His heart beat fast in his chest and his breath quickened. His eyes drifted between the sharp sword at his neck and the woman holding it.

"But first, I'm gonna kill you myself," Mala said and smiled. Hiccup turned his head towards Astrid. She was looking down, knowing that today was their last day. He looked at the others.

Their heads were bowed too. Hiccup looked back at Mala. "Can I...at least do one thing I've been wanting to do for a long time?" He asked, his voice full of sadness.

Mala looked back at her men before turning back to the boy. "Go on," She gave in and dropped the sword from his throat. Her men let him go and he turned towards Astrid. The men that held her let her go too.

Hiccup reached forward and softly slipped her hand into his. He trailed his other hand up her other arm and stopped at her cheek. Astrid looked at him carefully, gazing into his eyes. "I'm sorry for getting us into this mess. I'm sorry, Astrid. I got us into this and now, there's no turning back. I was thinking, once we got out of this, I would confess everything to you and ask you if you wanted to be mine but...I screwed up and we're going to die here. I'm so sorry.."

When he finished talking, he looked at her closely and saw her eyes watering. A tear slid down her cheek and she stepped closer to him, wrapping her arms around his waist and burying her face into his shoulder. She nodded slowly and turned her head, pressing her nose into his neck. "I'd love to be yours," She sobbed out. "At least for the time left..."

She cried, her hands tying to grab something on his back. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry for not noticing you earlier and for not paying attention to you..."

"I'm sorry. I was scared of confessing my feelings towards you like this because I knew your either laugh at me, feel the same or just hate me," Hiccup said softly, his arms around her neck.

He looked at Astrid for quite a while, admiring her before turning his head towards the gang. "I'm sorry guys. I got you guys into this and this is how it ends. I'm sorry. I'm not a good leader.

Mala looked at them, a little shocked.

"I wanted to go back home, live the rest of our lives as one big, happy "family" but I screwed up. Dad wants me to be chief. I can't even be a good leader for you guys, what about a whole village?"

Fishlegs looked at Hiccup. "This isn't your fault. It's none of ours. Things happen for a reason and we can't help that. We can only make as much out of this as possible. It's all of our fault Hiccup."

Snotlout nodded. "Even if I bother you, irritate you and get on your nerves all day and all night, I still think you're amazing. To have pulled off all of this by your own, the planning and the actions. I'm happy to have you as my cousin."

Tuffnut and Ruffnut looked at each other before looking at Hiccup. "We might've blown up a little too many things. We're sorry for it..."

Astrid pulled away from Hiccup and placed her hands on his cheeks, his hands landing on her hips.

"I'm sorry for never being there when you needed me and always ignoring you before I got to know who you really were. I feel so bad for everything. I'm so sorry, Hiccup. I wish I could go back in time to make things better. I'm sorry for everything..." She said and sobbed, slowly wrapping her arms around his neck. "I love you," She whispered, loud enough for everyone to hear before pressing her lips against his and kissing him.

Mala dropped her sword and they broke apart, everyone looking at the woman.

"Hiccup Haddock, you're the chief's son?"

Hiccup turned towards her, nodded and bowed his head. He felt Astrid's hand on his back, between his shoulder blades. "And the leader of this group?"

He nodded again.

Mala turned away and looked at Throck. "I can't kill these guys. They haven't done anything bad. They're not Viggos men. They're protecting their dragons and their loved ones like we do...we can't kill them."

She turned back.

"You're free. On one condition. If you help finding the dragon and save this island."

Hiccup looked at the others, sheer happiness in his eyes. He squeezed Astrid's hand, letting her know that he was still there with her and that he wouldn't go anywhere.

Astrid smiled. She squeezed his hand back and lifted her hand holding his, slowly.

She lifted her hand to her mouth and when her hand was at her mouth, she leaned in and pressed a kiss to the back of Hiccup's hand, over his knuckles.

He looked at her with a small smile.

