Despite everything he has accomplished, Hiccup has some trouble adjusting to his new role.
How to Train an Heir
Toothless notices a smell coming from his leg, keeps trying to get him to notice, finally takes it, and brings it to Gobber, Hiccup protesting along the way.
"Dragon misbehavin, Hiccup?"
"Yeah, I don't know what's gotten into him," he says looking exasperatedly at his friend. Gobber chuckles, before handing Hiccup his leg.
"Thanks Gobber," Hiccup sighs gratefully from the workout, as he reaches out to take it. Suddenly, Gobber looks down, sees some dried blood on the bandage, and pulls the leg back. He frowns.
"Hiccu'up, does your leg hurt?"
"Yeah, isn't it supposed to though?" Hiccup gives a tight laugh. "I mean, it did get cut off…."
"Hmm." Gobber says, still looking toward it. "When was the last time you changed the bandage?"
Hiccup froze. "Ah well, you see…" Gobber crosses his arms, and stares down at his former apprentice.
"Hicc'up" he draws out, warningly. Hiccup drops his hand from where it was rubbing his hair.
"A week ago," he says quietly.
Gobber stills. "What did you say?"
Hiccup peers up at him, and hesitantly repeats. "A week ago?"
"A week!" Cries Gobber. "Hiccup, are you out of dang blasted mind?" He tucks the leg into the hem of his pants and grabs Hiccup by the front of his shirt, and starts dragging him up towards Gothe. Hiccup struggles to keep up on his crutch.
"Dang stupid kid," Gobber mumbles under his breath as he goes. Then he calls out, "Stoick!" Really loud gaining the attention of those near him. "Stoick!" He yells again.
"No, Gobber, please, you don't need to tell my dad, really. He doesn't need to know about this, I'm sure he's busy!"
Hearing this, Gobber growls, a spike of irritation exiting towards both father and son.
"You be quiet," he says, shaking the boy in his tight grip, as they approach his father standing in front of the main hall talking with some villagers, who had turned to look towards them at Gobber's entreating.
"But Gobber, come on…"
Hiccup expected his dad to look mad or annoyed as they approached, having to deal with his messed-up son yet again interrupting village work. Instead, when Hiccup got close enough to see Stoick's face it was worried, which shocked Hiccup enough to suddenly stop his protests. In fact, once Stoick saw them coming his way, after hearing Gobber's bellow, Stoick walks towards them purposefully, concern clearly splayed across his face.
"Hiccup?" Stoick calls, looking towards his son, before he looks up at Gobber. "Is he alright?" The father asks his friend upon finally meeting the two, his son being dragged behind the blacksmith. He looks more closely at Hiccup up and down again, ignoring his son's "It's nothing, dad, really, I'm fine. I'm sorry to bother you…" and Gobber's growled response towards the youngest of the trio. Once Stoick reaches the missing leg in his scan he raises his eyebrow and looks up to Gobber.
Gobber growls again. "Your son," he says, pushing Hiccup towards his father, who catches him as he stumbles on the one leg, "decided to be stupid and not change his bandages for over a week now!"
Stoick's grip on Hiccup tightened to the point of painful as he froze for a minute, before turning to his son and saying in his most serious, grave, chieftain voice.
"Is this true son."
Hiccup looks up hesitantly at his dad, confused as to why everyone was making such a big deal out of it, and bites his lip nervously before answering tentatively, his voice practically screaming his confusion.
"Yeeesssss?"
Stoick's grip only tightens again, before he silently sweeps his son up off his feet and into his arms and starts carrying him off towards Gothe.
"Dad!" Hiccup yelps. "What are you doing?!"
Alright, so what do you think? I have this one about half-way done, and currently we have two votes for Rise of the Guardians and one for Voltron. And for those who are reading my other stories, I am trying to decide which POV to do next for my Hetalia story- Alfred and Arthur, or Matthew and Francis? Let me know what you think, and as always, hope you enjoyed!
