A/N: So I've finally worked up the courage to make a series of drabbles centering around my favorite two characters ever, Rapunzel and Hiccup, as a couple! This will either end in failure and tears or victory and a grin. All the drabbles are set in a Modern AU and are about the slow development of feelings between two best friends along with all the bumps and twists of the road we call life. It's going to be like a story but with less obligations for me, the author! Hooray! The length may range from 50-100 drabbles and I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: How To Train You Dragon and Tangled are the individual properties of the animation studios Dreamworks and Disney, if I owned them I sure as hell wouldn't be writing fanfiction about the two because all of my fantasies would be so cannon it'd tear a hole in the space-time continuum. Disclaimer over.
Hiccup and Rapunzel were close. When they were kids all the adults would look at them and joke about how they were two peas in a pod. When they became older people began to joke less about how they were each others long-lost siblings and strayed more into the, 'when's the wedding', kind of humor that every adolescent and budding adult loved so much.
The teasing always got the two red in the face and shuffling away from each other, Rapunzel stuttering out protests and Hiccup shooting glares. Their reactions only delighted their tormentors and didn't help to stop the teasing in the slightest. But as time went on the two learned to laugh along with everyone else at the harmless comments.
Except they weren't harmless, at least not for Hiccup. With everyone around him constantly talking about how good the two friends would be as something more, after a few years he only felt it natural that he started to wonder if there really was something between them they just hadn't seen or felt yet. After-all, when you were most blind to something it was usually right under your nose, placed where everyone but you could see it.
They had chemistry. They trusted each other. They had things in common. It was easy for them to open up to one another. They were comfortable together and it wasn't like she was unattractive! Most people would say she was actually rather beautiful, Hiccup was no exception. From a logical point of view there were few reasons they shouldn't be together. But Rapunzel had always told him that was his problem, trying to rationalize emotion. He cracked a smile that caught the attention of the female laying in front of him.
"Hiccup?" Rapunzel broke the easy silence that had engulfed the room for the better part of the afternoon.
"Yeah?" He looked up from the book he'd been only half focused on and his green eyes caught the concerned gaze of a lighter set.
"Are you okay?" His brow furrowed at the question.
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"You're frowning." She closed her book and laid it on her chest as she continued to eye him in a way that resembled caution. When he was upset sometimes he'd talk to her about it and sometimes he wouldn't and would close up like a clam. She was one of the few who knew just how to get him to open up without pushing too far...usually.
"I was smiling, you're upside down." His soft smile became a crooked grin of amusement. She smiled back sheepishly, rolling onto her stomach and shaking her head to get her blood flowing properly again.
"Well in that case what're you smiling about?" She sat up, grinning and knees hugged to her chest with her head tilted to the side in a familiar show of curiosity that had him laughing at the routine of it all.
He directed his gaze back to the book in his lap, bangs falling closer to his eyes. "Nothing Punzie...nothing at all."
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