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It was inevitable the Nazis would come and snoop through the labour homes where unmarried mothers lived, out of the eye of the growing conservative population. And in late September 1935, after the Nuremberg Laws had been drawn up and put in place, they came.
Mika had been such a resident, living there with his new-born baby after his mother kicked him out for accidentally falling pregnant after a university ball. It had never been his intention to get so inhibited that he wouldn’t be able to think straight, he never wanted to be pregnant at the age of 20, he didn’t want to have a screaming baby in his lap for another few years.
Yet all of that had happened in the last 12 months of his life.
His baby girl Thea had been born 3 months ago, half June, in the Berlin Hospital. A couple weeks later, when he’d been discharged from the hospital, he took his residence in the Mother-Child home near Tempelhof Airport where the women would weave and sow parachutes together.
At least they had a roof over their heads and enough food to not starve to death.
On that day in September, many young Nazis belonging to the SS or Gestapo came in to find themselves a proper bride. It was supposed to be an honour if you were chosen as such a bride, but the male Omega of Scandinavian descent couldn’t help but feel this was yet another punishment for them from God for not preserving their purity.
The Finn hid himself mostly from the sight of those officers, trying to evade them as much as possible. He knew he couldn’t run forever, as his luck would eventually run out.
And it did, when he found a young dark blonde Alpha cradling his daughter to silence her cries.
He was chosen by that man on the spot and married to him too by a Lutheran priest.
And for 9 and a half years, they remained a married couple.
In those years of marriage, until Nazi Germany collapsed from yet another double front war, Mika had gone through 3 more pregnancies and given birth to 3 sons: Josef, Karl, and Rolf.
His husband was arrested after the war and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Life in post-Nazi Germany wasn’t the easiest as the wife of a former rather high-ranking SS officer, but the Finn made it work. He had to start an extramarital relationship with a British officer to keep his children alive, but he’d do anything to assure his children’s survival in a collapsing land that felt like a Wild West.
No mother would want her children dead.
Keeping up the constant ‘survival mode’ was taking its toll on him. He’d never asked to be under such pressure so constantly, and he didn’t know how long he’d be able to stay ‘on’.
Not that it mattered much as he was in his 5th pregnancy, carrying the child of his Scottish lover.