Chapter Ten

Hiccup after a few minutes of pondering Jack's story was wondering just one last thing.

"Is Merida straight?"

"Where did that come from?" Jack asked, his eyebrows going straight up in question.

"Well, you know I was wondering 'cause you did say that your little scene in the cafeteria was to help out yourself to the school, but you never said if it helped Merida out herself or if she was even gay, although you did say that you guys 'cheated' on each other."

Jack thought back to his words and smiled, hoping that it was pointed in Hiccup's direction. "Very perceptive Hic!" Hiccup protested with a "Don't call me that, I have a bad enough name as it is!" but Jack had already moved on.

"You are right! I didn't say if Merida was gay or not. She considers herself pansexual, even though my whole high school and even her family think she is bi like I am. She doesn't really mind if people mistake her as bi, but she prefers people to call her pansexual, because that is what she really is."

"Interesting." Suddenly a mischievous smile that had no right being on Hiccup's face colored his features.

Jack, hearing the tone of Hiccups voice asked, "Uh, oh. What are you going to do?" Hiccup stared at Jack, wondering if he was really going to say no, but then Jack continued.

"Because if you are going to do something you better give me a play by play of what you are going to do and what happens."

Hiccup smirked, that made much more sense. He quickly and quietly told Jack the plan.

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"So, what do I have to do again?" Jack asked, tilting his head in question. Hiccup and Jack were huddled close, practically leaning over the table, so that no other costumers would hear their devious plan and try to stop them. Or at least that is what they convinced each other.

"Really Jack?! I explained this to you seven times already! Honestly I'm sick of-" As Hiccup was speaking, or more like whisper-yelling at Jack, the few feet of space between them started to become as little as a few inches. As soon as Hiccup realized the distance between their lip- I mean faces, he moved away, but not before he saw the smile Jack was trying to hold back creep onto his face. Hiccup realized what Jack had tried to do.

"You understood the plan the first time I explained it didn't you?"

"Yup."

"And you were just continuing to ask me to get me mad, weren't you?"

"Absolutely."

"You enjoy making fun of me don't you?"

"Yes, it's my life passion. You know if I didn't get into Guardian Academy for my shocking good looks, I would have totally gotten in for teasing poor defenseless Hiccups'. I mean my sense of humor is legendary and your voice basically oozes confidence. And I have to admit, I am the best in my line of work."

"Ha, ha very funny. But I have to say, you aren't the best at teasing 'poor defenseless Hiccups''. That would be Astrid and she makes the 'work' into a sport. And everyone knows fun beats work any day."

"You got me, my fine looking friend! Well I imagine you would be fine looking, your voice is very nasally, but I'm sure your voice is nothing compared to your body!" This earned an eye-roll from Hiccup, which of course Jack could not see.

"Astrid, you say, is she the one we are going to, you know…" Jack trailed off, trying to sound mysterious, but failing miserably.

"Yup, that's her, are you ready to finally start the plan now?"

"Yes! Let's get going! It's been a while since I've pranked someone!"

Hiccup sat down in his chair again, "And how long has been a while?"

"Hmm," Jack thought for a second sitting down in his chair too. "Maybe a few days?"

Hiccup, already kinda expecting an answer like that from Jack just sighed and said, "I'll go call Astrid."

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"So you called Astrid?" Jack asked, crouching behind Hiccup and literally breathing down his neck so he wouldn't be seen by Merida. He was hiding behind these two big flowerpots, you see, about twenty feet away from the back of Merida and facing the line of people waiting to get in. Hiccup, meanwhile, was trying to get a glimpse of the prank they had just set up so he could tell Jack as the events unfolded. And the prank may have involved the redhead, so it might not be such a great idea for her to hear them. Not that Jack seemed to realize, he seemed to be speaking extra loud.

"Yes I did. Now be quite!" Hiccup whispered, trying to be quieter than Jack, not that that was hard. What Hiccup didn't know though, was that the only reason Jack was being extra loud in the first place was because everything else seemed quiet in caparison to how loud his heart was beating, being so close to Hiccup. But then the prank started to unfold and both boys forgot their close proximity, at least at the moment.

"Astrid just arrived, she's walking in the front doors now." Hiccup reported to Jack, who was anxiously waiting to quote on quote "see" the prank unfold.

"She is looking around the line, trying to find me."

"Like that's going to happen!" Jack chuckled, getting more excited at the prospect of this prank going according to plan.

"Oh! She sees Merida and is walking up to her… Be quiet! They started talking!"

"I wasn't even saying anything!" Jack said in mock protest.

"Shh!" Hiccup spun back around to shush Jack, excitement in his eyes, but quickly spun back around so he wouldn't miss a second.

"…was suppose to meet him here. He said come now. See? This is the text I was just sent." Astrid spun the phone around to show Merida who had a thoughtful look on her face after being shown the phone.

"Hiccup you say? That name sounds awfully familiar; I know I was just talking to someone named Hiccup. Hmm… Oh! That's right, he came with Jack…"

"Oh, to my face I'm 'Frost,' but when talking to a perfect stranger I'm Jack. Oh, after this I'm going to…" Jack muttered, angry, and slightly hurt that she couldn't him by his first name after all they have been through.

Hiccup turned to stare Jack down, and even though he couldn't see, Jack could feel the weight of the glare and quieted down.

"…And I sat him down by the windows in the back of the restaurant. I could show you if you like, but since you don't have a reservation or anything and all of these people have been waiting…" Merida trailed off with a shy smirk, as if asking Astrid to contradict her, but in a very out of character move, Astrid did not.

"Okay, I get it. You don't want to show an unfair bias towards girls," Merida frowned, obviously not getting the point. "Because you let a pretty girl like myself through while everyone else had to wait in the very long line," Astrid continued, dropping her voice down low and pouting as she pulled one of Merida's curls down and let it go so it ricocheted up again. "But I'm guessing since Hiccup didn't even know about this place, and he usually knows about all the places like this..."

At this Jack stared questionably at Hiccup's face, and Hiccup, as if knowing he was watching turned his head around and gave a short "I usually do," before facing the scene once again.

"…that," Astrid continued. "this Jack guy got him in and that, is biased in it's own way."

"Well," Merida said, giving Astrid a once over, "I have to say that there is one hole with your…speech." Though in her mind "speech" was replaced with "seduction tactic."

"And that is the fact that while Jack showed Hiccup here, Hiccup managed to get them both in by himself."

"Oh, yeah, how'd he manage that?" Astrid asked, her voice reverting back to normal.

"By showing me his funny sense of humor."

"Oh, then I taught him well." The girls laughed, not realizing how angry the customers behind them were getting. Especially the two twins right behind them that seemed kinda out of place with their tattoo's and piercings compared to the rest of the schools less, um, gruff look.

Hiccup and Jack shared a singular thought, and that was that it was time to put their plan in motion, and it was going to be even more epic with the fact that Merida and Astrid have a thing for each other.

An: And I finally uploaded! Yay! Happiness! I just wanted to give you guys a late Halloween gift because mine was great and I thought I would share in the wealth. I was dressed up in a steampunk costume this year and went to a pretty cool Halloween party with my friends so yeah, good night. I snuck in a little hint of what the prank might involve, so if you caught that good job! It shouldn't be too hard if you read the chapter, but if you couldn't find it, just be ready for the next update. Sorry for leaving you guys on a cliffhanger, but I figured it would be better if I posted something and have it be a cliffhanger then not post for more time and have a much longer chapter. Anyways, that was my little "speech," please review!