" chief!"

He could have sworn if he heard that word one more time he was going to bash his head in with a rock, literally, he couldn't take it anymore.

" Chief!"

That's it where is there a rock.

Scurrying through the village he managed to escape without getting caught by any of the council members, he knew he was needed, he knew he had things to do, but if another person asked about what job they had now, he was going to rip his hair out.

So when he saw a gap to escape, he took it, grabbing toothless by the saddle and making a run for it. Don't get him wrong he loved his job, but today of all days, his mind was else where. Today was the first marriage council meeting him and Astrid were going to have. And it was hanging over him like a dark cloud. He just wanted to be with his family, this morning astrid didn't seem to happy about it, he woke up and she was already down stairs, he offered to make breakfast before he left but she just shrugged it off.

He hated her being mad at him, hated it.

So as the young chief and his best friend ran through the village like two thiefs they went to the one place where he was sure she was. She wants to get back into reality, do things, but he's not ready to place an axe in her hands, just in case the next time she decides to flip instead of punching them in the face, she puts her axe in their skull. Not the best idea right now.

But she wanted to do something, get out the house, so he gave her the task, which nearly got him his two front teeth punch out, of fruit picking with stoick to help the market makers make jam, just before the cold air killed them all . Stoick loved berry picking, hiccup used to leave him with gothi and the other women to just eat berries while they did the work. So on the far side of the island with stormfly taking a nice long break, the two picked berries.

xx

" one for me, two for jam" Stoick picked strawberries from the bushes and placed one him his mouth while he placed two in the basket his mama held.

" If you eat them all there won't be enough for the jam" she giggled to herself picking a few herself so that stoick didn't eat them all.

" Shhh" he put his finger to his lip as he took another strawberry and ate it. She stood watching with a smile plastered on her face as he ran from the strawberry bush to the blueberries, picking them off one by one and eating them as fast as he could. He didn't run far, still in the sight of his mother as she was sifting through the berries, not much but they'd get them through the winter months.

She felt his breath first, she knew by his breathing it was him, his soft breaths of excitement whenever he was near her, and then his arms came around her, hugging her close as his chin fell onto her shoulder blade and the two watched as stoick ran around the fields.

" How is he?" His voice came out like a shush.

" Eating all the berries" Giggling she pressed her cheek against his feeling his heat radiate into her fresh cold face.

" Oh really?" He leaned forward grabbing a handful of raspberries and blackberries, shovelling them down his mouth before she had time to stop him.

" Well now I know where he gets it from, we are supposed to save them for the jam" she smacked his hand as he tried again, and placed the weaved basket down on the ground. That gave him more excess to wrap himself around her thin waist pulling her back into his chest.

" What you doing here anyway, don't you have work?" He nuzzled into her neck more, kissing her exposed skin.

" They gave me a break" he didn't sound so convincing as she turned to face him wrapping her arms around his neck, pulling him in closer, which only made his smirk grow bigger.

" Really? They gave you, their chief, a break?" She questioned his answer, but his answer was still the same.

" Yep, they claim I need to spend more time with my family" she didn't know whether to believe him or not, but the smile spread across his face lifted her spirits.

" Really?" He nodded again, and this time she didn't doubt it, placing a kiss on his lips which he gladly excepted.

" Daddy!" Behind the two as they pulled apart was stoick running towards them with a ring of berries where he got it all over his mouth.

" Oh my big boy" he picked up the stumbling toddler with ease, as he scooped him up in his arms and held him to his chest.

" Mommy tells me you have been eating all the berries" bouncing him up and down as he walked back to where Astrid was.

" I not eat bewrwies," but pulled a cheeky hiccup smile, which gave astrid a fast back to when hiccup was a young boy pulling innocent smiles like that to get out of trouble. How the two were alike.

" Oh really?" Hiccup questioned playing along to the boys tune, though he knew the little one wouldn't be able to keep it up.

