((Here is chapter 7, a bit short, but as always I hope you enjoy it.))
Chapter Seven: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
"So what you are saying is that my parents are letting me choose?" Merida asked.
Jack nodded.
"But I still have to get married?" Merida added.
"Well yeah" he answered with a shrug.
"I guess I at least have a choice of who I rather be with" she said letting her self fall from her sitting position in to a laying down one. She lay on her bed while playing with her fiery hair. "I think I've only met Hiccup once, but it hard to forget him."
A barely visible frown formed on Jack's face, "Oh?"
"Yeah it is because he is such a small thin boy, but his dad and all his friends and other people...well they are so big!" she explained. "It is hard to forget a boy who is the complete opposite of kingdom. He isn't one who represents his people" she said sitting up again. "And his name fits him perfectly. He is such a walking Hiccup, tripping on his own feet, even knocking something, that isn't possible to be knocked over, over." She finished with a smile.
Jack gave a sideways smile, but it wasn't convincing at all. "So did you get along when you met him that time?" He asked.
Merida shrugged, "I guess we did get along, but I was only around him for a bit, maybe a few days. Back then his kingdom and ours didn't really get along, seeing as they are decendants of Vikings and all" she said.
"Oh really? And so how did that change?" Jack was curious to know. Her parents were letting her pick him as a partner of life now.
"Well...Hiccup did. He showed by parents that they could be great allies and friends" Merida smiled as she spoke.
"Ah..." he nodded.
"Yup, after that we became good friends, but he had to leave soon after that so..." she said sadly.
"So, you are happy to get to see him?"
"Yeah, actually I am somewhat happy, but I am not happy that he is here to get married, I mean I only see him as a friend..." she mumbled the last part.
Jack thought about it. That must not be a good situation. She gets to see an old friend, but he is here to be proposed as a marriage suitor.
This morning Jack wasn't able to see Merida, as she was getting ready to welcome Hiccup and his father, Stoick.
He was pacing back and forth in his room, wondering what this Hiccup guy looked like or what he should expect. Did he actually stand a chance agaisnt this guy.
"Ugh! Why am I like this? I am acting as if I actually had something with Merida" he asked himself as he let himself fall on his bed with a groan.
Merida unlike him didn't have the luxury to be pacing back and forth in her room. She was being moved from one room to another, in each being worked on something different. In the first she was put the under clothes for her dress. In the next she was put on the dress. In the third her mother tried managing her hair, only to break a comb and leave it the same way as always, just a bit more managable. After that she was led by her mother to the hall, where she would wait for Stoick and Hiccup, along with Jack and his parents.
Jack smiled at the sight of Merida. She, in his opinion, looked stunningly beautiful, more than the time he first saw her.
"Hey, you look very nice" he whispered over at her when they stood together.
"Thanks" she mumbled as a small blush creeped on her already rosey cheeks.
He chuckled and stood straight.
They both stood there in silence, until a guard walked in to announce the almost of the others.
"They have been spotted some distance away my lady" he announced to the queen, but everyone heard.
"Alright" she nodded to him. "Would you go out there to greet them in their arrival Merida honey?" she asked turning to Merida with an encouraging smile.
"Um, alright, but can Jack come with me?" she asked.
"If he agrees" her mother nodded with another smile.
"Would you like to come with me?" Merida asked Jack, she then leaned in and whipered, "Please?"
Jack chuckled, "Of course."
Merida smiled brightly ad took his hand in hers, which took him completely by surprise. He followed her out of the hall and castle to the outside.
Both Merida and Jack searched for a carriage or something in the ground. It never occured to them that the others would be arriving by air.
Jack was the first to spot the oversized animals and he stood protectively in front of Merida.
Merida spotted them shortly after and accepted the protection. She stood behind Jack, hiding from sight.
Hiccup and his father had been traveling for some time and when they spotted the Scottish castle try both smiled in relief.
"Ah! We are finally here!" Stoick boomed.
Merida recognized that voice and peeked from behind Jack.
"Be careful Merida, stay behind" Jack warned.
Merida stepped out a bit more and spotted her old friend.
"Hiccup!" she exclaimed as she ran out from behind Jack.
Hiccup who had just barely landed on the ground, with his Night Fury of a dragon, smiled down to Merida.
"Wow! You've changed so much!" Merida pointed out, admiring the change of look.
Hiccup now wore a brown mop of hair with his radiant green eyes, even in the darkness of the evening his eyes glinted.
"So have you" the brunette smiled as he jumped off of his dragon.
"What is...that?" Merida asked admiring the dragon.
"That us Toothless, my pet dragon" Hiccup responded, petting his Night Fury.
Merida gasped as she kept admiring the animal.
Jack felt left out and so he cleared his throat to make himself noticed.
"Oh! This is Jack, well Jackson Overland. He is...um..." she couldn't find the word.
"Her suitor" he finished for her.
"Suitor?" finally spoke Stoick.
"Yeah, long story" Jack smiled trying to change the subject, which was kind if his fault.
Hiccup dusted off and walked to Jack and extended his hand to him. "The name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third" he said with a smile.
