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“Annabeth, dial two-zero-zero.”

Piper stared out the door, tapping her fingers anxiously against the counter. Working in a retail store, she saw a lot of things. A lot of different kings of people. She’s seen the elderly buying lingerie - which is gross, if you ask her.

But seeing him in a place like this was completely new.

“What’s up, Pipes?”

Piper snatched the phone up, looking towards the fitting room where her best friend was “Change your walkie-talkie to our channel.”

“On it.”

Piper changed the channel on hers to channel, six, the one her and Annabeth decided was their secret channel to talk on. She waited a few seconds until she heard her friends voice “So, what’s going on?”

“You’re never going to believe who was just in here buying jewelry.”

There was a pause before Annabeth sighed “I don’t know, Pipes. Jason?”

“Close. But, no.” Piper smiled at a customer, before staring back towards the back of the store “Percy.”

“Oh! What’s so shocking about him buying jewelry?”

Piper rolled her eyes, grabbing some hangers to at least look busy “The entire school knows that they think he’s dating someone. Or, that he actually likes someone. Buying jewelry, two days before Valentine’s Day, is awfully suspicious. Don’t you think?”

She heard Annabeth sigh into the speaker “Yeah... But, everyone also knows that he adores his mom. It could have been for her.”

“That’s true. But it’s just weird. I don’t think he recognized me when he asked if a girl would like it.”

“Huh.” Piper could only assume that Annabeth was shrugging “I’ll be up there in fifteen. We’ll talk then.”

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“So, you bought some jewelry?”

Percy, who was laying next to Annabeth, raised a pierced eyebrow. He looked shocked, but also nervous like he had been caught doing something. He looked over at her, taking in the way she was looking at him. He sighed.

“How did you know that?”

Annabeth pushed her book away from her, rolling over to throw and arm and leg around him, looking up at her face “Did you not recognize Piper?” he shook his head “Well.. I don’t have anyone to be jealous of, right?”

“You? Be jealous of someone? Yeah right.”

Annabeth frowned, pushing Percy until he was on his back and straddling his waist. Percy didn’t seem too concerned. He rested his hands on her thighs, only raising an eyebrow when she started sticking her hands in his pockets “What are you doing, Annabeth?”

“Looking for it. Where is it? I want to see it.”

He shook his head, reaching up and tangling his hand in her hair “Nope. I don’t think so.”

She tapped her fingers against his chest “Why not? Is it for me?”

Percy shrugged “I wanted to get you something, so I did. Is that a problem?”

Annabeth shook her head fondly at him.

When Annabeth had met Percy Jackson, she hadn’t expected them to actually like each other. They’re two different people. He’s a punk and she’s girly. There's more to Percy than he lets on, and Annabeth is glad he opened up to her.

Sally, his mother, adores her. And that’s something Annabeth loves more than anything about going to the Jackson’s apartment.

The cookies she makes are a plus.

“It’s not a problem. But, you didn’t have to get me anything. We aren’t even exclusive.”

He shrugged, puling her closer to him “So? I like you.”

Astrid was bored. She was bored and lonely and wide awake. Her boyfriend, Hiccup, was visiting his family in another county. Of course, she had been invited, but she hadn’t felt up to going. She loves Val, Stoick, and his little sister, Heather, as much as her own family, but she wanted to stay home instead of being surrounded by people.

She was regretting that decision.

Annabeth and Percy, their two best friends and roommates, were out on their weekly date. Astrid was absolutely alone and bored out of her mind.

She reached over and pulled her phone off the charger, checking the time. Midnight. Hiccup would be awake and away from his family by now. Perfect.

Astrid opened her snapchat app. She knew exactly the way to get tired and not be bored anymore. She took a quick picture of a pouty face, sending it off to Hiccup with the text: I miss you and I’m bored. HELP.

Before he could reply or even open it, she was adjusting her shirt and making sure to get as much cleavage as possible in the next picture.

Her and Hiccup don’t do things like this often. They’ve done it once or twice before when he was on a family vacation. He’d been all for it then, and she’s sure he’d be down for it now.

I know how you can help me, though.

She rested her phone on her stomach, tapping her fingers nervously against it. The thought that the snapchat team could possibly see the pictures always made her nervous. They couldn’t see them, could they? That’s… Nerve-wracking.

Her phone made a noise and she picked it up to check it. She was hoping it would be Hiccup’s name she saw, but instead it was Percy’s. She groaned, rolling her eyes. He’s probably about to rub it in her face that he’s out with his girlfriend while her boyfriend is hours away.  

Percy isn’t that mean.

