(Sorry this took longer than expected, By The Way this is going to be another multi-parter)

Request From movielover48: Toothless playing with the baby. I know u sorta did this on the 1st chapter, but I hope you take it.

Prompt: When Hiccup and Astrid go on vacation they leave Valka in charge of little Halden, but when a problem on Berk forces Valka to leave the Haddock house, there is only one other that can take care of Halden

Note: Halden is about 11 months old, give or take a month, so neither Jolene or Cassie have been born yet

Toothless cocked his head in confusion at the child, ever since Cloudjumper came and talked to him that day, Toothless had begun to enjoy the little one. Halden looked so delicate and yet so mischievous, like a little mystery, though he could go without the child's love of clinging on to his tail. It was on one particular day that Toothless was up in Hiccup and Astrid's room, watching the two stuffing much of their clothing and belonging in large cases .

"Well that's about it" Hiccup grunted, trying to push down the lids of the cases down, trying to make them fit, "we probably have enough here to take us to Egypt".

Toothless raised an eyebrow, why would they need to go to Egypt.

Hiccup looked up from his packing to see Astrid holding Halden in her arms, rocking him back and forth, the baby was asleep, Toothless could see his little chest go slightly up and down, breathing in and out. The night-fury gave a gummy smile at the little bundle of cuteness resting in his rider's mate's arms.

Hiccup placed a soft hand on his wife's shoulders, "darling ?" he said softly, trying to keep Halden from waking up.

Astrid looking down at her son then back to Hiccup, her face formed a show of sadness, she sighed, "Hiccup. . . . I don't know I just can't leave him"

Toothless still peered at him lovingly as Astrid continued, "he's still so small and helpless".

Hiccup picked up her chin so she would look up at him, he could see that though she was Astrid the Great Ax Warrior, she was also Astrid a Mother, and it seemed her maternal instincts were coming out.

"He'll be alright", Hiccup said reassuringly, this made Toothless turn his head from the baby and scowl at his rider.

"By himself ! Are you mentally well !"

Astrid laid the baby back in his crib and helped Hiccup pick up bags of luggage and head down the hallway.

"Hiccup I just feel so guilty about deserting him like this !" Astrid pushed.

"Don't worry"

Toothless cocked his head in confusion, "Deserting ?" He looked down at Halden in his crib "Wait. . . . DESERTING ! THAT MEANS LEAVING, THEIR LEAVING US !"

Over time, Toothless had developed not just a love, but a protectiveness over the child and it kicked in as he ran out of the room towards the couple, running ahead of them and stopped by the staircase, blocking their way with a face filled with rage.

"Huh. . . . what's the matter with Toothless" Hiccup asked confused at his dragon.

"Why he thinks we're running out on them" Astrid chuckled and Hiccup soon came to relation and joined her in laughter.

"Laughing ?. . . . LAUGHING !, how DARE you laugh at me, you tried to leave him"

"Hey bud" Hiccup said, kneeling down to pet his snout, but the dragon quickly flinched away, "It'll only be for a few days".

"Oh. . . . only for a few days ?"

"And Valka will be here" Astrid added.

"Valka ? You mean the friendly dragon lady !"

"And with you here to help her. . . ." Hiccup was cut off by the sound of the door knocking, "Huh, I guess that's mom know"

The reptile saw Hiccup and Astrid slowly approach the door, to open for Valka, "Valka" Toothless thought, "I'll be of great help, even better than Stormfly. But before they got the chance to open, the door was barged opened and there she was.

Valka, arms crossed and frowning but green eyes still shining with a hint of humor "Hurry you two, or you'll miss the ship".

"Miss the ship ? Oh she must mean those small water nest's that humans use to catch fish in", Toothless thought, "I still feel going in the water to get them is more productive but what can you do".

Hiccup looked to his mom "Are you sure you can handle this. . . . .

"You two are going to work yourselves to death, you need a break, and that's what you'll do" she stated.

"Break ?" Toothless thought, "break from what, from me, but I'm delightful, maybe their talking about Stormfly ?"

Astrid persisted, "but what about Halden, he can be quite a handful "

"Oh I'll take care of him alright, he'll be fine" Valka scoffed.

Before the couple could argue they were shooed and pushed out the door, Valka slammed the door and locked it, "there now, that's that" she said with a smirk.

The brunette walked up the staircase with the nightfury trailing behind, looking down at her reptilian companion she smiled, "you're going to help me with Halden aren't you Toothless ?" she asked happily, quickly followed by Toothless's quick nodding"

The elder woman opened Hiccup and Astrid'd bedroom and made her way towards her grandchild just now awaking from his nap, she smiled "now I bet your hungry."

Toothless smiled, "well I could use a little more sea bass and. . . . .oh you're talking. . . about. . . him".

Valka ignored the reptile and walked downstairs with Halden in her arms and into the kitchen, she started putting in different ingredients, muticolored herbs and vegetables, mixing in small bits of different spices, grinding others and pouring them all into a small pot to put on the fire.

