OMG, I am soooooooooo sorry it's been so long I've never had writers block this bad in my life. All my little tricks I usually do to get over it didn't work at all. I literally just sat down earlier and thought I'll work on a story, scrolled through them saw this and thought let's give it a go. My fingers never stopped moving. Not too sure how happy I am with it hope it follows on okay. Forgive any grammar or spelling mistakes I have no beta. Same warnings still apply. Big thank you to all the people who have messaged me asking about the story it's really kept me from just leaving it completely. Please R&R hope you enjoy thanks again.
Chapter 1. Unpleasant Memories.
Jack sent a large white toothy grin in the direction of the auburnette sat a couple of chairs down from him only to receive a scowl in return. Jackson sighed, Hiccup hadn't spoken to the jock since North had interrupted their little roll around on the floor in the corridor and Jack was starting to panic; maybe he'd made Hiccup uncomfortable with his comments (and err actions). Jack turned back to Hiro and North who were stood in the corner of the little room talking in hushed tones. No doubt talking about the little freckled teen and his failed test. Jack bit his lip he'd really fucked things up for the smaller teen.
Hiccup tried desperately to fight back the blush creeping up his neck. He could see Jack out of the corner of his eye nibbling on his bottom lip making it slightly swollen and sending images flooding through his mind. Hiccup lowered his head to try and hide his slowly reddening face behind his shaggy fringe. The freckled teen was still slightly reeling over the jocks actions in the hallway. To say Hiccup had stopped breathing for a minute was an understatement, his heart rate had only just slowed down when he caught Jack chewing on his lip and now it was right back up again. Hiccup tried to discreetly wipe his sweaty palms on his pants.
Jack glanced back over at the silent freckled teen when Hiccup shifted in his seat and found a smile work its way onto his face when he saw how flushed the smaller boy was.
"Hey Hic, you okay. You look hot." Jack giggled hoping the double meaning in his words would add to the colour already staining his pale skin.
Hiccup squeak at the jock before turning a deeper shade of red. The auburn haired boy tried to glare but it was half hearted, especially when Jack kept grinning at him.
"W-will you stop s-staring at me?" Hiccup stuttered.
Jack pouted. "But I like looking at you."
Hiccup made a choking sound before ducking his glowing face down. Jack smirked just a little too proud of the various shades of red he could make the smaller teen turn.
North turned back to the two boys and addressed Hiccup. "You sure your father not go by any other name?"
"No sir. He's always been Stoick Haddock as far as I know."
Hiro and North shared a look.
"What's going on?" Jack asked noticing the silent conversation they seemed to be having.
Hiro scratched at his messy hair. "Well...it's just we can't find him on the system anywhere."
Jackson frowned that wasn't right their system had the name of every vampire born in the last sixty years copied into it and some before that. There was no way someone could have been missed off.
"Not only that, but there's never been a coven named Haddock." Hiro continued. "Are you sure your dad didn't take your mother's name?"
"I-I don't know. My mum d-died when I was four and I d-don't remember much about her, m-my dad doesn't talk about her..." Hiccup's voice trailed off.
Jack frowned. "Hic you don't have to talk about it if it upsets you."
Hiccup smiled softly at the concern in Jack's voice. "It's not that. I-it's just I don't know much." And secretly Hiccup wished he knew more about the woman he only had fading memories of. "All I know i-is my dad left his h-home town and w-while he was travelling h-he met my mum. T-they fell in love a-and got married. I-I was born the n-next year. We settled in a little town for a f-few years before my mum was killed."
"How did she die, if I may ask?" North asked quietly.
Hiccup bit his lip Astrid was the only one he had ever told. Even his dad and the police that questioned him at the time didn't get much more than sniffles from the small boy.
"I...there was a fire in the house. M-my dad was at work, it was just me and my mum." Hiccup scrunched his face up as memories of the night he had hoped he would forget over time resurfaced.
FLASHBACK...
