Let's try this writing malarkey again.
Chapter is a time jump of about two years.
-HTTYD-
It didn't take that long for people to start noticing Raider.
Or rather, the fact Raider looked like a Haddock.
It was his second birthday, he and Erica both walking and talking and babbling to dragons. Astrid would occasionally look at them both growing in awe; not because they were aging, but because they marked the length of the relationship shared between she, Hiccup and Valka. The relationship that they had managed to keep secret, and that had stayed so remarkably stable Astrid could scarcely believe it.
Slim arms slid around her waist and Astrid recognised her scent immediately, turning her head and she felt Valka's lips across her own. It was like swallowing a hot drink, warmth filling her body as she experienced the touch of her lover.
"Mama!"
Two excitable voices called out to them, finding two toddlers sticky with dragon saliva where Toothless had been undoubtedly licking their faces. Sure enough, the Night Fury looked gleeful and unapologetic. His rider and the father of both young ones was snickering to himself in the corner, attempting to look as though he were hard at work on something for a village council meeting. Astrid was fairly sure it was all a ruse to get out of cleaning dragon spit off of boisterous two year olds.
"Come on you two, lets get that off your face."
She and Valka leant down and each picked up a child, placing them on the table to make it easier to reach their mucky faces. Astrid had ended up with Raider since he was closest to her, and his freckled cheeks and scruffy hair screamed Haddock traits. She may be biased, but Astrid felt like the fact he was Hiccup and Valka's child was written across his face.
Though she considered it unlikely anyone else would pick that out - Hiccup and Valka looked alike enough that their resemblance would, if noticed, likely be put down as familial rather than paternal.
Still, Raider was becoming harder to deny as one of the Haddock bloodline.
The heavy bundling all infants got against the cold weather of Berk was helping to disguise it for now, but Astrid suspected they would have to address it eventually.
She just wasn't expecting how that came about.
The day after Raider's birthday, Hiccup had to get back to chiefing. He took Erica and Raider along to the Hall with him, allowing Astrid and Valka time to bathe and fly... after they spent a little time enjoying the freedom in bed together.
Stormfly and Cloudjumper had bonded over their limited riding time, but it had become much more of a regular occurrence since the young Haddocks were old enough to not need a nursing mother nearby. Valka was long back to her pre-pregnancy flying techniques, currently standing atop Cloudjumpers neck and twirling through the air completely at ease.
Astrid was a little jealous - she could stand on Stormfly's back, and even do some acrobatics upon the saddle but that pure confidence from twenty years of practically being a dragon... she may never match Valka's skill level.
The woman in question leapt across and landed behind Astrid with startling ease, slipping her arms around Astrid's waist again and kissing the side of her neck. Astrid shivered in a way that had nothing to do with the cold air around them, heart pounding as a hand ran across her thigh. Before Astrid could decide to try sex on a dragon, Valka had hopped back across to Cloudjumper with a coy smile.
Astrid growled but the sound was lost to the whistling winds, though she suspected Valka knew the blonde had let out a sound of frustration. It didn't matter they'd fucked before they left to fly... Astrid wanted her now. But her options were cut the flight short or wait until the kids were in bed and Hiccup could be involved. Neither were hugely appealing.
But Astrid was nothing if not strictly disciplined, forcing her budding arousal away to enjoy tumbling through the clouds with Stormfly, Cloudjumper nearby with Valka showing off how her Stormcutter could spin all the way around and she didn't have to hold on. Just ran in place like a log roll. Her grumbling stomach became the signal they ought to head back, landing outside the Meade Hall to peer in looking for Hiccup.
"You after the chief lass?"
"Yeah, he here Seamus?"
"Nah, left about half hour ago with those precious little ones. And the pirate."
Mostly, everyone had long gotten used to Eret - he ran the classes for under tens at Dragon Academy with Fishlegs and repaired dragon stables the rest of the time. Firebreathing lizards went through a few. But the pirate nickname lingered.
Even Valka got on with Eret now.
"Thanks Seamus."
