AN: Hey guys, here is the next chapter as promised!
Chapter 7
"Jack, sorry! It's a picture made out of charcoal, I have a piece with me if you want to feel it…" Hiccup said starting to dig around in his satchel once again.
"No, no that's okay. I know what charcoal pencils are." Jack chuckled, "Aster's favorite medium is charcoal and he would always bring his pictures over and describe them to me." Jack shook himself out of his stupor. "Go on, Hiccy." Rapunzel's shoulders shook with silent laughter at the nickname.
"Alright." Hiccup looked a little mad at being called another nickname, though he said nothing. "The picture is of Rapunzel as a child. Long flowing golden hair, bright green eyes looking curiously out a window. But this is no ordinary window; this window doesn't have glass or a sill, but is made out of rock. Rock that is hard and sturdy and reliable. Little Rapunzel is hanging out so much that only her little legs are tightly gripping the structure and the rest of her body is out facing the stars. Her hand reaches out hoping to grip one and her big green eyes are facing curiously toward the light they give off. Can you see it Jack?"
"Yes, I can see it." Jack says with his eyes closed and a smile on his face.
Hiccup continued: "The structure her little legs are gripping onto is a tower made out of stones higher any skyscraper in any city. Sitting next to her on the windowsill is a bright green chameleon who is curiously looking at her. Down below there is a figure partially concealed by the shadows of the tower. It is night after all. He is sitting on a dragon, a dragon with a body as black as night and with eyes as green as a meadow on a sunny day. He stares at her and he is in the midst of trying to catch his dragon's attention so they could go up to see the girl. In his hand is a small strand of golden hair, obviously from the girl." Hiccup said, finishing.
"Wow." Jack muttered, still a little enraptured by Hiccup's soft and descriptive tone.
"Yeah, wow. And you can't even see it. Hiccup, you have a gift." Rapunzel said wonder in her voice.
"You have to show me some other pictures sometime." Rapunzel said, shaking herself back into reality.
"Sure, just you know, not all of them. Some are kind of, private." Hiccup said, blushing in reminder.
"Hiccup! You didn't!" Jack said in mock horror, putting his hands on his cheeks for emphasis.
"No! No, I didn't! Wait, what did I do again?"
Jack and Rapunzel chuckled at Hiccup's innocence, too bad Jack was about to crush it.
"You, you didn't. You know…"
"No, I don't know, that's why I'm asking! What do you think I know it, but I don't want to say it! No! I honestly don't know!" Hiccup basically screamed. Almost all chatter in the busy restaurant stopped. Hiccup continued in a much quieter tone.
"So you know, tell me. Please?" The last word was barely above a whisper, but with Jack's attentive ears, (People that say when you lose one sense, another becomes stronger, well they were wrong, Jack always had really great hearing. Could be because his ears were quite large, you never know!) he could clearly hear it and responded with the only way Jack had learned to receive thanks or pleases, with a playful jab.
"You know we would have just said it if you wanted to know so much." Jack then glanced down at his fingernails as if he had forgotten what he was just talking about. The rest of the patrons were staring, quite amused, as the two boys squabbled.
"Well?" Hiccup inquired.
"Well what?" Jack asked, mockingly looking confused.
"Are you going to tell me what I did?" Hiccup seemed to realize what he just asked and followed up with, "I didn't mean I did it, I meant will you tell me what I did or didn't do?"
"You sure you really want to know?"
"Of course, I do! Did you not hear me minutes ago?!"
"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. I couldn't really tell over all the screaming you were administering… Oh." Jack said, as if he were just realizing what Hiccup was saying.
"Yeah, 'oh.' Now tell me, please?"
While Hiccup couldn't use the puppy eyes on Jack, he did manage to make his voice pitiful enough so that Jack dropped his act and gave in.
"Alright, fine. You win. I was just wondering if you have ever done any nudes." Jack said with a great sigh, like admitting defeat was a great burden. And to someone like him, you know the egotistical maniacs, it probably was.
This caused Hiccup to turn to shades of red that didn't seem to exist up until that moment. And soon Hiccup was trying to get a word in, but all he could mutter was little squeaks and squeals in shock. Meanwhile Rapunzel was cracking up, holding the menu's she was carrying up to her chest and laughing so hard little snorts came out instead of laughter ever so often.
The patron of a nearby table leaned over and whispered to Hiccup, "You know you should do one of him, just to humor him. You two make a great couple and I bet you've seen enough of it already, huh?" The creepy thing was this person was a very old women and her husband was sitting across the table, silently laughing at her words.
"What?!" Seemed like Hiccup found his voice again, "No! He and I… We aren't… No!" This caused the elderly couple to crack up as if Hiccup was telling them a really good joke.
"Well if you aren't, you will be soon! The chemistry between you too will heat up and soon you will be…" The sound of Jack's laughter drowned out the elderly lady's words, but the meaning was pretty clear.
Oh, gosh! Hiccup thought. This is going to be a long afternoon!
AN: This chapter is a little... weird. Hope you like it? Oh gods, what have I done? Review, please!