She opened the snap, taking in the picture he had sent her of Annabeth laughing. It was the words that made her freeze up, though.

We’re sure Hiccup would appreciate that.

The second snap was a picture of the two of them We miss you, too, by the way. with three of the laugh/crying emoji. 

Oh no. Oh Gods no.

They’re never going to let her live this down. They’re going to use this as blackmail for the rest of her life. She can see it now. Astrid is more than grateful that she had decided to leave her clothes on unlike her original plan.

She was mortified. 

Astrid pulled up her messaging app, quickly typing Percy and Annabeth’s names in and typing out a message. 

I AM SO SORRY. PLEASE DON’T TELL HICCUP.

Annabeth was the first to reply: Too late. 

Astrid threw her phone down, before covering her face with her hands and groaning. This is the worst thing that has ever happened to her. It could have been worse if she had gone with her original plan, but this is still pretty bad. At least she was somewhat smart about this. 

She hates both her friends, though.

Her phone chimed, signaling another text. Picking it up and frowning at the text from Hiccup So.. Trying to sext my friend?

Shut up, Hiccup.

No, no. I wanna know. She could almost hear how smug he was being But, why Percy? I would have been more than happy to help you out.

I’m going to strangle you. Astrid sighed, giving in and trying to explain as best as she could I was bored and I missed you. I thought we could have some FUN, but you and Percy were the first two in my recent on snapchat and I guess I just slipped up and hit Percy’s name instead of yours. IT WAS A MISTAKE. I’M SORRY.

Her mood was gone. All she wanted to do was curl up in bed and sleep. She could only hope that Percy and Annabeth would forget about this in the morning.

That wasn’t likely.

It could have been a lot worse, milady. Percy and Annabeth just laughed about it. No harm done. I, on the other hand, can’t believe I missed out.

I can’t wait for you to come home, then.

No one thought the two would last.

He’s in college. She’s in high school. He loves dragons. She loves sports. He’s nerdy. She’s athletic.

But they somehow made it work. She was able to put up with his odd obsession with dragons, and he went to every Soccer game of hers.

They love each other despite being complete opposites.

Hiccup’s parents approve of and love her like one of their own. Astrid’s parents thought he was bad for their little girl, but eventually came around to the idea after they’d been dating for over a year.

The Hofferson’s opinion could quickly change in just a few days once they find out that the dragon loving boy got their star athlete daughter pregnant.

It was the weekend that Hiccup moved into his first apartment. Astrid had been helping him move his stuff in, and the couple decided to break in the bed. One incident led to another. Broken condom, Astrid not taking her pill, and now pregnancy. 

Her parents are going to kill him.

Astrid had told Hiccup as soon as she found out. She was panicking and didn’t know who else she could tell. She wasn’t about to tell her family or Hiccup’s. Might as well just tell the boyfriend. That’s what she’s suppose to do, right? He had no know before anyone else. It was only right. 

He hadn’t said much when she told him. They had been on the phone when she told him, having one of their late night talks, and Astrid just blurted it out. 

“Babe? Say something.”

It was quiet for a few more minutes before Hiccup finally spoke “I... You’re still in high school, Astrid.”

“I’m a senior. The year is almost over.”

She could hear him taking deep breaths. He was panicking. She knew that without having to even see him. What did he mean by she was still in high school? Of course she knows she is. She goes every single day. 

Then a thought hit her. What if he doesn’t want her to have the baby? There was no way she was going to... She couldn’t even think about it. There’s no way Hiccup - sweet and caring Hiccup - would ever tell her to do something like that. He’s just thinking about her reputation. 

And she honestly doesn’t care about her reputation. 

“I’m happy, don’t get me wrong. I am. I’m just... Worried about you. Not because I don’t think you couldn’t do it, because I know you can. But because you play soccer.. What are you going to do?”

Oh. Right. She almost forgot that she plays soccer. What is she going to do? Can she still play? She can’t be more than 4 weeks along. How would she explain to her parents that she’s quitting soccer?

How is she going to explain it to her parents in general? 

“Gods, how am I going to tell my parents? Or yours for that matter?”

Hiccup sighed and she could hear the sound of keys being moved “I’m coming to get you. I’m going to take you out to eat, and.. And we’ll figure out how to tell our parents. Sound good?”

Astrid smiled. She had gotten lucky. Hiccup was the dream guy. He never did anything that she didn’t want him to, and he was always there when she needed him. Sure, they go to two different schools and are in two different grades, but they love each other and are completely loyal to each other.

Astrid knows full well that there are girls out there that want him, but she also knows that he wouldn’t dare look at another girl. He’s a one women type of man. 

