walking around, figuring he'd give the other a visit. When he saw him he just walked up, humming. "Hej~"

in the middle of cutting the planks of wood to the right size when he heard the greeting. He looked up and smiled. "Ah, Hei Denmark."

smirks and nods. "What're ye doin' in this heat?"

shrugs a bit as he sat down on the grass and took a long drink of his ice cold beer. "Rebuilding."

hums as he stared at the beer. "... Want some help?"

gave him a bit of a confused look but nodded, "if you want to help... would you like a beer?"

nods happily a few times and held out his hand.

leaned over to the cooler he had out with him and fished a cold beer out to hand it over to him.

smiles and opened it eagerly before sipping the cold drink. "Perfect for today."

nods in agreement as he sipped at his own beer some more.

hummed as he looked around. "I'd not mind helpin, if I can join in some time in the fun of it."

grinned at that, "of course. It's always open. I'm just redoing all the wood paneling for the walls and replacing the wood burning heater."

nodded a bit. "Awesome. Maybe we can test it out once ye're done."

sipped his beer again before he got up and nodded. "Sure! Um.. if you want you can start pulling out the old boards? I'm just cutting the

new ones."

nodded and downed the rest of his beer before grabbing a hammer and going to take out the old boards.

actually glad for the help. He went back to cutting the boards to the right size after he finished his own beer as well.

pulled out the boards and then the nails, putting them into a bin so they didn't get in the way.

continued to work, humming as he got all the boards cut down to size. He only paused to pull out two more beers, handing one over to

Denmark.

wiped his brow and took it, nodding. "Tak." He quickly opened it and sipped from it.

took a few sips from his own. "So how have you been?" He realized he hasn't really spoken to the Dane.

shrugs. "I've been good. Doin' stuff mostly around the house, and hittin' the town like normal."

nods as he took the small break and finished half his beer. "That's good then."

put his beer down and finished getting the rest of the boards out with the nails as well.

went to help him finish removing the boards. It wouldn't take long now that there was two of them.

smiled and was glad to get it all done. He finished the rest of his beer and hummed. "This is goin' quicker than I thought."

nods and smiles, "yep. Well two people is easier than one."

looked up to the sun and sighed. "I dun think it'd be safe for ye to do this all alone anyways."

shrugs a bit, "I would have asked Berwald, but I haven't seen him in... a long time."

hums and nods. "Neither have I. So at least I know he's not ignorin' or avoidin' me."

smiled, "nope, he's ignoring or avoiding both of us." He nodded, "want to stay for dinner? I was thinking barbeque."

licked his lips and smirked. "Sure. That'd be nice. And nice that I dun have to cook dinner for once."

handed him one of the new boards once they were done with the old ones. "Yep, it'll be nice to have the company."

started setting the new boards up, making sure they were in the right place.

set about working on the other side, he was maybe a tad bit of a perfectionist when it came to this sort of thing.

figured as much. He normally wasn't, but if it wasnt' done right the heat wouldn't stay in, so he focused on it.

isn't replacing the insulation, so that shouldn't be to huge of a problem. He carefully lined up the boards and nailed them in place.

hummed as he worked and finished up one of the sides. "This'll be nice when it's done."

nods, "yeah it'll be nice."

finished up his bit fully and stepped back to look it over.

finished the wall he'd been working on and glanced over at him. "Looks good."

nods. "I thought so too~ So when do we get to test it out?"

looks at the last wall that needs to be done. "After we finish that wall and put the new wood burning heater in."

smiles and nods andstarted up on it.

got the new heater assembled while he did that.

smiles and walked around it. "Looks real good. Really."

looked up at him and smiled, "thanks. It needed to be done. New wood is always good."

nods. "Ja, the moisture and that can really get to it I bet."

nods, "yep. But it's all good now. Once I get this set up we can let it heat up. In the mean time, want dinner?"

smiles and nods happily. "Ja. Want help?"

shakes his head, "you're the guest. You can just relax if you want."

shrugs. "I'm not use to not cookin', ye should know that. I use to cook for all 4 of ye brats."

smiled at the memories. "Yeah... I guess..." He didn't want to say, before Sweden took me and we left.

glad he didn't say that. He just headed for the house, wondering what he could help with.

finished up with the sauna and set it so it could heat up while they ate. He followed him into the house and only paused to take off his

t-shirt before he headed for the kitchen. "Umm... you want to wrap the potatoes?"

shrugs. "Sure." He took his shoes off and got himself a glass of water before looking for the potatoes.

had taken them out earlier and left them on the counter. He got the steaks out and and took them outside to the barbeque. He was trying

something different this time.

finished his water and wrapped up the potatoes soon after, going out to join the other. "How're ye gonna cook those?"

for a moment. "I was thinking right on the grill... "

nods a little. "That'll leave a nice charred taste."

shrugs, "I guess... I dunno."

chuckled. "It'll be good either way. Ye gonna put spices on them?"

nods, "yep! Already on the stakes. I read this American cook book... just followed that."

smiles. "Oh nice. I wonder how this'll taste~"

shrugs, "I hope it tastes good..." he's not tried it yet.

shrugged and put the potatoes on. "We'll find out. If one of us gets sick, then we know not to trust American style food."

laughs at that, "yes. This is true." He hummed and put the steaks on next. "Berwald got sick from my cooking once. It was kinda funny."

smirked. "I could see why. Ye have some very... interestin' ways of cookin'."

laughed again and nodded, "I guess I do."