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Without further ado, chapter 14:

Toothless was laying on his couch with the television on, but he wasn't watching it. He was looking in the exact opposite direction, at the door that lead to the walk in front closet. He quickly glanced at his watch and saw it was six o'clock. He figured she had learned her lesson by now. And if she hadn't, Toothless had had enough fun for now.

"Alright Stormfly, you can come out of my front closet now. I'm officially done with being amused by the situation." When nothing happened, he added an, "I know for a fact you're in there. And I know you know I'm not watching the television right now."

He heard a bang and a scream of exasperation from behind the door before it opened. Sure enough, Stormfly came out and slammed the door behind her. When she turned around though, she was seething. Her face was red with anger, and when matched with her green dress it almost made her look like a Christmas decoration. Toothless chuckled at that thought.

"You've been in that same spot for hours! Don't you ever leave this place? Or go to the bathroom?" She nearly screamed.

"Not when I know someone else is in my apartment," Toothless responded coolly.

"And how long have you known I was in there?"

"Since Hiccup left."

This made Stormfly even angrier than the fact that she had been caught by Toothless yet again. She was the queen of stealth. She could hide absolutely anywhere, get past absolutely anybody. Except him apparently. Every, single, time.

"You're telling me you've known I was in there all day and you just let me sit there?"

"I had to teach you a lesson somehow, didn't I?" Toothless smirked.

A frustrated, "Ugh," was all Stormfly said.

"Now, what can I do for you Stormfly?"

"Oh, nothing."

"I doubt that highly. You're not the type to hang out in my closet for over six hours and not have a reason."

"Maybe I forgot what it was because you left me in there so long."

"I doubt that even more highly."

Stormfly adjusted her dress before she continued casually, saying, "Well, I just thought I might let you know I saw you and Hiccup last night."

"What is it with you stalking the two of us?"

"I can't help it if you go to places where I have ins. My sources let me know."

"Ah, yes, Camicazi."

Stormfly's eyes went wide for a split second, but she fixed them and said, "I can't reveal my sources."

"Alright, alright. Tell Camicazi I say hi though. Don't be too hard on her, I barely saw her and it was only as she was leaving. But if she could return the watch she swiped off of me last night that'd be great."

"Seriously Camicazi?" Stormfly muttered to herself before she continued. "It amazes me how you always know where I or my helpers are if we are near you, except when you are with that boy."

"Are you implying something?"

"Not at all. But I did overhear your conversation last night over my bugs."

"Which one?"

"I told you he had feelings for you. I'm just surprised it came out so soon."

"Yes, well, you were right. Is that what you wanted to hear?"

"I didn't need to hear anything. But tell me, now that you have this information, are you going to do anything about it?"

"Do you think I should?" Toothless asked, legitimately interested in her answer.

"I stand by what I said before. Every opportunity has a shelf life, Toothless. Don't let this one go to waste." With that, she started for the door. "Before I go," Stormfly turned and started to ask, "How did you know I was here?"

"Simple. When Hiccup left the door was already unlocked. No sign of forced entry, so the person had a key. You're the only other person with a key to this apartment," Toothless stated with a satisfied grin.

Stormfly tried to act as proper as she could most of the time, but that didn't stop her from not-so-eloquently face palming in this case as she walked out the door.

Hiccup was still lazing around when he heard his father walk in at about six o'clock. He was just lying on the couch. On the television The Wedding Planner was just coming to an end.

"Hiccup?" His father called. Hiccup had to wonder why exactly his father was looking for him, but he responded anyways.

"Here," he called while putting his hand up in the air for his father to see over the back of the couch. He expected that the conversation would end there, perhaps his father would add an affirmative grunt, but Hiccup was shocked to hear his father continue.

"Do you have a minute to talk Hiccup?"

If Stoick was forming full sentences that clearly meant he wasn't drunk as per usual. However, he wouldn't be; it was only six. But that just raised another question: what was Stoick doing home so early? Was he trying to take an interest in his son again? Hiccup was sincerely hoping to avoid déjà vu from Katz's Deli a while back.

"Sure," Hiccup said. He turned off the television and walked over to the kitchen table where his father was standing, putting a knee on one of the chairs.

"I noticed you weren't home last night. Is everything OK?"

The only thing Hiccup could think was, 'He noticed? I can't believe it.' Of course he didn't say that out loud. Instead he said, "Yeah, everything's fine."

"Is there anything you want to tell me?"

OK, clearly Stoick was working up to something. That thought made Hiccup a little nervous. This couldn't end well.

"No, nothing off the top of my head."

