Just as she thought, once they arrived to Berk a million questions were thrown at her until Stoic roared, "Alright now that's enough!"

After she had hopped off Belch she went straight to her dragon that in turn whined and nuzzled her as she wrapped her arms around his neck, "I missed you too."

"Via, once you've taken care of your dragon I need to have a word with you." She just glanced at the chief and nodded, heading towards Gothi's to find better healing ointments for Scarfume's injuries.

*Luckily his injuries weren't too serious but all the same he needed to rest, which she led him back to their home and made sure he laid down on his spot.

Arching a brow she saw some wilted flowers scattered on the floor and picked them up, "Did you get these for me Tuffnut?"

A small snort behind her whined, "How did you know I was here?" "Instinct by living with Changewings." "Yeah, I got them for you before….."

She smirked at him and murmured, "Thank you Tuff…..I'll see you later ok." Via noticed how ticked off he just got as Scarfume but she hastily explained, "I have to see Stoic then I'm coming right back here promise."

She had to run away at that point to avoid him blurting out more question as she hesitantly knocked on Hiccup's door, being let in and shown where to seat.

Stoic took a heavy sigh, not as much as she did when he growled, "I know you've been through a rough experience Via and need not to be bothered for a while but this is important. Why did Dagur kidnap you? We need to know this as you can imagine since that's who we're dealing with."

The woman nodded and murmured, "He….has this crazy idea on marrying me."

"WHAT!?"

Stoic stroked his beard and mused, "That's unusual but not unimaginable, why this sudden interest on his part?"


Via scowled, "My battle scars mostly from what I gather and the fact he heard me singing that night. It's purely an obsession."

Stoic nodded, "Sounds like it, but I'm glad you're not hurt and back on Berk with us." "Me too." Hiccup shuffled uncomfortably on his chair and asked warily, "I hate to be that guy Via but….uh…what happened in the cabin that got Tuffnut and Scarfume so upset?"

Stoic arched a heavy brow questionably from this new detail as Via snapped, "I don't want to talk about it. Don't you think I've been through enough?"

He was about to apologize when she stood up and left; rushing the blonde out her home saying she wanted to sleep and pissed him off even more but left none the less. Via curled next to Scarfume this time with a pained sigh, trying to cope and dull out the flashbacks of her time with the deranged Viking.

*The next few days Hiccup saw she was being aloof on any topic dealing with Dagur or any questions about what happened to her clothes; it worried him a lot.

"What's wrong son?"

"I don't understand, something big happened in that cabin between Dagur and Via and she won't say a word about it. If you haven't noticed Scarfume and Tuffnut are acting strange too."

Stoic hummed in deep thought and murmured, "I've noticed the dragon more aggressive than usual but what's this about Tuffnut?"

"He's…well…..mad all the time, wandering off muttering to himself. Ruffnut is even worried, he hasn't slept at home for a few days; no one knows where he goes and Via is being very distant with everyone."

The Chief let out a heavy sigh and plopped a heavy hand on his son's shoulder, "Look Hiccup, whatever happened maybe something Via doesn't want to talk about just yet. Give her time to talk about what's troubling her; this may be the only way she can move past her rough experience."

"I guess, but why won't Tuffnut talk about it. I mean, he SAW what happened I'm assuming and could let us in on it."


"I'll tell YOU why mister."

They both jumped to see the angry twin standing there brooding as he snarled, "It's none of YOUR business what happened to her until Via is ready to talk about it."

Hiccup, "That's fine…there's nothing wrong with that….but you need to calm down and relax." "Relax? I'll relax when she's relaxed!"

Stoic raised a thick brow, watching the twin stomp off before smirking, "Isn't that interesting."

"What?" "Oh nothing~"

Gobber smirked as they watched a puzzled Hiccup trudge off as he mused to his chief friend, "Young love eh?" "Looks like it me."

*Via was relieved Trader Johann had some clothes on his ship when he arrived yesterday, he didn't make her trade anything due to her experience which she appreciated.

"At least I have the same clothes now except the tunic color, but at least this dark shade of red looks good on me."

She was walking solo in the woods in deep thought until she finally rolled her eyes, "I'm fine Scarfume, no need to stalk me everywhere."

Her healed dragon snorted in irritation and blocked her path snarling, stomping his foot and lashing out his tail. She gave him a weak smile and stroked his snout, "Look, I know you're worried about me and I really appreciate it but I'm fine. I wasn't hurt."

The dragon roared angrily before flying off leaving the woman confused, "What is going on with him!?"

"Maybe the fact you were kidnapped."

The woman saw Tuffnut leaning against a tree with his arms crossed with a deep frown before murmuring, "It's not that big a deal. You guys told me before it happened to Hiccup and many others."


The twin sighed, "Yeah but I doubt they were molested like you were." Her metallic blue orbs went wide as he continued, "I saw what happened through the window and so did Scarfume."

"I had no idea….no wonder he's been so upset and overprotective." "Oh, and what am I…chicken liver!?"

"Chicken liver?" "You know what I mean!"

"Can we talk about this later?" "No! We need to talk about this now!"

She sighed and nodded, admitting defeat and motioning for him to follow her, "Alright, but let's go to a more private spot."

*Once they were at her home she sat down as he blurted out slamming his fists on the table, "Why couldn't you tell ME about it!? Would it kill you to let at least someone know what happened?"

"Tuffnut, it's not a topic I want everyone to know about!"

"Yeah, well since I saw what happened I have the right!" She stood up and snapped, "I didn't KNOW you knew otherwise I would've already spilled my guts to you!"

His expression softened to his normal clueless look but with a hint of worry since he saw she was on the verge of tears, "Do it." "Do..sniff…what?"

He grabbed her by the shoulders and growled, "Cry woman! Just let it out, you've been holding it in too long."

Via shook her head, "No…I don't want to….I've cried enough growing up and even more when I was marooned."

He didn't want to make things worse but he had…no….NEEDED to know what truly happened, "You were raped weren't you?"

Just the sad look in her metallic blue orbs and that was enough, he had a hunch since she flinched a lot whenever he tried to touch her and for once everything made sense.

He didn't know what else to do except hold her, making her gasp, as he whispered, "It's ok." That was all it took for all the tears to overflow and her sorrows to be heard; she hated every minute of it but it wasn't so bad once it was finally over.

She cleaned her face with a wet cloth, taking a much needed deep breath, "Thanks Tuffnut, I needed that."

"See, I told you." He took the brave notion to kiss her on the lips, to which she did jump but quickly got over it to return the warm tender kiss. She finally felt relaxed for the first time since she came back until he suddenly gasped, "I'll be right back! Don't you dare move woman!"

Via just blinked several times before laughing and shaking her head, "What was that about?"

Her questioned was answered when he came back with something behind his back and clearing his throat, he got to one knee and whipped out the small bouquet of flowers asking, "Via, I was an idiot and you were right. Will you please be my girl…woman….since you're a woman obviously and not a little girl?"

She tried not to laugh but it didn't work but never the less she tackled the blonde to the floor with her arms around his neck musing, "Yes, I will be your woman since I'm a grown woman….if you'll be my teenage buffoon~"

"Can't argue with that~"

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