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The front door flies open almost immediately after Jack presses the doorbell, nearly knocking me off the porch. Jumping up and down in the same clothes he had been wearing earlier with a toothy smile is Jamie.

"Mr. Hiccup! You're here!"

Without warning the little kid throws his arms around my legs and presses his face into my hip. I look to Jack for help but he is too busy holding in his controllable laughter. "H-hey Jamie…I'm here. Jack's here too."

The boy frowns up at me for a moment before realizing that there was in fact another person on the porch with us. "Oh, hey Jack." Jamie detaches himself from my person and moves over to Jack, offering a small hand.

Jack gives his hand a small shake and a smile. "What are we going to have for dinner, kiddo?"

Jamie brightens at the mention of food before grabbing my wrist and tugging me into the house. Without thinking I grab Jack's arm and pull him with me.

The inside of the house is just as quaint as the outside was. The furniture was in warm shades with doilies decorating everything in sight. The house was clean considering two small children lived there. A few toys were scattered around the area: toy cars, baby dolls, alphabet blocks.

This isn't just a house. It's a home.

Jamie leads us into a small kitchen. Mrs. Bennett dances from the stove to the oven to what appears to be a spice rack, cooking excitedly.

"Mom, they're here."

Mrs. Bennett turns around to smile at us, her face smeared with flour much like the apron she's wearing. "Hey you two, dinner will be done soon. I hope you like homemade bread and turkey soup!"

I can practically hear Jack's mouth watering. "That sounds delicious!"

Her face flushes for a moment before she looks panicked. "Oh my, Sophie is still napping." She looks between the two of us expectantly. "Would it be too much to ask if…"

"Its fine," Jack replies instantly, "we'll go wake her up."

Mrs. Bennett gives us an appreciative nod before returning to cooking. Jamie catches my attention by tugging lightly on my arm. "You want me to show you where Sophie's room is?"

"Sure."

With that I am once again being dragged behind the little kid with Jack allowing me to tug him along as well.

And then we reach the stairs.

The staircase didn't deter Jamie in the slightest and he continued to pull me along at a pace just a little too fast for my prosthetic leg. I manage the first and second steps okay but the third catches me off guard and sends me toppling forward. Jack catches the back of my shirt with his free hand before my chin connects with the wooden staircase.

Jamie releases my hand and jumps back, clearly stunned by my sudden lack of coordination. "Mr. Hiccup, are you alright?"

Jack steadies me with a worried look on his face but I brush him off. "I'm okay. Just tripped. And you can just call me Hiccup."

Jamie blinks at me for a moment before nodding his head slowly. "Okay, Hiccup. You sure you can make it to Sophie's room?"

Jack smirks at me. "Yeah, Hiccup, can you make it the rest of the way of the stairs?"

I elbow my best friend in the gut. "I'm perfectly capable of climbing stairs."

"Are you sure?" Jamie asks, his eyes wide with concern. Jack rests his forehead on my shoulder. I can feel him shaking with laughter.

I sigh. "Can you lead the way?"

Jamie nods and begins climbing the stairs once more, no longer running or pulling my arm, which I'm thankful for. Jack slides his arm around my torso and practically carries me up the stairs. "Jack, I don't need your help."

"Just let me help you up the stairs. You can walk by down them without me."

I pout at his words. I'm glad that Jack helps me when my leg becomes an issue, but he doesn't have to help me all the time. I can manage on my own.

We make it to onto level footing again and Jamie leads us to a room with a pink door covered in stickers ranging from princesses to flowers to those that you get at school during red ribbon week. Sophie must be a fan of collecting stickers.

Jamie opens the door and steps into a room that can only be described by one word: pink. Toys lay in a perfect semicircle around the foot of the twin bed in the center of the room. In the small bed wrapped like a burrito in pink bed sheets is a head of blonde hair.

Jack steps out from behind me and walks over to the bed, squatting down so that he is at eyelevel with the lump of covers. He reaches out a hand and pets the blonde hair softly. "Hey kiddo, it's time to wake up."

The small girl stirs slightly and the bed sheets begin to unwrap themselves until the girl who was cocooned in them moments ago was completely visible. Sophie sits up with her eyes still shut and lets out a long yawn before holding her arms out, silently asking to be lifted and carried to wherever she was needed.

Jack heeded her request and pulled her into his arms. Sophie lays her head on his chest and drifts back to sleep.

"Dinner's done!"

That simple phrase made the little girl awaken. Suddenly her wide eyes were on me and a smile was on her face. She lets out an excited squeal. "Cup!"

I blink. "Cup?"

Jack smiles. "Cup."

Jamie nods and looks up at me. "Cup."

"Alright then," I mumble and smile at Sophie, "I guess you can call me Cup."

Jack laughs and the blonde girls seems to notice that someone was holding her. She blinks at him, clearly uncertain of what to do. Jack smiles at her. "My name's Jack."

Sophie bursts into a fit of giggles. "Jack!"

I can't help smiling at the pair. And then the smell of fresh food makes its way into the room from the kitchen below and my stomach takes priority. "Let's go eat."

Sophie wiggles her way out of Jack's arms and runs out of the room with Jamie following at her heels saying, "Wait up, Soph."

"Hey, Hiccup."

I raise an eyebrow at Jack. "Yeah?"

"We should have kids."

"J-Jack, we aren't going to have kids."

His face sinks. "Why not?"

"W-we can't."