Looking back at Mala and Throck, he nodded.

"Deal."

Turned out, the found the, "Great Protector," the Eruptodon and bought it back to the Volcano. The island was saved, they signed a treaty and went their way later.

•••

Knocking on his door bought him out of his thoughts and he stood up, walking over to the door.

Opening it, he got a big surprise.

"Astrid?"

The blonde played with her fingers. "Hey, Hiccup..." She said a little hesitant.

The guy, - young man - pulled her into his hut and closed the door. Holding her close to him by her waist, he buried his nose into her hair. "What's wrong, M'lady. Tell me..." He whispered softly and pressed a kiss to her temple.

"I just..." She started and wrapped her arms around his waist. "I could've lost you today..."

"But, you didn't. I'm right here. And you're right here, in my arms," Hiccup started and pulled back, looking at her closely, inspecting every little feature on her face he didn't have a chance to ever see this up close before.

He noticed a small scar right over her left eyebrow. He lifted one of his hands and questioned, "Where did you get that?" before he pulled his thumb over it.

Astrid thought for a second before pulling away one of her hands from him, trailing up and sliding her hand into his.

"About a year ago, when we fought in one of our many battles, an arrow flew past my face. It was close enough to graze the skin over my eyebrow. Nothing serious."

Hiccup smiled and leaned in, pressing his lips to the scar.

•••

"And, what's that for?" He asked, his voice husky and he kissed her collarbone. His fingers ran down a thin, long scar at her hips.

They laid naked in his bed, basking in the night after their business.

The blonde was still squirming now and then when his hands came too close. Pleasure still shot through her body, even when his hands were only running over her scars. On the other hand, they did have two rounds of non stop sex and he had been kissing her collarbone ever since then.

He was kind of laying over her. One of her legs were between his while her other one was all alone, her knee bent and her leg up. He was holding himself up with his left forearm as he trailed his right hand over her body, mapping every inch of her.

"Hiccup..." She breathed heavily. Taking deep breaths, she somehow managed to say, "Fell down a tree when I was smaller. Cut myself on a branch," before falling back into pleasure.

Hiccup moved down, trailing kisses from her collarbone to her breast, ribs, stomach, hips and then he finally reached the scar.

He put sloppy, wet kisses all over it.

Astrids hand shot to his hair even if he wasn't even between her legs and she looked at him with heavy eyes.

"Stop teasing me," She fought out when she felt his other hand on the inner side of her thigh, stroking the skin with his thumb.

Hiccup smiled and looked up at her while kissing her scar. Her head was thrown back and she was breathing heavily. Suddenly, in a swift motion, he latched his lips from her scar to her pearl.

She moaned out loudly and put a hand over her mouth so she wouldn't be so loud.

"It's okay. Everyone's asleep. No one will hear you," He whispered to her, slipping his middle and ring ringer into her. She wouldn't stop moving and rolling her hips.

He pulled away all at once and climbed over her, wiping his mouth slightly. He slipped into her so easily. She clawed his back, adding to the already red lines running down his back.

He set into a steady rhythm, increasing speed ever few minutes.

Astrid couldn't stop moaning.

Hiccup leaned down and pressed his mouth against hers, his tongue slipping into her mouth and battling with hers.

It was like the wave. Building up and then, finally washing up on shore. For both of them.

Dropping to the bed, they were tired but content.

Round three, complete.

Astrid turned her head towards Hiccup's and looked at him. "Hiccup?"

He looked at her. "Yeah?" He asked and scooted closer to her once they had cooled down a little.

"Thank you. For everything."

"No. I should thank you. You never give up,
M'Lady. You always fight. Thank you. I love you," He said and leaned in, smiling and kissing her softly.

They scooted closer to each other before finally settling down, finding a good spot to sleep in and covering themselves.

"I love you too, Hiccup," Astrid whispered into his chest, pressing a kiss to his chest bone.

They fell asleep, in each other's arms, safe and content.