TL:Peter "the Great" Forsbergs goes royal. Nothing bad can come from this, or can it?

WARNING: Its about certain Swedish royals(well, at first anyway) and those of you that have a feeling what this timeline will consist of better avoid it.

I was first making a alternate Westlingstory mostly based on my story To the stars(or what i named it, it was about a fotballplayer becoming rich powerhouse anyway), but there was to much ASB in the story. Then i remembered one person that got the Victoriaprize and that i dont need to use ASB to make the best in the world in his game: Peter Forsberg.

So now the story begins. Everything up until 2000 in Forsbergs hockeylife is the same regarding stats etc:

The disasterstory is based on a collum in Aftonbladet last week by a wery leftist writer(Swedes on the list might recognice the text) and the writer gave a link that have much of the event that could happen. Its in the security plan for Luleå


POD: July 14 1995

In June 1994 Peter gets the news that he have won the Victoriaprize. He have a crush on the princess and decide to take a chance even though the gossip is that she is going steady with Daniel Collert. After the prizecermony on Borgholm Peter asks Victoria out on a date. Victoria agrees and they have a nice dinner and they switch phone numbers. For a few years they will only be friends.

The 1994/95 season he started to play in the NHL and won the award for rookie of the season

The 1995/96 season Peter was at his best and won the Stanly cup for Colorado Avalanche

In late 1996 it is clear that the crown princess is suffering from anorexia and she starts to study in the USA in early 1997.

The season of 1996/97 was somewhat spoiled for Peter has he was sidelined 16 games due to a bruised thigh, but he was comforted by his friend Victoria as their friendship grew.

In the summer of 1998 Victoria invited Peter to spend time at Solliden on Öland. He was seen playing golf at the ranges on Öland, but nobody thought otherwise than he liked to spend time on the island.

In the summer of 1999 Victoria and Peter spent time on Öland again and this time they found an attraction for eachother. The king and queen was unaware that she spent time with Peter and the only ones knowing about the romance was the securityguards and Victorias siblings.

In season of 1999/2000 Peter started playing for Colorado, but in a surprising move he was traded to the New York Rangers in the middle of December. The Swedish press is surprised with that move but they arent for long. On the 8th of January 2000 the Swedish channel Canal+ is the network that breaks the news when they air the game New York Rangers vs Colorado Avalanche and the camera zooms in Peter Forsberg(who in the trade got an agreement that he didnt have to play against Colorado that season, and the fact that he was injured) and Victoria holding hands believing that nobody sees that. Their reaction to beeing seen is wery telling. Victoria withdraws her hands wery quickly and Peter looks to the person sitting next to him. Unfortunally the tabloids in Sweden arent so stupid and they realise two of the hottest names of their generation could be seeing eachother. During the begining of 2000 Victoria had a intership at the Swedish UN delegation.

Daniels childhoodfriends in Önsköldsvik dont say a thing, his teamates in the national team dont know a thing, Colorado Avalanche fans now realise why he left them for The Rangers and feel less betrayed. Someone leak the story about those two and soon they are the center of Swedish mediaattention and a bit of US and Canada mediaattention.

After the crown princess moved back home in June Peter decided to play one more year and then move back to Sweden. The crown princess decided to spend a lot of time during the 2000/2001 season in New York.

The 2000/01 season was the best year Rangers had since 1994. With the great help of Peter Forsberg they reached the Stanly cup final. The final was emotional for Forsberg as he faced the former teamates of Colorado. The game went over 7 games with the last game played in New York. Peter Forsberg was on fire during the game and Rangers won the last game with 7-1. After the first period the standing was 1-1, after the second period it was Peter Forsberg 5 – Colorado Avalanche 1. Peter scored 4 games and assisted 2 during that game.

When Peter moved into his appartment in Stockholm it was under constant siege from day one from the Swedish tabloids. Peter had been introduced to the rest of the royal family one year before but the king still wouldnt accept him as his daughters boyfriend. He wanted her to reach higher.

