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Later on, they were done, Hiccup’s head was buried onto her chest, her hands played with his hair, while he took a small nap, Astrid admired him
“What would I do without you?”
she whispered but he still heard it
“Mhm?” he looked up at her
“Nothing I- uh… nothing.”
“You said what would you do without me…”
“I’m just admiring you and… everything you’ve done about me.”
He kissed her, then moved lower to snuzzle onto her chest again, hugging her, closing his eyes.
After another hour or two, they were sleeping in each other’s arms, everything felt good, like they were alone in the world, well they slept together - not just in the dirty way, chillax - every night, but most of them they were sleeping messily, since they both moved a lot while they were sleeping, now that they were like this, it was everything.
It was 7pm in the afternoon, the sun was setting, she opened her eyes, placing a kiss on his forehead, he opened his eyes and looked up at her, then snuzzled back onto her chest
“Mhmm…”
“You’re ridiculous.”
“Rise and shine to you too m’lady”
“It’s afternoon” she giggled
He pulled in and kissed her lips, her hands were placed on his back, as he deepened the kiss, then pulling away a few moments later and looked down at her
“Surprised you still haven’t kick me…”
she laughed, pulling him down again, hugging him, his head was buried on her shoulder now, close to her neck as she began rolling with him on the bed and then got on top
“Oh come on I was this close!”
he pouted; she laughed again
she lied down again besides him
“I’m going to get a tattoo tommorow, will you come to acompany me?”
“Whatever you want!”
“So that’s a yes! But I’m just letting you know, my tattoo artist is engaged with Dagur”
“D-Dagur? The well known one?”
“Yes. Heather’s older brother.”
“HE GOT ENGAGED?”
“Yeah.”
“Oh my! so someone can keep up with how annoying Dagur is.”
“Babe… relax…”
she said but then started laughing
“Anyways, yes I’ll come with you.”
“Thank you… you’re such a baby girl, you know that?”
“A what?!?”
“You’re just very squeeze-able”
“You literally beat me up!”
“You like it.”
Next day, they entered the tattoo studio together, there was a blonde woman
She was hella tall, she wore a white tank top, and a flare black jean with a few cuts on it, pairing it with black boots. Her hair was short and her fringe was shortly covering her right eye, she had a lot of tattoos in her arms, and one on her chest that was partly showing and the rest was covered by her top, she had a nose and a lip piercing.
“Hey, Mala” Astrid said, looking around the studio
“Hello, Astrid, so what are we doing today? I remember you called me for a tattoo.”
“Yeah, I want one on my lower stomach”
“Okay, alright, oh- Hello! Is this the Hiccup guy you won’t shut up about?”
She joked as Astrid blushed
“Yeah- he is.”
“So let’s see what are we doing today…”
they moved to her desk as she pulled out her book with designs, they looked through different designs, Astrid paused looking at a specific tattoo with lines and blades, she really fell in love with the design, pointing it to Mala
“Oh good choice, it’s one of my favourites too”
Astrid moved closer to Hiccup with the book and showed it to him, he looked at the tattoo then back at her
“Not gonna lie, it suits you a lot.”
“Thank you.” :D
Astrid lied down as Mala prepared the materials when the door opened, it was Dagur
A red-head, not tall but not short, muscular guy with lots of tattoos as well, matching with a shaved eyebrow and an eyebrow piercing, he was wearing a tank top aswell paired with blue jeans with cuts on his knees alongside black boots
He moved to Mala and kissed her, he looked really short next to her, he was like 5’7” and she was 6’4” she towered him
“What was that for?”
“Just wanted to see you, and kiss you, and well, I wanna kiss you again.”
“I’m working… but I appreciate you. See you at my house in the evening.”
“Okay! See you- wait a minute… Hiccup Haddock? You’ve turned into a ladies’ man I fear.”
Hiccup looked hella annoyed by him
“What do you want Dagur!?”
“Ow~ Ouch! Hurt me so bad! What are you even doing here in my fiancé’s studio”
“I am keeping company to my girlfriend.”
“Oh yeah right forgot you had one, or you could even pull one.”
“Just shut up and leave Dagur.”
Mala and Astrid completely ignored them and started doing her tattoo, when she finished the lines she let her take a break to talk with Hiccup
“So how does it look?” Astrid asked
“It looks great, woah!”
