So, things still need to be discussed between them, and maybe now is the right time for it – especially when you are a far too intelligent young Viking, who is overthinking everything. Though...Hiccup might have some valid reason to think before 'doing the deed' with is wife again. Also – some 'knowledge' from 'The Chieftess of Berk' is needed to understand their behavior and thoughts.
Rated: M for maturish themes, though not so much explicit material here ;D Only some light smuttiness.
Also – set the day after the OS „The Dress" (I think for the coming OS it might be helpful to give you some 'timeline'.) Also, also with me currently planning the second part, there is the first reference to that ;D (Has to do with Eret).
Talking
Waiting had been so worth it. Oh so very and sweetly worth it, but in the end Hiccup was glad, that it had been his wife, who had taken matters in her own hands. Because in the end the result was even more worth it.
Basically all day Hiccup had this huge smile blasted on his face. And why would somebody blame him for that? After all, just the night before he had made love to the most gorgeous woman on Midgard and beyond and had cuddled with her naked all night after that. They almost hadn't gotten out of bed in the morning, with laziness sweeping over them and the wonderful feeling of a warm body next to them. Not to mention, that seeing Astrid naked had been utterly arousing again. Her wonderful breasts, that had fitted all too well in his hands, the feeling of her hard nipples against his palm. And the way had let his hand wander down her flat stomach, straight towards her-
Every time his mind was starting to wander of, he tried immediately get back to reality. To the meeting in the Mead Hall in the morning, the dragon training in the afternoon, who his shift in the forge later that day.
Or the blood in his brain would have vanished again, going straight into his own neither regions and he for sure didn't want to tell anybody, why he would have been very erect and waiting for attention. And the only one, who would have been able to give him that, was busy as well.
Well...sure...one thing had been a Hel of a mood killer for him and now, that he was thinking of it again, blood started to drain again – but this time from his attention-seeking regions back towards his brain.
And now – with his half-naked wife already on top of him, this surely wasn't something he had wished for.
But...there surely was still something for them to discuss and maybe now, before they were starting again, was the best time for that.
"Astrid..." he said breathlessly, pressing a little with his hands against her shoulders, to get some space between them. After all – her luscious lips on his and her very naked chest against his skin, was most utterly distracting.
The young woman blinked a few times, irritated, on why they were suddenly stopping.
"Huh?" She asked, her chest raising with each hurried breath and almost was hypnotizing him, to just lay his mouth there and to start to kiss and bite there, until she would start to moan his name again. And oh how he loved that – for it had also been the very reason, why had finished so fast last night. "Is there something wrong, Babe?"
Hiccup pressed his lips together, tearing his eyes from her flesh and looked her straight into the eyes.
She immediately seemed to worry as well, reaching with one hand for his cheek, leaning her forehead against his.
"What is it, love? What...what is bothering you?...are we...going too fast?"
Now it was him, who blinked in surprise from her words.
Were they too fast? What an odd question...
Sure – they have eaten with their friends in the Mead Hall for dinner, before they had hurried home, muttering excuses on why they had to leave so fast. But they probably did know anyway. Especially the guys were teasing him with his smile all day anyway. And right after they reached the Haddock House, Toothless had jumped to his sleeping place, to curl into a tight ball, probably sensing, that his humans were starting this stupid human-mating-stuff again. With them falling right into each other's arms, somehow getting upstairs and undressing. But he wouldn't call that 'too fast', for there had been some deep desire and hunger for the other, which had to be fulfilled. And he would go the some pace as her, to make her feel comfortable.
After all, he had always waited for her to take the next step: Waited, for her to appreciate the ways of Berk. Waited for her to open up to dragons. Waited with the start of their relationship. And then, before she had returned from Hranafall, when everything there was said and done after the battle with Ljóda and Drago's remaining henchmen, he waited for as well, to return to him.