The season of 2001/02 was mediocre for MODO and Peter in general. It was only in the final game they escaped the fear of relegationseries. Other events in the world had played part in Daniels life. When the attacks in New York happened Peter was at home together with Victoria making a meal before he was going to the eveningtraining. They were sitting at the table when Victorias security agent came into the kitchen and asked them to come to the other room were there was a TV on. After they saw the pictures Victoria and Peter looked at eachother and at the seucurity agent. After much debate it was clear that Victoria was safer in Daniels appartment than driving home to Drottningholm. The coach of MODO fully understood as Peter said that he couldnt leave the appartment for a few days. The press hailed Peter as a hero in this moment as did the king because he wanted his daugher first and foremost safe. At the Olympics in Salt Lake City Peter was part of the Swedish team that lost to Bellorussia and portraied as traitors to Sweden. The only one that escaped that blame was Peter who had i minor loss and didnt take part in the 3-4 loss and then was the only one wanting to talk to the press afterwards. That he also supported the ladies team and stayed until their bronzegame only made him better in the eyes of the press

For the next couple of years MODO began to mke their team even better to be able to compete for the gold. The season of 2004/2005 wasnt that good for Peter that underwent surgery in his foot and he missed the entire season.

For years MODO had been in the middle of the league table and Peter wanted to win the gold with them. In 2006 they came wery close to win the gold, only to fall in the semifinal. The Olympictournament was better and in the final against Finland Peter took a pass from Mats Sundin and passed Niklas Lidstrom to score the winning goal. Afterwards crown princess Victoria and the king came down to congratulate the team and the press like that moment because he showed that he accepted Peter by inviting him to his 60th year birthday celebration with the crown princess standing beside them with joy in her eyes. The press now woundered when Peter was going to quit playing hockey and ask Victoria to marry him. He still had one thing that he missed. The Swedish championship with his beloved MODO.
 
And now the heat is on

In 2007 the Swedish skatteverket(IRS) woundered where Victoria really lived, in one of Daniels appartment in Östersund, Stockholm or at Drottningholm. The answer came when the King allowed Peter to move into Victorias appartment while he wasnt playing hockey and living in Örnsköldsvik. Now marriage wasnt far off. There was the obstacle of Daniels contract with MODO that was set to expire in 2009 and nobody expected a marriage before that. Little was known about the secret addon Peter had made to the contract. That he would be allow to break it if MODO was to win the gold. The season of 2006/2007 was the best season MODO ever played. Winning the groundseries with over 10 points and then winning both the quater and semifinals with 4-0 before facing Farjestads BK in the final. First game went to FBK in overtime. In the second and third Peter had his own shows and MODO won with 5-2 and 6-1. The forth game was played in FBKs homestadium and the game went into overtime were Peter scored the final goal. Game five played at Modos homestadium, a new stadium built from Peters money(he also had other affairventures). Peter opened the game with 1-0 after 10 seconds, 2-0 after 1 minute and 5 seconds and 3-0 after 5 minutes. The game was easy after that and with 1 minute the standing was 6-2 and Modo was going to win easy. Peter went in on the ice for one last time and go the puck from Markus Näslund, skated behind the net and made one of his “how did he know were the player was” type of passes to Magnus Wernblom who had a open goal and scored 7-2 with just 5 seconds to go.


July 14 came and with it Victorias 30ths birthday. Peter would not be seen officially with Victoria on that day. Everyone thought he would take part of that and not show up at Borgholms IP when the Victoriaprize winners saluted Victoria. The event on Borgholm would begin at 18.00 and broadcasted live in SVT. On the 13th of July he asked the kings premission to marry his daughter and the king accepted. Peter made plans. He flew to Stockholm and met with the prime minister and got him to take the entire goverment to Borgholm. They were briefed on the plane and kept in a secret location after landing. The event began and soon every Victoriawinner was on stage. The host, wanting to be funny had a competition and there was an ackward question. “Who does the crown princess most love?” Nobody wanted to answer but Peter took the microphone and answered, “Her dog, Jambo.” Then he whistled and up on the stage came Jambo running and then Peter pointed at Victoria and Jambo rushed there.

The winners went off stage and the music by E-type started. The scene was covered in smoke and Daniels moment had come. He took a camera from one of the cameramen, and moved closer to the podium. Victoria just thought he was a ordinary cameraman and took no notice. Her sister Madeleine was the one who discovered who it was and understood at once was Peter was up to. Her shout “YES, FINALLY, GO FOR IT” broke the trance and as everyone was watching in her direction Peter put the camera to the ground, went down on one knee in front of Victoria, who fainted. TV4 went to commercial for a minute and when they came back their numbers of wiewers had trippled and they saw Peter standing with Victoria in his hands.
“Peter my love, i really dont like this kind of surprise.” Victoria said with a smile.

Peter smiled big and said “Well, the swedish people will see our marriage, how abut seeing my proposal also. Well, what is your answer.”

