Posted originally on the Archive_of_Our_Own at https://archiveofourown.org/ works/6663022. Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: Graphic_Depictions_Of_Violence, Underage Category: M/M Fandom: How_to_Train_Your_Dragon_(Movies), /series Relationship: Hiccup_Horrendous_Haddock_III/Toothless, toothcup_-_Relationship Character: Hiccup_Horrendous_Haddock_III, Toothless_(How_to_Train_Your_Dragon), Mildew_(How_to_Train_Your_Dragon), Mulch_(How_to_Train_Your_Dragon), Bucket_(How_to_Train_Your_Dragon) Stats: Published: 2016-04-26 Completed: 2016-05-03 Chapters: 7/7 Words: 8190 ****** not alone ****** by Story_Writer Summary hiccup, a boy of 16, runs away when almost forced into slavery. now, he has been captured by a dragon... and not just any dragon, a night fury. what could possibly happen to him? lets find out Notes plz be nice, i'm new at writing. hope you enjoy ***** Chapter 1 ***** Chapter Notes I don't own any characters, unless I state something saying other wise. I may make up he characters, but ATM I own none. Also, I wrote this story with inspiration from shamise. I based it off of her shadow gryphon story, cause I loved it though she/he never finished it -sad face- hiccup ran, fast, away from the curses and threats. his once friends/villagers chased him through the thick underbrush. for once in his miserable life, he was glad for his small figure. It allowed him to pass through the brush faster. But it wouldn’t last long, he’d already been running for what felt like hours, and he was very tired. He had to make it away fast. Lucky for him, he knew this forest. While most kids were apprenticed to someone, he was able to keep in the woods. That’s not to say he didn’t have some trade practice, his one and only friend (though he knew even he didn’t care much for him.) gobber taught him to use the forge and all, and he enjoyed it. But he liked inventing more, though it caused some problems for the villagers. So now here he was running from them, because the crops were bad this year, and he just happened to be an orphan, not officially an apprentice. He was the perfect target for slavery, to be sold for food, though he doubted he could get that much. Unless they needed a punching bag or something like that. So, running from his friends, he made his way to the one place no one dared venture into, for fear of being obliterated. But he didn’t hold that fear. Did he fear death? Sure, just like any sane person would. But he didn’t let it control him to much. If he died, he reasoned, he’d finally be with his parents. But death by the creatures into the valley of the dragons. He didn’t fear. He was more than able to avoid the big dragons, and the small dragons even he could handle. There were 4 main dragon’s that people usually saw, unless you were unlucky. The smallest of them was the terrible terror. About as high as a knee, probably smaller. It wasn’t very strong, but it was quick. And the fire didn’t hurt as much as sing clothes/skin. Then there was the gronkle, pretty much a walking boulder. It spewed lava, but it was slow, and not very hostile, not usually anyway. And it’s tail was just one big glorified bludgeon. Then the nadder. Very fast, very dangerous. But not to bright. It was easily confused. And easily distracted. Then there were the monstrous nightmares. The biggest of them all, it was big and dangerous, and while not as fast or as nimble as a nadder, it was still fast enough. Fast enough to catch its prey. It had a weird habit of lighting itself on fire. Then, a 5th one, if you were incredibly unlucky. The night fury. Fast, dark scaled, and powerful. It was the unholy offspring of lightning and death itself. Though it rarely interacted with people, or other dragons for that matter, when it did it was over. For dragon and human alike. So, as long as he had some luck, he should be able to avoid the majority of the dragons. And he knew that most villagers won't go into those lands. ‘Just a little farther’ he thought, hearing the curses again. Finally the trees gave way to rock formations. He was quick to start climbing. He cast a quick glance back, seeing the villagers break through the brush. ‘go faster!’ he thought frantically. A rock broke on his hand, and he screamed as he fell down, fast and hard, and hit the ground with a thud, the breath knocked out of him. He was stunned for a moment, then he felt arms grab him, and he knew it was over, he’d be sold. ‘So…. so damn close’ he thought. He was tied and thrown over the shoulder of a very unhappy mulch. They were about to head back when the villagers realized something… “Where the hell are we?” mulch said grumpily. Apparently, they hadn’t marked where they came from. I smirked small, a small victory. The villagers argued over where to go to head back. Bucket, mulches friend, suggested they go up higher to see out over the trees. With that, they headed farther up, and found a clearing they could see out over. Hiccup was thrown, rather harshly, onto the ground. The villagers, which included mulch, bucket, mildew, and 3 other villagers that he didn’t care enough to remember their names. All he did was glance around at the mountains and trees, taking it all in. knowing he wouldn’t see this in while, if ever. A shadow went unnoticed over him, but hiccup was drawn from his thoughts by a high pitched whistle. Then, a screech. Then, shortly after a blast hitting the ground in between him and the villagers. Hiccup covered his eyes as best he could in his tied up state. When the smoke and dust cleared, there was a crater, maybe 1 foot deep and 5 wide. Hiccup froze when he heard scraping on the stone over head. He didn’t dare move, but he could tell from the freaked out faces on the villagers in front of him, it wasn’t good. He felt whatever was behind him start to move, and ever so slowly he turned his head up. And he froze again at what he saw, knowing one wrong move could end him. Because, right there on the rock surface, was a night fury. But, thankfully, it’s attention was on the other men. The dragon jumped down in front of hiccup, and growled at the men. Hiccup tried to move, but the rope dug sharply into his wrist and he whimpered in pain. Almost instantly, the night fury had hiccup pinned against the rock with his forest green eyes. The creature seemed to take in hiccup for a moment at least. Then it looked to the ropes on him, then probably