This is a series of one shots with different AUs, Big fours, or anything else that involves Merida and Hiccup. If any of you have suggestion or requests your more than welcome to ask me.
I don't know Brave nor do I own How to Train your Dragon or any of the characters in the movie or other character used in this chapter. Although there behaviors may be change for the one shots.
Set in Modern times with all of the characters being in college. Merida and Rapunzel living together. Merida finding Toothless, Merida getting attacked in her apartment.
Merida point of view
I sighed leaning my head against the window, as I began to clench and unclench my fingers letting out a loud sigh as my bus finally reached my stop. I grabbed my backpack and my archery gear swinging my gear over my shoulder being carfully that it didn't get lost in my mass of curls. I got off the bus readjusting my straps and started to make my way to my apartment building.
"I hope Punzie made dinner, I'm starving," I mutter to myself as I begin the fifteen-minute walk home. It was about 8:00 on a Friday night and there was no one insight. 'Probably all out having fun, while I'm over here breaking my back with school and archery.' I sigh 'but I can't get less than a B in any class or mum will stop paying my archery practice.' I grimace remembering the long written out contract my mum and I made when I went to college. Her way of letting me have my freedom while still having some reign over me.
I sighed digging through my pocket pulling out my iPhone, about to put my headphone on. Well that was until I heard a loud whine. I looked around trying to figure out where the sound was coming from, but I couldn't see anything. I kept walking slowing my pace down. Then I heard it again more whining and whimpering, but I couldn't see anything. Using my iPhone as I light I began to scan the area. I followed the sound noticing that is was coming from the parking lot of my apartment building. Suddenly I heard a loud bark followed by a whine.
That when I saw it, a huge black dog chained to a tree, our apartment building was surrounded with grassy area some filled with large trees. It was a nice place to sit and study when it when the weather allowed it. I walked closer to the black dog, the thing was huge, almost as big as my Irish wolfhounds back home, but as I got closer I could tell that it was a Doberman, the biggest one I had ever seen, but still a Doberman based on its marking. The dog looked at me and I was shocked by the color of its eyes. They weren't dark, but rather a lush green color like something you would find on a cat. The dog barked at me, but its little nub was shaking its cropped ears pointed up.
"Hi there boy" I say slowly approaching the dog sticking my hand out. The dog opened its mouth its tongue hanging out almost smiling as its whole butt began to shake. I placed my hand on its hand scratching its ear. The dog seemed to give out a content sigh leaning against my hand. "Well what are you doing out here." I ask, still petting the dog. The dog just barked at me until it started to growl.
I backed up thinking I did something to upset it until I heard a "Miss" I turned around to come face to face with the landlord of the building. An old bitter women, "Is that your dog?" she asked
"Uhhh" I looked at the dog to her.
"Its been barking and whining for hours" she snapped "If its not your dog I'm calling the pound, it is causing to much of a ruckus I've been getting complaints for hours."
"Uhh" again I looked at the dog and her watching as she reached for her phone. "Yes it's my dog," I shout not thinking "I'm sorry my roommate must have put him out here. I'll take him back inside" I say starting to unchain the dog from the tree. "It won't happen again."
The women nodded "see that it doesn't" and walked away.
I looked down at the dog as it sat at my feet giving a happy bark. "Looks like your spending the night with me until I can find your owner." I say to him, which I receive another bark. I began to make my way to my apartment the dog following me faithfully at my side. I try to remember if I had ever seen this dog before or anyone that would own a dog like this, but I can honestly say I had no idea where this dog came from. I sighed walking up the steps to my apartment, the dog walking very close to me almost pushing me.
I got to my door and opened it, the dog rushing inside, the chain leash ripped from my grip. "Hey" I shouted, walking in watching as the dog seemed to circle the apartment, running everywhere it could, which wasn't much seeing as this was a two bedroom one bath apartment. I placed my bag on the ground by the door, placing my archery equipment on the table. Walking into the kitchen I grabbed an apple off the counter.
