So I got these mini - clusters of prompts from each section of a prompt list. Here is the angst one.

-HTTYD-

"Please, just…be safe. Come back to me."

"Don't go."

Hiccup turned, seeing his mother fussing with a baby dragon nearby though her eyes were on him. He'd been planning to slip away unnoticed after he and Toothless slept, but Valka had caught him finishing strapping up his armour.

"I have to. You won't help... dad won't help. So I'll go alone- sorry" his dragon huffed "I'll go with Toothless."

Placing the Scuttleclaw hatchling down, Valka closed the distance between them, fingers soft on his cheek.

"I suppose I can't fault you for having my stubbornness. Is there nothing I could say to change your mind?"

He half-expected more of a fight, but perhaps Valka didn't know where the line was, what she could demand of him as a very recently discovered mother.

"No. The offer still stands to join me."

Valka glanced behind her, the thousands of dragons swarming and Hiccup knew her answer.

"I can't leave them all unprotected."

"I know. I understand."

"Just... Hiccup? Be safe" Valka leant in, pressing her lips to his hair "and come back to me."

Unable to speak as his throat thickened, Hiccup nodded.

"I love you, not them."

This was never something they should have had to deal with. Why did the gods play these tricks? What had they done to earn this wrath?

And yet, when they kissed, all that wrenching agony went away... Hiccup rested his forehead against hers, his breath warm against Valka's lips.

"We can't... you have to go back to Astrid."

Hiccup whined, pained, seeking her mouth again and Valka indulged herself as much as him. One last time...

"I love you."

"I know. But you love her too. And she's whats best for you."

Mouth twisted, Hiccup shrugged his cloak on. Valka understood. A chief did what was necessary. Even if it hurt.

"Maybe. I'm not so sure anymore..."

After he left, and only then, Valka let herself crumble.

"Why would you think something like that?"

"Do you regret this?"

The question jolted him. Hiccup turned his head, eyeing his mother in confusion. Only seconds ago, he'd been relaxing in the afterglow, Valka's sweat still drying on his sin after they'd dedicated a very pleasant chunk of time exploring each others bodies.

"What kind of question is that?"

"A serious one."

Rolling properly on to his side, Hiccup ran his fingers down her bare arm, wondering where her questions came from so soon after they'd been intimately entwined. A chilling thought occurred to him.

"Do you regret... this? Us?"

Valka finally met his eyes, shaking her head as she cupped his cheek.

"Gods, no. I love you son. I just don't... I don't want you to give up on a different life for me."

Hiccup shook his head, wriggling closer until he could feel her body heat again.

"The only life I want is with you."

-HTTYD-

Angst angst angst.

I think.