Hiccup tossed and turned in his bed the next night. He wasn't used to sleeping without Astrid but she'd wanted to spend more time with her family, who had noticed she was never around anymore. The wind whistled outside and he shivered without the extra heat from his fiancee.
They had announced their engagement to the rest of the council that day during a meeting so he was sure everyone in the village would know by the next day. He smiled widely at the thought. He wanted everyone to know their good news.
He continued to shift restlessly in his bed for another hour or so before he finally gave in and got up, dressing quickly in the chill air. 'Maybe I'll take Toothless for a ride or talk to mom for a while'. Quickly he walked to the stables and found his mother patching up the leg of a deadly natter.
"Hey mom, what happened to this guy?"
"Just a tumble down a cliff. He's still learning to fly." She stood up brushing dirt off her skirt, eyeing her son anxiously, "is everything alright, dear, it's quite late for you to be up."
"Oh yeah, I just couldn't sleep without Ast- um without asking you something." He recovered quickly, he didn't want people to talk about him and Astrid sleeping together before they were married.
"Oh" she ignored his slip up, "and what's that, son?"
"I was wondering if... well you know that dance? The one you and dad did in that cave when you reunited. The marriage one. welll, could you teach it to me? I'd like to do it with Astrid at our wedding."
"Of course I can," she gave him a big smile, "it used to be tradition for everyone to do it. Is it not anymore?"
Hiccup shook his head, "no, no one does it now. I'd never seen it before dad and you did it."
"Well my son, I will teach it to you, start the tradition anew!"
They spent the next couple hours working on the steps. They had to go more slowly than the song was usually danced to because of Hiccups peg leg but he had started to get it by the time they were too tired to continue.
"We'll work on it some more before summer comes, don't worry." She patted his arm affectionately as Toothless came in from flying and curled up on the floor close to them.
"Thanks, mom, I appreciate it." He snuggled in close to Toothless, who covered him with a wing and they were both soon asleep
A/n Super short little thought I had plunking around my brain.
I drew this when the second movie first came out so I had to write about it a little.
the drawing if anyone wants to see it is on my tumblr isanyofthisforreal-ornot . tumblr dotcom/ image/89216873545 just take out the spaces and change the word dot to a period. sorry it's complicated
If you have trouble finding it because it's not a direct link, I'll pm you if you want to see it