Title: Finnish Customs
Fandom: Cabin Pressure
Length: 200
Rating: G
Content notes: no warnings apply
Characters: Milo, Douglas, Arthur
Summary: In Milo’s experience, it is always a pleasure to do business exchange pleasantries and gifts with his old friend Douglas Richardson.
Author note: Milo's side of the exchange in s2 Ep01 Helsinki



In Milo’s experience, it is always a pleasure to do business exchange pleasantries and gifts with his old friend Douglas Richardson. On this occasion, the orchids were delightful, accompanied by Douglas’s little joke about being enormously confident in his masculinity. Douglas was equally delighted with Milo’s gift, the fourteen boxes of Finnish fish products.

As for Douglas’s friend, the curious young man with the strange leaky box containing a so-called cake – Herra Isä! – Milo had stood his ground, staunchly determined to protect Rautavaara, Helsinki and his native land from a chocolate abomination which indeed did not fit into any food category that Finnish Customs had, or would ever have. But then Douglas had invented happily remembered the new Anglo-Scandinavian Mainly Chocolate Thing import tax he had heard about on the news, and after some judicious haggling necessary confirmation of details, Milo had allowed the so-called cake into the country for the very reasonable fee of 75 Euros.

And if the Mainly Chocolate Thing had then become involved in an unfortunate incident with the young man’s aunt, that was not Milo’s concern. He had quite enough to do to organize the sale proper care and arrangement of all those lovely orchids.