A hilarious and irresistible prompt sent to me by a good friend.
Ships are Astrid/Cami and Hiccup/Eret. But everybody is best friends. Not like that, which I know is strange for me. Two couples and no foursomes? Harker, are you feeling alright?
-HTTYD-
Hiccup looked around the kitchen in a mix of horror and shock, trying to work out just how Astrid had managed to almost set the whole room on fire. Eret wasn't much better, staring up at the ceiling as they both choked a little on the smoke.
"Ok, I have many questions, but first of all, how did you get sliced aubergine on the ceiling while making mac and cheese?"
Eret detoured from his staring to open the window so the smoke would clear and the smoke alarm would stop wailing, and Astrid was apologising profusely. Hel, she was all but in tears as she apologised for essentially destroying two of Hiccup's nice cooking pots.
"I don't know what happened! I watched instructional videos and everything! I'll replace your pans, I promise!"
He was still getting over the sheer destruction with one of the worlds simplest meals. It could only have been worse if she'd managed to blow up beans on toast or boiling an egg. Then again, he'd seen what Astrid could do while boiling pasta. Her knife skills were impeccable, but her cooking skills... were a hazard. He loved his best friend dearly, but apparently the kitchen needed some kind of security system to keep her out if they were going to keep living together.
Astrid's girlfriend, Cami (a delightfully feral, tiny tornado of a woman), slipped her arms around Astrid's waist.
"Look. Let's clean up, and agree you are never allowed to touch the oven again unless it's already on fire."
Hiccup turned to his boyfriend, and Eret shrugged, both glancing over to check nothing else was actually still ablaze.
"Sure. I mean, I wouldn't even know where to start clearing up."
Though he agreed with Eret, Hiccup was wary of leaving the two women in charge. Though he supposed short of actually blowing up the kitchen, there wasn't much more damage to be done...
"Why not go order pizza for dinner? It's on me. And I really will replace the stuff I ruined."
The thought of food and getting out of the thick smoke eventually pushed Hiccup out of the kitchen, Eret in tow. Away from the smoke alarm, he heard the door knocking. He opened it, found their neighbours from the next flat.
"Everything alright? The alarm's been going for a while and we were about to call 999."
Hiccup nodded to reassure them.
"Yeah. Astrid tried to make mac and cheese and it seems to have spontaneously combusted. We've opened the windows, the alarm should stop soon."
Nodding, the neighbours left, and the high pitched shrieking from the kitchen ceased fifteen seconds later. Hiccup flopped down, Eret dropping next to him and pulling his phone out to bring up the website they always ordered their pizza from. They were all pretty predictable, so Eret had the order done in no time at all, and Hiccup stretched out to get comfortable for the forty-minute wait.
Astrid and Cami reappeared twenty minutes later, informing them the kitchen was more or less back to normal. Cami curled up in Astrid's lap with a smug smile and a contented sigh, nuzzling her girlfriend. Hiccup chuckled as he watched them; they were rather sweet together. Even if they occasionally destroyed the flat. They did always tidy it up again after.
A lot of people thought it was weird that Hiccup lived with both his boyfriend and his ex girlfriend, but his relationship with Astrid had been brief and informative, not deep or passionately romantic. They were best friends and probably always would be, but two painfully awkward and largely unsuccessful attempts at sex with her had been enough for him to admit a previously deeply-buried truth; he was gay. Astrid was incredibly supportive, and their fleeting romance became a funny story they told while their friendship moved from strength to strength.
Astrid herself was bisexual. Cami defied all labels, but she definitely liked Astrid a lot. The sound effects from their room told that story most nights... then again, Hiccup knew he and Eret were no better. The two couples had a running joke of giving each other marks out of ten the next morning if either of them had been particularly loud. Eret was bi too, but leaned more toward men. Well, mostly he said he was Hiccup-sexual, though he was a consumnate and shameless flirt. Especially with Astrid, but Hiccup trusted them both and knew it was all good humoured fun.
And while four people in a two bed flat was at times a little trying, and definitely a little crowded, Hiccup adored it. They'd agreed to stay there and save up between the four of them, then find somewhere they could all live together with a little more room down the line.
The four of them chatted away while they waited, and since she'd agreed to pay Astrid got up to answer the door to the delivery person. She returned laden with two bags and three boxes, food gratefully received and eagerly devoured by the four of them. Cami put away a shocking amount of food into her tiny frame, needing a lot of fuel for her energetic personality no doubt.
Rubbing his stomach with a pleased sound, Eret started laughing to himself.
"What's funny Ret?"
Hiccup asked, taking a glug of his water.
"Oh, nothing. Just thinking that I'll remember the mac and cheese disaster every time we have pizza now."
Astrid rolled her eyes, then jumped up from her seat, dislodging a protesting-Cami who grumbled up at her.
"That reminds me. I forgot to clean the aubergine off the ceiling."
Hiccup's head fell back as he laughed. Only Astrid could come out with a sentence like that.
-HTTYD-
For those unfamiliar, aubergine is the same thing as an eggplant. I once got a very angry anonymous message on tumblr accusing me of 'making up words' over that.
This was only one part of the prompt I was sent, this will be a collection of one shots all in the same 'verse, but with no particular order or timeline. Just fun little excerpts. And yes, either Camstrid or Hicret smuts.