He shook his tiny head in reply as he still wore that cheeky smile on his face, " well what's this?" Hiccup pointed to the red stain that surrounded his mouth, and the boy knew straight away he had been caught.

" I had ittle bewrwies" he put his fingers together to show size, " only little ones you say"

" yeah" with a wide genuine smile on the little boys face, hiccup couldn't help but be happy, and let the little one off.

" Okay then, if they were only little" he kissed the side of his sons head and the proceeded to get the muck off his face.

" Daddy stay?" He looked at his daddy first then his mommy.

" Yeah daddy stay"

For the next hour they spent in the fields stoick had gone through a hole bush of strawberries and giving some to toothless and stormfly who followed the little human where ever his little legs carried him. Of course the boy shared some with his parents running to the young couple who were tangled up on the ground, Astrid sat in between hiccups legs as her back pressed against his chest once more and hiccups arms wrapped around her, keeping the warmth between them.

Hiccup loved this, his wife in his arms, so close every breath he made he could smell her scent within the air, sweet, fruity. Maybe it was the fruit in the baskets beside them, but he knew most of it was his Astrid. He loved watching stoick play with toothless and stormfly, he loved it, stoick was born to be around dragons, it was in his blood, from only a few month old stoick was not afraid of them, in fact stoick liked toothless more that his own daddy at some point.

But that didn't matter, not really, cause now he could sit back and watch as his toddle three berries at their scaly friends and just like loyal dogs did they both sit there and try to catch them. Secretly stoick loved toothless more, not because he loved stormfly less, it was just because toothless had been his own personal bodyguard since, well since astrid was pregnant. Something in toothless snapped when he found out his best friend was having a baby, it was like all that mattered was protect this little human, no matter what.

" He's good with him" Astrid voice broke Hiccup out of his own thoughts, bringing him back to this moment.

" He's our son, it's in his blood to be a dragon rider" he shifted under her, pulling her up a little trying to keep warmth between them.

" Well yeah but I meant toothless, he adores stoick, it's like he's ready to do anything to protect him" he knew, by the way she was talking, she had a smile on her face, which kinda made him smile too.

" He's been like that since you told everyone you were pregnant, I mean, he snapped at me once remember. I don't know, maybe since he knows that's my baby, my son, he knows that I'd want him to choose stoick over me" she looked up towards him, he didn't look down at her, his eyes were glued on stoick the whole time.

" I know what you mean" and again the two parents sat watching their little boy. Leaving only hiccups words to fill the air.

" It's weird isn't it, that feeling of nothing matters anymore, not you, not your life, not anything you ever lived for, just this baby, just this boy. Everything that was once important, is no longer important. Just him. Just his happiness." She didn't answer, she didn't need to, they both knew how each other felt, but just to make sure he knew she was listening, she snuggled up to him, allowing his arms to further wrap around her. At that moment, nothing worried them, not the horrors of the past, not the fears of the future, not the village that was counting on the Haddocks to fix everything.

They were at peace. Until ...

" Chief" Oh shit.

Just above where they sat, a huge shadow flew over them, revealing gobber flying on grump's back hovering in between where the two married couple sat and where stoick was playing.

" Oh Hey gobber, What you doing this far from the village?" He shifted out from under astrid hoping he'd catch gobber before he said something he didn't want his wife to hear.

" I could say the same bout ya laddie, been look fur ya fur over and hour now." Crap. At that point he had given up, if he wasn't going to get an earful off gobber he was most definitely going to one off his mrs.

" Hiccup!" He voice rang in his ears. He could only turn the fault to gobber.

" Seriously, are you trying to get me murdered?" The old mentor only laughed as the blonde Haddock came strutting over, boy did he not envy him at this moment.

" You said that they gave you time off?!" She pulled him to face her, he pulled an old hiccup move, rubbing the back of his neck with that famous sheepish smile.