She was still lying down looking up at Hiccup who moved down to place a kiss on her lips
“Hey hey hey! Not touching the client! Haddock! Leave her be.”
Astrid laughed as Hiccup’s cheeks turned full red. Laughing awkwardly
Later, the tattoo was done, Astrid got up and moved closer to Hiccup again, sitting down next to him, placing a kiss on his cheek to make him red again and laugh her heart out, Astrid paid Mala as they left the studio walking to his car
They got inside his car
“Do you ever consider getting matching tattoos with me?” Hiccup asked
“What?” It hit her by surprise but she sort of liked the idea
“Do you?”
“Yeah- yeah… sure! I would love to. Do you have anything in mind?”
“Actually yes I do! Well… you know that dragon that I have a tattoo of, that I found a very similar design in a t-shirt, I have also drawn him with a partner, a white dragon with glitter and blue eyes, it kinda suits you… well I drew her based off you when I was younger.”
“What?” She was shocked hearing all that, her heart melted “you drew her off of me?”
“Yeah~”
“You’re ridiculous!” she giggled as her cheeks became red
“What if we got matching tattoos with their wings?”
“Sounds great… I’m in!”
He kissed her, hearing her response
A month later, it was November, Hiccup and Astrid’s relationship was going strong, Ruff was still flirting with Eret trying to win him over, Fishlegs and Snotlout are thinking about announcing their friends they are officially a couple and Dagur with Mala are preparing their wedding.
But on the other hand, Hiccup and Viggo’s relationship was getting worse, awful, they had huge fights over grades, over attitudes, and there was something that started… all this war between them…
One day, Viggo asked Hiccup to meet him after school in a classroom to talk about the test they had, he got into the classroom, Astrid was waiting for him outside the school, Hiccup entered the classroom, it was dark, the curtains were closed, and empty, no one seemed to be there, then it hit him
A knife against his throat suddenly pushing him against the wall
“You killed my brother.”
It was Viggo, he couldn’t really see him because it was pretty dark, but he understood it was him from the voice.
“What?!” Hiccup was confused
“Don’t play dumb with me, Hiccup Haddock.”
“I had no idea you even had a brother…”
“You killed him!”
“I’m telling you I didn’t! I don’t even know someone related to you.”
“If you don’t admit it, I’ll kill you right here and now.”
“Well, wouldn’t you do the same even if I say I did…”
“Shut up, Haddock! You’re in no place to talk! You hit my brother with your car and left him on the fuckin’ road!”
“I don’t even have my own car-“
the knife moved closer to his throat, cutting him slightly, he punched him again, pushing the knife once more against his neck, when he suddenly fell on the ground with a powerful hit on his head
When he fell down, Hiccup saw Astrid, looking as frightened as he was
“What. The. Fuck.” Astrid said
“I have no idea.”
Astrid grabbed his hand quickly as they got outside to his car, when the door closed, she was shocked and her face turned cold, trying to process what happened
“Drive. Not a word until we arrive at your house about what happened.” she simply said as he drove
They arrived to his house, Astrid closed the door shut behind her
“Your neck…” she run her fingers on his skin, blood was still running from the scar “take off your shirt.” he did as she said
Hiccup took off his shirt, and Astrid started cleaning the cut, her hand was placed on his shoulder, she cleaned the scar and placed a trauma-plast, looking up at him, worried
“You do understand that from now on we are going everywhere together? That psychotic son of a bitch almost killed you. Also… what was he talking about a brother that got killed…”
“Yeah, we are going everywhere together from now on it is. He had a brother, he didn’t tell me something more onto it… You don’t believe I did it, do you?”
“No… I don’t. Most definitely, but we need to do research, lot of research and tell your parents.”
“No.”
“Yes.”
“No, I won’t tell my parents Astrid!”
“You will.”
“I won’t. End of story.”
“What are you so afraid of?”
“My dad will trap me in four walls to not get outside.”
“Yeah, but he can be a great help.”
“How is he going to be a great help?”
“He can help us with research, he knows lots of people, he’s running a whole ass business!”
“I won’t tell him anything!”
“You’re so stubborn Hiccup. Move on and go tell him.”
“Let’s just start with research.”
Hiccup took his laptop on his bed, lied on his stomach, he opened the laptop, Astrid took off her shirt and lied down on top of him, placing her hands around his neck, as they both looked at the computer, he started typing the last name ‘Grimborn’ after a little research they found a picture of Viggo with another guy, he had a weird moustache, he was bald and really muscular.
