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This chapter is all about Hiccup's subconsciousness, and awkward tension. So a bit of a slow chapter but a necessary one but hey it's going to get better as their relationshion gets more- you know...

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Chapter 2

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When Hiccup woke up the next morning, the sun was shining, the terrible birds are chirping, and surprisingly his Dad didn't make any attempts to give him the 'Talk'.

Hiccup stretches his arms, groaning in relief as he felt his back release some stress. Toothless who was snuggling on his thigh was awoken by Hiccup's movement. The dog seemed to notice the different energy Hiccup has around him tilting it's head looking at his master weirdly.

"Good morning, Bud." Hiccup scratches Toothless back playfully. Toothless twists showing his belly deciding to take advantage of his Master's bright energy around him. Hiccup chuckles but obliges anyway scratching Toothless belly with both of his hand making Toothless' feet happily kick in the air, his tongue lolling sideways.

"Anyway Bud, does it seem to you that the Sun is shining brightly today?" Toothless shifts his head towards the glass walls then looks back at his master shaking his head which means 'No'.

"Weird huh, Bud - I guess I just have to wear my glasses again... maybe it's just my minor Astigmatism." Hiccup stands up from his bed, Hiccup shivers a little feeling the cold air touch his skin, He grabs the Air Conditioner Remote to lessen the temperature.

Hiccup yawns, crossing his arms looking at the Multitude of Television in his room for his daily updates.

Televisions 1: The prices of Bludvist Corporation per stock dropped significantly by 79.6% this quarter. There are rumors running around the market that it's CEO Drago Bludvist is involved with severa-

"Looks like we made the right decision not to invest some of our money there, Bud." Hiccup scratches his chin, satisfied with the decision he made then his eyes moving on to the next television.

Television 2: For today's weather forecast, there won't be any unexpected downpours-

"It's not like we're going out of the house anytime soon, right Bud?" Hiccup tilts his head slightly, then Astrid came to his mind all-of-a-sudden - weird though his mind seemed to accept the Idea that someone's is going to be invading his room once again. Hiccup unconsciously smiles at himself, shrugging his shoulders heading towards his miniature kitchen to grab some breakfast.

Hiccup sets his cereal bowl down in the granite counter facing the Television(s).

Television 3: For today's horoscope, According to the stars alignment, Pisces, those who are born February, 19 to March, 20 - are expected to find love your true love within the wee-

Images of strawberry blonde girl and blue eyes enters his mind without permission - Hiccup switches the channel immediately, as if rudely interrupting the Horoscopist.

Complete Non-sense. It's not like he's believed in those stars-alignment stuff anyway.

Why is Hiccup even too affected by those stupid horoscope anyways, he doesn't understand but it just got on his nerves all of a sudden. Hiccup sighs, Well there goes his bright day ruined by a stupid Horoscope.

Hiccup losing his appetite disposes the content of the bowl in the sink. Toothless nudges him in his good leg giving him a stink eye for not sharing the left overs.

"Sorry bud, I don't wanna ruin your diet by feeding you Human food, you're already picky enough." Toothless huffs in response then pushes his own bowl with his nose signalling that it's feeding time.

"Oh yeah, Almost forgot - What time is it anyway." Hiccup stands up grabbing the large sack of Dog Food placed on the side of fridge, kneeling down to quickly fill Toothless' bowl, while Looking at the Television playing the news channel searching the bottom part of the screen for the time /date / weather.

9:08 am.

Hiccup feeling down, sighs. Still Five more hours before Astrid's visit...

Wait a minute, did he just... Look forward for her company? They only watched Avengers together which he had to admit was a nice change with Astrid being so cheerfully infectious and... Damn now those Horoscopic non-sense are corrupting his mind manipulating the stars sending laser beams into his brain making him think like this.

Okay that os just soo... Weird stuff even for him. He's just... Damn, he doesn't really understand what's going on his mind right now. It's like he's going back to being happy-sociable-make-friends-with-anyone-filled-with-hopes-and-dreams Hiccup again.

It was like before Camicazi.

