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Chapter twelve: The Meeting

Soon it was time for the next world meeting, which was going to be Finland's first meeting since being kidnapped. He already re-met with several of the main leaders of the meeting, and he also knew that the other Nordics would be there in case something happened, but it failed to stop him from worrying about how the nations he had not met would think. What if they were not as happy to see him as the others? Or what if everyone so far had simply lied about no one being angry at him? The biggest worry he had however was if Russia was at the meeting and seeing him.

Finland had not seen or heard of Russia since the incident in the hospital, much to the pleasure of the other Nordics. Finland however could not stop but feel uneasy about this. Did Russia still want him to come home with him, or even worse was Russia now angry with him for not coming back on his own? He was still not sure if he even wanted Russia to want him back or not; especially if what he remembered was true about him causing this whole mess.

Finland was thinking of all of this the morning of the first day while getting dressed. Sweden was all set to go and watched as Finland slowly got ready. After watching Finland try to tie his tie for five minutes, Sweden got up to help him. As he did this, he noticed Finland's nervous look and said, "'t's 'lright, ya don't ne'd ta worry. J'st be y'rself."

Finland nodded at this and thanked Sweden while smiling weakly up at him. With this the two of them left the hotel room and joined the other Nordics before going to the meeting room. As they entered the door, the other four subconsciously made sure that Finland was in between them while Finland quickly scanned the room to watch the few people look at them. To his pleasure, none of the looks he was given looked angry or overly frightening.

Even after he sat down and began to put his folders in order, he would make sure to occasionally look up to see which others were looking at him and if he could remember them. For the most part for the nations who had not visited him recently, he could remember most of the European nations at least vaguely while with the other nations it tended to take him a while to recognize them if he did at all.

While he waited for the meeting to begin, several of these nations would come over to say hello and ask him how he was doing. During these times, Finland would try to act like what he figured was himself while being polite, while the other Nordics watched anyone who came close to him. Everyone who came up to him was nice to him, which caused Finland to begin to feel that everything would be alright. Then he noticed Russia enter the room.

When the other nations noticed Russia enter the room, the entire room seemed to quiet down while most nations began to whisper about him and shoot him dirty looks. Along with this, Finland could not help but notice Sweden push his chair closer to him and glare at Russia. Russia noticed all of this and with a sigh sat down in his chair and got ready for the meeting while glancing once at Finland.

Several minutes later, Germany called the meeting into order. The meeting went as they usually do, with lots of yelling and fighting; which only caused Finland to begin smiling happily at this. Norway, who was also sitting next to him, asked him when he noticed this, "What are you smiling at?"

"It's the meeting. I remember doing this; or at least all of this yelling that the others are doing. It's nice…," Finland said to his friend.

Much to Finland's relief, the nations seemed to be keeping away from the issue of what happened between Finland and Russia. This then continued throughout the other days of the meeting, with Russia keeping a distance from Finland until the end of the last day.

When the meeting ended, Russia walked up to Finland while he was gathering his things. Finland was running late, the other Nordics were waiting for him by the doors, when Russia surprised him; causing the poor Finn to drop and spill his file.

"Sorry Finland, did I surprise you," Russia asked while watching the smaller nation bend over to pick up his papers.

"Y-ya, a little. Um…did you need to talk to me about something?" Finland asked while gathering the last paper.

"Da. Do you have a moment?" Russia asked while not taking his eyes off of him.

"Um… well my brothers are waiting for me," Finland said while glancing at the other Nordics to find them watching the two of them closely for any sign of trouble.

"Your brothers," Russia began with an obvious hurt in his voice, "Are you enjoying being with your brothers again."

"Ya, I am. They're nice to me and fun to hang around with and they take good care of me too," Finland said while momentarily forgetting the others. He soon remembered them however when Denmark called for him to hurry up while he and the others gave Russia their most threatening glares. Finland then quickly said to them that he would be there soon before turning back to Russia and saying, "Sorry, but I really need to be going."

Finland then grabbed his things and began to turn to leave when Russia said quietly so that only Finland would hear it, "Despite what you or they may think, I really did not want you to get hurt. I'm sorry that you did. I'm also glad that you at least can be happy, little brother."

With this said Russia left before Finland could say anything, not making eye-contact with the other Nordics as he passed. Shortly after Russia left, Finland joined the other four at the door, only to be asked what Russia wanted to say to him.

In response to their question, Finland looked at them and said, "He wanted to say he was sorry for me getting hurt. But, it was an accident- or at least me hitting my head was, so why did he apologize?"

"Because he's weird. Now come on guys, I'm starving!" Denmark said quickly while turning to leave. what he said however caused Finland to pause briefly, causing Sweden to stop as well and ask if something was wrong.

Finland then smiled slightly and shook his head. At last he said, "No, I'm alright. Just thinking of something else he told me. I'm happy that I can be happy too."

In response to this, Sweden smiled slightly and patted Finland's head slightly while saying that they should hurry up before the others leave them.

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