Someone stop me, I'm writing and writing and I can't stop this is the third thing today oh gosh

Flowers, flowers, flowers. His room smelled like flowers. Everything was flowers. Flowers were great.

Something smelled flowery.

Hiccup didn't want to open his eyes at first, so he guessed. Toothless had left him a bouquet of flowers and he was sleeping with them. That was it.

No, that was not it. That was stupid. Why would Toothless leave him flowers?

And how would Toothless pick flowers anyway?

And why would flowers feel like silky hair?

Hair.

He was smelling someone's hair.

And then he opened his eyes, and found his face buried in a mop of blonde locks that were all too familiar for his liking, and he let out a very feminine shriek.

Astrid woke with a start, sitting up in bed. "What? Holy Thor, what?"

He gaped at her. She was staring at him, brows wrinkled in confusion, and only then did he remember their small talk last night. He hadn't even questioned her. Or had he? Nothing was coming to mind, so instead he stuttered, "You were - bed - I saw - scared…"

"You got scared of me?" she asked, crossing her arms and a challenging look.

"Not of you, per se," he hastened to explain, "just - I was very surprised, okay? What are you even - why were you sleeping in my bed?"

A blush spread across her cheeks. "There was a spider in my hut."

He blinked at her, opening his mouth to ask if she was afraid, and if that was why she came to his hut, but then closed it again immediately. Astrid would never admit it, so there was no point asking it unless he had a death wish.

"Ah. Right, so…"

"Do I look hideous when I sleep?" she asked uncertainly, "you screamed like you had seen how you would fall to your death."

He raised an eye. "Why would my death be by falling?"

"Have you even seen your flight suit? Duh."

Hiccup didn't know he she was being so casual about this. They were just friends and they had just slept in the same bed. That spider must have been big.

Because she did not have feelings for him, as much as he hated to say it. It was always him in love with her, not the other way around.

Still, she didn't go knocking on Snotlout's door and sleeping in his bed, did she?

"You're not hideous," he reassured, "I swear, I was just surprised."

He got off the bed and then something that hadn't happened in a while happened - he fell. Straight onto his face, and with a groan Hiccup realized he forgot to attach his metal leg.

She was trying not to laugh, he could tell. "Er...here," she offered awkwardly, taking his prosthetic off the desk and handing it to him.

Way to make an idiot out of yourself, Hiccup.

Astrid got up, and after he had put his leg back on, she offered a hand, which he took gratefully. "Thanks. I - ah - got, well...I wasn't thinking."

"Gonna bring up your flight suit again, and say that I'm not surprised."

Mock affronted, he put a hand on his heart. "Milady, are you suggesting that you don't like Dragonfly?"

"I would burn all of them."

They both laughed, and Hiccup marvelled at how easily it could go from being horribly awkward to completely comfortable around her. Such was their relationsh - friendship, he reminded himself strictly.

Because no matter how much she was in denial, Astrid had been scared of a spider last night.

Cute, quirky, awkward, and potential for a real romantic scene but is brushed off for no real reason even though the two losers obviously like each other.

So just like Race to the Edge :)