AvannaK

STOP.  Go watch How to Train your Dragon. PAUSE the movie when Astrid shakes her head upon discovering Toothless and runs off. Proceed reading. Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train your Dragon. Dreamworks does. Hitch Ups: Chapter 1 "You are so busted." They were the last words Hiccup would hear from his long-time crush, and they hurt him more deeply than any dismissal she had given him before. For in that four-worded sentence lay the truth of their distance from one another—their priorities, their loyalties, their morals—all worlds apart. The most promising Viking of their age didn't even have the natural curiosity

The only thing Astrid found more unsettling than finding Hiccup on a secluded beach, soaking wet and staring off against another dragon rider, was his conduct. An hour earlier she had caught sight of him flying off after storming from his father’s home—a common enough occurrence.  Hiccup was often more willing to open up after a good fly, so Astrid had given them an hour’s period to cool off before she and Stormfly tracked them down.   Usually she’d find them on some abandoned outcrop or seated in the branches of a high tree.  They’d talk, tease, fight, kiss, and go home. This time was different. Hiccup offere