In the morning Peter wakes up his brother by pulling on his eyebrows with a pair of tweezers and Eskil hissing for him to stop. Lukas sleeps on soundly having had his night illness before he went to bed.

Arthur stirred awake with an irritated groan. "Peter...stop it..." He grumbled, still looking rather ill.

Peter's eyes widen and he jumps back into Eskil who falls over with a crash. Suddenly, saving peter from further reprimand, the door to the room opens and the other three Nordics enter the room. They all stop and stare at Arthur on the bed. All three have scrapes and cuts though sve appears to have the worst injuries complete with a gunshot wound.

Seeing them come in, Arthur carefully climbed out of the bed with a tired sigh, motioning for Sve to come over. "Has the bullet been removed?" He asked, rubbing his eyes to try to wake up more.

Berwald shakes his head moving over to the bed unsurely but sitting beside him shedding the coat and turning to give him the best view. Peter runs to Tino hugging him tightly.

Arthur nodded, grabbing some vinyl gloves from the counter, just so he wouldn't cause any infections from touching the open wound. "Alright, just hold still a moment." He said, inspecting the wound. He set a hand over the open wound and mumbled an incantation, the bullet soon coming out and into his hand. He set the small chunk of metal inside, then performed the healing incantation to seal up the wound. "It'll still be tender, as the nerves will take time to readjust." He said, stripping off the gloves.

Berwald's eyes are wide but he nods standing and putting an arm around Tino while picking up Peter with the other before glancing at the two still sleeping forms on the bed before glancing back at Tino. Understanding what he is asking Tino turns to Arthur "how are they? And thank you."

"They'll live. I've reduced their radiation levels, so as long as they stay away from any major sources of radiation, it will work its way out of their systems with time." Arthur replied, tossing the gloves in the trash before walking over to Mathias and Lukas. Now that he had some rest, he decided to get to work on their injuries, healing up all of Mathias' bullet wounds and healing Lukas' ankle.

They sleep through the process the first actual restful sleep the two have bad in a while "thank you." Tino repeats watching Arthur "thank you so much." He glances down at Peter. Then across the room at Eskil. "It's not safe here for the boys. Will you take them with you when you leave?" He asks lightly.

Arthur nodded. "I can do that." He replied simply, walking over to the chair by the bed and sat down with a weary sigh, running a hand down his face.

Tino grins sympathetically "would you like me to go get you something to eat? Or drink maybe?" He offers as sve puts down Peter and kisses Tino before exiting the room a steely look on his face.

"Something with caffeine would be wonderful..." Arthur said with an appreciative smile.

Tino turns following sve out the door and returning with a steaming cup of tea. "I'm sure it's nothing like your homelands but it's the best we have here."

"At this point, I'd even take coffee if necessary." Arthur said with a wary chuckle, taking the tea cup and started sipping at it.

Tino chuckles as well and turns on the TV in the room which is running Nordic only coverage of three of five Nordic leader shooting warning the leaders of Sweden and Denmark to be extra careful. The noise from the TV wakes Lukas who sits up and looks down at his healed ankle "thank you." He says quietly before looking at ice and Tino "good you made it back safely. I saw this report last night and figured it wasn't safe for you three to fly publicly." He says gesturing at the TV.

"I can have my private plane drop people off wherever they need to. No-one will suspect an English plane." Arthur offered as he sipped at his tea.

Lukas stares at him for a moment before nodding his head. "That would be good." He then turns to look down at matthais. He glances at Arthur before shrugging and kissing his forehead. "It will help me keep him safe. Tino? Do you have my laptop?"

Arthur raised an eyebrow as he watched Lukas quietly, finishing off his tea.

Lukas quickly opens up his laptop setting to work having the ugly feeling that Denmark's boss lied to him. He hadn't had time to look into it yet though so here he was accessing the man's mainframe ignoring those around him. He turns pale at the information that pops up on the screen angling the laptop away from matthais in case he woke up so he wouldn't see the screen.

Seeing Lukas' change in demeanor, Arthur frowned. "What's wrong?" He asked lightly, standing up and walking over to see what was going on.

