A/N: Hey guys what's up? Well enough of this, lets get to the story!

Stoick stared at the record his father wrote. This couldn't be right! This didn't add up! This didn't make any since. How could this be? Stoick scanned his eyes over making Valka notice him frowning at the scroll.
"Honey, what's wrong?"

"How old is Alessia?" Stoick asked keeping his eyes on the scroll.

Valka looked at him in question, but answered. "She's 20; she'll be 21 next month, why?"

"What about Lisbett?"

"She just turned 23."

"And Ruta?"

"She's 25" Valka answered than finally asked "Stoick where is all of this coming from?"

Stoick rolled up the scroll and stood up. "That's what I thought." He whispered to himself then looked at his wife. "Val, when we got engaged, what did your parents tell you? What did they say the reason was for the marriage?"

Valka took a deep breath trying to remember her parents' exact words. "Just that they thought it would be best for our family status or something like that." After she gave him her answer, he put the scroll in his belt then stomped to the front door and practically pushed Valka out and shut the door behind them when they walked out.

"Stoick, what is going on?! Why are you acting like this?!" she shouted as he grabbed her arm as they stomped away from their house.

"We are going to your parents' house," He stated. Valka struggled through his grip and she finally shouted at him to let go. Stoick released his hand on her arm and faced her.

"Can you please tell me why we are going to my parent's house?" she asked rubbing her arm.

"I need to get some clarification and I'm pretty sure you want to be there." He said and they walked to the house. Once they were in front of the house, Stoick banged on the door and Spitelout opened it to only find a confused Valka and a furious Stoick.

"Hey guys, what's going on?"

"I need to talk to your parents," Stoick demanded.

"Um, well mom is here, but dad is out fishing." Spitelout answered and let his brother-in-law and sister in. Mrs. Jorgenson saw them walk in and noticed her son-in-law's frown first then her daughter looking frightened.

"What's going on, Stoick?"

"When you and Shoutlout told Valka about the engagement, what did you tell her?" Stoick asked. Mrs. Jorgenson took a seat trying to remember what happened years ago.

"When my husband told me about the engagement, I knew it was a bad idea, but he convinced me that it was best for Valka. She was so young….maybe too young, but it was done. He told me that it might help her and our family with our class, but I didn't know what he truly meant. Every night since the engagement, I asked him how it will help our status, but he would change the subject every time I brought it up. So I gave up trying to talk to him about it." She said seeing Stoick's face soften up.

"So, you didn't plan the engagement?" Stoick asked.

"No, your father and my husband did. It was out of the blue information. He practically walked in and said 'oh just to let you know, chief and I talk and our daughter is engaged to Stoick'. I didn't get to have a say!"

Suddenly, the door opened and they all saw Shoutlout walking in with a bag of fish hanging over his shoulder. He first noticed Stoick glaring at him and the others looking at him in worry. "What did I just walk into?"

"Dad, why did I marry Stoick?" Valka asked as she walked over to him. She saw her father staring at her in shock, and then turned into sorrow when he saw a scroll tucked in Stoick's belt. He placed the bag on the ground and walked over to his son-in-law.

"So, you figured it out. I wondered if you ever would find out." He said and pulled out two chairs for them to sit in. "Please sit down, and we'll talk like civil men."

"No, tell me why my father said that Valka was the eldest maiden."

"What?!" cried out Valka along with her mother and brother. They never heard anything so ridiculous.

Shoutlout knew that this would start a fight and sat down before he started his tale. "I was scared that Valka would never find love. When she was born, she was small. The smallest one in our family, I was scared that people would look at her size and brush her off once she was at betrothal age."

Shoutlout took a deep breath and continued. "About 10 years ago, your father and I talked about marriage arrangements. I told him because of the fact that Valka was born an almost hiccup, that no one would want to marry her. Even though she wasn't an official hiccup, being an almost hiccup was just as bad. The only time when a hiccup got married was if they were of chieftain blood. I was scared that no one would want to marry her."

Valka had to take a seat. She couldn't believe what her father was saying. He thought that she would never get married simply because of her body size? She started to feel sick and she knew that it wasn't because of the baby this time. She looked down trying to wrap this around her head, then she heard her father take a deep breath again to finish.

"So at that moment, the two of you were officially betrothed. We agreed that you two would be married once Valka started to bleed but she stared earlier than we thought, but a deal was a deal."

"That deal was your daughter's life." Stoick growled looking down at his father-in-law. "My father told me that she was the oldest maiden and that I had to marry her. I want to know how he kept that secret for four years."