Then his mind suddenly ponders how Astrid is achingly similar to Camicazi... From her Blonde hair... blue eyes... and both being tough girls who resorts to little violences as their playful sides... But there's something about Astrid yesterday that made him feel something he hasn't felt in a long time.

No way. He's gonna allow that to happen. He promised himself his never going through all that pain again...

Hiccup's suddenly overcome by nausea and headache, Headaches that triggers whenever he's reminded of his past and Camicazi. Why is he having this headaches attack again... Hiccup thought he was over that stage.

He drags himself to the bed stumbling a couple of times - frantically grabbing his blanket yearning for the comfort, solitude it somehow manages to give him, drifting into half-sleep.

Hiccup jolts awake from his half-sleep, feeling shivery and goosebumps all over his skin. His breathing is slightly ragged, and his chest is thumping heavily. Worse though is that it's another one of those dreams he has no recall or anything even if he tries hard to dig his brain out for information, but fragments of it on the back of his mind and vague feeling of temporary happiness relating to things he couldn't possibly experience.

Hiccup groans and attempts to shut his eyes as tightly as possible hoping to drift back to that dream, but it doesn't work. Feeling regretful for having to wake up, twinges of shallow happiness lingering on his chest. He just had another one of those dreams people pray for before sleeping hoping to have a temporary peaceful time in your own world. Only that he didn't pray for it... It's most likely from his subconsciousness.

Basically it's like the closest thing he can get to paradise. Ever since Hiccup started losing his confidence and stop connecting himself from the world... Those dream were one of his ways to escape reality. IT's lame and He's fully aware of his cowardice choosing dreams over reality and if he was given a choice to he wouldn't hesitate to stick to one of those dreams a million times.

What the!?

"Cami...?" Hiccup trembles, his eyes playing tricks on him maybe it's his foggy state. His mind is hazy and vision is still blurred, unconsciously his hand reaching out for the Blonde Hair but pulls out the last moment.

Hiccup sits-up straight, shutting his eyes tight- shaking his head to rid himself of his illusions.

Inhale, Exhale. Hiccup opens his eyes and she's still here. Camicazi is here... in his room sitting at the edge of his bed just within his grasp.

And he's officially not having delusions... He was not prepared for this, Why did she decide to suddenly show up again.

"W-What are you doing here?" Hiccup asks, voice weak.

The Blonde turns around to face him. "Excuse me?" The Blonde Girl questions back, confused.

Hiccup's eyes widen, realizing that it was Astrid. "N-Nothing... I was just seeing things." Hiccup chuckles nervously. This is the second time she mistakes Astrid for Camicazi.

How stupid of him to even think that Camicazi could possibly want to do something with him again.

"Are you okay... You look pale. Are you sick?" Astrid asks.

Hiccup still dazed, rubbing his palm between his eyes and forehead.

"Yeah...I mean No, I'm not sick just a bit.. dizzy from waking up." Hiccup says trying to sound convincing, exaggeratedly yawning, making up excuse, he really don't want to talk about it but was obviously not doing fine job at that.

No I'm definitely not okay, you just resemble my EX-girlfriend and almost lost it because I thought she was suddenly barging in my life again.

Astrid looks at him weirdly, unconvinced. "Okaay..." Astrid shrugs, turning back to the television.

Hiccup let out a sigh of relief when Astrid seems to understand him. She looks like she had a lot of questions, based on what happened the first time they met Hiccup knew Astrid can be quite pushy and persistent.

Just like Camicazi...

Hiccup looks away from her, feeling guilty for comparing Astrid to his Ex.

"Are you gonna ask me to leave?" Astrid asks, facing the television.

"NO!... I mean I'm not..." Hiccup answers, "Please don't..." Hiccup muttered under his breathe, uncharacteristically nervous, scared and anxious. Why is he acting like this again... It's like he's regressing and he thought he was getting better and worse is someone is here and he doesn't mind her to be with him... He feels like- He doesn't understand but her presence is somewhat somehow comforting him.

Gods, he need to get a grip of himself.

Astrid twists to face him, "Good, I don't plan to and you can't make me this time."

