SquallOfVIII - I'm cliche and gave them one of each! Haha

MidwestMexican - glad you like the name!

Beautiful-mistakez - Erica was how it came up on the Norse/Viking name lists, Erika is I think Romanian? Valcupstrid! That would be a great cuddle. I'll settle for more Valcup cuddles though (also I enjoyed your ps)

-HTTYD-

Words could not describe the sheer relief Astrid felt a day and a half after the note arrived, when she woke from a fitful sleep to hear dragons landing outside. She knew how Toothless sounded landing by heart, and there were whispers in voices that made her heart soar. Cloudjumper's grumble was evident in what she suspected was a goodnight to Valka.

Boot and metal footsteps announced Hiccup in their hut, and Astrid immediately picked up Erica to head downstairs where they could all be together at last. Toothless lit the fire, illuminating the faces of Astrid's lovers. Valka still looked exhausted, but she was glowing as her eyes strayed between Astrid and the bundle in Hiccups arms.

"Come meet your son Astrid."

Valka sat on Hiccup's other side, so that Hiccup and Astrid could trade babies and allow the two to see Erica while Astrid gazed down at the newborn. His chubby cheeks were pink and healthy, not a single hair on his little head.

"It didn't take long for this little guy to come."

They all spoke in whispers - both babies were sleeping.

"No, we had barely landed when mom started getting pains" Hiccup stopped to kiss Astrid, his lips dry and chapped but still hot and eager on hers "and almost didn't find a cave to bunk down in. Raider here was in a rush."

Valka was holding Erica now, that same smile on her face as before - having her own baby didn't diminish her feelings for the one Astrid had bore. Raider was fast stealing her heart with his little button nose, perfectly formed little fists sticking out from his fur wrap.

"Hey little guy. Oh, he's so beautiful."

"Isn't he? I can't believe either of these two perfect little critters are mine."

Astrid smirked at her husband.

"Just because you have two women doesn't mean we have two men."

Hiccup's eyes went wide, but then Erica was starting to fuss and Astrid knew she would usually wake up for a feed around now. She traded Raider for Erica, pulling her breast out before Erica could start wailing and wake the newborn.

"I'm gonna take Raider up so Erica can't wake him, you two can come up whenever you're ready."

Hiccup kissed Astrid again, then Valka before tightening his hold on Raider and heading up the stairs. A sleepy Toothless left to sleep with Stormfly and Cloudjumper outside, and Valka shuffled over closer to Astrid. The two rested their foreheads against the other, quietly reconnecting while Erica nursed quietly.

"I missed you so much. Both- no, all of you. Raider kicked so much it was like he was already here."

Valka smiled, kissing Astrid gently and reaching to stroke Erica's soft head.

"We missed you both very dearly. Unfortunately I was too weak to return yesterday."

Astrid shook her head, trying to hold Valka's gaze and ensure Erica wasn't getting full or bored.

"It's fine. I want you healthy more than I want you here."

Erica began to fall asleep at her breast, but Astrid had to wind her before she could sleep. Thankfully, Erica didn't spit up milk, but she started to grizzle all the same. Valka held out her hands and Astrid placed Erica in them, putting away her breast as Valka began to sing softly to the girl. As ever, Erica settled soon after.

"She missed you both, kept fussing when she got bored of only getting cuddles from me."

Valka chuckled, lifting Erica to kiss her little brow before offering her back to Astrid.

"Bed?"

"Bed."

The two women made it up to their room, finding Hiccup stripped down to his leggings holding Raider in his arms.

"He alright?"

"Yep, I just changed him. Was waiting for you two to come up so he could get kisses before I put him in his crib. Since mom can't really bend much."

Astrid smiled at her husband, happily taking the chance to place a kiss on the baby-soft skin of Raiders nose. Valka kissed her newborn son in her grown sons arms, watching as Hiccup placed him down in his crib. Erica was next, both for kisses and her cradle.

"Do you think Erica will wake up again tonight?"

Astrid shook her head, a little confused.

"No, why?"

Hiccup smiled.

"So you can sleep in the middle. Mom'll probably have to get up for Raider."

"Oh."

She tried not to appear too eager, but the feel of her lovers bodies either side of her was such a beautiful relief to feel again. Valka kissed the back of her neck as Hiccup kissed her forehead, nuzzling her nose slightly with a smile.

"Better?"

"Perfect."

Raider woke them all two hours later, but after a feed went right back down and miraculously, Erica went straight back to sleep when Raider was quieted by a breast to nurse from. Astrid finally saw him with his eyes open, and they were utterly bewitching. The rush of love she had felt with her own daughter hit her like Thor's hammer, building on the connection Astrid had already felt to the baby boy.

Astrid felt worlds better for sleeping and waking with the two bodies around her. It was inevitable their return would be noticed, with Cloudjumper and Toothless back, but Hiccup managed to delay anyone coming in to the hut where Valka was nursing baby Raider alongside Astrid and Erica by leaving by himself.

Not that he was happy to be leaving either his children or his wives, as Astrid referred to she and Valka.

"This means we have to be together an awful lot you know."

"Oh?"

"Mhmm. Unless you intend to tell everyone you are nursing him, then Hiccup's going to have asked his wonderful wife to help by feeding this baby too. Meaning that if you're carrying him around, I can't be far."

Valka smiled.

"Quite right. I wish I didn't have to deny Raider as my son, but then I realise that truly, only the opinions of the Haddock homestead truly matter to me. There we go little one, a Viking does like a full stomach."

Valka rearranged her shift and lifted Raider to her shoulder to wind him. Astrid was soon copying with Erica, handing Valka a cloth when Raider spit up on her. She hadn't known how much she would like having someone going through the exact same things as she was, until Valka was pregnant alongside her.