Ruffnut complains about it often. That Astrid got lucky finding a good guy who would never do anything to hurt her. 

Astrid has no problem showing Hiccup off.

Astrid had known since she started dating Hiccup that there was something different about him. He would act weird anytime someone called him. He never let her talk to his mom which was extremely weird to her. Sure, his mom didn’t live with him, but what’s so bad that she can’t meet her?

Stoick would always stop some of his sentences when Astrid walked into a room. What’s going on with that? 

What could he be hiding from her?

Astrid questioned him daily about it. They’d been dating for six months and he would always somehow change the subject.

“I don’t know what you mean, Milady.”

“You must be imagining things. Why would I hide anything from you?”

“Come on, Astrid. Do you really think I’d keep things from you?”

Does he not know who he’s dating? Astrid will find out what he’s hiding whether he likes it or not. He can’t date Astrid Hofferson and expect to hide something that makes even his dad act weird around her. To make it where she can’t even meet his mother. And that disappoints her! She wants to meet his mom. There’s just something... Weird about not meeting the one person who he talks to everyday.

There’s rare moments where he will leave her alone in his room. Why is she not allowed in his room alone? He has to be keeping something from her.

It was one of those rare days that she was in his room alone. They had just gotten back from school, they were tired, and they wanted to nap. Astrid had woke up and he wasn’t there anymore, and she didn’t mind much. His bed was comfortable and warm, and when she wiggled her toes they would tangle in Toothless’ fur. That’s something she isn’t use to at all.

Astrid peeked her eyes open when she heard Toothless chewing on something. She furrowed her brows, propping herself up on an elbow “What are you chewing on?”

Toothless turned his head, a piece of paper hanging out of his mouth. Astrid frowned, watching the dog as he crawled his way up the bed to lay next to her. She snorted, shaking her head and reaching for the paper “Hiccup would hate it if he knew you were eating paper again.”

Toothless only rested his head in her lap, looking up at her with innocent eyes.

“What is this?” she tilted her head, opening the piece of paper that was now covered in dog slobber and holes. She frowned again, bringing the paper closer to her face “Is this a letter? Who is he writing a letter to?”

She moved to get up before freezing to listen for the sound of his prosthetic. When she heard nothing, she stood looking at Toothless “I know you can find more. Tell me who he’s writing to. Does he have more?”

Toothless panted happily, standing and jumping off the bed towards the closet. Astrid watched as the dog went towards the corner of the closet and she scoffed. Hiding things in the closet? So original. Toothless walked back towards her, a stack of papers hanging out of his mouth.

“Dear Thor, who all does this guy talk to?”

She reached forward, forcing the papers out of the dogs mouth. She sat on his bed, looking through the papers one by one. Her bows were furrowed and the frown plastered on her face wasn’t going away anytime soon.

“Fanmail? What does he do, Toothless?”

That was when she noticed who each and every letter was addressed to. Night Fury. The. Night. Fury. 

Is her boyfriend some famous singer? In disguise? Astrid loves that guy! She’s heard Hiccup sing... She thinks? She would have placed the voice. Then again, Night Fury always wears a mask. Maybe that could distort the voice? She wouldn’t know. Hiccup has always seemed like such a normal guy. He goes to school, has friends, she never sees paparazzi. 

“This is some Hannah Montana shit, Toothless.” 

The sound of Hiccup’s prosthetic caught her attention. She should just drop the papers, let his secret stay just that.. A secret. She should hide them. Let Toothless eat them.. But how dare he keep such a huge secret from her?

The door pushed open and Hiccup smiled at her “Milady! You’re awake. What are you looking at?”

He had two cups of something in his hands, and he looked happy to see her awake. That was until his eyes went to the papers in her hands. His smile fell and he set the cups down  on his dresser “What are those?”

Astrid forced a smile, shrugging and laying them next to her “Just some letters Toothless was chewing on.”

“Letters?”

Astrid could see the nerves all over his face. He smiled, but even she could tell it was forced “Yeah, babe. Letters. To Night Fury. Do you have something you want to tell me?”

He ran his hand through his hair, shaking his head slowly “No. No no. You weren’t supposed to find out this way.”

“Find out what? That you’re a singer? That it’s the big secret you’ve been keeping from me? Why didn’t you just tell me?”

Hiccup groaned, falling to the bed and sitting next to her. He reached over, picking up one of the letters and skimming it over before sighing “I wanted a normal life. I didn’t want you to date me just because I have this famous secret life.”

Astrid scoffed, frowning at him “I’m dating you because you’re you. I love Night Fury, you know that. But I also love you.” she took the letters from his hands, staring down at them “I wish you had just told me. This is huge, babe.”

