Yay! I'm actually making progress with this fanfic! Hopefully it stays this way… Anyways, I don't have much to say other than please enjoy!
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Chapter 02: What Now?
"U-um… It's actually Hiccup. Not Hikke…"
"Hikke is Norse for Hiccup, so I didn't get it wrong," Jack said, without missing a beat as he continued to stare deeply into the nervous shifting green eyes. He had to wonder how long it has been since he last saw these eyes. He knew for sure it's been more than sixteen years seeing as he was sixteen himself. He could recall that one of his dreams dated back during World War II, but that couldn't be the last time they were together right? He hoped not at least. That dream—er—memory was his least favorite for reasons he didn't really want to think about right now, not when he was finally reunited with his Hikke.
His Hikke…
The thought made Jack feel so giddy, so happy, and so relieved. It was almost as if, until now, he was missing a part of him and he didn't realize he was missing. And the moment that he laid eyes on Hiccup, that gaping hole he didn't realize he had was instantly filled up to the brim. This feeling was so strange and so moving that Jack started to tremble and his brilliant blue eyes glazed over with a light coat of tears which alarmed his two friends who were watching the scene unfold between the two males.
"Hikke I—"
"W-well, my name isn't actually Hiccup…" Hiccup quickly stuttered, cutting Jack off. "I-It's actually a really stupid nickname I-I got from my Dad as a kid. U-um my name's actually Henry, b-but how did you know that—"
Hiccup, really known as Henry, started out in a soft timid voice, but the more he talked the softer his voice got to the point that they weren't even able to hear the last words, but Toothiana and Aster could guess that it was along the lines of "my nickname is Hiccup".
Jack looked more than eager to answer his question as the young snow haired teen squeezed Hiccup's hands tightly between his own hands and leaned a little closer to the brunette, who instinctively shrunk away. Perhaps if he wasn't so overjoyed, Jack would've noticed that and felt a bit embarrassed for being so pushy on the brunette. However, he didn't realize at all. Jack opened his mouth, ready to tell his long awaited Hikke everything that needed to be told, but before he could let out even a little peep, a large hand clasped itself around his mouth, and tinier hands pried his hands from Hiccup's one finger at a time.
"You'll have to excuse him, he likes to play tricks on people all the time," Toothiana said with a cheerful but obviously nervous laugh.
"Especially new blokes like you," Aster quickly added in before he picked up Jack, who was letting out muffled protests against the Australian's hand and was trying to wiggle out of his hold. "So just forget about what he ju—AH! What the—! Did you just lick my hand!? You sick snow loving prick!"
Toothiana gave Hiccup a strained and nervous smile as she started to push the bickering duo away from the terribly confused Hiccup, who was holding onto the strap of his bag rather tightly from his nerves.
"Ahaha, these guys are just so silly aren't they? It was nice meeting you officially Henry! See you later!" she said cheerily, trying to brush off the scene that Jack and they have created. She gave another nervous laugh as she pushed Aster and Jack towards the nearest door available so they can get away from Hiccup and the cafeteria in general. She didn't think she can handle any more public humiliation from these two morons.
With a little more pushing and shoving from Toothiana's part, and kicking and angry yelling from the boys, the trio somehow managed to leave the cafeteria and into a nearly empty hall. Even after they left, Hiccup and everybody else stared at the doors, half expecting one of them to back through them. But after a few minutes of muffled arguing, a yelp filled their ears soon followed by silence. Minutes passed, and then all eyes went on Hiccup, who immediately shrunk into himself and flushed to the color of a tomato.
"Lay low, Hiccup, they said. You'll be fine, Hiccup," the brunette grumbled sarcastically under his breath as he quickly made his way to an empty table and trying desperately to ignore the many stares that followed his every movement.
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"Jack! What were you thinking doing something like that?!" Toothiana inquired as she threw her hands in the air in exasperation.