And sure, he would have gone with her tempo after that. Sharing a bed. Kissing and Hugging her there. Which had been new to both of them. But nice. Very nice. So nice to be exactly, that he had started to get erections from their late make-out sessions, which he had first had been very successful to hide from her, by turning away, or laying so, that it would not touch her. But once she had noticed – oh Hel – it had gotten worse after that! This need and desire. Wanting more from her, than just sharing a bed and cuddling and kissing and making-out. Things he had heard from in the Mead Hall, or when Eret and Snotlout had told them from their past adventures – especially his cousin, who had gotten very close to Ruffnut recently...
And he would have loved to try all that with her. Touching her breasts, that were haunting his dreams. Kissing down over her stomach. Stroking her most hidden parts.
Yes – he had heard many things, of how it would feel and how sex would be like for him and for her. And what it was like to just climax within the warm, wet folds of a woman, holding onto her, gasping her name without a second thought – and she would just do the same – which was something, he wanted to reach for, now, that he had tasted from it.
But sadly enough this 'Coming' was not without a flaw. A risk. One, he was not so sure, they should take, especially when he regarded just everything.
And so, with his blood in his half-erect member, pressing in her thigh and not in his brain Hiccup finally was able press through his teeth:
"I'll get you pregnant!"'
She was startled. Shocked to say the least and pulled away from him – sitting on his legs with a dumbfounded look on her face and her hands falling numbly to her side.
"I-I don't know, we should do...I mean...if we are able. Get a baby. Heir. Become parents..."
Hiccup immediately gulped when he had said that, watching, when she lifted herself off his legs, sitting next to him on the mattress and leaned at the headboard as well. Pulling her legs against her chest. Becoming pale in the warm light of the candles in their bedroom.
"...you...don't know?" She asked meekly, staring into the distance.
"W-what should I know?" He stuttered, afraid, of what he just has started. Though...he knew it was for the better.
He didn't want to be the kind of man, that Ljóda has always warned her daughter from. The one, that only wants to fulfill their own desire, without regarding any of the woman's feelings and wishes. Without seeing the consequences. Without stopping and thinking for a second. To be just some dumb male individual, who puts their seed into a woman to get her pregnant – to get that heir, that everybody always wanted from them.
And clearly he must have found something quite bothering, seeing, how conflicting she suddenly was reacting.
"I have been drinking some tea for some time now..."
Hiccup looked in surprise towards his wife by his side and raised his eyebrows.
"This horrible smelling stuff, you always drink in the morning?"
She nodded, before she continued, casting nervous glances towards him every now and then:
„Yeah...that. Ljóda introduced it to me, when...you know..."
"Before we got married?"
This time she shook her head, beginning to draw nervous little circles on her knees. She laughed shakily. Most nervously, before she continued once more:
"...what do you know about the 'monthly cycle of a woman'?"
"You are bleeding" The young man said bluntly, having heard it from Tuffnut sometimes, when he tried to explain his friends, why his sister became all moody for a few days in a month. But he never asked for more. Asked about details, since the very thought of somebody bleeding out of their private parts for a long amount of time seemed to be unhealthy and quite disturbing. And sure – he had noticed, that Astrid had these mood swings, too. For two or three days. And Toothless seemed to be very irritated by this as well and by the very look of it, Hiccup was guessing, that the black reptile must be...smelling...when Astrid had these...bleedings.
But apart from that he knew basically nothing about this cycle, that Astrid was talking about.
"Yeah...yeah...I am bleeding for a few days. Out of my..." She pointed between her legs and Hiccup blushed, before she sighed and continued: "...And I will have horrible cramps." "Cramps?" „Yeah...like...here..." She laid her hands on her lower stomach. "And my breasts feel like they will explode. Sometimes my head as well. Also – I tend to be a bit moody then..."
He had noticed that, but chose to not agree.
"Sounds horrible to me! Don't want to be a woman anymore!" Hiccup said, to which Astrid punched his upper arm with full force, making him hiss. "Hey! I am showing some empathy here for you and the whole woman-kind!"
She rolled her eyes, leaning even more back against the headboard behind her and sighed. This small move gave Hiccup an excellent view on her chest – which was right now horribly distracting.
"So...the first time I have started to bleed, I had been 14. Ljóda immediately set me up on this tea, made out of a wide variety of herbs. She said, that it would immensely reduce the chance, that I would get pregnant – though I had to promise her, that I would wait to sleep with a man, until I found the right one and until I have married him..."
