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"You saved my brother..." Dagur repeated himself as if he was cursed to repeat the same words over and over as he fell back in shock from what just happened a few seconds ago. One moment Hiccup was ill to the point o life or death, then he wasn't breathing, and now he's cured and resting to make a full recovery.
"I couldn't just sit there and let him die," Stoick responded to Dagur, as he placed another wet rag over Hiccup's forehead. "He drank the cure so he'll be able to make a full recovery in two days." He sighed as he placed his hand on his son's frail ones, "Nearly gave me another heart attack there son...Don't even dream of doing something that stupid ever again; you're too important to me..."
Dagur and Heather watched the small scene in total silence until the female twin broke it by stating what seemed more like a question,"You really do care about him do you? Even after everything that happened."
Stoick made a small smile, "Even though he isn't my son by blood, he's still family, my son."
"You mean the son you forced our father to give u-" Heather was interrupted from her sudden defense by Dagur who turned to her and stated, "I'm no worse sis, remember. You know deep down that I'm no worse than Stoick when it comes to you, Hiccup and our family." She had to nod in agreement, since she forgave Dagur for what he has done then she should really forgive Stoick. However her mind wasn't ready to forgive anyone so she just sent Stoick a death glare before marching her way next to Windshear to get herself ready to sleep since the night has already fallen upon the island.
Stoick sighed but before he could even reach his hand down to remove the now dry rag from Hiccup's forehead, Windshear's tail come out of nowhere to push him all the way to the wall where Skullcrusher was and there he saw Heather and Windshear form a protective circle around Hiccup. "Don't think that just because you save his life that I'm going to trust you this easy."
Dagur shook his head, having a feeling that he should stay of this since this isn't his fight, it's up to Stoick to prove that he's trustworthy to be around them and especially Hiccup. However once the man was uneasily sleeping, he turned towards Heather's direction and commented, "You know sis, I'm having a hard time trusting him near our brother too but after nearly loosing Hiccup and being so useless to help him that only Stoick knew what to do... I think you need to at least let him try, it wouldn't be fair for Hiccup to be forced to choose blood over bond which was just what I've been doing but look now." He didn't say anything else since he laid down to sleep and soon Heather did the same, bearing that thought in mind.
Next Morning...
Fish was the first thing their noses could smell except for the sick one legged viking who was still unconscious but the other two Berserker siblings woke up to the pleasant smell of fish well it was pleasant for one since Dagur groaned, "Uh not fish again! Stoick can't you think of anything else to cook than fish?"
Heather stared at her brother with complete confusion but her thoughts were interrupted when she heard Stoick shout out from outside since the storm was finally over and so it was good to try to cook some freshly caught fish outside. "I've been over this with you, you stubborn boar, it's either fish or eating fresh limpets!"
"Limpets huh?" Dagur put some thought to it, then shook his head when he recalled the time Asger dared him to eat some limpets for a piece of silver which caused him to get food poisoned and stuck in bed for a week, throwing up none stop."NEVER MIND!" He shivered at the thoughts of limpets but when he saw Heather give him a bewildered look, he was quick to reply to her, "Whatever you do sis, don't eat limpets! Especially when they are raw.." She had to ignore the fact that something like limpets sent chills down to her own brother's spine but her eyes were still on Hiccup, who was protected by Toothless and Windshear since every dragon has a strong connection with him.
Meanwhile outside, Stoick shook his head with amusement at Dagur's same answer despite the young chief eating fish only five times the previous day. Hiccup never complains about eating fish, but then again he never complains at all for his own needs. But Odin he does complain about the needs of others, even me...
FLASHBACK
"Gobber have you seen Hiccup?" Stoick asked the blacksmith as he yawned since he just woke up from a long nap he didn't know he took after flipping through an old scrapbook Valka made before the strmcutter dragon came to take her away from him and his son. "The lad should have been back from the academy awhile ago, and he if he was home he should have woken me up."
"Ah, then the lad didn't want to disturb your sleep chief," Gobber answered back as he was fixing another nadder's teeth ache. "That could been the reason why I saw him flying around on his nightfury doing village chores that the chief should be doing but you had a very large shift to do in the morning til the middle of the afternoon," He looked over at his friend with a sad smile. "You were looking at that scrapbook and eventually fell asleep didn't you?"
"Guilty as charged," Stoick sighed, slapping his hand on his face. "And apparently this nap of mine went on to the middle of the night I see."
"Nope, it's just supper," Gobber hummed, then pointed up the Great Hall, "The lad should be up in the Great Hall eating and if not then he's probably still doing a chore for a villager." Before Stoick could thank the blacksmith, Gobber also added, "If you happen to find him, tell him to work on his excuses! Seriously I didn't need a clue to figure out that his excuse of 'official chief training' was just to cover up a son helping his father out." With that Stoick was gone, flying on Thornado then inside the Great Hall to see everyone enjoying their supper. Well almost everyone.
He only found Toothless enjoying some fish along with the other dragons while Hiccup's friends were sitting on a table next to them so he decided to approach Astrid, tapping her shoulder and once she turned around with a questioning look he asked, "Astrid, have you seen Hiccup?"
Astrid then looked around the Great Hall, then groaned in frustration while mutter something about getting her axe on the teen before she answered the concerned chief. "Hiccup was supposed to be here but it looks like he's still in the armory cleaning all the weapons." Her hand hit her face as it slid down to her chin. "I told him we could help him but he insisted that he could do it by himself and that we should head back to eat."
