A/N: I saw this wicked otp prompt challenge and I scrolled through and I thought 'I'm gonna do a thing'. Now, you might all be thinking 'excuse you ma'am you have not finished 'Birds Of A Feather' nor have you written it's sequel you have no right' my otp controls me and I need to let my spirit soar. I will not be caged. And though the prompts were in a completely different fandom from what I'm applying them to I care not. The rating may or may not go up.
When he picks up his phone as he's helping Gobber clean up his workshop for the day and Rapunzel blurts out that she wants to go camping, though the winter months of Berk are barely over and they will probably freeze to death, his first reaction is to think she's insane. Then she goes on to explain what a beautiful night she feels it's going to be, how she checked the weather and there won't be a cloud in the sky, and how if they're not in town they'll be able to see the stars perfectly. His will-power is slowly chipped away by all her gushing until by the end of the call he's smiling and agreeing with her and telling her to get the few things they'll need for just one night packed, much to her pleasure.
And though he was completely right about it being too cold (which-she-knew-to-don't-you-laugh-at-me-Hiccup), and they spend most of the night huddled up by their campfire and not in their tent, Rapunzel was also right. The night was breathtaking and there wasn't a star in the sky they couldn't see. Hiccup might even go so far as to say they spent more time pointing out constellations to each other than they did wondering if winter was really over. Most of said constellations were in actuality spotted by Rapunzel, the girl always having had a soft spot for astronomy. But he likes to listen to her as she points them out and occasionally tells him a legend behind one of them ("that's Andromeda, my favorite, I told you about that one last week, do you remember?").
As he looks back on the night as they're packing up their campsite and she tells him she'll make them pancakes when they get home for breakfast he smiles to himself. He thinks he'll remember the night for a long time. How the moonlight danced off her golden hair in a way that was almost more beautiful than when the sun did the same. Or how when she grinned in just the right way he could see every single freckle she had though few and far in-between compared to him. How after a few hours of talking at god-knows-what time she pulls him off the ground and has him dance with her just because her feet are falling asleep and she doesn't want to do the same. Or that when they went on a walk around the lake (their lake; Hiccup, Toothless, and Rapunzel's) the moon is reflected on the calm surface and Rapunzel and Toothless skip circles around him. Both could have been giving off their own silvery light as Rapunzel's goaded the dog on and it happily accepted the challenge or using the moon's and he would have never been able to tell the difference.
Hopping into their car and laughing at how Toothless has decided he is a lapdog and Rapunzel's is just the lap he wants to be in he's already planning their next camping trip. Hopefully it will be one as shimmering and splendid as this one, he tells Rapunzel. She gives him a playful smile and says she's only hoping it will be warm the next time around.
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