A/N: This is my first time writing for this particular crossover. I do apologize if it does not meet the standards for HTTYD and/or ROTG. Please bear with me. This oneshot is the start of, hopefully, many works to come for both.


Ice cold skin touched tanned warmth and a heart pounded harshly against a frozen rib cage. Nothing seemed more important to the winter spirit than this moment between himself and this mortal. Nothing was more special to him than this boy. Jack was certain he'd never felt any stronger emotion than the ones swirling inside of his icy heart at this exact time.

"Hiccup.." He whispered, voice soft and laced with emotions he'd been certain he could never feel. "Hiccup.." Again he whispered. His pale blue eyes, the color of ice on water softened as they looked into the emerald pools before him. The stunning forest color he'd grown to love so much in such short time.

Love. That word that Jack had never used, and never thought he would use. But it was more true now, than it had ever been before. He loved this boy. This pure, mortal boy who believed in him. The boy who could see him.

Brown locks fell in front of wide, childish eyes as tanned cheeks turn pink. Embarrassment.

"J-Jack.. Don't say things like that."

A frown, and a flutter of snow. Ah, confusion at its finest point.

"Why not? I love you Hiccup Haddock. So, so much." He leaned in, intending to kiss the thin lips that were taunting him, tempting him. But he was stopped by hands on his chest, firm, dragon-training hands. Hands that pushed him back

"I'm not like that Jack. You're a boy, I'm a boy. It's not right."

Heartbeat slowing, pain twisted inside his heart. The heart that had managed to be freed from the wall of ice and winter that surrounded it.

"Why should it matter? I love you for who you are. Isn't that what's important?" That's what he had been taught. North always told him that the outside was not what mattered, but what was inside that counted.

Those haunting green eyes stared at him in amazement. How could someone so old, not realize what kind of world he lived in? That Hiccup lived in? He was a Viking. You married a strong Viking woman, and had strong Viking kids.

"Not in my world. Jack, I'm in love with Astrid."