(A/N: Again, I'm very, very sorry for how the last chapter ended, it's not what I planned, it's just something that happened. I really do hope that I can make it up by finishing that episode with this.

I don't have anything else that I need to say, I just hope you can find this enjoyable and accept my apology. Anyway, let's not delay this any longer than it needs to be.)

V~*I-Y-o-Y-I*~V

In the aftermath of the brief battle between the riders and a handful of Dragon Hunters, Hiccup looked at his friends to be sure that none of them were hurt. There were no injuries, but an arrow hung comically from in the forehead of Tuffnut's helmet, though the male Thorston twin was unharmed.

"Oh, shoot my helmet, will ya!" he yelled at their retreating enemies.

His sister laughed at her brother's foolish appearance, "Yeah!"

Ladok held up a finger to his scaly lips, "Keep it down, will you? We still have the Snow Wraith to contend with."

"He's right," Hiccup agreed. "We wake up that Snow Wraith and things will get a whole lot trickier."

"It would definitely make the Dragon Hunters a bigger challenge," Helene uttered.

Moments passed and there was no advancement from the hunters, no additional attacks. Ryker would never stop attacking without a reason, he was planning something.

"What do you think Ryker's next move is?" Astrid questioned.

"Surrender?" Ruffnut guessed, shrugging her shoulders slightly.

Fishlegs' eyes became wide when he saw an imposing silhouette approaching them, "Or I guess he could do that."

"Dragon Riders!" Ryker bellowed. "Send out your leader and his brother to talk!"

'Waving the white flag? No, that can't be it,' Astrid thought. "It's gotta be a trap, I should go out, see what their game is."

"Yeah, let Astrid go," Snotlout cowardly agreed.

"Hiccup and Ladok Haddock!" Ryker shouted. "Let's talk this out, like men."

It was clear that he wanted to talk to them and would not settle for anyone other than the brothers. It left Hiccup and Ladok with little choice but to obey his demands.

"Oh, I don't like the sound of that," Fishlegs muttered.

"If there's one chance to settle this without bloodshed…" Hiccup shifted on his saddle and jumped off his dragon's back.

"We have to try," Ladok finished as he also dismounted from his own dragon.

Together, the brothers began to approach the mouth of the cave to confront Ryker. Shockstrike and Toothless tried to follow their riders, but they were stopped from doing so.

"No, you two will have to stay here," Hiccup told the two Strike Class dragons.

Ladok nodded, making eye contact with Shockstrike, "If this turns out to be a trap, we may need you guys to be on standby and get us out of it."

The dragons were clearly reluctant, the last thing they wanted to do was leave them at the mercy of a vicious dragon-killer whose hands were likely stained with human blood. However, they eventually relented and stood in place like a couple of sentries, in order to watch the hostile exchange while having a close enough distance to rescue them if they needed to.

"Word of advice, open with a compliment," Tuffnut instructed. Both of them rolled their eyes and continued forward, without their dragons following them.

Ryker smirked when he saw the brothers approach, standing several yards away from him. He had seen them a number of times on their dragons, but never in person at such a short distance. It was true that he once held Ladok by the throat and nearly killed him, but that was during the night, when all he could see was his eyes.

He was underwhelmed, they were nothing but children who could not stand their ground against him if they tried to fight him hand-to-hand. He could crush them with his boots like tiny insects if he wanted to.

He chuckled, eyeing Hiccup's prosthetic leg, "Dagur was right, you don't look like much."

"Astrid was right, you look like a psycho," he retorted. He allowed his shield to drop to the foot of his prosthetic, covering most of his leg.

Ladok let out a silent laugh into his fist, 'Good one, Hiccup!'

"What do you want, Ryker?" he demanded.

"The Dragon Eye," he answered.

"Not a chance," he retorted.

"It belongs to us, the hunters," he declared. "You stole it from our ship, and I will have it back."

"Not today, you won't," Ladok hissed. "No way in hell."

Once again, he smirked, "Oh, no? Look around. We're in front of you, the Snow Wraith is behind you. One time offer, hand over the Dragon Eye and you're free to go."

Hiccup placed his hands on his pants, smiling mockingly, "Uh, sorry. I must have left it in my other pants. What about you, Ladok?"

"Nope," he smirked back at the madman in front of them, his arms crossed.

Ryker sneered and pointed his sword at them, "In that case, surrender and you won't meet the same fate as your dragons."