deciding he wasn’t important, turnt back to the others. The villagers were talking quickly and rushed, saying they were sorry for trespassing, trying to get away. Then, mildew, remembered why they came. He stopped the others, and pointed to hiccup. Then he slowly walked to hiccup. The dragon hissed, but mildew didn’t stop. He just slowed. Hiccup struggled as much as he could, but mildew was quick to smack him across the head with his staff. The hiss of pain was followed by a scream. Hiccup was dropped on the ground, and after the dazed feeling went away he looked up to see the dragon on top of mildew, blood on his maw, Mildew dead at his feet. Hiccup was quick to back away. Why had the dragon done that? Was all hiccup could think before the dragon was in front of him as if…. Protecting him? no , that was absurd. The villagers tried to get to hiccup, a dumb move really. The dragon whipped his tail around and sent them all flying back. The dragon was in from of hiccups still form, looking at him with calm eyes. The dragon sat back on its haunches and picked hiccup up, before hiccup could even scream, they were in the air. Hiccup was to surprised to struggle, and for some reason found he couldn’t. The will to struggle just… wasn’t there. His eyes were heavy, and the strong feeling to sleep was there. He fought it, but it won out in the end. The last thing he saw was the dragon looking at him, then sleep overcame him. The dragon just looked at the boy for a while, so small, so fragile. He didn’t know why, but he saved this boy, and he’d continue to protect him. He didn’t understand it, but the feeling to protect this boy overpowered him, but it wasn’t unwelcomed it felt… right to have the child there. With that, the dragon flew silent, to where he could protect this young human. ***** Chapter 2 ***** Chapter Summary I'm sorry its short, I try my best to write longer chapters. Hiccup woke slowly. He didn't quite remember everything that happened. But then it all came back to him. The villagers were the first thing he remembered. Then, he remembered the dragon, which made him jolt up. He looked around the room, not knowing where he was. The room was large. It was dim , the only light coming from coals in a fire place. The bed he was laying on was soft, and much to large for him. The rest of the room was taken up by a dresser, wardrobe, and 2 chairs by the fire place. He slowly got out of bed. He didn't want to be here when the dragon came back. Though he couldn't understand why in Odin's name the dragon needed this stuff... Or why he was still alive. He wondered around the room, and felt like an idiot when he found a door. It was a LARGE door. It took him a moment to open it. When he did, it opened to a dark hallway. Hiccup contemplated going down for a moment, then when he remembered mildews body, ripped apart by that dragon, he didn't want the same fate. So with a deep breathe to steel his nerves, he went into the darkness. He walked for an hour, which felt like more. He could feel eyes on him. He looked over his shoulder, and saw, much to his displeasure, a pair of green eyes. The next thing he knew, he was on the ground, holding his head. He had run into a wall. He looked back up at the creature. Terrified, yes, but, more than anything, curious. Though he couldn't see anything. There was a blast from the dragon. Then light. The dragon had shot a rock. With that, hiccup could see the dragon. The dragons body wasn't very large, perhaps twice as big as hiccup. It was a deep black color. The dragon had 3 sets of wings. The biggest set, was 3 times bigger than the dragons own body. The second set was right behind the first, each about as big as the dragons head. The last set, at the edge of the tail. The wings were about as large as the dragons leg. All in all, it was a beautiful creature. Hiccup knew the chances of him being killed right now were high, but he was glad he got to see a night fury up close. The dragon didn't attack though, it just stared at hiccup with green eyes, studying him. The dragon stared at hiccup for a long time, hiccup stared back. He feared if he did something wrong, he'd be killed. The dragon cocked its head to the side. 'I will not hurt you, little one' hiccup looked around, thinking someone might've come in here. But no, slowly hiccup turned to the dragon again. Realization dawning upon him. "T-that was you who just said that, right?" Hiccup asked. That same voice, deep but smooth, spoke again. 'Who else?' It questioned. Hiccup went wide eyed. "So.. What happens now? You brought me here, you must have a reason." Hiccup said, trying his best not to be rude. 'I brought you here, young one, for a couple reasons. The first, simply being, was I felt an odd instinct to protect you. I did not, and still don't, fully understand what it is. The second reason was that you were hurt, and obviously scared of those older human beings. So, I took you from them. The dragon said, and hiccup just stared. He took a minute to prossess that. When he did, he almost cried. "Thank you. Thankyou so much" he said, slowly getting up. "I... I don't know what else to say. Thank you." The dragon seemed to smile "so...that means you're not going to eat me right?" Hiccup asked. He hopedmit was a no, but didn't want to kid himself. 'Of course not' the dragon said, almost undignified, 'humans give me heart burn, and there not worth the trouble to hunt.' Hiccup just smiled. "Um... Is there something I should call you? I don't want to have to call you dragon all the time... My name is hiccup, by the way." Hiccup said still smiling. 'My name, is toothless, human.' The dragon, now toothless, said. Hiccup frowned in confusion. "How can you be toothless? You have to have teeth, you ripped mildew apart..." Hiccup question. He didn't particularly care mildew was gone, he was one of the crueler people. Toothless just smiled, a gummy one. Then, teeth were there in a second. 