"Makes sense to me. I mean – You could be the daughter of... somebody else, that is not her husband. Which we don't know! And it made her whole life even more complicated and her thoughts a little twisted about this whole situation. So...she probably didn't want that for you as well. And with you promising to wait, she made sure, that you would find the right one. Well...until our fathers forced us into this marriage..."
"Maybe..." Astrid shrugged. "...I mean...I am not sure about any of her motives anymore. Back then I thought it was okay. That every young woman was doing it. You know...drinking the tea. I have heard of a few women who might have found the one and had started to sleep with them, before they were married. I mean – look at Ruffnut and Snotlout! And Eret and his constant big-boobed companions!" "I understand..." "Well, and once father told me, that I was to marry you, I knew, that I could at least prolong the time, where I would not get pregnant. At least until I have run out of my herbs. And apart from the time, where I was too sick to make me this tea... But with that I wouldn't give you the heir, that everybody wanted right away... But it looks like I am very able to get everything I need in the forest, or on the market and...well...I have just continued taking it. Because it was normal for me now and maybe even because I wanted to be ready, when we start with..."
"...sexing around?"
Once more she rolled her eyes and punshed him again, softer this time. He only grinned a little.
"Yeah – exactly that. Also...I don't want to stop with taking this kind of contraception. It's easy and convenient. I have heard of a few other ways. Like you pulling out, before you come or...not giving me a climax at all."
Hiccup was surprised to hear that and blinked in irritation.
"That is supposed to work?"
"A few elder women back on Hranafall were saying that. That a woman is not supposed to get pregnant, if she doesn't orgasm during sex."
"Pff...and where is the fun behind that. Because – don't worry, M'lady – I so will make you come during the next few times, that you will be able to see stars or something like that. I don't know – I wasn't quite listening, when Eret was telling me a whole bunch of his own stories. And – seriously – I didn't want to listen, when Snotlout told his very own with Ruffnut. That's just...you know~"
"A total mood killer?"
"Exactly!"
They laughed a little about that and Hiccup's heart fluttered, when he noticed, that the mood had gotten a little lighter again. Smiling, when Astrid took his hand in hers, lacing their fingers together.
Though, most suddenly, her eyes lowered again to the ground. Her face becoming worryful and sad again.
"I...also don't want to get pregnant..." She then said, sighing sadly, before she looked back up to him. "I don't want to be a mother anytime soon. I don't want to follow into Ljóda's footsteps in any way. To become a mother, who indoctrinates their child with their twisted believes...I mean...she fucked me up quite a bit there. With everything she did and everything she said..."
He nodded, understanding. After all – it had been her mother, who had tried to kill him. Wipe out all of Berk and get rid of the dragons, if necessary, only to hunt down a manifesto, which she had build. To get reunited with the love of her life again – on Midgard or in Valhalla and Hel. And she had done all that with pressing her own daughter into a mold, which would suit her own desires and needs – making something out of Astrid, what never had been there. Resulting into horrible nightmare and scary thoughts from the young woman's side.
With that Ljóda has archieved at least one goal in the end - that, of breaking her daughter. But thankfully enough Astrid was strong – had always been – and so she was able to not fully succum to her mother's twisted wishes and to remain her very true self. A person, to hold peace between tribes. Somebody, to fight all the odds in the world, so her loved ones would be safe, taking the risk of loosing everything she had archived on her own.
He loved the young Valkyrie for that.
"You will never be like Ljóda." "Hiccup, she-" "Astrid, no!" He took her face with careful fingers, pulling it, until she looked back at him and smiled softly at her. "She is gone, Astrid. And you are not like her – never will be and I for sure know, that once we will have a child, you will be a great mother! An awesome mother!"
She stiffed a little upon hearing that and he flinched, knowing, that he maybe had been a little too euphoric about that.
"But you will be a mother, when you are absolutely sure. I will not pressure you into anything, that you don't want. I see, that you still need to experience the freedom you have here and that we both have to grow together even more – as husband and wife and as chief and chieftess. There is no hurry for us to jump right into parenthood."
