(A/N) Hey fellow readers! I did want to say that thanks to a reviewer who goes by Etglorriana95 I realize I've been being a little repetitive, saying certain details to backstories over and over again. I'll stop that, and hopefully this will help me push the story forward.
Pain, that's what he felt. Groaning the boy turned over on his side, not being able to find the source of the pain. It felt like fire, then stabbing. This had happened before, the leg. He remembered this happening a couple months ago. The leg had once been infected, and that meant the amputation sight suffered lasting damage. Why did it hurt this much though? It wasn't normal. Perhaps growing pains? Or maybe just sensitivity.
Hiccup groaned wile rolling onto his side. It had to be around twelve AM, but no way he could go back to sleep. It had been a wile since the last time his amputation gave him these problems. Toothless stood beside his riders bed, occasionally liking to stay in his room.
"Gods...Toothless?" Hiccup opened tired eyes when his dragon nudged him. Hiccup tried to move his leg, but the pain was unbearable. Sometimes Hiccup just wished he could be like normal amputees he'd see who didn't have these kinds of problems. Then again, he never asked any others about night problems. Maybe they just hid their pain to?
Toothless purred, looking down at Hiccup's stiff and swollen leg. The dragon knew this was more than just the occasional phantom pain. He walked to the end of the bed, and nudged Hiccup's leg. Hiccup couldn't help himself, and a loud gasp followed by a cry of pain escaped his lips.
Suddenly footsteps were heard in the hallway, and Hiccup wondered if he'd been crying out in his sleep. Magnus and Jacob weren't normally up this early without a reason after all. Hiccup watched as both foster parents entered the room, Magnus sitting on the side of Hiccup's bed wile Jacob stood in the doorway.
"Hiccup? Hey what's wrong." Magnus asked quietly, running her fingers through Hiccup's hair. Hiccup flinched uncomfortably, not used to this kind of gentleness having not had a mother for so long and his father always away before he arived here. You'd think closer bonds would've formed in a little less than a year, but Hiccup was stubborn. Everyone knew that.
"M-My leg just..." Hiccup trailed off wile gasping, trying desperately to hide his pain but faltering. Magnus looked up at Jacob, the father of the house walking over to sit on the end of the bed. "I understand. Been a wile since this happened. Huh?" Hiccup shrugged, biting his lips and still laying on his stomach.
Jacob shared a look with Magnus, and the mother of the house smiled. They knew Hiccup had never had a mother so found Magnus a neutral new person to adapt to. Jacob on the other hand was someone Hiccup refused to bond with, not liking the idea of replacing his father. His hero.
"Anything we can do Hiccup?" Magnus asked in that tender, gentle, strong voice only a mother or someone with a natural mothers instinct could pull off. Hiccup shook his head against the pillow, but looked up at Magnus with curious, confused, almost innocent forest green eyes.
Magus smiled warmly. She'd seen that look on Hiccup before when something like this happened. Hiccup liked the way she spoke to him, but was confused about to many things to count. He felt comforted by the way Magnus acted like a mother, but all in all had no idea how to have a mother in a since. Hiccup didn't know all the things that differed a mother from a father, and he didn't know how far a child could go with a foster mother. All of them were different after all.
Magnus reached down to touch Hiccup's hand who hesitantly held hers with his own. Covering his face with his blanket as to not let anyone see his emotions, Hiccup hissed in pain thanks to his leg. Jacob shared a look with Magnus, before stepping out of the room to go get pain medicine.
Once arriving back in the room, Jacob had a muscle relaxer ointment that had worked on Hiccup's leg before. "Mind if I uh..." Hiccup suddenly tensed, pulling his half leg further under the covers. "N-No it's fine." Hiccup tried to sound polite but at the same time insist he didn't want the help. Jacob understood, Hiccup wasn't very used to anyone except Stoick touching his leg after all. A hero Jacob could never live up to. That didn't mean he wouldn't stop trying to be something else for Hiccup though.
Magnus frowned, but couldn't help but admire Jacobs understanding expression. He never pushed things to hard with the children, just let them grow to him if they did. Hiccup still had his face covered, but you could tell he was hurting by how tense he was.
"What if I helped?" Magnus asked. Hiccup moved the thick blanket he used just a little so he could look up at her. In all honesty Hiccup didn't like anyone touching his sight because how sensitive it was. Magnus though seemed almost gentle as his father could be. It was weird how Stoick was a fighting man but could be gentle when needed. Unlike Jacob who was assumed to be to rough because he was a strong man similar to his dad, Magnus was a natural mother despite her only grandchild already being moved out.
Hiccup never met the young man, but heard he became a troubled teen and ran away from the state and law after he was eighteen. It's why Magnus and Jacob wanted to foster kids. Just like James their son who became troubled do to the pressure of his peers they didn't know about, the foster parents wanted to make sure their new kids didn't mess up because the pressure their pasts gave them.
Hesitantly, Hiccup nodded his head. Toothless pressed his hand under his riders hand wile purring, having enough of being in the background. Despite how gentle Magnus was, Hiccup still flinched and hissed in pain. After she finished applying the medicine though, it was much easier to sleep thanks to the relieved pain.
Jacob left the room as soon as they were done to sleep for work, but Magnus lingered a little longer. Hiccup was half asleep, and Magnus took this as her chance. Moving his hair out of his face, Magnus leaned down to lay a gentle, soothing kiss on Hiccup's forehead like she did for James when he was younger. Hiccup smiled in his now mostly asleep state, already dreaming. As Magnus started getting up, it might have been her imagination but she could have sworn she heard the soft yet meaningful words escape Hiccup's mouth.
"Night mom." He might have said barely audibly. Magnus knew he was dreaming and unaware of what he was saying. Perhaps Hiccup was thinking about his mother who died. The two simple words still made her heart squeeze though. "Night Hiccup." Magnus left the room to join her husband in a goodnights sleep.
(A/N) So what did you think? I know it's a bit short and random, but I needed something to show the difference between Magnus and Jacob in Hiccup's minds. I myself don't bond with many men because my mother brings new ones around and I don't want to get attached, but decided I needed to show some sort of bonding between Hiccup and his foster parents. I thought that the hole "Hiccup didn't know how to have a mother so could bond with Magnus, but not Jacob because it would be replacing his dad" idea worked pretty well. Review if you agree.