"I don't like that I can't tell anyone about you either, but... we knew going in it would never be public knowledge. I'm not ashamed of our relationship, it's just..."

"It's not just us. The babes don't need such things hanging over their young heads. Honestly Astrid, I'm satisfied with what we have. My yak bladder runneth over, as Hiccup says."

As if she sensed Astrid's reticence - she couldn't imagine not publicly declaring she loved Hiccup, hated that her relationship with Valka and their unique parenting situation were secret, as if shameful - Valka leant across and kissed her.

"We're going to have to explain it to them sometime."

"I agree, but for now, we have each other and our beautiful babies. I want for nothing else."

"What about Stoick?"

Astrid clapped a hand to her mouth; the thought escaped from her mouth almost before it was formed.

"Hmm. It's difficult to explain. I think Stoick and I could have been happy had he lived, but if I'm honest I had some... unusual feelings for Hiccup over those days he spent in my Dragon Sanctuary."

Tracing the features of her daughters face, Astrid thought to herself.

"And Hiccup would probably have fallen for you anyway. So it could have actually been much more complicated. Do you miss him?"

"I do. But in a different way to missing him when I was gone. I miss him the way anyone does when they lose a loved one. I don't miss my marriage. Is that wrong, do you think?"

Astrid shook her head.

"It had been two decades. You were both different people. You might have found afterward that after you were caught up in the moment, you realised it wasn't as perfect as it looked. As you are now... what would you pick? Never being taken by Cloudjumper, staying to raise Hiccup? Or now, with him and me and these two little miracles?"

Valka didn't hesitate.

"Now. It may be selfish, but knowing Hiccup turned out so wonderfully without me makes it much harder to regret spending my years saving dragons. I couldn't choose not to have Raider either. You and Erica are incredible bonuses too."

Astrid supposed that was fair - going back would be choosing one child over another, Hiccup over Raider. Hiccup himself would insist the correct choice was Raider too.

"We think you're pretty great yourself."

Valka beamed.

"Thank you."

"How are you feeling? After giving birth I mean."

"Oh, I'm certainly sore and tired but... how can it be anything other than worth it when faced with this little beauty?"

Raider gurgled, little hand waving out of his fur wrap. Astrid reached over and tickled the palm, though Erica seemed a tad jealous and threatened to start crying.

"Oh, lets hope that doesn't set the tone of your relationship. Imagine if they don't get along, that will make for some fun years."

" I'm sure they'll be the best of friends while keeping each other on their toes. They are Haddocks after all. Loyal to the end."

Astrid smiled, innately reassured by Valka's soft voice. They put the babies down for their naps, and Valka happily leant into Astrid's side where she could play with Valka's hair. Hiccup was by far its biggest fan, but Astrid was appreciative of it herself and despite having not had the chance to wash it recently, Valka's hair smelled of the wildflowers that Hiccup was fond of putting in her hair.

"Is Hiccup telling people you 'found' a baby yet?"

"I think he said he would do it tomorrow, after everyone's gotten over him being back. With the reasoning that the babe needed time to settle."

Valka's fingers knotted with Astrid's, squeezing and rubbing her thumb over the back of her palm. There had been a time where Astrid felt awkward with Valka when Hiccup wasn't there, but now they were easily as comfortable together as she was with Hiccup.

The sex had probably helped there.

Not that there had been any of that in a while. Hiccup had only had his own hand and the occasional handjob for what must have been months now. He never complained but Astrid reckoned the poor man was probably a lot more tightly wound than he was letting on.

Astrid intended to have some self-exploring time when she went for a bath - if she was in no pain, then Hiccup definitely deserved a little play time. She doubted asking Valka to watch Erica would be a tough sell - she would still be in the 'keep all penises away from me forever' stage as the aches and bleeding were still going.

Hiccup reappeared just before lunch, windswept and clearly harried off his feet. Foot. He sat in the vacated space between Valka and Astrid, clearly torn between the two as they were both holding babies.

"My gods, you would think I had been gone weeks rather than days the way everyone reacted. How have you four been?"

"Good. Raider is remarkably docile."

Hiccup leant over to see Raider sleeping.

"Against his sister-slash-niece and her regularly used lungs?"

As if knowing she was being discussed, Erica started gurgling. Hiccup turned around to see her little face, reaching to lift Erica into his arms.

"Hey little lady. Don't worry, most Vikings like yelling so you'll fit right in. Raider is just gonna be more like me and Fishlegs, I'll bet he reads the Book of Dragons before you but you fly before him."

Astrid couldn't help chuckling, watching Hiccup chatter away to their daughter.

"You've already thought about that?"

He nodded, tickling Erica's drooly chin and she gurgled happily.

"Absolutely. I've already planned the speech that'll be read at my funeral when you kill me for suggesting they get flight suits."

Astrid glared, already mentally selecting the axe she would use to kill him for that suggestion.

"In your dreams."

"See? I was right Erica, mommy Astrid doesn't want you diving off a dragon like I do. In her defence, you are a little small."

Valka was tittering to herself behind Hiccup as Astrid continued glaring, even as she knew he was intentionally winding her up.

"I don't like that you dive off dragons."

"Hey! At least I have a suit. Mom literally slid off Toothless' wing once in mid-air. If Cloudjumper hadn't been there she would have plunged to an icy death."

Behind him, Valka rolled her eyes.

"I knew Cloudjumper was there. And I've been dragon-dancing in the air for decades, I'd wager I'm safer than you as I've had more practice."

"See this Erica? You get two moms, I get two Haddock women ganging up on me. Be prepared Raider, you'll have three."

If Astrid swatted him, Hiccup had totally earned it.

-HTTYD-

Regularly scheduled threesome smut will resume soon, don't worry!