They hopped back up on their dragons, scouring the town below for the chief. Astrid didn't spot him so opted to land at their home, heading in to find Hiccup, Eret and the two toddlers. Hiccup looked eerily pale, Eret far calmer.
"I'll uh, leave you to it chief. Think about what I said yeah?"
Eret bade them farewell, receiving sticky little fist bumps from the two-year olds as he left. Hiccup didn't seem to notice Eret leaving, staring into the wall like it had answers to silent questions until Erica climbed up into his lap. The weight pulling on his leggings as she heaved herself up snapped Hiccup out of his daze, recognition lighting his features.
"Hey. Good flight?"
Astrid scooped up Raider before he got his chubby little hands on Hiccup's charcoal dagger that had seemingly been knocked off the desk, then sat the side of Hiccup closest while Valka swept around the fire and sat his other side.
"Are you ok babe?"
"Mhmm."
"Then why did you look like you had just seen Odin's wrath? And what was Eret here for?"
Hiccup opened and closed his mouth soundlessly several times, looking down at Raider who was comfortably resting against Astrid, big green eyes fluttering as he fought naptime.
"He came to see me about Raider."
"What about Raider?"
Hiccup swallowed thickly, fiddling with Erica's messy hair.
"He asked if... if he was mine. In the uh, literal sense."
Astrid suspected her own eyes went just as wide as Valka's did.
"You mean-"
"He knows?"
Hiccup nodded, words failing him for a second.
"How does he know?"
"He didn't say. I didn't ask. He said he wasn't even going to bring it up at all but figured with Raider starting to look so much like a Haddock..."
Having had those thoughts herself, Astrid could definitely see where Eret was coming from.
"So what else did he say?"
Valka prompted - this revelation undoubtedly affected the mother and son who shared their bodies in intimate ways more than it did Astrid. She wasn't insecure enough to let that fact bother her.
"That uh... it sounds really weird. He said if we needed an excuse, that we could say Raider was his and that we lied because it was a one off thing with mom, and we were worried people would think it too soon after dad or expect them to get married."
"He what?"
Valka looked stunned; Astrid could relate.
"Eret said whatever goes on between us is our business, but because he's my friend he felt compelled to offer whatever assistance he could."
"And his idea of assistance is covering up our relationship by saying he's Raider's dad?"
"As far as everyone else has seen, we're raising Raider anyway. Honestly, the biggest flaw in his suggestion for me is that everyone would consider it me saying I thought mom too irresponsible to raise my brother."
"It's to protect Raider. What do I care of opinions other than yours?"
Now napping against Astrid's stomach, Raider had a thumb in his mouth and looked so utterly sweet. Astrid gently brushed a finger over his soft temple, smiling to herself.
"Look, Erica's the future chief and so what the village thinks of Raider and how he came into the world isn't that important. Plus... everyone will forget in a month after several nights hard drinking. I do want to talk to Eret before we go agreeing to anything... what say you Valka?"
The older of her lovers shrugged, eyes dropping to where Raider was sleeping with a fond smile.
"I left my husband and son for twenty years. I don't think my reputation is anybodies concern."
Astrid took Valka's hand.
"It's ours."
Hiccup took her other.
"And don't you dare start feeling bad mom. If I had the choice, I'd send you there again to save a few thousand dragons then come back to be a part of this. We have each other and we have the kids. The past is past."
They had had this conversation before, and would almost undoubtedly have it again. But Hiccup and Astrid had both long let Valka's absence go. Now she spent her days with their kids and her nights in their bed. Astrid couldn't imagine their marriage without Valka in it, and it would never have happened had a rogue Stormcutter not taken Valka to the Dragon Sanctuary.
"I'm gonna go talk to Eret. Could you-"
She gestured to the sleeping Raider, Valka having a knack for picking up their kids without waking them. Raider grizzled for a second but didn't wake as Valka carefully lifted him into her lap. Astrid leant over and kissed her lover in thanks, then stood up and moved to peck Hiccup on the lips too.
