Hi everyone! Really, I have no excuse for being so damn long, I just got lazy. And had no ideas…

I hope you like this chapter! Stay Perfect!

Astrid felt her mother embrace her "My, my Astrid. You've certainly gained weight."

Astrid glared at Valka over her mother's shoulder "Gee mom, that's a way to greet your daughter, whom you haven't seen in eight years."

"But I'm here now. Let's not dwell on the past." Julianna Hofferson patted her cheek, and looked at Hiccup "Henry! How is the guy who broke my daughter's heart?"

Hiccup sucked in a breath "I'm fine Mrs. Hofferson, how are you?"

"I'm doing just swell not that I know my only daughter is getting married!"

Astrid looked down. There's one person not coming to her wedding. Her best friend in the whole world…

Ariana Hofferson.

Her older sister. The only person that understood her, that is, until Hiccup. "Mother, I'm not your only daughter."

Julianna looked at Astrid "My only living daughter, though, she has tried to kill herself more than once. I was very tempted to steal her razor her senior year in high school."

Jack Hofferson shifted his weight "Julia…"

"What? I'm only telling Henry what's his in for."

"Uh, Mrs. Hofferson, I do know that Astrid was once… suicidal…" Once? Hell, Astrid feels like killing herself right now to end all of this… "but I'm sure she's okay now."

Because she is. She's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. The glass is half full, she put away her razors and is fine.

Or, was fine until her gynecologist turned out to be the man whore who hit on her when she was working five years ago, and her mother showed up out of the blue telling her she looked fat and should lay off cookies.

She's not fat, she's three months pregnant and is started to show (damn, she might have to alter her wedding dress…)

"Oh, I'm sure you know all about my daughter." Julianna stood akimbo, staring at her future son-in-law.

"You haven't talked to her in eight years."

"So that makes me a bad mother?"

The two were in a stare down, and Valka played with her thumbs "I have an idea… why don't we all go out for dinner?"

Astrid smiled at her, thankful that they could avoid a fight. "That sounds like a great idea. I'll take your bags to the guest room daddy and we'll talk more later okay."

"Fine." Stated Julianna

"Okay, only for you milady…"

It was awkward.

Astrid sipped her water, jealous that Scarlett (who insisted she come and help keep Hiccup in line) drank more of her wine.

Astrid would kill for wine.

Astrid would give up her mother for wine, and she's very serious about that.

Stupid baby. Stupid Hiccup. Stupid mother.

Stupid uterus.

"So, are you and Hiccup living together?" her father asked politely.

"Yes, for five year." Hiccup took a drink of his extra strong whiskey and cleared his throat

This isn't fair. Astrid would love to be drunk around her mother, it's the only way to deal with her mother.

Again, stupid baby.

"You're living together out of marriage?" her mother asked, and Astrid has the half mind to ask her dad if he's sure that this woman is her mother.

Astrid rubbed her forehead "You had Ari out of wedlock."

"Astrid, it's not right to talk about your parent's sex life."

Okay… ew. She wasn't even trying to talk about her parent's sex life.

"I wasn't trying to mother, I was just saying that you two had a baby out of wedlock."

"Julia, she's just trying to talk." Jack said, rubbing a hand down her back

Valka sat straighter "So, Scarlett… you were in Australia for two years?"

"Hell yeah! I can't wait to go back! Met this guy there, did I tell you that Hiccup, he's beyond gorgeous, and his accent…" Scarlett said around a mouth full of pizza. "Though I'd sleep with any guy with an accent."

Valka blushed "Oh, I'm glad you had fun…"

"Fuck yeah!" Hiccup kicked her leg "Ow, son of a bitch!" Scarlett grabbed her leg "Hiccup!"

Hiccup shrugged innocently and looked at his mother "Oh mom, how are you?"

"I'm doing just fine son. How are you?"

"Swell…" Hiccup looked down.

It would be different if his dad was here, then Hiccup could tell him about Camicazi, and his father would tell him everything is going to be okay, and that Cami is just going through a divorce, and is lonely.

She needs a friend. It doesn't matter if he was totally in love with her when she moved away. None of that matters now, he has Astrid.

He's hopelessly in love with Astrid, and he has been since freshman year and they had lockers by each other.

Hiccup wrapped his right around Astrid and she smiled at him, engagement ring glimmering in the dull light of the pizzeria.

Astrid noticed her mother staring at her right cheek and she covered the jagged scar.

It was deep enough that it was never going to go away. And Astrid was okay with that, she was okay with the stares from little kids and the questions from the adults.

But she's not okay with her mother staring at it.

"What happened darling? Henry finally snap at you?"

Hiccup choked on his drink "No, I think that was Sam's department…"

"Sam stabbed me five years ago…" Had it really been five years since Sam and Stoick died? "He kidnapped Hiccup and I, and killed someone."

