"Hiccup?" Toothless asked. "What does it feel like to be in love?" He rolled over on Hiccup's new bed they just finished setting up. The new bed could easily accommodate the dragon's weight since he'd taken a liking to sleeping on something that wasn't a rock. Hiccup had protested for as long as possible but gave in and built a much larger bed for them.
"Love?" Hiccup asked back as he raised one of his eyebrows and a smirk played on his face. This was the first time Toothless had ever asked that. He hadn't even contemplated that the dragon could love. He assumed dragons just knew who their mate was when they met. And that was that. Pushing the thoughts aside he decided to torture the dragon a bit and see if he could pry out of him, who it was.
"Love?" He asked again. "Who are you in love with?" Hiccup asked innocently. The dragon hadn't expected Hiccup to try and pry it from him, so he wasn't prepared with an answer.
"I uhmm. I mean. They're really nice and..." Hiccup interrupted him.
"You're not answering my question Toothless." He teased. Toothless looked away from his annoying human.
"I'm not going to tell you Hiccup." He said flatly. "I don't know how they feel about me so I'm not comfortable saying who it is. I just want to know what it's like. I've never felt like this. Please Hiccup." He whined. Hiccup got up from his spot and joined his dragon on the new bed. He scratched along Toothless' chin, then behind his ears. The dragon purred loudly at his human's touch.
"Alright bud. When I was crushing on Astrid, it felt like I was on a cloud. I always wanted to be with her. I wanted to be around her, to make her happy. I could barely talk to her, much less have a conversation. I felt like I had butterflies in my stomach. I guess that's what it feels like. But everyone is different so I don't know if it's the same for you." He shrugged his shoulders and smiled down on his dragon. "When are you going to tell her?" He wanted to know, so that he could be there in case.
"Well I don't know when I'll tell him." Toothless said carefully. He didn't know how Vikings felt about being 'that way' but he wanted to test the waters now that he'd finally asked Hiccup his question.
"Him? I didn't know you were like that Toothless." Hiccup stopped scratching Toothless' chin and ears, to sit back on his hands. Toothless looked back at Hiccup, whining with his ears flat against his head.
"You don't hate me now do you?" Toothless started to get up not wanting to be near Hiccup. Hiccup shot forward wrapping his arms around his dragon's neck.
"Oh gods Toothless no. My hands just got tired. It was just bad timing. I don't care about who you like. I couldn't hate you." He let Toothless go but still held onto the dragon's head. "Look at me Toothless." The dragon did as he was told. "I could never hate you. I don't want you to ever think you can't come to me if something is wrong. I want you to trust me no matter what. Okay?"
Toothless nodded and settled back down onto the bed. "Thanks Hiccup." Toothless whispered.
"There's no need to thank me, Toothless. There is nothing that could hurt you and me." Hiccup confidently said back. "So when are you going to tell this guy you like, that well you like him?" Toothless shifted uncomfortably.
"I don't think it's going to be that easy." Toothless mumbled.
"And why's that?" Hiccup asked.
Toothless sighed, thinking about how he could answer. "Well if he... Was to accept my offer and someone found out. Him and I could get in a lot of trouble. And I don't want him to get in trouble since he's so nice and sweet to me. I couldn't stand it if I caused him to have to choose between me and something like family or other friends. I just don't want him to get hurt if it blows up." Hiccup could feel the sincerity in the dragon's voice.
'Whoever Toothless likes is super lucky. I can feel the love from over here.' Hiccup thought to himself. "Well I'll be right there if things go sideways." He pat his dragon on the snout. "Just tell me when you tell him. I'd like to be there." Hiccup said happily.
"Well of course you're going to be there. And we could go do it right now." Toothless replied nervously.
Hiccup stood up, stretching as he did. "Alright bud let's go then." Hiccup made his way to the door but realized that Toothless hadn't moved at all. "Come on bud, I thought you wanted to do this now." He chimed. Toothless stared intensely at Hiccup. Hiccup closed his door and made his way back to his dragon. "Toothless?"
Toothless was practically shaking as he started to speak. "Hiccup. For longer than I'd like to admit. I found myself attracted to you." Hiccup didn't say anything. Toothless didn't know if it was a good or bad sign so he kept going. "When I'm around you I feel like I'm flying. And when we're flying it's indescribable. But if I had to pick between you and flying. It would be you. I love you Hiccup."
Hiccup's mouth hung open. Shock kept his body from moving not that his brain was telling it to in its now broken state. He kept trying to say something but he couldn't get his face to move properly. After sitting in disbelief for a few minutes, he was finally able to take control of himself again.
"Please tell me you're joking." Hiccup said. 'Maybe he's just playing a trick on me. Seeing how I would react.' Toothless shook his head. "Do. Do you know how crazy that is Toothless?"
