Merida looked at Hiccup, not a normal look but a sorrowful, meaningful, staring in to your soul look. Only for a couple of seconds then she snuggled back into him. "Yes…" Came a shy whisper from within the sheets. "I would like that…" Merida was boisterous, out going, feisty and loud mouthed but when it came to relationships she was sensitive.
Hiccup pulled her in and they just lay there. The storm howled outside the window, trees crumbling to the floor, rain lashing at the winds, the lightning flashing on and off. Suddenly all the lights switched off. "What's happened?" They both sat up in the bed and Merida crawling across the room. "Must be a power cut or something?" Merida sighed and kept crawling along. She came to the radiator and found it was stone cold. "The heating is off too! Oh poop! Oh wait I have an idea!" Merida fumbled around and found her laptop. Quickly she flicked it on, flooding the room with a soft light. Hiccup slowly got out of bed, popped his shirt back on and went over to Merida.
Slowly yet surely Hiccup crawled over to her, then pounced tickling her in a crazy manner. "Muhhahahah!" He cried as she snorted loudly, he smiled and tickled furiously for a couple of minutes until they were both lay on the floor in an exhausted heap. "Get the duvet off the bed and we can snuggle on the floor round the heat and light of the laptop!" Hiccup sat crossed legged on the floor, whilst Merida happily perched on his pretzel legs, snuggling close and pulling the laptop in. They watched a film on the computer and looked at Merida's pictures of Scotland.
"That reminds me," She said looking at a picture of her castle home. "Two things, in two weeks time my Mother and Father are going to a big meeting, so they are sending the triplets down here for a week and Mum wants to know if you Jack and Punzie want to go there for Christmas because Jack's got no where to go to, Punzie can't get flights back to Germany in time and well…..I want you to…er….come because we are a thing now and you can't get back to Berk?!" Hiccup nodded and then Merida talked and talked about all the things they do at a Christmas and how he could meet her family, see the horses again, climb mountains, go out for a ride, all sorts of amazing things.
After a while the two got drowsy and the laptop had slowly run out of life so they snuggled down on the floor and went to sleep, save and sound in one another's arms. That night when Rapunzel came back she popped her head round the door to see the two very comfortable with each other and decided to retreat to her room.