"Okay, here's our offer," Ladok countered, his hands now at his sides as he turned his gaze onto his brother, who briefly made eye contact with him.

"Leave now and your men won't have to find out what burning flesh smells like," he finished.

He sighed and lowered his sword, "You really don't have the Dragon Eye with you?"

"No," Hiccup affirmed.

"Nope," Ladok replied immediately afterwards.

"Don't say I didn't give you a chance," he warned menacingly.

Suddenly, a soft but bright light illuminated on the icy cavern wall, revealing the shadow of a hunter. The shouts of hunters and the scraping of Windshear's tail could be heard.

"Guys, it's a trap!" Astrid yelled. She knew who exposed Ryker's ambush, 'Thank you, Heather.'

"Get out of there!" Helene called out.

Toothless and Shockstrike immediately ran to their riders to protect them. They stepped ahead of them and fired in unison, combining their abilities despite the risk. The brothers jumped to the cold ground as a field of plasma and electricity forced the Dragon Hunters to retreat out of the cave.

Hiccup and Ladok lifted themselves up and returned to their friends with their dragons behind them. The hunters were not foolish to attempt to follow them after the combined attack died out.

"Are you guys okay?" Astrid asked them.

"Yeah, we're fine," Hiccup responded.

"Speak for yourself, I could use a blanket," Ladok rubbed his arms, the coldness from contact with the icy ground still prevalent on his scales.

Shockstrike let out a concerned rumble from his throat and stood behind his rider, allowing him soak as much of his warmth as he could. He smiled at his dragon gratefully, even though his body heat still did relatively little to help him.

Meanwhile, Ryker grabbed Heather by the wrist and pulled her off of her dragon after evacuating the cave, "I saw that. You did that on purpose!"

She yanked her hand away from him, "Of course, I did! How many times do Dagur and I have to tell you that Hiccup is more valuable to us alive than dead?"

He hummed thoughtfully, "Maybe you're right, Heather. Maybe Hiccup can be helpful to us. Shoot the cave."

She was shocked by the sudden command, "What?"

"Have your animal shoot the cave," he ordered.

"Why?" she questioned, although she knew she was only delaying it by a second.

"Just do it!" he demanded.

She placed her hand on her dragon's thigh, frowning as she faced the cave, "Windshear."

The metallic dragon craned her neck and released a blue fireball above the mouth of the cavern. Large pieces of ice fell, blocking the entrance, trapping the Dragon Riders inside.

The riders heard the ice crumbling outside and watched as it dropped to the ground. Once the last of the sunlight vanished, they knew they were sealed from the world.

Windshear's blast did more than collapse the entrance, it caused ice to crumble from the roof of the cave. It forced the riders to cover their heads with their arms and the wings of their dragons, protecting them from the icy shower.

When it stopped, Hiccup asked them, "Is everyone alright?"

"Define 'alright'?" Fishlegs remarked.

"Why would Ryker seal himself off from the key?" Snotlout questioned.

"He wasn't sealing himself out, he was sealing us in," Astrid averred.

"Astrid's right," Hiccup agreed. "Ryker figures we'll fight the Snow Wraith for him and he'll come in and deal with whoever survives."

"Awesome," Snotlout commented sarcastically. "But we're not going to do that, right?"

"The plan hasn't changed," he stated. "We grab the Snow Wraith and get it out of here, away from Ryker."

"Oh, is that all we have to do?" he asked, the sarcasm still thick in his voice. "So easy."

Ladok's tail hit him in the back, although it wasn't as powerful as it normally would be. The younger Haddock brother shivered with both of his arms crossed tightly over his chest, his hands roughly rubbing his shoulders.

"Unless your scales are freezing off your body," he paused with a gulp as he tried to recover from his endless shaking, "...you don't get to complain, Snotlout."

"Oh, of course, you have every excuse," he rolled his eyes at him as they started to walk down the cavern to continue the search for the Snow Wraith.

"How do you figure?" he retorted, taking much smaller and slower steps than his friends.

"Your Hiccup's brother, the chief's son, you have the best dragon-" Hookfang growled at his rider, "C'mon, Hooky, how can you compare yourself to a Skrill?" The Monstrous Nightmare huffed and walked ahead of him. "Whatever. And you're 'cold-blooded'," he used his fingers to create "air-quotes".

