As a reminder, this is a direct sequel to the last songfic. It ends on a happier note, trust me.
Prompt: After waking from her nightmare and overhearing her father and Gobber, Hiccup needs time to herself.
Song: Good Kid from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
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Hiccup woke with a start, nearly hitting her head against the top of her cage. That nightmare had to have been one of the worst yet. She still couldn't shake the images her mind had conjured for the monster inside her. She hated how it almost looked exactly like her too, only more…scary. She was about to call her father, hoping for some form of comfort like he used to give her after one of her nightmares, maybe sing her mother's lullaby—she was so distraught she didn't care he hadn't done it in almost over a year—when she heard someone come through the front door.
"How's the lass?" the voice asked. It was Gobber, because why wouldn't it be? He was the only one in the village who would have cared.
"Upstairs in the cage", her dad said soberly, though he kept his voice down. He probably thought she was still asleep. Looking outside, the moon was up; a half moon tonight.
"Do you think it's working?" Gobber asked, and she knew exactly what 'it' he was referring to. She was currently sitting in it.
"At this point, I don't know", her dad sighed. "What am I gonna do with her, Gobber? It seems as if she only gets worse every year."
"She's a good kid, Stoick. It was just one house", Gobber defended her; he always did.
"A house she set on fire."
That made Hiccup wince. Not only for what she did, but judging by her father's tone, he was still angry with her.
"I think your being over dramatic. No one got hurt", Gobber pointed out.
'But what if someone did?' Hiccup's young mind echoed. Her dream played in her head again. The screams of terror as she burned them all alive sounded so real. What if it was? What if it was some type of vision from the gods?
"What if I'm in over my head?" she heard her dad mutter. She knew her dad was becoming frustrated with her, was starting to think she was a lost cause, but―
"How did I think I could raise a dragon for a daughter?"
Hiccup felt her heart shatter. He was…giving up on her? Would Gobber give up on her too? He wasn't saying anything. What would they do with her? Banish her? Kill her? Hiccup wanted to cry. She wanted to scream and wail at the gods for making her like this. All she wanted was to help; be a good kid! Was that too much to ask?!
She couldn't take it anymore. Before she could hear her dad say anything else, before he could come to send her away, she quietly picked the lock of her cage and climbed out the window.
000
"She was just trying to impress you", Gobber finally said. He hadn't exactly been sure how to respond after hearing Stoick say that about the lass. Hiccup hadn't even directly burned the house. It was a chain reaction from one of her malfunctioned inventions that he'd warned her wasn't ready to showcase. But, ever stubborn, and desperate for praise, the wee ten year old didn't listen.
"I don't know what she was trying to do", Stoick said, almost sounding defeated after ten long years. He stared into the fire pit, something he always seemed to do when conflicted or despairing. "But if she gets worse", he continued, "I don't know how I can protect her."
000
With the half moon over head, Hiccup walked through the dense forests of Berk. She wasn't worried about getting lost. Hiccup had been in these woods so many times, she knew them like the back of her hand.
Hiccup honestly didn't know why she tried anymore. Every time she tried to do something, anything, it was bad. It must have been part of her curse, as if being part dragon wasn't enough.
Seeing a pebble in her path, Hiccup kicked it, and it landed in a bush. The bush began to rustle, and before she knew it three boars were running towards her in a frenzy. Hiccup ducked away, before looking back towards the running boars.
Hiccup's mood drooped further, sorry to have caused the boars strife. (Start Song) Could she do nothing right?
"Ten chances, ten years; have struck out on every one…" Stepping passed the bushes, Hiccup found a small stream and decided to hop onto the stepping stones, hopping from one to the next downstream.
But just then her footing slipped, and Hiccup fell backwards into the water. Hiccup climbed out, but was left soaking wet. "The same old story", she threw her cloak off. "The same old song", she rung it out. "Don't act up! Don't act out! Be strong."
Throwing the cloak over her shoulder, Hiccup continued and marched down the path alongside the stream. "…with pack your bags, Useless; you're always to blame!"
A wall of large trees and thick bushes blocking her path, she was forced to cross the river. No stepping stones though, she stepped back, and leaped across. Only to fall flat on her face, her foot catching the lip of the brook. "…A good daughter…"
Despite the fumble, Hiccup pushed forward and ran ahead. She wasn't sure where she was running to anymore, but she ran all the same. Then she stopped with a yell, only to scare an owl. "Yeah, Hiccup that's a good one", her eyes rolled.
Next, she came to a hill and ran and skid down it, but soon her clumsy legs tangled with her tail and she ended up tumbling down. She sighed as she stood. "Guess I'm good for nothing at all."
"This village, ten years…", Hiccup came out to a cliff just outside the forest. It overlooked the lower square, the ocean just out in the distance. "No one asks me, 'Hiccup, how'd you like to come around and stay?' All I get are burnt scars, and a trash rap, and a bad rep, and a good smack! AND NO FRIENDS! AND NO HOPE! AND NO mom. She was taken away."
Slowly, Hiccup sat, her legs under her as she looked on below. There was nowhere left to run. Her form curled, whispering in desperation. "I never meant to…", her eyes squeezed shut. She wasn't bad. No matter what they thought, she wasn't. It was just…a bad run. "All I need is one last chance..." Hiccup looked out to the horizon, knowing that someway, somehow, she could prove herself.
"I'm good enough..." Confidence grew, soon standing, wanting everyone to know it, desperation turning to overwhelming belief as the morning sun rose. "I'M GOOD ENOUGH FOR SOMEONE!"
With a smile returned to her face, Hiccup was ready to go back home. One day she'd prove her worth. She just knew it.
