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. Although there behaviors may be change for the one shots.

Hiccup's point of view

"I can't believe your making me go to this," I said for the billionth time, hands stuffed in my pocket as we made our way down the street.

"Ah come on Hiccup this is exactly what you need, your break up with Astrid was over six month ago and you have to get over her, you can't just throw yourself into your invention." Jack my annoying roommate and my best friend says touching my shoulder with his. He was dressed up in old baggy brown pants the bottoms tied with yarn, a large blue hoodie with white snow flakes on his shoulder, carrying a large crocked staff a modern day version of Jack Frost. "You need to get over her and what better way to do that than a Halloween Party. Flynn's fraternity has the best parties, they are legendary." He says excited his newly colored white hair flying in every direction.

"I don't want to go." I say only getting a slight head nod of acknowledgement. "I have studying to do."

"Like you always do." He says with a snicker.

"I can drink at the apartment. I can meet people in class. I can do other things than go to this stupid party." I say, but it was already to late I could already hear the pounding music and the different color lights shooting from the fraternity house. Groups of people swarming to the house gathering all over the large front yard.

"Come on Hiccup try to have some fun, you already got out of wearing a costume." He says pulling at my black coat with its brown fur trim.

I sigh knowing that no matter what I say Jack was going to drag me to this house party and force me have fun. 'Who the hell made him the guardian of fun' I thought, rolling my eyes as I followed him inside the vibrating house covered in Halloween decoration.

Fifteen minutes in and I had already lost Jack. I sighed looking at the crowed house filled with different types of creatures. I couldn't help, but roll my eyes at all the skimpy outfits and half drunk males. Somehow I had wandered into the kitchen to grab a drink when I saw her. She was leaning against a wall, chatting up with a girl I remember as Flynn's girlfriend Rapunzel, she was a sweet girl I had a couple of art classes with her. However the girl I was looking at had a mass of red curls pulled into a ponytail, she was wearing a tight grey tank top that was torn in certain places, brown cargo pants, military boats, and a bow and quiver filled with arrows on her back.

I never made it a habit of staring at women, it just seemed disrespectful and growing up with my dad who loved my mom more than life itself, I learned to never oogle a women. If my dad or Gobber saw the way I was oogling this girl, well, I would get a large lecture. It took me a while to realize that it was Merida from my history class. She also happened to one of the colleges top athletes, her picture constantly in the school newspapers about winning a new competition. For a moment it felt like I couldn't breath. I mean I would be lying if I said that Merida wasn't attractive, but in her whatever costume it was suppose to be she looked fierce, and beautiful. She wasn't in some skimpy outfit, but her confidence just rolled off of her that it caught everyone's attention.

I took one last look at her as she talked, Rapunzel's eyes drifting over to me. Before she had a chance to wave me over I scurried out of the room, not thinking that I could have an intelligent conversation right now. I ran out of room and started my search for Jack. After about twenty minutes I found Jack talking to a pretty blonde girl with a nice blue white dress covered in small snowflakes.

"Jack I will do a weeks worth of math homework for you if you help me talk to Merida." I shouted, my voice sounding more desperate than I wanted it to.

Jack looked slightly stunned, pausing as he polite excused us from the girl he was chatting up. He put his arm around my shoulder dragging me away to a quieter place, a devilish smirk on his face.

"Merida huh as in Merida DunBroch" he clicked his tongue "Well at least I know your type."

"My type?" I asked, suddenly feeling like I should have thought this through.

"Yeah violent and dangerous" he says with a smirk. "Make it a months worth of homework and you got yourself a deal."

"Three weeks" I bargained.

"Fine, but just remember what I did for you tonight. I may need a favor from you one day," Jack says, another smirk emerging on his face.

I glared at him, attempting to see what Jack has in store for me, but his face was nothing, but a joker's smirk. "Fine, now help me."

Jack made a follow me gesture and walked back into the crowded rooms, the air hot from all the bodies crammed inside, the music blaring so loud I couldn't even hear myself think. He stood there for a moment before walking to a keg grabbing a cup of beer and moving to stand on top of table.

'Some thing didn't feel right,' I thought, worried about what Jack was doing. Dread spread through me as I heard Jack shout, "SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN BITCHES!" His voice some how louder than the music.

The entire crowd of drunken partygoers screamed back in confirmation. Before I knew it Jack was grabbing my forearm and dragging me upstairs. "Let's get you a girlfriend…hell who knows you might even get laid."