'My kind have the ability to hide our teeth, to trick our enemies into false security.' Toothless stated. Hiccup nodded his understanding. "So what happens now?" Hiccup asked. He was eternally grateful to toothless for saving his life, but he didn't know what was to happen now.... Toothless just shook his head 'you may stay here as long as you like, hiccup, I quite enjoy talking with you. Hiccup just stared again. This time, the tears did fall, all of the emotions he had pent up just came out. He.. He couldn't believe it. He launched forward, and hugged toothless. "Thank you, toothless. Thank you." Toothless was surprised, but didn't push hiccup away. All toothless did was sit there, letting the human cry it out. ***** Chapter 3 ***** Chapter Summary Sorry that the last chapter was short, and for lack of a better word, sporadic? Idk I have a bad vocabulary. Anyway, I'll do my absolute best to tie up any questions that mightve been caused from the previous chapter. I'll try to make it longer, this time also. Chapter Notes Enjoy the chapter! See the end of the chapter for more notes Hiccup slowly stopped crying, toothless had sat there, letting this human let loose his emotions. He could feel that he had much more bottled up. Slowly, hiccups cries turned into small hiccups. He backed away from toothless, who just stared at him with surprisingly soft eyes, for a dragon that is. Hiccup still didn't know what to think. He knew he shouldn't of been instantly happy about this, he slapped himself mentally. The dragon, er toothless he corrected himself, might've offered him sanctuary, but it was most likely a trick. No one did anything for nothing. And hiccup refused to let himself be tricked into false security again. So, he waited for toothless to move first. He still didn't know what to do... This whole thing was very strange. Toothless got up and moved to a door, and stopped to look at hiccup. 'Are you coming, little one?' Hiccup walked over to toothless, huffing indignitly. "I'm not little" he mumbled, which caused toothless to chuckle. Out loud, and through his mind. 'To me you are, not to mention you are smaller than most humans that have come onto my land.' Toothless said, still obviously amused, he started walking with hiccup following by his side. "So..." Hiccup began slowly. He had so many questions, why save him? Why kill mildew for him? Where were they at the moment? How and what was this mind talking thing??? He figured he'd start with the mind reading question, it seemed like it would be the easiest to get an answer on."what- how do you talk to me in my head?" Hiccup asked, and toothless seemed to shrug. 'It is something all dragons can do, though with varying results of success. We are creatures of magic, though obviously some of us have easier time accessing it than others. I believe that humans are able to speak with their minds, thought does take a lot of practice' hiccup nodded, yeah some humans in his village could do that, mainly the village elder, and sorcerer, though she was very recorded on who she spoke to. 'But that is not all you wish to ask me, is it?' Toothless said, gently but knowingly. Hiccup sighed, "I... I just want to know why? I guess? I don't know." Hiccup was so confused, he wanted answers but he didn't know what questions to ask. 'Well... As to why, to be frank I did not come to save you, I had seen you on my land before but didn't think much of you, you didn't seem like a threat, so I didn't pay you much mind' toothless stated, and hiccup nodded, he'd been told that before. 'But, I felt a presence of many humans on my land, so I decided to make sure it wasn't and attack on my land, but then I saw you being taken by those men, and i felt an urge that you shouldn't be taken by the , so I helped. Then, the only way to make sure you wouldn't be taken by them, was to take you with me.' Toothless finished, and hiccup just listened, not knowing how to react. Alright... I don't know if that answers any questions, but I am enternaly grateful. I am in your debt." Hiccup said, slowly. He didn't want to be a slave, but he was not one to ignore a debt he owed. Toothless just chuckled as they entered a big room, the roof unseen by hiccup. There were 2 sets of doors, toothless went to the ones on the rights. He pushed them open, and hiccup was momentarily blinded by the sunlight, but it felt good on his skin. The for had opened onto a cliff, the view was breathe taking. Hiccup stared in awe, in the back of his mind noting his home town, Berk, was no where to be seen, and was the curious as where they were. But didn't care to ask. Toothless crouched down on four legs, and looked at hiccup expectantly. Hiccup just stared back, wondering what he was supposed to do. 'Get on, little one' toothless said slowly, and hiccups eyes widened, and he almost listened without hesitating. But then decided to question: "why" 'Toothless just sighed, 'because you cannot fly, and I'm sure you want toxtumble down the cliff to get to where we are going' he said, patiently. Hiccup was hesitant but slowly climbed on. He rested on the spot right in front of the first set of wings. It took a moment, but he was able to relax. For a moment. Without warning, toothless unfolded his wings, and kept into the sky, before flapping twice and evening out. Hiccups heart raced fast, and he panted hard. "T-toothless, you bastard!" He said, over the wind. Toothless just laugh. Soon, hiccups heart stopped hammering. And he was able to enjoy the view. It was more beautiful than the cliff. It was a new perspective on earth, and he loved it. Unknown to hiccup, toothless could hear his thoughts, as easy as talking to the boy, and smiled subconsciously, glad that hiccup was enjoying it. They flew for 10 minutes before toothless started his decent, slowly. Hiccup was laid out on toothless, relaxed, and not even realising the decent to earth, or more specifically a medium sized cove. Hiccup relaxed his hold on toothless, and realised to late they were by a pool of water. He realised it though when he was dropped in. He splashed for a second, before resurfacing, spluttering, "toothless what the fu-" but he cut himself off when he realised toothless wasn't there. Hiccup wasn't particularly worried,but he still looked around. Then there was a splash behind him, and he was under water again, and this time when hensurfaced, he turned to face a very pleased looking toothless. "Why'd you drop me in the water?" Hiccup questioned, trying not to be upset. 