Hiccstrid Week 2017
DAY 2: The moment you started shipping them – as soon as Astrid came on screen in HTTYD 1.

Dreamer

She was beautiful.

The prettiest girl on Berk. The strongest girl on Berk. The most free-willed girl on Berk…

…the only girl he'd ever learned to love.

Hiccup watched from the Forge window as she stepped by, flames rising higher from the house she was supposed to distinguish. She held a heavy wooden bucket in her hands, but she held it as though it weighed nothing, before she turned and tossed it onto the fire.

Hiccup blinked in amazement as she turned and began to hurry back to the well, her braid flying out behind her, her bright eyes reflecting the flames that burned about her as though the iris's themselves were on fire with fury. Her axe jostled her back as she jogged, and the weight alone would've had Hiccup toppling in seconds. But it was no problem for Astrid, she was lithe, and could out do many.

Hiccup stared at her as she dashed pass, not even noticing him standing there by the Forge window. But Hiccup was hardly bothered however, for it was like nothing different from the other times he'd seen her. She'd pass, his heart would flutter and ache in longing, wishing that she… she would just give him a chance.

Then she'd be gone, not even giving him a second glance.

Perhaps that was a good thing, for if she did, Hiccup feared he might very well faint from the thudding sensation of his heartbeat racing. Astrid Hofferson? Pay attention to him?

He sighed and backed away, the shape of the girl disappearing between the darkened ally's if two huts, until she totaled passed form sight. Hiccup turned away, stepping back inside the Forge.

Dream he would, even though his dreams rarely came true.

He still couldn't believe it.

How had he been so lucky? How had he- Hiccup Haddock- gotten the prettiest girl on Berk to actually… notice him? Why had she come with on Toothless? Why had she bothered at all?

The moonlight shimmered, spraying light across the small lake and splaying shadows across the ground. Hiccup shifted nervously, expecting some painful punishment for the stunt he'd pulled… that's what always happened to him. Do something that he actually wanted to do, and trouble would come from it.

Sure enough, the punch he'd been expecting landed against his scrawny shoulder. He gave a little yelp, turning slightly and letting his free arm grab the small wound. He blinked in surprise- that hadn't been her hardest punch.

To further his surprise, Astrid looked restless, and she hadn't dashed off yet. Yet. Oh Thor, what was she going to do to him? No… she had just spared him. She hadn't punched him with all the weight she could muster- like she'd done to Snotlout in the past. She… she'd clung to his waist when they'd flown with the flock of Dragon's, she'd…

she'd been everything he'd ever dreamed she'd be.

He'd seen her sweet and soft side. And that- that sent a warm chill running down his back.

In his deep thought, he didn't notice when she leaned forward, and before he knew it she'd grabbed the front of his tunic and planted a quick kiss on his cheek- right in the corner of his mouth. Hiccup gasped when she let go, staring at her in shock.

"That's for… everything else." She murmured, looking up at him with those beautiful blue eyes of hers. Hiccup saw it then, those eyes were filled with grief, with sorrow, with remorse. Guilt.

Astrid felt… felt guilty…

He smiled brightly at her, not really helping the reaction but also hoping it would comfort her. Astrid had just kissed him…. his highest dream had come true! How could this be happening… to him no less!?

Her eyes widened, filling with relief as she smiled back, before turning and dashing off towards the path in the cove. Hiccup stared after her, holding his hand tighter to his shoulder, still feeling the warmth of her hand against his skin, could almost feel her lips against his cheek again…

He sighed happily, the troubles of tomorrow lagging at the back of his brain. But for the time being- he ignored them.

For it had just been proven to him that his dreams really could come true.

I didn't put "DAY 1" because I've already published that over in my Reaction to Hiccstrid being together (post RTTE season 4) fic collection, and it just didn't feel right posting it a second time. So I just skipped straight to Day 2, if you'd like, you can go and read Day 1 over in my one-shot/drabble reaction series "It's Official" :)