I leaned against the counter taking a sigh running through the list of assignments I had to get done tonight. I was brought out of my thoughts by a loud bark and an uncomfortable pressure on my foot. I looked down and noticed that the giant Doberman was sitting on my foot looking at me with eerie green eyes. It whined leaning against my leg.
"Are you hungry?" I ask, taking another bite of my apple. The dog barked, its ears perking up. I sighed nudging the dog off my foot. It moved the chain rattling with him. I placed my apple on the counter and began to unclip the chain leash. The dog had a brown leather collar with a tag on something I hadn't noticed before. I looked at the tag hoping for a number to call, but the only thing on it was the name 'TOOTHLESS.'
"Toothless" I mutter the dogs ears perked "That's your name Toothless." The dog barked grinning. "Alright than Toothless lets try to find you some food." I walked over to fridge hoping to find something to eat for the both of us. Toothless stayed where he was at inching closer and closer to he fridge. When he got close enough I jumped in front of him roaring. He yipped backing away sliding on the floor, before realizing what he did he started to bark. I could only laugh, this dog was so big and vicious looking, but it was just a wee lamb.
I kept laughing as I pulled the last pieces of ham that Rapunzel made for dinner about two days ago; I placed it on a plate for Toothless. He looked at me than the plate. "Ahh don't be such a baby eat it, better than a wee sheep stomach I can tell you that much." I say looking for something for me to eat. I pull my hair back tieing it in a ponytail so that it was out of my face. I sighed not finding anything for me to eat in the almost empty fridge; I close the fridge door and notice a note on the fridge. It was from Punzie,
"Merida" I read "Flynn surprised me with a special date today since its our anniversary. So I couldn't make dinner, sorry, I mean I'm really really-" I stopped reading rolling my eyes dropping to the P.S section. "P.S. since there nothing to eat here are some coupons for the pizza. Be home around 11:00, don't worry about me I have Flynn with me, but make sure the door it closed." I roll my eyes at the 11:00 part; Punzie has this weird belief that bad things happen after 11:00, but with the recent home invasions in the area I guess Punzie isn't to far off.
"Well it looks like I'm getting pizza." I say ripping the coupon off the fridge and grabbing my phone from my pocket.
After Toothless was done eating and I was waiting for my pizza, I began to do some homework. Taking a seat on the couch I began to read my biology book well that was until a certain head plopped itself in my book. I looked at the dog and it gave me a low whine. "Toothless come on I need to read." I tried to nudge the beast head, but he would just drop it in my lap. I sighed, looking at the dog for a moment before I patted the spot next to me on the couch. Toothless ears perked and he wasted no time jumping on the couch laying down next to me his head still in my lap. I sigh, "I guess I can read later" I mutter reaching for the remote. We began to channel surf.
That's when the doorbell rang; Toothless didn't do anything just stayed lying on the couch watching tv. "Aren't you supposed to be a guard dog?" I said, petting his head. He gave a grunt, but other than that didn't move.
I went to the door opening it to see the pizza guy standing there. He was in normal pizza gear, his face covered by his ridiculous hat; he was pretty tall, white, and somewhat muscular.
"That will be $10" he says his voice raspy. I nodded pulling out $10 from my pocket and handing it over to the man. He grabbed it, but as he grabbed my money something about him felt odd. He handed me the pizza and wished me a goodnight. I closed the door making sure it was locked, because something about that man was just weird. I didn't give it another thought though as I began to eating my pizza.
It wasn't until I few minutes later that I started to feel funny. I suddenly felt really tired, and when I tried to stand up I found that everything in the apartment was spinning. "I can't get sick now," I mumbled, trying to make my way towards the kitchen. I must have worried Toothless because he followed me off the couch. After I got a cup of water my head started to feel funny. "Medicine" I muttered trying to make my way to the bathroom, but my legs felt like jelly. I made it to the bathroom, but I'm not really sure how since everything seems to be doubled I know it took me at least two times to get the door handle on the bathroom, but as I walked into the room everything started to blur together and it seemed like I was falling, but I couldn't be sure because the next thing I knew everything was black.