“Ryker Grimborn…” Astrid said
he definitely wasn’t a guy that filled your eye
they research his name more, and more
hell, that guy was framed with lots of crimes
“Robbery, Pickpocketing, Drug Dealing, Reported in many fights…” Hiccup read different articles
“When did he die?” Astrid asked
“Yesterday… he was in hospital for 3 days fighting for his life, but ended up dying so, I believe the incident happened 4 to 5 days ago.”
“Yeah… makes sense. So what do we do now?”
“Eret has a friend who is a cop, we can investigate with his help. No need to include my dad and make him worried”
Astrid kissed his cheek
“I really hope you’re right…”
“Well, it’s 4pm, I still have an hour until I go to work, there’s not much for today, so…?”
“Thought you’d never ask”
Astrid turned Hiccup around, as she closed the laptop, pushing it away, she was still on top of him and kissed him.
At 5pm, Hiccup casually went to work with Eret, and Astrid drove her motorcycle to Heather’s house to hang out.
After Hiccup and Eret were done working and closed their store, Hiccup decided to finally speak
“We need to talk.” Hiccup said
“Yeah… yeah, sit down.”
“Remember a few days ago, when we saw someone on the street who had been hit by a car and called an ambulance?”
“Yeah… what happened with him?”
“He’s dead, and his brother thinks that I did it”
“Wait- wait, slow down Hiccup, WHAT?”
“His brother is a teacher of mine, he pulled me into an empty classroom and threaten me with a knife, at first I didn’t have a clue that he even had a brother… then me and Astrid did a research of him and I recognised him…”
“What… so you are being framed to have killed somebody that you actually tried to save?”
“Yes, Eret, I will need your help, well your friend’s help, because I really want to find out who actually did it and made it look like I was the one who did it.”
“Yeah… I’ll talk to him, I’ll have you updated when he responds”
“Thanks, Eret, means a lot-“
“Does Astrid knows?”
“About what happened with Viggo, yeah she’s the one who saved me. About Ryker, no I didn’t tell her, my mistake but I’m planning on telling her, maybe it will even help the cops if they start to actually investigate.”
“I’ll ask my friend to keep updated if he responds positively, and also investigate on his own, now it’s getting late, go back home.”
“Good night Eret.”
“Night.”
Hiccup and Astrid returned at the same time, Astrid moved closer to him, hugging him tightly
“Thank Thor, you’re safe”
“Of course I am.”
“But we agreed on something Hiccup. You’re not going anywhere without me, or someone at least.”
“I am fine, Astrid, see?”
“Well if you keep doing that. You won’t be.”
“Fine. Astrid, won’t do it again.”
“It’s not a joke Hiccup.”
“I know… I know, after dinner we need to talk, but keep your voice down as much as possible.”
“Okay… but I insist on telling your dad, or at least your mom…”
“No.”
he simply said, placing a finger on her mouth to silence her, then moving it lower to her back, as he unlocked the door, they both sat down on the dinner table, his mom was already sitting down, she noticed immediately the trauma-plast on his neck, then quickly got up
“What happened to you, Hiccup?”
“Nothing I- uh-“ hiccup tried talking but was cut off by Astrid
“Accidentally stabbed him with a pen, while I was messing around during class, I still feel bad about that-“
“I really am fine now, Astrid! Really stop apologising” Hiccup played along
Valka looked at them, definitely not convinced by their words, but went along with it
“Just be careful next time… in any… situation”
She said as they both turned red, looking at each other then back at her, she chuckled
After they were done eating dinner, Hiccup and Astrid quickly went upstairs to his room, Astrid closed the door shut behind her, locking it. Then looking at Hiccup.
“Tell me, did Eret talk to that cop he had for a friend?”
“He will let me know when he responds, but there is another thing I want to tell you…”
“What is it?”
“You will have to sit down to hear that.”
she sat down on the bed looking at Hiccup who was still standing
“I’m all ears, tell me.”
“Okay… Alright, so…Remember 5 days ago I was late and told you I had a work to do?”
“Yeah I do… Wait. Don’t tell me-“
“No, no! I didn’t! Oof, that night, me and Eret were going on a walk after work, we also had someone’s car to fix and we were really tired, we were walking across a dark road, close here, we saw a guy, a muscular tall guy on the ground, no cars really passed that road, people only used it for shortcuts, we moved closer to that guy, he was bleeding in some parts, there was blood all over his shirt, at first we panicked, but I got the courage, to call an ambulance, we stayed there till the ambulance arrived 20 minutes later and took him to the hospital, Eret went with them and I came back.”