It was his own coughing that woke the small boy from his sleep. His chest felt tight and he couldn't pull enough air in his lungs to relieve the tightness. Glazed emerald eyes looked around the little room covered with dragon wallpaper. It was misty. Why was there mist in his room? The little boy had seen it before it was always rolling over the lawn outside early in the morning, but it never came inside. Suddenly he could hear voices. He recognized the frantic voice of his mother. She sounded scared, his mum was never scared and that alone made the little boy's body tremble.
Who was she shouting at? Daddy was at work he never came home while it was still dark. Was it morning? Hiccup scurried to the other side of his bed coughing a few times as he pulled his curtains to the side. It was pitch black outside. Daddy shouldn't be home, so who was mummy shouting at? Why was she scared? Hiccup looked outside again. His daddy's car wasn't where it should be and there was no mist on the grass outside why had it moved inside?
"How did you find me?"
His mother screamed from outside his door somewhere. A voice too quiet for hiccup to hear what they were saying answered.
"I won't let you take him."
There was an edge to his mum's voice that the small boy had never heard before. Take who? Who was mummy mad at? She never got angry with him or daddy. All the while the boy sat wondering about the conversation behind the door the smoke in his room got thicker and his coughing got worse until it felt like someone was pushing down on his chest.
"Mummy, *Cough* mummy." Hiccup yelled at his door.
He knew he wasn't supposed to go wandering outside his bedroom at night unless he needed the bathroom so he stayed put. He could hear thuds and muffled voices behind his door before his mother replied.
"Its okay sweetie just wait there, mommy will be with you in a minute."
Her voice was wrong. She sounded like she always did but the small boy knew her voice so well he easily heard the worried undertone she was trying to hide. Orange and red started to flicker under the door making the shadows in the room dance around the toddler. The fog creeping into the room was becoming dense and Hiccup's little lungs were struggling to pull any oxygen from the room. Emerald eyes glanced at the window. The small vertically opening window was open just enough to allow a breeze to flow through his room. Biting his lip the boy moved towards the glass. He knew he wasn't supposed to go near the open window and Hiccup was always a good boy and stuck to the rules he was given to make his mummy and daddy happy, but he wanted the fresh air from outside to surround his face.
Slipping on the white plastic of the window sill hiccup clambered until he was kneeling on the little ledge and could push his face against the small gap, sucking the clean air into his lungs greedily. Sirens filled the silence of the night outside and Hiccup wondered where they were going. His bedroom door burst open and in his shock the boy slipped on the smooth plastic surface. The last thing he saw as his back hit the glass panel and it buckled under his weight, swinging open was his mother's bloodied face staring at him in shock. A tall thin man clad in shadow held on tightly to her auburn hair. As the air whooshed past him he swore he heard his mother scream his name.
END FLASHBACK...
Hiccup blinked at the fingers snapping in front of his face. Quickly looking up he saw Jack's pale face staring back at him.
"Where'd you go?" Jack asked watching him.
"I...I..." Hiccup wasn't sure what to tell him. He felt guilty at holding back but he'd only known the jock a day. Wasn't it too soon to share his deepest secrets with him? "I'm sorry...I d-don't feel too good."
"That's fine. It's been long day." North nodded more to himself then the teens in the room.
"I-I really n-need to see Astrid, and where's Toothless?" Hiccup asked the large man.
North shook his head making his white beard rustle. "I'm sorry Hiccup but it best you do not go near your friend right now." Hiccup slumped in his seat but North clapped his hands together and shouted in a joyful tone. "But I think seeing your dog would be good for you."
"R-really?" Hiccup smiled when the man nodded.
"Of course. He's an impressive dog. Very clever."
Jack watched as emerald eyes seemed to light up from inside. Hiccup really loved that dog that was clear. Why though was still a mystery to the platinum blond jock. North nodded to himself as he pulled out a cell phone from his pocket and scrolled through the numbers.