The next thing I hear is a loud growl coming from somewhere inside the apartment followed by some barks. I hear a shout, but all I could think about was that my head hurt. Everything was still kind of blurry and I felt like I was about to vomit, but than I heard a loud crashing sound. I tried to stand up, but my limbs weren't listening to me. It was hard enough to lift my head let alone my body. So I did the only thing I could do, I crawled out of the bathroom, still not sure how I ended up on the floor. As I got to the hallway I tried to stand again using the wall for support, but found myself stumbling too much. So I stayed on the ground crawling to the loud growls.
By the time I reached the living room I was exhausted, but that's when something big and black came into view. It was blurred still, but as I felt something wet touch my cheek I could only slur out a "Toothless." The dog whined nudging my face, but I couldn't get up and I was starting to feel dizzy again. But Toothless kept nudging me and with some help from the giant dog I was finally able to stand. It was slow to get to the kitchen, but eventually we did it. And even with my clouded mine I could still be surprised by the unconscious pizza man on my living room floor.
Suddenly everything started to get a little clearer and I stumbled my way over to the phone dialing 911. I tried to tell the operator what was going on, but everything was coming out slurred. My tone must have said it all though because the operator said "help was on the way." That was when I heard the groan coming behind me. Not even thinking I dropped the phone and went for my bow. I stumbled over my feet and my hands weren't opening the zipper fast enough, but I pulled out my bow and grabbed one of the arrows.
Walking over to the semi-conscious man I leaned over him trying my best to stop the world from spinning. I got into my stance focusing on the finally one still body on the ground. He groaned again raising his hand to his head before he finally looked at me. Toothless barked again his growls becoming louder as he stood by my side supporting me as I started to lean. The man blinked his eyes and I notched back the arrow. "Don't move," I say as best I can with my accent and my slurred voice.
The man does nothing, but place his hands up in surrender. "You're suppose to be knocked out" is all he says as he tries to back away, Toothless lunging a bit because of the movement.
"Your going to have to do better than that" I say or at least that what I wanted to say, I can't really sure what came out of my mouth. I'm not sure how long we stayed like that, but before I knew it I heard sirens and someone in a blue uniform was telling me to lower my weapon. I did and that's when the police swarmed in. Toothless not sure what was going on stood in front of me growling and barking loudly. Without Toothless up against my leg I found in hard to stand and found myself slowly falling to the ground. I was able to catch myself, grabbing a hold of Toothless' collar and trying my best to calm the dog down as the police did their job. Everything was still a little fuzzy.
I was still slow to connect everything, but the police said that the pizza man had probably placed a drug in the pizza and than waited to come back, apparently unaware that I had a dog with me. When he came back he picked the lock, opened the door and came inside only to be attacked Toothless who knocked the man out when he pounced on him. They weren't sure if he was responsible for the other attacks in the neighborhood, but they were going to check to see if the other victims had ordered pizza or not. The police said that I should probably go to the hospital, but Toothless wouldn't let anyone near me without growling.
I told the policeman I would go, but only if the dog came with me. He agreed as long as Toothless was kept under control. I asked one of the officers if they could hold off calling my roommate, I didn't want to ruin their anniversary. The cop said he would, that they would have to tap off the apartment for a while anyways, so if she came by he would tell her what happened and where I could be found. I thanked them and headed to the hospital Toothless in the ambulance with me.
I'm not sure what happened, but the next thing I knew I was in a bed, bright light up above me. I opened my eyes blinking away the sleepiness, trying my best to adjust to the sudden invasion of light. Only to see giant green eyes staring back at me. I chuckled to myself, petting Toothless who was lying on the bed with me. "You saved my life you know that?" Toothless barked "Guess I owe you something more than ham," The dog barked again nudging my stomach. I smiled petting his head, until my door swung open and I was engulfed in a hug. The only thing I could see was brown.