Lukas glances up at him deciding that he should trust him he turns it so he can see the screen. He tells him what matthais' boss said and then shows him the locations of at least eight plants in Denmark alone and then plans to dig tunnels into other nations near Denmark to build more plants.

"Well that's not good..." Arthur mumbled, tapping his chin in thought. "I might be able to take them out without much difficulty. I'm very good at infiltration." He offered. "Even if I healed everyone to 100%, all of you just aren't very skilled with sneaking. There's no way you'd be able to take out that many plants without getting hospitalized again. I could take out half of them before they even realize what's going on."

Lukas's eyes narrow "this is our problem to deal with. Not yours." He says defiantly "and if we accepted your help you wouldn't go alone. And whose says you're good at infiltration?"

"You involved me the moment you called for my help. And who do you think the James Bond tales are based off of? Bringing someone along would only complicate things." Arthur pointed out. "And you can't go to anymore plants, or you will be beyond my aid."

Lukas scowls "who is James Bond? And why does he matter? And I can't just sit around! There are still plants in my own country to destroy."

"So you'll go get yourself killed and leave Mathias all alone? Is that your plan?" Arthur asked. "Because mark my words; if you go into any other plants, you will die." He said flatly.

Lukas is silent and turns to look at his lover on the bed sleeping so peacefully. "Alright. Your right your right. And I know that. Sorry. But I still won't feel right letting you do all the work."

"These plants are a hazard to more countries than just your own. If that radiation hits the ocean, my islands will be some of the first affected by it, and I can't allow that to happen. To top it off, my little brother lives here, so I'm doing this to protect him, too. I have just as much reason to do this as you do."

Peter looks up at his brother with big eyes because Arthur doesn't often show that he cares for him. Lukas lets a relaxed smile form on his face. "Alright. Your right but you should still take someone with you. Just in case. And we should check your country as well we have no proof that this project was limited to the Nordic countries."

"I already told you, taking someone with me will more than quadruple my chances of getting caught. Unless you have someone who specializes in infiltration, I'm going on my own." Arthur said.

"And if you do get hurt or caught? Who will you depend on to help you? At least someone you can trust to stay outside and cover you if needed. Don't you trust anyone?"

"I don't need help. I have infiltrated many facilities, and they still have no idea I was ever there." Arthur said. "I will have no problems getting in and out. You worry too much."

"Fine! I won't worry about you. Waste I my time anyway. Do what you want and have fun."

Arthur nodded. "Just send the locations to my phone and give me forty-eight hours." He said, starting to walk out of the room.

Lukas doesn't say anything just pulling out his phone and texting. Peter on the other hand runs up and holds onto his arms tightly "brother?" He says softly his cheeks flushing from embarrassment

Arthur stopped, looking down at Peter. "Yes, Peter?" He asked

Peter looks away "just don't die ok?" He says avoiding his eyes holding tightly to his arm.

Arthur smiled tenderly down at him. "I won't, I promise." He said, ruffling up the boy's hair.

Peter pulls away fixing his hair and retreated to Tinos arms. "Yes remember there are people waiting at home ok?" Tino says lightly

Arthur nodded with a light smile. "Yes, I know. I'll be back in forty-eight hours, tops." He said, then left the hospital to get to work.

Lukas watches him go not willing to admit to himself that he is worried about the man. He turns back and starts to tend to matthais again.

Mathias woke up after a while with a light yawn, smiling gently at Lukas. "Hej."

Lukas smiles tersely at him wandering if he can get away with not telling him about the plants in Denmark. "Hej. How do you feel?"

"Better. I don't hurt nearly as bad as before. I take it Arthur patched me up?" Mathias asked, carefully sitting upright.

"Ja he did." Lukas say simply "and my ankle as well."

"Well that's good. Was he able to do anything about my knee?" Mathias asked hopefully.

"He was able to do a little bit but your actually missing bone fragments and he can't magically make those grow back. You would need a marrow transplant to fully heal it."

Mathias frowned deeply. "Oh..." He mumbled. Where on earth was he going to get a marrow transplant? He doubted human bones would be a match. Their bodies were different. And the chances that any other nation was a match was slim to none.

Lukas watches him fret silently "you know if they can't find a match they can always do reconstructive surgery where they transfer the bone and then replace parts with metal."

