Hi another chapter up hope your still enjoying. This is a slow build up but I need it to explain this little world in my head. As always this is a Hijack which means boy/boy or same sex pairings it will contain adult themes, bad language (and not just my spelling and grammar L.O.L.) gore violence and character death. Over all story will be an M. I still don't own anything. All characters belong to Disney and DreamWorks. Please review or I think people aren't reading. Just a reminder this is my first fanfic so input from other authors is always welcome and appreciated. Thank you again for reading.
Chapter 8.
Jack's heart was in his throat as the sound of Hiccup shouting and yelling underneath the black mass filled his ears, he could see his thin arms failing around. As the jock's feet hit the ground Jack's hand shot out and grabbed a handful of the creature's scruff. In one quick fluid motion he flung the animal across the kitchen floor. The beast landed on its side sliding across the linoleum flooring. Before the beast had even stopped skidding across the surface it was scrambling back up onto its feet. Its acid green eyes locked on Jack and it bared its huge white teeth. Jack felt a surge of confidence well inside him. This was just a pup he'd handled much bigger wolfs then this one; it would be painfully easy to put this one down. Behind him Hiccup was still screaming but Jack ignored him focusing instead on the threat in front of him, he felt the familiar sting as his fangs pushed through his gums. The jock braced his feet apart in a defensive stance as the wolf stalked forward. The white haired teen was just about to pounce when a blur of green shot passed him.
Hiccup flung himself at his best friend wrapping his arms around the animal's thick neck. Snapping his head around, he spat out. "If you touch him again I'll kill you."
Jack stood rooted to the spot a look of complete and utter mystification marring his pale face. After a minute trying to comprehend what was happening a light blub clicked in Jack's head as he took in the scene before him. He relaxed his posture and nervously scratched the back of his neck. "That's your dog isn't it?" He asked sheepishly.
Hiccup gave him a look of pure loathing and Jack winced. That look really, really didn't suit the small teen. "Of course he is. What did you think he was? A lion?"
"A wolf." Jack mumbled looking at his shoes.
Hiccup scoffed. "Really? Because I forgot Burgess had a wolf problem. I think I've hit my limit now why..." The auburnette suddenly broke eye contact. He looked at the dog beside him then at the floor and finally back to Jack. Something close to understanding clear on his face "When you say wolf?" He asked slowly.
Jack nodded. "Yeah, I meant as in werewolf."
Hiccup's emerald orbs studied Jack for a moment. "Are they dangerous?" It was a stupid question Hiccup knew, but he still couldn't help asking. Everything was still so surreal. Jack and Elsa were vampires and there was a "rouge" on the lose kidnapping and murdering people, the twins thought Hiccup was one of them and to top it all off Jack had just attacked his best friend thinking he was some shape shifting beast.
Jackson gave a little smile. "Well not unless their a "stray", but I guess I just panicked when he pounced on you." Jack shrugged. "Sorry." He added as an after thought.
Hiccup scrubbed a small hand down his face. "It's not me you should say sorry to." He said gesturing with his head towards the dog.
The snowy haired teen lifted a dark eyebrow. "You've got to be kidding'?"
Hiccup gave a little smile. "Toothless is very intelligent, I swear he understands every word we're saying. If you don't apologize he'll hold it against you."
Jack scanned the huge black fur ball sat beside Hiccup. With a sigh Jack took a step forward. "Um... I'm very sorry I thought you were a mindless beast."
Toothless growled. Jack narrowed his eyes then looked to Hiccup. The smaller teen placed one hand either side of the dogs head and it turned it to face him.
"Come on bud. This is my...friend...from school. He thought you were hurting me he was just trying to protect me." Jack noticed how Hiccup paused on the word friend. Jack reasoned that he shouldn't take it too personally after everything Hiccup had been through today, he was lucky Hiccup hadn't called the cops.
Toothless glanced back at Jack huffed and then stood up and strode out the room with his tail curled high in the air.
"That dogs got a serious attitude. What do you feed it? Its humongous" Jack stretching out his arms as wide as he could to illustrate his point.
"Oh the usual dog food, scraps of our plates, growth hormones and stuff like that." Hiccup said while gesturing around with a hand. "He's a Tibetan mastiff cross he's supposed to be big."