“Yes, yes, yes and finally yes. I will marry you honey.” They embrance and kiss. Peter took a microfone. “As you know according to our law of succession we arent engaged until the king and goverment say ok so there is something i have to ask. Your majesty, what do you say?”

The king wasnt ready to handle it but replied. “I accept, but i have to inform the prime minister and get the goverment aproval.”

Peter leered. “Mr Reinfeld, were are you?”

“Here we are.” From behind the stage came the PM and the rest of the goverment. Victoria looked at Daniel, he had really prepared for this.

The king spoke again. “Well, PM there is something i should tell you, but i guess you already know.”

Fredrik Reinfeld was all smile: “This is the happiest moment i have been part of as the PM. The rest of the goverment say yes and i have already signed the approval.”

The TV4 host now interveened. “When is the marriage to take place?”

Peter replied before Victoria “What better date than June 6 2008 and i herby declare that i will retire from hockey

One week after his final game his biography written by himsel “Peter Forsberg, my hockey years” came out

During the winter of 2007/2008 Peter and Victoria went around the world and visited places like the USA and promoted their wedding. Since Peter also had played in the NHL he was a fairly well known man in the USA and the mediaattention was big.

June 6 2008 Victoria and Peter married. The mediaattention was huge. Around 10 million was watching the event in USA alone. Colorado had almost come to a stand still. In Sweden the broadcast was seen by 4,1 million people. The speach Peter made in part English, Swedish AND German got him the nickname Peter The Great from people not seen him playing hockey to.

July 1st 2008 Kate Middleton and prince William confirm that they will marry in early 2009, date is set for May 1st.

July 8th 2008 Prince Albert reveals he will marry his girlfriend in the summer 2009.

July 10th 2008 Peter started training with Victoria when they moved in together and they trained at a place where they had a personal trainer called Daniel Westling. They became friends with him and Daniel told them about his problems with his kidneys. On that date Daniel got a transplant in one of the finest hospitals in USA and the bill was fully payed by prince Peter.

July 28 2008 Princess Madeleine and Jonas Bergström announces they will marry late in 2009.

September 11 2008 Crown princess Victoria announces she is expecting a child that is to be born in April 2009.

December 2008. The book the Reulctant monarch comes out and create a stir. Victoria stands by her father and refuses to listen to the gossip that comes from the book.

January 2009: When the invitation for the royal wedding in the UK comes to Sweden the family and court decide that Victoria and Peter cant go since Victoria will either just have given birth or that she just gone through a birth. Madeleine and Jonas Bergström are the representatives from the Swedish royal court.

April 29st 2009 at 18 o´clock a disaster strikes Sweden. Because of bad maitnence a dam up north in Stora Luleälven called Suorva is breached. 6000 000 000 kubical meters of water is released and create a wave of epic propotions. The wave is heading downstreams towards Lulåe and drags everything with it along the way. Now the fight against time begin. The wave will reach Luleå within 30 hours. The alarm goes off in Lulå less than 1 hour after the breach. The alarm goes off in the capital of Stockholm within another few hours. In the newsprogram Rapport the disaster is still to undknown but experts say it will be bad as the ligths flicker. Powershortage is running rampant in Sweden. Small villages along the Stora Lulevattnet dont stand a chanse when the wave is coming. At 21.00 its the main story on CNN and BBC. At the same time Luleå is staring to evacuate. It is hampered with the fact that the power is going out all over the city. At 02.00 the dam of Porjus with 680 000 000 kubical meters is breached. The powerstation of Harsprånget is washed away, but that has been evacuated for hours. Now the effects are felt in big parts of Sweden that has lost power. Many people in Luleå are still unaware of the news, the people delivering the newspaper in the morning are among the first to realise the scope of the disaster when their bosses phone them at 02.30 telling them that the papers will not be delivered in the morning and that they need to get out of the city. The hospital of Suderby starts their evacuation early and ask for helicopters from the miltary to transport the critically injured to other hospitals. The Ligga and Messaure dams are wiped out. The wave is growing bigger and bigger and wash away every road and railway nearby the river. The E45 is completly washed away just nor of Porjus to Ligga, the bridges over the river are crushed and twisted skeletons of steal and concrete are thrown in the water.

At 08.00 in the morning the local newspapers on SVT are the main stars of the disaster since noone else have reporters wanting to go there. The youngest unmarried ones are the ones that man the cameras as the rest have escaped with their families. They report for anyone that can hear and see them as SVT are sending a feed to other stations. Helicopters hovering over the river are showing the wave as it follow the river downstream and the disaster it creates. In Stockholm the goverment have gathered and talked about what needs to be done, but as nobody knows the extent of damage their is nothing they can do.

