"So what are you and Toothless planning to do tomorrow?" Astrid asked.

"I don't have a lot planned to be honest." Hiccup put down what he was working on to focus on her.

"What do you mean? Isn't this your ten year anniversary? Shouldn't you be like, I don't know, doing something special? Like going on a big trip for a few days, or getting a big gift that symbolizes your love or something?" She slammed her hands down on the table, preventing Hiccup from continuing working.

"How are you more stressed out about my anniversary than I am?" He leaned back in his chair a bit.

"Well it's an important one, Hiccup. It's ten years. None of the others have had anything near that." She began to pace.

"Astrid look. Thank you for keeping track of how long everyone has been in a relationship for. I'm sure it'll come in handy one day. Maybe you can remind Snotlout about his some time since I doubt he remembers.

Besides, he and I go on trips all the time. To The Edge, to other villages, here, there, everywhere, we travel together. And a gift? He's a dragon, Astrid. They don't need random stuff." Hiccup crossed his arms.

"Yeah but what about a reminder of your relationship, your love?"

"Astrid he's twenty-six foot long, at least four-hundred pound, Night Fury. I sleep in the same bed with him, wake up with him, eat with him, train, work, play, relax with him every day. I have spent years and years learning to talk with them, just so that I could talk to him. Toothless doesn't care for grand gestures, or a gift that symbolizes, us. That isn't what they care about, Astrid. Plus you must think that I have nothing planned at all. I have a nice day planned but it's not going to be flashy. It's just going to be a nice quiet day where we don't have to worry about who's set what on fire.

Do you want to know what they think about the idea of anniversaries?"

"What is it?" She sat down in a chair off to the side, and rested her head in her hand.

"They think humans only have them because our lives are so short compared to theirs. They think it's odd that we measure something like that at all. What's the difference of nine years and two-hundred days and ten years, if nothing has changed?"

But everything has changed. Us, them, Berk itself is completely different." She looked at him softly.

"I understand, and you're right. The difference is night and day but to them the amount of time doesn't matter, just that it has changed. It doesn't matter if I shot down Toothless three, five, ten, fifteen years ago. What matters is that I made the effort to look past what he is and see who he is."

"I know, I know, everyone still tells that fantastic story whenever they see you two in the hall. How are there so many versions of that story?" She asked the air.

"That's a great question. Well since it looks like I'm not going to get any more work done anyway." Hiccup stood and moved from behind the desk in his office, formerly his father's bedroom. He placed a hand on Astrid's shoulder. "Since it's so important to you, I'll make sure that Toothless and I have the best day we can. It won't be flashy and I'm not going to parade around the village bragging or anything like that, but I'll make sure he's happy. Like I do everyday. I promise" He walked to the door and opened it for her. "Now come on, you've interrupted me enough, and I'm stopping a bit early anyways."

The pair walked out of the house. As he closed the door behind him he spotted Toothless and a few other dragons down the road, and not moments later the dragon noticed him. The large beast started barreling down the road towards them. Hiccup moved a few steps parallel to his home. He glanced over to see how far the dragon had made it.

"So you just gonna head down to the hall for food or should I wait for you?" Astrid asked, unaware of the freight train coming towards them.

"You should take a step or two back." Hiccup said as he turned just in time for the black blur to barrel into him. Both of them rolling into the side yard, before coming to a stop with Hiccup laying on Toothless' stomach. Hiccup slowly sat up and scooched himself forward. "Hello to you too." Hiccup smiled. He pressed his hands against Toothless' neck and raked his nails along it. "You know people are going to worry that you'll hurt me doing that."

"Human's worry too much."

"Yes well, you tackle a dragon and nothing happens. You tackle and I end up in bed with broken ribs again."

"That was an accident, I slipped on the ice, I couldn't even see it." Toothless huffed. Hiccup climbed off his mate's stomach and circled around to his head. Toothless craned his neck a bit to look up at Hiccup.

"Hi." The dragon said.

"Hello Toothless. Want to go eat?"

"Would I ever." Toothless flipped onto his feet. "Let's go."

The pair along with many others went to the great hall to eat. A few hours passed before Toothless and Hiccup emerged from the hall's doors. They slowly made their ways down the streets home.

"So, tomorrow is our anniversary thing, right?"

"Yeah, it is, I'm surprised you remembered."

"To be honest, I didn't. Astrid told me while you were getting food. She said it's our ten year one. And that it was important."

"Of course she did." Hiccup sighed.

"Were you not planning on celebrating it?" Toothless asked. "If it's important we should do something right?"

"Yeah it's important, and we will be celebrating. Just not in the way she would, or wants us to I suppose." The pair turned onto another street.

"What do you mean not the way she wants us to?"

"Well in human relationships ten years is a long time to be with someone. And people like to celebrate that accomplishment. But after talking with you, and some of the other dragons, I figured we'd just take a nice day or two off, and be alone with each other. A few days where we don't have to remind people that wood burns and that Gronckle lava is hot. Plus I get to avoid being asked how I have sex with you. Like hello? You have kids, you know how it works." Hiccup stopped and Toothless turned around confused. Hiccup took the dragon's head into his hands. "I love you Toothless. If you want to do something to celebrate our anniversary, I could go find Astrid and I'm sure she'd have something whipped up by the morning. Otherwise I just want to spend some uninterrupted alone time with you." Hiccup pecked Toothless on the snout.

"That does sound nice actually. Plus with no one else around, I'll be the only one who will learn how you have sex with me."

"Oh, shut up." They both laughed loudly.

"Hey, Hiccup." Toothless whispered.

"Yeah, bud?"

"I-." The dragon looked away and then back. "I love you. I-I wish there were better words I could use, something more powerful. But, I, you-, this, us. I-..." Toothless choked on his words.

"You mean the world to me. You're the person I used to dream about when I sit up at night wondering who would love me." Hiccup paused. "Well you're not a girl, or human either, but you are the kind, supportive, and fun person I've always wanted. You can read me like a book and you can't even read. I'd be nothing without you, lost and alone. Left wondering if I was simply unloveable." Hiccup stepped forward and wrapped his arms around the dragon's neck. In turn Toothless lifted his leg and circled it around Hiccup's thighs. "I love you Toothless, and I can't wait to spend another ten years together, or a hundred, or thousand."

"Yeah, that." Toothless whispered back.