Astrid was just staring at him as if he was an alien, the shock was way too sudden, she was speechless, she didn’t know how to react.
“What.”
“Please say something apart from that I’m tired of hearing it.”
“Come here…” she opened her arms as he moved closer, sitting down on the floor to bury himself into her arms
“You make me so proud you know that? I never really talk to you that way, but it’s true, you helped someone you didn’t even know when no one else did… that’s just… pure” she said caressing his head softly “and now Viggo wants to kill you because he thinks you did it and he won’t change his mind…?”
“Yeah, that’s pretty much it.”
He looked up at her once more, he was almost crying, Astrid cupped his face
“I really don’t wanna die, Astrid…”
“You won’t, not as long as I’m here.”
she placed a small kiss on his lips, then hugged him once more
Meanwhile, Eret called his friend, Teeny, to ask him if he could help them with what happened
“Hello, Teeny, Am I interrupting something?”
“No no, Eret, you’re not actually. Tell me what’s wrong?”
“I actually need your help with something, that happened to my friend, can you help?”
“Yeah! Yeah! Tell me what happened…”
“So my friend, Hiccup Haddock is being framed, that he killed Viggo Grimborn’s brother, and well… he didn’t do it…”
“Yeah, Viggo Grimborn came here today and reported the crime and framed Hiccup, we are starting the investigation tommorow morning, and we are gonna call Haddock tommorow to take his part of the story. But I’ll have you updated on what we have”
“Thanks Teeny, means a lot.”
“No problem Eret.”
Next day, Eret took Hiccup to go to the police station, to talk with the cops about the crime that took place 6 days ago
They met with Teeny, Eret introduced him to Hiccup, and Hiccup to him.
“Teeny, this is Hiccup, Hiccup, this is Teeny, my cop friend.”
“Hello, Hiccup Haddock, it’s a pleasure to be meeting you, I’ll deposit about the crime against Ryker Grimborn.”
They got into the interrogation room, they sat down looking at each other, in silence, when Teeny broke the silence and spoke
“So, where were you, the night of the incident? Around 9pm”
“I was in work, with Eret, he can confirm that, we work at a car-fixing store, we took a long walk and we were close to my house when we found Ryker Grimborn’s body…”
“Alright, and what happened next?”
“We panicked at first but didn’t leave his side, when I finally got the courage to call an ambulance, Eret followed him to the hospital, but left before Viggo Grimborn arrived, so they didn’t see each other.”
“Okay, is that it? Do you still have the call on your phone? We will have to take a look through your calls.”
“Yeah, yeah… of course I do… I don’t really call anyone besides my girlfriend and my parents so…”
he took out his phone, and Teeny went through his phone calls, - great he didn’t look on the other apps - and took his phone in a poly-bag and sent it to the medical examiners
Hiccup was free to go
In the mean time, Astrid was in school and she had a class with Viggo Grimborn, last period for the day, everyone left, except Astrid, she was waiting for everyone to leave so she could have a chat with Viggo
When he walked over an empty classroom, Astrid grabbed him and pushed him against the wall, her hand was on his neck, he could tell she was furious just by that
“If you go near my boyfriend one more time, I swear I will kill you with my own bare hands and the following day I will confess my crime with pride.”
“Miss Hofferson… You have no idea what you are trying to get yourself into… just accept that your boyfriend did it and let me handle it.”
“That won’t pass as long as I’m here, you seriously have a million people to blame, why him?”
“First of all, relax your hand, it hurts.”
“Don’t provoke me, I can do worse.”
“Your boyfriend did it, I could blame anyone, you’re right… but think about it… Someone no one would expect… like your boyfriend…”
“You sick, son of a bitch! My boyfriend helped your brother and you treat him like that? You tried to kill him, I was nice with you… but next time, I won’t be.”
“You’re playing with fire, Astrid, it will damage you really bad.”
“I’ll risk it.”
“You’re risking way to much for him don’t you think?”
she got even more furious, punching him hard in the face, as she was about to leave he grabbed her by her arm, tightening his grip
“I’m one step ahead… even from the police.”
Viggo simply said, letting Astrid go shortly after.