At the Royal castle prince Peter offers to go up north to investigate, but his wife and father in law along with the mayor of Luleå and the prime minister Fredrik Reinfeld forbidds him. Just then another water breaks, this time from Victoria and she is rushed to Karolinska. The media is torn between covering the biggest disaster in Swedish history and the future of the Monarchy. An angry Peter Forsberg outside a delivery room live on SVT telling the reporter what to do with the camera and that people are dying up north makes the choice and they concentrate on doing the right thing.

At 09.00 the evacuation of Luleå begins in earnest as everyone in the city is told about the event. Despite that the evacuation needs to be done in a ordely fashion the panic as begun and led to traficaccidents and heartattacks.

10.30 the news come from Stockholm that the princess have delivered a boy to be called Erik. Most of the Swedes smile but are at the moment to concerned about getting electricity and what is happening in Luleå.

11.30 The news comes from Stockholm that princess Madeleine and Jonas Bergström will not attend the wedding on the next day because of the disaster.

At 23.57 the wave reaches Luleå. All life along the Stora Luleälven have been washed away and despite the rescueeffort deathtolls are still undknown. Hundreds have been injured during the evacuation and 4 have died from the stress, so much is known.

The material damages are enourmus. The water have risen around 7 meters and the masses will be around for weeks, maybe months. Luleå is almost wiped from the face of the earth. Nobody knows when the people can return. Sanitationsystem have collapsed, there is no freshwater, the roads and phonenets are destroyed along with stations for mobile phones. 10 % of the electricity in Sweden is gone for a long time, another 8 % that comes from places north of the river cant get to the south. The old garrisontown of Boden have also suffered some.


In the next chapter(coming when i actually have an idea how to continue:)) the Luleådisaster is the main story
 
So how long until Carl XVI Gustav gets the boot? After all, first Sweden... then the WORLD! I vote Foppa for dictator of Earth :D

Seriously, points to you for a different TL. Although, I do resent that the 06' Olympic final wasn't butterflied the otherway around :mad:;)
 
So how long until Carl XVI Gustav gets the boot? After all, first Sweden... then the WORLD! I vote Foppa for dictator of Earth :D

Seriously, points to you for a different TL. Although, I do resent that the 06' Olympic final wasn't butterflied the otherway around :mad:;)

Peter married to Victoria sounds a lot less ASB than Victoria marrying Daniel.

I know why you didnt like the olympic final result of 06, but i have a sence that just because Peter fell in love, the rest of the hockeyworld would pretty much look the same when it comes to the world cup and olympics. Putting Peter with the Rangers the year they finished last in their division could butterfly them lots of more points(and players). As for MODO, they won the gold in 07 and lost to Farjestad in the early 00s, so that is not totaly ASB either.

Well, its a disaster and then the tabloids have trouble hunting him, if he plays the mediacard well.
 
I don't really know much at all about Daniel but I would expect that Peter would handle media better due to all the experience from NHL. After all, they get a fair amount of media attention there, even more for a player of his caliber. If he goes up north to pull off some heroics in the disaster area, despite being told not to, he should be getting some nice positive press both in Sweden and elsewhere.

Also, another almost unknown subject for me. AFAIK Nordic powergrid is quite integrated. Would that big sudden fluctuation in the grid cause havoc outside of Sweden as well?
 
I don't really know much at all about Daniel but I would expect that Peter would handle media better due to all the experience from NHL. After all, they get a fair amount of media attention there, even more for a player of his caliber. If he goes up north to pull off some heroics in the disaster area, despite being told not to, he should be getting some nice positive press both in Sweden and elsewhere.

Also, another almost unknown subject for me. AFAIK Nordic powergrid is quite integrated. Would that big sudden fluctuation in the grid cause havoc outside of Sweden as well?

Yes Peter would know how to handle the press from the start(between 02 and 04/05 Daniel all but ran and hide when a reporter came near him) and well, Peter have just become a father so he will not go anyway until his wife allows him:)

As for the powergrid, hadnt thought of that. Gave me some ideas
 
Yes Peter would know how to handle the press from the start(between 02 and 04/05 Daniel all but ran and hide when a reporter came near him) and well, Peter have just become a father so he will not go anyway until his wife allows him:)

Fair enough, I guess I've watched too much TV; hero saves the day and gets back to wife & kids for supper :D

Fast googleing revealed a short analysis about major dam failures in Sweden. Disaster at Suorva would result in over 50 000 000 000 SEK (~5 000 000 000 EUR) in just insurance costs. Add death, injuries, damage in infra etc and ouch...
 