"Weak-ass argument," he scoffed. "You use the "I'm important because I'm a Jorgensen" argument all the time. And what the hell does me being a reptile have to do with anything?"

He rolled his eyes once again, "I'm just saying that it's convenient that you have an excuse to sit out a fight against a Snow Wraith."

"I'm not sitting anything out," he affirmed. "I could be half-frozen and I'd still be in this for the long haul. Besides, what kind of Dragon Rider would I be if I let it kill everyone?"

Tuffnut swallowed nervously at Ladok's words, "I choose to think positive." He gave a thumbs-up to no one in particular, "We can do this."

"Sure," Ruffnut agreed, although she was also quite nervous. "We beat the Snow Wraith before… sort of."

Fishlegs tried to maintain an air of optimism, "And it won't have a blizzard to hide in."

"And we outnumber him seven to one," he added.

They entered a large chamber at the end of the cavern. Resting on a platform in the back of the spacious area was the dragon they were searching for, but it was not alone.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that," Helene uttered.

They looked into the chamber to see what she was referring to, their jaws dropping at the sight before them. The Snow Wraith was in a hibernating slumber, but that was not what stunned them. No, it was the presence of two additional Snow Wraiths sleeping on the platform, flanking it on either side.

Although scared, Tuffnut tried to remain optimistic, "Well, at least they're still asleep, and they won't wake up."

Suddenly, one of the white dragons stirred in its sleep. It raised its head to sniff the air, as though it detected a scent. The riders held their breaths and hoped it would eventually resume its hibernation.

"You are the worst positive thinker ever," Ruffnut harshly whispered to her brother.

"That's a very positive thing to say," he replied obliviously.

Shockstrike growled at the three dragons, the rival he allowed to escape from him was mere feet before him. Just as he was about to step forward, Ladok placed his hand in between his upper and lower jaw, leaping slightly in order to step in front of him.

Voicelessly, he mouthed to him, "Don't do it. Not now."

He understood what he was telling him even without his voice. His rider did not have a mouth like an ordinary human, the way it moved when he spoke was different and unique only to him. Reading his lips was difficult, but he had the practice and intelligence to understand him.

He listened to his silent plea and relaxed under his touch. It didn't mean his hostility ever ceased or lessened, but he was willing to put it aside for the time being.

The Snow Wraith never laid its head down to sleep, it kept its snout in the air and continued to sniff. It was likely still somewhat asleep, and awakening was a great possibility. If they stayed quiet, they may be able to escape before the dragon woke up.

As bad luck would have it, that would not happen with Tuffnut opening his mouth to speak again, "If we don't move, maybe it won't notice us."

His voice was all that was needed for the Snow Wraith to fully awaken from its slumber. It growled and roared at them, upset to see them in its cave, where it slept with its family.

"Maybe if we don't move and if you keep your mouth shut?" Astrid retorted.

"What do we do?" Fishlegs asked.

Hiccup eyed the dragon root-tipped arrow still impaled in Tuffnut's helmet, "Maybe we can put him back to sleep."

He grabbed the arrow, much to Tuffnut's protest, "Hey!"

He ran to the center of the cavern, his shield transforming into a crossbow. He fell to his knees, sliding on the ice and firing the arrow at the dragon.

The Snow Wraith was completely alert and flew upward to avoid it. It became impaled into the ice where the white dragon had been sleeping.

"Okay, so that didn't work," he deadpanned.

Ladok grabbed him by the bicep and pulled him up when he noticed a faint yet prominent white light in the Snow Wraith's mouth, "No shit!"

It fired its icy fusillade at the riders, which they avoided and it struck the ground. The sound was enough to awaken the other two Snow Wraiths, both of whom roared at the intruders in their cave.

The riders quickly took a defense stance, their dragons firing at the feral trio. Instead of attacking, the three Snow Wraiths flew towards the ground, penetrating it and creating large holes like that of a Whispering Death.

"Burrowing?" Hiccup confusedly exclaimed. "That's new."

"I know, and I don't think I like it," Fishlegs commented.

One of the hostile dragons emerged and fired at them before retreating by burrowing a new hole. It was a tense time waiting for them to appear again, especially since they were unable to determine where they might reemerge from.

"Oh, I know I don't like it," Snotlout remarked.

Realizing there was no way to predetermine where the dragons might come to the surface, Hiccup commanded everyone, "Quick! Defensive formation! Everybody take an angle, fire as soon as you see them."

