a non serious, serious talk

a/n: remember. it's been five years.

 they've changed and so has their relationship partly

3k words whoopwhoop

warning: kissing, sweet stuff that will make you sick, astrid lowkey third wheeling

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authors pov

10:40 AM. SCREECHY ITCHY ARMPIT 

toothless sigh with a heave, opening up his wings. and it reveals y/n lying on top of hiccup, who sets his hand on her waist. 

"hey,"

y/n groans with a roll of her eyes whilst rolling off him and walks over to midnight. the targaryen girl is in her riding uniform, her hood pulled down. her heeled black boots hit the ground as she quickly scans the area. she kneels down, kissing her dragon and looking back at her boyfriend who switches his prosthetic foot from the flying mechanism to the walking one.

"that really came out of nowhere," hiccup breathes out, rising to his feet and dusting himself off. 

the four of them all turn to the sound of rocks crumbling, seeing how they've made their mark, once again, as the rock towers crumble. y/n makes a face at hiccup as he nervously laughs.  toothless rumbles at hiccup, the viking tucking away his flying suit.

"we-we've got to work on your solo gliding there, bud," toothless looks at y/n who just shrugs. midnight mocks hiccup, y/n hiding her laugh as she stands up. "that locked up tail makes for some pretty sloppy rescue manoeuvres, aye?"

the son of the chief pulls off his helmet, messing his brown curls. y/n can't help but admire him. he has grown up and into his looks. he looks off into the distance, y/n following his eye line. she smiles softly, looking at the skies but then furrows her eyes brows.

"look likes we found another one, guys!" his cheery voice makes y/n roll her violet eyes and scoff. 

hiccup isn't the only one who grew up into their looks.

to him, y/n couldn't get any more beautiful and if she did, he would definitely need to find away to make himself worthy for her. valyrian beauty is just something that can't be challenged. y/n's white hair has grown longer and it's hard to manage by all herself. so hiccup helps her and he loves doing it. some days where she doesn't keep in her braid, they plait red flowers into her hair. 

as of right now, she's wearing a long sleeved top with her very familiar cloak over it. but this cloak has some scales of a certain valyrian dragon. y/n even embroidered the hood with red patterns, representing her house.  

"midnight," y/n coos, midnight rubbing y/n with her nose. the two valyrian's look at each other. "burn him," she motions to hiccup with her head. "dracarys,"

"hey! woah!" hiccup says, putting his hands forward with a laugh as midnight playfully growls, crawling towards him. "c-come on, midnight," he laughs, midnight forgiving him instantly as he rubs her head. he looks over to y/n who glares at him. "you said if i get hurt. i'm not hurt. i'm fine," oh, i forgot to say he has completely mastered high valyrian. y/n continues to look at him, her glare not improving. "hey, look," he spins around, arms up and out, showing her how he isn't hurt at all. "beautiful..." that forsaken nickname. it always makes her feel fuzzy. "i'm sorry. can i please get a hug?"

y/n blinks, sitting down and facing away from him. hiccup sighs with a nod. he goes to walk over, toothless and midnight barging past him to make her feel better. she's not actually mad. she's just deciding to be petty. 

"hey! that's my girlfriend!" he says, trying to push toothless away from her. "don't tell me you're mad too, bud?" toothless huffs, y/n scratching his chin as she settles her hand on midnight's head. "is that why you're stealing all my girlfriend's attention and love? because you're mad at me too, you big baby boo? well, i can't have that. try this on for size!" hiccup charges at toothless, trying to tackle him. toothless doesn't move an inch, looking around as midnight squeals out a laugh. "you feeling it yet?" hiccup struggles, trying to move the night fury as toothless remains sat. "picking up on all my heart felt remorse? all my anger from you trying to steal my girlfriend away from me?"  

toothless rises to his feet as he waddles over to the edge of the cliff. 

