Fate

Prompt: Fate has a funny way of playing tricks on you...

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This one I was eating dinner and I thought of this prompt: Fate. And I started to choke. So natural I started to write this as soon as I started to breath again!

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P.S: This really isn't a happy chapter… but it is Hiccstrid!

Warning: Edited when I was half asleep! Just letting everyone know that!

They tried to deny their feelings for a long time after the two split. After being together for so long, it's hard to let go of your first love. Your first kiss. Your first time.

When they were seventeen, Hiccup and Astrid decided to just do it. They figured that they would get married at some point. They never thought they would explode like they did.

Hiccup had been chief for a little over a year, and very narcoleptic, falling asleep in random spots on the island, one time falling asleep in the forge and burning his eyebrows off.

When Astrid confronted Hiccup about it, he shouted, she shouted, he said hurtful things, and so did she, but she knew it was over when she shouted "Your father would have never done this to himself!" And stormed off to whack trees to death. Six years of soft kisses, warm hugs, and sweet love making gone up in smoke. A year of stuffing her feelings down, and not telling Hiccup how she really felt about him working himself to death, appeared in a moment of raw emotion, and she couldn't even take it back.

She wishes she could take it back.

It's been two years since the explosion in the middle of the plaza, but it still feels like yesterday, and she's going to wake up in Hiccup's bare arms, tracing random figures on his beautifully naked chest.

The pain is still there, and she's not sure if it will ever go away. There are days where everyone just pretends like HiccupAndAstrid never happened, but some days, the tension between the two is just so strong, there is no way to ignore it.

Sometimes, Astrid thinks 'Maybe it was all a lie.' Because there is no way Hiccup could move on so fast, not after six years.

There's so much history between the two, you can't forget it in one night.

Astrid got out of bed, and walked downstairs. The house was empty, cold. Her father was out on a fishing trip for three weeks, and her mother, gods bless her soul.

There was a time where Astrid craved this time, because it meant Hiccup and her could have some naughty time.

Now it just empty silence and aloneness. No click-tapping on too early mornings of Hiccup sneaking out so his father would never find out. No tinkering of metal at eleven at night.

Astrid is too proud to admit that she was wrong, that she was too out of line, and too harsh on him.

It's not like he choose to be chief, it's not like he wanted to give up his freedom.

Astrid shook her head, Hiccup was just has guilty as she was.

'Why can't you support me?' 'You're acting like my mother!' 'I'm not sure if you ever loved me!'

It was every thought, feeling, and emotion that they kept bottled up for a year.

Astrid gripped the table, refusing to cry. Refusing to admit she still wanted Hiccup. She hates this silence between them, when they are in a crowded room, it's just silence, even with big burly drunk Vikings singing on the top of their lungs.

And she hates to admit it, she dying to know if it's killing him like it is with her.

Astrid walked into the Training Academy, hating how hot the sun was, and how the twins were running around trying to kill themselves, Eret is standing there, Skullcrusher faithfully at his side.

"Hello there Astrid." He smiled

"Hi Eret." Astrid said, tiredly leaning against the table.

"Are you okay Astrid?"

Astrid looked at him, let out a shaky breath and said "As fine as I can be... Now, let's get class started."

There are times where Hiccup forgets that he even dated Astrid. Late nights, early mornings, fights in the Great Hall kept him busy, but when he gets home after a long day of being chief, and no one is home, that's when the loneness really kicks in.

At first, his mother lived out in the woods where she was most comfortable, and Astrid would at his house, waiting for him.

Now she isn't there, and that's what breaks his heart more.

Hiccup laid on his bed, and Toothless came over to see if he was alright.

"I'm okay Toothless," He whispered. Because really, he's as okay as he's going to get. Was his life really this sad before Astrid came into the picture?

No wonder his father wanted a different son, gods…

Toothless cooed and nuzzled Hiccup "I'm fine Toothless…" Hiccup pushed Toothless away, because that's what he does best. Pushing people away.

Hiccup covered his eyes, closing them, and took deep, even breaths.

"Hiccup… Hiccup stop walking away from me!" Astrid yelled

"What do you want from me?" asked Hiccup "I'm busy!"

"You're working your butt off, is what you're doing! You're twenty one, you shouldn't have black circles under your eyes!" Astrid shouted

"You're causing a scene." Hiccup said, looking around at the gawking Vikings

"I don't care! You need to take a break! Sleep for more than two hours!"

"I sleep for more than two hours okay." Hiccup said "Why can't you support me in this?"

"I do support you, Hiccup! Don't you dare say I don't!"

"I don't know why you're yelling at me about this now! I really don't!" Hiccup yelled

"I'm sick of being the one to wake you up when you fall asleep in the forge!"

"That was once, and I did not die, if you recall!"

"That's not the point Hiccup! The point is that you're going to work yourself to death if you don't stop this."

"You're acting like my mother." Hiccup said, making Astrid scoff.

It was like time stopped, every Viking stopped moving and stared at the Chief and his girlfriend fight in the middle of the plaza, Hiccup with half singed eyebrows.

"Why would you say that?"

"For the past five years, you've been acting like my mother! Guess what, I have a mother now!"

"You think I don't know that! I was there!"

"I don't think you've ever loved me!" Hiccup shouted, turning on his heel and started to stomp away like a toddler

Astrid stood there for a minute, chest rising and falling quickly, before she shouted "YOU'RE FATHER WOULD HAVE NEVER DONE THIS TO HIMSELF!"

Hiccup stopped, looked back at her, pain and guilt on her face to what she just said. He took a deep breath, and keep walking away…

Hiccup woke up in a cold sweat. He looked around his room and saw that someone put a blanket on him during the night, and looked out the window.

"It's past noon!" Shouted Hiccup, darting out of his room and out the house.

Astrid lifted some wood onto the pile and wiped sweat off of her forehead. She cracked her neck and went to pick up another pile of wood.

"What's going on?" She heard Hiccup ask

Astrid took a deep breath and turned around "You needed sleep…" She whispered

"… You put the blanket on me?" he asked. Why would she do that? She couldn't still—no, that's ridiculous to even think that.

Astrid nodded "You were out cold for a day and a half…"

Hiccup's eyes widened "That's the most sleep I've gotten in three years."

Astrid nodded and threw more wood onto the pile "While you were sleeping, I was appointed Acting Chief. You know, in case if you died or something in your sleep."
"My village has so much faith in me…" He deadpanned and Astrid laughed, wiping sweat off her forehead again. This is the most civil conversation they've had in two years, and she's not about to ruin it by saying 'I told you so.'

"How about I help you with that?" he asked and Astrid nodded

"I could use it."

Hiccup smiled and started to help. Maybe they could work out their differences… maybe rekindle their relationship. It's a start. Because you know what they say:

Fate has a funny way of playing tricks on you.