The dragons stood in a circle, in all possible directions they could emerge from. They could feel the vibrations of the three dragons as they moved beneath the ice. The riders could subtly feel their movements through their boots, but it was something they were not as skilled with as their dragons were.

Snotlout tried to detect where they moved, "Feels like they're going left. No, right. Left! Which one's which?!"

"Forget that, just cover your zone!" Hiccup ordered.

Ladok's senses were slightly enhanced as a human-like reptile, it was easier for him to feel them under the ice. Although it was still quite difficult, he was able to sense exactly which direction at least one of the white dragons was in.

He pointed to his side, "There!"

Exactly as he predicted, one of the Snow Wraiths emerged from the tunnel it created in the direction he gestured to. Scars that could only be seen at that moment on its body revealed its identity to Shockstrike as the rival he abandoned in order to save Ladok's life.

He growled and it roared at him, as though challenging him to fight, to the battle they never finished. His rider stopped him from recklessly accepting the challenge with a pat in between his crown of spikes, "Just stun him, buddy."

Begrudgingly, he fired a weak streak of lightning, one that would ensure it would only be incapacitated, not injured or killed. However, it retaliated by shooting its frosty blast, colliding with Shockstrike's attack and creating a field of blinding light.

The riders covered their eyes, the dragons closed theirs and turned their heads. By the time the light faded into nothing, the Snow Wraith was gone, retreated into its tunnel.

"Anybody feel anything?" Astrid questioned, looking at the ground, as if she expected one of the dragons to reappear from underneath directly where they stood.

"Just a profound sense of relief," Tuffnut answered.

"And perhaps a tinge of sadness?" Ruffnut added.

"Oh, exactly, sister," he agreed.

The first serious response she received was from Helene, "Nope, nothing on my end."

"Same here," Snotlout chimed in.

After anxiously and tensely waiting for over a minute with no signs of the white dragons, Fishlegs uttered, "I think they're gone."

'Maybe,' Hiccup thought doubtfully. 'Or…'

He wasn't merely waiting for the Snow Wraiths to appear and giving orders whenever they did, he was observing as well, just as he always did for the past five years during an encounter with a new or relatively unknown dragon. He mentally timed how long it took before one of them re-emerged after burrowing a tunnel and how long before they created another one. Based on the data he collected, one of the dragons should have reappeared and attacked them by that time, but they had not.

'If they really left, there's only one place they could've gone,' he mentally deduced. "They could've tunneled all the way out. If they did…"

"That could be our way out too," Astrid concluded.

They flew into the holes, some together with another rider, others alone. When they found the end of the tunnels they chose, they were reunited with each other, discovering a vast system of icy passageways traveling in various directions. It was eerily similar to a communal nest created by families of Whispering Deaths.

"Where do we go?" Fishlegs asked. "If the Snow Wraiths are still down here somewhere, splitting up is the worst possible choice here."

"For once, I gotta agree with Fishface here," Snotlout pointed his thumb at him.

Calmly, Ladok smirked to himself, while his experience with Snow Wraiths was less than the other riders', he knew exactly what to do. He knew how to live amongst dragons and in order to do so, he needed to learn how to survive if caught in their territory.

"Hiccup, have Toothless use his echolocation to look for a way out of here," he told his brother. "After that, leave the rest to me."

He nodded, "Alright." He looked down at his dragon, placing his hand just below his jaw, "You know what to do, bud."

Toothless inhaled deeply through his nostrils and let out a loud howl. The sound stretched throughout the numerous tunnels, he waited and listened for the echoes, and so did Ladok.

Most of the echoes returned to their ears, but one did not. It meant one thing, they found what they were looking for.

Shockstrike was also actively listening for the sounds to return, he could tell which one had not. He looked up at his rider for permission to fly in the direction of the missing echo and he nodded.

As his dragon elevated off the icy surface, Ladok shouted, "Follow me!"

Once again, they were flying through a tunnel, one that led upwards instead of down. The riders maneuvered their dragons to smoothly fly against every turn the Snow Wraiths created. Eventually, they saw what they were hoping for, daylight.

They were out of the tunnel and out of the cavern, but the three Snow Wraiths were nowhere in sight. On the ground, surrounding the hole, were the familiar red and green-tipped arrows, the Dragon Hunters had been there and left before they arrived.