"surely you wouldn't hurt a one legged-woah!" toothless dangles him over the edge, hiccup clutching around toothless' neck. "you're right, you're right! you win! i shouldn't worry y/n ever!" hiccups with a laugh as toothless flops back, taking him down with him.

"and how the mighty have fallen," y/n says, cheek sitting in her hand. hiccup smiling as he sees the small smile on her face. 

"oh, he's down!" hiccup laughs. "and it's ugly!" he pushes toothless' paw off his chest, playfully swinging at the night fury. "dragons and vikings, enemies again! locked in combat to the bitter--" hiccup lets out a dramatic gasp as toothless' drops his head on his chest. "and to think, the love of my life didn't even give me a hug or a kiss, not knowing if we would see each other again!"

"oh, and how incredibly smart of her," y/n comments as midnight nods her head. toothless starts licking hiccup's face, making him groan in disgust as he scampers away from the dragon, standing up. 

"you know that doesn't wash out!"

"i am not coming to closer proximity to you," y/n states as she scrunches her face up in disgust. toothless roars a laugh as hiccup wipes his saliva away, making him pause and smirk as he flings his spit at him. toothless flinches, shaking his head before licking his paw and using it to clean his face. midnight jumps on toothless, licking him clean like a mother cat would clean her kitten. toothless whines in embarrassment. 

"i'm all clean," hiccup says, kneeling down next to y/n. y/n narrows her eyes at him as he sighs. "i am sorry. i should have listened to you,"

"and?"

"this will never ever happen again,"

"and?"

"you are always always right,"

"and?"

"i love you," hiccup says, making y/n's cheeks go warm and she bites the inside of her cheek, trying to hide her smile. "so much. avy jorrāelan," when he talks in high valyrian, her brain just goes into overdrive. he's perfected the accent and it just makes y/n go fuzzy on the inside.

"you are quite lucky that you are so handsome," y/n whispers, pulling him in by the neckline of his suit and kissing him. hiccup melts into the kiss, cradling her the left side of her face. 

"i think i'm lucky because i have you," hiccup says, resting his forehead against hers. they look at each other, getting lost in the green and purple hues of their lovers eyes. 

"you may open your map," y/n says, she's never loved the colour green. but his eyes might change her mind. "i will help you draw this time,"

"oh yeah?" hiccup kisses the side of her head, the girl smiling on impact. "i'm honoured," y/n rolls her eyes, hiccup getting his journal from a compartment in his flying suit. he carefully unfolds the map, something that the four of them have been creating for an extremely long time. midnight lies down next to y/n, leaning against her. 

hiccup takes a page from his journal which is on his arm, toothless licks it, allowing it to stick to the map. y/n presses it down firmly in place as hiccup hands it to her so he can sharpen his lead pencil with a dagger. he tucks it back into its sheath, y/n pulling out moonlight. she places moonlight behind her, knowing if she left it in front of midnight, it will get lost. 

hiccup opens up the small compass which is sitting on his wrist as the pencil he just sharpened rests in his mouth. 

"so," he pauses, taking the pencil out of his mouth. "what should we name it? "

"midnight? toothless?" y/n asks, looking to both dragons. midnight screeches in response as toothless groans, nibbling under his arm. 

"screechy itchy armpit it is," hiccup says after a moment. "what do you reckon, beautiful? think we might find a few timberjacks in those woods,"

"i think that there is a high possibility of that happening as we saw them as we were flying over to get here," y/n takes, taking the pencil from hiccup and drawing the landscape she can see. 

toothless sniffs the centre of the map as y/n gives the pencil back to hiccup so that she can redoes her single braid. most of her white long hair is out, just one braid in the centre of her hair. that is one victory. the red death. remember her? how many more will y/n make before she falls?

"there could be the possibility of seeing whispery deaths," y/n says, finishing her braid. she flicks it to her back, resting her hand on midnight's head. 

