(Toby x Troll!Reader)

Hair tickled the inside of your nose as you inhaled the smell of the reddish-brown mop of the chubby human in front of you. You shake your head out and grin, Toby was a very different smell than you were used too. In the Kruberan Salt Mines, smells that were new where rare. Toby had a scent that you couldn't get out of your nose. 

You lived in the old Hearthstone town with some of the trolls that didn't want to go to New Jersy, you all were sustained by the smallest fragment of hearthstone, just a tiny sliver that your leader wore. Toby D was the substitute Trollhunter, he often sat in Old Trollmarket sad and lonely. You didn't like that, AAARRRGGHH was usually good about keeping the human company, but the green-furred Krubera was currently on a mission that he refused to bring the stout human on.

"This TOTALLY BLOWS!!!" Toby finally explodes ", Why can't I go see MY BEST FRIEND?!? It's SOOO unfair!!"

You snot with slight laughter, you phosphorus glowing marks glowing brightly under your eyes and across your face. You hoped that the human boy didn't know what that meant.

"I know it isn't fair Master Toby," You say kindly and take a slight whiff at his hair again ", But a mission across a country is very long. I can understand why brother AAARRRGGHH would want you to stay. Doesn't your human 'school' start soon?"

"YEAH, (y/n)," He sighs and turns to look at you ", It starts soon. That means long nights... Maybe I should train up a little bit!"

Toby's voice perked up slightly and he reached for his backpack, pulling out the legendary Warhammer that you'd been hearing about ever since you moved to the surface. Right now, it was small and compact, nothing like the giant flaming hammer you'd expected.

"So that is the legendary Warhammer that my people have gossiped about?" You chuckle.

Toby looks at you, then at his hammer ", Trolls know about my Warhammer?

"Of course, Toby!!" You chuckle deeply ", You aided in saving the world! From Morgana, from Gunmar, Bular and Eternal Night! And dare I say, me and my people."

Toby gave you a look and that familiar feeling of guilt bubbled in your stomach. 

"What do you mean 'me'? Were... Were you a Gumm-Gumm???" Toby askes you with shock on your face.

"By choice? No," You respond ", But I was a Gumm-Gumm. I was a good one too, I was a loyal soldier and fought under the cursed blade. I was lucky enough to no be killed, I was restored to who I was before, but with ever memory of what I'd done."

Toby cocked his head slightly and you matched his head movement. He continues to ask you about your Gumm-Gumm past as you make the short walk to the forge of heroes, or the ruins of the forge.

"Did you... Did Usurna sell you as a kid?"

"No. I was part of Usurnas' personal guard."

"Is that why you stayed here instead of going home?"

"No, I stayed for personal reasons."

"Why did you stay?"

"Personal reasons Master Toby..." No, the reason you stayed was because of this human. He made you feel less guilty, you felt an obligation to protect him. Why? Affection. You felt a bout of affection towards this human that you'd never felt towards another troll in your entire 200 years.

"Come on, (Y/n)!" Toby says with a laugh ", You've never kept secrets for long."

You snort and nudge the human with your arm, you two chuckle and the awkward silence between you continue as you enter the forge. You watch as Toby looks around. There is rubble everywhere and you notice a few trolls cleaning up the remains of previous Gumm-Gumm warriors and other remains.

You shake your broadhead and feel the boys hand on your arm.

"SOOO Why did you stay?" Toby asked while swinging around the small concaved hammer.

"A smell," You shrug your broad shoulder as Toby activates the glowing orange hammer that you'd heard on about ", A particular smell I remember from my Gumm-Gumm days."

Toby gives you a look ", Is that why you are always SMELLING me?"

"Partly," You say repeating the guilty feelings about your Gumm-Gumm past ", I have a heightened sense of smell. Your smell is extremely familiar but I just can't remember where I'd smelt it."

"You don't think we've fought before?" Toby asks you with a sad kind of look.

"Not likely, Master Toby," You say with a grin ", I was one of the Gumm-Gumms that the spirits of the old Trollhunters took over. That's why I'm alive today."

"So... You and like... 10 other Gumm-Gumm survived?"

"Yes. Like 10 of us survived."

You and Toby laugh and the scent you were familiar with fills your nose. You notice that your glowing marks are brighter than they've been in forever. You notice the reflection of your own blue marks in Toby's bright green eyes and let yourself smile.

"You know," You say to Toby ", I think your scent is the one I've been so fond of. I don't know where I've smelled you but I think you're the smell."

Toby smiles at you and collapses his hammer, setting a hand on your arm. The human boy's face flushed with pink.

"I like you too, (Y/n)," He says with a smile ", No lets get some training done. We've got a long week ahead of us."

"Yes we do."