Somewhere in the Coal Mines

by thatdragonchic

In 1845 the Ireland potato famine takes over, killings hundreds and thousands. Hiccup and Elsa are two Irish teens moving to america with the little they can carry. Here is Hiccup's side of the story and how he deals with the famine and moving away to this new country with streets paved in gold. Hiccup/Astrid and Hiccup/Elsa.

1. Chapter 1

Somewhere in the coal mine

April 6 1845, Monday.

Dear Pamella,

The disease is hitting everywhere and anywhere. Families one by one are dying of the famine. Terry and I will have to move to America with mama and papa… if I and father can pull the money. I'm getting worried… our crops have yet to be infected but mother won't let Terry or I to eat potatoes and says her and father are more immune.

Terry constantly asks 'Hiccup, what is going on? Why are the girls and boys not going to school?' and all I can tell him is 'they are ill Terry darling, they are ill.' And he sighs and does his homework, going and everyday comes home saying 'Suzie isn't in school' or 'the boy who used to pick on me is dead.' And sometimes the older kids in school tell him scary things like 'a monster is eating all the young kids' and he comes home crying saying 'Hiccup, oh Hiccup the monster is going to get me next.'

Mother has denied him going to school and yet I continue school, going to class and doing homework. I teach young Terry as much as I can while still trying to ease my dearest darling Astrid. I only fear that mother or father may catch it before I can get the money.

So this is a new fanfic written in diary entry form, entirely from Hiccup's POV. Terry is a little boy version of Toothless and Hiccup's younger sibling. Soon we will get some Hiccelsa going on