"I hope so..." Mathias said softly, staring down at his injured knee with a thoughtful frown on his face.

Suddenly they hear a breaking news cast and they all turn to watch as they announce that the leader Of Sweden has been shot down in his own office with no trace or description of the assailant.

Mathias blinked. "Who the hell did that...?" He asked, clearly confused.

"You're a little behind aren't you love?" Lukas says gently. "The leaders of Finland, Norway, Iceland, and Sweden are all dead."

"Oh...sorry, I was kinda sleeping." Mathias said with a sheepish smile.

"It's alright elsker." Lukas says gently kissing his forehead closing his laptop and putting it away. That moment sve comes sweeping back into the room and pulls Tino into a hug.

Mathias looked over at them. "Everything okay, Sve?"

Berwald nods at matthais and gives Tino a kiss before pulling Peter into the hug as well making the child squeal. Lukas smiles fondly at the family.

Mathias smiled softly as he watched. "Well, it looks like things are over, right? We got rid of all the plants."

Lukas raises an eyebrow. He realizes he hasn't told him about the plants in Denmark but seriously they haven't even taken out the Norwegian plants. Lukas couldn't believe he would just forget about him like that. Tino gives a nervous laugh as Lukas stares at Denmark and Peter says

"But didn't brother go to Denmark to get rid of the plants there?"

Mathias blinked. "In Denmark...? But there weren't any..." He asked, really confused.

"Thank you Peter now please be quiet." Lukas almost hisses at the boy earning a sharp glance from sve. "Matthais. He lied to you."

Anger flashed across his eyes, an irritated growl rumbling in his throat. " det skide svin! jeg dræber ham!" He snapped, trying to get up, ready to go murder the man with his bare hands.

Lukas physically rolls on top of him to prevent him from standing "shhh it's ok love you can have him just not right now ok? You need to rest a little longer and wait until we hear from Arthur."

Mathias snarled. "Nej! That bastard lied to my face! I'm gonna kill him!" He snapped, struggling against Lukas, still trying to get up.

Lukas winces his body's still sore and his bones very brittle from the radiation. "Please calm down. You will get your chance but if you go now you will just cause problems."

Mathias settled down some, but still had a furious scowl on his face, internally seething.

Lukas relaxes rolling off of him and massaging the newly forming bruises. "Alright I know that's difficult to accept but just accept it for now and in a few hours I will take you to him."

"Good." Matthais said flatly, obviously still extremely pissed off by this.

Lukas just watches him sadly still kind of upset that his lover forgot about him.

Mathias looked over at Lukas, frowning a bit. "Are you okay...?" He asked.

"Yeah I'm fine" Lukas responds looking away not willing to let him see.

Mathias sighed heavily. "What did I say about lying to me?"

Lukas sighs again "you said that we had taken out all the plants. We only cleaned three countries. You forgot about me."

"Fuck...I'm sorry...I...I don't know what I was thinking...I'm sorry, Norge..." Mathias said, frowning deeply.

Lukas shakes his head as Tino grabs the boys and leads them out of the room to leave them alone. "It's no big deal. You've been sick mistakes happen."

"Still...that's something big and I shouldn't have forgotten about it..." Mathias said lightly.

Lukas just smiles hiding the pain before looking down at his laptop pulling it open and showing him the documents.

Mathias looked things over, frowning deeply. He couldn't believe that at gun point that his boss still lied to his face.

Lukas waits for an update text from Arthur trying to decide when he should let matthais kill his boss.

A few hours pass, Arthur texted that he was done with half of the plants with no problem.

Lukas throws his phone against the wall in frustration, he couldn't just sit here while Arthur was running around doing his job. Protecting his lover. So he stood and held his arm out to matthais "come on we have someone to kill."

Mathias smirked. "Finally." He said, climbing out of his bed, being mindful of his knee still.

Lukas takes his hand "get your gun ready we are transporting straight there ok?"

Mathias nodded, grabbing his gun and making sure it was loaded and cocked. "Ready."

Lukas transports them right into his boss's living room locking down all the doors so he couldn't escape even if the idiot tried.

