking at the huge pile, "I think an estimated amount is enough in this case."

"I think so too", Finland agreed and nodded then, "okay, and now I should decide what the hell I do with all this wood."


"Finland!" Denmark yelled, "Finland! Finland!" Most of the Nordics were waiting in the hall, ready to go out right when the Dane was ready. When they heard him yelling, Norway glanced up with a slightly surprised look and then turned to the Finn.

"Strange", he said, "usually it's me he is yelling for."

"Maybe I should go to check what he needs", Finland murmured, looking a bit worried. Mostly because it was his house and Denmark sounded like he had just crashed down a whole room. However, he didn't need to go to find out because the Dane ran downstairs, holding a map.

"Finny!" he yelled, "why you are taking us to the place that doesn't even exists?"

"What?" Finland asked.

"It's not on the map!"

"But…"

"So there is no place called Turku at all!" Denmark said, "I checked." Finland stared at him with a confused look on his face. Of course Turku was a real place. It was one of his oldest and biggest cities and he had been there last time just a week ago. At least then Turku had been exactly where it had been all the time. Cities rarely moved around anyway.

"I think Fin knows his own land", Norway muttered, "it's usually kind of important for us."

"But he was raised by Sve", Denmark said, "that can't be very healthy. Maybe it affected him somehow."

"You raised Is", Sweden mumbled and the Icelander gave him a long look.

"What that had to do with anything?" he asked.

"Dan is worse guardian but you still turned out okay", the Swede grunted.

"Well, thanks", Iceland replied slowly, "I guess." Meanwhile Norway was explaining the Dane why it wasn't possible that Finland just forgot where his cities were and Finland just stood there with a confused look on his face until he saw the map Denmark was holding.

"Oh!" he said, "your map is in Swedish!"

"So what?" Denmark asked.

"My cities have different names in Swedish", Finland explained, "so the place you are looking for in that map is Åbo." Denmark first stared at him and then looked at the map again. It was easy to find the right name exactly on the spot it was supposed to be. He stroked his hair and quickly pushed the map in his jean's back pocket.

"Let's never speak about this again", he said.

"Only if you stop making jokes about that time when I mixed up havet and haven."

"Okay, deal."


It was Sweden's work day and so he was up that morning and ready to go to the office where he spent his work days if he wasn't traveling to the meetings or having any special duties. However, for Finland it was a free day and he had decided to come over to Sweden's place. Sweden of course agreed that it was the best decision ever and he really loved to have the Finn with him. Because Finland only had one day, they ended up with something they would later call "a work place date".

"Do you need anything?" Sweden asked when they stepped in to his office. One of the perks of being "high positioned officer" was that Sweden had his own office. It was even rather comfy room with nice view and he had lot of space. It wasn't Finland's first time there but still he walked in with a curious look on his face and smiled sweetly when he noticed the photos on the desk.

"No", he said and sat down on the Swede's chair, holding one of the photos, "I'm all okay."

"Good", Sweden muttered and went to check his work list. Many of his co-workers were also starting their day and he heard laugh and talking from the hall way.

"Hej, Berwald!" one of them said from the door, failing to see the Finn in the room, "skall du komma och har en fika med oss?

"Javisst", Sweden muttered and the human left quickly, hurrying to invite others too, "Fin, vill du träffa alla?" Finland smiled, founding it amusing how the Swede had switch the language without noticing it himself. Of course they often spoke in Swedish but this time they had used Finnish.

"No", Finland said in his own language, "I don't want to date them all." Sweden turned to look at him and the Finn tried his best to not laugh. Sweden's look was just so hilarious, like he didn't know if he should be amused or pretend to be hurt. Finally he just decided to reach over the desk and kiss the Finn.

"Just date me then", he said with that husky voice the Finn loved.

"That sounds much better", Finland replied with a smile.