'Because, you real of the most upsetting things. Such as sweat, grime, so icfigured you could use a bath' toothless said, smiling his dragon smile. Hiccup huffed, but didn't deny it. His village didn't have a surplus of fresh water, so baths were a occasional thing. But that didn't mean hiccup couldn't try and get back at toothless for throwing him in. Hiccup lunged forward, and was able to get his arms around toothless neck, but dragging him under was another story. Toothless sat there as the human tried to pulled him under. Toothless laughed and fell forward, making hiccup squeak in surprise as he was forced under water again. He and toothless surfaced, the hiccup groaned as a thoughtnoccured to him "uhhh now my clothes are all wet, and i dont have anything to change into." Hiccuped huffed out, walking out of the water, taking his shirt off to ring out. Toothless got out to, shaking and spraying even more water onto hiccup. Hiccup huffed in annoyance, but his good mood wasn't put down. He put his now damp shirt on. He'd have to dry himself off, but he was not stripping in front of toothless. Toothless seemed to since hiccups discomfort. 'I do have clothes for you to change into back at the den, but they may be a bit big....' Toothless said, and hiccup was gratefull, he didn't want to have to stay in wet clothes foreve- wait a minute. "Are you calling me short?" Hiccup asked, kind of upset Toothless chuckled, 'no, not at all' "Then why are you laughing?" Hiccup questioned, though he couldn't hide his own smirk. Toothless just continued to laugh, causing hiccup to huff, he did chuckle as well. "No one calls me short" hiccup said, thought with humor in his voice. He chase after the dragon, who had begum to back away. 'To slow hiccup, to slow' toothless mocked lightly while staying out of reach. Hiccup ran, trying to catch the playfully dragon, wet clothes not bothering him to much (An hour or so later) Hiccup had lost sight of toothless. He was kind of sure the dragon wasn't to far away, and he didn't want to ask for help but... It was getting dark, and he was chafing in the worst of areas. "Toothless?" He called out, but didn't get and answer "TOOTHLESS!!" He tried again, once more, louder this time. He didn't hear anything for a moment, then a Rusling above head made him look up. And he regretted it. "Ahhh" hiccup screamed, rolling out of the way as a harder fell in front of him. It stared at him, and hiccup just stared, horrified. This creature had a wild look in its eyes. The harder was quick to attack. It snapped its teeth at hiccup, who was just able to move in time. Hiccup ran, scared as hell. "TOOTHLESS!!!!" Hiccup shouted as loud as he could. The response was next to instant. 'Hiccup!' He heard toothless shout, though he was more focused on avoiding the teeth and spikes the dragon launched at him. Hiccup pick up a log, bigger than he was, and spun around breaking it on the dragon. Though it did send it stumbling, it recovered quickly, and the look was of rage now. Hiccup backed up, right into a tree. The harder took full operatunity, launching spikes. Hiccup avoided most of them, but one hit him in the shoulder, pinning him to the tree. "Ahhhh!" Hiccup screamed in pain, the nadder prepared for a final strike. Hiccup didn't look away. As the dragon was about to finish it, a form shot from the sky and struck the harder in the side. Hiccup stared, though he couldn't for long. The pain made him wince and close his eyes. When he opened them, toothless was already done with the other dragon. It was ripped open, and if hiccup had anything in his stomach, he would've vomited. Toothless approached him slowly, and carefully took the shot out of his arm. Once the Nasser's shot was out, hiccup fell to his knees, sobbing from fear, pain, and a little anger. "Why... Why do you leave me alone?!? I... I could've been killed!" Hiccup cried out, and though he was mad, scared, and in pain, he still collapsed against toothlesses chest,it offering the smallest comfort. Toothless let the human cry it out, he knew he was at fault. Finally, hiccup passed out from the pain and other emotion toothless could fell coming off the human. He sighed as his form started to change. He carefuly carried hiccup back to his den, he wouldn't let his human e hurt like that again. Chapter End Notes Review, I welcome every single helpful comment, I know I'm not the best, so help me plz. Also, I'm sorry for any and all grammar/big- ashell-fuckup-moments I am using a tablet to type this, it goes as well as one might expect. ***** Chapter 4 ***** Chapter Notes See the end of the chapter for notes Hiccup woke up slowly, the first thing registering was a sore throb in his arm. He remembered the previous day, and instantly felt bad for yelling at toothless. Not only had he saved him, twice, but he had been kinder to hiccup than anyone in his life... Even his own father. He also comforted him as well. And hiccup, for the life of him, wanted to know why. Why did he put up with hiccup? Why does he even care? So many questions and no answers. Hiccup sighed, 'first things first, make sure tooth was OK, he seemed to be upset before he passed out... 'Toothless?" Hiccup called, hoping toothless could hear him. Not a moment later, he felt that strange presence on his mind. 'I'm here hiccup.' No sooner had those words been put into his head, did a man walk through the door. The man was 7 feet tall, easily. He had dark black hair, and forest green eyes. The only thing portraying the man wasn't human was the small spot of scales on his arms. He wore a simple brown shirt, with simple pants. Before hiccup had a chance to panic, toothless's voice drifted from the man. "Do not fear, hiccup, I am toothless. I took this form to treat your injuries, you lost quite a bit of blood." The man, toothless said, calmly, and softly. Hiccup relaxed, but was still uneasy about it. Its not that toothless was bad to look at, he was attractive, Hiccup stopped for a moment to push the thought into the farthest corner of his mind, but he was used to the dragon version of toothless. 