"I know...It's just...it would be nice to have a child, once we are ready and not because our tribes demand an heir. I want it to be our decision..."
"I will wait. I don't even think, that I am ready for a child myself and I am pretty glad, that we will wait for that. Just..."
"What?"
"They will bother us with it. Berk's people. Hranafall...Your father, who probably gotten into the bet with the twins about that. Gobber, who will say over and over again, that we should not make a heir within the forge. And of course our friends – they are the worst."
"I know that...but they shouldn't have a saying in that specific topic..."
"I know...but sadly enough everybody seems to be entitled to say, when the new heir is to be born. I mean - I was just smiling all day and the guys started to tease me. That I had laid my wife pretty good and stuff like that. It had gotten out of hand, when Snotlout – above all people – said, that I finally put a baby into you..."
"Did Hel break loose after that?"
"Oh you can bet that! Mocking me, that the house would get a bit small with offspring on the way and Tuffnut gave me weird suggestions for name and Snotlout asked, if he can be chief, when I am busy with doing baby stuff...Urgh..."
Astrid's lips started to twitch and Hiccup knew, that he was getting back to her – her good mood finally returning. But he waited. Not pressing forward – it was more important to him, that she had a peaceful sleep, than to end, what they have previously started.
"Sounds just as aweful as my encounter with Ruffnut this morning..." She finally said after some time, softly stroking with her thumb over his fingers from their intertwined hand, while she laid her head on his shoulder, stretching her legs out in front of her. Touching his. "She was saying, that I was walking funny all day... If you had gone rough on me and if we had done it all night long wihout stopping..."
"Sounds horrible as well!"
"Yeah...quite embarrassing as well. Especially, when I just walk through the stables towards Stormfly and she shouts that through the whole building with a few people hearing that..."
His eyebrows raised again, creating a small crease between.
"Have I hurt you? Last night?"
She sighed – a little in annoyance.
"No, it didn't hurt. Maybe it had been a little uncomfortable. But the ending was quite nice. Also – how would you walk, if something big had stuck right inside of you?"
He grinned.
"Thanks for the ego-boost, M'lady. I am also very font of your whole...belongings."
"Belongings?" She asked, raising her eyebrows. „Are we talking here about one of your gadgets?"
"Do you want me to spell it out loud?"
„Yep! Totally!" She grinned, finally crawling back on his lap again. Pulling her blonde hair back, to reveal her long neck, bare shoulders and oh so deliciously naked chest, that was tauntingly right in front of his eyes. "Common, Haddock. Now with everything cleared between us, we can start talking dirty again."
He had to smirk as well, before his hands were drawn to her in an magical way, his lips re-attaching with her flesh, making her gasp.
"Well...I'd rather prefer to do dirty things, M'lady."
A/N: It is an important topic for them – the baby and the heir of Berk. It been the biggest reason for them to get married in the beginning. And yep, Hiccup is far too smart to let it slide so easily. For Astrid's side – she thought he knew, that she was taking some contraceptive in form of her tea. (Had me even looking up Viking contraception and it came up with also the two other things, that Astrid has mentioned.)
By the way, I have decided to make Hiccup a little oblivious to the whole 'Monthly cycle thing' since I have thought – why would he know? He had no mother growing up, no sister or other female relative. Don't think Stoick would have done that (only telling him to be cautious about getting a woman pregnant and having very embarrassing talks about this kind of stuff). And Gobber? Maybe, but I am here going with the theory of him being born with the rainbow flag around him (I mean – Vikings were pretty open to that kind of stuff and it was – of what I have read – pretty okay for them, to also have male lovers.) So the only one, who could have 'taught' him something like that, was Ruffnut – of course not in an offensive may, but more with her brother, who does only know, what he sees...well...not literaly, but you know, what I mean ;D Also – little mummy and educator advise here – have fun, but in a safe way. Not only you will get pregnant or get somebody pregnant, but also because of the whole range of STDs. Don't be a Viking and pull out, or not let the woman finish. Or drink teas. Inform yourself and find something, what suits you and your partner(s) best.
