When Sweden found Finland upstairs in the attic he saw the tears running down his pale cheek and shimmered on his lashes as he sat curled up with a book on his lap that no doubt to Sweden held images within the pages. Those violet eyes sparkled at Sweden making his chest tighten at the sight of tears resting on the blonde lashes of his and he jiggled his car keys in his pocket for a moment as he looked around the attic. The boxes were disappearing steadily,something he hadn't noticed before now and there was a rather large bed tucked into the corner of the attic that looked quite old. It was as if Finland was creating a bedroom out of mere nothing and said Finnish man sniffled softly as he used the bac of his hands to rub at his eyes fiercely and the wetness smeared across the pale skin like a gloss against his skin when he looked up at Sweden with those wide violet eyes of his. Eyes that were still sparkling with tears despite having removed them from his lashes and Sweden felt his chest clench tightly at the agony that revealed itself in those big eyes that peered at him curiously. "What's the matter, Tino? Why are you crying up in the attic?"

"I miss them. Why did they have to grow up and notice one another?" Finland got out in a thick, crackling voice as his fingers traced the edge of the album in his lap and his fingers plucked at the corner of his book and Sweden sighed softly to himself which was echoed by the baby strapped to his chest. Aili was wriggling in her maternity swing, no doubt wanting to see Finland as she had heard his voice but the five month old was tucked securely against his chest which prevented the girl from looing around like she no doubt wanted too and she scowled up at her father."I can't believe that Ladonia and Sealand turned out this way. Did we do something wrong? Did we not do something right? I don't get it! They apparently had these feelings all along for one another but I just can't see it! I keep looking through their pictures and I can't see one moment where they looked at each other as something more than brothers and it's driving me crazy! I can't help but feel lie I failed them somehow."

"We didn't fail them, Tino." Sweden replied as he walked across the squeaky floor to his husband and the baby whined as as she wriggled yet again against Sweden's chest impatiently and he sat down next to Finland while pulling the seven-month-old out of the sling and sat her on his knee making Finland sniffle. The baby's mismatched eyes immediately flew to Finland, whimpering she held her arms out for her mother and Finland happily took the girl from her father and cuddled the baby to his chest where she murmured quietly a nonsense string of sounds and Finland stroked his fingers over her light blonde tufts of hair. The Finnish man was looking down at his daughter but the tears were wavering in those violet eyes yet again when they lifted to Sweden and he reached out stroing his thumb underneath his eye catching the tears before they had the chance to fall down on cheek and then did the same for the other eye awkwardly. "Don't think for a moment that we failed them. Those boys aren't related by blood so they are free to do as they please but you have to remember, Tino, that sometimes you cannot help who you fall for. Isn't that what you told me when you were admitting your feelings way back when?"

"Of course you can't help who you fall for sometimes but not someone who was raised as a brother figure!" Finland protested then as he looked down at the book which was indeed containing pictures of Ladonia and Sealand during their much younger days. While they'd raised Sealand from a very young age of eleven there was still something parental in the way that they viewed their son and yet when Ladonia came into the picture Sweden hadn't expected the boys to bond as brothers. After all, they had drastically different personalities and they hadn't been the types to cling to one another rather they clashed and continued to clash long after Ladonia was introduced to the household that it should of been obvious where it would lead. Sweden sighed to himself as Finland kissed Aili's chubby cheek making the girl whine lightly as if in protest and the seven-month-old looked at her father curiously as her chubby cheek pressed against his chest. "I just didn't think that they would want to be with one another like that!"

Sweden grunted quietly to himself as he looked at his daughter then to Finland as he raised a hand upwards to press the bacs of his fingers against Finland's cheek making those wide violet eyes lift up to him like a child looing for consultation. It felt lie there was many things that the Finnish man seemed ot understand but this scenario was not one of them and yet he loved them enough to miss them terribly already and yet he seemed to absolutely refuse the logic behind the boys' feelings for some reason but Sweden knew there was time to unpack the Finnish man's emotions. He twisted his hand in order to press his palm against his damp chee and rubbed his thumb against his damn cheek bone for a moment or two without speaking in order to convey what he hoped to convey throuhg the touch alone but when those shimmering violet eyes found him again he decided that there had to be more than just a touch. There had to be an exchange of words. Aili grunted to herself as she reached up as if to slap at her father's hand but couldn't quite reach properly making both parents stare down at her fondly before Sweden spoe. "I say that we let them be happy with each other, Tino."