Mathias glanced at the clock on the wall. "He's probably in his home office around now." He commented idly, limping down the hallway to the office. Without knocking, he flung the door open, gun up in case the man was in the room or ready for them.

His boss jumps up from the desk jumping sideways reaching for his gun papers flying.

Mathias started shooting at the man, not in the mood for his bullshit this time around.

Luckily matthais is a good shot and at least two bullets hit him taking him down. Lukas uses his magic to check his vitals and the moment he sees he is dead he grabs onto matthais and transports them out of there.

Mathias sighed, putting his gun away. "That was really satisfying."

Lukas just raises an eyebrow "well it definitely looked like you were enjoying yourself." he comments giving him a kiss before pulling him back down to the hospital bed yawning from transporting such a far distance. Normally it wasn't a problem as he used to be able to teleport across the world multiple times before he became exhausted. But he was still a bit out of practice.

Mathias laid down with him, wrapping his arms around him and held him close, falling asleep. A few hours later, in the middle of the night, Lukas' phone went off.

Lukas rolls over grumbling and answers it "ja?"

"Lukas? It's Arthur..." Arthur said lightly, the faint sound of sirens in the background. "I uh...I shut down all of the plants, but can I talk to Peter please?"

Lukas is silent for a minute before climbing out of the bed and shaking the boy awake and handing him the phone. "Hello?" The boy's tired voice says.

"Peter, its Arthur...I...I don't think I can keep my promise..."

Peter eyes shoot open and he is instantly awake "what? But you promised! You can't break it! You always break your promises! Please don't do it again!" The boys cries of despair awaken the rest if the room

"I-I'm sorry, Peter, I really am...I just...I wanted to be the one to tell you...I owe you at least that much..." Arthur said, letting out a couple weak coughs. He was currently holed up in some small room in the last plant. He shut everything down, but got caught trying to escape, his free hand clutching onto his heavily bleeding abdomen, having taken a couple bullets there, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

"No!" Peter cries and Norge snatches his phone back,

"Coordinates now! Where are you Arthur?" Lukas demands

"I-I don't know...somewhere in th-the last plant on the list...I-I'm losing blood fast, L-Lukas...I-I don't think anyone can get h-here fast enough..." Arthur replied honestly, feeling darkness start to creep around the edges of his vision.

Lukas uses his magic to track Arthur's signature and says "hold on help is coming." He teleports so fast that he drops his phone leaving it behind. He appears almost on top of Arthur.

Arthur stared up at Lukas in shock, then let out a faint chuckle, followed by a couple coughs, spitting up more blood. "I-I stand c-corrected..." He said softly, stowing his phone back in his pocket.

Lukas grimaces from the pain of the sudden teleportation and then lifts Arthur into his arms. "Ok hold on this will probably hurt." He says before focusing on the hospital room and transporting once again.

Arthur cringed when picked up, holding onto his bleeding stomach to try to slow the bleeding some.

When that land back in the hospital the first thing Arthur hears is peters crying and then a doctor is putting pressure on the wound as Lukas lays him on the bed and the doctor start to tend to the wounds working hard to stifle the bleeding. Lukas knows a few charms to help blood clot so even though he has exhausted his magic he starts to mutter the incantation trying to stop the blood flow.

Arthur was only half conscious throughout everything, the pain and blood loss taking its toll on him. He tried to stay awake as best as he could, knowing blacking out was just about the worst thing he could do in a situation like this.

They manage to stop the bleeding and Tino takes Peter out into the hall sure that his crying is counterproductive. After they finish stopping the bleeding Lukas mutters the same spell that Arthur used on sve to get the bullets out of his body and then he slowly started to close over the wounds,

Once the bullets were removed, Arthur finally let his exhaustion take him, slipping unconscious.

Lukas works himself into exhaustion until Arthur's condition is stabilized and then he weakly wobbles over to the bed and collapses beside matthais "I think he will be ok now. As long as his radiation level isn't too him." He mutters almost falling asleep instantly when his head hits the pillow.

Mathias held Lukas close, a worried frown on his face, worried about both men at this point. He didn't like Lukas exhausting himself like this, but he also didn't want Arthur to die. It would devastate Peter.