Hiccup still feeling down, manages to smile weakly at her before he sighs letting go of some stress and negative emotions.

"Anyways, I took a Cup Noodle without your permission earlier when I felt hungry." Astrid says, sheepily.

"Yeah, sure no problem..." Hiccups shrugs, moving up and settles on the edge of the bed.

"Plus an egg." Astrid added.

Hiccup immediately checks his miniature kitchen, a little worried something have been messed up. His kitchen isn't particularly the most common one and it's not really accident-proof there based on his personal experience.

"Don't worry I didn't use your kitchen."

Hiccup looks at her, confused. "You ate the Egg raw? Aren't you going to get salmonella or something?"

Astrid snorts lightly. "No silly, I mixed it with the Cup Noodles it's basically as good as cooked."

Hiccup looks at her, more confused. "Cup Noodles and Raw Eggs?" Hiccup grimaced.

"Hey! It's actually really good you should try it, it's like you know a budget ramen."

Hiccup chuckles, this is nice... He's feeling good again just something about Astrid being just plain infectious and maybe a refreshing change to his lifestyle.

"What are you laughing at?" Astrid scoffs.

"Nothing, If you were that hungry you could have woken me up." Hiccup says, voice half-yawning.

"You looked like you were having sweet dreams and I couldn't bother waking you up."

Hiccup sighs. "Yeah..."

"Wanna talk about it?" Astrid asks, very cautious this time.

Hiccup nervously chuckles, "Erm... let's talk about other things... Like you know, how was your day, or other normal outside world stuffs."

Astrid looks at him, quizically. "Okay..."

"So... Yeah, Shall we start - you know... working on my case?" Hiccup says.

"So you finally figured that you're not getting rid of me-" Astrid jokes.

"-so might as well get over it." Hiccup finishes for her, shrugging. "I don't know you're kinda different from all the other that tried to 'Help me' so far..."

"It's because you don't really meet a lot of people." Astrid answers.

Hiccup huffs. "It's not like people would be thrilled to meet All..." He pauses gesturing all himself. "These."

"No seriously, You just need to meet more people-"

"-Oh trust me, I've met my fair share of people." Hiccup counters reactively, immediately regretting it as his tone sounded a bit rude. He really should learn to control his mouth, just like his father always tell him how he always gets in trouble because of it.

Astrid opens her mouth to retort but decides not to, sighing in submission. "If you say so."

(Pregnant Pause)

"Sooooo..." Hiccup starts, more mindful of his tone. "You're the sociable person between the two of us. Any idea how is this conversation is supposed to go on?" Hiccup says, a hint of joking in his tone.

Astrid shrugs. "For starters, I don't have any idea myself how is these supposed to be going on." Hiccup looks at her with a raised brow before she continues. "Well, to be honest when I took this job, I was like you know... how hard it is to convince someone of the same age as you to go outside... I was expecting like and empty dark boring room with no life." Astrid pauses gesturing to his room. "Not all these Ragnarok-Proof room that's basically as big as my house. Plus, you know what happened in our first meeting."

Hiccup chuckles making Astrid glare at him. "What!?"

"Nothing. You seriously just remind me of Camicazi." The words slip out of his mouth, He immediately pales realizing what he just said.

Astrid looks at him obviously confused. "Who is this Camicazi by the way, she better be a awesome person."

"Ah..." Hiccup felt his throat go dry.

"You don't have to tell me, yet."

"Nono. She's just an old friend." Hiccup lies, maybe not... It's not entirely false... They were over and there's nothing between them anymore... Old friends. That's all they are now, Old friends.

Astrid looks at him, "Okay... Old friend huh." Then her face brightens. "I have an Idea. Maybe we should play a game, Twenty-Ten Questions turn by turn."

Hiccup looks at her bright smile, before sighing. Once again Astrid is infectious as ever that he can't help smiling back, Hiccup pauses thinking for a second... Why not? "Well, do we set any grounds rules or anything for this game of yours?"

"Nothing really, just the basics questions, nothing too personal or touchy that's all." Astrid answers. "I figured we practically are strangers, and if we're gonna see each other a lot might as well get to know each other."

