Five year old Valentine lay in her bead listening to her mom's footsteps as she moved around downstairs. It was late and no matter what position Val laid in, she couldn't get comfortable, so she lay awake staring at the ceiling.

Valentine sighed and rolled over on her side. She missed her dad. Her mom had told her many times that being chief was hard and that he needed to be gone a lot, but that didn't change the fact that Valentine wanted him to come home.

Tears brimmed her big green eyes and started trickling down her face.

"Daddy, where are you?" she whispered to no one. Slowly she sat up and stared at the picture her dad had drawn for her. It was a picture of her playing and splashing Toothless with water.

Suddenly she wanted her mom. She didn't want to be alone anymore.

Valentine slipped out from under her blankets and started to walk towards her bedroom door.

Astrid turned at the sound of small bare feet tiptoeing behind her. "Val, what are you doing downstairs?" She put down the cup of water she was drinking and walked over to her daughter.

Valentine started crying. "I want daddy! I miss him so much mommy!" she wrapped her small arms around her mom's waist and pressed her face into her stomach.

Astrid put her arms around her little girl and held her tight. "I know sweetie, I miss him too." As she felt Valentine's little body shaking with sobs she felt her own emotions close to the surface. She hated seeing her daughter so sad.

Valentine pulled away and wiped her eyes. "Is he ever coming home mommy?"

Astrid looked at her. Val was a small version of Hiccup - same brown hair with a hint of red and the same expressive green eyes.

The young mother brushed Val's hair out of her eyes. "Yes honey, he will come home."

Valentine's bottom lip started to quiver. "But when, mommy, when?" she started to cry again. "Has he forgotten me?"

Astrid was shocked. "No Val, daddy hasn't forgotten you. I'm sure he thinks about you every day." She reached down and dried off Valentine's small face.

The five year old put her arms around her mom's neck. "How do you know he thinks about me every day?"

"I just know he does. He loves you more than anything, Val. He would never forget you." Astrid grabbed Valentine's tiny hand and pulled her gently over to the table. "Do want anything to drink?"

"Milk, please." She sat down and clasped her hands in her lap. "Do you think daddy will be home for my birthday"?

Astrid poured some yak milk into a cup and put it in front of Valentine. She sat down next to her daughter as she drank. "Your birthday is tomorrow and I don't know if he will be back in time."

Val put her milk down and stuck her bottom lip out. "But I want daddy to be here! He missed my birthday LAST year! I don't want him to miss two!"

"I don't think he wants to miss your birthday either honey but he's so busy I don't think he can make it." Astrid scooped Valentine into her arms and watched her yawn. "Let's go back to bed. You need your sleep."

Val yawned again. "But I'm not tired!"

Astrid tapped Val's nose playfully. "Yes you are. You keep yawning."

Valentine squirmed. "No! I want to stay awake until daddy comes home!"

"Valentine, if you fall asleep it will feel like daddy will come home faster."

Val stopped squirming. "Really?" she opened her emerald green eyes wide and looked into her mother's sea blue eyes.

Astrid smiled and nodded her head. "Yes Princess."

Val smiled and relaxed. Princess was Hiccup's nickname for her and whenever her mom or her dad called her that she seemed to calm down.

Astrid laid Valentine in her bed and pulled the covers up. "I love you Val." She leaned over and kissed Val's forehead.

As Astrid was leaving she heard Valentine's little voice. "Mommy, will you sing me a bedtime song?"

Astrid stopped and went back to Val's bed. "Okay. Is there a song you want?"

Val thought for a moment. "I want the one about the moon and the girl."

Val's mom smiled. "Okay." She took a deep breath and started to sing.

"In the shadow of the moon,
She danced in the starlight
Whispering a haunting tune
To the night...
Velvet skirts spun 'round and 'round
Fire in her stare
In the woods without a sound
No one cared...
Through the darkened fields entranced,
Music made her poor heart dance,
Thinking of a lost romance...
Long ago...
Feeling lonely, feeling sad,
She cried in the moonlight.
Driven by a world gone mad
She took flight...
"Feel no sorrow, feel no pain,
Feel no hurt, there's nothing gained...
Only love will then remain,"
She would say.
Shadow of the Moon...
Shadow of the Moon...
Shadow of the Moon...
Shadow of the Moon...

Through the darkened fields entranced,
Music made her poor heart dance,
Thinking of a lost romance...
Long ago...

Somewhere just beyond the mist
Spirits were seen flying
As the lightning led her way
Through the dark...

In the shadow of the moon,
She danced in the starlight
Whispering a haunting tune
To the night...

Shadow of the Moon...
Shadow of the Moon...
Shadow of the Moon...
Shadow of the Moon...
Shadow of the Moon...
Shadow of the Moon...
Shadow of the Moon...
Shadow of the Moon..."

Astrid leaned down and kissed Val. "I love you sweet heart."

"I love you too mommy." With those last words Val finally slipped into a peaceful sleep. Music made up a huge part of Valentine's little world.