“I just told you. I trust you with everything, Astrid. I just had to be one-hundred percent sure you weren’t in it for all that.”

Astrid shook her head, reaching over and running her hand through his hair “I’m in it for you. You should know by now.”

“I do. Do you really think I’m so careless to leave the letters lying around for you to find?”

Astrid scoffed, pulling her hand away “So I was supposed to find out that way?”

“To test your reaction, mostly. You didn’t take it as bad as I thought so..” he shrugged, giving her a smile “At least you’ll finally get to meet my mom.”

Hiccup didn’t belong in a place like this.

The music was loud, the place was crowded, and most the girls were half naked - his girlfriend included. 

He was a mechanic. How did he even meet a girl that goes to Raves? Her car was “making weird sounds” and she brought it to Gobber’s garage where he works. You could say he had a crush on her from the moment he saw her. He just got lucky enough to be able to actually date her. 

Astrid was wearing one of those light up bra’s that she said would be “too sexy for him to handle”, and shorts that barely covered her. He honestly had no problem with it.. Until he noticed how all all the guys were looking at her.

Yes, she’s beautiful. And a beautiful girl wearing almost nothing is always something pretty great to see, but when said beautiful girl is your girlfriend, you wouldn’t appreciate all the looks she was getting.  

“It’s okay, babe. I won’t leave your side.”

“That’s reassuring.”

Astrid and Hiccup had their hands clasped together as they pushed their way through the crowd.

“You’ll have fun! I promise!” Astrid said as they stopped in the middle of the crowd. She bent down, picking up a handful of the glow sticks that had fallen to the ground “Give me your wrist!” 

Hiccup could already tell tell that his throat would be soar tomorrow. He could barely hear himself think in this place. How does Astrid do this every weekend?

“Are the glowsticks just for the hell of it?” he asked, leaning down to press his lips to her ear so she would be able to hear him, and he wouldn’t have to shout.

Astrid smiled, shaking her wrist that was decked out in glow sticks “Pretty much… Just, let loose a little, babe!” 

She spun around, pressing her back to his chest. She reached behind her, grabbing his hands and wrapping them around her waist.

Hiccup was just getting in to it. To the feeling of Astrid grinding against him. When a man with black hair and bulging arm muscles came up to the couple, a smile on his face “Astrid! You brought the boyfriend this time!”

Astrid smiled over her shoulder at Hiccup, but she didn’t stop moving her hips. Hiccup didn’t mind it one bit. Astrid reached behind her, lacing her fingers behind Hiccup’s neck “Yeah, I did! Eret, this is Hiccup!” Eret looked over at Hiccup, giving him a nod “Is Heather here?” 

Eret nodded at her “Yeah! I’ll go find her!” 

Hiccup leaned down, resting his chin on her shoulder “So, Eret, huh?” 

Astrid turned, hooking her arms around his neck again and standing on her toes to press a kiss to his lips. She pressed her forehead to his “I’m usually dancing with Heather! Eret is her boyfriend!”

Hiccup raised an eyebrow “Like.. Dancing how you were dancing with me?”

Astrid smirked, nodding her head “Just keep in mind you’re the only guy I would ever dance like that with! Heather is just… I’ve danced with Heather since we started coming here!” he looked shocked and a little more surprised than before “Is that wrong?” 

“Oh Gods, no!” he pulled Astrid closer to him, his hands going to the small of her back “Heather is okay. That’s most definitely allowed. You can dance with Heather like that all you want.”

She smiled, pulling away from him but keeping her arms around his shoulders. She only looked away from him when she heard her name being called. That smile Hiccup loved spread across her face as she let go of him to embrace her friend “Heather!” Astrid kept her arms around her friends waist as she motioned towards Hiccup “Babe, this is Heather! Heather, this is the boyfriend I’ve told you about!”

Heather let go of Astrid, rushing forward and wrapping her arms around Hiccup’s neck. He hesitated. This girl, Heather, was wearing almost the same thing as Astrid - nothing. It made him nervous. It took him a month just to be able to touch his own girlfriend like this “Oh my Gods! It’s so good to finally meet you! Astrid talks a lot about you!” 

Astrid stepped up behind Heather, her arms going around her friends waist. Hiccup watched as Heather stood up straight, looking at Astrid over her shoulder before grinding back against her. 

“Okay, but, we need this for Cammie.” 

Hiccup took the item from Astrid. Baby lotion. He shook his head “She doesn’t need it. She doesn’t need to be anymore spoiled than she already is.” 