"yeah, i think we might see an odd one or two," hiccup agrees, nodding. "who knows, maybe we'll finally track down another night fury? or a valyrian dragon?" midnight looks over to the horizon with hopeful eyes. she's always wanted to be a mother. y/n did not know this but if she gets pregnant, the chance of midnight laying eggs is automatically higher. dragon pregnancy syncs with targaryen and velaryon pregnancy. 

"perhaps," y/n says, smiling at her dragon. 

"wouldn't that be something?" hiccup says, sitting up and looking over to y/n. "so, what do you say? just keep going?"

"a forever with you?" y/n hums, playfully. "that does not seem like an incredibly dreary lifetime," hiccup rolls his eyes, making y/n laugh.

everyone turns behind them, hearing a familiar dragon screech. 

"astrid! it is wonderful to see you!" y/n beams, watching as stormfly flies down onto the hill, the four are resting on. "and how are you fairing this good morning?"

astrid gets down, stretching her arms. midnight and toothless run over to stormfly and astrid, the blonde smiling as she pets the dark coloured dragons. 

"oh, winning races?" astrid smirks, making y/n laugh. "what else?"

"i see that the move that i assisted you with has given you aid in winning?" y/n questions, astrid walking over to the couple and sitting down next to y/n with her legs crossed. 

"i will forever love you for teaching me that, by the way," astrid says, smiling over at hiccup and the brunette smiles back. "but the real question is, where have you two been?"

hiccup snorts, finishing the drawing on the map. he puts the pencil down, putting an arm around y/n's hips. 

"avoiding my dad,"

"i was certain that something happened between the two of you," y/n states, relaxing in hiccup's touch. it was weird in the morning how she was getting ready to do absolute nothing today but her needle work and maybe join the dragon race later in the morning, but then toothless and hiccup came rushing into the clearing. they stared at each other for about five seconds, then she asked him if there is something wrong. and he responded that he needed to get away and if they could go on a ride. and who is y/n to turn that down?

"oh no," astrid comments. "what happened?"

"oh, you're going...you're going to love this," hiccup says, resting his chin on y/n's shoulder. "i wake up, the sun's shining, terrible terrors are singing in the rooftop," astrid takes the pencil, adding more detail onto the map. "i saunter down to breakfast thinking all is right with the world and i get:" hiccup makes his voice deeper as he stands up. "'son, we need to talk'-"

"not now, dad! i got a whole day of goofing off to get started!" astrid says, changing her voice pitch higher as she moves her shoulders up and down. "and y/n's coming too!"

"that was a marvellous impression," y/n says, letting out a laugh. 

"okay, first of all, that was a terrible impression!" hiccup whines. "i-i don't sound like that," he feels partly offended. "and second of all, w-what is that character?" he gestures to astrid, the girl letting out a laugh. "and-and third..." hiccup looks down to his arms. "what is that thing you're doing with my shoulders?"

y/n laughs, dramatically waving her arms and shoulders as astrid snickers, shaking her head as the blonde continues to sketch the outline of the mountains. y/n has learnt to have a lot more fun now; which makes hiccup happy.

"yeah, that's-that's a truly flattering impersonation," hiccup laughs as y/n looks over to him, laughing to herself. "anyway, he goes..." hiccup clears his throat and stomps around. "'you're the pride of berk, son, and i couldn't be prouder-'"

y/n clears her throat, ready to the impression this time. 

"'aw, thanks dad,'" she says, copying the exact tone of hiccup's usual voice. and obviously moves her shoulders and arms with a purpose. "'i'm pretty impressed with myself too!'" astrid's eyes go wide as her mouth hangs open. "and how was that? was that satisfactory?"

"y/n?! uh, yes! that was golden!" astrid laughs, clutching her stomach. 

"when have i ever done that with my hands?" hiccup asks with a laugh. he doesn't want to admit it but he was impressed with his girlfriend's impression. it was spot on. expect for the arm thing.