'Oh well' hiccup sighed 'I can get used to this too' "Are you OK" hiccup was pulled from his thoughts by the one simple question. Toothless looked tired, and a little upset. "I'm OK. My arms sore, but it doesn't hurt to much." Hiccup said, doing his best to comfort toothless. It seemed to work, some temsionleft his face. Hiccup sat up and swung his legs over the side, looking at toothless. And before he could stop himself, he asked whatnhe wanted to know. "W-why are you doing all this for me?" Hiccup asked, and toothless sighed, almost as if he expected this question. "What do you know of soul-mates, or mates in general? " toothless asked, and hiccup frowned, he didn't know those terms, he'd heard them sure but never cared to find out what they meant. "I've heard of them, but I do not know what they mean." Hiccup said, figuring being short and honest would make this go by faster. Again, toothless sighed. Though this time he sounded a little nervous. Hiccup figured pretty quickly this must be a sensitive subject. "Well, for dragons, or most any creature besides humans, we take mates. You do as well, but call it 'marriage.' It is the same equivalence, though a mating cannot be broken, we mate for life, and I believe humans are able to end the marriage?" Hiccup nodded, not knowing where this was going. "Well, all creatures have a soul- mate, the one they are meant to be mated to. Though, on multiple occasions soul-mates do not find each other." Toothless said, hiccup slowly made connections, and did not entirely like where this is going. "H... How does one know if they find their 'soul-mate'" hiccup asked, just to be safe. For all he knew, he was over thinking it. "Soul-mates usually feel one an others presence. They make each other happy, are able to keep each other in balance." Toothless said, slightly blushing now, still looking at hiccup though. "T... They also have a natural instinct to protect each other." Toothless said the last thing a little to fast, but hiccup caught it, and his eyes widened as he pieced the last bit together in his mind. But, oddly enough he couldn't bring him self to be afraid. Instead one question brought itself out. "But your a dragon and I'm a human" hiccup said, stating the obvious. "Soul-mates do not care for species, gender, or other limiting factors." Hiccup only nodded, but couldn't find himself to think it was weird, unnatural or anything. He just thought about it, the more he thought it was possible, then a little bit of happiness found its way on. But before he let himself get to happy, he asked first and for most. "So... You think I am your soul-mate?" He questioned. He'd been let down on a lot of stuff in his life, this wouldn't be the first time someone played with his heart... "Yes I do. I have felt no need to interact with other creatures, let alone humans, yet I love being around you. I have always protected myself, not thinking to help others yet I saved you twice without thinking about it. I truly believe, hiccup, that you are my soul-mate." Toothless said, and hiccup couldn't stop himself from hugging toothless. Tightly, even though a little pain went threw his arm. And he couldn't deny how good it felt to be wrapped in his arms. They both both pulled back a little bit, and toothless leaned in slowly, capturing hiccups lips on a soft kiss. Hiccup returned it, and almost felt himself melt. When they pulled back, they were both smiling. Hiccup layer his head on toothless's chest, content for once in his life. Toothless carried them both back to the bed. Hiccup tensed a little in toothless's arms. He was okay with the soul-mate thing, but he wasn't ready to take it this far yet... Toothless felt hiccup tense in his arms, and chuckled lightly. "Don't worry, little one, we will not do anything we are not both ready for." He said, and hiccup relaxed as he was laid down on the bed. Then felt toothless lay beside him, wrapping him in his arms. They both fell asleep contently. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toothless was woken to the soft whimpers of hiccup. He looked down to see hiccup shaking slightly, most likely from a nightmare. -------------------------------------------hiccup's dream---------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiccup ran from the person that was supposed to be his family. "Get back here you good for nothing!!" His father yelled. "No, I don't want to come back!" Hiccup yelled back. "Well to back! Who else will take you in?!?" Hiccup could almost feel hismfather sneering. Hiccup knew he had to leave, he couldn't stay there. His father would kill him eventually. So he ran. And ran. Into a dead end. Rock on 3 sides, and his father to his back. "There, now you can't leave. You're worthless, causing trouble to others. Worthless. WORTHLESS!!!." That word kept repeating in his head. He wasn't worthless! "Please stop!" Hiccup cried, he didn't want to do this anymorex why couldn't his father love him?!? Why couldn't he just be left alone?!?? -real world- Hiccup sat up fast, breathing faster. He looked around, slowly remembering where he was. He saw toothless looking at him with worry. "Are you ok, hiccup?" He asked. Hiccup smiled a little. At least now he had someone who cared for him. "Yeah, tooth, I'm ok. Just a nightmare." Toothless just nodded, and they went back to sleep. Hiccup happier, because hemknew he wasn't alone anymore. Chapter End Notes Review, any suggestions for the next chapters welcome ***** Chapter 5 ***** Hiccup woke up to the soft snore of toothless. He couldn't help the laugh that came out, it was impossible. Toothless was sprawled out, one arm still draped over hiccups chest. His other arm was over the side of the bed. His clothes were rumbled, and hair a complete mess. And, the best part to hiccup, was the fine stream of drool forming a smallmpuddle by his cheek. Hiccup's laugh, however, was enough to wake up toothless. He woke up, and was quick to wipe the drool away. I was still smiling when I sat up. "Sorry that I woke you" I said, still smiling. Toothless yawned, but shrugged. "It's no problem." He said, also sitting up. I smiled. We sat in silence for a moment, the silence peaceful, just sitting there, him holding me close. Our silence was interrupted by a loud growl. It made toothless laugh, and me blush slightly. "Hungry?" He asked, smiling. I just nodded, I mean telling him I technogly hadn't eaten anything for 3 days straight would make him worry to much. "Yeah, I am." I said, still blushing. "No need to be embarrassed, everyone gets hungry" toothless teased gently, nudging me lightly. I smirked and decided to tease back. "And your cute when you sleep, the drool puddle was cute." I said, smiling as it was toothless's turn to blush. Ever so slightly. "No need to be embarrassed, tooth, everyone drools in their sleep from time to time." I said, still teasing. He just smiled and kissed me softly. I smiled and kissed back for a second before we broke the kiss. He smiled before standing up, me following suit. "Well, let's get something I don't