The rest of the night after the news came out that Astrid was two months pregnant, that she and Hiccup were now dating, and them finishing a song with Astrid's help, was pretty calm. They mostly sat around in the basement talking about more music and relaxing, since Astrid was pretty tired. Around 10pm she was falling asleep on the couch so Hiccup sent her to bed in his room and he knocked out on the couch in there too. He would have slept beside her but they'd only just started seeing one another in a relationship so he didn't want to rush things: they were gonna take it really slow for a few months as it counted down to their child being born. Astrid had Hiccup's phone number, and email now so she could reach him for anything. Hiccup would accompany her to all her appointments and be there as much as he could and Gobber already had it set that they wouldn't be leaving Berk for a while, given the circumstances that arose tonight. It was fine, it gave them more time to work on the music for the new CD.

The next morning came fast as Hiccup was awakened by Astrid rushing out of bed to get to the bathroom in order to throw up, Hiccup only assumed it was the morning sickness and he had better get used to it any of the times Astrid slept over-if she did. Those things still hadn't been discussed: as it stood now, Hiccup lived twenty minutes away from her, and she was taking the bus to get there. Hiccup planned to fix her car though so she wouldn't have to take the bus-he didn't like the idea of her being pregnant and riding on it alone. Stormfly, Meatlug, Zap, Hookfang, Hiss, and Sparky had all gone home around 10:30pm so in the house right now it was just Toothless, Gobber, Hiccup, and Astrid. Astrid woke up at 6:30am and then she was in the bathroom for about twenty minutes: Hiccup actually felt bad that he couldn't do much to help her. The toilet flushed and Hiccup got off the wall-where he'd been leaning to wait for her-as she came out slowly and groaning.

"Morning sickness?" he asked softly.

"Yeah...every morning since about four weeks after we had sex...doctor said that was common, most symptoms won't show up until four weeks," Astrid told him gently.

"Does anything help it? Water, ginger ale, crackers?" Hiccup inquired: he wanted to know what he could do for her-if anything could be done to soothe it.

"Nothing so far-but might try the crackers. Haven't tried those yet..." Astrid sighed lightly as Hiccup led her to the couch so she could sit down.

"I've got some ritz and saltines here if you're still feeling nauseated," he offered lightly.

"I'm okay right now, thank you. It doesn't normally last very long, ten to twenty minutes. Doctor said if it ever goes past thirty five to go to the hospital. Gods, there's so much to worry about when pregnant, Hiccup...you've missed the first few appointments where it was talked about," Astrid told him.

"I'm sorry, I should have...left you a way to contact me in case of emergencies. I just figured we...wouldn't run into one another again given how things are, or were two months ago where we said we wouldn't just hook up," Hiccup stated.

"We said we'd act like it never happened, guess the proof that it did happen is growing in me now..." Astrid replied with a soft chuckle. "I brought all the stuff with me, it's in the little backpack purse I use all the time. I can catch you up on what you missed," Astrid offered to him.

"Well, I should know what's going on," Hiccup smiled to her.

"After breakfast?" Astrid suggested.

"It's a date," Hiccup nodded to her. "So, parents in seven months...it's gonna fly by, isn't it?"

"These last two months have without a doubt," Astrid agreed and Hiccup closed his eyes. She could tell he looked nervous and maybe even a little scared. "Terrified?" she asked.

"Course I am. Me, a Dad? Never thought it would happened. Not even with Heather, I took so many precautions to make sure she didn't get pregnant. I'm still trying to process how you ended on pregnant on only night we ever had sex," Hiccup stated.

"Well, what did you do different with me than you did with her? If you don't mind me asking that is?" Astrid inquired.

"With her, I always used a condom and we never went longer than an hour. Also, I never had sex with her drunk so she couldn't try to manipulate me into not using a condom. Anytime I was about to finish, I'd pulled out and cum in the condom outside of her-just in case the condom ever broke and she couldn't possibly end up pregnant. She hated it but I didn't want to have a kid with her. Well with how my life is right now, I didn't want kids period..." he admitted.