Hours pass and it is just as the sun is rising that the doctor announces that Arthur is completely stabilized. He has high amount of radiation but it can be handled he is safe for now. The entire room relaxes even Lukas's sleeping form relaxes. The doctor says that all we have to do now is wait for the two men to wake up. Tino smiles rocking the finally asleep Peter and sitting beside sve.

Arthur slowly came to after a while, a bit out of it after the way he blacked out, only partially remembering that he was in the hospital. He looked around the room before slowly trying to sit up, holding his stomach with a pained cringe.

Beside the bed he sees the small form of his brother peeking up at him with wide eyes red from crying. Across the room he sees Lukas asleep in matthais' arms Tino and sve are quietly conversing by the door while ice and Eskil are quietly playing a card game in another corner.

Arthur laid back down when he couldn't sit up without further hurting himself. Gaze falling on Peter, he smiled faintly, reaching over to scruff up the boy's hair. "Hey..."

Peter reaches up and hold his hand there for a moment before tenderly crawling into the bed beside him "hey. You kept your promise." He says trying to smile but still very upset from watching everything.

Arthur let out a faint chuckle, wrapping an arm around him and held him close. He didn't want to admit it, but the thought that he'd never see his little brother again terrified him. "Yes I did, thanks to Lukas..." He said softly.

Peter glares at him thumping his forehead. "Well now that you have kept one I will expect you to keep others got it!"

Arthur smiled gently, nodding. "Got it." He said, scuffing up Peter's hair some more.

Instead of getting upset and fixing his hair he leans into his brother's touch trying to figure out how to hug him without hurting him.

"I'm sorry for upsetting you, Peter...I really didn't mean to get shot..." Arthur said softly.

Peter nods and Tino has to stifle a coo of how cut this is so he snaps a picture of them smiling as Peter nuzzles close to Arthur "just don't do it again jerk." Peter mumbles still sleepy from all the crying and fear

Arthur smiled gently, running his fingers through Peter's hair. "I'll try not to." He said, relaxing and getting ready to go back to sleep himself. Peter falls asleep first still curled in Arthur's arms and Tino have to stop himself from squealing. Arthur held Peter close, dozing off soon after him. Eventually Lukas wakes up and glances blearily around the room relaxing when he sees that Arthur has lived.

Mathias stirred awake shortly after Lukas, giving him a gentle hug. "You did good." He said, kissing his cheek.

Lukas smiles at him wearily "thanks but it will probably take a while to replenish my magic stores though."

Mathias nodded lightly. "So, how many plants are left in your country?" He asked, wanting to plan out the next steps.

Lukas pulls out his laptop pulling up the files and showing him the map "there aren't many only four but due to the shape of my country they are spread out and hard to get to. I already took care of this one." He points "that leaves us with three more plants here here and here." He points at them turning the laptop around to show Tino and sve.

Mathias nodded. "I think if we coordinate and go at them all at once, we can take them out without too much of a problem. Every other plant has been taken out one at a time. They won't expect multiple plants getting hit at once." He suggested. "Since Arthur healed us up, you and I can do one, Sve and Tino hit another, and Emil and Eskil can do the last one. Eskil knows exactly how to take 'em out, so if Emil just watched his back, they'll have no problem."

"Are you sure about sending Eskil in?" Lukas asks worriedly "he is just a child and he isn't one of us. He will die much easier." He says glancing at the sleeping boy. "But that is a good idea and it saves travel time."

"I'd send Arthur with Emil, but Arthur can't go anywhere, and I don't like the idea of Emil going alone." Mathias said, biting his lower lip in thought, trying to figure out who else could go with Emil.

Lukas sighs "your right Eskil is the best option. Maybe if we switch it though? Send Emil with Tino and then sve with Eskil?"

Mathias nodded. "Ja, I like that idea better." He replied.

Lukas nods "alright should we go to one of my houses as a base? We can't go back to the one I normally live in but I have one up in the mountain area to. We can use that as the starting point so we aren't flying all over the place. And it should be a safe place for Arthur and Peter."

Mathias nodded. "Ja. Think Arthur will be okay to fly though? He still looks like shit..." He said lightly.

