'Foot steps. lots of them.' Hiccup leaned his head back into the large leather arm chair in his private study. Belladonna was laying in a bassinet only a few steps away, making small baby burbles. He had only just returned to his study after dealing with the royal court. Because there was no other known witnesses to Astrid's death, and many knew of the loud and long fights they had been recently having he was to be held in his castle under possible belief of treason.
"Ugh! this makes no sense. Who would want to hurt her? Astrid... I'm so sorry."Hiccup threw his head forward into his hands. Hiccup couldn't understand the court sometimes. Two days ago they were saying he was the most fair and just king Berk had next to his father and now thanks to Lord Pitch they were suddenly calling him a murderer. Astrid and him had been having marital troubles for years. They weren't a perfect couple but they were fantastic friends. She was his best friend, but he was having bed room troubles with her. She was beautiful. Amazingly so, he never understood his complete lack of sexual desire for her. When they had gotten pregnant, Hiccup was thankful that Astrid had finally stopped asking him to sleep with her. He did love her and was so thankful for his little girl.
The sound of a happy gurgle danced in his ears . He lifted his head and shook it trying desperately to clear it. If he was found guilty they would take Belladonna, and than behead him. He couldn't leave her parentless.
Hiccup stood and scooped up the baby. He wrapped her in a sling and than headed towards the study's large window. Wrapping his cloak to cover the baby he fisted his hand and slammed it into the glass as hard as he could. the window shattered leaving bits of itself in hiccups already scared hand. He kicked out more glass than let out a long high pitched whistle. He could hear all noise close to his door stop in confusion at the window breaking. Hiccup was bumped backwards, both hands wrapping protectively around the baby. Toothless sat in front of him. he had happily made the broken window completely void of glass. Hiccup placed Belladonna into her small basked on the side of toothless. A feature they had made for her if they ever planned on going on long flights. Hiccup heard the door being fiddled with as someone on the outside fiddled with a lock. He hopped onto Toothless and the dragon darted out the window without needing to be told. They flew as fast as Toothless could. the wind bit into Hiccups skin around his hands and face. he didn't dare take his hands from the handles to put on his helmet. He only slowed down the dragon after they had passed the farmlands that sat outside of the kingdom. He allowed himself to adjust his eye patch and put on his helmet as he had the dragon fly close to the roads.
"Thanks Bud." He patted the side of the dragons large black head. Toothless landed gently on the dirt road and the trio silently padded down the road. Hiccup brushed glass shard off of the dragon and started to pull them out of his fist. The silent cold air was broken by a small lamb cry muffled from the top of her basket. Hiccup lifted the woven lid and lifted his daughter . The smell instantly hit his nose.
"Hey bud, we need to find a place to hide out for the night... with a bath tub."