I saw this movie for the first time today and fell in love. I just had to come home and write a fanfic. I've been in a stupor these last few months, and just needed to post something. Takes place about a year after the movie, and though it's not stated in the fic, I'd assume Astrid and Hiccup have been dating for a while...
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Hiccup looked across the table in the Dining Hall to gaze at Astrid, deep in conversation with his father about something important yet entirely uninteresting.
It had been almost a year since his first encounter with the "deadly" Night Fury, who was now sitting by the giant hearth, purring quietly after a large helping of fish with some of the other dragons.
The boy Hiccup in under twelve months had grown into a man. He was not massively bulky like his father, but upon closer inspection, one could see his muscles hidden by his agile build. Nearly a foot taller than the year before and his voice much deeper, Hiccup had grown into the kind of person his village could look to as a future leader.
He didn't really care what anyone in the village thought of him, except the girl that was almost a woman in front of him. He knew her hair had grown, for he had had the privilege to see it down on a few rare occasions, it was long and shining and gorgeous. She had grown taller, her curves had filled out, but deep inside, she was still the same Astrid.
But sitting there bathed in the glow of the red and gold flickering light from the fire, she looked almost otherworldly. Hiccup hoped he could keep this image of her, head thrown back in laughter at something his father had said, in his mind long enough for him to hobble home on his stiff leg to sketch her.
Which was exactly what he did. Just as he finished, setting down his charcoal stick, he looked up to find her standing in the doorway of his room, smiling softly.
It wasn't the determined smile she wore when she faced a challenge, it wasn't the forced smile set on her features when Snotlout gave her compliment after compliment, it was something special.
It was the blissful grin she bore only when on the back of her dragon, riding high above the island.
Hiccup felt his mouth go dry as a desert as he watched her walk slowly toward him. He knew it was useless to try and hide the drawing, where would he put it? Among the countless others that lined his walls?
But Astrid did not seem upset at all. She lowered herself next to him on his workbench and gazed at herself in the picture.
"It's beautiful," she murmured, placing her hand on top of his.
"Eh, it's alright," he whispered back, "But I think the real thing is even better."
Astrid blushed, but giggled softly. She leaned toward him and stared deep into his eyes.
He looked back and smiled softly, brushing his lips against hers.
They sat together for a long while, the silence punctuated by random kisses or snippets of conversation.
Hiccup could not help but look at the gorgeous girl next to him and dream up yet another way to sketch her. In his arms, a huge smile on her face, big enough to match his. Which coincidentally, is exactly what they looked like the next day as they whispered, "I love you," to the other for the first time.
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