"you just did!" astrid shouts with a laugh. y/n laughs, trying not to squeal in amusement. 

"oh...just..." kneeling, hiccup holds y/n's cheeks in his hands, locking eyes with her. "this is very serious,"

y/n nods, pursing her lips as he lets go off her cheeks. he kisses her on the forehead, rising to stand. 

"'you're all grown up'," hiccup continues in his deep voice, the three dragons chasing each other in the background. "'and since no chief could ask for a better successor, i've decided-'"

"to make you chief!" astrid realises, standing up quick as y/n's eyes go wide. why did she not expect this? this was going to happen sooner or later. "oh, my gods! hiccup, that's amazing!"

"seven hells," y/n mutters.

in excitement, astrid punches hiccup in the stomach, making him yell out in pain. she is the strongest out of the three. oh, and as well as that, the back fin pops open. y/n stands up, not sure what to do. does she congratulate him? does he even want to be the chief. it is his birth right, yes. but that does not automatically mean that he desires it. 

"y-you're going to wear off the spring coil," hiccup says to astrid, tightening it up again.  "the calibration is very sensitive!"

toothless roars as midnight and stormfly catch up to him, the three dragons crashing into their owners, making them fall to the ground. y/n gets up, pushing her hair back. she turns, leaning back down to help hiccup up as astrid gets up all on her own. 

"yeah, so..." hiccup sighs, getting up with the help of his girlfriend. "this is what i'm dealing with," y/n fixes hiccup's hair, brushing his shoulder. 

"and how did you respond to your father?"

"i-i didn't," hiccup admits, fiddling with his suit. "by the time he turned around, i was half way to the clearing to get to you,"

"ah," y/n hums. not all to surprising. 

"huh. well..." astrid picks up the map, closing it carefully into the journal. "it's a lot of responsibility. the map will have to wait, for sure," she hands it to hiccup who takes hold of it, putting it in it's compartment. 

"i will fly toothless whilst you take upon your new responsibilities," y/n says, before looking over to hiccup. "hiccup?"

"i-it's not me, n/n," hiccup says, his voice slightly trembling. "all those speeches and planning and running the village, that's his thing,"

"i think you're missing the point," astrid replies as y/n continues to look at her boyfriend. he does not want it. "i mean...chief. what an honour! i'd be pretty excited,"

"i...i'm not like you," hiccup sighs, motioning to astrid as he glances over at y/n. her violet eyes look at him sincerely. "you...know exactly who you are, you always have, but... i'm still looking," hiccup bends down, picking up his helmet. " i know i'm not my father, and i've never met my mother, so...what does that make me?" he shrugs, sitting at the edge of the cliff.

y/n wordlessly sits next to hiccup, turning her head to look at him. she plaits another section of his brown hair. hiccup doesn't like it when people braid his hair. he hates it when people even touch his hair. but y/n isn't everyone. y/n isn't people. y/n is his other half. the love of his life. the only person he'd follow to the end of the world. y/n is the only one allowed to braid his hair and he always keeps the plaits in, just for her. 

"hiccup," she starts, hiccup looking over to her. "i understand that you are confused. you wish to be you and discover yourself to the fullest. however, have you ever thought of the possibility, that what you are searching for is not out to the edge of the world?" y/n puts her hand over hiccup's chest, feeling his increased heart beat. "but it is here? in close proximity to you?"

hiccup's eyes dilate as he looks at y/n. he smiles, kissing the side of her head. astrid sits down next to y/n, smiling at the two lovebirds. she knew they were going to get together. ever since the first slight she had with them. 

"maybe," hiccup says, looking towards the scenery. y/n watches his eye line, her eyes widening at what she can see. "but you know...there is something out there,"

"hiccup-" astrid starts, shaking her head. 

but y/n stops her, grabbing her friends chin gently and directing her attention to the front. astrid pauses and looks out before gasping softly at the sight of a large cloud of smoke just over the horizon.