"Is that our only option? It would be better if Sealand felt something for Latvia but he claims to feel nothing for the boy but did it have to be Ladonia?" Finland questioned aloud in a murmur as he pressed his lips briefly against Aili's cap of silky light blonde hair and then began making swirls in the little locs of hair making the baby whine loudly in protest as she turned her face into her mothers chest. He sighed softly then as he looked down at his daughter who stared up at him with her mismatched eyes curiously and Finland kept his eyes trained on his daughter's precious face for a moment or two before he decided to speak again. "I just want them to be happy always and I don't know how happy they can make one another. I'd rather that neither of them got together just to spare them a broken heart, okay? Perhaps that's why I've just been so hard on them but I understand that there's nothing I can do to stop them from being together even now. I just want them to be okay and I don't want them to hurt each other."

"If they break each other's hearts then that's up to them. They're in charge of their own happiness, their own destinies and we can do nothing more than support and watch them as they go. It's like watching a baby waddling for the first time. Their relationship is new and what they're feeling is new so the best we can do is just let them explore their feelings." Sweden then stood up pulling his hand from the man's cheek to instead hold it out as he noticed Aili's rather adorable yawning. "Come on. Let's go take a nap, all three of us."

Finland knew that he could protest, put up a fuss but he refused to do so as he clung to Sweden's hand and both of them walked across the squeaky floor of the attic together with Aili yawning against his chest once more before ending it with a huff of air. If there was anything more precious than his daughter then he had no clue for his daughter truly was his whole world and yet the Finnish man was excited for the newest baby. It would only be another two months before they could see the baby, find out the gender and more than anything Finland found himself hoping for another little girl just lik Aili. It was honestly hard to believe that Aili was alive and well now when there was another baby on the way and he was surprised that he had gotten pregnant not once but twice now. A miracle was what it was. He was three months along but soon enough, very soon, he'd be seeing his little baby. He couldn't wait to find out the gender for Sweden hoped it would be a boy while Finland hoped it would be a girl and it was a constant bac and forth between the both of them. Finland allowed himself to be pulled down the attic stairs carefully as Aili snuggled down against his chest as if pouting and he clutched her fiercely to his chest as they came down on the second floor of the house the two of them waled towards the nursery with Aili whining lightly as if sensing she was about to be put down. Her little hands curled into tight fists gripping fistfuls of fabric with those tiny hands so fiercely that even though she was allowed a teething ring and a stuffed plushie in her crib she still clung to Finland causing Sweden to step in and help get the baby's hands to release Finland's shirt.

It was rather sweet that Aili clung onto Finland so fiercely but as he laid the girl into her crib he felt that same desire to swing the little girl up into his arms once more and he fought the desire to do so down as Aili yawned again then shoved her teething toy into her mouth. Her large violet and green-blue eyes watched her parents as they backed away from the crib and she whimpered softly watching her mother and father step over the threshold then turn to walk to their own bedroom with Finland yawning to himself. He knew that Aili wouldn't sleep right away, that she might even cry out a few times for her parents but Finland knew that Sweden would merely leave her be as he was a big believer in self soothing over the past seven month of her life. Of course it had worked in the past but Finland couldn't help wishing he'd brought his daughter with him on the big bed where they could cuddle together for nap time like they usually did. He clung to his husband's hand as he was tugged into the bedroom with the door swinging lightly on it's hinges and Finland found himself yawning yet again as he sniffed slightly then climbed onto the bed with Swede walking around the bed in order to climb onto his side of the bed. The two of them rolled forward meeting in the middle of the bed, Finland's arms reaching outwards for his husband instinctively and wrapping one arm around his shoulders and the other around his waist clinging to the man who wrapped his arm around Finland's waist. There was a warmth radiating between the two that Finland found he adored as he cuddled into Sweden, tucking his face into his throat as he shut his eyes sighing out softly as he settled against the mattress and his husband. A husband who adored him, a daughter who adored him and one more on the way. His life couldn't be more perfect.