"Punzie" I muttered surprised by the sobbing girl that was clinging to me quit painfully.
She pulled back to look at me a glare on her face even though she was still crying. "If something like this ever happens you don't NOT CALL ME. I WAS WORRIED SICK." She shouts releasing me so she can throw her hands up in the air. "I come home to find out apartment tapped off by cops telling me it's a crime sense. That my roommate, MY ROOMATE was attacked; I DON'T CARE IF IT'S MY STINKIN WEDDING YOU CALL ME." I shrink back a bit not really sure how to handle a hysterical Rapunzel. Luckily Toothless began to growl clearly not liking the fact that I was being yelled at.
"Whose this" she says completely forgetting that she was shouting at me.
"Toothless, I found him tied up outside out apartments, the land lord was going to call the pound so I said it was mine. He saved me." I said patting the dog's head.
"Toothless why does that name sound familiar?" She says tapping her chin for a moment. "I'm sure I've heard that name somewhere." I just kept scratching Toothless more than happy to let Rapunzel think rather than have her yelling at me. "It doesn't matter," she finally announces. "The doctors said that you can get discharged, so you're coming home with me and we are going to Flynn's place for a while. Your going to rest and I'm going to find a new place for us to live."
I roll my eyes "Aren't you exaggerating? We don't need to move?" Rapunzel glares at me and again I lean back not sure what to do, since Rapunzel never glares.
"You were attacked" she says slowly "in our apartment. You…me…us…are not going to live where you were attacked." She says walking out of the room slamming the door shut.
I blinked at the door than looked down at Toothless "That was weird." Toothless whines.
The next few days all happened in a blur. I was checked out of the hospital Toothless still with me as we all crashed in Flynn's one bedroom apartment. It was cramped, but Flynn was adamant about us not going back to the apartment, but something told me it was more for Rapunzel's sake than mine.
He and one of his Christopher, Kristoff, I don't know I forgot his name, went back with Rapunzel to pack up things while I was left at Flynn's place to 'recover.' I rolled my eyes at them, I knew that I was in danger and that I should be more freaked out by what happened, but the only thing I can do it move past it and try to make sure that it never happens against which mean NO MORE TAKE OUT FOOD. Flynn's place was even more cramped when we tried to pack all our stuff in it.
I called one of my friends Mavis a fellow athlete even if it was dancing. Her father owned a line of hotels and real state you could say that her family and my family have been business friends forever, Mavis and I bonding over our overprotective-let-us-do-nothing parents. That when she told me that she was actually looking for roommates because she and a friend of hers Tooth I think she called her were bought a cheap house and were looking for roommate to help make the rent more reasonable. I jumped on the offer, anything to get out of Flynn's no-room-apartment. So as the guys began to move our stuff to the new house, something apparently I still couldn't do because I was still 'recovering.'
So I began to make posters of Toothless because as much as I loved that dog, he wasn't as happy as he used to be, and I think he misses his original owner. I mean hey maybe his owner had a good reason for leashing him up to a tree. So I made posters and began to make copies.
By Sunday night all of our stuff was in the four-bedroom two-bath house with a decent kitchen and living room, the rooms were a bit small, but the bathroom was much bigger than the old apartment. However when I made the suggestion to go to the old apartment to hang up the flyers everyone shot me down. After some arguing Flynn said that he and his buddy would hang them up around the apartment Monday morning when they went to pick up Rapunzel and I deposit check.
Monday came and I didn't feel like going to school, seeing as how I didn't do any of my homework, but I figured I could go and talk to the professors about the situation I was in. Apparently the police had notified the school that one of its students were attacked and the dean told my professors what happened and I was off the hook at least for last weeks assignments.
