Okay here we go chapter nine… here we go…

I know chapter nine is pitifully short, but chapter 10 is on the way and get ready for a plot twist :3

Chapter 9- Is something wrong?

Tooth slowly slipped up the muddy hill, gathering whatever wood chips and leaves had come down in the rain. They stuck to her hair and to her face and her clothes were disgusting. And it was … Tooth checked her wristwatch…

5:00 in the morning. Lovely.

The light from the rising sun had barely peeked over the mountains, and Tooth had been climbing for almost an hour now. The plan was that Jack would be helping her in the morning to go back to camp, but they both forgot about check-ins.

*Last night*

Just as Toothless put Tooth down on the top of the bed, she woke up and looked around.

"What?" She yawned.

"Did I fall asleep?

Toothless nodded and hopped to his own bed opposite of Tooth's. Toothless curled up like a cat and basically started sleeping right on the spot. Hiccup was on the floor getting ready, and Jack was seemingly asleep. About two minutes later, Hiccup shut off the light and Tooth was left to stare at the ceiling.

She thought that she was forgetting something… but that was silly… no wait….. What was it?! She sat up and thought for a few minutes, the steady beat of the rain pouring down on the cabin. Wasn't there something? Pants? No, Emma had them. Water? No, she wasn't thirsty…

Ugh!

Tooth hated it when she forgot something; she was usually on track with everything.

Hmmm… She tapped her finger against her bottom lip for a second, eyebrows creasing together. Then something stirred. It was Jack, the bunk bed below. He got up and stretched for a minute, Tooth not saying anything. She noticed in his hair there was some re-growth. A bit of brown coming in through the wispy white.

Tooth blinked. Jack had never told her what his actual hair color was and she blushed at the idea of reaching out to touch it. Jack was tall enough and the bunk bed short enough that she could just… reach. But she brought her fingers back as Jack's hand moved to the back of his neck and he rubbed off the sweat there. Tooth was almost hiding behind the railing when he threw his head back, but his eyes were closed and he didn't see her.

"Man, I hate the summer… It's too hot."

"It's not summer yet Jack." Tooth whispered and Jack's eyes turned towards the sound. Tooth blinked twice and tried to look like she wasn't staring but failed and kept staring at Jack's blue eyes, illuminated by the shallow light the moon offered in between the rain.

Yikes! That slipped.

Jack was looking at her questioningly.

"Is… something wrong?" He smirked. "I'm too cool and you have to stare?"

Jack didn't mean anything by what he said, but Tooth blushed furiously and she hid behind her hands.

"No….. uh… you have some re-growth. That's all."

Jack's hand flipped to his hair.

"Really?" He looked worried. "Is it bad? I haven't dyed my hair in months."

Tooth giggled.

"Nah, just a little… You never told me your hair was brown."

"Yeah? Well- OOF"

A camp pillow flew out of nowhere and hit Jack in the back of the head. The pillow was like a rock on good nights and Toothless had thrown it hard.

"Go to sleep guys I'm tired."

Toothless glared at them, grumbled and turned over. Jack gave him a glare right back and then continued talking, this time a little louder, but he was rubbing the back of his neck.

"Well I was considering dyeing it back to brown but, meh, I wasn't sure."

"You should… the color would look…"

Amazing? Gorgeous? Cute? STOP IT TOOTH! But it would look good on Jack wouldn't it?

"Horrendous?" Jack tried, and then he looked over at his cabin mate on the floor. "No offence Hiccup." He whispered.

"No! It would look good on you I think." The last word faded into a squeak, not a loud whisper, because Tooth realized what she just said. Maybe… she liked… Jack?

TOOTH NO! HE'S YOUR BEST FRIEND! RIGHT? RIGHT?!

Jack turned back around. "Hm, sorry Tooth, what was that?"

"Ahh, nothing! Nothing!"

Jack shrugged and Tooth almost went back underneath the covers to contemplate the loud fluttering sensation in her heart… but then she remembered what she got up for in the first place.

"Oh! Jack?"

"Yeah?" He blinked, thinking she was going to tell him what she said before. Jack had actually heard her, but he wanted to hear her say it. He didn't know why, maybe he just liked teasing her a little, he liked teasing a lot of his friends… but Tooth had always been different? Or had she? They were friends… right? But he still wanted to hear her say…

"Um, I feel like I'm forgetting something."

Not that.

"That sentence you said before?" He tried, intrigued with how much she was resisting a sentence.

Tooth blushed. "No… uh, maybe something with the schedule?"

Jack's eyebrows creased.

"Schedule? Schedule… hmm…" He thought for a moment and then his eyebrows shot up.

"Oh my god we have check-ins in the morning!"

Tooth's eyebrows shot up too. They both did a silent freak out, Jack jumped a bit back and forth and Tooth fiddled with her thumbs. Check-ins happened only once at the camp on the second day in the morning so everybody could share in the work for the day. And that day happened to be tomorrow.