Neither of them tried to slow her; they probably wanted to hear what Eret had to say as much as she did. Patting Stormfly on the side where she was sharing some sagefruit with Toothless, Astrid peered up to the sky to see if she could see a Rumblehorn.
"You see where Eret went girl?"
Stormfly squawked, standing up and shaking her wings and tail out before bowing a little to let Astrid up. Trusting her Nadder and her tracking skills, Astrid held tight as they took off to the air. Stormfly took them over to Eret's hut - recognisable with its Skullcrusher-sized doorframe, twice the width of many. He had built it himself to ensure his dragon could get in.
"He's home then? Let's go."
Astrid was polite enough to knock the door, tapping her booted foot impatiently as she heard Eret's hefty footsteps and and Skullcrusher grizzling like a guard dog. As soon as the door opened, dragon and rider relaxed at the familiar person.
"Given that I have a good idea why you're here, lets talk inside. You're welcome too Stormfly."
Eret shared the hut officially with his three shipmates who had relocated to Berk too, but they often stayed on the ship or went off sailing. Only Eret had truly put down roots. There were weapons and etchings from distant lands upon the walls; Astrid quite liked the childlike scribbles of Eret's drawings.
"Nobody else is here, if you were wondering."
"Ok. So... how did you know? How long have you known?"
Astrid had intended to ask a little more gently but it fell out of her.
"I've known... a while. As for how... I had my suspicions before I got landed with night patrol a lot and there is a hole in your roof. Suffice to say I've seen all of you in compromising situations and leave it at that."
His cheeks were red despite his clear and concise answer, no stammer at all. Astrid felt her own face flush slightly.
"I kept telling Hiccup to cover that damned dragon hole."
Eret chuckled, offering her a cup of mead that Astrid took happily, taking a bracing mouthful.
"Look, what happens in the chiefs bedroom is the chiefs business and while I don't... I couldn't... There is no avoiding the fact those two are two sides are the same coin and you have two great kids. That's all I need to know."
Astrid left Eret's hut fifteen minutes later feeling firmly reassured he had no intention of tearing down their little bubble world. Her marriage was safe and Eret had proved once again that under the dragon trapper bravado he had a heart of gold and was a loyal friend. She felt good about it all; except maligning both Eret and Valka with the lie.
It would look like Valka was easy and Eret a deadbeat dad, but Astrid and he agreed that it could always have been a mutual choice to let the chief raise the half-blooded Haddock. She intended to pass that on to her lovers, though first she was going to have to find them. A peek around the downstairs door confirmed that Raider and Erica were down for their pre-dinner naps, and Astrid had a feeling she knew what she would find upstairs.
Valka was straddling her son's lean hips, her chest pressed against his as they kissed. Hiccup's hand ventured beneath her tunic and Valka's mouth dropped, gasping against his jaw in response to whatever his hands were doing.
"You know, a wife can feel neglected these days."
Twin smirks and heated green eyes fixed on Astrid where she stood in the room, the two immediately separating and getting off the bed. They both prowled like hunters stalking prey and Astrid felt her thighs quiver and grow slick from the anticipation.
"Are we not keeping you satisfied? Mom, we gotta step up our game."
Valka chuckled as her lips sealed over a sensitive spot on Astrid's neck, sucking a bruise there that made her knees weak.
"I'm sure we can manage."
Astrid managed to kick off her boots before she was dragged willingly toward the bed. When her eyes caught on the dragon hole as she landed amongst the bed furs, Astrid groaned.
"We gotta cover that thing."
"What thing?"
"The big hole in the roof Eret saw us through."
Both of them halted their explorations of Astrid's skin beneath her vest, which she didn't really approve of. Valka even turned to look at the offending gap in the roof.
"He..."
"Oh."
Hiccup immediately got off the bed and pushed the panel over to cover it - it existed, they just never used it. It was a glaring error of judgement that meant Odin-knows how lucky they had been only Eret had seen them.
"Better?"
"Mhmm. Get over here chief."
