Well It's True We Love One Another

"Do you ever think about … this?"

His expression stayed neutral for a moment before furrowing his eyebrows and frowning at the dirt at his foot. Hiccup turned towards her, about say something but at the moment words seemed ill fitting.

So instead he gave her a small, sheepish smile and nodded.

Toothless trotted over to the pair and wearily dropped his into Hiccup's lap. The agonized groan was short but audible and the worn out dragon felt the boys hands raise up to gently smooth the scales that had become jagged during the crash.

Astrid sighed and slowly asked, "What are we?"

"We are humans, Vikings, dragon rid-"

"STOP." The glare Astrid gave him was colder than any he'd ever received. "You know what I mean."

He stopped to look down at Toothless, "I don't… I don't know."

"Well, we have to be somebody." Her tone was distressed and uneasy.

"Astrid…" His voice fell when he looked back at her, she looked worried, her shoulders were tense and pressed into the sides of her neck. Her hands gripping the end of her hair tightly, and it made him feel horrible. "You know… I think we're friends."

With that Astrid's gaze turned cold, but it wasn't directed at him anymore, but more along the lines of anywhere else but Hiccup. So the boy took the sleeping dragon off his lap and moved towards the girl giving that pine tree a hell of a scowl. When he touched her shoulder, she curled up, chin resting on her good knee, but that only made him move closer.

"I think we're friends, who are afraid, and a little bit confused because they have something to say, but don't know what words to use." Hiccup mumbled, although on his behalf, he considered that to be pretty damn poetic.

"You suck." She muttered, her voice wavering.

He was taken aback, and asked, "Well thanks, I think you're pretty great too."

She shot him an annoyed glance as she moved her body to face him. "You make me feel this I hate feeling," Astrid continued, "It's the worst because it means you have some control over my emotions… and I hate it."

"Well, gods, I love you too."

"Shut up, I have something to say," Astrid commanded, "I don't hate you, just the way you can make me feel."

Hiccup was at a loss for words and Astrid was looking at him expectantly. Here's the thing, they both had something to say, Hiccup didn't know how to say, Astrid had just figured it out, and he was completely lost. Which was not good.

"Well, um, when I talk to you for too long sometimes I wanna throw up." Hiccup started, "I-in a good way, I guess…"

It was pathetic. It was stupid. It was adorable. And it made her smile.

"… Romantic." She spoke and he shrugged. They fell back into silence, but it was no longer an awkward one, but a comfortable silence. And they just sat there, staring at each other, and they were happy.

Would've updated on Thursday but I was sick for the past few days, sorry. Here.