Hey guess what? Chapter 14! Sorry it took me so long to update, I wanted to make sure it was longer then 1000 words just for you guys! Your the best! And for everyone reading my story the true meaning of Christmas, I probably won't update that until this story is done. Did you all have a nice Christmas? I know I did, and if you don't celebrate Christmas, well happy holidays! Now onwards to Chapter 14!

Hiccup woke on New Years Eve, still puzzled and questioning what Astrid had done on Christmas. Everything had been normal between the two before Christmas, then she kissed him, after that all week they had hardly spoken to each other. He looked over at her, she was still curled up against Stormfly and snoring quietly. Then he looked over at Toothless who nuzzled into Hiccup's arms.

"Toothless, Astrid and I are just friends right? Nothing more, nothing less, right?"

Toothless looked up at him and tilted his head to the side.

"D-do I dare ask her? W-what if it ruins our friendship! What if, what if-" Hiccup was stopped when Toothless quietly yipped at him. "What!?"

Toothless gently nudged him off his bed towards Astrid.

"You mean tell her? You want me to tell her how I feel?"

Hiccup stood up and looked at his canine, who gave him a goofy smile and nodded his head.

"How!?" Hiccup asked.

His dog leaped off the bed and stood up and spun around on his hind legs, as if he were dancing, then looked up at his master.

"What? Why are you dancing?"

Toothless let out a annoyed huff, then stood up on his hind legs again, but this time he rested his front legs on Hiccup's shoulders.

Hiccup stared up at his dog who was towering at least a foot above him. "A-ask her to dance? Tonight during the New Years Eve party?" Toothless nodded "Then what?"

Then Toothless licked Hiccup's lips and Hiccup pushed Toothless off onto the ground.

"Ew ew ew ew gross gross gross gross! Why would I, oh, you mean kiss her!?" Toothless nodded again. "I-i can't do that!" Hiccup said and looked over at Toothless who was giving him the most encouraging smile he could. "Your right, I should at lest try. Thanks bud. It amazes me how smart you are." Hiccup whispered and wrapped his arms around Toothless's neck.

What Hiccup doesn't know is that Toothless knows about Astrid's secret crush on him, so whatever Hiccup did to tell her his feelings, she would more then likely say yes.

Astrid suddenly began whimpering and rolling around in bed, which caught Hiccup's attention immediately, and he knew exactly what it meant, she was having another nightmare. He rushed to her side as her whimpers turned in to loud sobs then high pitch scream of pure terror. Hiccup began shaking Astrid violently in a temp to wake her up, but she didn't, which meant he would have to wait until she woke up herself. She began screaming his name, and screaming for help, and all he could do was sit her up on his lap and gently rock her back and forth, wiping the tears off her cheeks and singing soothingly to her, he didn't care that she couldn't hear him, he just needed her to calm down and wake up. Soon his a tempt to sooth her succeeded and Astrid woke then wrapped her arms tightly around his stomach and pressed her head into his chest, and continued to cry loud, heartbroken sobs.

"Hiccup."

"I'm right here, I'm not going anywhere."

Jackson bust through the door quite suddenly causing Astrid to jump, he looked concerned.

"Is everything alright? We heard her screams from the other end of the ship!" the young man was terrified, thinking something horrible hade happened to Astrid.

"Ya Jack I just had another nightmare."

Much like Hiccup, Jackson and Astrid hade grown close throughout the past few months and thought of him like an older brother, he was only five years older than her.

"Are you sure that your ok?" Jackson questions.

"Ya, I'm fine."

"Ok then, I'll go back and watch the others, are you two still coming for breakfast?" Jackson replied.

"Maybe in a little bit Jack, I kinda want to talk a bit with Henry."

"Ok, but you better not skip the party tonight." Jackson said before leaving the room.

"We'll be there Jackson." Hiccup answer before turning to Astrid who was still laying with her head against his chest. "What do you want to talk about? You usually don't like talking about your nightmares."

"Actually that's exactly what I wanted to talk about, it was worse then ever last night, Hiccup it was horrifying." Astrid said and looked up at him.

"I thought it might have been one of the bad ones, you were screaming bloody murder." he ansered, even though she had nightmares so frequently, she has never told him what they were about.

"That's not a surprise, my dream was about bloody murder." Astrid said, Hiccup looked down at her with a concerned look on his face. "Basically what happened was, well it began with me tied to a chair in the middle of a dark room, I had apparently seen the nazis do something that I wasn't supposed to see, so they thought I was a spy or something. They wanted me to tell them what I had seen, but I didn't speak, I had no idea, they'd-" Astrid paused and began quietly sobbing again and buried her face back into his chest.

"Astrid its okay, you don't have to tell me."

"No I have to tell you," then she calmed down a bit before continuing. "I didn't talk, so as punishment they drug you in and-and, ripped you limb from limb, then left you there so I could watch you slowly die and bleed out on the ground. It looked so real Hiccup!" then she looked up at him, he looked down at her, completely shocked.

"Astrid, I-I had no idea they were that bad! Why didn't you ever tell me!?"

"I don't think you could help."

"Telling someone about your nightmares always helped me, do you want to tell me about the rest of them?" He asked and she nodded and they spent the rest of the day patiently listening to her horrifying nightmares.

Once they were done talking it was already time for the party! (Astrid has had a lot of nightmares so it took a while.). They got into there best clothes, which was basically what they wore everyday, and ran to the cafeteria. When they got there the cafeteria's tables had been pushed to the side and had all sorts of chocolates and fruits on them, one also had punch and sodas on it.

Astrid grabbed Hiccup's hand and drug him into the room where the other kids were dancing to the big record player in the corner. So the pair just began dancing like idiots and laughing in the middle of the room just for the fun of it. All the song that were playing were fun and bouncy (well about as fun and bouncy as 30's and 40's songs get.).

After a while they began to play slow songs every 10-20 minutes, and the first few the two ignored each other, but when they played the forth one Hiccup decided that it was time to ask.

"Hey Astrid." he said nervously.

"Yes?"

"Would you like to, uhhh." He mumbled.

"Hiccup your mumbling, speak up a bit buddy!"

"Astrid would you like to, umm."

"Spit it out Hiccup."

"For goodness sake Astrid will you dance with me!" He yelled, then everyone in the room stopped talking and stared at the two, Hiccup's eyes went wide then he looked down at his feet. "Astrid, I'm sorry I didn't mean to yell I just, I donno." he looked up when Astrid rested her arms on his shoulders.

"Of course I'll dance with you Hiccup."

"Really!?"

"Well ya, your my best friend and, I love you, as a friend."

They danced together at every slow dance for the rest of the night, at the beginning they awkwardly danced with both of there arms stretched out, keeping maximum distance in between each other. But by the time the last dance came around, they had there arms wrapped around each other and Astrid rested her head on Hiccup's shoulder.

Before they new it, it was almost midnight and it was time to count down the final seconds of the year 1943, and say hello to 1944. So the count down started.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!"

Every one had cheered Happy New Year, but Astrid and Hiccup, for Hiccup had pressed there lips together before ether of them could say anything.

"What way that for?"

"C-cause, its, the new year." Hiccup said.

"Really." She answered sarcastically.

"Yep."

"Hiccup, what's wrong?"

"Nothing just," he new he had to tell her eventually, and now was probably the best time to. "Because, well"

"Hiccup spit it out."

"I love you."