believe you've eatin since coming here..." Toothless said as he walked to the exit, soundingma littlemqulty. I smiled and caught up with him, hugging him while we were still moving. "Don't worry about it toothless, there was a lot going on the last couple of days." Hiccup said, and tooth relaxed slightly. Hiccup smiled, glad he could help him calm down. "By the way, I was wandering... If you were OK to talk about it, what your dre- ERM... Night-mare was about? You kept muttering in your sleep, 'not worthless.' It's OK if your not up to talking about it, I was just curious, and concerned I guess." Toothless said, and hiccup couldn't miss the uncertainty in toothless words. He obviously wasn't used to comforting people, and hiccup smiled heart swelling knowingmhemwas at least trying to help him. "It's OK, I don't mind talking about it, but I would like to eat first." He said, and toothless nodded. They walked in a comfortable silence after that, then reached a door, just barely bigger than toothless. When opened, the door led to what looked like a cross between a pantry, kitchen and living room. It was even the size of all 3 combined. On one side of the room, there were bins, big bins as big as hiccup was. The other side had 2 large stoves, a fire place in between, and a large sink in the corner. In the center of the room was a couch, and a coffee table. At the back wall was a small table, it had four chairs, and 2 place mats set up(complete with plate, cup, bowl and silverware) with a basket in the middle. As hiccup was looking around the room, toothless went to the bins, and got out some dried meat, more fruits than hiccups seen. Toothless took the food he got out of the bins to the table at the back, and put in the basket the fruit, spliting the meat pile in half and putting each pile, about seven pieces, onto each plate. Hiccup walked over, and sat down when toothless did. He took the cue to eat when toothless did. He loved the meat, deer was his favorite. The fruits were juicy and he loved them. His village was a huge fish market, and while surrounded by trees not many bore fruit. It didn't take long to finish the foo, what eer wasn't eaten was put into bin, or put somewhere to be disposed of later. Toothless waved off hiccups offer to help clean up, and instead drop the dishes into the sink. He came back and they both sat on the sofa, hiccup was the first one to bring up their earlier conversation. "So you wanted to know why I had a nightmare, or I guess what it was about?" Hiccup asked, and toothless nodded. Hiccup sighed before starting. "My mother was taken from me and my father when i was 8. I remembered her enough to miss her. She was taken from us by a dragon. And, before you ask, no I don't hate all dragons for it. Though my father does. I tried to hate dragons, but couldn't for some reason. Well, when my mother was taken my farther was desperate to find her. He would send people out looking for her, he's the chief, so he has the power to. He did this for on year. That's when he stopped the searches. He stopped believing he could find her. Or that she was even still alive. "About a week after he stopped the searches, he started drinking, heavily. Then one night he came home in a particularly bad mood. He started stuff about how I was useless, that if my mother hadn't been helping me in the raid she wouldn't of been taken away. Itnwent like that for a little over a month. Then the physical abuse. He started hitting me when he got upset, though no one believed me. At some point my father stopped the heavy drinking. Though I wish would've continhed, it would have hurt less. He still beat me, and instead of being called the reason my mother was inducted, he started calling me worthless, saying I was nothing more than a liability to the village. "Then one night, I overheard my father, and some other adults, talking about selling me to the slave market, to have money for the village, and to get a thorn out of its side. I tried to back away and run quietly away, but me with my rotten luck, hit something and made them all come to check it out. I took off as the thing fell, running into the woods. And, here I am." Hiccup said, tears forming in his eyes, him being unable to stop them from falling. All toothless wanted to do was rip hiccups father apart, for doing that to him. But for now, he'd comfort his human. He wrapped hiccup in his arms, letting the small human sob against his chest, as he returned the hug as best he could. Then a sickening question came to mind. One he wasn't sure if he wanted the answer to or not... "Hiccup, your father never...." Toothless trailed off, he remembered how scared hiccup was when he carried him to the bed. Luckily, hiccup seemed to know what he was talking about. "No, he never took it that far. I just wasn't ready for it last night..." He said, and toothless let out a small breathe of relieve, he might've lost it if hiccups own father... Toothless got pissed just thinking about it. Slowly, hiccup calmed down. Toothless tried to think of something to take hiccups mind off what had happened, the settled on something. "Hiccup, how about I show you around here, just so your able to know where everything is?" Toothless smiled, he figured hiccup would probably be okay by now. "Sure tooth, that would be great" hiccup said, and toothless was happy to hear no serious sadness in hiccups voice. They shared a short kiss, before toothless changed back into his dragon form. 'Hop on, hiccup, it'll be fastermthis way.' Toothless said, crouching down. Hiccup smiled and got on, he loved toothless in his man form, but something about this one... Just felt better. Toothless started showing hiccup the few rooms there were. It was easy to remember, one half of the place was for storage, from clothes, to food, to weapons toothless collected in his time. The other half had bedrooms(3), bathrooms(2), and then the kitchen/livingcroom was on that side. There was a simple long hallway that connected them all. After wards, toothless was surprised when hiccup asked, "can we go flying again?" He asked, and toothless just smiled, of course agreeing. He was so happy the hiccup liked to fly, it was the best feeling toothless had to admit. So, with that, the two of them went flying once more, this time hiccup was prepared for it and enjoyed every moment of it.   