A/N: Okay, so you can appreciate the lyric change better, here's the idea. After each set of lyrics, the paragraph below corresponds to it. If you got the song in your phone or music player put it on a loop. Either the actual disney version or the mundane one.[Mundane would be nice so you can know the exact parts Tooth sings and North sings and when they duet.]
If this au is seeming too much like the movie, well, I'm not trying to make it very different. I want the Disney feel to remain because the story is not mine, just trying to turn it to HiJack. Sorry Honey Modoki that this isn't too creative but I'm really not intending to change the story line, thanks for the review and telling me what you think however. :)
A Viking and The Frost
"Tonight is the night!" North came in as a coatrack bathed Jack, who grumbled yet didn't shiver at all.
The Frost fumbled with his bangs, "I'm not sure I can do this." He said dejectedly. It was still fresh in his mind how he yelled at Hiccup just earlier.
Even if the Viking did say it was all right.
North huffed. "You don't have time to be timid." And indeed not, Jack would be seventeen by tomorrow. And the staff's freezing process was already reaching the Crook. If they don't break the spell by the time the sun rises up tomorrow, they were doomed.
Of course that didn't matter as much to Jack as it did to the others. It was just Hiccup now.
"You must be bold, daring."
Jack scrunched up his nose, lifting himself up from the bath. "Bold. Daring." He mimicked, grabbing a towel and wiping himself off before tossing it over North.
"There will be music." Unfazed, North got the towel off of him. "Romantic candlelight, provided by myself, and when moment is right, you confess your love."
For a second, Jack was inspired. "Yes, I-I con—" He looked at the mirror, seeing his winter eyes and his resolve wavered. "No, I can't." He slouched dejectedly. I nearly made him cry earlier... How is he gonna believe it when I say I love him?
"You care for boy," North grunted. "don't you?"
Jack grumbled as the coatrack started suiting him up with his newest outfit. "More than anything." He admitted.
"Well then you must tell him." North says like it was the easiest thing in the world to pour your heart and soul out. The coatrack has been fixing Jack's hair, but not quite properly. "Ta-da! You look so-" The gnome opened his eyes and shuddered. "...so..."
Jack's hair was raised up by bows and pigtails, how the coatrack managed that? No one knows. "Stupid." He huffed. "Guess I might as well look the part, I already know I'm gonna make a fool of myself."
"Bah, get them off. It's not necessary!"
The coatrack sets to work as Aster came in, grinning widely. "Hurry, hurry! You're not gonna want to miss this, mate." He said excitedly.
At the grand staircase, Hiccup descends from the East Wing side in brown, leather vest and inner long-sleeved dress shirt and brown pants. He wore his own gloves as well. He reaches the landing and looks up at Jack, blushing heatedly seeing the exquisitely dressed young man who is standing at the top of the stairs opposite to him in his dress clothes. Well, aren't I just inferior in comparison?
Jack is nudged by North and Aster made shooing gestures from behind the curtain, and the Frost swallows, adjusting his ascot and clearing his throat before he descends and meets Hiccup at the landing, who smiles shyly at him, looking past his bangs. Nervous yet the same time excited, Jack had his chest practically puffed out.
The Frost took the initiative to bow first, which the Viking immediately followed suit, merely thinking it was really what they do.
Hiccup's never been to something like this before.
Jack held his arm out for Hiccup to take, and Hiccup placed his hand on it timidly as they descend the last section of stairs and continue on their way to the function room where Hiccup caught his breath, beholding all the decorations everyone worked hard on the now well-decorated tree.
Which he fell under the ice for, by the way. Completely worth it, after seeing what it amounted to.
"Gods," Hiccup muttered. "I sure wish I had my sketch book right now."
Jack couldn't help but snicker. "And which sketch book is that? Your fifth?" It was obvious that when Hiccup got a hold on all those available blank books at the library, it didn't stay blank for long. "or have you lost count?"
"Oh, shut up." Hiccup flushed. "you can't just let me enjoy the sight, can you?"
