A/N I hate Monday. Sorry short chapter but today has been terrible. X2.5, sorry no shout outs, I realm just don't feel like it. Sorry. I sincerely hope your day has been better than mine has.
Enjoy the chapter! And if none of you have gotten this, Pyrexia is a synonym of Fever.
I hate you. What do you mean that's a surprise! I would have thought you would have had that figured out long before now.
I was worried.
Anxious, stressed, fidgety.
I paced every inch of the cell back forth.
Back and forth.
"Hey Astrid, if you keep pacing like that, you're gonna create a raven soon." Snotlout said somewhere behind me. I ignored him.
Back and forth.
"Yeah, and well as fun as that would be-" Ruffnut said, and Tuffnut finished her sentence,"-It's not exactly helping." I continued my pacing, "Didn't you see him?" I asked quietly stopping for the first time in hours. My feet ached but I didn't give them my attention. "Hiccup is dying." I said. They stared at me from their positions on the ground where they we're sitting, "We know." Fishlegs said quietly. I started up again and my heels nearly died, but I went on anyway.
Back and forth.
Fishlegs groaned and I turned to look back at him, "Sorry, I have a bruise that I keep rubbing against the wall. "Fishlegs said. I shook my head and resumed
Back and forth.
Ruffnut picked at a long scab on her arm, "Yeah, well that nothing. Look at this," Tuffnut said and lifted his head from the shadows. I gasped. His whole left side of his face was black and blue. Ruffnut dropped her arm and reached for her brother and turned his head so she could look at it.
"On second thought, yeah, yours is worse." Fishlegs promised. I continued pacing.
Back and forth
"Does it hurt?" Ruffnut asked and poked it, Tuffnut yelped,"Uh, yeah!" He exclaimed. Ruffnut pushed him away and his helmet scraped against the wall creating sparks, I watched the twins interact with my brain nearly a million miles away.
Was Hiccup okay?
We'd been separated and Hiccup wasn't conscious last I had seen him, after Alvin had spoken to him nearly two days ago he had passed out and fallen on the ground. We had been in this small cell for two days, and not one of our escape plans had even been plausible.
Back and forth.
I groaned in frustration and grabbed the cell bars and whacked my head against them, a hand touched my shoulder and I raised my now hurting head to look at them. Ruffnut stood with her hand on my shoulder. She sighed and wrapped me in a hug. I was shocked, Ruffnut knew how to be nice?
I sunk into her hug and managed to hold back my tears, Ruffnut held me tighter, "We're here for you, you know that right?" She asked, I nodded and Ruffnut pulled away, "Good, because like Hiccup says,"We are a team."" She said and I smiled weakly.
"We need a plan," Fishlegs added, I nodded and Ruffnut pulled away and sat down next to her brother and lifted his chin to stare at his bruise again. I wrung my hands and sighed before I continued the pace.
Back and forth.
Over and over.
Back and forth.
A loud growl stopped me mid step and I looked up, "Toothless?" I whispered. Toothless scanned the cell and looking thoroughly exhausted sighed and turned to leave. "Toothless!" I called the Night Fury looked at me and then the rest of the riders.
He was looking for Hiccup, I realized. I nodded my head, "Come back for us, Hiccup needs you." I told him. Toothless took off away from us and Snotlout let out a breath of disbelief, "Oh, great. You just got rid of our only escape. Way to go Astrid." He said.
I stalked up to him and grabbed the front of him shirt pulling him to his feet."Snotlout." I said very calmly, he looked at my eyes, "Toothless, is here for Hiccup. Not for us. I would much rather know that he was okay long before me. I would have thought you we're the same. You are his cousin."
I dropped him and walked back to the front of the cell and continued my pacing. "Yeah, you're right." Snotlout said and sat up against the wall again. Ruffnut and Tuffnut looked at me surprised but met each other's eyes and shrugged.
"So, what are we going to do Astrid?" Fishlegs asked, I turned to look at him, "We, are going to escape." I told him. Fishlegs looked at me and frowned, "Um, Astrid we don't even know where our dragons are." Fishlegs said. I walked over to Ruffnut. "I need your helmet." I told her, she took it off with out question and I jammed it into the lock, there was a horrible metal grinding against metal sound and sparks jumped from the lock, "Whoa," Ruffnut breathed. I shoved in harder and then pushed up.
The lock clicked and I pulled the helmet off. Ruffnut took it from my hands and placed it back on her head. "Didn't think that would work." I admitted. The rest of the riders looked at me. Snotlout stood then Fishlegs then finally Tuffnut. Ruffnut who was next to me fingered the lock as we walked out.
"Step number one, we need to find our dragons." I said and shut the cell door behind us. The other riders nodded and we walked forward when I realized something, "Do any of you know the way out?"