Hiccup grinned, taking the side of Astrid's body not occupied by Valka as the two began divesting her of her clothing. They hadn't undressed each other when she found them, so she was soon naked with two clothed partners. Her hands itched to feel skin but met only fabric, bunching in Valka's tunic in frustration.
"You're either feeling neglected or you're not. Can't have it both ways milady."
Hiccup pinned her hips as Valka claimed her top half, both with smirks playing over their mouths. Mouths that were soon put to far more tantalising use. Valka's mouth latched on to a swollen, sensitive nipple while Hiccups tongue swiped against her clit, the lack of preamble sending her from zero to a hundred on the pleasure scales.
"Oh gods!"
One of them chuckled. It might have been both. Astrid barely registered anything but the vibrations on tender flesh. Valka tormented her with her teeth, tugging at her nipple while Hiccup and his hungry tongue urged her towards climax. Having been left wanting earlier and knowing the heated lust she felt for them both never truly dampened, Astrid shattered beneath their ministrations almost too soon.
Shuddering on the bed, Astrid felt fresh tingles rush through her body when Hiccup and Valka kissed, sharing her taste between their lips. Valka all but purred, grabbing Hiccup's tunic and hauling him closer still until they were forced to break apart, panting for air.
"Hope you're ready for round two."
Astrid had to suppress a whimper as they pounced upon her again, taking their time to explore her skin sensually with hands and mouths and filthy whispers in her ear. Hiccup turned her on her side and pressed behind her, his bare cock landing heavily on her back as he freed it from his leggings. Valka kissed her and pawed hungrily at her breasts, Hiccup reaching down to guide his cock inside Astrid and they both held her as she shivered through the intense melding.
Lips brushed her shoulders, her collarbone, her back and her face, fingers caressing her skin as Hiccup rocked his hips, pressing his cock deeper inside her. Astrid whimpered against Valka's soft lips, clutching needily at her gorgeous hair and tremblimg afresh when nimble fingers moved to stroke and tease her clit.
Hiccup's thrusts pushed Astrid into Valka's fingers, the constant back and forth and being trapped between two hot bodies left Astrid ablaze. The heat surrounded her, coating her skin in a thin layer of sweat but neither seemed to mind, instead biting and kissing at any skin they could reach and Astrid was powerless to resist the epic sensations.
Even with the dragon hole covered Astrid reckoned someone would hear her desperate cries as she was fucked and touched and kissed into oblivion, Valhalla beckoning as Hiccup dug his fingers into her hip. His thrusts sped up, damp grunting and curses condensing on her skin like the bruises she could feel forming.
With a last few thrusts that wracked Astrid's body with the most unbelievable pleasures, Hiccup pulled out just in time to coat her lower back in hot come with a low groan. Valka's busy fingers ensured Astrid joined him in satisfaction, quaking between mother and son until she slumped, sweaty and sticky and spent on the bed.
"Wow."
"Still feeling neglected dearest wife?"
"Nope. Hungry."
Hiccup chuckled his face rested between her shoulder blades, squeezing her ass playfully before withdrawing his hand. Astrid felt cloth swipe across her skin, removing the worst of the mess there.
"I'm gonna clean up and start dinner. The terrors will be awake soon."
After righting his clothes, Hiccup came around the bed to kiss both Valka and Astrid, zipping into the bathroom to wash his hands and face. Then he was heading downstairs with the alternating step clunk step clunk.
"Don't wanna move."
Valka chuckled softly, cupping Astrid's chin and tilting her face upwards to place a sweet kiss upon her lips.
"The babies will be waiting."
Grumbling, Astrid acquiesced. Valka was kind enough to help her find her clothes, then affected enough to whimper when Astrid got her second wind and promised they would make it up to Valka in bed that night. They headed downstairs holding hands and Astrid couldn't help smiling as sleepy toddlers ambled over to them seeking cuddles and kisses. Both of which were liberally dispensed over their sweet faces.
Astrid wouldn't change it for anything.
-HTTYD-
This story is coming to its end soon. There's not a whole lot left to be done since this was only meant to be a quickie.