My mouth worked angrily in protests; hisses of "Jack" and "what do you think you are doing" flew from my mouth. 'I didn't want to get laid…well not now…not with someone I don't know…I just wanted to talk to her' I thought 'Why does Jack always have to take things so far? I said talk not get stuck in a closet where we are pressured to kiss.'

Everybody who decided to play seven minutes in heaven decided to gather in one of the bedrooms. I watched as people started to fill in the room, people sitting or standing wherever they could. I gulped as I caught a glimpse of Merida entering the room. I could feel my hands shaking so I stuck them in my pocket, but suddenly my leather jacket seems to hot. 'I don't even now how to play seven minutes in heaven… I mean do I just kiss her once and that's it? Do I kiss her for the full seven minutes? What if she doesn't want to kiss me? Is it a simple peck or does it involve French kissing?' All sorts of question were running through my head that I didn't notice Flynn escorting Merida into the closet. It wasn't until that moment that I realized what Jack had in store for me.

"No." I hissed as I felt a tug on my jacket. I turned and noticed Jack was trying to drag me to the closet. "No," I repeated, trying to dig my hells into the ground. I was taller than Jack and was leaner than him thanks to wielding and old traditional blacksmithing. However I was no match for the combined efforts of Jack and Flynn as they tried to shove me in the closet exclaiming to the crowd that "Hiccup should go."

Of course, some people had to stop and figure out who the hell 'Hiccup' was. I wanted to curl in on myself, thinking that maybe if I scrunch and try to hide myself, they would name somebody else. Except that was the complete opposite of what happened. Flynn turned against me, cheering for me, gathering the crowd's support. The drunken cheers rang happily, as Flynn and Jack gave me my final shove into the closet.

I groaned angrily, leaning against the door, my fist clenching and unclenching. 'This is not what I wanted' I thought, my eyes adjusting to the darkness. It took a second for his eyes to adjust, but then I saw Merida standing there, arms crossed over her chest and a blind fold wrapped over her eyes.

"Alright lad lay it on me, ye get one kiss and if ye try anything funny I'll shoot ye with my bow." Merida snapped her Scottish accent thick, she was clearly not happy with this situation. She seemed rather irritated with this entire game. I didn't understand why she would want to play 'unless she wanted someone else in this closet with her.' I thought, something settling in my stomach.

"I don't want to kiss you." I say my voice sounding dry. Even though it was pretty dark in the closet, I could see the shock across Merida's face. "I mean, I do…believe me I really do…not that I'm a creep its just- I want to kiss you just not like this. I want you to kiss me because you want to kiss me." For a moment I was glad the room was so dark because I was pretty sure that my face was completely red.

Merida's quiet hmm almost goes unnoticed. I started to shift on the ball of my feet, wishing that these seven minutes would just end. "I like your costume." I mutter, trying my best to actually talk to this girl.

She scoffed, "You mean you like my boobs."

"No." I squeak out "well I mean yes…they look nice...but no…I mean " My throat was starting to tighten up and my stuttering was getting worse. However me being uncomfortable got a small smile out of Merida. "I like your confidence. You are one of the only girls at this party that are comfortable in what they are wearing. Even though I'm not sure who you're suppose to be."

The silence continued for a moment. "I'm a zombie apocalypse survivor." She finally says after a moment.

"Ahh" I say not sure what else to say and Merida doesn't seem to be in a talking mood. Outside of the closet, someone started to bang on the door shouting that we only have a few seconds left so they better separate our tongues. I frowned feeling even stupider than I did when I asked for Jack's help, finally the door opened and after being blinded by light I start to make my way out of the closet.

"What's your name?" Merida asked, her blind fold in one hand my wrist in the other.

"Hiccup" I replied, my face still feeling hot, grabbing my wrist back I made my way out of the closet. I sat down in the back corner of the room trying my best to blend in with the crowd. Merida came out her eyes catching mine with ease, but she doesn't make a move towards me, she just takes a seat on the other side of the room. I can see Jack looking at Merida and than back at me trying to get some sort of signal out of me, but I did my best to ignore him.

Half way through the game, different people getting called into the closet one of them being Jack and the blonde girl in the blue dress. It was only half way through the game that I couldn't stand any more of the glances coming from Merida. I sigh and staggered upward my legs slightly numb I left the room no one really paying attention.