Valka and Hiccup froze and Astrid her lip. This isn't going well. Were her parents even invited to the wedding? Sometimes, even though she means well, Valka can be annoying.

Scarlett cleared her throat "So, Astrid, have you picked out your dress yet?"

Astrid nodded "Yeah, it's too girly for my taste though."

"When Astrid was growing up, Ari would always take Astrid shopping, but Astrid would cry and cry until she took her by the weapons." Julianna smiled

Hiccup smirked, why doesn't that surprise him? Hiccup rubbed her arm softly as Astrid blushed "Mother… is it bad that I don't like wearing dresses? They're uncomfortable and make me look fat."

"Oh honey, you're already fat." Smiled Julianna

"Oh, Julianna, um… our parenting tactics might be a little different-" Started Valka

"What parenting tactics Valka? You didn't know your son until five years ago."

Astrid stood up, her chair falling down "Mother! That's enough! No one gives a shit about your comments, so keep them to yourself!"

"How dare you talk about to me Astrid! I am your mother, and you will respect me!"

"I'll respect you when you respect me okay mom, I'm sick of you nagging on me, and trying to change me, and hating on Hiccup. It's crap!" Astrid grabbed her bag and walked out of the pizzeria."

Julianna looked shocked for a moment before saying "It must be her time of the month."

The everyone else groaned.

Later, Hiccup pulled a box out of a closet Astrid didn't know about in the basement. Hiccup set the box on the coffee table and opened it. Hiccup pulled out a stuffed dragon that his mother made him, but didn't receive it until he was sixteen.

"Son, what I'm about to give you is very important to me. I want you to take good care of it."

"Okay, what is it?" Hiccup asked, crossing his arms

Stoick pulled out a box and inside was a stuffed toy.

"A toy? Dad, I hate to tell you, I'm sixteen not three."

Stoick glared at his son "Son, your mother made this for you when she found out she was pregnant." Hiccup took the dragon out of his father's vast had and looked at it. His fingers traced over the 'Henry' that was stitched into it.

"Whoa…" Hiccup smiled, then looked at his father

"Your mother would be so proud of you right now."

Hiccup brought the toy close to him and hugged it, smiling.

"I miss you dad…" He whispered as he set the dragon aside. Toothless hopped onto the couch and set his head on Hiccup's lap. Hiccup pulled out a pick of a short, blond haired girl and him at a hospital, the girl with a broken arm and him with a black eye and a broken leg. Hiccup smiled at it.

"Come on Henry! Don't be a pansy!" Cami called as she swung from a tree branch "This is fun!"

"Uh, I'm good, I like my limbs attached to my body thank you." Hiccup crossed his arms "And I'm not a pansy Cami! You're going kill yourself and then I won't have a best friend!"

"Baby."

"I'm not a baby."

"Then climb the tree."

Hiccup sighed and started to climb. He stopped when they were on the same branch "Wait! Hiccup don't-"

The branch broke, sending the two seven year olds tumbling to the earth.

Hiccup closed his eyes. They were so close, and now…

Now he has Astrid, and he can't lose her again.

Hiccup heard footsteps coming down the stairs and he quickly put everything in the box and pushed it under the coffee table, making Toothless glare at him.

"Hello sweetheart." Valka smiled at her only son

"Hey mom." Hiccup said

"How are you, when we got back you disappeared."

"I, uh, needed to be alone for a little bit." Hiccup scratched the back of his neck "I don't see how Astrid grew up with them, they're nuts."

"You just grew up with a different parenting style."

"I'm not sure 'Just don't get anyone pregnant during high school' counts as parenting."

Valka laughed and sat next to him, petting Toothless "You know… the house is getting big for just me…"

Hiccup looked at her "Are you thinking about selling the house?"

"Henry…"

"No! I grew up in that house!"

"Henry, you are twenty six years old, living in Florida, and getting married. You are not coming home, I do not need a big house."

"You can't sell that house!"
"Why not!?"

"Because dad raised me in that house! I want… I need something to remember him by!"

Valka sighed "Henry… that's the house your father and I moved into after I graduated high school, don't you think this is hard on me to?"

"Then don't sell the house!"

Valka touched his cheek and smiled "I'll rethink it okay…" Hiccup smiled and leaned into her touch. "Honey, is there something wrong?"

"Nothing… I'd better go upstairs, make sure Astrid and her mother haven't killed each other."

Hiccup kissed her cheek and walked upstairs, Toothless, after giving her a lick to the face, following him. Valka looked around the basement and saw something sticking out of the box under the coffee table.

She opened the box and saw something she thought she'd ever see again.

Her stuffed dragon.

Valka picked it up with trembling fingers. "Stoick…" She whispered before breaking down in tears.