Hiccup watched Toothless and Snowflake try to take off, then felt a cold hand on his shoulder.

"Hey." Elsa greeted, and sat down next to him, wrapping her arms around her waist.

"So what do you think made all the dragons leave?" She asked. It wasn't a demanding question, just a gently caring question, one that didn't demand an answer. Hiccup shrugged, and Elsa didn't press him. She loosened her grip on her waist and one of her hands slipped. Elsa expected to feel the icy friendliness, but accidentally touched Hiccup's hand. She immediately jerked it back up and tucked it in the crook of her elbow, resting her fingers on her thin ribs.

"So, want to have a race?" Hiccup asked, "It might cheer them up." He gestured to the two Furies and Elsa nodded.

"Prepare to be beaten." She teased, and once they were on the dragons, Snowflake took off, leaving Toothless far behind. As is to be expected with such a head start, Elsa and Snowflake won. Snowflake landed before Toothless, gracefully, and Toothless landed rather….clumsily. Snowflake flicked her tail and walked primly to a feeding station where she daintily picked out a fish. Toothless bounded over ungracefully and began digging in, probably purposely eating messily. Snowflake gave him a disgusted and astonished look, provoking laughter from Elsa and Hiccup, standing near. Snowflake looked at her mistress with a hurt look and Elsa stopped laughing.

"Oh, sorry girl." Elsa went over to her dragon and sat down next to Snowflake, rubbing her head. She heard Hiccup laugh and both human and dragon looked at him.

"Spoiled dragon."

"She's not spoiled!" Elsa shot back and Hiccup snorted.

"Yeah right. You don't even offend her without apologizing. That's so spoiled." Elsa and Snowflake lifted their chins and looked away, Elsa discreetly touching the ground with her ground, shooting veins of magic towards Hiccup and Toothless, and a wall of snow covered them. Hiccup and Toothless shot snow everywhere, spluttering.

"Ugh! Stupid powers, always hurting me." Hiccup said, and Elsa stood up quickly, her back straight as an arrow. She jumped on Snowflake and took off, shooting away so fast it seemed like they disappeared. Elsa stayed silent for a while then let out a frustrated yell that echoed amongst the clouds, and fell back against Snowflake's back. Flurries swirled around her and as she mulled over the argument, small though it was, their speed and quantity increased. Then Snowflake warbled concernedly, jolting Elsa out of her reverie.

"Oh the bonfires! I forgot!" Elsa made a circling motion quickly with her fingers and the flurries disappeared, then Snowflake hurried to the cliffs where the Vikings were gathering and eating around several huge bonfires that broke the darkness of the night. Astrid ran up to her as she landed and got off, exclaiming,

"Elsa you're late! Where've you been?" Elsa shrugged.

"Snowflake and I had a bit of alone time in the skies. Lost track of time." Astrid hmm'd and brushed some snow off Snowflake's saddle and said, looking up from her snow covered fingers to Elsa,

"Flurries." (That meant she knew Elsa had been upset.) Elsa bit her lip and ran to a deserted fire, curling up and gazing into the fiery depths. Snowflake bounded after her mistress and curled herself around her, comforting her with her purring, coaxing Elsa into a short sleep, long enough to allow all the other Vikings to leave without knowing she was still there. She woke up at 3:00 in the morning, and looked up at the moon, which was shining brightly. She sighed and got up, stretching. She and Snowflake walked over to the cliff edge and stared down at the village full of sleeping Vikings. Elsa laughed softly once at nothing, and asked Snowflake in a murmur,

"Whaddya say girl? Should we stay awake and up here all night?" Snowflake jerked her head up and down several times eagerly, and Elsa laughed happily.

"Catch!" She called and tossed a snowball in the air, and Snowflake leapt up, catching it in her mouth and eating it. Elsa laughed and Snowflake fired a snow blast at Elsa, covering the part that the blast hit in snow.

"Snowflaaake!" Elsa laughed, and Snowflake warbled, then sneezed as a snowball entered her mouth.

"So you wanna play with magic? OK!" Elsa laughed, and used her magic to coat Snowflake's body with snow, which she shook off and pounced at her mistress. Elsa shrieked playfully and ran, Snowflake promptly chasing her rider. They ended at four in laughter from Elsa and warbling from Snowflake. At dawn they flew to Astrid's house where they slept until 3:00 in the afternoon, then leaving and going to the dragon stables.

Someone knocked on Astrid's door and she opened it, revealing Hiccup.

"Hiccup, hey." She greeted.

"Hey Astrid. How is Elsa? I heard she came here."

"She's not here anymore, but she's fine other than being very…" Astrid searched for the right word. "pissed at you. Sorry, but it's the only word strong enough." Hiccup looked bewildered and Astrid sighed, crossing her arms and leaning against the doorway.

"Did you insult her powers or her relationship with Snowflake?" Hiccup winced, and muttered,

"Both." Astrid slapped her forehead and rubbed her face.

"Could you have done it a little worse?" She muttered rhetorically, then explained.

"Elsa is extremely sensitive about her relationship with Snowflake, and you seriously couldn't have gone much worse. If you want her to talk to you in the next year, you'd better apologize." Hiccup raised his eyebrow doubtfully.

"Seriously. I insulted her relationship with Snowflake once and she didn't talk to me for a month." Astrid said seriously, and Hiccup sighed.

"OK, thanks for the advice. I guess I'll go apologize. Know where she is?" Astrid shook her head and Hiccup sighed, heading out into the village to search for her.

He found her by the dragon stables, rubbing Snowflake dry after a washing.

"Hi." He greeted. Elsa turned her head and then buckled the saddle back onto Snowflake.

"I'm sorry, Elsa. Am I forgiven?" Elsa turned and looked at him, then turned away. Hiccup came closer and sighed. Elsa then turned quickly and kissed him on the cheek. She bit her lip and blushed, a shy smile on her lips. Hiccup grinned as Elsa said,

"You're forgiven."

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