Eventually I wandered to one of the other bedrooms, thankfully that it was empty and far enough from main room that the music was only a muffled thump. I didn't think that I would be able to handle people at this moment, I felt so embarrassed and wanted nothing more than to go back to my room and draw. The balcony doors were open, and the breeze that was filtering through the room was nice against my sit hot skin. Taking off my jacket and placing it on the bed I walked onto the balcony, leaning over the railing with a sigh, watching the happy go lucky drunk people dancing by colored light pool. They cheered, sang horribly, and danced without any rhythm. 'Wish I could be that happy,' I thought, feeling like I needed a drink.

I could hear somebody knocking on the door behind him, I straightened up wondering what I should do. I didn't want to deal with people right now, but I also wanted the ability to leave this room.

"Occupied?" I called out awkwardly, not quite sure what to say, but I heard the door open and I groaned. I could hear the footsteps behind me, but I didn't move from the balcony.

"Yee know most boys would die to kiss me" I hear a voice say. My heart stops for a moment, my grip on the rail tightening. 'She was the last person I wanted to see right now' I thought 'why isn't she still playing.' I didn't move only watched as she came to stand next to me, leaning against the railing showing her back to the drunken crowd below.

"Yah I know" I say, not looking at her.

"Than why didn't you" she says, cocking her head to the side, a curl facing into her face.

"Because…"

"Because" She repeats moving closer.

"Cause I'm not gonna force myself on you." I shout, finally looking at her. Her eyes widen and her mouth opens a little. I could feel my face starting to heat up. "I wanted to meet you, maybe ask you if you want to get coffee sometime. I didn't want…I didn't plan." I sigh shaking my head "I didn't want to kiss you when you barley even know me."

She looks at me for a moment, examining me. "So coffee huh?"

I look at her for a moment; she looks at me with a small smile. "Yah coffee"

"Why not dinner?" She asks, and it took me a moment to realize that she was teasing me.

"You work your way up to dinner" I say, finding some sort of confidence in myself.

"That so hmmm" she says leaning against the rail again. "Well I don't know about you, but I could go for something to eat right now."

"Are you asking me out to dinner." I asked, trying to keep my heart from pounding out of my chest.

"That depends are you going to say yes."

"How do you know I'm not some type of creeper?"

"A creeper would have kissed me, but beside that did you know your friend Jack and Flynn have been talking to my friend Rapunzel about hooking ye up with someone." My eyes widen and my mouth goes slack. "I know more about ye than ye think, so I know ye aint a creeper."

"What else did they tell you?"

She smiles a Cheshire style grin "Why don't we discuss that over dinner." She says, taking my wrist and guiding me out of the balcony picking up her bow and leading me out of the house.

It was now three in the morning and I was standing on Merida's front porch. "I had fun," she says, leaning her bow against the door.

"Well I'm glad," I said, handing her back her quiver of arrows. She leaned them up against the door as well. "Maybe we can do it again sometime."

She rises an eyebrow "Does that mean we won't be getting coffee?"

I chuckle "We can if that's what you want princess."

She scowls and playfully swats at my arm "I told you that story in confidence, not so you can come up with horrible nick names for me."

"How could I not bring it up, your mom made you dress up as a princess till you were ten." She playfully pouts and I can't stop laughing.

"Just for that you're not getting your jacket back," she says crossing her arms.

"That's fine it looks better on you anyways" I watched as Merida's face began to go red. But it was true, although my leather jacket swallowed her petite form; she looked adorable in it, the arms sleeves to long for her that only the tips of her fingers show the jacket itself reaching mid-thigh.

"I've decided," She says, nodding her head.

"And what have you decided your highness."

She scowls at me "Close your eyes ye dork." I do as she asks

I feel a tug on my shirt, dragging me down a few inches "Mer-"

"Shhh I have decided that I want to kiss ye now." My throat tightens and I couldn't help it I opened my eyes.

"I…. You want to kiss me?" I stumbled out dumbly.

"Yup" she says, popping the p sound.

I open my mouth to say something, but nothing comes out except "Why?"

"Because ye be a dork, but ye are the best type of dork," she says, her breath fanning my face. I don't say anything else, but I watch as she smiles. My heart starts to beat rapidly. "So Hiccup what do ye say, willing to break a few steps with me or do we have to work our way up to a goodnight kiss."

"One kiss wouldn't hurt" I say, my cheeks stained red.

She gives a small nod one before untangling her hand from my shirt and resting it on my cheek. I waited still willing to let her backup from this. She slowly attached her lips to mine. After a while Merida slowly backs away, her face still close enough to mine that I can count all the freckles on her face. She takes a deep breath before placing another kiss on my lips, and than another. And another. And another.