Jack laughed. "Well, there's more to Christmas eve than just staring at a tree," He pointed out. "So let's get to it."
Hiccup nodded and let Jack lead him to the table for dinner, and stops momentarily by Abby running about. They laughed and extended their arms out to make way for the dog-footstool-but maintained contact, not eager to let each other go at all.
Tooth sighs happily from across the room where they were having their own Christmas dinner on her tea tray cart. But they mostly watched the two boys, romance unfolding and blooming to something more... Hopefully.
Tooth smiles softly:
"Tale so new to Time
True as it can be
Barely even friends
Then somebody bends unexpectedly."
Jack pulled the chair out for Hiccup. He did this already a few times before, only difference now is that the Viking made no snarky remarks of annoyance for being treated like a girl and simply smiled warmly at Jack, who in turn returned the smile just as warmly.
North was so happy for Jack right now:
"Just a little change
From hope we thought was lost."
The brunette ate the dish with ease, after living here so long, he's gotten used to the way they do things here... Factor in that Jack was his constant teacher, so he paid attention to all he told him. He could easily remember anything as long as it was Jack who said it.
"We're just slightly scared
Never once prepared;
A Viking and and The Frost."
Jack smiled as he watched Hiccup, finished with his own dish. He could stare at the brunette forever and never grow weary. He was completely contented when the coatrack came up behind him, playing an instrument. He grinned and got up, going over to Hiccup excitedly, but his feet remained on the ground and he didn't fly for once. The brunette blinked, just finishing with wiping his mouth when the white-haired male took his hands and started dragging him gently away from the table.
"Ever just the same
Ever a surprise
Ever as before,
Ever just assured
by his Winter Eyes."
Jack and Hiccup moved into the ballroom. The Frost stops them at the center, and faced towards the Viking, who looked unsure what to do and slightly panicked. Jack chuckles softly as he takes Hiccup's hands, while the brunette watched where the white haired was placing what, his anxiety rising. He swallowed nervously when he looked up and blinked, captivated by those beautiful blue orbs. Jack smiled at him encouragingly and takes the smaller male by the waist. Hiccup smiles back and placed a hand on Jack's shoulder. And they started to dance.
"Tale so new to time
Tune so new a song
Bittercold and strange,
But finding you can change,
learning how you've been wrong."
The more they looked into each others eyes, the more they never wanted to look away. Hiccup felt so happy, so safe and secured in Jack's arms. The Viking felt so at peace, he settled into the Frost's chest. Jack's eyes widened, and he broke into a grin, looking over to the others who gave him thumbs up. He laughed in his throat, never once thinking things could actually come to this. How'd he come from being cold and bitter to warm and glad, he'll never know. But with Hiccup... He might be able to figure it out.
"Higher than the skies
A Mystery like the fog
Tale so new to time,
Song with a perfect rhyme,
A Viking and The Frost."
Jack nuzzled Hiccup's forehead and swiftly yet carefully brought them to the air in flight. The brunette's eyes shot open and he looked down, finding his feet no longer met the ground. Instinctively, he wrapped his arms tighter around Jack's neck. He wasn't afraid, the Viking expected the Frost to do this at one point, anticipated for it even... Only to have a reason to hold him closer.
"Tale so new to time,
Song of eternal rhyme,
A Viking with The Frost."
They drifted down slowly till their feet touched the ground, and they simply held hands when Jack dragged Hiccup out the terrace balcony, into the night air.
North and Tooth turned to their yawning kids,
"Off to bed with you two now, Jamie, Sophie."
"It's past bedtime."
Both parents gave them kisses, if that were possible. "Good night, doves."
Yawning, the two slides off the end of the cart, and hops out of the room, but sneakily while nudging each other, comes back for one last look.
Jack and Hiccup have sat beside each other in peace by the edge of the balcony, indulging in comfort silence, both wishing this moment would never end.
A/N: Ending it here. Next chapters, get the drama feels everyone. Ready the catapults to flame Daggur, okay? Fair warning. Not entirely disney here on out.
Constuctive criticisms please