"OK, if you're sure." With that Stoick momentarily turned around, and Hiccup thought that was it. He thought that went well. As he turned to walk away though, Stoick stopped him.

"Actually, one more thing, Hiccup."

"Hm?"

"This morning I was called into the station as I'm sure you saw. I got a call regarding Toothless."

Hiccup's sense of relief vanished instantly. Why could he never keep that feeling for more than about thirty seconds? However Hiccup was a master of controlling his reactions in front of his father, so he remained stoic.

"OK, but why are you telling me this?"

"Well I know you're interested in that kind of stuff, I thought you might like to know what's going on in real time."

Hiccup was shocked his father knew that, but again he remained silent. Stoick continued without anything further.

"We caught him on a few security cameras around town, going into several stores and other buildings, until he ended up going home around eight."

Hiccup's sense of relief returned. If they only saw him until 8 then that meant that they didn't see him go to the nightclub or anything.

"He left again around 8:45."

'Oh come on, seriously?' And the nervous sweats returned.

"But he ended up going through one of very few camera dead zones in the city, so we lost him."

And once more, Hiccup managed to calm down.

"Until we discovered his credit card had been used at the Lexicon Nightclub and we found him on the camera at the bar there."

Hiccup thought this was ridiculous. How many times did he need to have minor panic attacks in a sixty second period? But if his father was looking at the cameras at the nightclub, that couldn't be a good sign. The tension in the room was palpable and it was quite amazing that both men had managed to remain as stoic as they had.

"So we followed him with the cameras. We actually have remote control of the cameras in that club since it's occasionally known for trouble. Do you know what we saw there?"

Hiccup gulped at this. Well, this and the fact that Stoick's volume had been increasing slowly over that last sentence. Sure enough, it was now that he exploded.

"WE SAW YOU THERE WITH HIM! WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU DOING THERE HICCUP? I'VE NEVER FELT SO BETRAYED BEFORE!"

This was also where Hiccup lost his cool too. "YES, I WAS THERE WITH HIM? AND WHY? BECAUSE HE IS THE ONLY PERSON WILLING TO BE MY FRIEND! EVERYONE ELSE GETS SCARED OFF BY YOU OR JUST THE THOUGHT OF YOU!

"TOOTHLESS IS A BAD PERSON! HE WILL ONLY HURT YOU!"

Wait, did Stoick actually care somewhere deep down? Hiccup was kind of touched. He never thought that his father cared that much.

"I MEAN HE'S OBVIOUSLY JUST GETTING CLOSE TO YOU TO GET TO ME!"

Never mind. That was almost a sweet moment. Or as close as they ever got.

"YOU DON'T KNOW THAT FOR SURE! WE DON'T EVEN TALK ABOUT YOU!"

"THAT DOESN'T PROVE ANYTHING!"

"I KNOW HE'S A TRUE FRIEND AND THAT HE CARES ABOUT ME. IN FACT, HE PROBABLY KNOWS MORE ABOUT ME THAN YOU DO!"

Stoick quieted down a little at this point, but he was still seething as he spoke.

"You are not to see him again. You will always travel with an officer or Gobber so I know where you are at all times."

Hiccup had no intention of quieting down, however.

"YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO ME!"

"As long as you live under MY roof, you will live by MY rules."

"I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THIS RIGHT NOW! I'M GOING FOR A WALK!"

The next words out of Stoick's mouth shocked Hiccup to his core.

"If you walk out that door, you better not come back."

Hiccup stood there in stunned silence for a moment. The only sound in the condo was Stoick's heavy breathing. Hiccup thought for a brief second, and went to his room. When he came back he was putting on his jacket and shoved his wallet, keys, and phones into his pockets.

As he passed Stoick on his way out, he heard him say, "And if you leave I am cutting off your tuition and allowance payments."

That slowed Hiccup down a little, but he was too infuriated to be able to think straight. Eyes red and irritated from trying to hold back tears, Hiccup stormed out of the front door and slammed it shut.

Neither man could believe what the other had done.

Hiccup had been walking around the city for a little over two hours. While he was out it had gotten substantially darker, the light of the moon lighting his path when the lights were out. He had walked all the way to the north end of Central Park along the west side, and then started back south through the centre of the park. Three quarters of the way through he was walking past the Falconer Statue, and he stopped. Seeing the statue made him think about Toothless. During his walk he had avoided thinking about his present situation, instead thinking of other things such as his mother. In reality, it was here that this whole mess had started. This was where he had told Toothless that he was OK with being his friend. But strangely, he didn't blame Toothless. If anything he blamed his father. Hiccup's logic was that because his father had shut him out and not allowed him to have any friends, and that led him to take whatever friend he could get. Not that he had to settle for Toothless; Hiccup thought he was a great friend. Toothless listened, he cared, and he protected his friends. It was just that if Hiccup had had other friends he probably wouldn't have been in the same situation.