Jack smiled at least he could still make a snide comment now and again. "Hiccup about earlier with Elsa." Jack saw how Hiccup stiffened at his sister's name, but he needed to know exactly what had happened.
Hiccup blew a long breath through his nose. Jack thought Hiccup was going to dodge the question but after a moment Hiccup began to talk.
"She followed me to meet Astrid. I don't think she meant to hurt my arm. When she heard the snap she looked...shocked I guess. She said a few things though at the time I thought she was on about something else. Then Astrid turned up and slapped her, they argued a little then she stormed off" Hiccup told the jock with a shrug while still kneeling on the floor wringing his hands together. His bright green eyes focused somewhere off to the side.
"How's your arm, you don't seem to be in pain." Jack asked softly.
Hiccup fidgeted under Jack's gaze. He really didn't want to tell him he was fine because that would just prove Jack's earlier assumption of Hiccup's origin. "I-its just bruised, Astrid over reacted as usual."
Jack knew Hiccup was lying as soon as the tips of his ears turned pink, but Jack decided to leave it as the smaller boy was still in some form of denial. "What did you think she meant?" Jack asked instead.
Hiccup felt that embarrassing heat flow up his neck and spread across his face. "Um... no-nothing really, I mean i-it doesn't matter n-now."
Jack felt his mouth turning up in a smile, now he really wanted to know. "What was it?"
Hiccup scrunched his face up. "N-nothing." He spluttered.
"Really? Must have been something to make you blush like this. Tell me." Jack cooed the last part stepping towards the small teen. "Please." He tried again.
Hiccup pressed his lips in a thin line and stood up quickly. Which was a mistake on his part, lack of sleep and feeling faint could only lead to one reaction. Dizziness. Hiccup stumbled slightly and Jack rushed forward to steady him with a gentle hand on his shoulder the other resting lightly on his small waist. Hiccup glanced up at Jack's big cobalt eyes and Hiccup's mouth went dry. Jack was watching him, there was something in the way he was staring that made Hiccup's stomach twist. A low growling broke the silence. Both teens turned to find Toothless stood in the doorway green eyes once again fixed on the jock. Breaking apart Jack glared at the mutant beast.
"I don't think your dogs forgiven me." Jack said watching the animal wearily when Toothless gave a low bark.
Hiccup gave his friend a soft smile before turning back to face Jack. "Well he hasn't bit you yet."
Jack took a step back his eyes suddenly shining with an idea. Quickly he turned his back and rushed to the fridge calling over his shoulder. "Come on doggie, I'll make you something nice as peace gesture."
Hiccup shook his head. There was no way he could bribe Toothless that easy and he was just about to tell Jack so when the traitorous dog trotted passed. With a roll of his eyes Hiccup walked back to his chair and slumped down. His eyes were stinging and his head was pounding. Jack might only need a couple of hours but Hiccup needed at least six. His mind suddenly wondered back to his bed upstairs. Jackson stood up holding a whole tuna steak in one hand and closing the fridge door with the other. Toothless was following the fish with his green eyes licking his lips. Hiccup giggled to himself Toothless would defiantly forgive Jack for some fish, salmon would have been better but the dog wouldn't turn his nose up to tuna either. Jack had a look of smug satisfaction on his face as he started opening and closing cupboards and draws looking for a skillet to cook it in.
"Hey have you eaten yet? There's enough for all of us if you want me to put some in for you." Jack asked glancing at Hiccup who was still slumped forward on the table.
Hiccup shook his head. "I don't eat meat."
Jack's eyes widened as he straightened up from the cupboard he was searching finally locating the skillet and a smile formed on his lips. "You're a vegetarian?"
Hiccup scowled he did not like that look on Jack's face. "Y-yeah why?" He asked hesitantly.
Jack's face spilt into a huge toothy smile. "You're a veggie vamp?" He asked as that impossibly wide smile got wider.
Hiccup groaned. "No Jack, no please. Its too late and I'm too tired right now." Hiccup pointed a finger at himself. "Plus I am not a vampire."
Jack turned back to the stove and began to prepare the fish; his whole body shook as he laughed as silently as he could. The auburn haired teen watched and shook his head a little at Jack's feeble attempts to restrain his amusement. Toothless was still sat at the jocks feet watching every move a long trail of drool hanging from one side of his mouth. Crossing his arms and letting his head drop into them Hiccup let his eyes close.
