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Hiccup met his wife at the statue, as planned, and together they began to enter through the almost completely hidden entry by the boot. Once inside, Astrid couldn't help but once again be taken aback by the spacious area.
"It's for us, y'know…" Hiccup broke the intense silence, staring sheepishly at the floor. "I knew how weird it was to be living in different huts, so I figured we could use our own place…"
Astrid couldn't find the words. The fact that he'd gone through with something so big, and in secrecy no less, just to please her? It quickly dawned on her, though, that if she didn't get out her news now Hiccup wouldn't be able to make the last minute adjustment of at least one more room.
"I'm pregnant."
"Never one for beating around the bush, were you?" Hiccup barely managed to say through the midst of all his laughing. He couldn't believe it, a dad! Beginning to barrage her with questions and mixing up all his thoughts in his joy, the father-to-be finally managed to express his excitement in one of the only was he knew she'd understand. Silencing her relieved laughs with a simple grab of the waist, Hiccup pulled in his wife, the future mother of their child and kissed her with all his remaining energy.
"You didn't know?" she asked meekly, after the long and passionate display ended. Hiccup jerked his head in a way Astrid assumed to be a "no". "But when you were sleeping…" she started to explain.
Hiccup froze; it didn't bother him that she had been up to see him while he was asleep. Rather, he grew concern at what she saw. The past few nights it had become increasingly aware to him that he was fretting in his slumber. And he knew why. He didn't dwell on the ideas, thinking it was better just to push through. But the truth was, Hiccup was terrified by Astrid's recent behavior. He'd had a feeling that she had recently become pregnant, simply by the way she had a new glow surrounding her.
Ecstatic as he was, the chief was also afraid that he couldn't be who Astrid needed.
"I can't be what she needs…" he mumbled aloud, interrupting Astrid's thought. Finally hearing himself admit it made the idea seem true.
Hiccup ran from the statue, to the confused cries of his now shocked wife, and never stopped running until he found his best friend at the academy.