When Hiccup noticed it was 8:30, he decided he should probably call his father and apologize. They had had arguments before, maybe not this bad, but they always got over them. This time, however, Hiccup realized he had no service. His father had already cut off his cell service; he really was kicked out.

Hiccup started to panic. What was he going to do? He had acted out of rage and it put him in real trouble. He walked up to the nearby benches and sat down. He needed a minute to think. After he sat down he silently started to cry.

As it would so happen, Toothless happened to be walking past at that moment. Hiccup didn't notice him, but he noticed Hiccup. Without announcing himself he walked up to the bench and sat down next to Hiccup. Hiccup, however, refused to look up.

"Fancy meeting you here," Toothless cracked, trying to get Hiccup to notice him. This did make Hiccup look up, but as soon as he did, the smile left Toothless' face. It was replaced with a look of deep concern after seeing Hiccup's bloodshot eyes and running nose. "Hiccup? What's wrong? What happened?"

Hiccup had to pause a second to make sure he didn't start crying in the middle of the sentence.

"My f-father kicked me out."

Toothless gave Hiccup a tissue and put his arm around his shoulders.

"Hiccup, I'm so sorry. What happened?"

Hiccup couldn't tell him. He might think he was blaming him and he didn't want to lose his only friend after everything else that had happened today.

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Then we won't."

"Thanks."

"So, where are you staying tonight?"

"Uh, I think I have enough money saved up for a few nights at a motel, so I guess I can do that. Hopefully I can find a job that will hire me right away so I can stay there. I'll drop out of school to save money; I didn't really like that degree anyways."

Toothless knew he couldn't allow that. He couldn't force Hiccup's decision on school, but he could sway his decision on choice of residence.

"Nonsense. You will be staying with me."

"Thank you Toothless, but…"

"No buts. I insist."

"Thank you Toothless. I guess I could stay with you for a few days…"

"Nope, you're staying with me indefinitely. Or at least until your father takes you back."

"Toothless I-I couldn't…"

"You can and you will. I'm not letting you say no. If you try I'll had you kidnapped again."

At that, Hiccup smiled for the first time in several hours. He was glad Toothless could keep a sense of humour in this situation. He leaned over and hugged Toothless, who instantly hugged him back.

"Are you sure I won't be a bother? Or make life harder for you?"

"Actually, I think it would make things easier."

This statement only served to confuse Hiccup. He racked his mind trying to figure out what exactly Toothless was getting at, but came up empty.

"How do you figure?"

"Well now if we want to get together we don't exactly have to worry where your father is. We'll be living in the same place."

"I guess. So you're really sure this is OK?"

"Hiccup, yes," Toothless said, trying to drive that point home.

"Thank you so much Toothless," Hiccup said as he hugged the taller man once more.

After they released each other, Toothless smiled and said, "Come on, it's getting late. Let's head home."

It felt odd to hear the sentence phrased like that. It made it sound like it was Hiccup's home too. But then again, Hiccup would be living there with Toothless probably for a long period of time, so in a way he could kind of understand why it would be home for him too.

"There is just one thing Hiccup," Toothless started. "Occasionally the other members of the gang drop in. So if we are to keep you a secret from them there may be times you have to hide upstairs for a while."

"Yeah, I kind of figured that would be the case. But that's alright. That's still a better option than the park bench. But something tells me that with me always being there and going in and out it will get harder for you to keep me a secret."

"Well that's one way to look at it. But I promise you I will try my hardest."

"That's all I ask."

When they got back to the condo, a few things happened. Toothless gave Hiccup the grand tour, explained where all of the important things were stored, told Hiccup the codes to the doors in the building, and gave Hiccup a spare key he had.

Hiccup had been given a choice between the two bedrooms and ended up selecting the one he had woken up in that morning. He also let Toothless dispose of his old, now useless phone just as a precaution. Besides, he still had the phone that Toothless had given him what felt like a long time ago. It was basic but Hiccup never really needed a fancy phone.

They spoke about a few more logistics before Hiccup decided that he was tired and wanted to go to bed. As he undressed to his underwear and crawled into the bed, he realized that while he had only been living here officially for about an hour, it already felt like home.

Well that escalated quickly...

Next chapter: On or before December 8 (it'd be sooner but I have more exams between now and then...)

So, whose fault was it that Hiccup was kicked out? Hiccup's or Stoick's? I'm legitimately curious to see what people think. Why not tell me in a review along with what you did and didn't like about this chapter? :D