"Very well then, since it's your Idea - go ahead ask first." Hiccup shrugs, sitting up straighter. He would't mind knowing more about Astrid either.

Astrid nods, tilting her head slight placing a thumb on her chin. Hiccup unconsciously thought how she looks pretty when she's frowning like that. He gazed at her moving pink lips far too long not hearing the word coming from it. He didn't notice he was staring at her until she waves her hands in front of his face.

"Hiccup? Are you listening?" Astrid looks at him with an arched brow.

"Oh... yeah sorry, foggy wake-up state. What was it again?" Hiccup breaks his gaze looking away, feeling his cheeks burn a little.

Astrid looks at him, weirded but brushes it off anyway. "I asked; What's your favorite food."

"Hmmm, Instant noodles." Hiccup answers after thinking for a few moment. "I'm not really picky when it comes to food but Instant Noodles is the one that comes into my mind when I feel like eating or hungry."

Toothless let's out a grumble of distaste at his answer. His best friend always hated Hiccup eating Instant Noodles, but he was not sure though if it was because it was not healthy for him or Toothless doesn't get to beg some whenever Instant Noodles was on his menu. Well as much as Hiccup liked spoiling Toothless, feeding him artificial food won't do him any good.

"I see..." Astrid bites her lip before nodding, She looks to be processing his answer as if trying she's trying to decode him or something. But that lip biting definitely looked hot. Hiccup has to shake his head violently to remove stupid thought clouding his head. He doesn't even understand what's going on his mind right now. Quick, think of a question before she gets more weirded out.

"Ermm... what about yours?" Hiccup blurts out, his voice a little panicked. "Erm.. I mean your favorite food!" Okay it definitely did not work as Astrid looks at him quizzically.

"You're acting weird. Well, weirder." Astrid shrugs, "Anyways... Is that your final question?" Astrid smiles at him, amused.

Hiccup feels the corner of his mouth rise up along with her smile. He wonders though if her smiles is only to appear polite in front of him... He hopes not. "I didn't know we are playing Who wants to be a millionaire. Aren't I supposed to be the one getting answers? turn by turn right?" Hiccup says, the panicking feeling completely gone.

Astrid snorts in response. "Didn't know you're quite a jester. Anyways, Back to the question... I think Fruit Yogurt would probably be my favorite. Don't misunderstand, I'm not on a diet or anything. Being a Athlete is enough to maintain my shape, but hey the nutritional values are just a bonus.

"Figured." Hiccup says casually. Yep, She's definitely the though girl kind. Definitely his type... Just like Camicazi... Urk. He really should stop right now.

"So... Yogurt huh?"

"Definitely Yogurt. Are you expecting me to answer Red Velvet Cupcakes or Some overprice branded deserts or Heck, maybe even Nutella." Astrid says, amused.

Hiccup snorts in response. "Why not? I can definitely picture you with those in your instagram accounts and some overused hashtags #foodporn."

"Hel no!" Astrid cringes, they stare at each other's face before they laughed in agreement.

After a few moments, they finally calmed down and it was all awkward tension again but at least it was not as bad as a pregnant pause.

"I think we're both ready for the next question." Hiccup decides to break the silence.

They continued the game asking basic question, learning about each other more, For every question being asked the tension also lightens and soon enough both of them were comfortable enough to talk like friends. They had found a lot of similarities and yet they were completely opposite at the same time. It feels like something between them just clicked and before they knew it they were just having continuous conversation as if they weren't playing the questions game.

Once Astrid is done answering Hiccup's last question, both of them stared at each other's eye, none of them breaking the gaze. Green meets Blue and Blue meets Green. They both felt like they were under some sort of magic spell slowly pulling them both closer, leaning forward to meet halfway. Just a few more moments or inches away, their lips almost met until Stoic's booming voice from the living room broke the spell.

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Writing is so hard... I already missed writing one-shots when I don't have to meet any deadlines for updating chapter or anything. But I needed to step-out of my comfort zone if I want to improve myself... I'm not proud of it... So I just hope you guys liked it!