"Of course I do Hiccup. You don't think I thought it was crazy. I'm not supposed to love a human. Not in a million years would I think that I'd love you. It wasn't even in the realm of possibilities until a few months ago. I wondered who I'd end up with but I never thought it would be a small viking boy who helped me learn to fly again. No more than that. Gave me the ability to fly again. Without you Hiccup I'd be dead. I don't know how it happened and I don't know why but I do know that I love you. And I'll scream it from the rooftops. I love Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and I don't care who knows." The dragon huffed a bit from his speech.
"Toothless. I don't even... I don't know what to say. I don't know how we'd work. I just, I don't see..." Hiccup panicked.
"I get it." Toothless said softly. "Thanks for listening at least. I'm happy that I could get that off my chest at least." Toothless jumped off the bed and moped over to his old stone. Curling up on it he tried to think of ways to salvage the friendship he'd just destroyed.
Hiccup stared at the spot his dragon laid moments ago. Hiccup grit his teeth and clenched his fists. He stood quickly and trudged over to his dragon.
"Toothless!" He scolded. The dragon lifted his head, surprised at his rider. 'Here it comes. He wants me to leave and never come back.' Toothless braced himself for the 'killing blow'.
"Yeah Hiccup?" He muttered.
"You never let me finish." Hiccup sternly said.
"Sorry." The dragon said.
"Are you listening?" Hiccup asked and Toothless slowly nodded. "Good. I don't see how we'd work. And I don't see how we'd do uhmm..." Hiccup stammered. "Intimate things together." He felt his face flush with heat. "But I didn't say no. I've already done something no one approved of and look what happened. I doubt this will catch on with others but I'm willing to try it for you. I mean when I become chief I'll be expected to have an heir but we'll deal with that then." He touched his dragon's nose and smiled at him.
"Don't play with me Hiccup. Please don't make this done joke. I couldn't stand it anymore and had to tell you. " Hiccup gave his dragon a confused look. He'd have to prove that he wasn't making fun of the Night Fury. Hiccup leaned in near Toothless' head, slowly planting a kiss on his snout. He pulled back after a second to see how the dragon would react.
"You're accepting my offer?" Hope shined in his eyes, not believing it. Hiccup nodded quickly as he leaned down again placing more kisses along Toothless' head. He found that he liked the texture of the scales on his lips. He enjoyed himself for moments longer before reigning in his lips. He blushed as he realized what he'd done.
"We'll have to careful. If someone finds out we will be in a lot of trouble. You're right. So I'm going to lay down some ground rules." Toothless nodded happily. He was beside himself with joy. "Alright so we'll have to act normal around everyone. Especially my dad. We can't act out of place and be more 'touchy feely' in public. Someone will notice and say something." Hiccup gulped and became flush again as his mind Wandered into the 'late night activities' portion of his rules. "If or w-when we get to, to, to m-mating. Uhmm we'll uh go slow? I mean I've never really thought about being with another guy and a dragon at that. So I don't really know like what to do with like prepping or anything like that. And I don't know who would be the 'girl' but you're bigger so I guess that's figured out. Or if you're willing to switch or trade off or something. Toothless please stop me. I'm going to explode if I don't stop thinking about this right now." He rubbed his eyes trying to get the images out of his head. Toothless laughed at his now boyfriend. He nuzzled the back of Hiccup's hands softly.
"Hiccup, Hiccup. It's going to be okay. I don't want to rush you into anything, I just want to be with you right now okay." Hiccup nodded slowly. "Now it's getting late. So let's see if the new bed you made can actually hold my weight let you said it would." They both stood and climbed into the bed. Hiccup laid his head on one of Toothless' legs. He listened to the dragon's slow heartbeat for a while. He wanted to get comfortable but couldn't. A nagging question preventing him from sleeping.
"Toothless? Will you be gentle the first time we. Mate?" He tried to keep his voice under control but it cracked anyway. Toothless didn't answer. Hiccup assumed he fell asleep so he placed his head back down and closed his eyes.
"I'm going to destroy you. The first time. Make sure you know who you belong to." Toothless answered.
"WHAT?!" Hiccup screeched,pushing himself away from Toothless. The dragon stared at him before breaking out into laughter.
"Hahaha. You should have seen your face." That earned him a hearty slap on his chest. He barely felt it as his laughing became hysterical.
"IT'S NOT FUNNY TOOTHLESS!" Hiccup roared. Toothless finally contained himself enough to talk again.
"Of course I'm going to be gentle. It'll be the first time I mate too. So I'm as in the dark as you are. But for now just get back over here. Hiccup missed the warmth so he crawled back over.
"I'm still mad at you." He huffed.
"I know." The dragon replied. He draped a wing over Hiccup keeping him warm. "Hiccup?" The human hummed. "I love you." He said sweetly.
Hiccup pursed his lips before he respond. "I love you too. But I'm still mad at you." The last thing heard in the room was Toothless giggling. Followed by another loud slap and more giggling.