Once Jack had calmed himself, which took a few minutes Jack glanced over his shoulder as he placed the now cooked fish on a plate. He chuckled when his eyes rested on the small auburnette apparently asleep at the table. Turning back to the counter Jack quickly cut the tuna steak in half giving the larger portion to the dog by his side. After a moment of searching through the draws Jack grabbed himself a knife and fork and turned back to where he'd left his food on the work space. It was gone. Jack's jaw dropped as he watched the large black dog swallow his half of the cooked fish.
"Really?" Jack questioned Toothless in disbelief to which Toothless just cocked his head to one side, a look of fake innocents on his big furry face.
Jack let out a long sigh. "I suppose I best take sleeping beauty to bed?" He asked the black mass at his side.
Jack returned the cutlery back where he found it and quickly cleaned up the mess he'd made then he strode across to the table. Carefully he tipped Hiccup's torso back into his out stretched arm, then hooked his free one under his knees. As Jack straightened himself Hiccup stirred and Jack quickly hushed him. "Shhh, shhh its okay." The small teen scrunched his face then relaxed burying his head into Jack's hoodie, the action caused the jocks mouth to go dry and he swallowed hard. Hiccup looked so vulnerable like this Jack found himself just wanting to shield him from the world. "Well that's a little worrying." He thought to himself as he started towards the door cautiously so not to jar his sleeping cargo.
Making his way slowly through the dimly lit house Jack couldn't help but notice how light the boy in his arms was, Jack would bet Hiccup couldn't weigh more then 90lbs and unease started to gnaw at the jock. As he entered the freckled teen's room he gently bumped the door open and lightly placed the boy down. Jack heard a light thump behind him; turning he found Toothless had made himself comfy on what appeared to be a bed of Hiccup's dirty laundry. Jack gave the dog a smile before crossing the distance and crouching in front of the beast. Toothless raised his head ears perking up.
"Do us a favour, keep an eye on him." At this Jack gave a little jerk of his head in Hiccup's direction. "I'm worried about him. Something's not right, but I'm not sure what. I've just got a feeling..."
Toothless gave a little whine and Jack felt himself grinning in response. Rising back to his feet he made his way back to the large window he entered through. With one last look at Hiccup who had curled up on his side and was now clutching his pillow to his chest. The adorable sight made Jack softly smile as he pushed the unlatched window up and hung his lower half out. Using one arm to hold himself there and the other to grip the open plain of glass he muttered.
"I'm so screwed." Then chuckled, turning his cobalt eyes back to the watchful acid green ones of Toothless. "No hard feelings right beast." And with that he let his body fall to the ground below pulling the window shut on his way.
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A dark figure watched with one deep golden colored eye and one green eye as Jackson Overland-Frost landed gracefully on the grass underneath the window he'd just exited. It knew the platinum blond vampire well and loathed him and his family, but it also knew who resided in that house. What could he want with those two humans; they were nothing special as far as the figure was concerned. The man was large and strong but posed no threat to their kind and the boy was weak and frail not even fit for scraps. As Jackson disappeared down the street the form moved forward it watched the corner Jackson sprinted around for a moment with its sharp bicoloured eyes. Sulking slowly forward out of the cover of the bushes in the garden across the street it made its way soundlessly and approached the house. It carefully and purposely made its way to the window. Staring up at the open window the shadowy figure pondered. "Will you be off any use to me?" With a snort of disgust at the thought of needing a human in its plans it raised its head and sniffed. Its eyes widened with excitement and it quickly started moving around the boundaries of the house. The figure allowed its nose to roam. When it was satisfied it had confirmed its suspicions it returned to sit under the window. The form wondered idly why it had never noticed what was now so painfully obvious. Maybe it was because the form focused only on the stronger humans it studied; the runts always seemed insignificant somehow. That would have to be amended from now on it just went to show there's more then meets the eye, or in this case the nose. Because for the first time in the figures life it shared Jackson's apparent interest. The strangest thing to find in one small, sarcastic, ignored, freckled teen that was scentless. Maybe this boy could be used by the master in some way. As tempting as it was to scale the wall and enter the room that held the mysterious boy, the figure was here to observe not engage.
"I'll just have to keep a closer eye on you Mr Hiccup Haddock." It thought to its self as it retreated back into the darkness of the night.