"JA, TADASHI..." North's face screwed up as something was said. "Sorry I just get excited... Could you bring Hiccup's dog with you?... No just the dog, tell girl it's still not safe for her to see him, she can stay with Aster... Boy must feed before we can let him leave here... Ja, bye." North turned to Hiccup who noticed his twinkling blue eyes were crinkled in the corners in an obvious smile. "Tadashi is collecting dog on his way back he just left the lab."
"Just left the lab? Seriously? Talk about take your time. Has he got me a top I bet he's forgot. To busy flirting with Honey again." The last part of Hiro's rant was mumbled but everyone in the room heard it.
For the first time Hiccup noticed Hiro wasn't wearing a top. He'd been so consumed with his inner turmoil it was the first time since leaving the testing room that he'd actually really looked at Hiro. The dark haired boy was still muttering under his breath about his brother. At his side Jack started humming a song Hiccup couldn't place. He'd heard it before but where the smaller teen couldn't be sure. It wasn't one from the charts, Hiccup wasn't big on music but Astrid was and always had music playing in her room when they studied together.
Hiro's mumbling stop and he jumped from his seat. "Jack stop. I will not let you get one of your stupid theme songs stuck in my head again."
Jack smiled but didn't falter in his humming. The jock was humming horribly off-key.
"Jack seriously please. Last week I was singing the theme song to teenage mutant ninja turtles for a week."Hiro wailed.
Hiccup smiled. "That doesn't sound too bad."
"It was the 80's theme song. The week before that it was Ghostbusters and before that it was Pokémon." Hiro tried to explain.
Hiccup shrugged he didn't quite get the problem. Hiro tried to explain how frustrating it was to get a song stuck in your head and Jack continued to hum his chosen song smiling to himself. Hiro covered his ears muttering curses as he tried to block Jack out and Hiccup giggled at the childish behaviour. Everyone here that he'd met so far seemed like they got on really well, like real siblings. Everyone but one person and Hiccup wasn't sure what he could do to fix that rift.
"Jack..." Hiccup said in a small voice.
Crystal blue eyes turned to stare into Hiccup's emerald ones. "Sup?" The smaller teen lifted an eyebrow but Jack just grinned.
Hiccup rolled his eyes. "I wanted to ask a-about Elsa."
The effect was instant the smile the jock had been wearing completely melted off his face.
"What about her?" It was easy to hear the caution in Jack's voice.
Hiccup looked at the floor. "S-she seems to r-really hate m-me, w-why?"
The jock frowned. "She doesn't hate you. Elsa's just... Elsa."
"What he means is she has trust issues." Hiro interjected.
"Trust issues?" Hiccup echoed.
The dark haired boy nodded folding his arms and leaning against the wall behind him. "It's a long story and it's not really my story to tell but I can give you the simple version." Jack shifted restlessly in his seat. "A few years ago a new guy turned up out of the blue a bit like you have. He and Elsa got close and then it turned out he was rouge. When it came out there was a huge fight and some people lost their lives. Sorry that's all we can say we all promised not to talk about it because it upset Elsa so much"
The auburn haired boy contemplated Hiro's brief explanation for a moment. It was obvious there was more to this story but he thought he understood more now. Could it be that Hiccup turning up the way he had brought up memories of the other person and Elsa was afraid of history repeating itself? If that was the case Hiccup was sure he could prove to the cheerleader he wasn't this person and hopefully they could get on...well he really hoped so.
PAGE BREAK...
Elsa stumbled behind the infuriated Tadashi as he dragged her down the corridor by her wrist at a complete loss to why he was so angry with her. The dark haired man hadn't said a word, just stomped up to her while she was talking to some of her underlings grabbed her and dragged her away. Usually Elsa would have ripped her arm free and demanded an explanation but because it was Tadashi who she'd never seen in this state before she bit her tongue and followed as gracefully as she could. Tadashi led them into the main conference hall that at present was uninhabited. The dark haired vampire all but threw Elsa into the middle of the room.