It wasn't until Monday after school that things got interesting. Rapunzel came home looking for Toothless and I. She burst into my room and exclaims that she knew who Toothless owner was. Apparently it was a boy in one of her art classes and they had talked before and that's why the name sounded familiar. Apparently the boy had been looking for his dog all weekend so when he came to class looking distraught Rapunzel asked him what was wrong. He told her that his stupid roommate Jack Overland had tied his dog to a tree and now was missing, they looked for him all weekend, but because of a home invasion in his apartment building he wasn't able to ask anyone if they had seen his dog. My mouth dropped at the story. Rapunzel squealed that he would be here soon; he needed to get his car to take Toothless home.
Toothless barked at the new as if he understood, I on the other hand was slightly put off. Although I knew Toothless belonged to someone else, I had grown attached to the dog, and it stung to know that I couldn't keep him because he belong to someone that actually cared about him. Rapunzel left saying that she was going to make dinner and that Flynn and Aster a friend of Toothiana that I had never meet were coming over.
An hour later, before there was even a knock on the door Toothless bolted out of my room barking. When he reached the door he started to scratch it desperately wanting to go outside, until finally Rapunzel let him out. He ran outside circling a 1976 Ford truck that was in our driveway.
The door swung open and before the driver could come out Toothless jumped on him. I could here "I'm glad to see you to boy." Eventually Toothless got down and the guy got out of the truck.
He was a brown hair boy with a single braid in the back. He was wearing a leather jacket and a plan green shirt underneath, dark jeans and converse. He was tall a little shorted than Flynn, but still taller than me. He had a cut on his lower chin a smile on his face. As he began to walk over to me my eyes drifted to his leg. It took me a while something off about it until I finally figured out that one of his legs was fake. A prosthetic from the way the fabric of the jean fell on it, it was the same way my dad's pants looked on him at a certain point the fabric is just floating there.
"So you're the one that found my dog," the boy says awkwardly as he takes a step closer to me.
"Yup, I wondered what type of person would leave there dog tied up to the tree." I say trying to sound defensive as I place my hands on my hips.
The boy sighs closing his emerald eyes "one that has an idiot for a roommate."
I chuckle to myself "well I guess in the end it worked out for everyone."
He looks at me for a second, until realization hit, his eyes widen. "Right you were the one attacked…ah geez….that must have been…I mean I couldn't….Toothless…" the boy was rambling and I couldn't help laugh again.
"It's alright lad, it happened I'm just glad you have a stupid roommate." I say as I pat my thigh Toothless walking over to my side. I scratch his head right behind his ear.
The guy gave a nervous laugh before scratching his neck "Is it true?"
"What?" I ask, not really sure what he was asking.
"That even though you were drugged you pulled a bow and arrow on the guy." He said, really fast looking kind of sheepish as if he couldn't believe he asked me that.
"Yes" I say not really sure if I should have answered truthfully or not.
So I was surprised when he just suddenly blurted out "That's amazing…" he must have realized what he blurted out because he suddenly looked embarrassed "I mean the situation was horrible….but it was cool…I mean not cool, but amazing that you were able to defend yourself…not that I don't think you couldn't defend yourself…I mean you look like a fighter…but not a bad fighter." He was quickly getting red as he kept his rambling going.
I couldn't help it, I laughed. I mean no one has made a comment on me pulling out my bow, the cops looked at me oddly and asked me to repeat myself, but no one called it amazing. If anything everyone has been telling me that I needed to be more carful, like it was my fault, like I asked the guy to drug me and enter the apartment.
The boy must have taken my laugh the wrong way because he lowered his head "I should stop talking now."
"No no its fine," I say trying to wave off his embarrassment. "Oh my names Merida by the way." I say finally realizing that I don't know this guys name. I stuck my hand out waiting for him to shake it.
"My names Henry, but everyone calls me Hiccup." He says shaking my hand.
"Hiccup" I mutter, "you two sure have interesting names Toothless and Hiccup."
