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We landed in front of Gothi's hut, dismounted, and then had the dragons fly back down to level ground. Hiccup looked around, confused and terrified, but it wasn't something I wasn't used to. The past few hours had been hard for all of us, but Hiccup especially.
"So...where are we?" he pondered out loud.
"The Healer's hut," I said. "Your Dad wanted us to bring you here."
"It's useless," Hiccup said, locking eyes with me. "You can't just go fishing for memories, Astrid. What's the healer going to do? What's the healer going to say?"
"I don't know," I said.
"Precisely," said Hiccup. He turned up his palms and shrugged. "No one knows!"
"Nope," said Snotlout. "Except you are especially clueless."
That got me. He was trying to make a joke about Hiccup's amnesia...it was no joke. "Say that again-" I challenged.
"Astrid," said Hiccup in a warning tone.
"What!?" I shouted. "He's the one who-"
"Astrid," he repeated. "It doesn't matter."
I wanted to argue, but decided against it. He wouldn't have listened anyways. He was right, too. Funny how he should be the one suffering from amnesia and yet he kept me from getting violent with a cousin who treated him like he didn't matter. Hiccup's always been strange like that.
[You can't deny it, Hiccup, so stop trying to]
We turned and walked inside the healer's hut, finding Gothi inside, writing something on the floor with her staff. She regarded us with a quick nod before approaching.
"Hiccup has amnesia," I said. "Do you know anything we could do about it?"
Gothi looked at Hiccup, and he looked back. His emerald eyes were almost piercing, especially when he was frightened.
She shooed us out, and we left. All besides Hiccup. He looked at me one last time before I closed the door and turned around to look at the others. I didn't feel right, leaving him alone with Gothi, especially when he was as scared as he was, but I couldn't have stayed. Gothi was pretty stern when it came to her patients. Besides, she probably wanted to also take a look at Hiccup's shattered shoulder while he was there, just to make sure it wasn't getting worse instead of better.
"Sorry about that," Snotlout mumbled, catching me completely off guard. I immediately remembered what he had said to Hiccup, and felt anger rise inside of me once more.
"You better be," I said angrily, jabbing a finger at him. "I expect you to apologize to Hiccup as soon as Gothi finishes with him."
"Poor Hiccup," Fishlegs said. "I can't imagine what he's going through. Could you only imagine being in his place, knowing something one day and then completely forgetting it the next? It just doesn't seem fair."
"It isn't fair," I said. I sighed. "We just need to show Hiccup he can trust us," I said. "Show him that we are his friends, and that we would never do anything to hurt him."
"Yes," said Fishlegs. "Yes, we do. Like how we would show a dragon it can trust us."
"You aren't really saying we should hold out our hand to Hiccup and wait for him to press his head to it, are you?" said Snotlout. "Because I am NOT doing it."
"No, I don't think that's what Fishlegs means," I said, stating the obvious. "We just need to teach him that we're here for him. That we would never hurt him. But we have to be patient and calm with him, like you would a startled dragon. That means Ruffnut and Tuffnut, scratch blowing stuff up. We don't want him to take it as a threat. And Snotlout...just don't act like Snotlout." He glared at me, but I ignored it. "I just hope he gets his memories back soon. We still don't know who it was that shot him with that arrow, or how he got amnesia to begin with."
"Is it possible he hit his head?" said Fishlegs. "I've heard stories about people who hit their heads and can't remember anything about themselves afterwards."
"Possibly," I said. "He had a headache when he woke up earlier, so I guess it really wouldn't surprise me."
"I say we hit him on the head again and knock all his memories back by force!" said Tuffnut. "I'll go get my hammer!"
"Wait...WHAT!?" I shouted. "No, Tuffnut! Don't!"
He stopped in mid-step and turned back to me.
"That could only make it worse," I said. "Besides, what happened to trust?"
"We just have to go easy on him for a while," said Fishlegs simply. "Trust is important. After we gain his trust again, then we can go crazy."
"Or we can never go crazy at all," I said.
We waited for Gothi to finish up with Hiccup.