Shoutlout looked up at him and stood up to face him. "Alright I'll tell you…you know why it was so easy? It's because you didn't care about your people. You were all about your friends, getting drunk, and training in the woods till dawn. In your younger years you were a great warrior I'll give you that, but you were a lousy future leader and that's why it was so easy for your father to lie to you about your people's lives." Stoick raised his fist and was ready to punch him in the face. He stopped when he heard his wife cry out for him to not hit her father.

Stoick was hesitant, but lowered his fist. Valka walked over to him and stood between them to face her father. "Dad, if what you're saying is true, then when did the women who were older than me get married?"

"During your two month vacation," he said and saw that the couple now understood how it happened.

"My father sent us away for two months so he could marry off those three couples while we were gone. He lied to me and found a way to keep it a secret," Stoick thought out loud.

"And because Valka knew her people, she was told that the reason she got married was because of family status. And for you, it was because Valka was the oldest maiden because you knew more about combat than the people back then. It worked out, you two have a great marriage and now you're having a baby. So how about we just drop it and let this be behind us."

"Let this be behind us?!" Mrs. Jorgenson screamed. Everyone turned their heads and saw the woman filled with fury and pushed her daughter and chief out of the way to face her husband. "You gave up our daughter's life at seven! Seven Shoutlout! What made you think that this was a great idea? Were you drunk at the time? Why didn't you talk to me about it?"

"Because I knew you would say 'no'."

"You bet your life I would have said 'no'! What were you thinking?! No wait I'll tell you what you were thinking, you weren't thinking at all! How could you do this? To our daughter?! I knew she was too young to get married, I should have gone with my gut and broke the marriage before it happened and she might still be living here with us, unmarried, and looking for a husband like a normal woman!" she shouted feeling her body shake from her yelling.

"Mom?" Mrs. Jorgenson heard her daughter and turned around to face her. She saw sorrow in her daughter's eyes when she placed a hand on her bump. Mrs. Jorgenson gasped once she realized what she had just said. She walked over to her daughter and placed her hands on her shoulders to get her attention.

"Oh honey, that's not what I meant. I just-"

"I-I need to go." Valka said trying to swallow the growing lump in her throat. She pried her mother's hands off and walked out of the house. Stoick was about to follow her, but was stopped when he felt Spitelout put a hand on his shoulder. Stoick rolled his shoulder to move Spitelout's hand away and faced his father-in-law.

"I have a feeling that you are not telling me the whole truth, but I know enough that you are a snake. Do you understand what must be going through Valka's head right now? I can only imagine what she must be feeling. What you have done is despicable, and I don't think Valka and I would look at you the same way ever again." Stoick said and walked out of the house slamming the door behind him.

Shoutlout saw his son and wife staring at him in disbelief. Spitelout shook his head and walked out of the house. Shoutlout stared at his wife seeing angry tears in her eyes; she walked over to him and raised her hand and slapped him across his face leaving a bright red mark.

"I thought you were a better man than this." She whispered and walked out leaving him alone in the house.

~oOo~

Valka walked into the woods and fell to her knees when she didn't have the strength to walk any further. She cried out like she never did before. She leaned on a tree and stared at her bump that held her growing child. She wrapped her arms around her swollen stomach and felt the hot tears falling down her face. "You are not a mistake, do you understand me? I don't know if you can hear me, or if you heard anything that just happened. Please understand that I'll always love you." She whispered to her unborn child.

"I have to agree." Valka jumped hearing her husband's voice behind her. She lifted her head up to only see distress in his eyes. Stoick sat next to his wife and put an arm around her shoulders. Valka stiffened up then relaxed under his touch. She kept her head down looking at her swollen stomach. She sighed then said "I feel like four years of our life, is just a…..a lie. Like everything we've been though together shouldn't have happened."

Stoick sighed and rubbed his hand on her arm. "I feel like, I took your childhood away. If I wasn't so selfish and had thought about your life before mine, and hadn't listened to my father and talked to you about it while we were still engaged, I could have stopped this."

"Can you please stop talking like that?" she asked feeling more tears going down her face. "I love my life; I just wish that it didn't have to start with our fathers lying to us."

"Me too," Stoick said then took a deep breath. "So what now? What do we do? Just pretend that this day never happened? Try to live through this?"

"I don't know, but all I want to do right now is go home and lie down and forget about this day for a few hours," She said. Stoick nodded and helped her get up from the dirt ground. He put an arm around her shoulders as they walked back home. This was the worst way to spend their anniversary, now he truly wished that he hadn't looked at his father's records.

A/N: Just to let you know, this is just the beginning. Get ready for an emotional roller coaster.