Right on the dot, little more than an hour later, Aili was making her presence known to her parents. Finland's lashes fluttered against his cheeks as he groaned low in his throat at the nausea that was batting at him like a playful kitten's paws and Sweden's lashes seemed to peel apart revealing those cherished blue-green irises of his and they glowed with warmth for a moment. Aili's cries spiraled upwards with an intensity that had the Finnish man squirming away from his husband but unfortunately couldn't get very far due to the nausea that continued to bat at him and he groaned low in his throat. One of the harder things about pregnancy was the sickness and it was one of the things that Finland honestly felt that he could do without. Sweden pressed a hand against his stomach and rubbed lightly making a kneading movement that helped sooth the waves of nausea lapping at him which had him sending a grateful look to his husband but the cries of his daughter urged him out of bed. When he got to the edge of the bed he swung his feet over the side then forced himself to his feet as he waled across the room doing his best not to double over, not to vomit on his feet like he feared he would, and made his way out of the bed. Aili's crying was nearly hysteric by this point as she wailed her tiny lungs out and the Finnish man moved as fast as he dared to his little doll-like daughter as he entered her nursery where the girl's howling cries pierced his heart. He shuffled over to the crib reaching downwards into the crib and tugging the girl out into his arms as her tears ran down her red, chubby cheeks and her mismatched eyes sparkled up at her mother.

"Oh, Aili, do you need a change?" Finland murmured as he turned on his heel towards the changing table as his daughter's legs kicked out restlessly as she whimpered and he smiled softly down at the baby who whimpered yet again and he laid the seven-month-old down on the changing table and tugged her little pants off, reached underneath the changing table for a fresh diaper and wipes then placed then on the table next to his daughter's squirming legs. He opened up her diaper, grateful it was just wet for once, and proceeded to wipe her clean then sprinkling a touch of baby powder over her bottom placing the new diaper under said bottom and latched the velcro into place and slipped her pants back on. "There! All done!" The baby whimpered again reaching her hands up for Finland to pick her up and he smiled. "Come on, let's go cuddle with Papa."

Scooping the girl up into his arms he felt a faint fluttering from deep inside of him making him stop briefly to press a hand against his four month bump delightedly then returned his hand upwards into the cradle hold he had the seven-month-old in and walked briskly from the bedroom. It was odd to thin that soon enough his daughter would be a year old in just five months and that it would corelate to his giving birth for a second time. He only hoped their birthdays didn't fall on the same day! That would be disastrous he was sure of it but there was a warm spot in his heart as he thought about his children sharing a birthday and even though he didn't want Aili to feel in competition with a baby sibling that she never asked for there was still a drop of warmth. He adjusted his hold on the baby in his arms as he walked back into the room to find Sweden placing his glasses on his nose and adjusting them slightly. He then sighed but had a tiny smile on his lips as he too in the sight of his daughter. "Just couldn't help yourself, could you?"

"Aww come on! It won't hurt either of us to give her a little cuddle!" Finland replied with a laugh in his voice as he walked towards the bed feeling a stab of nausea as he bent forward to lay Aili on the bed then climbing on after her. The seven-month-old looked up at her father with the same stoic expression yet her eyes sparkled with curiosity as she reached up to no doubt grab his glasses and grunted quietly as she reached up but Sweden angled his face away fromthe girl's reach making her pout. Finland laughed lightly as he stroked his finger down the slope of her tiny nose then tapping the tip making said nose scrunch up as she looked up at her mother with a disgruntled expression and he knew that if she could tal she'd be mumbling to herself, just like her father. "No, little lady. Those glasses are not for you, they're Papa's! Do you think that when she's older that she's going to need glasses?"

