A/n: yo, what is up I am continuing until the police catch me. And they never will….
Any ways, I'm sure you didn't come to read this so ear you go
Oh wait, I would like to clarify that they all look the same as they do in the movies despite the age, and Jack is roughly the same age as hiccup now, when hiccup was a kid, jack was still 20-22 okay?
And toothless is anthro-toothless, so he's human
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The large doors made a loud protest to alert the assembly of my arrival. I felt incredibly awkward about having interrupted the meeting.
"I'm so sorry your honour" I say walking quickly to the front "I lost my money, my car, my wife"
"All in one lunch hour" the judge nods, obviously disbelieving
"Yeah" I sigh knowing I must sound insane
"Do what I did, plead insanity" said the man in the stand, everyone coursed with laughter then the judge ordered the court into silence
I sat at my little typewriter and started to type the man's alibi- statement I meant to think statement, when the judge called me to the table.
"I'm sorry" I say with my head bowed
"So am I" he said "you're fired" and I can add job to one of the many things I lost today
- (Time skip) -
I had packed up what little things I had in my small cubical and was on my way to the door when I tripped over a brown leather case someone had put in the middle of the walk way and dropped all my stuff. I was waiting for the impact of the cold marble ground, I should know I've fallen on it enough, but instead I felt two large arms encircle my tiny waist. I look up to see a man about the same age as me but he was well built, tan skin, at least six foot and hypnotising green eyes. It all seemed so familiar.
He helped e straighten up
"Thank you" I smile at him but quickly crouch down to fix my box of items
"Are you okay" he asks in a deep rumbling voice as he bent down to help me
"Uh-huh" I nod head down
"Hiccy?" he asked trying to get a better look at my face, and I look up at him in surprise "Hiccup Haddock, I'm Tomas, Toothless Fury; we use to live down the street from each other when we were kids, little kids"
Realisation dawned upon me "Toothless!" I say happily.
We had most of my things back into the box and we were almost finished
"Goodness, it's been thirteen years" I reach for the last thing and shove it into the box "do you work here?"
"No" he answered simply
"Neither do I" I go back into my depression for a second
"No, I had a divorced here" he answered and I look at him in shock
"Divorce?" I say in a questioning tone
"Yeah" Toothless replied looking down
"Ugh" I grunt chucking something I was holding into the box "I don't like that word, you gotta work thing through, if you don't wanna get, sigh, divorced"
"Hmm," he hummed in agreement "well, I gave it my best try, Hiccy, but, uh, we've been separated for two years now"
"Oh" I nod
"But the good thing about it is, I got to keep my son," he said pulling out a picture of a boy that must represent his mother because he doesn't have any of Toothless's features "It's Jamie" (Jamie bennet, just to clarify who you picture)
"Huh, he's handsome" I smile handing back the paper, glad my friend got to keep his child
"Yeah, he's adorable" he smiles at the picture before looking back at me, why are we still sitting in this walk way "he's a lot to handle though, she's a lot like you use to be"
"Like me?" I look at him confused
"Yeah" he says softly
"What do you mean?" I ask tilting my head slightly as we finally stood up
"Don't you remember what you did to my grandmother?" he grins at me
"I didn't do anything to your grandmother" I scoff
"Oh" he scoffs back in amusement "you said the same thing back then, you said that jack did it"
I stood there confused for a second before it clicked into place
"Jack Frost" I say with a smile
- (Flash back to what happened to Toothless's grandma) -
Granma Fury was in her gardening wear tending to the weeds in her back yard garden that sat along the fence
"Oh, Grandma Fury" I sang and as she turned around she was drenched with yellow paint
Oh the look on her face
- (End flash back) -
I chuck and repeat
"Jack Frost" and bit my lip
"you know, I used to pretend I had an imaginary friend, no one believed me" he wave the folder he had In his hand around gesturing to what he was saying " do you remember the time you and Jack came over to borrow my father's electric shaver?"
I search for the memory and I was not disappointed
"Huh" I sigh "yes"
- (Flash back) -
Jack was holding a cat in one hand and the shaver in the other, he went into the other room with a fuzzy Persian type feline, you hear a buzz and loud meows of protest and see some hair fly from the open door and he came back out to show a cat with a poodle hair cut
- (End flash back) -
"You must have thought I was crazy" I grin
"No, no, no" he protests "not at all, I believed you, it was just that no one else could see him, except you"
"oh, he was so real" I say as I start to walk slowly down the hall and Toothless picked up the brown case I tripped on and walked with me
"Oh he was real alright" he agreed as he matched my pace "Really out of control"
"No" I say in Jacks defence "not always, only when my father was…" I cut myself off looking for the right words to say as I stop and face toothless but then I looked down "well, you know"
"Hey" he say catch my attention making me look at him "we were all a little afraid of your Father" he leaned towards me as a sign of comfort
"Not Jack, no he always stood up for me" I smile and start to walk again
"Hey that's what friends are for" Toothless smiles before resting a hand on my box to stop me "even imaginary ones"
Then we said our good byes as we reached the door, I walked over to the fountain in front of the building and sat waiting for Fishlegs
When Fishlegs walked up to me, I looked up from playing with my fingers as he sat beside me
"I realised you're feeling pretty conflicted right now" he says calmly and I stand and grab my things
"I feel awful" I clarify as we started to walk away
"I did this self-actualising ritual and basically it taught us that pain is your friend, it's your humanity, pain makes you interesting" Fishlegs is Being Fishlegs again
"Oh, Fishlegs" I sigh knowing this is going to blow over quick if I co-operate with him
"I mean look at Elvis" he says
"Yeah, but didn't Elvis kill himself?" what a terrible example, I think as we stoped walking
"yes, but he was very famous before he did" this isn't helping at all " now I want you to do some affirmations with me"
"Fishlegs!" I say in protest
"Come on, just do it with me" he pushes, I didn't say anything so he took it as a 'go for it' and closed his eye expecting me to follow suit "now surround yourself with light" he paused "are you surrounded?"
