A/N: Just to let you guys know, I did get a job interview today, but I wont hear anything until the weekend. So if I do get the job, the updates might start to slow down. Hopefully it wont because I want to finish this.

Anyway, another time skip chapter! I know that there are a lot of these kinds of chapters, but again I'm doing this because I don't want this story to last forever.

*One Year Later*

It had been months since The Chief was told he was dying. He even got to see his son turn 26, but he knew that was going to be the last time he witnessed his son's birthday. He didn't know how much time he had left, so he started to set up some lessons for his son. He decided to wait to prepare his son for chiefing because his third anniversary was in a few days.

~oOo~

Stoick and Valka didn't plan to do anything special for their third anniversary. Even though The Chief said he was fine, they noticed him sleeping more. Stoick had to wake up his father for the past few days. This worried Stoick because normally his father was up before him. However, that was just another problem to deal with.

Valka is still hearing gossip about her not having children. She was getting tired hearing it, but now she was starting to question it. She started to wonder why she didn't get pregnant. Even though she doesn't feel ready for children, she wondered why she hadn't gotten pregnant yet. She lost her virginity a year ago; shouldn't she be pregnant by now?

Fearing the worst, she made a visit with Gothi that day. She had Gobber come with her to help translate her writings. He stayed outside of the hut when Valka was telling Gothi about her problem. After a while, Gobber was let in and saw his friend sitting down on the bed. When the old woman started to write, The Blacksmith watched her move her staff in the dirt she brought inside.

"She says 'when was the last time you…"Gobber scanned the writing and became red. "Do I really have to say this out loud?" Gothi hit him on the head with her staff. Gobber rubbed the top of his head and glared down at the mute woman. "Alright fine!" He sighed before he finished her question. "She wants to know when you bled last…..Didn't think I would say that before." He received another bonk on the head from her.

"Actually, I just finished bleeding."

"I didn't need to know that!" Gobber cried out and received a death glare from his friend.

"Gobber, I brought you to translate for me. Not to criticize my body."

"I can't help it. It's too weird!" the two women sighed and continued. Gothi wrote again and let Gobber read it.

"She says…whoa! That is way too personal! I don't want to know when my friends are…nope I'm done. See you later Valka!" Gobber shouted before leaving them. Valka sighed and shook her head.

"Okay, judging by Gobber's reaction, you want me and Stoick to be intimate soon." Gothi nodded and opened the door. "Wait, that's it?" She nodded and again.

"Oh…um, okay. I guess I'll talk to my husband about this. I'll see you later." She walked out the door and saw the old woman waving bye to her.

~oOo~

Stoick was sitting at the dining table when he heard the mounds of scrolls land in front of him. He looked at the scrolls then up at his father. "What are these?" he asked gesturing to the scrolling across the table.

"These are information about your people."

Stoick's eyes widened at the pile. He picked them up one by one and read it. "List of death, list of birth, list of marriage….." The Chief snatched them away from his son's hand.

"Those are just the foundation about being chief."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa…I'm learning about being chief now?" his father nodded. "I wasn't prepared for this dad."

"That was just another lesson; you should always be prepared for anything and everything that will happen in your village. It's just as important as serving your people."

"Serving my people?"

"Yes, no job is too small when it comes to serving your people."

"Dad, this is not how I want to spend my anniversary."

"Oh, I'm not giving you the real lessons until later; I'm just giving you a warm up."

~oOo~

Valka walked up to her house hearing her father-in-law and husband talk. From what she would hear by the conversation, he was getting ready to learn how to be chief soon. She took a deep breath and opened the door.

"Ah, Valka, how are you dear?" her chief asked seeing his daughter-in-law coming into the house.

"Oh I'm fine, but is it okay if I barrow Stoick for a moment?" she asked him.

"Yes of course, I need to leave anyway. I'll see you two later." The Chief said and left them alone. Valka took a seat next to her husband and bit her lip before giving out her statement. "Okay, before I start, I just want to say that I went to see Gothi earlier today."

"Why did you go to see Gothi? Are you sick? Did you catch what dad has?"

"No Stoick, I'm fine. I just wanted to talk to her."

"Talk to her about what?" Valka took a deep breath and looked up at him.

"I went to talk to her about…..children."

"Children? Why would you talk about…wait, are you pregnant?"

"No I'm not pregnant, but I was wondering why I wasn't getting pregnant."

"You want to have children? I thought you weren't ready."

"I'm not ready, but we have been with each other since last year. Don't you think it's weird that I haven't got pregnant yet?"

"It is strange, but we haven't had it very often to try for a child. Maybe we should worry about it when we start to try." Valka sighed and looked down at her hands that were set on the table. She saw her husband's massive hand cover her petite one. "Hey, don't worry about it. We have time to worry, but this is not the time." Valka nodded but kept her eyes away from him. Her fear was that she couldn't get pregnant, didn't he understand that?

~oOo~

The next day, Valka went to visit her family while Stoick was getting chief lessons. She knocked on the door and was let in by her brother. "Hey little sis, how are you?"

"I'm fine, but I haven't seen you in a while. What have you been doing?"

"Oh well, I've been trying to get a woman to court."

"Have you found anyone yet?"

"I've been thinking about The Kacpers' daughter."

"Oh Unn, she seems nice."

Unn was The Fisherman's daughter; she is their oldest as well. She was also very hard to find in a crowd. She's a little on the stocky side, but she had a beautiful face. She was also pretty short in comparison to everyone else in the village, but her whole family was like that.

"Yeah, but she won't give me a chance. I don't know what I'm doing wrong."

"Maybe I can help, what better way to get a girl than by getting tips from a girl?"

"You know what, you're right. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I need your help."

~oOo~

Valka saw the small black haired girl by The Forge. "Okay, we'll both walk over there. You flirt with her, and I'll watch."

"Okay great...do you want to start now?"

"Yes, now come on." The siblings walked towards the short woman. Valka watched in the background seeing her brother's attempt to flirt.

"Good morning Unn, beautiful day, uh?" Spitelout led with. Valka thought it was a good start, but now it was time to do it for real.

"Um yeah, a little chilly, but it's still sunny." She said looking up at him.

"So, do you have anything planned for tonight?" Valka's eye's widened. That was a little too forward! She even saw how Unn seemed to be unsure about him. She could tell that this wasn't going to end well.

"Actually I do. I'm going with my father to help him catch some fish. He heard there is a lake filled with salmon and-"

"Well you know what, your dad doesn't need help. He's an expert, what you need little lady is a break." Valka smacked her forehead; she knew that was a bad thing to say to Unn Kacper.

"Little lady? Is that a crack about my height? I can't help it! I was tall as a child, but I don't know how to get taller!"

"No, that's not what I meant!"

"Go to Helheim, Spitelout!" she cried out then smacked him in the face and left. Spitelout held his burning cheek and saw his sister with her face in her hands.

"How did I do?" Valka lifted her head and glared at him. "Please tell me you're joking, because that was the hardest thing for me to watch!"

"I panicked! I didn't know what to do!"

"Oh boy, you got it bad…." Valka stared up at her brother.

"Well I'm sorry, not all of us can marry to avoid the torture of flirting." Valka groaned and rolled her eyes.

"Alright, I'll try to help you court her; just don't be a stubborn bull about it."

A/N: Well, know to you where Snotlout gets his bad flirting from. Anyway, I'll try to update next week if I do get the job.