"I was thinking that I finally found Hikke! Jeez! Did you have to slap me that hard!?" Jack grumbled as he rubbed his cheek, and has been rubbing since the normally docile girl slapped him to get him to shut-up so Aster and she could take him to a more secluded area. That was the yelp that everyone in the cafeteria had heard. They were sitting at a table in the farthest corner in the school's library for the sake of privacy as well as not to get in trouble with the library in case Jack and Aster start their regular bickering and fighting. When Jack glanced around, he only saw that there were two other people sitting near the front desk where an old lady was sitting. She was ancient! Jack had to wonder if when she was going to retire and kind of feared that she'd have a heart attack from any loud sounds or sudden movement. Jack was brought back to his friends when Aster began to speak.
"How do you even know if that Hickory—
"Hikke…!"
"What. Ever…! How do you know if you got the right mate, mate?" Aster speculated as he crossed his arms and leaned back in his seat.
"Didn't you see him?! He was everything I described! Well, minus the glasses, this is the first time he's worn glasses," Jack said, as he thought back to brunette. A big and rather goody grin started spread across his face, and pressed his hands to his slightly flushed cheeks as he started to wiggle around in his seat. "But isn't he amazing?! He's such a dork, but he's so adorable! He's adorkable!"
Aster groaned while Toothiana smiled and giggled. However, despite that Aster groaned and seemed annoyed, he was actually kind of happy for his friend, since he's never seen him smile so big like that before.
"He looks exactly like how we first met! And well, all the other times we met! Right down to every little freckle on his face! And don't you think those glasses make him look even cuter?! Sure they get in the way of his beautiful eyes, but still! He's just so—" Jack suddenly stopped gushing over his Hikke, and that stupid look he had plastered on his face vanished and was replaced by a serious one. Toothiana and Aster exchanged glances, not sure if Jack was going to go weird on them again, but were preparing themselves mentally for the worst. "How long has Hikke been in our school? I've been in this stupid school for two years already, half way through my third, I would've noticed way sooner if Hikke has been here since day one of Freshman year!"
"Dude, calm the bloody hell down. Hickey's on—"
"HIKKE!"
"HE'S only been here for half a day! He transferred in today day," Aster snapped, getting tired of Jack always correcting that geek's name all the time. Likewise, Jack was getting tired of the Australian always getting Hiccup's name wrong! And he was about to voice his annoyance if he didn't stop to think about what his friend just said.
"Wait, how do you know that today's his first day?! And that he transferred here?!" Jack demanded with a light glare.
"Well if you had been on time for homeroom like we were, you would've gotten to see his self-introductory," Toothiana said, giving Jack a pointed stare.
"Hey, it's not my fault that my uncle makes delicious waffles!" Jack defended himself with a slight pout before it deepened to a frown. The fair haired teen then slumped and shrunk into his seat glumly. "Now I regret eating those thirds and fourths of waffles… What did he say?"
"Well it's hard to say. He sorta kept stuttering. I was only able to get his name," Toothiana said with an apologetic look as she shrugged her shoulders.
"Henry…?" Jack said, giving his friends a looked that was edging them to finish his sentence.
"Haddock, I think," the colorful girl said hesitantly, her eyes rolling up to the ceiling as she tried to remember.
"Henry "Hiccup" Haddock," Jack murmured, a thoughtful look settling on his pale features. He then grinned and quickly shimmied himself back up into a proper sitting position. "When we first met, his name was Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III!"
"That name is horrendous," Aster muttered with a frown. Jack shrugged.
"Well that was kind of the point. Vikings believed that terrible names would scare away goblins. My name was kind of normal though, but I guess it was because I belonged to a different village or something," Jack mused.
"Woah, woah wait… You guys used to be Vikings?" Aster said as he waved his hands a little to stop Jack from talking anymore. Upon receiving a nod from the pale male, Aster snorted. "That's kind of cool, I gotta admit, mate."
Jack grinned.
"Not only were we vikings, but Hikke was a dragon tamer too," he said as he puffed out his chest, looking rather proud of his Hikke.
"He was a dragon tamer? That little ankle biter?!"