This is my last update this week. Next update will come next Saturday, just as CalBear is doing with his stories:)(his are better, i admitt to that)

In the morning of May 1 the goverment was assembled at the castle partly to inform the king of what had happened up north and partly because of the new born prince. The PM and speaker of the house had been and witness the new born already as the constitution said they would. The crown princess was still at the hospital were should be for another day as every woman that underwent a birth for the first time. The PM explained that the goverment had been in contact with the USA for satelitepictures of the disaster.

At the same time in Britain the royal weddingparty began, but without the Swedish royals attending. The mood was a bit somber after the disaster that fell on Sweden. The Norwegian royal couple phoned in the morning and said that they unfortunally couldnt attend, they felt they were to close to the event.

The big insurancecompanies in Sweden were also meeting how to handle all claims. Earlier reports said that the damagecost they had to pay were as high as 50 000 000 000 kr and that would break every one of them. Lloyds of London had been in contact to be informed of the exact figure, that nobody yet could give them

Outside the dangerzone up north a new situation to Sweden had started. Thousands of people homeless and not knowing what to do. The cities closest to Luleå were Örnsköldsvik and Skellefteå and they were still in shock as the rest of Sweden.

May 2. Crown princess Victoria, prince Peter and new born prince Erik left the hospital for Haga castle.

“Darling, you know what i have to do.” Peter looked at Victoria

Victoria looked out the windows. “I know Peter, even if i forbade you to go you would go otherwise and if the secret service put you in jail you would find ways to escape.”

The secret service man driving the car laughed.

Less than 1 hour after they got back home Peter had packed enough clothes and went to the Bromma airport.

At the same time as the plane lifted off Victoria phoned her parents.

“Hello granddad.” Victoria said as her father answered.

“Hello my daugher, how are all of you? Just relax, i dont need you right now. After the PM speaks later tonight i will speak, as he basically ordered me.”

“Dad, you might inform him that Peter is on his way to Örnsköldsvik”

The king wasnt to shocked upon hearing that and promissed to tell the PM, then Victoria spoke to her mother for a while.

The PM was sitting talking to his wife at the breakfasttable before he was going away to prepare his speach for tonight when the secret service handed him the phone.

“I guess the monarchy won this round.”

Mrs Reinfeld looked at her husband and then he told her that Peter Forsberg were going to the disasterzone in person. She just rolled her eyes, she knew he would go there as soon as the crown princess was out of the hospital.

As Peter stepped out of the plane in Örnsköldsvik it was a clear sky and some reporters from CNN that were on the same plane started their cameras as he left the plane. On the ground was a reporter from the local newspaper and his photo of Peter standing in the door of the plane went around the world with the headline “The return of the king”. A phrase CNN used on their live broadcast.

Peter drove to the town hall to meet with officials and see what they were doing. As he entered the building he almost felt the dispair. They didnt know what to do and what was needed.

The media watched as Peter went into action. He called the goverment for assistance and told them to bring emergency tents, food and medicin up north and use Örnsköldsvik as a staging area for the reliefefforts.

In Stockholm the bureacracy woke from their shock. The miltary mobilised the national guard up north and started gathering what was needed.

At Örnsköldsvik Peter went to a local truckcompany and asked if they wanted to help him. At 16.00 hrs the first lorry was loaded with supplies and headed up north. That was the begning of what come to be called Lule lifeline. Luleå county had aroun 49 000 inhabitants. 10 000 of them had recreation wehicles or travel trailers and had fled to other parts of Sweden, that left 39 000 people homeless, or missing presumed dead. Along the Lule älven another 10 – 20 000 people was unheard of. Many willages and cities didnt have electricty. The power shortage was felt in Norway also were a few cities went completly dark. Skellefteå and Örnsköldsvik also had powershortage. The IKEA appartmenthouse in Haparanda had to close since there was a power shortage even up there
 
I hope this didn't end yet. :)

How much National Guard is available for disaster relief anyway? With Sweden in transition from conscription to volunteer force I'd imagine there'd be somewhat a shortage of troops. Of course, IIRC conscription isn't over just yet so maybe last classes get stuck in relief force for their duration.

Foppa is definetly grabbing some great press helping those unfortunate to be on disaster zone. Come CGs scandal time (if it still comes) I'd say he'll be lucky to stay king...
 
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