<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #80BFFF"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Peter Halvardson</span><br/><span style="font-size: 120%; line-height: 116%;">'The Viking'</span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Peter gave her another kiss, before he answered her. He knew that she needed time, he needed it too. While Alice still fought with herself about who that guy she had fallen for was in real, he was still unsure if he could trust Alice even after the first attraction had faded away. She wasn't one of the best the MP  had without a reason. And if he trusted her with most of his secrets she would learn enough to send him forever to hell with a one-way ticket, if she had enough of him. It was a risky path he had chosen or better his heart had chosen, but he knew that if they would overcome both their trust deficits it would be an incredible relationship. Somehow it looked like they had been exactly the missing part to each other.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Sure honey, but don't think too much about it. Just let the dice roll and whatever comes up on top will be right. We both had not asked for it and we both have issues in trusting the other one. I would say it is natural, as we had been on opposite sides of the game for too long, although the side may look like the logical choice for characters as us, but deep inside we are not as extreme as our positions might make people believe. I know that if I had to picture a partner for me, it would probably come astonishingly close to be a picture of you, just without the badge..."</span><br/><br/>He moved his hand into her hair and ruffled her scalp. She was a very special person and she had a good heart, he knew it exactly. She just had to open her eyes and her heart to him and she would see perfectly what kind of man he was. Peter remembered an ancient book he had once read in a lonely hour.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"I don't know if you have ever found time to read ancient books. It is not an often found diversion nowadays, people tend to watch films. I once read a story about guy called Zorro. By officials he was a criminal, an outlaw, a lot of crimes were linked to him. In the public opinion he was someone who looked for revenge and who did good things for the poor and abused. He had reasons to do what he did and he did it not out of fun or greed. Somehow I would say they could write a novel about me too and I would look a lot like that guy..."</span><br/><br/>He lay down again and closed his eyes, although sleep didn't come easily to him. Not with someone like Alice next to him...</div>