"I may have to transport there with him and you can fly with the others. That would probably be better for him." Lukas doesn't let it show that he is nervous about being alone with Arthur for any period of time. Now that he has helped them so much Lukas isn't sure what he should call him. Friend? Still an enemy? And he has no idea how to act around him.

Mathias nodded. "Ja, that's probably a good idea. It would be best to probably send him in a medical helicopter."

Lukas shakes his head "no I don't mean by helicopter I mean with magic. It's the most stable route that won't jar his injuries."

Mathias shook his head. "I wouldn't. You'll just wear yourself out more and then you won't be able to go after the plant with me."

He nods in agreement "all right I will contact the medical helicopter we should leave within the hour ok?"

Mathias nodded. "Alright, sounds like a plan." He said, getting out of bed to have a talk with Eskil about the plan, walking over to the boy and shook his shoulder to wake him.

The boy blinks awake at him shifting into a sitting position yawning. "ja?" he mutters as Lukas wakes Peter and the others getting everyone ready.

"We're gonna need your help, buddy. There are three more plants, and we're all going to split up and take 'em out at once. I need you to go with Sve to help him take one out. We're all heading up to one of Norge's cabins as a safe hide out for now." Mathias explained.

He nods "alright" he stands glancing around the room. "I will do my best to help you."

"Just be careful, okay? I don't want you coming back dead or riddled with bullets." Mathias said with a light smile to cover up his worry.

He smiles brightly at him throwing his arms around his neck. "Nope! You told me I could come live with you and I won't die until you follow through alright? Don't worry about me."

Mathias smiled gently, wrapping his arms around him and hugged him back. "I'm holding you to that." He said.

They pack everything up and then matthais leaves with the others and once they are gone Lukas gently shakes Arthur awake "hej."

Arthur stirred awake, looking around sleepily. "Where is everyone...?" He asked, confused.

"They're on their way to Norway." Lukas says quietly "and so will we soon."

"Oh...okay...Should I try to get up...?" Arthur asked lightly.

"No don't worry about it I will carry you if you will trust me."

Arthur nodded lightly. "Alright..." He replied.

Lukas picks Arthur up gently making sure not to jostle any of his wounds and then carries him down to the helicopter getting in and strapping him to the stretcher.

Arthur held onto his stomach with one hand, just to help keep it stable, closing his eyes to relax so he didn't hurt himself.

The helicopter starts and they begin the ride to the cabin house Norway finds that the silence isn't awkward like it is with the loud matthais but it is calm as if the other doesn't talk much either.

Arthur remained silent the whole trip, the steady sound of the helicopter's propellers starting to lull him into a doze.

When they land Lukas lifts the sleeping man into his arms and makes his way into the house laying him on one of the guest beds in the cabin an then preparing the rest of the house for the others arrival. He brings some water and pain pills leaving them on the nightstand for when Arthur awoke.

Arthur slept soundly once they arrived. When everyone else arrive, Mathias helped usher everyone inside.

Lukas puts Tino and Sve in the other guest room before showing Eskil the couch and telling Peter that if Arthur was up to it he could sleep with him. If not he would have to sleep on the couch with Eskil. He then turns and leads Matthais up into their room as ice makes his way to his room.

Mathias smiled, giving Lukas a peck on the lips. "So, sleep tonight and head out in the morning?" He asked as he followed him.

"That's the plan." Lukas responds shyly taking his hand intertwining their fingers. Emil turns away pretending not to notice.

Mathias nodded, giving his hand a squeeze. "Then let's get some sleep. We're going to need as much rest as we can get."

Lukas cuddles into the bed wrapping his arms around matthais quickly letting his body fall asleep.

Mathias held him close, falling asleep shortly after Lukas did.

When morning comes they awake to the sound of a gunshot from outside of the house that has Lukas up and heading downstairs with a gun in his hand.

Mathias jumped to his feet, grabbing his gun and running down after him. Arthur snapped awake at the sound, sitting up quickly, but let out a loud gasp of pain, gripping his stomach and flopping back down on the pain, breathing heavily through clenched teeth past the past.

When they get outside they see Eskil with a gun pointing it at a tree and Berwald standing behind him teaching him how to use it. They both look up when the others come running out and Eskil grumbles "told you we should have used a silencer."