After flying, they landed back and to sleep, as it was getting dark. Toothless could see fine, but he knew hiccup couldn't. So, they landed back at the den, fallings asleep again with each other. This time, hiccup didn't have nightmares, and both he and toothless were happy. ***** Chapter 6 ***** Chapter Notes See the end of the chapter for notes After that day, time seemed to fly by for hiccup. A week had gone by, and hiccup had never been happier. Toothless had taught hiccup how to skin, gut, and clean a deer, and other animals. As well as how to cook it. But, of course, hiccup bareley paid attention when he was showed the small forge in the home. Hiccup had been curious as to why toothless needed it. Needed it, and toothless replied simply, "the hinges on doors, and other metal things need to be repaired, and I can't, nor do I want to, go into towns and ask for assistance with it. So I've taught myself to use it." He said, and hiccup smiled brightly, he always loved working in the forge with gobber, probably the only one who cared about him in that village. But hiccup didn't let it get to him, he had a nightmare since telling toothless, but otherwise felt wonderful. It felt good to be able to get it off his chest. Hiccup was in the forge, working on, in his mind, his best invention. 'I can't wait to try it out' he thought, as he put the finishing touches on, and put it to the side. He had found a door with a completely shattered hinge, the door had been swinging, the hinge not just old, it was ripped off. But it wasn't a hard repair, just needed to weld it back together... "What are you doing love?" Hiccup nearly jumped out of his skin at the voice behind him. He turned panting, glaring at the owner of the voice. "Knock or something!" He said, and toothless laughed. After a minute, hiccup caught his breathe, and smiled back. Things had only gotten better after that night a week ago, the kisses had been deeper, as well. "So what are you doing?" Toothless asked again still smiling. Hiccup smiled, and held up the now fixed hinge. "I found a door with it completely ripped off. Thought I'd fix it." Hiccup said smiling, and toothless just continued smiling. "I was gonna get to that, guess I was to slow to it." He said, and hiccup just smirked shaking his head. Toothless seemed to have an annoying habit of severely babying hiccup, and while at times nice, it could get annoying. "Babe, I'm not that fragile I can do stuff like this, I actually quite enjoy this kind stuff." I said, smiling while walking over to hug the human-shaped- dragon. He returned it quickly. "I know you do, but it doesn't mean I can't enjoy it as well." He said, and I smirked at that. I suppose that was true. After we got the hinge back on the door, we went flying. It was one of our favorite things to do together, and hiccup was about today. He grabbed his invention before leaving, slipping into it. Toothless stared quietly asking, but didn't say anything as he turned into his dragon form. "Does it hurt when you transform?" Hiccup asked out loud, not quite meaning to actually say it. Toothless chuckled, well more of a chortle with him as a dragon. 'If it sis, I would not change as often as I do.' Toothless stated in his mind. Hiccup smiled. He loved this form of toothless. He of course loved the human form, it was easier to kiss, and hold each other. But with toothless as a dragon, it just felt... Better. Hiccup quickly climbed onto toothless's back, smiling while they took off. Once in the air, hiccup heard toothless sigh. "Are you OK, baabe?" Hiccup questions, toothless sounded a little... Upset over something. Toothless just mumbled, 'I just wish you were a dragon sometimes, so we could fly side by side.' He said, and hiccup just had to smile as wide as possible. After looking around the area for possible problems, he was happy to see they were over a empty field. "Well, toothless. Your dream may come true sooner than you think." Hiccup said, and he could feel toothless being confused over their mind link, or whatever. He still didn't get it all the time, but when he did he was happy about it. 'What do you mean?' Toothless asked, and hiccup smiled as he prepared to get up. "Just look." He said, and before toothless could say anything else, hiccup jumped to his feet, and jumped off toothless. Hiccup waited a minute to put his arms threw the loops on his suit, pulling them out. Wings were put into place, and he flew up past a very surprised looking toothless. Hiccup quickly hit a button to put up the stabilising fin when he started to wobble. Toothless leveled out next to him, with a look of confusion, excitement... And hiccup blushed ever so slightly at the look of want in those eyes. Hiccup smiled though, they hadn't done anything more intimate than kissing, but he knew it was only a matter of time now. "You like it?" Hiccup asked after a few minutes of flying/gliding. 'I love it, love. When did you?....' Toothless asked, and hiccup smiled. He'd been sneaking away from the dragon to work on it in the forge. "I spent the last couple days working on it when I wasn't around you" hiccup said, and toothless only nodded. After a while, hiccup's arms got tired, and toothless picked him back up. With that they went back to the den. -at den- warning now for any readers that don't like smut you were warned- It was rather dark when they got back. The both later down, and hiccup was quickly pushed onto the bed, toothless kissing him deeply, more than any of the other kisses they shared. The kiss went longer, when toothless broke it, staring down at hiccup with lust and want, but also restraint. Hiccup would later realise that toothless had not yet turned into his human form, yet the kiss had been deep, powerful, and perfect. Hiccup realised toothless wasn't in his human form when he heard toothless speaking in his mind. And despite that he wasn't scared. 