Chapter 3: Day 1

Astrid woke up after a quite long night, she haven't slept so well since their fight. When she sat up in the bed and stretched a bit she noticed the non-present Hiccup and Toothless, well, as chief and alpha of Berk they don't have any other choice than go up early. She got her shoulder pads on and grabbed her axe and went down the stairs, she got surprised when saw a note on the door. She went to see what it was about.

"I'm sorry for everything, Astrid. I'll be home for lunch. Hiccup." Astrid could feel a tear coming from her eye, but then she wiped it away and went out. The first thing she saw was people running, some was shouting, she turned to the plaza and saw the Ingerman house on fire.

"Fishlegs." Astrid ran as fast as she could to the Ingerman house, she could see a Scauldron shooting water at the fire, even if it's hot water it still can be useful. Astrid ran to the gang, "Is Fishlegs still in there?"

"No, he's here." Fishlegs said, he sat with Meatlug and was in shock.

Astrid knelt down to check on him. "It's okay, Fishlegs, you're gonna be alright." she notice a big burn mark on his arm, "But I need to transport you to the hospital, you need some cold water fast." She grabbed his hand and helped him to the hospital and Meatlug followed them, Fishlegs was still in shock.

When they got to the hospital he finally could take a deep breath and talk, "I- I was just planning for today's lesson when I suddenly heard a strange noise from Meatlug, and then she spit some lava and it started to burn. She didn't look so well, I guess it can be something about the dry and hot wind. Gronckles are sensitive, Meatlug especially."

"Well, I'm glad you got out of there before the hot water came." Astrid lifted the bag of ice to check the burn mark, "This could be worse if you were in there longer, I need you to have this bag of ice for three more minutes, okay?"

Fishlegs nodded, Astrid went to talk to Gothi, the eldest and head of the hospital. "Gothi, should we check Meatlug and see if she's fine?"

"I can take care of 'er." Gobber comes in to the hospital, "You know I'm the dragon doctor in the dragon section of this place."

He checked Meatlug, head to toe, wing to tail. Then he turned to Fishlegs, "You're right boy, she's sensitive to the heat. I suggest your next lesson can be at the glacier, you need to cool down a bit."

"Okay, thanks Gobber."

Astrid went towards the exit, but when she turned around a corner she bumped into someone.

"Hey, watch where you're going!"

"Sorry, I- oh, hi Astrid." he was a quite tall man with sort black hair and a big leather jacket, he had some muscles and quite handsome face.

Oh gods, it's Svein Lokeson. He came with the same boat as Heather, I guess he's her cousin or something... or maybe just some friend.

"Hi Svein, I'm so sorry, how are you today?"

"I'm doing pretty good, I just got a job. Valka tested my medical skills and I was good enough to be a doctor. So now we both work at the hospital, Heather got a job in the medical section. I think it was about all those different kinds of medicine, on our island she's really interested in experiments so I guess it fits her."

"Yea. That's good to hear." Astrid didn't know why but she wanted to stay even if she really wanted to go, she was stuck again between her angry and sad side but also on her loving side- wait, what!? Loving side!?

"So, what are you working with?"

"Oh, I transport the injured to the hospital, sometimes I'm a nurse too."

"How great! Now we all three work at the hospital." He smiled, and Astrid smiled too even if something in her told her to not. Then she remember she was "busy".

"I gotta go, see ya later Svein." Astrid marched towards the exit unaware to the fact that the twins was standing with wide eyes staring at the scene.

"Alright, see ya." Svein said while watching Astrid mounted Stormfly and flew away. "Sweet girl."

The twins looked at each other, Ruffnut was the first one to speak, "If I didn't know any better I'd say the new one got a thing for Astrid." "And Hiccup wont be happy if he will find out, so we need to stop Svein... or just leave it to Hiccup. Because we're no love experts." Tuffnut added. They nodded in agreement and walked out from the quite big building (imagine Berk's food-storage, that big).

Hiccup was working on the burned house and got help from Eret, while they were working they had a chat.

"Eret, just so you know I'm gonna go through a forty day long journey, so if you see me go crazy-"

"I can go to you and talk. You know, I have been there. And my scar still hurts."

"Yeah, about that. What?! Have you been married?"

"Sort of."

Hiccup raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean 'sort of'?"

"You've been a better husband than me. That's all I can say for now. And here."

"Okay." Hiccup sighed, "Well, do you think she still loves me?"

"Of course! Why wouldn't she? As I know it she's been loving you for over six years! So why not now?"

"Well, you heard her yesterday. She regrets EVERYTHING!"

"Well, look at it the bright way, she's smiling at you right now." Eret gestured to Astrid who stood at the plaza, she was smiling at him.