Mathias let out a heavy sigh of relieve. "You scared the shit out of us..." He grumbled, then turned to Lukas. "We should check on Arthur. I doubt he slept through that gunshot, either..."

Eskil looks guilty at that but sve actually smiles down at the boy as Lukas nods in agreement going back up the stairs and knocking on the door.

Mathias shot a light smile over at Eskil. "Your aim is a little high, bring your shoulders down some." He suggested, seeing where the boy had shot, then headed inside after Lukas. "C-Come in..." Arthur called lightly, laying on his side a bit curled up, still holding his stomach.

Lukas enters raising an eyebrow and pushing him down flat on the bed muttering a few healing spells he had learned yesterday just to ease the pain before handing him the pain pills he then glances around the room "where's Peter?"

Arthur took the pain pills, grateful for the relief from Lukas' spells. "I-I don't know...h-he wasn't here when I woke up..." He replied, relaxing some now that he didn't have a stabbing pain in his abdomen.

"Hmmm" is all he says before pointing out Arthur's window where he can see Eskil and Sve just in time to hear another gunshot go off.

Arthur watched them shoot, a wave of relief washing over him. "I-I thought we were under attack..." He said with a wary chuckle

Lukas cracks a small smile "yes so did we." he then turns to go downstairs and cook breakfast which is where they find Tino and Peter.

Arthur smiled tiredly, closing his eyes to try to get some more rest. "Everything alright?" Mathias asked, having gone to the kitchen to make sure everyone was accounted for.

"It appears to be." Lukas says as he leans in between the laughing two to help make breakfast "hej, can you go check on Emil and tell him that breakfast will be ready soon?"

Mathias nodded. "Ja." He said, then heading up to Emil's room, knocking on the door.

"Come in." Emil's quiet voice calls as he watches sve in the yard from his window as well.

Mathias walked in, smiling gently. "Breakfast is about done." He said.

Emil nods "that's good." he then turns and looks at matthais seriously "you will keep him safe?"

Mathias blinked. "Keep who safe?" He asked, not sure who Emil was referring to.

Lukas rolls his eyes "Lukas. You won't let him take too much of the burden upon himself?"

Mathias shook his head. "Of course not. I'd rather die than let anything happen to him."

"Good. I know he doesn't show it very well but he really does love you a lot."

Mathias smiled softly. "Ja, I know he does."

Emil nods and then turns following matthais down the stairs to the kitchen.

Mathias headed back into the kitchen, taking a seat at the table, tentatively rubbing his sore knee. It was nowhere near as painful as before, but it still hurt to walk on.

Lukas sets the table giving portions out for everyone as Tino goes to the front door and calls in sve and Eskil. Once food was dished out, Mathias quietly started eating. Lukas takes a tray with food on it up to Arthur's room knocking on the door once again.

"Come in..." Arthur called sleepily.

Lukas steps into the room closing the door and setting the tray besides the bed sitting. "How are you feeling? Are you hungry?"

Arthur let out a faint chuckle. "I can't tell if my stomach hurts from my injuries or if it's demanding food." He replied.

"Well eat then and if you throw up we know the answer" Lukas says a dry chuckle escaping him as well before he stands "you know you aren't so bad. If I come back alive, maybe we could stop hating each other."

Arthur smiled lightly, nodded. "I like that idea. Just don't die. It'll be nice having a friend." He said with a chuckle of his own.

Lukas smirks a little "I will do my best." he then exits the room. Arthur then slowly started to eat, not wanting to overdo it. Lukas joins Matthais at the breakfast table.

Mathias looked over at him, smiling gently. "He doing okay?"

"He seems to be." he answers simply before beginning to eat his breakfast. When all of the groups are present at the table he hands then the maps to the plants "matthais and I are going the furthest so we should be leaving as soon as breakfast is done. Sve and Eskil plant is the closest to give you more time to practice. We should all be at our plants by 3 ok?"

Mathias read over the plans, nodding. "Sounds good to me."

They silently finish breakfast and Lukas stands putting all the dishes in the sink and glancing at the clock. "We should go."

Mathias nodded, making sure he had his gun and some spare ammo. "Ready when you are."

Lukas nods turning to leave but matthais is stopped by Eskil's arms around his neck once again. "Come home." he mutters.