'I... I want this hiccup, but I will not force this. So I must ask, will.. You let me-" he was cut off by hiccup kissing him again. Hiccup had been waiting for this, he was ready. "Yes, toothless, Im ready for this too." With that, toothless started to kiss hiccup again, the dragon form make locking lips difficult, but hiccup didn't care, he loved it. After a while, toothless started to paw at hiccups clothes, and hiccup got the hint and started stripping. Soon, he was naked, still under toothless. Hiccup sat back and moaned in pleasure as toothless licked and nipped his way down his body, hiccups hands on his head. Soon, toothless was atnhiccups cock, and he licked it multiple times. After that, he mover to under his cock, and hiccup let out a sharp gasp as the tongue pressed against his entrance. Hiccup relaxed, allowing the tongue to pushed in. When it went in, hiccup cried out in pleasure. He had played with himself sometimes... But nothing amounted to this. Toothless pushed in deeperx and hiccup breathed deeply enjoying it. After a while, toothless pulled out. He came back up Hiccup's body, and hiccup saw the dragons penis, eyes widening slightly. It was big, but hiccup thanked Thor it wasnt overly big. Toothless aligned himself and pushed forward slowly, when the first inch or so was in, hiccup whimpered, it was thicker and harder than the tounge was. Toothless stopped for a moment, letting the human adjust. After a couple seconds, hiccup started pushing back, and toothless started moving in again. Hiccup moaned when inch after inch, after inch, went inside him. He lured forward as toothless hit the special spot in him, toothless smirked before pulling out before going back in. Hiccup moaned, and toothless growled in pleasure. Toothless didn't last long, and neither did hiccup. They both came at the same time, toothless with a roar, and hiccup with a scream. After a minute, they both stopped. Toothless slowly pulled out, and got a rag to clean them. -end of smut scene- Hiccup sighed as he layed against toothless, "that was aamazing toothless. I love you" he said, looking at toothless who had since changed back into his human form. "I love you too" with that, they both fell asleeep Chapter End Notes Reviews I welcome all critic. ***** Epiloge ***** Chapter Summary I'm sorry that I'm ending it, I may come back and make continue it, but I have a knew fabric idea that I wanna work on. It was 5 years since hiccup and toothless had become mates, and they both couldn't be happier. Hiccup had made the smithy area higher, expanding it since both he and toothless enjoyed it. Toothless still babied him, sometimes more than others. But he knew when to step down from it. the only problems they had really faced, were one time when hiccups father and some others tried to take him back. How they found him, he didn't know. It had ended fast, toothless didn't have to kill anyone to make them leave. Hiccup loved toothless, and toothless loved hiccup. And hiccup didnt need anything else in life. Please drop_by_the_archive_and_comment to let the author know if you enjoyed their work! red figured it was Genevieve and it was confirmed when she called later apologizing and swearing she didn’t realize the guy was a reporter. Although who else would have asked for the spelling of his last name, really? It wasn’t too bad though, Jared didn’t have much to hide to begin with and it was kinda interesting to be in the media for a few days. It was rare for someone with a famous name to end up mating in public; much less with some one underage, and for whatever reasons the media seemed to eat it up. Thankfully, most of them focused on the romantic aspects of it more then the huge age difference. The law wasn’t exactly happy about it but it was mating sex so statutory rape wasn’t an option and Jared’s parents weren’t interested in anything like that. While they were really thrown by the same sex mating they weren’t mean or out to punish Jensen. The man was actually really charming to them and Jared was amused because while no one else seemed to be able to, he could totally tell when Jensen was laying it on thick. Like wise, Jensen was really aware of Jared’s moods, he knew what Jared was feeling even when he tried to hide it. But he couldn’t, not from his mate and it was both freeing and terrifying to have someone in tune with him to such an extreme level. Still Jared didn’t have a single regret about it, even with Chad endlessly mocking him. Jared figured that their age gap was going to complicate things for them. Jensen was used to going to bars on the weekends and Jared couldn’t even legally drink yet. They were from two different generations and it made things awkward, pretty much all of Jared’s friends were single and concerned primarily about fitting in and making good grades while Jensen’s circle was mated couples with mortgages and job worries. Jensen ended up having to buy a place near Jared’s parents home before they would let him move in with him, his own mate! God, it was definitely awkward at times but Jared couldn’t care less because when he was with Jensen something in his chest was always looser and the tension his shoulders, no matter what the cause, always let up a little.        Jared’s favorite part, though, was the mornings. Jensen said he used to wake up totally depressed and feeling bleak and Jared figured he felt him, even without knowing him, he felt Jensen’s pain and shared it. But now they’d wake up together, all entwined and snuggled in close, Jensen liked to say it was all Jared but the teenager knew Jensen was full of it, he was the one always pressing in close first. Anyway, Jared would wake up first, Jensen would sleep to noon everyday if he could, and he’d just lay there and stare at the sleeping man. It was probably a little creepy but Jared loved doing it, loved watching his mate and feeling the answering joy inside him at seeing Jensen. Every morning when Jensen would slowly come to the land of the living, he’d always blink over at Jared and half awake, he’d smile at him. Jensen was a private guy, Jared didn’t mind it at all but Jensen was always really reserved and shy, apprehensive about what people thought, worried about what Jared thought. But when he was half awake the shyness wasn’t there and the reservation was still sleeping because Jensen would smile at him like Jared was the best thing ever. This quiet little thing that was completely open and warm, Jensen’s eyes crinkling all bright and loving. Jared sucked at explaining it really but it was just something so real and breathtaking that his chest always burst with bliss. He never woke up sad anymore, just woke feeling warm and wanted and awesome. And that totally trumped the fact that Jensen was nearly twice his age and there was soft-core porn of him on the internet, moaning like a porn star.        Please drop_by_the_archive_and_comment to let the author know if you enjoyed their work!