This is my version of why Hiccup and Astrid acts more like a couple, so it's before HTTYD 2. I hope I can make this into a video soon, with pictures, hopefully.

Enjoy!

Imagine this like an episode, you can see a normal morning at Berk, the gang is flying to the academy and you can hear Hiccup in the backround.


Hiccup: Here on Berk we've learned a lot about dragons, we have learned that we can trust them, and we have also learned a lot what's good and what's bad for them. But we haven't learned so much about what's good or bad for us when it comes to dragons, some things are more dangerous than others.

At the academy. The gang came back from a flight, they've been to one of the new lands Hiccup discovered, a cold one.

"Okay gang, what have we learned today?" Hiccup asked.

"Flying in that cold land was a stupid idea! I was freezing a LOT!"

"Well, you are lucky, Snotlout! You have a "seat heater"!" Tuffnut gestured to Hookfang.

"Yeah, that's one thing we've learned. But also that the island had really nicelooking cliffs, and it might be a perfect place for cold-climate-dragons."said Fishlegs.

"That could be usefull! We can maybe check that out later! Ruff, Tuff, did you learn anything new about the island?"

"Eeeh..." Ruffnut tried.

"It's a perfect place to be if you want to freeze to death!" Tuffnut chuckled.

"Ehm... yeah, it was pretty cold, but that is cause it's a bit north and it's almost winter. Snotlout, did you learn anything?"

"Duh! I've already told ya!"

Hiccup took a deep breath, "Okay, Astrid, did you learn anything?"

Astrid didn't answer, she sits on Stormfly and looked pretty dizzy. Hiccup walked over to her "Astrid, are you okay?"

Astrid winced and coughed, "What? Oh, yeah. I'm okay!"

"You look sick, are you sure you are okay?"

"I'm fine, don't worry about me!"

"Okay."he turned to the others, "I think we can all go home now, see you tomorrow!"

They all flew away in different directions.


Later that night Hiccup walked around in the village, when he came to Astrid's house he couldn't hold himself, he wanted to see if she was okay, he was really worried. He was about to knock on the door when he heard steps behind him, he ran to the back of the house, he didn't knew why but he didn't want anyone to see him sneaking around at the Hofferson's house. When he looked back he could see it was Mr Hofferson, Mrs Hofferson opened the door, they both seemed worried.

"How is she?" he asked.

"She's fine, you know she's a fighter. But I think we need to get the medicine for her."

"But we need to travel a long way to get that, and I don't want to leave her alone."

Hiccup heard everything, he was thinking for a moment but it looked like he was trying to make a hard decision, suddenly he walked over to them. "Is Astrid sick?!"

They both got surprised, "Oh, hello there Hiccup! Yea, I think she has a cold or something, Gothi said it was a hard one and we need a rare flower from an island far away to get her better. It's called the sun rose or something, but we can't fly there because according to Gothi the flower is like the dragon root." Mrs Hofferson explained.

"Oh. Is she going to be alright?"

"Yes, I hope so. But it will take us almost a week to get the flower, and Astrid will be alone." Mr Hofferson turned to Mrs Hofferson who looked worried again.

"But... I can help her, I can be with her and help her while you are gone."

"That's really nice of you, lad. But it's a big risk, you can be infected too."

"I don't care, she's sick because of me, I forgot to warn her about the cold land so it's my fault!"

They stared at him, for a second he felt embarrassed, he couldn't believe he just said he would risk his life to help Astrid. Nervously waiting for an answer, the Hoffersons looked at each other, they knew that Hiccup and Astrid been together for a while. They turned to him and smiled while giving him their answer.

"Okay lad. Take care of her. We will be back in a week." Mr Hofferson patted Hiccup's back and smiled.

"Thank you, Hiccup." Mrs Hofferson smiled and then turned and started walking to the docks.

Hiccup just stood there and watched as they went down to the docks. Was this real? Did they just let him take care of Astrid? Should he go in to her?
He heard something, he turned around and saw Astrid, she sneaked to Stormfly in the stable. She was weak, he could see that. Astrid sat down next to Stormfly.

"Hi girl! How are you? Did mom and dad go? Yeah, I think so..." Astrid coughed between some of the words. She didn't see Hiccup, but when she turned to look at the way to the docks she saw him.

"What are you doing outside, young lady? You should be inside, especially when it's getting dark and cold!"

"Oh, hi Hiccup! *cough* What are you doing here?"

"Well... I... have a mission."

"Let me guess, my parents told you to keep an eye on me while they are away?"

"...yea, sort of... I asked them. And... if you need anything you can just ask me. But... you should actually get inside!"

She walked to the door, but when she came to it she turned to him and looked him in the eyes. He could see by the look in her eyes that she was serious. "Are you sure you want to help me? I mean, I can infect you and then we will be two sick people!"

"I just want to be a nice friend and help you!"

Without knowing what to say she turned her face to look inside the house, she was afraid to show him she had some tears in her eyes.

"I don't... there's... you should go home, I don't need any help right now!"

She went inside and closed the door, Hiccup stood there for a while, then he walked home. While Astrid leaned to the door she cried, she didn't know why, she didn't want to cry. "Oh, stop crying! Why are you crying!?" she whispered to herself while trying not to cry.

She went to her bed, she wiped away the tears and then laid down to try to sleep. But it was hard to sleep without knowing why she was crying. After a while she heard something outside, she went to the window to see what it was. She could see a little Terrible Terror sneaking around trying to catch some rats or mice, she took a deep breath, she looked at it for a while, then went to bed. While trying to sleep again she thought about why she was crying. Is it cause I'm sick? No. I'm a soldier, I can deal with it! Is it cause my parents are gone for a week? No, I can deal with that too! What is it! What is it! Afraid to admit it she ignored to think it was something about Hiccup. She was afraid to infect him and too afraid to let the others see him help her, and even more afraid to let the others see her love for him. Even though she knew they were together a lot she still wondered why Hiccup wanted to help her.

Hiccup sat on his bed, he was trying to find a way to help her. He couldn't sleep either, he was just thinking. But he was afraid to tell dad about this mission he had, and if he would lie what could he say to him? It was a really tough thing, to help his true love without showing how much he cares about her, he didn't want himself or Astrid to get embarrassed. After a while he decided to check if she was okay, he was about to jump out from the window when Toothless wondered where he was going.

"It's okay bud, I'll be right back!" and with that he jumped out, Toothless went back to sleep.

Hiccup ran to the Hofferson's house. When he got close he sneaked to look through the window, she was sleeping, with tears falling down, he wondered why. He stared for a moment at the divine beauty. He wanted to be with her but it would probably be a bad idea.

"Good night, m'lady." he whispered and walked away, hoping that if she would hear him she would think it was a dream. But when he walked away, Astrid smiled.