"So you're...not thrilled about me being pregnant, are you?" Astrid asked softly looking at him.

"I'd be lying to say that I am, Astrid. It's a lot of work on top of everything else I do right now. However, I'm more happy about you being pregnant with my child, than I would be if she was," Hiccup admitted, smiling some.

"You don't think she would have made a good mother? Or do you have another reason for not wanting a child with her?" Astrid tilted her head a bit.

"I don't know and I don't want to know either. Like I said, she...isn't the girl I met two years ago. She changed, for the worst," Hiccup sighed heavily. "Anyway, are you hungry?"

"A little. I just can't eat bacon...makes me nauseated. Baby doesn't seem to like it," Astrid giggled a bit.

"Alright so breakfast with no bacon, got it!" Hiccup told her as he got up and helped her up with him, they moved to the kitchen where Astrid sat down at the counter area where there were some stools-the counter was a 'L' shape with Hiccup standing near the refrigerator and six burner stove, one oven below it, microwave above. The time was about 7:10am and Toothless and Gobber were still sleeping. Hiccup got the eggs, milk, cheese, butter from the fridge and then got a knife and the english muffins out of the microwave. After getting all those ready, he grabbed some frozen sausage patties from the freezer-then he began to get the pans and cooking utensils he needed: mainly spatula and tongs.

"Do you need any help?" Astrid offered to him.

"Nah, it's alright. I actually enjoy cooking," Hiccup chuckled as he lit the burner flame and put the pan over it as he gave it a few seconds to heat up, then he put eight patties down in a circle as they started a slow sizzle from cold meeting hot. "You prefer scrambled or sunny side up?" he asked.

"Sunny side up please," Astrid smiled at him. Hiccup got another semi-flat pan as he grabbed four eggs from the carton and set them down on the counter so they wouldn't roll away: one by one he cracked them in separate areas on the pan and let them cook. While those sat on a medium flame, he flipped the sausages, then moved to grab four english muffins from the pack of six, grabbed the knife and cut them in half-putting each of them in a toaster slot and letting them toast. "So, what was it like being with her-Heather, I mean? You don't have to answer. I guess I'm just trying to get to know you better so I don't do anything she did and make you hate me," she said, blushing a bit.

"I don't think you could ever do that. Nah, I don't mind answering-we're dating so it would likely be beneficial to get to know one another better," Hiccup replied while getting the spatula to flip the eggs to the other side, making sure not to break the yolks. "In the beginning, things were great. We met because I was trying to get away from paparazzi and crashed right into her, being the clumsy oaf I've always been. My wig fell off and I hid it as they ran right past us. I helped her up and apologized. I offered to buy her coffee, got talking and we hit it off really well. We went on a few dates, then after about a month and a half-started properly dating. I didn't want to have secrets with her, so I told her who I was. Then ya know where it kind of went from there. I lost my virginity at nineteen, she started coming to the practices, backstage. After the first year, things started to change because I was just starting the tour preparations and she didn't like it."

"Because you wouldn't be on Berk and she couldn't travel on the tour?" Astrid asked.

"Oh what a day that was too. She got so friggen emotional when he told her we were going on tour, begged him not to go-then if she could come too," Toothless stated, coming into the kitchen now while rubbing his eyes.

"That's when it started getting annoying, like to insufferable levels. Just gradually got worse until the night I left her because I couldn't deal with it anymore. All she seemed to care about was knowing she was Dusk's girlfriend: it was like Hiccup didn't exist anymore. She loved showing off her body in the fancy dresses, loved never letting go of my arm, going way too far in public displays of affection. It was like nothing was normal anymore, it wasn't even a relationship. All she was interested in was just sex, fame, and money. Trying to have sex with me in the dressing room was what crossed the line for me, so I ended things and now she won't leave me alone," Hiccup mumbled.

"Wow...well, lucky for you-I don't like to travel much and as long as you're here for me when I need you to be, I won't ride your ass," Astrid smiled to him.