"Who knows. Possibly since I have to have glasses and things like that are genetic." He stroked his daughter's silky cheek making the girl stare up at him curiously once again and then her little hand came up scratching the back of his hand excitedly before gripping onto it fiercely with all the strength a seven-month-old could possibly possess. "Sort of like how her heterochromia could be genetic. Of course it's very rare for a child to have and it's incredibly rare for a Nation to have heterochromia but she has a fifty-fifty chance to pass it on to her children when she gets old enough to have them." Finland laughed at the disgruntled light that came to those precious green-blue eyes and he reached out cupping Sweden's chee in a way that was similar to how he cupped Aili's. "It's strange to think that she'll make us grandparents some day too."

"I know but it'll be delightful to be surrounded by grandchildren!" Sweden seemed to frown fiercely at the thought of having more grandchildren but Finland laughed delightedly as he curled his hand from his chee up to his hair as he tugged him down for a brief, sparkling kiss that had his toes curling and his heart thumping unevenly in his chest. When they pulled back Aili was staring up in awe as if the sight of her parents kissing above her was something to gawk at and Finland laughed as he leaned down kissing her chubby pink cheek delightedly. "Our girl is going to be so pretty that it's hard to imagine her NOT having children someday. After all she's going to be unique because of her eyes and she's going to be positively lovely by the time she's England's daughters age! Our daughter is so lovely it's hard not to imagine what she'll look like as a child. The same goes with this new baby! We make lovely babies, don't we?"

"Of course we do. It's hard not to have a lovely child when you yourself are so lovely, Tino." Finland felt his face flush fiercely at the compliment and he bit his lip for a moment as he looked into Sweden's eye before smiling shyly as he then looked down at their daughter who was staring from Sweden to Finland curiously still. Her pink cheeks, her wide multicolored eyes, her rosy lips, her long lashes and her pale skin along with her silky hair had her as lovely a a china doll made from only the finest materials. No child was as lovely as his own and while he had once been envious over England' daughter for her loveliness he knew that Aili was grow into a child of beautiful proportions and when she was fully grown she'd be so stunning that it would be a pure shame if she didn't have a lover. He was lost in his thoughts, imagining a much older Aili with the same lovely features, when Sweden pulled him out of his thoughts. "Who do you think this new baby will look like?"

"Hmmm..." Finland hummed for a moment as he looed down at his daughter who was staring up at him now a she chewed on her fingers and he smiled as he poked her chubby cheek making her scowl for a brief moment before going stoic once again and he chuckled softly. "Well, I think our new child will look like you1. Aili takes after you so strongly what with her eyebrows, her little jaw, her chin and her nose that it's impossible not to look at her and not see you that I hope this new baby will hopefully take after you a strongly as Aili does." He then paused then smiled up at his husband brightly. "I think the question now, however, is whether this new baby is going to be a boy or a girl. I know after raising Sealand for as long as he we have that I wouldn't mind a little boy!"

Sweden chuckled softly as he leaned in kissing Finland's cheek causing both pale cheeks to turn a rosy red that had the Swedish man smiling as he leaned down and kissed Aili's cheek earning him the same result as her mother only in her case she pouted. While Sweden loved his son, Sealand, he knew that with a daughter as lovely as Aili that there was no way that his little daughter didn't deserve a little playmate who was just a lovely as she was. Son or daughter, he didn't mind in the slightest bit what this new child would be but as he looked into those sparkling violet eyes he found himself leaning forward to kiss the tip of Finland's nose making the man giggle quietly. "Boy or girl, it doesn't matter to me. But I'll tell you this; whatever gender the child will be they'll be just as lovely as their mother and sister."

"You're right. Regardless of gender I just want the baby to be healthy. Do we want to know what the baby is ahead of time? Because I think, what with this new baby being a surprise to have happened, that maybe we should keep the gender a secret. Be surprised when they're born." Finland suggested then beamed when Sweden nodded his answer in response to the question and he threw his hand forward wrapping it around Sweden's shoulder's and tugging him down for a kiss that bursted with vitality and warmth. Such joy was poured into the kiss that when it parted he was proud to see a pink blush on his husband's face. He then moved his hand from Sweden's shoulder's down to his stomach where he rubbed his four month bump carefully and delightedly as he smiled. "Well, little baby, whoever you turn out to be just know that we're excited to meet you! Welcome to the family!"