I glanced up at the sun "yeah, I'm surrounded"
"Alright, now repeat after me" he instructs his eyes still sealed "I don't need a man to complete my life"
"I don't need a man to complete my life" I parrot, humouring him
"I'm perfect that way that I am"
"I'm perfect the way that I am" complete lie
"And I hate Astrid" he said
"And I hate Astrid" well that made me feel sick to my stomach
Fishlegs opened his eyes and asked
"don't you feel better?"
I look away from his face pretending to think and look back
"No" then I laugh at myself for being so stupid " I love her, I really do"
- ( time skip) -
I walked into my apartment with Fishlegs following behind spouting something about choice. I noticed a packed trunk sitting at the end of the hall, as I turn onto the kitchen both me and Fishlegs come to a halt.
My Father was there
"I heard" said Stoic
"hello, Father" I say simply and walk past her putting down the box of stuff from my office
" I, uh. I came as soon as I heard, good thing I have a key to this apartment" Stoic says grabbing the box I put down and carrying it towards the pill of trunks I had saw
"Hello Mister Haddock" Fishlegs said in such away demanding my Fathers attention "he's going to be alright, he just needs some nurturing, that's all", you know, give him a little cuddle"
As he says this we all know it's not going to happen
"Heh" Stoic chuckles looking at me "Cuddling is for teddy bears, Hiccup, I've packed your things you're coming home with me"
"NO I'm staying here tonight Father" I protest but falling dead to his ears as he walked away with a few of the trunks and down the hall
"you see Astrid is coming back tonight and he just-" Fishlegs tried to explain but Stoic walked right past us
"yeah, I just wanted to be here when she came" I finished for Fishlegs
"DON'T disagree with your father son" Stoic ordered
"I'm staying here tonight!" I say strongly, but when my Dad looked at me I looked down and played with a few strands of my hair "I'm staying here tonight" I say again with less certainty and strength to Fishlegs
But arguing was pointless because my Father took my things and dragged me to my childhood home anyway. Once we go there, he instructed me not to touch the l carpet in the living room; it is three hundred years old and very expensive with Viking heritage in it.
"Take your things upstairs" he instructed " I made up your bed"
"Oh" I say back not really listening
"Oh? That's all you say to me?" He said as thought he was incredibly insulted "is oh?"
"Thank you, father " I say continuing to walk up the stairs practically dragging the suit case
"That's a good boy" like he's talking to a dog
Once I got to my room I look around and note that nothing has changed. I put the trunk on my bed and sat on it. I then decided to look in my walk-in cupboard and found a shelf with a door up high. I opened the door only to be attacked by my old toys. I looked down at the fallen toys and one really stood out to me.
The Jack-in-a-box
I took it over to my window and examined it. The strange thing about it is that it had duct tape around it. To seal it shut. I put it down on the sill. I was too tired to think about this. So I lay down and cry my self to sleep.
- (Dream) -
I was five, I was crying in bed when the light turned on and there was a rustling under my pillow. A long arm wrapped in a blue hoodie came out and the hand wacked me on the forehead so I jumped under the blankets
- (End dream) -
I woke with a start and sat up holding my head. i get ready to go back to sleep before I noticed a glass of water on the night stand so I take a sip the I hear a tune
Bum bum
I look over at the Jack in the box and sure enough the handle starts to spin. On its own playing pop goes the weasel. At high speeds
I put my glass of water down and turn on my lamp. As soon as the lights on the spinning and the song stopped, And slowly started to go around one note at a time
I got up out of bed and walked cautiously over to the toy. I pick it up and sat back on my bed then started to rip off the tape, slowly but it was going and when it did, something burst out the 'Jack' part and bounced around the room only to stop under my bed.
But when I looked there was nothing there. Confused I sat back up. And when I did someone screamed boo in my ear so did the most manly thing I could… I screamed like a little girl. I turned and came face to face with my imaginary friend
Jack frost
A/n: sorry about the slowness of my updating. I hope to update again soon. But I am about to get off holidays and I have another fic I am almost finished so please bear with me and thanks for your co-operation