"If you're gonna ride me again, can it not be my ass?" Hiccup snicked as Astrid threw a pen at him while blushing furiously. "I was kidding!" he added quickly as he ducked to avoid it. Hiccup got the four english muffins from the toaster, buttered them lightly then put the cheese on two of them. Hiccup turned off both burners, put four sausage patties down on the side of the english muffin that didn't have the cheese-then put four eggs on top of the sausage patties before putting the side with the butter and cheese on top, making it into a sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich. Hiccup put two each on two plates, then gave her one. "Enjoy,"

"Where's mine bro?" Toothless whined.

"Make it yourself, lazy ass. There's still sausages in there, and left all the stuff's out," Hiccup mentioned as he sat beside Astrid and started eating, Astrid was enjoying it fully.

"Wow, this is really good, Hiccup," Astrid beamed happily.

"Thanks. Baby approve?" he chuckled, she nodded and finished swallowed her bite. "So, when you planning to tell your family and friends about being pregnant?"

"I don't know. My first priority was to find you so we could talk about what to do. I can't very well hide it, I'm already starting to show..." she mumbled lifting her shirt a bit and sure enough-you could see the small bump forming, "Not sure how my parents will react to finding out I got knocked up from a drunken one night stand. And my friends are gonna have a field day teasing me about getting knocked up by you-they don't know your Dusk. I just said we ran into one another at the bar after the concert, talked, drank, had sex in the close by motel and you were gone the next morning after we woke up. I told them I didn't know where you went."

"Appreciated," Hiccup nodded, taking another bite while Toothless was making his breakfast.

"Are you...gonna tell your parents?" Astrid inquired gently.

Hiccup sighed after swallowing his food, "I don't think I should. Just gonna be another fight with me, and then each other on whose fault it is I turned out this way..." he stated looking down.

"You didn't turn out any way, Hiccup. It's their fault if anything, all their constant bickering with one another. I mean for Thor's sake, they got divorced when you were ten and you're twenty two now-that's twelve years. Eight of which, you had to deal with before moving out when you were eighteen," Toothless told him.

"I haven't seen either of them since graduation day. I don't see why me about to become a father should change that," Hiccup sighed.

"My parents are gonna flip out," Astrid sighed as she put her second sandwich down, "Wouldn't put it past them to kick me out," she added.

"They would kick you out for getting pregnant?" Toothless arched a brow.

"Because of the fact I'm not married-they don't even know I've had sex. That's how much of a good girl they think I am. It's against their beliefs for a woman to have sex and get pregnant before marriage," Astrid explained.

"If they kick you out lassie, you can stay here. I have more than enough room and you'd be close to Hiccup since he lives here too. I know I'd want to be around my little grand lad or lass," Gobber chuckled coming in and going right to the coffee pot to start it.

"I appreciate that sir," Astrid smiled lightly at him.

"Nonsense on the formalities! You can call me Gobber like the rest," the man smiled with joy.

"Yes si-I mean, Gobber..." Astrid corrected herself.

"And I'm gonna fix your car for you too so you'll have it. Do you have work today?" Hiccup asked her.

"No, I called out this morning before you got up and asked if I was okay. I figured you and I had things to discuss about the baby situation and it would have been beneficial to not have time constraints on it. Next time I work is Friday at 1pm to 9pm," Astrid told him.

"Finish up your breakfast and then we'll go talk, Astrid," Hiccup smiled as she nodded and started eating along with Toothless and Gobber who began to do the same since Toothless made his father two sausage sandwiches with cheese and Toothless himself had two sausage, egg, and cheese like Hiccup and Astrid. The eating was mostly silent for about fifteen minutes while Hiccup and Astrid finished their food then cleaned up and excused themselves from the counter area to go talk in Hiccup's room.

(Hiccup's Room)

Both of them sat on the bed after Astrid got her backpack purse and pulled out a slightly bent folder and bent it the opposite way in an attempt to make it flat-then she opened it up to start pulling papers and small packets out as Hiccup blinked a few times, "And suddenly I feel like I entered a maze," Hiccup remarked as Astrid giggled a bit.

"It's not so bad once you know what everything is for," Astrid replied to him.

