I stayed next to Frostbite the rest of the evening. She was slightly weak from the whole ordeal with Unn. Frostbite would open her eyes every once in a while and ask where Unn was. I would tell her that Unn was with Hiccup and everything was alright. Around the fourth time Frostbite started to cry.
"I couldn't protect her." she would cry. "It's my fault." I rubbed up against her.
"You were the one who signaled me when you couldn't see her." I said. "Unn wouldn't have survived if you didn't and look. She is fine!" I gestured over to Unn's cot. Hiccup was rocking her. Frostbite was still blaming herself. I could see it in her face. I said the only thing I could think of. "I love you." Frostbite looked at me and smiled.
"I love you too." She replied. I snuggled up close to her.
"How many do you want this time?" I asked. Frostbite's smile faded.
"I don't care." She said as if I just poked a hole in her heart.
"Frostbite, don't you want..." I started.
"No! I don't! I don't!" She said standing up and walking away. She started to cry. "I don't want to get attached just to lose them again. I have Unn. That is enough for me."
"Frostbite, why are you fighting this?" I asked. Frostbite turned to me.
"I was asking for too much!" She cried. "I should have just been happy with what I had, but no. I was greedy. Loosing them was a lesson learned." She dropped her head. "I don't want to lose another clutch. I couldn't bear losing another clutch."
"Frostbite, darling, things like that happen." I said feeling the sadness creep up into my own throat. I hated burying my dragonets. Its a memory that haunts me to this day. "I know it hurts, but I want to try again. Please you are not the one asking this time. I am."
"Toothless I don't know." She said looking away.
"Please Frostbite!" I begged. "Please I want to try again."
"I said it was alright. Could you please leave it alone?" She asked.
"No! You need to want these dragonets as much as I do!" I said. "Please Frostbite, try to think of what could be and not what has happened." Frostbite laid down and cried again. I walked up to her and nudged her. "It's not that I have forgotten them, Frostbite. I am not trying to replace them. I just want to be able to hold my dragonets within my jaws and teach them how to fly. I want what Hiccup has. Offspring I can hold." Frostbite stayed silent.
"I couldn't bare to lose another clutch Toothless." She said as calmly as she could. "I couldn't live with myself."
"Then I'll take the blame if we lose the next clutch." I replied. Frostbite finally nodded.
"I want two." She managed to choke out. "I just want two." I nodded we went to sleep.
The next day was clear and Unn and Frostbite left right after breakfast to go and write stories. I made them promise to come back for lunch and went towards Hiccup. Hiccup had a full day. We had to repair roofs and clean up around the village. Now that Hiccup was chief, he used dragons more often and things were done a lot faster. When lunch came around I saw Unn and Frostbite.
"Welcome back you two." I as they got closer. "Get a lot of writing done?" Unn smiled.
"Yeah! The story isn't finished though. I am hoping to finish it soon." Unn replied. Hiccup came over.
"Hey sweet stuff where have you been?" he asked.
"Out." Unn replied. She then sneezed. Hiccup immediately checked her temperature.
"Are you feeling okay?" he asked. Unn always got sick. I think it is because she takes to many risks and her body can't fight all the stuff that she runs into. Besides that she was a very strong child.
"I only sneezed." Unn replied. Hiccup moved his hands from her forehead to her cheeks.
"Yeah I guess you did." he said. "What did you do when you were out?" Unn grew quiet.
"Nothing." she lied.
"Unn." Hiccup said sternly.
"What?" asked Unn.
"Were you writing stories again?" He asked. Unn stayed quiet. Hiccup then grabbed her satchel and took the notebook out of it.
"Daddy no stop!" she said reaching for the notebook. Hiccup held it out of her reach.
"You were writing." he said.
"Daddy please give it back!" she begged. Hiccup shook his head.
"You lied to me." he said. "I don't want you lying to me. I am taking this away for a week."
"NO!" She cried. "Daddy please don't take my book!"
"Unn you lied. I will not tolerate lying." Hiccup said. "I am keeping this for a week. Hopefully this will teach you a lesson."
I saw it. Unn started to crumble inside and she took off through the woods.
"Unn," Frostbite said going after her. "Unn wait up!" I glared at Hiccup.
"I don't want her lying bud." He said putting the book in his suit. "I don't want to do this, but as a parent I have to." I was constantly thinking he could have done something other than take her book. That book meant the world to her. "I don't mind her writing stories. I don't mind her being creative. But I feel as if her story writing is teaching her to lie." He took the book out of his suit, then opened it. "Not a one of these stories actually happened. It would be different if she was writing what happened every day, but..." Hiccup then slumped down. "She's writing fantasy." He put the book back into his suit, buried his head in his arms, and started to cry. "I hate doing this to her." he whimpered. "I really do."
I then felt my anger disappear and I sat next to him. Hiccup is just trying to be a good dad, but I guess being a good dad means he has to do things he doesn't want to do.