" Well, it might have been a white lie. You know I wanted to spend sometime with you and stoick" if he pulled at that smile one more time... oh there it is, the ' please forgive me, I love you' smile.

" You're an idiot hiccup, an idiot." She strutted right past him, past where gobber was still hovering, she didn't miss the side glance the two men gave each other, but that still didn't stop her from walking right over to stoick and pulling him up into her arms.

" Come on stoick we are going home" she held him tight even though he was kicking and screaming.

" No! I stay here and play" he kicked and kicked. " I stay, I stay"

" Stoick listen to your mother" Hiccup came over trying to lift stoick out of of her arms, but she moved. " you have work, I can't believe you lied to me, the one time you got my hopes up about you spending a few hours with us, and you lied about it" she took stoick to stormfly, lifting him on the saddle and strapping him in.

" I stay mommy, I stay" she tied the straps tighter. " we are going back"

" I'll make it up to you ast, I promise, I'll try and come home early, try and give you and stoick more time." She looked to him as his eyes looked deep into hers.

" Actually Chief," He turned around, " you have a council appointment with Phlegma is in ten minutes" he immediately turned to astrid again, where she only looked down with lost eyes, she had been putting it off since he booked a slot.

"Astrid?" Looking towards her, with hopeful eyes.

" We best get going then, wouldn't want to be late" she wrapped an arm around stoicks little body, before taking off on stormfly.

She left the two men standing there, looking at each other with questionable eyes, " you have wife problems, big problems" gobber giggled flying off with grump and the young chief climbed onto toothless' back.

" You have no idea"

xx

He climbed up the steps to where Phlegmas hut was, she was based on the side of the big mountain in the middle of Berk, and now he regretted giving her this hug as his prosthetic started to rub from climbing up so many stairs.

As he reached the top, Astrid sat on the outside bench, redoing her plait, to be honest he was so relieved to find her, he had been looking over the whole god damn island.

" There you are, I've been looking for you ever since you left" he came walking over and plonked himself next to her, rubbing his leg a little without actually taking off his prosthetic.

" Oh yeah sorry, I just dropped stoick off with gobber, he followed me, said he'd take care of him and then headed straight here, to be honest I thought I'd find you up here waiting for me. What's wrong with you leg" she noticed him fidgeting and couldn't help but ask.

" Oh nothing, stairs" gesturing to the large stair case.

" Well maybe I'll put some ointment on it tonight, you always liked that" she gave him a genuine smile, trying to show she was trying to get back to old ways.

And he could help but smile as well, as he answered with a full grin on his face, " Yeah, I'd like that, if you don't mind" a hand dropped to her knee, she didn't flinch or jump, she was getting used to his touch and very much craved for his comforting hands to hold her tight.

" of course, it's the little things I've missed about our marriage"

" see we don't need a councillor why are we here," he joked about with her, trying to ease the tension he knew was building up inside her, he did get a giggle out of her, that was something.

" Well actually she is just finishing off with a client, she said she would be done in a few minutes" and just as Astrid finished, Phlegmas door began to open, and the two couldn't help but over hear the conversation.

" And just remember you can come to me anytime to talk about your - problem. Every guy goes through it in their life when they can't get it up, it's natural." Phlegmas voice spoke calm and quiet, but the couple couldn't help but be nosey on who couldn't get it up.

" Thanks doc" and out stepped snotlout, who couldn't even make eye contact when he saw the chief and his wife, his friends, sat outside.

" Chief, mrs Chief!" He gave them a quick salute before scurrying down the long staircase.

The blonde quickly whipped her head back to her husband, he too held the same expression on his face as she did. " did she just say-" she didn't need to finish that sentence, he had already answered it.

" Yep!"

" About his - thing?" Her face cringed.

" Yep" the two looked back towards the stairs one last time before the finger approaching from the door way caught their attention.

" would you like to come in?" Phlegma stood next to them, smile on her face, holding the door wide open.