"Yah well what can I say" he says, his face starting to become a little less red. We stood there for a moment not really sure what to say to each other. "So" he says taking his hand back. "We better be going," he says taking a step back to his truck, but Toothless whined staying by my side.
"Toothless come on" Hiccup says patting his leg, but Toothless just whined again.
"Or you could stay for dinner." I say, looking just as shocked as Hiccup when it finally registered what I said.
"Uhh we couldn't," he says looking awkward.
"YES YOU CAN" came a shout, we both turned towards the still open door to see Mavis, Tooth, and Punzie all standing there staring at us. "Really we don't mind I made enough." Shouts Punzie, Tooth giggling behind her as Mavis just gave me a thumb up.
Hiccup gave an awkward chuckle "we really couldn't he" says taking another step back as the girls made a very loud protest.
I smiled walking over to the embarrassed boy looping my arms through his slightly muscular one. "Come on don't be such a lamb we don't bite…well Mavis might, but only if you ask her to" I say winking, the boy instantly got red again making it easier to drag him into the house. For some reason it was just so much fun to see Hiccup flustered. Toothless barked happily squeezing in between us as we made it to the door.
For the rest of the night everyone got to meet everyone. I learned that Tooth her really name Toothiana was going to school to be a dentist, but knows Mavis through a dance class. Aster is her childhood friend who is Australian and into rugby and track he's here on an athlete scholarship. Hiccup is an engineer major with a minor in art, and although he thinks he's not that good, Rapunzel begs to differ. There was a whole argument about who was a better artist each one claiming that the other was better. So it was decided that they would have an art off, each person would draw three pictures could be of anything and the group would take a vote, but they had two weeks to finish them.
Finally everyone called it a night each of us agreeing that we should do this again some time, everyone trading numbers especially Aster and I, he was willing to teach me ruby if I taught him archery.
When Hiccup said it was time for him to leave I walked him to his truck. "Thanks for dinner" he said, stuffing his hand into his pocket to pull out his keys.
"No problem it was fun, besides I'm really looking forward to seeing your artwork." This time he got red again.
"Its not really that great, really." He says scratching his neck.
"If Rapunzel says it is that it is." I say watching as he opened the door, Toothless jumping inside. "Bye Toothless" I say walking over to pet the giant beast. Toothless grinned trying to lick my face.
"No kisses your breath stinks." I say pushing the dog away.
Hiccup laughed closing the door. "Actually I was wondering…my roommate doesn't really like Toothless and you see I work at an auto shop after school so I don't get home till late maybe…maybe I could drop Toothless off here?" He asks hesitantly.
I stare at him dumbly for a moment. He starts to backtrack "you don't have to I mean it just seems like you like Toothless, but I mean if your busy I-" before I knew what I was doing I had launched myself at Hiccup, hugging me tightly.
"I would love to." I say letting go of him, his face was almost as red as my hair, but he pulled himself away from me clearing his throat saying "Great, yah, umm I'll text you to see when I should drop him off." He says walking backward around the truck, until he missed the curb tripping over his feet. I rushed over to see if he was okay, but he quickly got up shouting "I'm okay, I'm okay" before making it into the truck. He waved goodbye, Toothless barking and they drove off.
For the next few days Hiccup would drop off Toothless at the house and I would watch him until Hiccup got off from work. Which was usually around 9:00 pm, one times the boy was so tired that I'd offered up the couch, he refused of course saying he couldn't impose, but with some convincing and stealing of his keys he agreed. We watched movies in the living room until we both passed out on the floor wrapped in blankets Toothless laying in between us. Which I was thankful for, because although I seemed very adjusted about what happened it wasn't until I went to sleep alone that I started to have nightmares about what could have happened. They started the night Hiccup took Toothless away. So it was hard to get any sleep so for the past few days although I've been getting a lot of schoolwork done. I haven't told anybody about the nightmare although I think Rapunzel knows that something's wrong.