"You should have seen him chief," Tuffnut interrupted as he munched on his bread. "Hiccup looked more dead than alive when he got to there but he just walked in there and keeping blabbering about letting you rest or something." Stoick didn't waste time to thank the teens, grab a large loaf of bread, leaving Thornado to enjoy some fish with Toothless, then headed out to the armory. He had a good feeling someone was going to need some food before explaining everything to him. When he got to the door of the armory he got in only to see every weapon in the room glimmering with shine but at the back of the room, on top of a shield that needing waxing was Hiccup.
He was rubbing the wax around the shield in a slow motion since sleep was trying to take over him but he was forcing himself to stay up again. Hiccup was so concentrated into the duty at hand, he didn't notice Stoick approaching him until he nearly fell on the floor to sleep but landed on the strong hands on his father. At first he was a little confused until he looked up to see his father then as if by some miracle, he jumped back in surprise. "Dad! You're up!" Hiccup was standing, trying to find some explanation to cover his actions. "S-Sorry for worrying you but you see when I came back from the academy I saw you asleep from all that work in the morning and the village had more work to be done...And I didn't want to wake you up so I-"
"You decided to go do all the work by yourself?" Stoick guessed, earning a nod from Hiccup, and a quick apology apparently.
"I'm so sorry dad, I shouldn't have done your work behind your back but you were so exhausted and I had some spare time-"
"Son," Stoick interrupted. "You don't have to be sorry for trying to help me out but you should have gone to the Great Hall to eat something or at least let the others help you."
"But this work needed to be done," Hiccup explained, trying to hold in the urge to yawn as he rubbed his eyes. "I couldn't leave in the middle of the job, you had to rest and take a break and it wouldn't be fair for you to wake up only to do work right away."
"Oh son," Stoick smiled, shaking his head. "You're just as stubborn as your mother...But please remember that when you need help, then just ask. I'll be right there for you, tired or not I'm still your father and it's my duty to help you." Seeing Hiccup nod then yawn, he split the bread he had in half. "Come on, let's eat some bread then we both will finish this job, together, even though all that's left is this shield," He then chuckled when Hiccup yawned again after receiving his half of the bread. "And get you to bed."
"Not tired."
"Sure you're not."
"I'm serious."
"No eating with your mouth full."
"Don't change the subject."
"Then don't insist that you're not tired."
"But I'm not. *yawn*"
"Says the yawning boy."
"Not...Tired..." By the time Hiccup finished his half, he didn't realize that he fell right to sleep on his father's shoulder, who warmly smiled as he wrapped his cape around the boy while he placed the shield back in it's place then carried the boy home to bed. The shield was good as shiny anyway.
END OF FLASHBACK
Stoick must have been so lost in thought since he didn't realize that he served fish to Dagur and Heather! They were just staring at him, mentally asking him if he was sane but he just remained silent and ate his fish. Heather however was still uneasy about allowing him near Hiccup but since she and Dagur knew nothing about healing she had no choice. However she made sure she ad Windshear keep guard while she and Dagur went out to gather more firewood and fish since they were starting to see a light amount of snow begin to fall.
"So Heather, just out of curiosity...Do you like Asger?" Dagur commented from of nowhere which caused said person to drop the wood she was holding in shock but once she picked them up she gave her brother the most honest answer. "In all honesty, I only like him as a friend. He's just not my type."
"Oh, then what is your type?"
Heather gave Dagur a skeptical look as he shrugged so she just answered him while she reached for the last ten firewood. "I'm more into the smart kind, you know the ones who love to spit out information and facts about things. A little smarts never hurts anything."
"You mean like Fishlegs?" Dagur gasped, remembering all the times he terrorized Fishlegs "He's the insanely smart fat one of the dragon riders! And if you are thinking about going out with him then bad idea. He hates me, I can never bring myself to accept him as my future brother-in-law!" When Heather heard this, she threw a firewood at Dagur, who was quick to dodge it as he quickly tried to calm down his blushing sister. "Okay okay so you don't like him that much to marry him just yet! WHOA!" He had to duck from a snowball being thrown at him but this time Heather was giggling a little.
"If you're to talk about romance then what about you big brother?" Heather asked, this time causing Dagur to throw several snowballs at her which she was able to dodge each one. Once they were done laughing, Dagur answered her question as simple as he could. "Oh I got no special girl so far, probably because I scare nearly all of them to much."
"Gods help us both with romance big brother." Heather smiled, until she remembered asking Astrid the same question. "But the gods better seriously help Hiccup and Astrid. Those two are always together and say that they are friends."
Now that caught Dagur's attention."You're right...Those two are inseparable, well not as much as him and that nightfury but still. Hmm, in all honesty if she wasn't angry with all of us then she'll make a great sister in-OW! Hey this is abuse!"
"I just hit you with a snowball."
"But why? You and I both know that they will eventually tie the knot."
LATER THAT EVENING...
Stoick was still trying to get some thoughts out of his head while making sure Hiccup was in good health and that it was near sunset already! I must have really been up in the clouds for too long. He shook his head, but still surprised with himself at the fact that he was dozing off in his thoughts while he was able to cook fish, and then take care of Hiccup at the same time without having to encounter Heather or Dagur's rage so far.
He could see that Dagur telling Heather all about his childhood since Hiccup already knew about it and her whereabouts wasn't exactly known. Hiccup however was still resting, not even showing any sign that he'll be waking up anytime soon.
But Stoick knew that Hiccup is strong, he will wake up...He just knows it.
ANNNNNNND THAT'S THAT. SEE YOU NEXT UPDATE GUYS