Chapter 11: Hope you enjoy :) As usual, Wegener is the only character belonging to me.
Christmas time.
It was the one time when most everyone was truly happy. Finland couldn't even see his own lawn anymore what with all of the christmas lights and decorations. That, and the fact that he was over one thousand kilometers away from his home, at another world meeting.
Iceland couldn't remember ever having to go to a meeting on Christmas. Close to it, sure, but he couldn't recall one ever falling on christmas. Nevertheless, something had happened with fossil fuel supply that required the whole world's attention and he found himself in a hotel in Amsterdam with a thirteen year old looking up at him pathetically.
Wegener must not have gotten the idea when Iceland said 'never grow up'.
"Please!?" Wegener whined.
"No, and that's final. Am I understood?"
Wegener grimaced. He had already lost the argument, and he knew it. Still, he couldn't imagine giving in to the fact that he couldn't go to the meeting yet again.
"Come on Iceland! I'm a teenager now. I'm old enough to go." Iceland frowned. He didn't know what bothered him more: the fact that Wegener was a teenager, or the fact that he himself wasn't one anymore.
"No Wegener. You'd be in big trouble right now if weren't Christmas, but if you insist on it, I can still ground you."
Wegener looked down at his shoes and Iceland's eyes softened a bit. "Look," Iceland put a hand on Wegener's shoulder. He was still significantly shorter, but still tall for his age. "Everyone got you all of this nice stuff for Christmas. I won't be gone long. Surely everything you got can keep you busy."
"Yeah," Wegener muttered.
Iceland jumped up to hurriedly put his coat on and leave for the meeting while to two them were on a somewhat good note. He wasn't fast enough though.
"When can I go?" came the teen's voice from behind him.
Iceland sighed. It was the same conversation at every meeting. "Only independent countries can go. I'm sorry; I didn't make the rules, but I do have to follow them." And with a smile that came out more like a grimace, Iceland left for the meeting.
Wegener let out a breath slowly. Why did he even bother coming again? It wasn't being alone that bothered him. That he had learned to deal with quite a while back, being on a pretty isolated island. It was the whole 'having no voice' thing that really got to him. Iceland listened to him, sure. He treated him like an adult and took his ideas seriously. Years back, before people were living on his island, Wegener had gone through a phase where he argued about everything with Iceland, but that was long past. The only trouble they had now was with world meetings. He felt a bit guilty about pushing the meeting issue again, after all, Iceland was just listening to the rules after all. It was just a meeting.
Wegener went over to where his christmas presents were. He had gotten something from each of Nordics as well as many of the other nations, like Canada, Italy, America, England and Russia.
Sure, some nations had been interested in the farmland on Wegener's island at first (actually, many some still were), but nothing had ever come of it. The other nations all seemed to respect him, even if they didn't get any farmland in return.
Wegener put the computer game he got from America down.
No. It wasn't just a meeting. It was a chance to be heard by the world. Iceland listened to him, and he couldn't be more grateful for that, but the meetings were the only places where you could talk with every nation and share your ideas and try to improve the world while being taken seriously. He needed to go to the meetings.
And if independence was what it took...so be it.
Sorry that was so short. I've had a lot of other stuff to work on lately but wanted to type this up really quickly so that you all didn't have to wait so long for an update. There will probably be about two more chapters after this, although if you want me to write a little more about when Wegener was younger, just let me know what you want me to write about. Let me know how you think Iceland and the Nordics should react in the next chapter, or if I should just skip over that part.Thank you so much to all who have read, reviewed, followed, and favorited. Special thanks to last chapters reviews from Fruitstogether, lilwarrior11, Miss Akiyata, and Transformers' BABY. If you see something that needs to be fixed, please let me know :)