Author: For those who asked, yes there will be more chapters featuring Hiccup, Rapunzel and Merida. There will be a few chapters about Jack's 300 years without his family.

This chapter takes place some time after 'A Meeting of a Lifetime'.

Disclaimer: I don't own ROTG.

Trust.

"Po zvezdam i vse, chto derzhit chudo!" North cussed through gritted teeth trying to pull his injured arm back, but the hands treating the wound are firm, and say what you want about Toothiana but she is can be very persistent when she wants to be. "I am fine!" He insisted. "No need to fuss."

Fine? He's lucky it's only his arm that's injured. "I'm not fussing." Tooth calmly replied. She wasn't sure if North cursed in Russian out of habit or if he did it because he did not want to be understood and remain mysterious. She'd already told him that she understood Russian, as well as every other language so it wasn't like he did it for her sake. "You and I both know it will get infected if it isn't taken care of properly." She tried to sound uncaring, but she couldn't. Not anymore. Not after what he had done for- for her.

Tooth continued treating the wound in silence. Why had she insisted on treating the wound herself? In her own chambers? "You could have gotten yourself killed." She stated once she finished bandaging his arm. "Why would take that risk?"

At her question North fell quiet considering his answer. Why did he take the attack meant for Toothiana? Because it was the right thing to do?

No, as much as it pained him to admit, he wasn't noble. Not like that. He wanted to be for her though. And that's how he realized his answer. "Because I did not want you to be hurt by the fearling."

That's... Sweet, but "I can handle myself in a fight Nicolas." Tooth replied and she really can't sound uncaring anymore. "I appreciate it, but please don't do things like that on my behalf."

"But I wanted to do it."

Smiling softly Tooth got up from her bed, her wings lifting her from the circle shaped bed. "And that makes you more noble than any of us imagined." With that said the queen flew over to her mirror and started removing her many silver hairclips. Her raven black hair fell loosely down her shoulders and some over her face, but she's to lost in her thoughts to care.

Nicolas had willing taken a blow for her and how a great part of her was annoyed that he thought she needed to be protected... (whatever injury she would have gotten from that fearling, she could have handled it! She was a warrior dammit!) But the rest of her was incredibly touched by the action.

Lost in her thoughts the fairy flew over to the window and started to remove the duppatas from her right arm.

Of course when she heard North inhale sharply Tooth got pulled out of her thoughts.

It's the first time he got a full look of her right arm... Her entire arm, from her shoulder to her wrist is covered in feathers in various shades of green. Yellow ones circled her wrist like... like golden bracelets.

"Y-you-"

"I wish not to be ridiculed in my own room." Tooth snapped before North could finish. She turned her head away in favor to gaze out of the window, though her eyes are closed while she mentally curses at herself. What was she thinking.

But her harsh tone this time isn't enough to shut up Nicolas St. North.

"Angel moy pernatyy..." The young bandit breathed out.

Amethyst eyes went wide. Tooth wiped her head around to look at North. The bandit didn't know it but she knew every language known and spoken by children. She understood Russian, and did he just call her 'his feathered angel'?

Getting up, careful to not move his injured arm too much, North walked over to the window still and sat down next to the queen. "So... you have feathers?" And he regretted his choice of words. There were so many better ways to ask this!

Tooth nodded, slowly. "Yeah, my mom had them to." She quietly replied while running her fingers over the green feathers on her upper arm. "Mine started growing in two years ago." The first ones appeared behind her ear and were easy to conceal. Soon her chest was all feathered, then her shoulders and now her right arm.

"Why do you hide them then?" North questioned. "Do you not like having them?"

"It's not that I dislike them," The queen answered, though she isn't a queen now. Now she's just Tooth sharing a secret with a man she was starting to consider her... friend. "It'd be pointless hating something that's a part of who I am. I just don't like what they mean."

"Which is?"

Tooth's expression hardened. "Apparently they along with my wings, give people the right to hunt me. Me being different, in their eyes... It gave them the right t-to s-sl-slaughter my- my-" Tooth needed to stop, anger bitterness left her too soon so all she had now, as she gazed at the window was sadness and pain.

'She's...' North's at loss of what to say. Really he's just too ang- too enraged by those hunters who dared to put Toothiana through that. Already he knows exactly how to gut them out if he ever came across any of them.

But that's not important right now.

Sighing sadly, North placed a large hand on Tooth's small shoulder and for a moment he's surprised, because those feathers aren't as soft as he expected them to be. But that's good because Toothiana isn't as fragile as she seems at first glance. "Please do not hide yourself. You are you, with wings and feathers. Iz what makes you unique."

They fell into a comfortable silence, gazing through the window, lost in thoughts while basking in the orange glow of the setting sun.

"Nicolas," Tooth spoke up, her voice quiet as to not break the sudden calm atmosphere. "I'm sorry for misjudging you."

"You had the right to." North said his face going from solemn to prideful in just seconds. "I am bandit king do not forget that."

Tooth could not stop the small laugh that escaped her at that. "I won't."

Her small fingers brushed against his, neither of the two warriors minded. In fact North shifted his hand just the slightest so the fairy could keep her hand close to his.

Together they watched the sun disappear and make way for the moon.

Author: Happy Christmas Cookie Week ^-^

Translations:
Po zvezdam i vse, chto derzhit chudo!: By the stars and all that holds wonder!
Angel moy pernatyy...: My feathered angel...