Kicking the door to his hut open, Hiccup carefully pushed through the swinging wood before it could close on him and made quick work of pulling Skye's wings out of the way so that they wouldn't be injured when the door swung closed, and then quickly made his way to his bedroom and laid her down on his bed.
Making sure to set everything (the food, water, leather cloth ect..) down before moving to recover her body with the fur from earlier before then stepping away to go build a fire in the hearth across the room so that the cool room would warm up a bit.
After all, he wasn't all that sure whether or not Skye was capable of catching a cold and whatnot but he didn't think it would be smart to take any chances with her health in her current state.
Moving over to the stone fire place, Hiccup began piling some wood that he kept in a neat stack up against the wall beside the hearth, on top of a small pile of coal that he kept in a bucket next to the wood and was about to use some flint to start it when Toothless came into the hut.
Causing the door to squeak a little bit like it always did when he entered.
Turning to the dragon, Hiccup stuffed the flint back into it's pouch and said, "You mind helping here?" To which Toothless responded by puffing a small purple flame into the fireplace. Igniting the coal and the wood so that the room could heat up to a more comfortable temperature without having to wait for hours for it to happen.
Hiccup was used to the cold due to growing up on Berk since the island of his birth stayed covered in snow and ice a majority of the year, but that didn't mean that Skye liked the cold.
In fact as far as Toothless was aware, her body temperature was just slightly below the average human's. Then again he could be wrong. He'd have to ask her sometime to know for certain.
"Okay. Thanks for that bud," Hiccup said as he absently moved to pet his dragon on the head as he asked, "Did you set Snotlout's head on fire?" Tooothless gave him that weird dragonesque smile of his.
You know, the one he often gave his human companion when he was either happy or trying to simply weird him out.
Chuckling softly at the sight of that fangless smirk on his dragon's reptilian face, Hiccup scratched him under the chin for a second before letting his amusement fade so that he could focus on the current issue. "I take that as a yes..." Sighing Hiccup leaned down a tad bit and rested his head against his dragon's and muttered, "Well, on to other things. So I guess that after tonight I can consider myself a mated man, huh?"
Toothless chirped at him and took a moment to rear up on his hind legs and lick Hiccup on the cheek.
"Right. Okay, then. I'll take that as a yes," Hiccup said as he wiped the dragon spit from his cheek with his shirt sleeve and looked across the room at Skye before muttering awkwardly to Toothless, "I-I have no idea what to do with her now that I've got her here."
Causing the Night fury to simply roll his eyes at his human.
Why doesn't that surprise me? Toothless wondered as he thought over the night's events. Specifically noting various changes in Hiccup's personality that had come into play since meeting Skye face to face. Or more specifically the aspects of his personality that were brought about by Skye's mating bond to him.
Sure the queen mother had began the mating ritual with his human the night before, she had even gone so far as to place her mark upon his body when she had bitten him and taken a small bit of his blood into her body. However until Hiccup's mating bond really kicked into high gear and he placed his own mark upon Skye- their bond would be unstable. Incomplete.
Which would make Hiccup a great deal more dangerous than he already was for a human. Especially towards those he deemed as a threat to his mate and young. And then of course there was Toothless and the rest of the dragons and their bond with the human's to consider.
Granted the dragons each loved their human's and would do anything for them, but with the queen mother present- their loyalties may very well shift and alter their bonds. Hopefully not in a way that would become dangerous to their human's.
After all, Toothless didn't want his human hurt anymore than he wanted the rest of the dragon riders hurt.
But their species was unfailingly loyal to their own. And since Skye was one of their own, their priorities- especially during her pregnancy- were probably going to get in the way of their work with the dragon riders. Oh sure, they wouldn't abandon their duties to their fellow dragon.
Especially with the hunter's on the loose.
I mean, they weren't stupid.
Leaving that lot alone for any length of time meant trouble with a capital T. But during Skye's pregnancy, they were far more likely to stick close to her side to help their human's better protect her.
Hiccup himself would eventually find himself unable to leave her side for long periods of time due to their mating. His fierce loyalty and love for their kind would not allow him to abandon Skye. Especially once he was made aware of the fact that she carried his young. As well as the fact that the entire dragon race's very lives hinged on Skye's, Hiccup's, and their unborn young's very continued existence.
Scrubbing his hands over his face, Hiccup made a little sound of frustration that pulled Toothless from his own thoughts as his human turned to him again and asked. "Okay. Skye needs me- er us to help her take care of herself in her present condition. What do I need to start with first?"
Toothless thought for a moment before using his tail to nudge the water bucket towards Hiccup who looked down at it and then nodded. "Okay, water. I get it. She's feverish and sweating a lot so it makes sense that she would need to replace what she's lost."
Toothless bobbed his head in silent agreement.
It was incredibly important for pregnant females to remain hydrated during their heat other wise they slipped into a death like sleep and never awoke. Their organs simply, slowly began to shut down and by the time the male usually figured things out- the female and any potential young were already dead.
So yeah, starting with water would be good.
Bending down, Hiccup picked up the water bucket and then moved to the bedside and sat down on the edge of the straw mattress and slipped a hand underneath Skye's head and then lifted her up a little bit as he used the ladle to carefully pour water past her slightly parted lips.
Toothless watched for a moment to see if he would have to intervene at any point, worried slightly that she may not be able to drink while in her current state, and was relieved when he saw the subtle movement of her throat working to swallow what Hiccup poured into her mouth.
So it looked like they were good on that end.
Once Hiccup was done with the water, he again looked to Toothless who this time nudged the bucket of fresh fish. Causing Hiccup to frown slightly. He didn't think that Skye could eat in her sleep, though if he was wrong and she could. He supposed he'd be impressed.
God knew that it would make things a great deal easier.
However Toothless seemed to have anticipated the question he was about to ask and scampered off for a second and came back a moment later with his little stone mortar and it's pestle and then disappeared again and reappeared with one of his storage pouches where he kept dry deer and cow meat as well as one of the pouches that he kept dried berries and wild nuts in and placed all of them beside the bucket of fish and then sat down and waited for his human to pick up on his clues.
Thank Odin he had a clever human who was quick to pick up on even the slightest of clues. Otherwise he would have had to bite him.