On weekends Hiccup would bring Toothless over and just hang out, one time we even went to the archery range because I still had a competition coming up. However with out much sleep my aim wasn't that great, although I still hit the bull eyes some were barely in range. So one day I was surprised when he brought over a teddy bear…well a dragon bear plushie thing.
He was really embarrassed when he gave it to me, to the point where he couldn't even make eye contact with me. It was a small plushie, old to, some of the stitching was missing the blue was tattered and faded certain splotches of dark stains. It had huge button eyes and an even larger nose, with four pieces sticking out of its head like a crown, the wings scratched out, but due to time just sagged against the dragon's side. I remember taking it from him just examining it as Hiccup rambled that Rapunzel noticed I wasn't sleeping and was worried, he explained how this was his when he was little and helped him through some hard times.
I must have been silent for to long because he started to panic telling me he could get me something newer better. He tried to take the dragon back from my hand, but I grabbed his forearm for a moment silencing him. We were silent for a moment, I moved in closer placing my head on his shoulder and said "Don't you dare." I bring the dragon close to my chest and after a moment Hiccup placed his arms around me mumbling something in to my hair that I can barely hear. "My mom says that the dragons keep the nightmares away. They burn the boogeyman when he gets to close." I laugh clench the dragon harder for a moment.
That night was the first time in a long time that I actually got a goodnight sleep, and it was all thanks to Hiccup and his dragon.
Finally the day of the art competition took place. Rapunzel showed her three painting. One was a picture of a fantasy landscape, it had a large castle surrounded by lights, but upon closer inspection were lanterns. The picture was amazing with all its color and creativity. The second one was a still life of a beautiful simple flower, but with the technique Rapunzel used it looked to be glowing. Her third picture was of Mavis, Toothiana and I standing by each other. Mavis in her cape, Toothiana dressed up in one of her dance outfits, and me with my bow. Her picture looked more like a photo than a painting.
Hiccup showed his three, which were just as amazing. His first one was of a village on a rocky island at sunset surrounded by what looked like dragons and people riding them, but it was his second and third one that took my breath away. The second one was of Toothless and I sitting down. Toothless smiling with his tongue sticking out while my red curls were everywhere, as I seemed to be laughing, the background was of the new house. It looked like he literally paused time and painted this it was amazing. However the third, the third took everyone's attention. It was a side profile of me zoomed up to my face and shoulders, you could tell that I was wear an old style blue Celtic dress by the cut and sleeves. I had a wooden bow in my hand me pulling back the string to my cheek and arrow ready. The detail in my hair alone was amazing you could practically see each curl. It was flawless.
Needless to say no one could decided who was the better artist so it was called a tie of the best artist in the school, everyone encouraging them to enter their pieces in the schools art exhibit next month. Rapunzel agreed trying to figure out which of the three to submit or if she should make a different one, but no amount of convincing could get Hiccup to agree. Which was fine because I was already putting each of his pieces in my room. Hiccup ears went red when he realized what I had done, but no one made a comment.
It was getting late and the guys decided that they would just spend the night. In the morning it was announced that Flynn and Rapunzel had made plans to go out. While Toothiana was going to help tutor Aster for a test he had, and Mavis had to get ready to meet her long distance backpacking boyfriend. Which left Hiccup, Toothless, and I alone.
I had just planned on staying in all day maybe having a movie marathon, but Hiccup surprised me once more. Stammering and avoiding any eye contact he asked if I eat. I looked at him funny as he slammed his hand in his face.
"I meant do you want to go eat…with me…as in on a date…I already know you eat…I don't mean that you eat to much its just I wanted to know if you don't mind eating with me…well you've eaten with me before." He sighed his cheeks and ears turning pink, I laughed shaking my head my curls going everywhere. Grabbing his shirt to lower him a bit as I stood on my toes and kissed his slightly warm cheek.
"I would love to."