Where I Belong

by Nightstar Fury

When Hiccup stumbles on an object of his mother's, he realizes that it's a link to the past he's never known. Having enough of his mother's neglect, Hiccup leaves with Toothless to find who he is and ends up on Berk where they start anew and where he learns that everything his mother ever told him was a lie. Including that Berk was his home and his father is chief of the island.

32. Epilogue

Where I Belong

Author: Nightstar Fury

Rating: M

Pairing: Hiccup/Astrid

Disclaimer: I don't own the HTTYD movies, or any of the HTTYD series such as Riders of Berk, Defenders of Berk, or Race To The Edge.

*(Authors Note: Alright, listen up folks. I was going to actually carry this through to a few more chapters showing how Hiccup worked through the rape with family and friends, also the wedding and what not but I decided that I do that ALL the time in almost ALL my stories so...I decided to just end it here with a quick Epilogue: summarizing all of the stuff I was going to make into chapters. This will be the FINAL chapter of Where I Belong. Besides, most of my attention has been on my latest story, Unintentional Hero: A HTTYD modern military AU. Check it out, it's already got about 29 chapters! So yeah, this will be it for Where I Belong, hope everyone enjoyed it! It was actually never meant to be as long as it is, just supposed to be a role reversal of Valka as bad parent, Stoick as good. :p Well onward with the last chapter then! -Nightstar Fury.)*

Epilogue

After Hiccup and Astrid became engaged to be married, everything seemed to fall right into place. Their wedding plans began instantly and were set to be married in four months time, however, unforseen circumstances beyond anyone's control took place. Everyone on Berk found out why their chief was so tired, why he was so distant when Dragon Bludvist showed up a month after the engagement was announced in the Great Hall. Hiccup and Dragon exchanged hateful words and then Dragon told everyone what he did to Hiccup, they he let his men tie Hiccup up and rape him for hours on end in order to break him so he'd reveal the information about how to train and ride dragons but the village in their shock also found out that Hiccup didn't break even after what he'd been through. He took all the pain, and abuse and never said a word about dragons to Drago. Hiccup didn't even break when Drago told everyone, he stayed firm and also, the Bewilderbeast he had brought with him ended up betraying him while Hiccup took his chance to to show everyone that he doesn't break or bend in the face of fear, he just turns it around and makes someone afraid of him. How did this happen? Hiccup killed Drago.

No one expected it or could of possibly seen it coming. Drago's Bewilderbeast froze Drago's feet and arms so he couldn't move and Hiccup took his sword, jamming it into Drago's heart-which effectively killed him in mere seconds and all Hiccup had said the coldest voice anyone ever heard was: Now Who Is Afraid Of Who. After Drago died, Hiccup got on Toothless and took off for the rest of the day while leaving his father in charge and everyone worried about him. He might of killed Drago but the pain from all he went through was still there and they knew he'd need time to recover from it all. Sure enough he did after two or so months. The first month was filled with pent up anger and sadness that it happened and he was useless to stop it. The nightmares continued for a while also, he would wake up yelling and sweating but now that he and Astrid were engaged: she could spend the night there so she was there to help him through it by getting him water and just rubbing his back until he calmed down. He was told by the start of the second month that it would continue to bother him until he talked about it-which of course, he didn't want to do.

Hiccup didn't want to tell people, tell anyone what he'd been through those four days on Dragon's ship. But when Astrid broke down against him, begging him to tell her because it's hurting her a lot to see him still suffering even two month later, he finally gave in and took the entire day off to tell her the truth about those horrid four days on Drago's ship. Hiccup left his father in charge while Hiccup and Astrid took their dragons to a secluded island that was an hour from Berk to talk where they couldn't be interrupted. Hiccup told her everything from the moment he was captured to the escape four days later and it didn't come easy to talk about. Hiccup got sick more times than one remembering it, and he cried, got angry but by the end of it all he could do was sigh and stare out to the sea with Astrid beside him and leaning on his shoulder, holding his hand for comfort and telling him that it would get easier. They ended up camping the night on the island with their dragons, Hiccup hadn't been ready to go back and deal with any possible questions he got.

After the second month ended, Hiccup was looking and feeling a lot better than before. He didn't have the dark circles under his eyes, he was eating more, laughing, and sleeping too because he had energy and then some. Everyone was happy that Hiccup was back to being, well, Hiccup. They knew he wasn't completely better and it would always bother him but for the most part he was back to being the guy they met when he was seventeen, only he was chief now and was more serious but still knew how to have a good time. If he wasn't doing chiefly duties, he was working on wedding details since there was only two months left until the big day where Astrid Hofferson became Astrid Haddock. The biggest thing Hiccup was working on was getting other tribes to see the truth about dragons and thankfully his mother was helping him this time. Not everyone agreed but those tribes still signed treaties not to attack Berk, they just closed off trade routes and what not but a good majority did agree and that was even better because it meant peace was spreading and the killing would eventually stop. Tribes that didn't agree, would at least agree to let Hiccup know if they had a dragon problem and he'd go out to settle it without the use of weapons. A lot of people were in shock that Stoick the Vast's son and wife were actually alive since it was all over the Archipelago about a dragon having taken them years before and were presumed dead.

When the day of the wedding arrived, everyone was smiling and Hiccup had never felt happier or better. What happened to him with Drago didn't bother him at all anymore, although he would never truly forget. His body was healed and only showed some of the damage he suffered. On top of all that, Hiccup and Astrid had their own house now, right next to his Dad's with two stables for Stormfly and Toothless. In a strange turn of events, almost all the tribes accepted the invitation to the wedding, even the ones who wouldn't agree to peace with dragons. They agreed for the sake of the day when Stoick's only son was married and start his own life with his soon to be wife. The wedding was simple, and beautiful. Hiccup and Astrid wrote their own ring vows, and the ceremony was amazing. Toothless was Hiccup's best man, rather best dragon while Ruffnut was Astrid's maid of honor. Stoick headed the ceremony on Hiccup's request, and after they sealed their vows with a kiss, they shared a dance. One his parents taught them called 'For The Dancing And The Dreaming'. The after party was just as incredible.

And there had been a whole lot of drinking on the men's side of things. Hiccup didn't of course, he did drink a little but nothing to get him wasted. He kept his word about never drinking that much again after the night with Gobber and Stoick when Astrid became his girlfriend. The two of them spent their first night in their new house that night, they hadn't slept in it until they were married. Something about an old tradition about not sleeping in their own house until marriage, Hiccup didn't know he just went with it. That night, he and Astrid consummated their marriage. And it went for a good three hours before they knocked out from exhaustion. It was a great night, and his life only continued to get better when eight months later, Astrid announced she was pregnant with their first child. She had been drinking the tea but when she caught a stomach bug, she couldn't keep the tea down and of course when she was feeling better she didn't realize while dead center of her cycle that she and Hiccup made love-which is what landed her pregnant. Hiccup didn't care, he couldn't of been happier to know he would be a father in seven months since Astrid was already a month along. The entire village celebrated the news that there would be a new heir to Berk in seven months time.

Those seven months flew right by and before Hiccup knew it, Astrid went into labor and delivered a healthy boy-who they named Asger Haddock. His life was truly perfect and to think it all started because he knew there was more to his life than just rescuing dragons with his mother. Hiccup had set out when he was just seventeen to find out where he belonged in the world, to finds his place, to discover who he was and a simple storm made him crash on Berk where he discovered a year later after being given a home that it was his true home all along, it was the home he'd been taken from when he a baby. He ended up crashing right where he belonged the entire time. An now with a wife, a son, and being the chief he never felt more at peace or filled with more joy than knowing he was where he truly belonged.