Chapter 9

Okay it's official. This story is completely taking over my life. I can't think about anything but the next chapter. Worse thing is I only come up with the better ideas at night so I stay up all night and write so I don't lose the thought. So easiest solution is to keep writing and update faster until the stories done (which will be around chapter 25 or so).

So on to more important things I like what you guys are saying in your reviews and pm's and you guys are right. But I don't want to go back and redo a chapter because then people will just get confused. So I'm going to try and fix it in the beginning of this chapter. And like I promised this will NOT turn into a full on smut story. The lemons will be spaced out throughout the story.

Also if you were wondering what I'm talking about when I say I messed up the last chapter. I'm talking about how everything was set up well like Astrid wanting to be pretty for the date, the date itself, but the lemon had no set up what so ever (Thank you for pointing it out to me Sweettea8). So I'm fixing it. Don't worry though there will be more than that in this chapter. I just want to make sure this story keeps going the way I planned to.

Astrid felt a cold chill move up her spine as she jolted awake. She was freezing cold as she furiously reached around for something warm. It took her a little while as that she kept her eyes shut in a hopeful attempt to go back to sleep. Just as she was about to give up and open her eyes a blanket came out of seemingly nowhere and was placed perfectly over her shivering body. Sadly though it was too late she couldn't fall asleep after that so she decided to lie still and enjoy the warmth that the blanket brought to her.

As she laid there she began to wonder where the blanket mysteriously came from. Then like a slap to the face it hit her. The memories of what had occurred a few hours ago suddenly flooded into her mind. She was in a cave alone with Hiccup and they had slept together, NAKED! As the sudden shock flowed in and out of Astrid's mind she realized that this wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

After all she did in fact love Hiccup and Hiccup loved her, she was the one that had come up with the idea in the first place, and most importantly she had been waiting for this to happen since her 17th birthday; which was almost a year ago. There were only 2 problems at the time though; one was that Hiccup was at his chief training and the other was that stupid lovely dream of hers.

She and Hiccup had been technically dating for a little less than 2 years at that point; that was when she had that dream. She hadn't known what it was about so she had gone to see Gothi about it. According to Gothi, her dream was actually a vision into her own future, which was both extremely exciting and extremely terrifying at the same time for Astrid.

She decided to ignore the thought of the dream for now as that it didn't matter for right now at least. She needed something to get the dream off her mind. The best idea she could think of was to wake up Hiccup, but when she reached for him he wasn't there. Her eyes shot open in a state of fear and anger. What she saw next caused the fear to dissipate, but the anger turned to rage. Her clothes were neatly folded on a nearby rock, but she was still in the makeshift bed naked while Hiccup was over by the opposite wall building a fire. How dare Hiccup leave her alone like that. As she is about to throw herself into a tirade and pummel Hiccup she gets an idea.

With a grin on her face she slowly and quietly got up and sneaked across to where Hiccup was now sitting as he looked into the fire. She had him right where she wanted him. She lifted the blanket in her hands up and in one quick movement she threw it over Hiccup's head and pulled him backwards. Although her plan didn't go quite as she planned. Since Hiccup had his guard down it was much easier to pull him back then Astrid had previously thought. So instead of pulling him to the ground she pulled him directly on top of her.

As the two fell to the ground they both gave a small shriek of surprise. Finally Hiccup landed directly on top of Astrid, his face still covered by the blanket. His head was on Astrid's stomach when Hiccup finally stopped squirming and Astrid was able to breathe after the wind was knocked out of her.

Still coughing she spoke, "Damn it, why do my plans never work." She then sat up with Hiccup's head still in her bare lap. Hiccup then realized who his attacker was and relaxed as he began to chuckle.

"Ha-ha it's because you don't think of the things that could change the outcome." He said as he lifted the blanket from his face and stared up past her breasts into her bright blue eyes looking back at him. She ran her hands through his hair as she thought about what he said. It was mostly true which she hated, but she loved that he knew so much about her that he was always able to help her.

"Yeah, but maybe this plan will work better." She then began to pull him up further and closer to her. She then leaned over his shoulder and began to kiss him while she slid her hands down his chest in order to remove the layers between her and his bare skin. After his shirt was off she moved out from under him without breaking the kiss. She then moved down past him and brought her face to the string tying his pants around his waist.

She quickly removed the pants and boxers and stared in wonder as Hiccup was fully erect in front of her. From this angle it seemed much larger and much more intimidating. Without realizing she froze, unsure of what to do.

"Astrid are you okay?" Hiccup was now very concerned with how she was acting right now and he couldn't figure what was bugging her. He got up and pulled Astrid into his arms.

"Astrid please answer me."

"It's not you Hiccup it…it's me."

"Look Astrid if you don't want to do this kind of stuff then it's fine. We'll never do anything like this again if you don't want to."