Mathias smiled, hugging him back. "I will, I promise."

Eskil then let go and just nodding at Lukas unsure if he would allow himself to be hugged.

Lukas hesitates for a moment after watching this and opens his arms unsure of himself. Eskil gives him a gentle hug before letting go. Lukas retreats to the car quickly "do you want to drive or should I?"

Mathias just grinned at them before following Lukas to the car. "You know how to get there, so you should drive." Lukas nods crawling into the car and starting the long drive. Mathias sat in silence, just staring out the window.

About halfway there Lukas speaks up "so when is he going to start calling you daddy?"

Mathias let out a chuckle. "I doubt he'll do that."

Lukas smiles a little "yeah your right he's too old to do that isn't he." he drives for a few more moments before "would you want him too?"

Mathias shrugged lightly. "I dunno...I always wondered what it would be like to have a kid." He replied.

"Hmmm well I raised ice for his child years and you had him from ten to about 16 but raising him wasn't like raising your own kid was it?" Lukas says thoughtfully.

Mathias shook his head. "Nej, not really."

Lukas nods his head in agreement truthfully he had been thinking about children and a family the moment he saw that Eskil was practically hero worshiping matthais. A child would be nice wouldn't it? Well if they got out alive of course.

Mathias let out a soft wistful sigh, going back to staring out the window.

The hours pass and they go through a drive through for lunch before continuing on their way reaching their destination at 2:30. Lukas parks the car quite a distance away and they quietly step through the trees searching for the entrance.

Mathias had his gun out and ready, following closely behind Lukas to help back him up.

Lukas keeps his own gun up and at the ready the entire time "ok you're headed to open the valve and I will head to the control room alright?" he whispers when they find the entrance.

Mathias nodded, grabbing hold of his chin and gave him a deep, passionate kiss. "Be careful..."

He flushes kissing back before pulling away "you to."

Mathias gave him a big grin, then hurried off towards the valve, making sure to avoid the plant workers. Mathias eventually made it to the valve, stowing his gun so he could turn the valve and open it. Suddenly there are voices behind him "so you're the one who has been behind all of this?" at least twenty guards have surrounded him there guns all aimed in his direction. Mathias held in a heavy sigh. "Yup. That would be me." He replied. He only needed to give the valve one last jerk and it would be open. However, he knew the moment he did, they would likely open fire. 'I thought hope Norge can finish on his end...I don't think I can manage my way out of this one...' He thought to himself. He gripped onto the valve tightly, pulling on it with all of his strength and opened it.

But instead of opening fire the men fell upon him tossing his weapon to the side and tying him up. "Our boss would like to have a word with you. Boys! Close the valve." the last thing matthais sees is that when the valve closes the meltdown warning lights start to flash

Mathias growled. "If you close that valve, the plant will have a meltdown and kill everyone in this country!" He snapped, struggling hard against his binds.

The man growls and hits matthais hard over the back of the head but he sees the men opening the valves.

Mathias let out a pained groan, blacking out from the blow to his head.

Lukas is less lucky since he is headed for the control room he is forced to use his magic to subdue multiple people wearing himself out still not completely replenished from the other day.

Lukas had just finished shutting down the control room when a similar thing happened to him. He felt his magic grow dim and turned to see a women holding a suppressing crystal and many armed men. Knowing better than to fight so that he would be in good condition to escape he used the last of his quickly fading magic to ensure the plant was shut down before surrendering.

Lukas is forced to his feet and pushed out of the thankfully shut down plant and into the back of a van. A few minutes' later matthais' unconscious body was tossed in beside him. Lukas crawls over to him lifting his head into his lap.

Lukas frowned caressing his head. How the other had fared? Had they been captured as well? And how had that women known to have a suppressant crystal? But Lukas was sure it had been more than a suppressant as he had felt the magic's from the crystal mix with his own. He sighs unsure what to do or how to fix the situation they have landed in. he just prays that the others got out safely. And he also prays that that he gets to go home. After all it will be a little hard to start a family with Matthais if they never make it home. He chuckles a little. He must be more tired than he thought to be musing on such strange things. He fights to stay awake as the van continues onward.