Hiccup had to restrain himself from clenching his jaw and gritting his teeth, "Ryker knew about the burrowing the whole time. He used us to flush them out."

"Then he captured them," Ladok hissed as he pounded his fist on Shockstrike's saddle.

Astrid looked down, seeing boot prints and wheel tracks in the snow, "Looks like they're headed back to their ship along the south side of the glacier."

"They're not gonna get there," Hiccup declared with a slightly determined growl in his voice.

They flew around the mountain, racing to get the hunters' ship before it could leave. By the time they found it, the snowstorm had lightened, and their enemy was preparing to haul the Snow Wraiths, all of which were inside of cages, onto the ship.

"Great time for the snow to let up," Astrid remarked.

"Okay, we can't get too close. We need to stay out of the range of those arrows," Fishlegs affirmed.

Hiccup quickly tried to think of a plan to save the captured Snow Wraiths without putting anyone in harm's way. Unconsciously, he looked up at a large area of solid ice and an idea formed in his head.

"Ruff, Tuff, see that ice sheet up there?" he asked.

Tuffnut and Ruffnut saw it and immediately became excited at the size of it. They both closed their eyes, hoping he would say what they were thinking.

She enthusiastically clenched her hands together while he crossed his fingers, muttering to himself as a prayer, "Please, say avalanche. Please, say avalanche."

Their hopeful desire became a reality when he asserted, "We need an avalanche!"

"Yes! Positive thinking works!" Tuffnut exclaimed.

Barf and Belch fired their explosion at the ice sheet, separating it from the rest of the glacier. Chunks of ice flew off the large broken piece as it slid downward, creating an avalanche. Seeing this, the hunters ran to avoid becoming buried under ice and snow, abandoning the caged dragons.

"You guys get the Snow Wraiths out of here!" Hiccup commanded. "I'll deal with Ryker."

While the remaining Dragon Riders provided cover from the hunters and their arrows, Hookfang and Barf and Belch landed on two of the cages, using their talons to lift them and carry them away. Shockstrike landed on the final cage, which held the Snow Wraith with familiar scars on its body.

It growled at him, but he merely ignored it as he grunted and lifted the cage out of the snow. At that moment, the scarred white dragon decided to forget about their rivalry, at least for that time.

Hiccup paid no attention to the battle or the rescue, he was set on one person, Ryker. He found him giving orders to his men, a sneer on his face and anger in his eyes.

"Ryker! Looks like you're in the tough spot this time," he taunted.

The man simply smirked, 'You should learn not to count your eggs too soon.' He reached his hand up, grabbing onto the foot of Windshear when she and Heather flew by, carrying him away.

"Heather!" Hiccup yelled in frustration.

"Sorry, Hiccup, but we gotta go," she averred.

'You're not getting away from me,' he thought, chasing after them on Toothless.

Ryker could only watch as he closed the gap between the two dragons, "Can't this thing go any faster?!"

"Usually she's not carrying this much weight," she retorted.

"Excuses," he grumbled, taking an arrow out of the quiver on his back.

He shot the arrow at Toothless, who easily maneuvered his body to avoid it. "Nice flying, bud. Now it's our turn."

He knew what his rider wanted him to do and prepared a plasma blast in his throat. Before he could fire it, however, Stormfly suddenly flew in between him and Windshear.

"Astrid, look out!" Hiccup shouted.

He flew around her and Toothless began to prepare another plasma blast, but then she yelled, "Hiccup, no! Heather's with us!"

He moved his prosthetic on his saddle's pedal and halted his dragon's flight. He turned his head and looked at her with confusion and anger, "What?!"


After relocating the Snow Wraiths to another island, the riders returned to Dragon's Edge. The moment they arrived, they gathered in the Clubhouse and Astrid began to explain everything she and Heather had planned together.

"Heather pretended to join Dagur to get close to him to avenge her family. When she found out about his alliance with the Dragon Hunters, she decided to get closer to him to find out more," she relayed everything she knew, just as she wanted to do for a long time.

"But when Ryker captured us on his ship, you and Heather were fighting all the time," Ruffnut pointed out, perplexed.

She understood her friend's confusion, "That's what we wanted people to think."

"Heather's not evil? There goes that dream," Snotlout sulked.

With a blanket wrapped around him as stood close to the heat, Ladok grimaced, "You're disgusting."

