Whoa, I'm back! Warning: this chapter will be cute, short, and fluffy. But it will be important later, I swear.

They're lying splayed across his bed, staring at the ceiling, with Toothless stretched in between and their fingers intertwined. Stoick is downstairs, in his office, talking on the phone; the distant drone is comforting to listen to. Hiccup turns his head to watch her chest rise and fall. She somehow knows, looking at him and smiling. "So you will never believe it," she says.

He raises his eyebrows.

"Astrid went on a date with someone I set her up with, and she told me they had a great time."

Hiccup half-laughs, half sputters. "Seriously? I kind of got the feeling she doesn't generally trust your judgment."

She rolls her eyes. "Mark never shut up about her since ninth grade, he likes sports, he's got a sense of humor. I put the pieces together and arranged it."

"So I guess you weren't his girl next door."

"Well, literally, yes. Figuratively, no. I have way too much dirt on him."

Hiccup raises his eyebrows. "Oh, no," she says. "The point of having dirt on someone is to keep it to yourself until optimally useful."

"I hope you never find an optimally useful time to use any dirt on me," he shudders.

She grins lazily. "Nah. You've got too much on me too."

"Well, we'll just never have to make the other person mad," Hiccup reasons.

She snuggles against him. "I think that can be arranged."

Hiccup admits he was wrong about Astrid not trusting Lindsay's judgment, because as strange as it sounds, they've…bonded. Astrid Hofferson has gone from her arch nemesis to Lindsay's friend. She ditches the other Vikings to sit with them at lunch, and Lindsay smiles at her and says, "That eye shadow is really pretty with your skin tone."

From then on out, it becomes fairly routine for Astrid to eat with their table. In time, the other Vikings drift over, starting with Fishlegs, who relieves Hiccup with another guy to talk to, and Ruffnut then Tuffnut, who never does much without his twin, and finally Snoutlout, who mostly flirts with Astrid and acts like an idiot with Tuff but says absolutely nothing about Hiccup with Lindsay and Astrid both there to castrate him. And Hiccup notices a shift in how they act towards him, a gradual, tiny warming in their attitudes, an increase of respect as he manages to make them laugh and helps with math that comes easily to him but baffles them. Even Snoutlout begins to listen to him, though they'll never be friends.

All he had to do was stop trying to get them to see him.

It's another ordinary night, Toothless lounging on the floor, Hiccup stroking his coat and doing Al 2, Lindsay sitting on the coach above him pounding out a rough draft about how the Industrial Revolution influenced literature of time. She hums along to the Taylor Swift CD she put in the stereo. He looks up at her, her hair coppery against the lamplight, and his heartbeat quickens as she leans over to kiss him. Her hair brushes against his face. "I love this song," She says. She begins to sway, her voice just a little louder:

And it was enchanting to meet you...

All I know is I was enchanted to meet you…

He pulls her off the couch and wraps an arm around her waist. She grins at him, and they begin to dance, circling around his living room. Lindsay is still singing, but she's closed her eyes and laid her head on his shoulder.

This night is sparkling, don't you let it go

I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home

She raises her head and whispers the next words, looking at him in that way that gives him chills.

I'll spend forever wondering if you knew…

This night is flawless, don't you let it go

Please don't be in love with someone else

Please don't have somebody waiting on you…

The song ends, but they don't stop dancing. That's when he tells her those three words the first time, and she says them back.

So Enchanted might seem random to some, but I have always said it would be an awesome slow dance song, and I think it sets up a beautiful moment.

So I mentioned 'later'. Yep, we have more chapters coming. Three, probably. I rewatched the movie and got an arc idea that...is coming soon!

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Oh, and for the curious, my next chapter of Oh, Gods, is running really late, but it IS coming.