Astrid's POV

I never thought I would feel like this, a mix between anger, sadness... and love. I left the hospital with only one thought, did Hiccup still love me? When I landed after a flight I went to the plaza and look after Hiccup. When I saw him I couldn't help but smile, my thoughts ran away to the time when we were in love. All the adventures, all the time together... and all the love. It was like my love side was in a bubble in my head and either the sadness or the anger could disturb it. But that was until that bubble cracked, I realized that Eret was looking at me... and then Hiccup. Oh gods, they saw me. My smiled disappeared and I went towards the great hall, I needed to be with my friends for a while.

Hiccup's POV

I smiled when I saw her smile, but when it disappeared a second later I lost hope again. Why doesn't she love me? Or does she? But she wouldn't run away from me if she love me, right? I turned to Eret.

"See, she doesn't love me. I look at her... and she runs away. It's like I see myself when I'm angry at her which I regret."

"And that means you shouldn't give up. You just try the first day, and then you'll see." he replied to me, but I was still unsure about it.

Astrid's POV

At lunchtime. I came home after a talk with my friends, I open the door and sees Hiccup at the fireplace.

"Hello, Astrid. I made some lunch."

I got really confused, he, cooking?! Sure he's better than me, but why now? He says he's too busy to cook. "Wh-what? You made lunch?"

"Yea, want some? It's smoked salmon and some-"

"I'm not hungry." I interrupted him, but that wasn't true, I thought it would be like it usually was that I had too cook. I went to the stairs leaving... a worried Hiccup behind me? I could see it in the corner of my eye. But the angry part of me had just won and I went up the stairs. But I thought, why didn't he throw something at me, I just ignored his kindness. Why wouldn't he react to that? Maybe he's not mad at me anymore? What am I talking about! Of course he's mad at me! I want to get a divorce! And come away from him. Maybe get together with someone else- what! My thoughts were fighting with each other and I didn't know what to think. So I sat down on the bed and let the tears come down from my eyes. A question was running around in my head. And I let it come out from my mouth but only as a whisper.

"When did I stop being good enough for him?"

Hiccup's POV

When she said she wasn't hungry I could see in her eyes that she was lying, I couldn't think of anything. I tried to understand why she didn't want to eat. Then a thought got stuck in my head, but I didn't want it to be true. Was it 'cause I was cooking instead of letting her trying. Why didn't she stay to argue about it? Isn't she mad at me? Of course she's mad at me! I started it! And I was the one who went to far with it! The angry part of me was mad at her, and the sad part was mad at me. But I let the question get out of my mouth as a whisper.

"When did I stop being good enough for her?"

Normal POV

Snotlout had cleanup duty at the stables, he was all alone. So he decided to hum on a song a bit and have some fun. He looked into a crib with water and saw his reflection.

"Hey, you look good." he fixed his hair a bit and replied himself, "Thanks, I try to take care of myself." he continues to hum the song, "You like this song." "Oh, yea!" he started to dance a bit and then looked down in the crib again, "You feel that?" he made some swaying and looked down again, "It's called chemistry, and we got it."

He leaned back and then back to the crib as if he played with his reflection, "Snotlout wont leave ya." he chuckled. Then he danced around a bit with a broom until he heard someone coming, it was the twins. He started to brush the floor with the broom.

"Hey, Snotlout, have you seen a rope in here?" Tuffnut asked staring at him.

"No, I don't think so, maybe in the storage."

"Okay." Ruffnut stared at him too and then they both walked away.

When Snotlout saw them turn around a corner he turned to the crib again, "Where were we?" he started to dance again.

Unaware to the fact that the twins' heads were peeking out around the corner, with wide open eyes they stared at him. They heard the song he was humming on and were ready to burst into laughter at his moves. Then they couldn't hold it back, they laughed loudly.

Snotlout winced and glared at them, he got really angry when they imitated some of his moves and laughed.

"Oh, come on! That ain't funny! This ain't no show! This is me-time!" Snotlout shouted at them.

Ruffnut helped Tuffnut who had to bend down cause of his laughter, they went back around the corner.

"Ruff 'n Tuff!" he called after them.

"Snotty!" came from around the corner where the laughing twins had gone.

Here it is! I know, it's a bit bad. But that's surely just 'cause it's hard for me to separate my OTP. They are so perfect, so perfect it's almost impossible to separate them! And the fun part was just to have any fun at all in this chapter, but I guess it's too similar to the real scene in Fireproof. -_-

Anyway, there's something I've been wanting to tell you since yesterday but didn't have time... I had a dream yesterday about Dragon Masters! But that's not the first time, anyway, it was about me watching YouTube and I clicked on a video... and saw something unexpected. It was Astrid going crazy about something I don't want to tell you 'cause that would take too much time, but anyway... okay, here we go... since I'm a overreacting HiccStrid-fan I then saw Hiccup kissing Astrid. O.O And the great thing about my dream was that I saw the episode's number and name, it was Dragon Masters Ep. 8 - Relief. And I thought this could be fun... 'cause if it will be like that, I dreamed about the future! O_O But that's probably not gonna happen. -_- And sorry for being crazy again.

Anyway, ADIOS! And if you have a question or anything, just tell me. :)