Hey guys I'm back with chapter 6! Yay! This chapter has a bit of violence just so you know, don't forget to review and tell me how terrible my grammar is! Well onwards with chapter 6!
It was mid afternoon the next day, and the nurse still hadn't herd anything from Astrid, she decided to check on the two, and to her delight Astrid lie asleep, snuggled up against Hiccup's side with her arm draped over his middle. The nurce smiled to herself and turned when James called for her.
"Margaret! The prosthetic is ready!" He yelled and handed it to her.
"Good now be quiet, you'll wake her." Margaret said then pointed at Astrid. Then they herd a very tired voice coming from Hiccup's room.
"I'm already up." Astrid said and rubbed her tired eyes.
"Oh and I have your breakfast, well more like a very late brunch now." He said and handed her a bowl of more oat meal. Astrid ate it up quickly and handed the bowl back to James.
"Thanks." She mumbled.
"Astrid, how are you?" James asked.
"Less tired and hungry, but I'm kind of board."
"Do you want to play a card game? I've got playing card, we could play in the other room while Henry gets his daily check up. And maybe even after, ok? How's that sound?"
"... Great, that sounds great!" Astrid said excitedly. She had done nothing nut mop around for the past few days, she was glad she could change it up a bit.
James lead her to a room not far from Hiccup's, James pulled out a deck of cards and they both sat at the table and played go fish, slap jack, war, and any other card game they felt like playing.
Margaret looked over the teenaged boy in the other room. He was doing much better, his fever had run down over night, and there was a bit of color on his cheeks. His leg was still painfully swollen but his infection had gone down. 'If he heals at this rate, he'll wake in no time!' Margaret thought 'If he wakes up at that is.' Margaret glanced over to the room across from Henry's, were his best friend played card games, patiently waiting for her friend to wake up. Suddenly she herd quiet mumbling coming from the bed beside her.
"A-astrid." he mumbled.
"Astrid get in here, now!" Margaret yelled.
"What! What's wrong? Is he ok!? Did he-" she was interrupted by her friends quiet mumbling.
"A-astrid... w-were are you?" He mumbled again and his fingers slowly twitched, and he began quietly whimpering her name.
"Hiccup!" Astrid yelled excitedly and put a hand gently on his chest.
"Astrid, keep talking to him, it'll help him wake up." Margaret said softly.
"Astrid, my, my leg, it hurts!" Hiccup wimpered, and tears began to spill down his cheeks.
"No, no buddy it's ok, don't cry." Astrid replied and wipped the tears off his cheeks.
"But it hurts." He whimpered again and began to quietly sob. Then he finally opened his eyes, and locked eyes with the girl hovering abouve him. "It hurts Astrid."
"I know, but there's nothing we can do." Astrid replied and as gently as possible she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him close. "It's ok, it'll all be ok."
"Promise?" He questions.
"I promise." she answered then gently pulled the sheets off his stub. It was, still swollen, but looked a lot better then it did a few days before. the nurses had sewed up his extra skin over his open wound to slow his bleeding.
Suddenly the train screeched to a stop and Jackson came running over with a wheel chair.
"We're at the docks, we need to board the ship, get all your stuff and lets go! Henry if you want we can wheel you over."
"No, its ok, I probably need to get used to that thing anyway." He said then pointed to his new prosthetic. Astrid slowly picked it up and carefully strapped it to his left knee. "Ow." He hissed and she placed a hand on his upper leg.
Once his prosthetic was in place, she lifted him up on his feet and Margaret handed crutch to help support his weight.
"Astrid," Jackson said "I'll carry both of you guys bags to you room in the ship."
"Were sharing a room?!" Astrid exclaimed excitedly.
"Yep, we tried to keep all the friends together." He smiled and sent them off.
Astrid went to get there dogs while Hiccup limped towards the docks. The crutch really did help, he leaned against it and it helped even out his weight more, thus allowing less weight on his stub. His friend easily caught up with him with there dogs leashes in one hand, and wrapped her free arm around his waist, helping him balance. When they entered the ship they were greeted by Jackson, and the ship's captain.
"Hello you two, I'm John and you are?"
"I'm Astrid."
"I'm Henry and the dogs are Stormfly, and Toothless."
"Your room is, number 87. Its just down the hall." Jackson said with a smile and handed them a key.
The teens headed slowly down the hall and eventually made it to there room. Hiccup entered the room first, and seconds later he let out an ear piercing screech.
"Hiccup! Are you ok!? Is it your leg!?" Astrid asked, but found him fearfully staring at the wall were a spider that was large enough that it could fit in the palm of her hand. "Are you scared of spiders?"
"Terrified."
"Do you want me to kill it?" She said and he nodded.
It was on the wall on the other side of the room, so Astrid pulled out her pocket knife and wipes it at the spider, and it jabbed through the center of it. Astrid pulled her knife out of the wall and through the dead spider out the window.
"Better?"
"Ya, thanks." He said and smiled.
There room was quite big, about 10x10 feet, there were two beds side by side and bed stands, and they each got there own dresser. They unpacked there bags, then curled up in there beds, and there dogs curled up with them.
"Astrid?"
"Ya."
"How long was I out?"
"Four and a half days. They said that your lucky to be alive." Astrid said "and its all my fault."
"It's not your fault, now get some sleep." he said before drifting off to sleep.
Astrid also went to sleep, but her sleep was uneasy and overflowing with nightmares. They were about her family, and most importantly, Hiccup.
Astrid was at her house, with her family, her hole family, they were sitting at the dinner table. But something about then wasn't right.
"Mom! Dad!" she yelled, nothing, "MOM! DAD!" they didn't budge. Tear started falling down her cheeks. They were dead. "Daddy, no." Then she ran to her barn, in had been completely destroyed, "Cloudjumper!" her horse lie in front of her, his neck had been snapped and his bones were poking out of him through large flesh wounds, he had bled to death. She stroked his long face "Oh Cloudjumper, I miss you."
Suddenly she heard noises coming from an old train car next door. She tiptoed stealthily over to the other barn, then heard a familiar voice coming from the inside.
"Astrid," it weakly mumbled "Astrid, please were are you?" It was Hiccup.
"Hiccup! I'm coming!" She said then burst through the car doors, what she saw was horrifying. Hiccup was lying in a large pool of blood, his skin was pale and his eyes we dull. Then she suddenly realized why. His leg, it was still crushed under the equipment and bleeding heavily. She knew that he was beyond saving now, so she knelt down to his frail, weak body and managed to lift him onto her lap and she pressed her nose against his back. She held him as close as possible, but avoided hurting him, but he still let out the odd moan of pain. Her knees could feel his heart beat begin to slow, and he only breathed short, painful breaths. And suddenly in the blink of an eye, he was gone.
Astrid never really had time to react before she was lifted roughly off the ground by a very dead looking Heather. Her skin was pail and she had a very dead look in her eyes, Astrid soon began screaming bloody murder before Heather began shaking Astrid violently and screeched her name in a very creepy way.
"ASTRID! ASTRID!"
"Astrid! Astrid, wake up!" It was Hiccup.
"Hiccup!?" She answered and immediately pulled him into a tight hug while sobbing into his shoulder.
"It's ok, it was only a dream. Do, do you want to talk about it?" He asked and she nodded her head in response, then told him about her dream. After, he asked "Do you want me to stay with you tonight?" And again she nodded her head and they both curled up in bed lying back to back, and they both drifted off into a deep sleep.