"Are you sure he'll like that ?" Toothless asked, "Maybe if you put in some salmon or cod", Toothless offered.

After a few minutes, Valka took the pot off the fire and put it in a small bottle,"her you go dear, Hiccup loved this formula when he was a babe". Valka took the bottle and positioned the end of it to the little one slipping a few drops into his mouth. Toothless at first expected for Halden to spit it out, it was thick and gooey and had a greenish milky color, not very appetizing. But soon enough Halden began to smile and gulp down more of his breakfast.

Now curious, Toothless put his head up to the bottle "Hey can I have some of that ?" he asked.

"No Toothless, you already had your breakfast", Valka scolded, placing Halden on her lap. Toothless snorted at this and walked back to his spot by the fire-place.

But as Halden had finishing his breakfast, he began coughing and making strange choking sounds, he began to soft weeping that quickly turned to- - -

"WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Crying and screaming, Toothless folded his ears back and putting his paws on them, eyes shut, trying to zone out the loud screams of torment, "PLEASE, just shut it UP, save me from this TORTURE"

"Shh, shh sh shhh there there dear" Valka shushed calming the child down, she put him on her shoulder and began tapping his back.

"What are you doing ? No WAIT I don't even care, just make the crying END, I BEG of you"

Soon enough the bouncing allowed Halden to burp and return back to his laughing, happy self.

With the crying ending, Toothless slowly opened his eyes, returned his paws from his ears and allowed them to unfold, looking up to see Halden smiling and bringing back to sweet sound of laughter.

Toothless stood aghast at Valka, now bouncing the baby on her lap, "but. . you just. . . .and he just. . . .and I just. . .and you. . .HOW ?"

The grandmother looked up at the shocked dragon and chuckled, "don't worry Toothless as long as I'm here everything will be alright, and it's only for a few days".

"Knock Knock"

Valka's face scrunched in curiousness, "now who do you think that could be ?" she placed Halden down on the living room rug, who quickly ran towards and gripped onto Toothless's tail.

Toothless sighed, "what is your fascination with my tail ?" his only response was a soft hearted giggle from the toddler.

Once Valka unlocked the door and opened, she found a very distressed Gobber waiting for her, "Valka, where's Hiccup ?" he asked with great urgency.

"He and Astrid just left, their probably out of Berk waters by now"

Gobber sighed loudly, "their needed here, rogue dragons are making a rampage on the west side of the island !"

"Oh, is their anything I can do to help"

Gobber's face brightened, "yes, yes you can help", he took her arm, "come, we need to fix this as soon as possible".

"Alright, alright, just. . . um" she turned her head to at Halden playing on Toothless's tail, and the reptile himself raised his head and perked his ears up at her reaction to them.

"Just give me a moment" she asked, Gobber nodded and closed the door. Valka dashed back into the house sifting through the drawers to find and to grab a piece parchment and charcoal pen. "*sigh*, I can't believe I'm doing this" she mumbled, there was no way she could or would bring her first grandchild to a storm of raging dragons, and at the moment this only left one other option she could do on such short notice.

Toothless looked with big eyes of puzzlement as the woman scribbled down things on the page, with Hiccup's son still clinging to his tail, he crawled over to her just as she finished writing everything down. Looking over her shoulder, just now realizing the reptile was beside her, Valka looked up at his eyes as green met green.

Valka remembered Hiccup telling her a while back of Toothless's ability to read and follow directions fairly easy, with no other choice, Valka took the parchment and laid on the ground for Toothless.

"Alright Toothless, I have to go now-

"Go ? Where are YOU going ?"

"It'll only be for a few hours !" she tried to say calmly "Until then, I need you to watch Halden"

Toothless's ears drooped, "you mean all by MYSELF !"

Unfortunately, Valka doesn't speak dragon and there-fore couldn't understand Toothless's worries, instead she smiled and gave him a kiss on the forehead, "thank you Toothless".

And before he could stop her, Valka was headed out the door, leaving him alone with the baby. Raising his tail up, allowing the baby to meet his eyes, he gave a low sigh "well, I guess this won't be too hard, I mean, how bad could you be ?"

But after a few moments, seeing his loving grandmother has left them, Halden blinked his little blueish green and tear began to show. Seeing this Toothless's eyes grew larger and began shaking his head worriedly , "oh no, please. . . .please don't do that" but Halden's lip began to wimple and quiver and. . . . .

"WEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Toothless once again folded back his ears, slumped his head back down on the wooden floor, and grumbled one word, "why me".


(Why you Toothless ?. . . . BECAUSE YOU HAVE GREAT COMIC POSSIBILITIES , don't you just love multi-parters, well anyway the next part should be up in a day or so, so if you have any ideas for this multi-parter, go in the comments, so Read and Review and this is Moonlight Snowflake signing off)