Everyone froze as Hiccup's eyes glanced around the room twice before he feel back down onto his bed. They heard him take a deep breath as he fell back asleep.

Toothless smiled as Stoick laughed.

He was getting better.


After the visitors had gone to bed, Stoick approached Hiccup, a bowl of stew in his hand and a Night Fury at his ankles.

He slowly raise Hiccup to sit and propped his back onto his pillow.

He sat down on the bed, causing Hiccup to tilt but Toothless used his head and put Hiccup back into place.

"Thank you" whispered Stoick as he put a spoon into the spoon and raised to Hiccup's mouth.

Hiccup ate it. And the pattern repeated until:

"That tastes good."

Stoick stopped and took a closer look at Hiccup. His eyes were not open and he was still out of it.

Stoick looked at Toothless, to see he was also looking at Hiccup, delight and curiosity in his eyes.

So he was not imaging it?

"I suppose it does" he answered.

"Is it Mum's recipe?" asked Hiccup. Stoic fought to control his delight.

"Yes it is" said Stoick, a smile in his voice.

"She was an awesome cook" said Hiccup.

"I suppose she was" said Stoick.

"I miss her" said Hiccup.

"So do I" said Stoick. Hiccup did not reply. Stoick put the empty bowl on the ground and lay Hiccup back down. Covering him with the quilt.


Toothless was woke up by arguing.

"How do we get him up?" he heard Tuffnut whisper.

"Well I don't know do I" he heard Ruffnut whisper back.

"Guys, stop!" he heard Snotlout whisper.

"Well, Dragon Master, how do you think we should wake him up?" he heard Astrid whisper.

"I'm not the Dragon Master" came the weak whisper of Fishlegs.

Deciding to give them a little scare, he "woke" up.

Toothless yawned and stretched.

He swore that all the teens jumped.

"Hey Toothless" said Astrid and the Night Fury looked at her.

"We finished your saddle, for you and Hiccup" said Astrid and Toothless looked at his motionless rider.

"Do you want to try it on?" asked Ruffnut. Toothless looked at her, shook his head and looked back at Hiccup.

"You want to wait for Hiccup?" asked Astrid. Toothless nodded.

()()()()()()()

Hiccup could hear a commotion from beside him.

"Come on Toothless, you haven't eaten for a while, you need to eat" said a voice.

"Yeah, who knows how long it is before he wakes up, and you want to be fit for him don't you?" another voice asked.

"Toothless eat fish" another weak voice said and Hiccup was out of it again.

()()()()()()()

"Toothless eat fish" a voice from behind them said and they looked to see Hiccup moan and turn his head. Then the group turned at another noise, and saw that Toothless was eating his fish.


Stoick stood beside Felix as the healer checked Hiccup over.

Soon enough, the healer turned around with a huge smile on his face.

"Everything is much better than it was last time. And you say he's been talking and moving. He should wake up soon enough"