"Alright so, just explain it to me like the doctor did to you..." Hiccup asked.

"I will, don't worry. These right here are the three trimester markings-lets you know what to expect during each of them. There are three trimesters to a pregnancy. I'm in the first right now: weeks one to thirteen or months one to three. Second trimester is weeks fourteen to twenty six or months four to six. And the third is weeks twenty seven to forty or seven to nine months. Makes it really easy, I'm almost to the end of the first trimester since I'm already two months along. I'm eagerly awaiting second trimester because they say I should get some of my energy back and not be so damn tired all the time," Astrid began.

"Okay, three trimesters and you're almost in your second. Got it. What else-well, just tell me anything I need to know," Hiccup said. "How often do you have doctor appointments?"

"Um," she started browsing through a few things, "Here it is. Basically right now until I hit six months, I see my doctor once a month. Months seven to eight, I'll see her every two weeks and then for the final month-once a week. I actually have all those appointments on my phone calendar, I can...forward it to you if you want so you'll know when they are?" Astrid offered.

"I'd like that, thank you. Are those like sonograms or just basic office visits?" Hiccup asked.

"Just office visits. She said that sonograms are only specific times or if they think something might be wrong," Astrid informed.

"When will your next one be? I really wanna be able to hear the heartbeat and see the baby move," Hiccup smiled now.

"I can show you the one from last week, I have it on my phone, well, it's on my SD card-I was recording the first one I ever had," Hiccup's eyes seemed to light up, "Baby doesn't move yet silly, but you can see the heart flickering and hear it." she added. "I'll show you after we get through all this," Hiccup nodded to her. "I'll get another sonogram around the fifth month, that's twenty weeks. It's just a general check to make sure everything formed, baby in the right place. Oh! And we can find out the gender too at that appointment, if you want?"

"I kind of do want to know for name ideas-but if you don't want to, then I'm okay with that too," Hiccup said easily.

"I want to know too so we're on the same page for that one," Astrid smiled. "And the rest of these are just really warning signs, week markers of key points in the baby's growth, and a list of medications I can take for pain or heartburn that won't harm the baby. Obviously no smoking or drinking, no lifting over ten pounds until the sixth month, nothing over five after that." she added.

"Warning signs?" Hiccup arched a brow.

"Yeah, signs of a miscarriage or stillbirth..." Astrid sighed.

"Forgive my lack of knowing here but care to inform me what either of those are?" Hiccup rubbed the back of his head.

"Miscarriage is where the pregnancy ends before week twenty, it's also commonly called spontaneous abortion but it's not like how actual abortion works. That's just where the baby dies for a variety of reasons that cannot be prevented or stopped once it starts. Most miscarriages have to do with some sort of abnormality with the fetus. Typically, this is a chromosomal abnormality in which the fetus' genetic makeup just didn't go together the right way. Warning signs of miscarriage include: light spotting or heavy bleeding that is bright red, cramping that is stronger than menstrual cramps or isolated to one side accompanied by bleeding, back pain with bleeding, vaginal discharge with blood clots or gush of fluid and loss of pregnancy symptoms. Those are the seven most common according to the doctor," Astrid explained. "Depending on when miscarriage occurs at what week would determine how it's taken care of. She said that in most of the early weeks, the baby will just break down and return to the body and I'd likely pass fetal tissue: if further on, then it's a procedure to remove the tissues themselves."

"And I assume still birth is after twenty weeks?" Hiccup asked and Astrid nodded, "What happens for those, like isn't it the same thing?"

"Stillbirths mostly have to do with umbilical cord or placenta. In stillbirth, the baby just dies. After twenty weeks, the baby generally is moving and kicking a lot so if I were to notice all that had stopped then I'd be sent to sonogram to check for a heartbeat. With stillbirth, I could go into labor about two weeks or more later, and deliver a baby that is no longer alive. But my doctor said if it happens, most women choose to induce labor with a drug called Oxyticin. It would put me into labor, then it goes from there the same way," Astrid told him.

"So there's cause for worry the entire pregnancy?" Hiccup asked.