Elsa stumbled forward before spinning to face her lifelong friend face to face and screamed out in rage. "What the hell Tadashi?"
Elsa's wrath was famous in the mansion and most people went well out of their way to avoid it but Tadashi pounced forward with his own roar. "You could have got us killed."
Shock rendered the ice queen mute for a second before she could reply. "I-I have no idea what you mean."
"Bullshit Elsa. I've just seen Honey she told me that you rang her on your way back here when you were chasing after Jack. You rang her and demanded to know which room Hiccup was going to be in because you needed to head Jack off." Tadashi paused to suck in breath and as soon as he did Elsa jumped in.
"I did Jack read my text over my shoulder and then he took off. I knew he was coming for Hiccup my plan was to head him off, but Merida told him which room you were in blame her."
Running a hand through his hair Tadashi barked out a laugh. "How did she know? How Elsa? The only people who knew what room we were using were Honey, North, Hiro, me and you." Dark cat eyes fixed on the proud beautiful girl in front of him. "Honey hasn't left her lab all day. North and I carried Hiccup to the room with Hiro. Then North went back to his office with me to run through some things and Hiro stayed with the unconscious boy. How did Merida find out what room we were in?"
"How do I know. Mindreading isn't my gift."
Tadashi held out a phone and it wasn't his phone, Elsa's breathe caught because she knew whose phone it was.
"You told Ruffnut which room Hiccup was in." The low growl in Tadashi's voice sent a shiver down the cheerleader's spine. "You told one half of the biggest trouble makers in this school confidential information knowing they would tell every other wolf in this building what you had told them. That's how Merida knew. You planned for Jack to get to Hiccup. You planned to sabotage his test. You used Jack's emotional state to your advantage. You put us all in danger Elsa."
Elsa took a step back shaking her head. No the way Tadashi made it sound was wrong. She knew they wouldn't get hurt she had faith in her family, they were stronger than one little rouge fledgling. It was a sure bet with three of them. She hadn't put them in danger, she hadn't. She was just protecting them the sooner that Hiccup's mask was ripped off the less painful it would be for Jack. None of this, the missing people, the murders and Hiccup showing up was just chance. It was just like before but this time she and Jack's roles were reversed. This time Jack was the one helplessly in love with a monster and Elsa was the only one not taken in by the facade. Jack had tried to warn her back then but Elsa was too blinded to see, she ignored him just like Jack was ignoring her now. She had to stop it before it destroyed her brother like it destroyed her.
"I have to protect you...I have to protect all of you...I have to make a mends for what I did." Elsa whispered.
"You still haven't forgiven yourself for the massacre have you?" Tadashi asked in shock his anger leaving him.
"How could I? It was me who gave them that information, it was me who sent them to that warehouse, it was me who didn't even question him how he knew. I trusted him absolutely and because of that everyone was slaughtered." Elsa screamed her fists clenched tight.
"It was an accident no one could have known what was going to happen." The dark haired vampire tried to reason.
Tears started to fall from sapphire eyes. "Jack knew. He knew from the second he met him. He warned me over and over that I shouldn't trust him."
Tadashi pulled Elsa into hid strong arms and rocked her gently. "We all trusted him not just you. Nobody blames you Elsa I can't believe you've been carrying this alone for four years, why didn't you talk to someone?"
"How could I? How could I come crying to you knowing I'm the reason you and Hiro are orphans? That I'm the reason so many people here are missing vital people in their lives. Do you know how hard it is to face Jack and Anna everyday knowing that it's because of me our mother and father...are dead?" The platinum blond sobbed into her friend's chest.
Tadashi sighed as he rubbed the platinum blonds back. "You have to let it go. It wasn't your fault you don't have to make anything up to anybody."
"Yes I do, something's coming I can feel it and Hiccup's involved I know it." Elsa said as she stepped back and wiped at her red eyes. "This time I won't lose anybody nobody will die. This time I'll be ready."