"Oh, I knew she was good at heart," Fishlegs smiled.

She looked at all of her friends and listened to what they had to say. The only ones who were yet to say anything were Hiccup and Helene, both of whom had indiscernible expressions on their faces. They were the last two she wanted to know about the plan, and the ones she wanted to tell the most.

"Hiccup, Helene, please, say something," she pleaded.

He was the first to speak, "We're supposed to be a team, Astrid."

The guilt she felt since she and Heather developed their plan boiled in her mind and heart, "I know, I- I should have told you, both of you. I wanted to, I really did."

Helene wasn't in the mood to hear any excuse Astrid gave them, she could hardly even look at her at the moment. She turned away from her, facing the wall while crossing her arms. The only reason she stayed instead of leaving was to learn about what Heather had uncovered, regardless of how she felt about her, how she felt about either of them at the moment.

Astrid wanted to talk to her, to tell her that what they did was for the benefit of everyone. Hiccup, however, stepped in front of her, blocking her view of her best friend.

She was reminded of how much taller he was compared to her when he stared down at her, "But you didn't. You didn't tell anyone."

She started to become nervous as she tried to justify her decisions, "I'm sorry, but without Heather, the Dragon Hunters would have a key to the Dragon Eye right now and those Snow Wraiths would not be safely hidden on another island."

While he did acknowledge that she had a point, he was still quite frustrated, "Still doesn't explain why you wouldn't let me take her and Ryker down. We could have captured the head of the Dragon Hunters."

'I guess there's no harm in hiding it anymore,' she thought with a sigh. "Hiccup, Ryker isn't the head of the Dragon Hunters."

The revelation she gave surprised everyone in the room; even Ladok, who had the most experience with the hunters, was unaware of this. Helene turned her head slightly as she became more interested in hearing what Astrid had to tell them.

"According to Heather, their real leader is somebody named Viggo Grimborn," she reported.

"Awesome name," Ruffnut commented. "Scary, but awesome."

"I don't know. Viggo Grimdeath would be cooler," Tuffnut remarked. "Or how about Gore Grimskull? Grimskull!"

She ignored the twins' usual antics to finish the information she had, "He lives in the shadows, everyone's afraid of him, even Ryker. Heather hasn't met him yet, but she's our best shot at drawing him out."

He let out a sigh he was seemingly holding in his mouth for an unknown amount of time, "Well, I hope she knows what she's doing, for all our sake."

'Me too, Hiccup, me too,' she thought.

Although she wanted to think about Heather and her mission, she pushed her concern for her to the back of her mind for the moment. Now that she had revealed everything she knew, her full attention was on Helene. While she wasn't certain if she could ever fully regain her trust as her best friend, she wanted her to trust her judgment as a Dragon Rider.

She walked up to her, her front still facing the wall, "Hele, I know I'm the last person you want to talk to right now, but please believe me that Heather and I didn't do this because we wanted to leave you in the dark."

"Then why did you?" she questioned, her voice quiet yet on the verge of a hiss. "I could've killed her, you know. Back when she almost killed Dagur."

That was a day she wished she could forget, "I know. The reason why we kept it between us is because I knew how you felt about her back then and how you feel about Dagur, especially now that you know they're your cousins. We really were thinking about you the whole time. We even considered bringing you in on the plan when you returned from Outcast Island."

"Don't give me that crap, Astrid," her tone a clipped growl. "Just say it, you didn't want anyone else involved because you thought you could do it on your own. You've always been this way. If a hut's on fire, you run inside without a bucket, preferring to rely on yourself and nothing, or no one, else."

"That's not true at all," she insisted, "you've always been the person I rely on the most out there. You know that, right?"

"No, that's not true at all," she replied. "If given the choice of having me or yourself as your backup, you would always choose yourself."

"Hele…" she reached her hand out to touch her shoulder.

She swatted her away, "I don't want to hear it right now, Astrid." She pushed open the door, mumbling as she choked down her tears, "I just want to be alone right now."

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(A/N: I can't believe it took another damn month for this! I'm really frustrated and disappointed with myself. Ugh!

Regardless, I hope that you found it enjoyable, even if I took more time than I needed to complete it. I really hope you can tell how much effort I put into this, though. There were some things easier than others while writing it.

I know you've heard this from me a million times at this point, but I really will try to update sooner so that I can move forward with this. Believe it or not, we're almost done with season two!)