Finland and Denmark were both lying on the couch when Sweden arrived back to home. He had known about the Finn but the Dane was a surprise. Though, it wasn't actually strange for him to come over without telling about it or asking for permission first. The Swede stopped by the living room door and looked at the nations who were talking about some kind of TV-show. The couch wasn't long enough for them both to spread out comfortably so Denmark had thrown his legs over the Finn's.

"Hej hej", Sweden murmured for a greeting. Finland and Denmark both glanced at him, the Finn with a smile and the Dane grinning, and then they shared a look.

"Did you hear that?" Denmark asked from the Finn, "he wants us to leave!"

"I know", Finland agreed with a nod.

"Is he always so rude?" the Dane asked.

"You leave", Sweden grunted to the Dane, deciding to play along this time, "Fin can stay." Denmark pretended to be highly offended by that and Finland was laughing.

"Sorry, Sve, we have to", the Finn said and reached up to give the Swede a kiss, "you have to admit that it is a funny thing."

"Hm", Sweden murmured, "what the Dane doing here?"

"I have a name, Sve!"

"What the Dane doing here?" Sweden repeated looking straight at the Danish man who only grinned back.

"Just hanging", he finally said, "Nor kicked me out for a while."

"Hang out in his land then."

"When I say kicked out I mean from whole country", Denmark told him, "and no way I'm going to my own land. They make me work there. I'm just gonna wait here a while until Nor forgets it was me who broke the window. Don't even try that glare on me, Svea, I'm not afraid of you!" Sweden looked at the Finn who only shrugged. He didn't know anything more about that.


BlaaBlaa -part

Norski = Finnish pet name / insult to Norwegians. Yes, it can be an insult but we are mostly in good relations with Norwegians (and of course they are currently The Best Neighbour Ever) so I think I have never heard it used as actual insult. Finns also often mix up insults / pet names so I have heard often Norwegians called "norski/t" in good and friendly way.
Norsk (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian) = Norwegian (person).

Hur mycket? (Swedish) = how much?
Hurumykket (Finnish dialect) = a lot (like so much that you didn't want to count)

Träffa (Swedish) = to meet
Treffata (Finnish "old fashion" slang/dialect) = to date (sometime 'to meet' too but don't spoil the joke. Kamoon, it took me long to find these words.)

Many Finnish cities have two names, Finnish and Swedish name. Mostly because those cities were founded by Swedish but in some cases the city had only one name but then the people there thought it would be more fancy to have two names and they just came up with a "Swedish" name (that really happened.)

Some names are pretty similar like:
Tampere – Tammerfors
Helsinki – Helsingfors
Kajaani – Kajana

Then some are a bit different:
Oulu – Uleåborg
Kokkola – Karleby

Then some have no similarity at all:
Turku – Åbo
Pietarsaari – Jakobstad
Lappeenranta – Villmanstrand

Swedes use "hej hej" for greeting but Finns (and Danes apparently too) says "hei hei" / "hej hej" only as a goodbye. And this leads us to:

Brief guide of greeting a Finn

We have lot of words for greeting so I'm just gonna use "moi" as an example because it's probably the most common one.

When you meet somebody: moi
When you leave: moi moi

You never say moi moi when you arrive / meet somebody! In some cases you may answer with moi moi if another person greets you with moi first. If you say it twice first it means you are leaving. Finns tend often to use the same greeting word that they were greeted with (like, I usually always use moi but if somebody greets me with hei I probably answer with the same word. Only time when I don't do this is when they say moro. I hate that word.) We don't really think about how we greet but I have noticed that moi / moi moi is so strong thing that if somebody accidentally say moi moi as a greeting, the Finns become very confused.

True story: When I first time moved to Sweden I didn't know hej hej is a greeting there. I went to shop, cashier said hej hej and so I stopped because I thought she wanted me to go away. It was quite awkward. However, I quickly learned to use hej hej too and now I'm confusing my fellow Finns every time I go to Finland.

So this is a tip for everybody writing fics about Finland: if you want him to be authentic, never make him say moi moi when meeting up with somebody.

p.s. Förlåt mig om jag hade fel om svenska.