#tdcmerida

Flynn rand his hands threw his hair. He should have guessed, He should have spent more time with her. He should have done 1000 other things, and what he did do, he should have done better.

"Merida" he turned to her "You're leaving?"

Hiccup had moved out of the circus a while after a fatal accident in which the knights tent was burnt down by a rogue dragon. Inside the accident had been one family and someone far far closer to him - Merida had gone down in the accident. They hadn't ever found a body, just ashes as a remainder of the dragon fire accident. He'd gone the next day, a scribbled note to Douglas saying thank you for everything he'd done for him, before he left in the middle of the night, hotwiring a random car from the town. 

He'd moved three states over, setting up a mundane office job for himself that he couldn't hurt anyone in, and he'd trained Draco relentlessly until he could be sure there would be no issue of fire. He didn't ever allow himself to get close to anyone again.

Even though she was a grown women, Merida was like a child to Elinor, a daughter even. She wanted to come through her messy hair and sing her songs her mother used to sing and have moments that only and mother and her daughter could experience. Sometimes she was stubborn and she did dangerous things that Elinor could do but refused to do because of her being a lady and while she respected Merida and her choices, she feared for the girl. What if she got hurt? Elinor didn’t want to ever think about that! She has held Merida in her arms many times and to lose that….it would be too much.

Henry approached the Masquerade party in his tuxedo and black and gold mask. He searched the crowd of people for Merida, his partner. Henry had a hard time picking faces out of people wearing masks. He did remember that Merida had red hair, so he searched for the red haired people. He tapped someone on the shoulder, hoping it was Merida. "Are you Miss Merida?" Henry waited anxiously for their response.