Astrid rolled her eyes, taking the bottle from his hand and setting it in the cart “She is spoiled, but you never know when it’s going to come in handy. She could like.. Break out or something, and we wouldn’t be prepared, but now we are!”

Cammie clapped her hands together, squealing. Astrid smiled down at her before looking back over at Hiccup “See? She thinks she needs it.”

Hiccup pushed Astrid’s hands away from the cart “We came here to actually shop for us. We’re out of food.”

Astrid let out a sigh. Hiccup was right, as always. Camden Haddock was only four months old, and they spent all their extra money on her. Not that they ever meant to. Camden just ran out of food and diapers quicker than they expected.

So it was no surprise when one of the parents would go to feed themselves and find that there was no food in the fridge or cabinet for them.

“What do you want for dinner?”

“What do you feel up to making?”

Astrid rolled her eyes, reaching towards some of the canned soups “Something easy, preferably. Like.. Something in a can. How about some time of soup?”

Hiccup shrugged, leaning his elbows against the handle of the cart and letting Camden pull at his hair while he talked to his wife “Soup sounds nice and easy for tonight. But we need foods for the rest of the week.”

Astrid nodded, throwing some cans of soup into the cart. She looked around the store before pointing in the direction of the meat department “We’ll get some ground beef, and we’ll have spaghetti tomorrow.” 

Hiccup smiled as Astrid went on about things they absolutely need, and things they should get. Food, neccesitites, and they had both decided to throw a few things in the basket here and there for Camden.

Astrid tilted her head, looking into the basket as they were heading towards the check out “Do you think we got enough?”

“Hiccup Haddock.”

Hiccup spun around on his skates so he was facing the person who was talking to him. Of course, he knew he was going to be seeing people he knows at the place. It’s a public skating rink, and, it’s school night. Being one of the teachers at Berk Middle School, he had to be here. 

Although, he didn’t know any of his students parents, and none of them ever called him by his nickname from high school. 

“Ruffnut Thorston.” gave her a smile, turning back around and skating next to her “I wasn’t expecting to see you here.”

Ruffnut shrugged, looking around the place for the girl she knew would be here if Hiccup was “It’s Harrison now. Riley insisted that I come to this skate night thing. She said her teacher was too good looking, and that I needed to meet you. She said Haddock and I already knew who you were. Is Astrid here?” 

Riley Harrison. She was good friends with Hiccup’s oldest daughter, Camden. He knew Riley well “That explains a lot about Riley. Who’s the lucky guy that got to marry you? And yes. She’s right over there with Cammie and Dylan.” he said, pointing to one of the tables in the food court.

“Mr. Haddock! Come skate with us!” 

Ruffnut gave him a smile, skating towards the food court to see her old friend “Eret. I won’t keep you from your students.”

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“Milady! Come skate. You can’t sit here the entire time.”

Astrid looked away from Ruffnut and turned to Hiccup with a smile “I can’t just leave Dylan. He doesn’t know how to skate yet!”

Ruffnut reached forward, taking Dylan from Astrid and standing “I’ll watch him. Hiccup probably needs saving from all the little middle schoolers, mine included.” Ruffnut started skating towards the game counter, talking to Dylan “We’ll get you one of those trainers and get you out there skating.”

Astrid took Hiccup’s’ hand, letting him lead her to the rink “I haven’t been skating since high school. I might fall.”

Hiccup smiled, turning to skate backwards and face her “And I’ll catch you. Don’t worry.”

Astrid stared down at his feet and frowned, reaching forward to take his hands “How do you do that? Teach me.”

Hiccup shrugged, spinning them so Astrid was now the one skating backwards “I honestly don’t know. It just kind of… Happens for me, I guess.”

Astrid looked over Hiccup’s shoulder at a group of the middle schoolers that were watching them. She raised an eyebrow when one got pushed forward and slowly made their way over to them “Mr. Haddock?”

Hiccup looked away from Astrid and down at the kid, that smile still on his face “Yeah?” 

“Is this that wife that you’re always talking about?”

Hiccup nodded “Yeah, this is Astrid.”

The kid motioned for Hiccup to lean down. He shot a look to Astrid before leaning down. The kid kept her eyes on Astrid while she cupped her mouth “She’s really pretty.”

He nodded again, making eye contact with Astrid “I know she is. Thanks.”

The girl nodded, sending a wave to Astrid before turning and skating back towards her friends.

Astrid tilted her head, letting Hiccup pull her closer “What was that about?”

“A student of mine letting me know that you’re pretty.”

Astrid smiled at him, leaning forward and pecking his lips. The group of students behind him let out some “awes” before she pulled away, and made herself start skating forward.