The two didn't get up straight away, Hiccup made the first move, getting up and holding a firm hand out to her. She only stared at it, never in her life had she been so scared to take his hand, but she knew where it would lead too.

" The sooner we get in there, the sooner we can leave"

He was right, of course he was. And with that goofy, adorable, classic hiccup smile, she couldn't help but smile back, slowly gripping his hand back and letting him pull her up from where she sat.

" Would you like to follow me please" Phlegma led the way, with Astrid following and hiccup behind her, hands on her hips, helping guide her in.

They walked into a big room with two wooden benches in the middle, they faced each other and was covered with big comfy looking furs and a wooden coffee table separating the two in between them. The set up took up most of the space of the room, however the corners were decorated with book shelf's to make it look homely and safe.

Phlegma took a seat on one of the sofas, while the two just stood still not knowing where to move. It was only when she motioned to the sofa opposite her, that they moved together. It was one of the most awkward moments when they were all sat down, but no one spoke first, the young couple just sat there waiting for Phlegma to make the first move.

" Right! Shall we begin"

she felt a hand creep into hers, the hand of hiccup, who gently brushed his thumb over the back of her hand, neither said anything but with a reassuring nod of her chief , Phlegma began.

" So, Chief you wanted to book this meeting first, let's start with any issues you wish to bring to the table" she pulled out a piece of partridge paper and a burnt charcoal pencil ready to take notes.

" You can call me hiccup, please. Erm well I really wanted to do this because, even though we have talked, I still don't think we as a married couple haven't talked about the past, now, and what lies in the future for us. I think both of us are bottling up our feelings about our situation, I know I am, and I find that in the long run it's not healthy for us as husband and wife and a family" his hand still held hers, but she still didn't speak, at this moment her eyes were only focused on the ground.

Phlegma took notes on hiccups feelings, noting down why he thinks he needs counciling, after writing down that she turned her attention to the other female in the room, however just like before astrid eyes stayed glued on the ground.

" And you, mrs Haddock?" Pencil at the ready.

But she said nothing, not at first, her eyes only lifted off the ground when Phlegma asked again. " Astrid why do you think you need to be here?"

" I don't think I need to be here" when she tried to to push further to ask why, hiccup butted in for her.

" Come on astrid, you know why we are here" he gave her hand a squeeze.

" No, no I don't, I'm here cause you wanted me to do this for stoick-"

" so you're doing this for stoick, your son?" Phlegma butted in, She put a note down already, making Astrids blood boil, she didn't understand why she had to write down every fucking thing.

" I guess, I promised hiccup I'd do this, so we as parents could do the best for him" even though she could punch Hiccup for this, she still held onto his hand, gripping onto it as an anchor.

" So deep down you must feel if you keep this up, being in denial, it will not be the best for your son?" She put another note on that fucking pad, but even though she wanted to grab that pad and smash it on her head, Astrid agreed deep down, she was right.

" Yeah" her voice sounded defeated.

" It's okay to admit your feelings astrid, this is why you are here. When was the time you released this?" Before she answered this question she let got of hiccups hand and brought his arm around her body, he immediately brought her into his embrace, just like she knew he would.

" The day I flipped out, and hit hiccup, in front of him. He was so scared of me, I knew then, I couldn't keep this up." She knew he needed help, she just didn't want to admit it, what if hiccup decided that her looking after stoick was no longer safe, she needed her son, he was the only thing that made her get out of bed in the morning.

" Having break downs are very common, especially since it's not even been a month since you have been in safe and familiar territory" she gestured to the way hiccup wrapped around her protectively.

" I don't want another one, but I can't control when it happens" she held on tighter to her anchor, Gods if her mother saw her now, she would tell her to suck it up and move on, it's what Viking women do.

" No, I'm afraid not, but in time they will go away, but only if you don't keep everything bottled up, that's what out bursts are, all this energy and emotions you have bottled up, bursting out" Phlegma tried to explain to an already distressed Astrid.