Jack pouts at me for a moment before something flickers across his face too quickly for me to catch exactly what it was. "We should probably get downstairs. The food is probably getting cold. Hate to keep them waiting."

Jack steps past me and out of the room. I step into the hallway and walk over to the staircase to find Jack waiting there with his hand out.

"Jack, I don't need your help getting down the stairs."

"Fine," he sighs and lowers his hand.

We walk down the stairs and into the dining room in silence.

Mrs. Bennett is carrying bowls of soup to the dining room table where a loaf of bread was already waiting. Jamie and Sophie are already seated, both of them chanting "Food, food, food, food," as they wait to be served.

I walk over to the table and Jamie pauses in his chanting to say, "Hiccup, sit by me."

I nod and walk over to the empty chair beside him to pull it out so I may be seated but someone beats me to it.

Jack stands behind the chair smiling at me and motioning for me to sit down. I glare at him. "I can pull out my own chair."

"I know."

I frown at him. What is wrong with you? Why are you being a gentleman all the sudden?

Jack pouts. Why does something have to be wrong for me to be a gentleman?

I glare. Jack, seriously, what are you doing?

He glances to the side. I follow his stare to find Mrs. Bennett smiling and blushing at us.

Why is she blush…ohhh.

"You two are so cute together."

I can feel my face begin to heat up. "We're not together."

She smirks at me and shakes her head. "Whatever you say."

What is that supposed to mean?

I take my seat without thinking and find myself moving closer to the table. Jack pushed my chair in anyway.

I glare at my white-haired best friend as he takes the seat beside Sophie which just so happens to be across from me.

We eat in relative silence. Jamie asks a few questions about the zoo and Sophie asks me about "Toot-less." It was comfortable but I couldn't shake the unnerving feeling that Mrs. Bennett knows something I don't.

And then the worst possible thing happens.

Jamie drops his spoon on the floor. He disappears for a moment under the table to retrieve it, but when he reappears he has a sad and confused look on his face.

"Hiccup, why is your foot made of metal."

It feels as if the room dropped thirty degrees. Everyone was staring at me. My left leg begins to twitch, making my prosthetic rub against my skin in an almost painful way, setting the nerve ending under my skin on fire.

Fire.

Everything is burning. I can feel the skin of my left calf melting away as the weight of the burning timber presses into it.

I'm going to die.

"Hiccup!"

Is that Jack's voice? I can't see him. The smoke is too thick.

"Hiccup!"

Jack? Where are you?

"Hiccup!"

I jump out of my thoughts and turn to find Jack crouching on the floor beside me, his hands on my shoulders. When did I get on the floor?

"Are you okay?"

I stare at him in shaken silence. I can feel my whole body shaking. I try to focus on something to make the fire go away.

I find myself focusing on Jack's blue eyes.

The shaking goes away and I'm suddenly hyperaware of the other three pairs of eyes on me. Sophie and Jamie were both sharing looks of worry and confusion. Mrs. Bennett was biting her lip.

"I'm fine," I mumble as I push myself up from the floor. "I was just…thinking."

"Hiccup, will you help me wash the dishes?"

I blink at Mrs. Bennett for a moment before giving her a small nod. "I'd be glad to help."

Mrs. Bennett leads me into the kitchen and we begin the mundane task of washing dishes. She washes and I dry. We remain silent until all the silverware has been cleaned and it the bowls' turn.

"I know what it's like to have something traumatic happen to you." When I don't say anything she sighs. "My husband, Jamie and Sophie's father, he is…was a soldier."

"I'm sorry."

"I am too. He was killed last month. His body…he stepped on a land mine. The only thing I received of him was his dog tags. He hadn't worn them that day."

"How did Jamie and Sophie take it?"

She bites her lip. "I couldn't bring myself to tell them. Jamie still thinks that his father is fighting overseas. Sophie doesn't even remember him. She was just a baby when he was called away."

"You have to tell them eventually. Jamie can't heal if he never finds out."

"I…I know. I'm going to tell him soon…just not today."

I nod slowly, contemplating what to say. "I was…in a fire." When Mrs. Bennett doesn't say anything, I continue. "Jack was in the fire too, but he didn't get hurt. A beam fell on my left leg…it trapped me in the house."

"I'm sorry."

"When I look back on it…I can't help thinking how stupid we were. We knew that the building was going to be demolished soon, but we went in it anyway. We were…stupid. I hadn't known at the time that they were going to demolish the building by setting fire to it."

Mrs. Bennett places a hand on my shoulder and gives me a sad smile. "You're alive. That's all that matters."

I run my tongue over my lips and nod. "That's what Jack said to me when I woke up in the hospital."

"Hey, Hiccup?"

I turn to see Jack standing a few feet away. "What's up?"

"It's getting pretty late. We should get back to the apartment so I can feed Phil."

I frown. I had forgotten about Phil. Phil is the baby penguin Jack was raising until it became old enough to live in the exhibit with the other penguins.

Mrs. Bennett blinks at me. "Phil?"

"He's a penguin."

She seems to fall into a stunned silence. That was normal though. People usually seem surprised when we tell them about our exotic houseguests.

"But, you guys can't leave so soon." Jamie appears behind Jack. "I didn't even get to play with you, Hiccup."

I smile down at him. "Don't worry, we'll come back another day."

He brightens immediately. "Promise?"

"Yeah, I promise."

Sophie appears and begs for a hug from Jack and I. We concede.

It isn't until we're in Jack's minivan, halfway home, that I realize something.

Jack was perfectly fine with pretending he and I were together.

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