"What are we going to do?!" She whisper-screamed to him.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…." Jack's hands pressed against either side of his head and he looked like he was just posed a question to solving the mathematics of the universe and beyond.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….. OKAY okay! I'm sorry Tooth but we must leave at 3:00 in the morning."

"But check- ins aren't until 7 right?"

Jack's eyes flitted to the corner and he started talking in a rapid pace.

"Yeah but… it takes about an hour to walk from our cabin to your cabin right? Much less time with a map but we don't have one… So by the time I walk you to your cabin you'll be set, but then I can't be walking out alone… so then I have to walk about an hour back here… so then it will be five in the morning… but then we have to get up at 6:00 to be ready by seven… so maybe we should leave at 2:00 to give us some sleep, and then…"

Tooth sighed.

"Calm Jack. Calm. You don't have to walk me; I can make it on my own."

Jack eyed her.

"Are you sure? Last time you walked alone…"

"It was raining and dark. I'll be fine this time but I can't keep the hummingbird I found with me. Catalene would go insane and try to kill her. I guess I'll have to let her go."

"I can keep her!" Jack smiled and pointed to himself. "But when are you going to go in the morning?"

Tooth smiled widely.

"Thank you Jack!" She almost reached out to hug him, but realized there was a railing in the way (not to mention she was higher than he was) and she sunk back down onto the bed a little embarrassed.

"Uh, I guess I'll go at 3:00. It'll take me about an hour to hike up to my cabin, and half an hour to take a shower, and then I'll get in some sleep. Plan?"

"Sounds like a plan to me."

Jack gave that quirky smile of his and Tooth smiled back, but a friend's smile. Then she settled back into her bed.

She liked Jack… but did she like him like that? Did he like her like that? She didn't know. But... wasn't it better to wait and become better friends? Not that they weren't good friends already... but Tooth had had boyfriends before that didn't work out because she jumped into it...

"Well…" She reasoned as she was starting to drift off. "It's not like Jack is going anywhere. I have a lot of time… to think about it." But Tooth couldn't help smiling to herself as she drifted off to sleep.

*Present*

But then I just had to forget to wake up… didn't I?

But it was a good thing that Jack kept the hummingbird. It would be safe once it was in her house. Tooth was busying herself by thinking of what she was going to do for the little bird rather than focus on her clothes, which were sticking to her with mud and sweat and added to her drowsiness.

"Ugh, Jack said I could be the Tooth Fairy, but I don't think she would ever sleep!" Tooth saw the cabin and smiled wide.

"But it would still be a cool job!"

She hustled to the front door in the dark and she tried it… locked…

Hmmm…. Tooth walked all around the cabin to see if there was an open window… better if there was anyone who would help her in. Luckily, three windows were open. Tooth was debating which one to go through (hopefully none would be a consoler's room!) but then she saw someone in her room's window.

Hey wait a minute was that Elisa?! She had her eyes closed and she slumped on the closed window, her nose pressed against it. Tooth looked from her to the ground and then to her again.

"Elisa?" She asked. Elisa slowly slumped further to the windowsill and shoved the window open along with her.

"Hmmmmmmm? Haha, what is it Mr. waffles? "

Tooth almost fell over laughing. Elisa was sleepwalking! She had a really silly look on her face and her nose was red from being pressed against the glass window for so long.

"Pfft nothing, could you open the window for me?"

"As you wish…" And she actually opened the window further for Tooth! Since the ground was a little closer to the windowsill Tooth was able to jump from the ground and hoist herself in. Once she shimmied into the room she closed the window.

"Well it was a good thing you were there tonight, but let's not have any burglars enter in through the window at Mr. Fudge waffles command shall we?" Tooth gently closed the window, and shivered a little. She looked down at her muddy disgusting clothes and sighed.

"Time to take another shower…" But she was pulled back by her braid. It was a gentle tug but it stopped Tooth nonetheless.

"Jack? Frost?"

"What? Heh, Elisa? I'm not Jack"

Was Elisa sleepwalking or drunk? Tooth lightly tapped Elisa's hand so it would fall away from Tooth's braid but the girl had a firm grip. When Tooth finally pried her hand away Elisa spoke again.

"From Tooth steal Jack right?"

Tooth just stared at Elisa.

Whattttt?

"Steal tooth from Jack… teeth. I need… to… dentist."

Ohhkayy. Time to get back into bed.

Elisa's head jerked down and she started to fall over a little. Tooth helped her to her bed, a little haphazardly, and then went into the shower with a fast beating heart. Did Elisa really mean what she said?

Calm down Tooth… I think she was only talking about teeth. I hope so anyways… Wow my name is confusing sometimes...

But her heart hadn't calmed down when she snuggled into her own covers on the "hard as a rock" pillow and the thoughts kept her awake until the alarm clock sounded an hour later.

orz

I am sorry for lateness...

Thank you for liking it anyways...

I'll get them out of the camp soon enough...

This is basically a mini chapter...

That is all...

Thank you