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What Did You Just Do?
by cookies5529, Moments ago
Literature / Fan Fiction / General Fiction
A/N: Alright. Before I get too far into this, I need to get a little something off of my chest which will probably...undoubtedly come back to bite me as it usually does. Granted, I am usually one that just takes things with a grain of salt with a 'meh, whatever' kind of attitude (just ask my family). However, this seems to be rubbing me in the wrong way, so to speak. So, in both regards to the reviews and my path of writing as far as these one shots in general:
1) Life isn't fair, otherwise I wouldn't have had to deal with bullies all through school, either. If anything, my brother was to blame but life just sucks that way sometimes. I only ended it in a "not really happy/sad" way, because I was pretty sure of the backlash.
2) I warned everyone about the healthy dose of angst, romance, etc to come in everything. Life isn't all roses and butterflies, so I'm not going to give everyone a happy ending every single time.
I'm sorry.
Summary: Takes place between first HTTYD movie and RTTE. Toothless accidentally breaks something valuable/important to Hiccup.
I know I said I was going to do the twins thing first, but I can probably do that later today.
What Did You Just Do?
Both Toothless and Hiccup had been acting a little odd lately, which was putting things rather mildly to say the least. Hiccup seemed to have this tense air about him and Toothless, who would usually be with him at all times was...conveniently absent. Again. Looking at the others, they seemed to have noticed it as well. While Snotlout and the twins were generally a rather obnoxious and hard to handle lot, they knew that Hiccup had been in no mood to mess around. It was a rare sight to see, but they knew that when Hiccup got angry, TRULY angry, it wasn't a pretty sight to behold. They had seen one poor soul cross the livid Haddock's path and barely suurvive to tell the tale. Astrid was about to make an attempt of her own, when she instead encountered Toothless.
It wasn't who she was necessarily hoping for, but she supposed she might as well start somewhere and the dragon wasn't nearly as hostile as his master. Probably.
"Toothless?" Astrid called, trying to be as calm and unthreatening as possible. The last thing she needed was for the dragon to flip out on her like Hiccup seemed to be doing these last few days. "Toothless, what's going on with Hiccup? Did something happen?"
Instead of getting angry like Hiccup probably would have, Toothless just moaned started to whimper. Something was definitely wrong. If Toothless was sad and Hiccup was beyond angry, that could only mean-
"Oh, Toothless." Astrid whispered, caressing his head gently. "What happened to you two? It must have been something dreadful, huh?"
Toothless just whimpered as he looked around, presumably for Hiccup. Well, she knew exactly where he was at and so did the whole academy. Snotlout wouldn't admit to it, but he was all too aware of how high he yelped when he was confronted by an irate Hiccup. He wasn't about to give out any major details about it, other than the fact that Hiccup had told him that he was going to see Gobber. Astrid wasn't sure at first why he'd do that until she heard some extra loud hammering, probably his version of anger management. She seriously doubted he was hitting anything besides the anvil at this point, but it was at least losing it's intensity now.
"He's with Gobber, Toothless. Do you have something to show me?" Astrid asked, practically cringing at the possibilities. Very few things could actually make him this mad, and she didn't want to think about what could have happened.
Toothless lowered his head in a gesture of acceptance or maybe even defeat. She wasn't sure which made her feel worse, to be honest. A dragon like Toothless accepting that he should just get it over with or feeling defeated without Hiccup beside him. It wasn't something she wanted to think about. The closer they got to Hiccup's house, the more she felt like she had swallowed a block of ice that refused to melt. She felt like she was invading his privacy, coming in his house like this. All of these thoughts kept circling around in her head until Toothless put something gently on the floor and started to whimper again. All of the sudden, that block of ice she thought she swallowed felt more like an iceberg.
The stuffed dragon that Hiccup's mom made for him was torn, almost beyond repair.
She felt the blood leave her face as she tried not to freak out at the ramifications. Could it be repaired? Probably. What had happened, though? It didn't just tear like this out of nowhere and Toothless was somehow involved.
Her thoughts were cut off as Toothless was putting it back where it had been. She heard a door open downstairs and slam shut, which made her inwardly panic. She had no doubt that it was Hiccup, and she was pretty sure that adding 'possibly EX best friend snuck my girlfriend in my room' would make things worse and not better. Glancing at Toothless, she pointed at the window. She was pretty sure that they BOTH needed to leave...at least for now. As they went out the window, they heard Hiccup come up the stairs.
Wait a minute.
Hiccup can sew...right? He could probably outdo most of the Viking women here on Berk, now that she thought about it. So, why hadn't he-
Before she could go any further with that thought, the bushes behind her started rustling. She hadn't realized it, but Toothless had led her back to the beginning-the cove. Astrid crouched into a fighting position, until she noticed Toothless more lackadaisical posture. Well, HE obviously wasn't concerned and he was rarely wrong, so she decided to just wait it out. A few moments later, a calmer and possibly easier to deal with Hiccup comes crashing through the brush. Astrid was more surprised by Toothless' lack of reaction than Hiccup's sudden appearance. Looking between the two, she could tell that her interference was definitely needed. Hiccup glanced at Toothless, trying to come off more offended and less hurt than he was. Being the horrible liar that he is, he probably didn't succeed half as well as he might have liked. Finally giving up, Hiccup sat by Astrid on a rock. They both sat in silence for a moment before talking both at once.
"Hiccup, we need to-"
"Astrid, I'm-"
Crickets chirped as they tried to decide who should go first.
"Hiccup?"
Hiccup sighed. Normally, he probably would have argued and would have debated until she finally gave in and said what she wanted before he did. But truthfully, it had been such a long week and she was probably counting on that.
"Astrid, I'm sorry. I know I've been pretty insufferable lately, but-"
"It's okay, Hiccup. I understand."
Hiccup's anger returned for a quick moment before he sighed in defeat.
"He showed you, didn't he?"
"Yes." Astrid said quietly, trying to keep Hiccup calm, but also trying to keep him from putting the other half of the puzzle together. Sometimes, she just wished he was stupid. At least, then, she wouldn't have to try so hard.
Hiccup nodded silently and then looked at Toothless...then back at her. Aaand, he was putting the puzzle together. There went her hopes of keeping him calm.
"That means...YOU WERE IN MY ROOM?!"
Astrid winced at the volume and Toothless covered his ears, whimpering. Seeing this, Hiccup's eyes softened. He didn't want to be mad at anyone, but this was an invasion of privacy!
"Why haven't you fixed it?" Astrid asked softly, cutting off any arguments he had.
"Well, I just-"
"Toothless has been very worried, you know. We all have, Hiccup. You haven't been yourself here lately."
"It was the only thing I have besides the whole breastsplate helmet, so-"
"But why haven't you fixed it?"
"I don't want to accidentally mess up the stitches. I haven't even touched it, but-"
"I want you to try and I want you both to start being friends again. You're driving everyone crazy like this. Fix the dragon- both of them." Astrid demanded, gesturing towards Toothless.
After a grueling experience of putting stitches on top of old stitches, his dragon looked more or less the same as it always had. Astrid never had gotten the story on what had happened to it, but she had a feeling that it involved Dragon Nip or something. It took a while, but Hiccup and Toothless got back to being as inseperable as they always were.
A/N: So, that pretty much concludes this particular one shot, which ends almost amicably. I'm thinking of adding in other characters at some point (most likely no OC)...a few AUs maybe.