"No, no, no I…I do. I've wanted to for a while now. It's just I'm…I'm afraid ok."

"Afraid? What are you afraid of?" Astrid pulled herself in tighter now.

It took her a few seconds to answer, but eventually she was able to get it out. "I'm afraid of messing up okay."

"Huh?" Hiccup was really confused now he had never known Astrid to get scared easily especially of messing up. As he thought about this he reached over for the blanket and wrapped it around Astrid. They sat there in silence until Hiccup decided to say something. "Why?"

Astrid jumped to her feet upon hearing him speak. "Because I want everything to be perfect and I don't want anything to go wrong." She was trying to be serious through this conversation, but it's very difficult when you're naked, cold and can't stop staring at your boyfriend's bare body.

"Astrid everything will be fine. Let's get dressed then we'll talk about this later okay."

Astrid liked this idea she really didn't think this was the time or place for this anyway.

Hiccup said nothing as he started gathering his clothes. It was only now that Astrid realized that Hiccup wasn't wearing his prosthetic. That's probably why it was so easy to pull him down she thought. She couldn't help, but stare at the stump. It was almost completely healed by now except for the very obvious scar that ran from one side of his thigh to the other. At this point Astrid was now fully dressed again, and had been caught staring by Hiccup. He then made a desperate effort to get to his prosthetic as quickly as possible.

Hiccup hated when people stared at his leg, and Astrid knew it. After all this was the first time she had ever seen the just the bare stump. According to Gobber Hiccup hasn't shown his stump to anyone besides him and Toothless (the only reason he showed Gobber was so that Hiccup could learn how to take care of it and clean it). Hiccup had never even allowed Stoick to see it.

And now Hiccup was drastically trying to hide it from Astrid, but as he reached over the rock he was sitting on before he fell slumped up against the boulder. He was silent, he didn't move a muscle, and he knew Astrid was watching him. He felt so ashamed, Astrid the one person he cared about the most in the whole world, the woman he would lay down his life for was seeing him in his most pitiful state of sorrow.

This brought a tear to Astrid's eye. She had never seen Hiccup this way before, sure he would often sit quietly alone, but this was different. Hiccup didn't care about the physical pain of his injury; he was unconscious through it anyway. It was the emotional pain that left the biggest scar.

He got that scar trying to protect the village, he got that scar trying to protect the dragons, he got that scar trying to protect her.

Now was not the time for her to lose herself though. Every time she couldn't be strong or she was in a state of panic or depression he was there to comfort her, physically when he could and spiritually when he was away. Now she had to be strong for him.

So she quickly gathered herself and quickly yet confidently walked over and picked up the prosthetic, while Hiccup still slouched up against the opposite side of the rock staring down into his lap as a few tears trickled down his cheek.

Astrid studied the contraption in her hands as she walked over to the sulking motionless heap in front of her. After she was confident that she knew how to put it on she kneeled down so that she was level with the boy in front of her. She cautiously and slowly reached for the stump so that she wouldn't startle him. When she finally touched the soft and squishy flesh she saw almost an electric shock travel up Hiccup's body as he tensed his muscles.

She waited a few seconds before she proceeded. It was a simple design with just to leather buckles that wrapped around his leg. So with quick and decisive hands she put it on perfectly, almost as if she were born to do it. After she was sure it was on correctly she looked to Hiccup and saw him still in his depressed state. She inched a little closer now as she delicately lifted his chin with her finger. When she saw his face she could see all the pain and suffering that he had endured throughout his life, from the terrible childhood, the loss of his mother, and right now. Everything had been bottled up for so long and now it was all coming out. Without moving her hand she wiped away his tears with her thumb and smiled as she looked into his eyes. Those dark green eyes that made her feel like she was lost deep in a forest and never wanted to leave.

She pulled him into her as he wrapped his arms around her. She stroked his hair as she whispered into his ear. "Hiccup I love you, and nothing will ever change that." She pulled her head away so that she could look at him. "But if we're going to be together we're eventually going to have to deal with this. No more of just you or just me, we do everything together now." Hiccup couldn't help, but smile as he pulled her into him again.

"Oh by the way Hiccup." She spoke as they stared out into the morning air. They had spent the entire day in that cave without realizing

"Yes my love."

"You're getting a haircut when we get back." They both burst out laughing even though Astrid was completely serious about it.

Okay! So I know that was a pretty long time in between chapters but that's because this was very difficult to think of. I really had a tough time with the part where Astrid freaks out, but after that everything just fell into place.

So I hope you liked this chapter, and I know some of you wanted the lemon to continue, but I don't think our favorite couple is ready yet. Another lemon will come in about three or so chapters. So please give me some awesome reviews. Love you guys and I'll try to update faster now that my vacation trips are over.