Title: Finally

Summary: Hiccup tries to make things better and Toothless isn't having any of it, but when push comes to shove, do they have what it takes to go the distance?

Disclaimer: I do not own, this is true. I make no money, please don't sue.

It took a few hours of flying nonstop, but Toothless reached Camicaze's as the sun was drawing closer to the horizon. Camicaze herself was sitting outside behind her home, cleaning fish. On her, Toothless could faintly but clearly (and most importantly, recently) smell the scent of his human, his Hiccup.

He dropped out from the sky, deftly landing beside her. If she was surprised, she didn't show it. She just kept on cleaning her fish. Toothless was mildly surprised at her silence. She was usually a much noisier person. He moved to enter her house, was about to open the door, when she asked,

"What took you so long? He's been sadder than a dead dog without you."

Toothless turned to her, his posture saying 'sorry', while his face said 'confused'. Camicaze laughed.

"Aren't we all?"

Normally, with his goal so close, Toothless wouldn't be stopping for anyone (with only one obvious exception), but this small girl, smaller than his own human even, had saved them both more than once. He owed her that much; he owed her enough to at least listen every time she spoke. The familiar sound of her voice calmed him, actually. She had always been one of the first to accept him, to offer a petting hand or a delicious fish. Suddenly, that made Toothless sad. Because she wasn't the first. Only one person was ever the first.

Toothless must have been very preoccupied with his thoughts, because he didn't expect it when the door behind him opened.

"Hey, Camicaze, I saw Stormfly's saddle, and I thought—"

Hiccup looked at Toothless. Toothless looked at Hiccup. Camicaze looked at neither of them, going back to cleaning her fish, still unusually silent. Toothless looked some more. Hiccup looked some more. They stared at each other for a moment that lasted forever. Then, Hiccup ran! Toothless was too startled to do anything but watch, at first. Hiccup had never run away from him. Yet, there it was, and Toothless had no choice. He followed.

Keep in mind that, at this point, Hiccup still wasn't completely used to only having a leg and a half, and that he'd never been the fastest runner in Burk with two. So, despite his head start, he didn't manage to get beyond the fence that stood outside Camicaze's house before Toothless (carefully) tackled him to the ground.

"Toothless, get off!" Hiccup yelled.

/Sorry!/ Toothless replied. He got off hurriedly, worried that he'd hurt Hiccup somehow, and was relieved to find that the boy was just a little scuffed up. Suddenly, Hiccup leaped away, shakily holding a sword between them. Toothless shook his head in surprise. He hadn't even noticed that Hiccup had one. To be honest, he wasn't really expecting him to have one. But there it was, between them and very much pointed in his direction.

"Go home, Toothless. Don't make me have to hurt you." Hiccup's voice trembled.

Toothless snorted disbelievingly, and moved forward. To do what, he didn't know, but it definitely involved being close to his human. This was the longest they'd been apart since the longest time they'd been apart and Toothless didn't know how much longer he could take not being by Hiccup's side.

/That hurts!/ Toothless screeched as Hiccup lashed out with the sword. He was clumsy, and could barely swing it, but it left a visible scratch. It was a small one, not even drawing blood (Toothless bit his tongue worse than that.), but to him, it felt like Hiccup had come and stabbed right through his heart.

Some of that must have shown on his face, because Hiccup dropped the sword and fled into the house. Toothless approached the door cautiously, hearing Hiccup still on the other side.

/What did I do?/ Toothless leaned on the door. /Is it too much to ask…what I did?/

"Go away Toothless. Go home." Hiccup's voice came from the other side of the door.

/Home? What home? It's not home without you, Hiccup./

"Just go back to Burk. Please."

/and then what? What kind of life do you think I'll have without you?/

"You can fly on your own now, you don't need me. Go home, Toothless."