"Yuuup! And he had the rarest and coolest dragon too! 'The unholy offspring of lightening and death' to be exact," Jack bragged, receiving an incredulous look from Aster, as if the guy was having trouble wrapping around his head the fact that someone so puny used to tame dragons in his past life. "I'm guessing you believe me now that those dreams weren't just dreams?"
Aster opened his mouth to confirm, but when he saw that smug grin on Jack's face, he snapped his mouth shut and glared at him. Jack sniggered as his friend grumbled a 'shut-up' to him.
"So what are you going to do now, Jack?" Toothiana finally said, after just watching and listening the exchange between her two guy friends. Jack looked at her with a quirked eye brow.
"What do you mean?"
Toothiana rolled her eyes.
"What are you going to do? You found Henry again! Aren't you going to, I don't know, woo him and ask him out? Cuz I know that you guys were more than just friends in your "past lives" just by watching how your eyes light up when you talk about him," Toothiana chimed cheerfully.
"Like a Christmas tree," Aster added.
Jack had to stop and think about it. What was he going to do now? He found his Hikke. His adorable and dorky—his adorkable—Hikke, so now what? Obviously, he liked him a lot. He was even confident enough to say that he loved the freckled brunette even though he only just met him like literally fifteen minutes ago. Jack smiled determinedly as the answer became so clear to him.
"I'm going to confess to him," Jack said as he puffed out his chest confidentially. Toothiana made a squeal like noise, which got a weird look from Aster.
"Oh I'm so happy for you, Jack! You just first have to become—"
"Right now!"
"—friends with him and— Wait, right now?!" Toothiana said, her dreamy smile becoming a look of shock which turned to horror as Jack got up from his seat and started to walk away from their table. Toothiana and Aster exchanged startled expressions before they quickly grabbed their stuff along with Jack's, stumbled out of their seats, and hurried after their impulsive friend.
"Jack wait! You can't just confess to Henry when you just met him," Toothiana hissed in a hushed voice, seeing as they were still in the library.
"Technically, I didn't just meet him. I've known him for nearly a thousand years!" Jack whispered back as he marched towards the entrance with a positive smile plastered on his face.
"But Jack, what if the little fella doesn't remember like you, mate?" Aster argued, earning a scoff from his friend.
"Of course he remembers! Why wouldn't?" Jack said, a hint of his growing excitement laced between his words. The fair haired male ignored whatever other hushed protests his friends had to offer as he finally reached the door to the library. He grabbed the door handle and swung it open. And if fate would have, right there in front of Jack stood the very person he was eager to find! Toothiana and Aster came to a complete halt behind their friend, who grinned widely down at Hiccup, who looked anything but happy to see Jack. If anything, the brunette looked as if he was cursing his luck for having ran into Jack again.
"Oh, i-it's you," he stuttered as he tried to take a step away from Jack, however, the taller and pale male quickly reached out and took Hiccup's hands into his again, keeping the brunette in place.
"I know this is kind of sudden, and we just met in this life, but I'm sure you feel the same way as I do," Jack started to say in the most serious tone he's ever used in his life, which freaked both of his friends as well as Hiccup who started to lean away from Jack when his captor started to lean in.
"What are you—"
"I love you!"
Hiccup deadpanned. He stared into Jack's blue eyes with the most nihilistic look possible, whereas Jack continued with his serious act. Silence rung loudly between them as well as their surroundings with Toothiana and Aster gawking for the second time behind their friend. Then slowly, Hiccup's expression morphed into the angry and annoyed expression Jack knew all too well. His lips were pressed thinly and tightly together and his eyebrows were knitting together into a glare. And just slightly, his cheeks were puffed out. If he wasn't so alarmed that Hiccup was angry, Jack would've gushed over how cute the brunette looked.
"Is this some kind of joke?" Hiccup grounded out.
"What —? No! Of course not! Why would I joke about something like this?!" Jack said, his own eyebrows furrowing together in confusion. He felt Hiccup pull his hands free from him as he also took a couple steps away from him.
"Well for starters, we just met, and I don't even know you!"
