"You know we talked about this just a few days ago. Or was it yesterday?" Toothless asked.

"Oh yeah, you said that if I was a worm you'd eat me." Hiccup exclaimed a little too loudly.

"What was that Hiccup?" Stoick asked. "Something about eating you?" Hiccup ducked his head. Toothless looked down on him smugly.

"Uhm, i-it's nothing. It's not what it sounds like at least." He prayed that his dad didn't have any follow up questions for that. When Stoick didn't say anything Hiccup sighed in relief. He looked up at Toothless. "That would have been really weird to have to explain to them."

"It would have been funny to watch you try to figure out how to tell them that. Just thinking about it makes me laugh.

Yeah sorry dad." Toothless said in a joking voice. "I was just talking with Toothless about how he said that he'd eat me if I was born a worm. And how much not it's not weird that if he was a worm I'd put him in a jar. Then I would stare at it wondering what a worm is doing in the jar I filled with dirt."

"Hey I don't sound like that!" Hiccup yelled. Everyone looked over at him confused. "I'm not going to kill you Toothless. It doesn't matter what you are." The pair didn't notice the others watching them.

"Hiccup look me dead in the eye." Hiccup stared at him. "If I die, and somehow come back as something that you can't interact with. Like a bug or something. Please for the love of the gods kill me. I want to be able to interact with you. I'm not trying to be a fly or something that you couldn't be with. You know what I mean. If I was a dog or something then we could at least play and run around. I could make you happy. And that's all I want. For you to-to-to-to be able to sit there and smile and laugh and laugh, and run around, and have a good time. When you die, I have to be the thing that you answer if you're asked what was the most memorable thing from your life.

It has to be me. Cause if it's not, then I messed up. My big overarching goal in life right now is to be the thing that made my mate the happiest they've ever been. Not only that but to be the thing that made my mate's life genuinely better from the day I met them to the day they die.

And I can't do that as a worm! So please kill me!" Toothless roared. Toothless caught the group looking at them and deflated himself. "Damn. They definitely think we're fighting." Hiccup did a quick shoulder check and saw what Toothless had seen.

"Didn't think you'd get so worked up about this Toothless." Hiccup said, his hands rubbing over Toothless' side and stomach.

"I didn't really mean to. I'll be honest with you Hiccup, I worry a lot about making sure that I'm doing the right thing when it comes to you. You'd think that after being with you for so long I'd know what I'm doing but it really does feel like I learn something new everyday.

Sometimes I feel like I'm falling behind and messing everything up. And you just don't say anything because you're too nice." Toothless flattened his ears again't his head. Hiccup smiled up at him.

"Toothless I'll have you know that I've never felt that way ever. You do your best and that's all I can ask for. You've far surpassed what I thought a dragon could be. From a monster, to basically an essential organ. If you hadn't come along I wouldn't be nearly as happy. I'd probably love the work I was doing. Being in the smithy, learning to make stuff with my hands. I really did love doing that. It's why I like coming up with projects that I can do with my hands here. It's why I'm making those planters. Why I had that forge made and am prototyping that armour for you guys. But knowing what I know now, with all the experiences and little moments. I'd gladly chop my own hands off in exchange for this. Even if it was just for a day.

I got exactly what I wanted, Toothless. It may not be with the person I dreamt about, fantasized about, prayed that they'd see me as more than just the weird kid. And my life isn't conventional. For a human. Don't know many humans leading a flock of dragons.

The thing is, that what I have now, who I have now, is something I wouldn't have been able to imagine. Even you are more than anything I thought I could come up with. I thought that I was good at making stories, and being imaginative. But now I don't think I could write down all the things that have happened in my life and make it seem real. I live a fictional storybook character's life. And I couldn't trade it for anything.

Nothing in the world would make me want to change my life."

"I'm sure there are. You never know what situation you'll end up in that'll make you wish you had a different life."

"I mean sure. But we both know what that thing would be at this point." Hiccup chuckled and looked at his hands again. "I'd definitely miss the feeling of your scales under my hand. Or listening to your heartbeat while trying to get to sleep. That would probably end up being the hardest thing to do if you went missing. I've always had a hard time trying to get to sleep but it's been beyond easy with you. Your warmth just sinks into me and I'm out. I feel kinda bad that you won't ever get the chance to have that same experience."

"That's fine by me." Toothless laughed. "I don't even understand how you can like it all the time. Even when it's hot. We could be sleeping inches from a fire and you still want to be cuddled up next to me. How can you even stand it?"

"I don't know." Hiccup shrugged. "It's like you're not really that warm to me. When it's cold out, yeah then you might as well be a furnace with wings. But when it's hot out you're just as warm as everything else so sleeping against you is no worse than sleeping alone. Except for that sleeping alone now feels like I'm dying. And if I had the choice, which I do right now, I'd never sleep alone again. Even if sleeping next to you was a chore I'd still do it. So there's no helping me is what I'm trying to say." Hiccup continued to run his hands along Toothless' side and stomach.

"Well it's a good thing you're not particularly warm either. Otherwise I'd probably push you away at night."

"What? Rude. I wouldn't do that to you." Hiccup exclaimed.

"Firstly you can't do that no matter how hard you tried. Secondly, if I was uncomfortably hot to sleep next to, yes you would. You're just weird and have somehow tricked yourself into thinking that being really hot when you sleep is normal. Don't get me wrong I don't want you anywhere other than pressed against me when we sleep. It probably helps me sleep too having you there. Plus you're not hot like I am. It's just weird that you aren't affected by it."