/NO./ Toothless paused. /Is it because I can't fly without this box?/

"What? No! Just, please, Toothless, just go home…"

/I'm sorry I couldn't save your leg. I tried, I really did—/

"It's not that, it's not—"

/Please come back to Burk, Hiccup. I promise I won't I won't be too jealous if you want to ride another dragon…/

"What's wrong with you?" Hiccup was finally fed up. "Just go home, you useless reptile!"

Toothless got angry as well. /Not until you tell me why, you selfish little—/

"This isn't for me! You're the selfish one here, not me!"

Toothless could tell he was crying. 'Twenty one years old, and he still can't stop crying he gets too upset.'

"You stupid reptile, this isn't for me. It's for you." Hiccup sobbed. "It's for your own good."

Toothless was shocked.

/For me? I must be stupid, because I can't see how this is for me. How dare you leave me, without so much as a hint of goodbye, and tell me it's for me!/

Toothless had had enough. He whirled around and gave the door a good solid thump, telling Hiccup to get out of the way, before he tore it off its hinges.

/You wretch!/ Toothless pounced on the boy, holding him down. Tears streaks marked freckled cheeks, and Toothless swore the bags under his eyes were worse.

/What the hell were you thinking? In which of the nine worlds is my life better without you?/ Toothless was furious. /Tell me! You owe me that much./ He'd tried to understand, he really did, but this— this—

"I'm a burden." Hiccup sobbed quietly. He couldn't look Toothless in the eyes.

"I'm weak, and helpless, and you deserve better. You jerk." Hiccup hit Toothless on the chest with his fist, but both of them knew his heart wasn't in it.

"Did you honestly think I left because I thought I could do better?" Hiccup was really crying now, half shouting his words even as he choked on them.

"I shot you out of the sky that night, did you know that? So I tried to give you back what I took from you, at least give back what you gave me, but I just can't, Toothless." Hiccup wiped angrily at his eyes.

"I tried, and I tried, and you know I'd give up my other leg to make you happy, but I'm useless, just like they said I was."

Hiccup gave a final sniff and ran his sleeve across his eyes before scrambling up to stand in front of the stunned dragon.

"So just go already." He pointed out the broken door. Toothless looked at him, and couldn't help it.

He started laughing.

It started as hysterical laughter, but it grew from relief, and eventually morphed into laughter of pure mirth. Toothless was incredibly and inexplicably happy.

On the other hand, Hiccup was stunned. And livid.

"You— You—!"

He stomped off. Figures. He poured his heart and soul out to a useless dragon and this was the thanks he—

/Wait!/ Toothless tackled him from behind. Again. Only this time, he didn't let go. Hiccup was enveloped in a cocoon made of Night Fury, warm and suddenly at peace, despite the fact that he could still hear the dying rumbles of Toothless's laughter somewhere above him.

/The two of us make quite a pair, don't we?/ Toothless crooned quietly. /I was so convinced that you'd left me for another dragon. Or at least to look for one. /

"This was all your fault, you know." Hiccup murmured sleepily. He hadn't slept very well since he'd left Burk. "If you'd just worn the stupid flying aide, non of this would have happened."

/It's a useful invention, I agree./ Toothless yawned. /But it could never replace you./

"Darned right it can't." Now it was Hiccup's turn to yawn as he shifted to get more comfortable. Toothless did the same

"You can't pack as much raw Viking-ness as I have into such a package."

/And it wouldn't have given me nearly as much trouble./

The two of them stayed like that for a while, listening to the sound of each other's voices until they fell asleep. And that was how Camicaze found them hours later.

"Nuts. Both of them are nuts."

But she didn't want to disturb them. She'd make Hiccup fix her door tomorrow.

A/N: So It's done. I can't tell whether I'm happy or sad. This chapter gave me the most trouble, and I can't help but feel that it can be better, but when I get too anal when it comes to writing, the chapter just never gets done.

Also, for anyone who's curious, Hiccup could barely understand a word Toothless was saying, even though Toothless could understand him. Try rereading it, but substitute just key words and facial expressions from Toothless and it would still work.

So here. I hope you had as much fun reading it as I did writing it!

As always, feedback is much appreciated. Hugs and Kisses!