"Because there's beauty in the breakdown..."
"Hiccup...I'm sorry..." He shook his head slowly too, lifting his hands in his uncertainty of what to do next. The brunette sniffled, dropping his hands over his raised knees and slowly looking up at him too, biting his lower lip to keep it from quivering. After a moment he shook his head and shrugged, each of them almost forgetting the storm around them that had beat them each into the ground earlier.
"What do you want me to do with that?" Tuffnut tilted his head a little, furrowing his brow and wondering if he had heard the boy right. Hiccup caught the confusion in a strike of lightening, his own face falling in frustration, his hands balling into small and useless fists. ". me to do with that, dammit?!" He started slow, drawing the words out to punctuate the blonde's stupidity, then barked the rest to make his point. Now Tuffnut let his features rearrange themselves into upset.
"What MORE do you WANT from me?! I came after you! I apologized! What else can I do?!" He threw his hands into the air, stepping forward to loom a bit more over the brunette, almost smirking when Hiccup scrambled to stand and assert himself in the argument again.
"You could fucking say I LOVE YOU! You could STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE!" Tuffnut stepped back, now holding his hands out as if gesturing or calling attention to himself, looking around at an unseen crowd.
"Everybody fucking look at the little hippocrit. Look at the little FUCK who thinks he's on the right end of this FUCKING argument." Tuffnut turned his glare back on Hiccup, who was now fixing him with his own. "You've bitched about ME not saying it, but what the FUCK about YOU, Hiccup? When the FUCK have you told ME, that you feel the same way?" The blonde pointed at first, then jammed his finger at the trembling boy, snarling again as he did. Hiccup stood still for a moment, silently letting something simmer beneath the surface.
"I didn't because YOU'RE the fucking GUY!" He started down the hill towards Tuffnut, ramming his own finger right back at the lithe blonde. "-I- may be a guy, but it's OBVIOUS YOU'RE the fucking guy in this relationship! And do you know what guys DO in relationships, Tuffnut?!" He threw his hands to the side now, looking around at the crowd that Tuffnut had been talking to earlier, pausing his stomp to look at the boy with an absolutely dumbfounded look on his face. "Why, they tell the girl they love them. They remind the girl that she means everything to them. They make a point of at LEAST letting the girl know SHE'S IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM." He hunched over again, once more storming towards the slightly surprised twin, standing on tip-toes now to get in his face. "And they do that by being the first one to SAY I LOVE YOU! How fucking stupid ARE you?!" Now panting Hiccup stopped his rant and took a step back, watching his words sink into the boy's thick skull, watching his features rearrange according to what he had said, watching it all happen in the blink of an eye.
"I'm the guy, am I?" The tone of Tuffnut's voice and the sudden malice on his face made Hiccup's eyes widen and sent him skittering backwards when the boy started to advance on him. Tuffnut caught Hiccup by the back of the head, twisting his fingers into the soaked auburn strands until they bit into his flesh, then ripping the boy back a step. Hiccup cried out, his back slamming in Tuffnut's chest, body rising to stand on tip-toes as the towering boy continued to pull his hair upwards. Sneering, Tuffnut wrapped a hand around Hiccup's slender throat, closing his fingers easily, pushing his lips against the curve of his cold little ear. "If I'm the GUY in the relationship, you should respect me alot more than you fucking do, Hicca."
Hiccup froze, blinking as he slowly turned his head to look at the blonde, their noses brushing as he did. Slowly he realized the hand around his throat wasn't doing anything but resting there, and the fist in his hair had loosened enough to let him flat on his feet when he wasn't paying attention. Tuffnut's breath was too cold, breezing over his face in slow, measured pants, and as Hiccup looked, he saw the blonde's lips were blue. "I COULD fuck you right here in front of everyone." He pointed to the ground in front of them, the rain having slowed enough that he could actually see the grass of the hill they were standing at the base of. "Push your face into the dirt and fuck you up the ass, in the rain, in the mud, where EVERYONE could see. Then NO ONE would question what our relationship was." Hiccup realized that Tuffnut was smirking or grinning, laughter didn't tinge his voice, and his eyes weren't glittering with playful mischief either. He was being serious.
"Since I'm the GUY in the relationship I could do that." He let go of Hiccup's throat and stood straight, his hand unwinding from his hair to simply rest against the back of his head. Slowly the brunette looked up at him, biting his bottom lip again, blinking slowly with wide, surprised eyes. Tuffnut paused and took a breath, closing his own eyes as he did, lifting his free hand to rest it heavily on Hiccup's narrow shoulder. Slowly he opened his eyes again and looked down at the brunette, a small smile twisting in the corner of his mouth as he spoke as solemnly as he could. "I love you, Hiccup Horrindous Haddock. I'm really sorry...and..." He paused again, looking away to hide the mild blush coloring his pale cheeks, biting his own lip as he tried to articulate.
The smile that broke over Hiccup's face as he watched the dragon slayer flounder for words was as bright as the sun, tears brimming in his eyes when Tuffnut turned back to him and slowly rolled one shoulder, letting out a quiet breath of a laugh, "I love you." Letting the tears roll over his freckles Hiccup threw his arms around the blonde's neck again, dragging him down with the strength of his hug, burying his face in the boy's neck and sniffling as he slowly nodded.
Tuffnut blinked in surprise for a moment, unsure of how something so simple got the boy worked up and happy again, but his features softened and slowly he smiled too. He wrapped his arms around the viking and pulled him flush against him, putting his lips against the brunette's own neck and closing his eyes.
"I love you too, Tuff...and I'm sorry." Eventually Hiccup pulled back and smiled at him, a blush of his own stampeding across his cheeks. Tuffnut laughed aloud, standing straight and shaking his head, cuffing Hiccup's shoulder with enough force to rock the boy at his foundation.
"Thor! We sound like a bunch of fucking girls out here!" Hiccup laughed too, still sniffling, wiping his nose and eyes pointlessly with a wet hand. Looking at the ground beneath them Hiccup smiled lightly, nodding his head and looking up at the twin he had his arm around, watching him shake his head and laugh again; he figured from relief and happiness.
"Tuff?" The blonde paused, looking down with a silenced laugh, forcing himself not to snicker as he did. Hiccup laughed quietly again, leaning up and lightly pressing his lips against the twin's own. Tuffnut didn't blink this time. He pulled the viking into his grasp once more, almost lifting him off the ground as he crushed his body against him, his tongue stroking open the brunette's mouth with a practiced ease. Hiccup whimpered happily, melting into the only hold he felt safe in, tangling his fingers in blonde strands as he opened his lips to pull the boy even closer.