" Okay whatever, let's just get this over with, just cure me already so I can go home to my son" her emotionless voice caused a cringe feeling in hiccup and Phlegma, as she pulled out of hiccups embrace and sat up in an awkward position.

" Astrid, I cant cure you, only you can, and it won't take a day. This could take weeks, month even" with a roll in her eyes the blonde stood up from the fur covered bench and started to walk around the room, pacing.

" So what the hell are we doing here in the first place? If this is going to take months then why do I have to sit here and go through two years of hell all over again, when I might as well be doing this at home" Her voice got louder and louder, a tone hiccup was quite used to when they got into husband and wife spats.

" Astrid if you do this without my help, by all means go ahead, but instead of it taking months, it could take years. Or worse it could end up breaking your marriage and your family altogether." The blondes eyes flickered to her husband, he too held that same expression on his face that phlegma did.

" So what would you suggest then?"

" we start slow, but we first need to start with the main problem, your fears" phlegmas words circled around in her head. She wasn't ready to admit her fears to herself never mind anyone else.

" I'll go first I guess" hiccups voice interrupted her spiralling thoughts.

xx

Walking out of phlegmas hut, astrid couldn't help that pit feeling in her stomach. Hiccups hand clasped hers as they walked out hand in hand, she didn't admit any of her deepest darkest fears, but hiccup did and that just didn't feel as good as she thought it would.

As they exited the hut, phlegma spoke softly breaking astrid out of her little daze. " remember I'm here anytime you need me. I'll see you in three days anyway but if you need me before then, you know where to find me. You guys did really well considering this was your first council meeting" her warm voice sounded so positive, she would have actually believed her, if it wasn't for that pit feeling in her stomach.

" I didn't even say anything" she mumbled under her breath, but it caught the attention of both hiccup and phlegma as they turned towards her.

" Yes, even though hiccup was the only one who opened up today, astrid you turning up was an even bigger achievement. This whole situation is going to be harder on you than anyone else, even if you spend the next few month just sitting in silence, it will be an achievement"

She rolled her eyes, glancing towards the staircase then back to phlegma, sensing her unease she let the two go, wishing them a good day. Not wanting to hang around the two left swiftly, but not much words were said between the two, even though their hands were intwined together, hiccup could sense the tension his wife held, he could feel it I her fingertips, see it in her face, hear it in her breath. It was only when they reached the bottom that he took the moment to pull them aside, pulling astrid with him.

" Hiccup? What is this?" Her face was a mixture of confusion and frustration, as hiccup flung her against the tree.

" what's up, you've had a face on you since we left?" She shook his hands off her, crossing her own under her chest, which didn't help hiccups situation at all, as his eyes kept flickering to her now pushed up chest.

" Nothing" her face was sour and she couldn't even look at him.

" Astrid, I know you better than anyone, and you're pissed off. Are you pissed off with me?" Mumbling under her breath the blonde tried to avoid this situation, avoiding his eye contact at all costs.

" Astrid?" He snapped.

" What?!" Her reaction mirrored his.

" Are you going to tell me how I've pissed you off this time?" She stilled pulled a face, but could see the irritation in his.

With one big sigh she let it all out, " did you really mean what you said?" She was no longer filled with anger and ignorance, but sorrow thoughts, almost insecurity.

" What do you mean?" He edged closer, but yet he still felt far from her touch.

" what you said, one of your 'fears' was that you are scared I won't go back to the way I was, that I'm not your wife anymore, like you let a stranger in your home" she tried to sound mad, but her voice came out wobbly.

" Now I never said that?" He pointed out.

" It was along those lines" her arms still crossed, and her sour look didn't fade as she tried to strut away. But before she could barge past him, he grabbed her by the upper arms and threw her back against the tree.

" Oh no no no! You are not going no where till we figure this out"

She hit the tree with a thump, " hiccup!"