"Unfortunately but that's what the appointments are for, keeping an eye on things. Right now, the doctor said everything for me is perfectly normal. Good implantation, everything is in place where it should be, strong heartbeat, growth is progressing perfectly," Astrid told him, "And I'm healthy as a horse, which she said helps. But she wants you to come next appointment to get your medical history so if there is anything to watch for-we'll be aware of it."

"I'll be there. When is the next one?" Hiccup asked her lightly. Astrid grabbed her phone and tapped the calendar application as it came up and she scrolled a few times.

"Let's see. I found out I was pregnant at five weeks, had the first OB appointment a week later because I was trying to find out, had the sonogram last week at seven, and I just started week eight yesterday so next OB office visit is week nine, next week on the 23rd at 2:15pm." Astrid told him. "And I just forwarded you the calendar too, once you open the attachment it should just automatically put them in your calendar," she added.

His phone vibrated in his pocket as he saw the text from her and opened it, it uploaded everything right to his phone's calendar. "Got it, I'll be there with you. So, about these pregnancy symptoms-anything I should know?" he asked.

"Not really, they will change as the pregnancy progresses. Right now it's morning sickness which can be with or without throwing up, slight aversion to some smells or foods, sore and tender breasts, fatigue...but like I said, they can change," Astrid shrugged.

"Cool, I think?" he laughed a bit, "Is that all I need to know for now?" Hiccup asked.

"Yeah, that's it really. See, not so bad. Want to see that video now?" Astrid inquired, Hiccup nodded his head quickly as he went to get his laptop off the desk. Astrid got the SD card out of her phone and handed it to him, Hiccup got the laptop open and logged in-then he put the SD card in as Astrid pointed to the file to click on for the sonogram video. It took a moment but the media player came up and loaded the video, Hiccup pressed play as it started.

~Video~

"Alright, Miss. Hofferson. Let's get a look at the little one, shall we?" the sonogram technician smiled as she squirted the clear gel onto Astrid's belly and then used the Doppler to move it around her belly. "You're...seven weeks right now, yes?"

"Yes ma'am," Astrid replied trying to take a few breaths to calm down. It took a moment but the tech used the cursor on the computer to point to a small bean shaped white spot on the screen.

"There's your baby, that little flicker is the heartbeat. Let's get a listen," the tech said as the pressed a button on there was a quickened heartbeat heard clearly. "One hundred and fifteen beats per minute, perfect for seven weeks and very strong too. Placenta has good placement, everything looks great. I'm sure you and your partner are very excited," she added gently while starting to take measurements from head to rump, labeling them.

"I'm sure...he will be once he finds out. He's...on business right now and I can't get a hold of him," Astrid lied slightly. After ten minutes, the tech smiles shutting off the machine, wiping Astrid's belly and hands her the copies of the sonogram pictures.

"Well, I don't think I'll be seeing you again until you're twenty weeks when we check all the development again, you can all find out the gender then," the tech said.

"I'll see you then. Thank you," Astrid smiled exiting the room.

~End Video~

"That was amazing...Wow." Hiccup said smiling as he looked over to her as she looked at him with a smile of her own, "This is...really happening, isn't it? We're really going to have a baby in seven months," he asked.

"Yeah, we really are, Hiccup." Astrid nodded. Hiccup leaned and kissed her softly, she returned it as his hand placed over hers. After breaking it, they blushed a bit.

"Well, then I can't wait. I'm actually...over the moon about this," Hiccup told her.

"Me too," Astrid replied gently, she leaned over and made a copy of the video for him so he'd have one for memories-then she took her SD card out and returned it to her phone and finally leaned her head on his shoulder. Hiccup was happy. Sure this was gonna be weird and something he never thought he'd have to go through for a long while-but here he was. Dating Astrid-something he only dreamed about doing since the seventh grade although if faded off by Junior year because she hooked up with Eret-but now they were together and expecting a child in seven months. What made it better now was he was all caught up to speed on everything he'd need to know and expect. On top of all that, he still had the band and his friends-awesome career included in that. Life was really good for him right now. But alas, so much more to do and in so little time.