Astrid didn't remember that she had fall asleep but she saw the light from the sun shine through the windows so it must sometime around lunch. She sat up in the chair, all the memories from yesterday rinsed over her. She walked the few meters from the chair to Hiccup's bed. He looked so pale, so fragile. She felt a sting of pain when she looked at him, why must it always be him.
Astrid sat at his bed all day, the gang looked past to see how he was doing, Valka sat with her and talked a few time but otherwise she was alone with her thoughts. She her a groan and saw how Hiccup began to move, just slightly but it was enough for Astrid to notice. In a few seconds she sat on her knees at the side of the bed and took Hiccup's hand in her.
It was hard, really hard to opened for Hiccup to open his eyes, everything was a blur. At first he didn't recognise where he was but the roof did look familiar and he realised he was at Gothis. "Hi babe, how is it?", Hiccup knew actually who this voice belonged to, but why should Astrid say such a thing to him, and why was she here. "Why you here?" Oh crape his voice was thick and he had a hard time to make his mouth say the words he wanted to say, so everything come out weird, just another time he managed to make himself look like a fool in front of Astrid.
"What did you say?" She had used her nicest and smoothest voice when she said that. "What are you doing here, and why am I here?" Hiccup was so confused, he could talk normally now but his head hurt. "Hiccup what do you mean, of course I am here, you are hurt?" Astrid was very confused too, why did he even asked such a question. "Have never happened before" he mumbled quietly. Even though he said it so quietly Astrid could still hear him and when she did everything clicked, he had hurt his head pretty badly so could it be that he had a anosmia and if he had how long would it last?
Toothless who had heard from the place he laid that his rider was awake happily jumped up on his legs and walked to the right side of the bed. Hiccup let out a high scream, "Dragon Astrid why don't you kill it?!" "Hiccup it's Toothless don't you remember him, he's yours?" Astrid did't get it, why didn't Hiccup remember Toothless, and if he didn't remember him then what does he remember?
"Astrid get out and get some help it's a night fury, he is going to kill us!"
He was terrified, why didn't Astrid do something? Dragons and Viking kill each other, it's kill or be killed.
Astrid turned her head to look at the heartbroken dragon who couldn't understand why Hiccup acted like he did and said "Toothless could you please go a for a minute so I can calm him down, please?"
So Toothless turned around and slowly with his head down headed out from the room.
"Hiccup could you tell med the last thing you remember?"
"Uhm let me see I think it is when I accidentally burned my arm really badly in the forge, it was the same day that awful dragon raid which burned down Mildew house to the ground, do you remember?"
Yes Astrid remembered very well that day had happened about half a year before Hiccup met Toothless, and that means that he couldn't remember his father's death.
The pain was like a knife i her heart, he couldn't remember his father's death right now but what if he never got his memories back then they had to tell him everything that had happened. In her rush she had totally forgotten about his foot, uhm well the leg that wasn't there and stood up to get Valka and Gothi. "Stay there I'm just going to talk to Gothi okay?"
"If you say so"
The second Astrid was out Hiccup could finally relax, he hadn't realised that he had tense but he was very nervous as soon as Astrid was near. Everything was so confusing, an Astrid who actually cared for him and that dragon, why hadn't Astrid attacked him and why hadn't the dragon attacked them. He needed some air and was about to stand up when he notice his leg. It was like someone had poured a bottle of ice cold water over him, his foot was missing and replaced with a peg leg. But how could it be just be gone, what had happened that to him? How could something just disappear?
He screamed, he couldn't help it, everything was so overwhelmed and this was as much that he could take.
Meanwhile Astrid had found both Gothi and valka and bagun to describe the situation when a scream cut through the air, Hiccup. Astrid looked at the two in front of her, they had also recognised the scream and the same thought passed through their mind, get to hiccup.
Astrid ran up the stairs faster than she had ever done before with his scream still ringing in her ears. Had something happened to him? Had he been attacked? She didn't know. She was much faster than the other two and reached Hiccup first. She found him hunched up in the bed all sweaty and panicking.
"Hiccup what's wrong?" she used her smoothest voice and hoped that she didn't insulted him in any way.
"M-m-my foot is gone, Astrid" Hiccup tried really hard to keep his voice steady but failed.
Ooh right his foot, Astrid had totally forgotten about that.
"Hiccup listen to me, I'm going to explain everything if you could just calm down, can you do that to me?"
"Yeah soo easy to do that"
Astrid just smiled, even in this situation he could pull a sarcastic comment.
"You lost your foot when you saved our village"
Hiccup gave her a distrustful look, him save a village, ha never, he was a fishbone, he was Hiccup the Useless who couldn't do anything right.
"Hiccup don't give me such a look, I'm telling the truth. You found Toothless - the night fury - in the woods, you have shoot him down but you befriend him, and with you on his back you killed the Red Death together and saved the village".
Hiccup couldn't believe what he heard, he befriend a dragon, a night fury and save Berk, no Astrid must be lying.
Astrid could see that Hiccup didn't believe her and she felt how she began to be annoyed, why did he have to be so stubborn. Why couldn't he just believe that everything she said was true, that she didn't lie. The realization hit her, of course he wouldn't believe her he still thought that he was the scrawny little 15 year old that had been frozen out by the whole village, the 15 year old that didn't seem to do anything right but so much had changed, they had all realized what a wonderful person Hiccup was, but how could she make Hiccup understand this when he didn't remembered anything.
"Hiccup please understand this, I know it's hard but you hit your head- hard - and I think that you have got a anosmia whatever, you don't remember the last 5 years and you have change so much that it's hard to believe but the most important thing is that you have friends, people who care and love you".
Hiccup sat there absolutely quiet, he tried to take in the information Astrid had just told him, five years so he is like 20 now, no that seemed impossible he can't be 20 and he can't have any friends but if Astrid lied then why would she still sit here and talk to him so nicely, was it just a cruel joke from the twins and Snotlout or did she speak the truth? He had to asked but what if it was just a joke, oooh he was so confused!"
"Astrid I just want to know, and I'm not sure if this is just a joke but here we go, does my dad loves me?" he said it as quietly as he could, he wasn't sure if he wanted to know the answer.
Astrid looked up at him in shock, he looked so insecure, so young yet so old, nothing like the boy she had grown up with, what should she said, should she partly lie and said that he did and keep back that he was dead or should she tell him everything and watch him break again in front of her, could she handle that?.
The door burst opened and in stumbled Gothi and Valka.
"What happened? Is he alright?"
"Yes, a little shocked but nothing to serious and it was his foot that make him scream, he couldn't remember that it was gone" a little smile played on Astrid's lips when she said that.
"Uum Astrid I don't want to be rude but who is that women beside gothi?"
Both Astrid and Valka froze, how was they going to explain this but they never got the chance because Gothi started to examine Hiccup to see how badly his anosmia was. Gothi wrote in the dust on the floor and Astrid had Valka translate it. "His anosmia is not that bad, it should be over pretty soon but he needs to rest".
Astrid was sent out, despised her will and found a confused and very worried night fury. She patted him on his side to calm them both down, but nothing could calm down a worried Night Fury and a worried girlfriend.