-"And there's a knock on my door but I'm not gonna answer it..."-
Tuffnut groaned, pulling away from his throat long enough to lift himself onto his arms like a lazy dragon stretching from a nap. He frowned over his shoulder at the door, letting out a breath before tossing hair out of his eyes. "He'll be down in a fuckin' minuet! Tell the bitch to fuckin' wait!" With that he calmly slid off of Hiccup, managing to keep on his feet with only a single hand on the mattress for support.
"Don't fucking snap at me!" He whipped his attention to the door again, looking like Ruffnut had slapped him through it.
"Dammit, Ruff, give 'em a minuet!" He turned back to him, watching him slide off the edge of the bed as well, combing fingers through his hair anxiously before glancing over at him as well. "I'll walk you down so the bitch queen doesn't eat your soul on the way out." He pushed off the bed, standing straight for a second before swaying and catching himself on the nightstand. Hiccup laughed quietly, wrapping a hand around his arm and helping him up, draping his arm over his shoulder as Tuffnut grumbled something incoherent beneath his breath.
"It'll go away soon. But, I don't think you should take me to the door, if you push yourself it's not going to go away." Tuffnut shook his head though, pointing to the door grimly before starting towards it, not giving Hiccup much of a choice but to follow after him.
"What the hell else am I going to do for two weeks? Least if I'm still sick I can sleep the time away." He muttered as he opened the door for them, holding it while Hiccup walked them through the opening.
"Yeah, I'm still sorry about that, Tuff. You really didn't have to do that, you could've just told her off or something." He laughed, but Tuffnut apparently failed to find the humor in his words. Instead he mumbled something beneath his breath that sounded suspiciously like, "No one hurts my Hicca." But, he brushed it off as wishful thinking and continued down the hall.
They came into the front room to find Ruffnut leaning against the table awkwardly, her arms folded over her chest again and a scowl plastered across her face. Her war hammer was leaning against the table next to her and she had one leg folded over the other at the knee, letting Tuffnut know she was ready to reach for the dagger in her boot. Astrid stood in the open doorway, looking every bit as awkward and every bit as upset, her own arms folded across her flat chest and her eyes latched onto a particularly interesting piece of wood beneath Ruffnut's boot, apparently.
Tuffnut felt his face morph to match his twin's, functioning more on instinct than thought. Astrid looked up at them, Ruffnut rolling an eye over her shoulder at them before locking it onto Astrid again. Apparently his twin had yet to forgive the girl for trying to get him kicked out of the village; he'd have to thank her when she was closer to being ready to accept something like that. "Hiccup, your father told you to come up here and deliver the news to Ruffnut, not stay and talk with HIM." Astrid's icy hues locked onto Tuffnut's narrowed steels, her final word dripping with venom.
Hiccup glanced up at him with some worry before looking back at Ruffnut, leading him towards his sister and easing from beneath his arm when they both could make sure he could lean against the table well enough. "I-I was just," Hiccup blinked and caught himself, biting his lip before locking his hands together behind his back, attempting to stop from fiddling with his fingers and squaring his shoulders back all at the same time. "I was just explaining to Tuffnut what was going to be happening for the next two weeks. I knew how long I had to stay, Astrid, you didn't have to come after me." Tuffnut felt a slow smirk pulling at the corners of his lips. If anything he hoped his sickness helped the little viking to grow back what balls Astrid had cut off, maybe even grow bigger ones and take her down the few pegs he couldn't.
"Doesn't matter, just hurry up and come on. His punishment starts now." She turned towars the door, looking over her shoulder to make sure Hiccup followed. "Lenient as it may be, it'll be nice not having his stupidity around for two weeks." She leered with grim satisfaction in his general direction, Hiccup wincing visibly.
"Get out of my house, you stupid bitch. I'll finish what my brother started if you're not down that hill in four. Fucking. Seconds." Ruffnut flinched forward, snarling the words like a rabid dog, her hand flying to the handle of her war hammer before Astrid had time to blink her words into recognition. She spun on her heel, facing the new threat with her own teeth bared in a twisted sneer, jamming a finger at Ruffnut.
"YOU were supposed to have more sense than that IDIOT of a twin of yours, but I see the apple apparently doesn't fall far from the rotted tree. You BOTH are menaces to this village!" Hiccup squeezed Tuffnut's arm, but he pushed from the table, staggering forward enough to only have to reach back for his twin for balance. Astrid backed up a step when she saw him coming, fear blinking over her countanence before she masked it over with a poor excuse for the anger she was spitting before.
"I've been counting, Astrid. You have three more seconds before my twin and I show you how truly menacing we can be." Only glancing at Hiccup once more and without a single word in response, Astrid turned tail and tried to strut down the hill with as much dignity as she could muster. Tuffnut grinned, feeling better than he had in weeks suddenly, moving to fall against the doorjamb and lean out of it with a smile. "Tell me, Astrid, is that limp from the butchering I gave you or the stick shoved up your ass?" He couldn't tell which made him feel better, Ruffnut's malicious cackle and Hiccup's stifled giggles behind him or the blush staining Astrid's face so red he could see it from where he was standing. Not to mention her jogging the rest of the way down.
He turned back to face his smirking twin and beaming brunette, continuing to smile himself. "And I'd say that was a good way to start off this forsaken punishment." Hiccup walked over and hugged him, standing on tip-toes to do so, nuzzling against his ear with a quiet breath of a laugh before pulling away and moving around him for the door. He turned back to smile at them, giving them a halfhearted wave as Tuffnut tiredly moved back to Ruffnut's side, slumping against the table next to her. "Ruff, I really am sorry you're stuck with this asshole for two weeks." He grinned as he spoke, making her laugh aloud before shaking her head and standing, starting to lift Tuffnut's arm over her shoulder and move him back to the bedroom.
"Nah, it's fine. I'll just kill him if it comes down to it. Nobody 'ill notice." Hiccup grinned, shaking his head before shutting the door behind himself and starting down the hill after Astrid. He was going to get an earful from both her and his dad when he got home, but at the moment, he couldn't honestly care. All that mattered was that Tuffnut was going to stay in the village. That he was going to stay within reaching distance of Hiccup. That he was going to stay around long enough for Hiccup to be happy. And, at the moment, that was all that mattered; HIS happiness, for once.