" No, okay! Now I didn't say that, I said, that I was afraid I've lost you. That you won't be the same astrid anymore because of the hell you've been through, I was afraid that I won't be able to help you. That is my worst fear. I never said you were not my wife anymore, and I never said you were a stranger. You astrid, are still you, I just don't see you smile anymore, I mean when's the last time you gave me a punch in the arm." He made a half joke.

She giggled in response, giving her own sarcastic comment back, " I'll give you a punch in the face if you carry on"

" there's my girl, gods I love you" he pressed her forehead against hers, closing his eyes and breathing in her scent, she instantly did the same.

" I love you too" her voice was so quiet, quieter than a whisper, but he knew, just by the tone how real it meant.

He kissed her, swiftly but so sweetly, like he did before they were married, like it was two love struck teenagers stealing a secret kiss. Even after two years his lips were still so soft, just like she remembered them to be.

" I'm sorry I had a moment?" She apologised in between kissing and gasping for air.

" You are in titled to have them astrid" he put a smile on her face, " but we'll get through this, together" he interlocked his fingers with hers, giving them a squeeze of reassurance.

" Now lets go get our boy" and from that sweet smile, she grinned.

xx

" okay, one more time, copper, steel, titanium" gobber pointed to three chunks of metal that lay before him and Stoick, watching as the boy followed his every gesture.

" Opper, seel and tatieum" his face lite up, with a huge smile on his face as he achieved his goal, nearly.

But gobber could only smirk at the boys attempt to pronounce each word. " close enough" the Scottish blacksmith said grabbing the chunks of metal and putting them away.

" Gobber!" There stood at the entrance, hiccup and astrid stood.

" Mommy, daddy!" The boy hopped off his stood with a spring in his step and rushed over into his mothers arms.

" Oh ello chief, how may I be off assistance" gobber always made them jokes once and a while, hiccup never asked anything of gobber, the man practically raised him with his dad. But the boy was his chief.

" I just came to collect my precious package" he turned to his wife and boy, giving Stoick a little tickle under the chin.

" Ahh, do yer want it wrapped or just 'ow it is" he ignored his old mentors joke giving the attention to his little man.

" You had a good time with uncle gobber" he pulled Stoick out of his mothers and into his own, hoisting him up on his waist and letting the little boy play with the braids in his hair.

" Yeah, I gob gobs apentice now" tugging on the little braids that his mother put there, even as a baby stoick loved to play with his daddy's braids, they represented his mother, him being a chief of Berk, him being a Viking.

" Really?" The boy only grinned in response.

" oh Chief?" Gobber shouted from the other side of his shop, hiccup tore his attention away from his family to his old mentor as gobber cane walking up towards him.

" If I could just grab you for a minute, there is something I wish to discuss" his eyes glared deep into hiccup, he knew this was something more than just a discussion.

" Sure" he turned back around and handed stoick back to astrid, " why don't you take stoick home and I'll meet you back there for dinner"

" oh, okay" he gave both her and stoick a kiss before they left.

" so what is it?"

" You asked me to call a meeting when news came about Dragos movements" he said so mysteriously, whispering close.

" And?"

" It's in 20 minutes" he could feel his heartbeat through his chest at the thought. He had asked this off gobber over a week ago, when they finally got back to berk, he also remembered telling him to keep these meetings secret, as he did not want to cause any nessary panic, but he also didn't want astrid to know, he just convinced her to go these council meetings he didn't want to give her a reason to stop.

But even though he had put on a face that said everything was over and all was well, there was still a war to fight, to win. He just didn't tell anyone that.

Especially Astrid.

" Okay, thanks" gobber left without saying another word, he knew how hiccup felt about this situation, even before his people were taken, this war had gotten deep into hiccups mind, tormenting him.

Hiccup was left in his own world of thoughts, he was remembering when he was first looking for Drago, when he was trying to hard to find the ship that had his wife, mother and people on it. But the only thing that was different from then to now, was he didn't have a crying babe with him.

