New companion story for "Our Soggy Alone Place." This may or may not be the first part to my one-shot series based on the first story...idk. Only if you guys want one!
For those of you waiting for an update for Zombie Run, I will have that up as soon as possible! I already have almost 4,000 words for chapter 2 and they just started the actual run! I didn't know it would be as difficult as it is to write out, so please be patient(:
Disclaimer: Do I even have to say it?
"Hey, wake up." Ruffnut groaned, shifting onto her side and staring blankly at the wall her brother's bed sat against. She felt awful. It had only been two weeks since she found out she was pregnant, and already the morning sickness had kicked into full gear. While it wasn't so bad at first, the last couple of days she'd hardly been able to make herself move. Something she had failed to tell her brother about. "If you feel bad you can stay here. I'm sure Hiccup won't mind at all." Her brother said placing a gentle hand on her shoulder. She shook her head, the nausea she felt increasing ten fold, before attempting to lift herself from her brother's bed he'd practically forced her to use. Not like she had her own bed to sleep in anymore.
"No, I'm going." Ruffnut said, brushing her brother's hand off her shoulder. "It's been two weeks and I know Barf and Belch have to be getting antsy. Have they even flown since I found out...?" She asked, worried that their dragon hadn't had proper social interaction since she'd stopped coming to the academy everyday. Tuffnut was great at taking care of their basic needs like food and water, but two riders are needed to fly a Zippleback, and she highly doubted Barf would let anyone except she or Tuffnut ride him. Then there was the fact that Tuffnut had been spending the majority of his time with her.
"No, but if you're sick, you need to stay here. Barf and Belch will be just fine on the ground one more day." Tuffnut said, placing both hands on her shoulders. Ruffnut sighed and knocked the hands of her once again, threw the covers off her aching body, and lifted herself out of the bed. She felt slightly faint and as if she was going to spew out everything she'd managed to eat the last few days onto the floor, but other than that, she was perfectly fine. Tuffnut needed to stop being more of a mother hen than their own mother was.
"I'm going." Ruffnut said, gathering up her normal everyday wear and headed to their changing room. She didn't spare a glance back at her brother, but if she had, she knew she would've seen layers of worry all over his face. For a viking man, he really sucked at hiding his emotions.
The second she made it into the kitchen she dropped her clothes and fell to her knees, dry heaving over the bucket of water they used to wash their hands. She needed to pull herself together before Tuffnut decided to check up on her. The last thing she needed was for him to see her like this. She continued to sit on the floor for several minutes, breathing heavily and desperately trying to keep from throwing up or passing out. Once she was sure that she wouldn't do either, she lifted herself off the ground and gathered up her clothes once again.
Might as well get this over with.
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The walk to the academy was silent for the most part, the only sounds being the twins' shoes scraping against the dirt pathway that led from town to their destination. Ruffnut sighed, knowing that her brother was disappointed in her decision to come to training instead of taking another day to rest. She couldn't blame him, if he had been feeling as horrible as she had and tried to still leave the house she would have had a fit.
"I'll be fine, Tuff." Ruffnut said, tired of the tense silence between the two. While they used to fight a lot when they were younger, their relationship had grown more sentimental after their father passed away. It was then that they realized that no one was immortal, and that they shouldn't waste what time they had with each other fighting over stupid things like who got to tip a yak first. The last thing she wanted at that moment was for her twin to be upset with her.
"I know you will be, but you can't blame me for being worried. I mean, you heard what Gothi said about dad..." Tuffnut said, trailing off at the end of his sentence. Ruffnut felt a pang of guilt and sadness run through her body.
"...we just didn't catch it in time..." Ruffnut finished for her brother. Suddenly the reasons behind Tuffnut's protectiveness became so much clearer. He wanted to make sure that if she had anything wrong with her, that it wouldn't be too late to fix it. He didn't want her to end up like their father when he could have easily been saved. Ruffnut stopped walking, grabbing her brother's arm in her own. He looked at her with confusion.
"How about this, every month or so, I'll go to Gothi just to make sure everything's okay. I know I'm kind of supposed to do that anyway, but now I promise that I will." Ruffnut said, hoping to ease her brother's nerves. "Does that make you feel better?" She asked. Tuffnut nodded, wrapping his left arm around her shoulders.
"Yeah, actually...it does." He said. Ruffnut smiled before punching her twin roughly in the side.
"Hey!" He said, rubbing the sore area.
"Can't hit me back." She said, placing her hand gently on her flat stomach. Tuffnut grunted before grabbing his sisters head and running his knuckles along her scalp.
"No but I can do this!" Tuffnut said before his twin pushed him off of her.
"You suck." She laughed.
"So do you." Tuffnut replied, placing his arm back on her shoulder.
So maybe her brother was a little over-protective, but that's okay. At least she knows that he cares.
How would you guys feel if I turn these stories into a one-shot series? If I do though, you guys would have to request prompts because I suck at creating my own. This story was supposed to be a Ruff and Barf story, and it turned into her and Tuffnut. So yeah, please request prompts. xD When requesting, I'd prefer right now if you guys only focused on her first three months of her pregnancy since I want them to be in order. I'll let you guys know when you can start requesting prompts for the fourth, fifth, etc.
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