Xx

" oh please go to sleep Stoick, daddy is trying to work" he rocked the cot next to his temporary desk dagur had set up for him in his house.

It had been three weeks, and Stoick was finding it harder every day without his mother, his screams had gotten louder every night as the small babe cries for his mother. While hiccup was up all late hours at night trying to track down his wife and people. Dagur even had kept his promise, he sent terrors to the four other tribes of the archipelago so with the berserkers and the wing maidens as one tribe and the rest of berk as another it came to six tribes all together. Five tribes that followed the guidance of berk.

But now berk needed them, but all they needed was to find the god damn ship, he had one job, to find that fucking ship but he couldn't concentrate with all the screaming and the crying.

" Oh for gods sake Stoick please just stop crying. What do you want, I've given you everything I can think of" but the boy still cried into the night. Hiccup collapsed on to the chair next to the desk, rubbing his hands over his face again and again.

" Wow laddie, lookie like you need a break" gobbers head popped through the door, looking down on the young chief who was loosing the will to live by the second.

" Gobber I don't have time to take a nap, I need to find this god damn fucking ship, but everytime I get word of its whereabouts the next minute it just vanishes." He looked back down at the map again, where he had dotted big 'X's all around it, on where there had been sightings.

" Well you need a break from this too, but I was talking about a break from this little one" could it have been possible that his screams have gotten louder.

" Oh" he looked back down at the baby still wailing his lungs off. " see if phlegma can feed him or something, ive tried everything, I tried changing him, burping him, rocking him to sleep, and nothing. So maybe he needs feeding." He sunk back down in his chair.

" Phlegmas fed him three times already hiccup" he shot a glance up to his old mentor. " oh"

He took a big sigh rubbing his hands over his face once again, this was too much, all of it. The stress of being a parent, he needed astrid but he was too useless to find her.

" Look hiccup, maybe all the babe needs is his farther" the older man rested his hand on the young parents shoulder as a sigh of reassurance.

" How? I'm here, rocking him to sleep but he won't shut up. He doesn't need me, he needs his mother. Do I look like his mother?" his sarcastic state came out more angry than he planned, but the lack of sleep wasn't helping though.

" But hiccup you're not here are you, you're too caught up with this, you ain't even noticing that your boy needs you"

" but I don't know what he wants" he started to flap, standing up and staring over the cot alongside gobber at the wailing babe.

" That's just it Hiccup, he doesn't want anything from you, he just wants you. He wants you to hold him, be with him, put all your attention on him. Babes, even that young, know when their parents are distracted" he looked at him, then back to his son.

He had no idea where to start, but he remembered what Phlegma said, how babies like skin on skin, as if it was their mothers touch. He slowly started to take off his flight suit leaving the individual pieces that made up the suit on the desk.

Once he had gotten the top half off he took off his tunic as well, skin was better, a more physical connection.

" Woah laddie, what ya think yer doing?" Gobber looked back to see the Chief now topless only standing in his bottom.

" Phlegma said babies like skin on skin" he said picking up his son.

" oh, i see. I just thought ya wanted to show off yer new defined figure." Hiccup just ignored the comment, and took his baby with him around the room, rocking him slightly and easing his cries.

" Ey, look at that, it's working"

sooner or later the cries stopped and stoick finally drifted off into a deep sleep, but hiccup didn't place him down, he kept stoick close still hushing him, still loving him.

He had been so caught up with just the two of them, he hadn't even noticed gobber had left. But he didn't care, he had now knew what he meant by how much stoick had needed him, cause he needed stoick. So as he calmed down from stressing, he took his sleeping son on his shoulder back to his desk chair and sat back relaxing, he looked over the map again, and he saw something he didn't notice before.

It was a cycle.

The ship that held his people, his child's mother, was on a cycle, and he knew the next destination to start. His first lead.