A week had passed, 13 days after the incident, the police was investigating for a week now, they have collected some clues about the crime that took place in the neighbourhood, Teeny was a “double-agent”
The police looked through almost all the cameras around the place the crime happened, they had no clue of who actually did it, there was however one camera, that only Teeny succeeded to take a look at, from a kiosk, it had recorded the actual crime, the whole thing.
Teeny was trying everything to keep the video from the camera, he even gave him money, which he accepted, and he had the film with the video now. He took it back to his house to check it out alone, he called Eret, letting him know he found the footage.
While Eret was getting ready and driving to his house, Teeny took another look at it, pausing it in specific parts, taking closer looks at it, taking screenshots of the car, it was pretty dark but he managed to see the number and write it down, he studied the car well, writing down a few notes, when Eret knocked on his door
He got up to open the door to him, he was alone, he welcomed him inside and led him to his ‘investigation room’ Eret looked around and laughed
“You never fail to surprise…”
“Ha ha, Thank you, thank you Eret, have a seat, and let’s study it closely together.”
They looked all over the clues again, Eret didn’t notice the number on the videos but he noticed it on what Teeny had written down, he paused for a moment
“That’s Hiccup’s car, well his dad’s, number…”
“Is it his car though?”
“No… This is not his car… that’s definitely not his car.”
“So the plate-number must have been stolen.”
“What… Wait wait… What. Stolen? How? The car is always inside his garage? And how was it brought back before it was used again?”
“Can we see who is in the car?”
“No, unfortunately the glass blocks the view.”
“Fuck!”
“First we will have to identify the car’s actual owner…”
“So how do we do that?”
“I give it to the other cops, they study it, and we will have a lead in a few days I believe.”
“Okay…”
However, Hiccup and Astrid had skipped an entire week of school, the situation wasn’t a joke and they knew it, they kept a low profile but Astrid was always ready to fight.
Hiccup was working casually, he didn’t stop, but he always had company, it was either Astrid or Eret.
They were lying down together, Hiccup had melted into her arms, Astrid moved to sit on the bed as he remained still, just hugged her tighter, they didn’t really wore clothes, so it was pretty hot for both of them.
Astrid was worried, she never stopped worrying about Hiccup, she loved him so much, more than anything, he was the only thing she cared about, more than herself, if anything happened to him, she would blame herself. He made her feel unique.
He fell first, she fell harder
Hiccup looked up at her, his eyes filled with love, pure love, and desire, he moved his lips closer to hers, pressing them against hers
she responded immediately to the kiss, slipping her fingers through his hair, he pushed her down the bed, pulling her hair away from her face, kissing her again, as his hand lowered to her waist, she gasped and stopped him
“Stop…” she looked up at him
“Did I do something wrong… i-I’m sorry-“
“No… no it’s not about… this…It’s about the situation, you can’t keep using sexual activities as an escape from reality, lots of things have happened and we have to be careful, fucking all day won’t lead us anywhere…”
“I’m sorry I just-
“I get it, Hiccup, I really do…”
he placed another kiss on her lips, then lied down besides her, looking at her
“So no sex?”
“I didn’t say that, I just told you that you can’t use it as an “escape”.”
“Mhmm” he said in a low voice as she caressed his cheek
“Sex can’t be cut off, but you need a clear mind right now, so I’ll be doing my job only in the evenings.”
“Well, I could do the job on other hours of the day-“ she kicked him “Ugh, Fine! I just suggested something!” he continued
“Never going to happen.”
“Never say never.”
“Never.”
they giggled until she spoke again
“You should get dressed, Eret will be here by 10am, it’s 9:45am”
Hiccup remembered he had to meet up with Eret, he got up from the bed, put on jeans and a shirt, as Astrid got up aswell, he looked at her, placed a kiss on her shoulder, lowering down the strap of her top, before he pulled away, she grabbed him and kissed him passionately, pulling away she looked at him smiling
“Take care, Haddock.”
“I will…”
she walked downstairs with him to the door where Eret was waiting, Astrid waved them and moved back upstairs again to sleep… again
Hiccup and Eret hopped on his car, as Eret drove to Teeny’s house once more, they got inside as Teeny opened the door to them and led them once more to his ‘investigation room’
Hiccup took a look at all the notes he had written down, he was confused and looked back at Teeny who started explaining
“Starting of strong, the incident happened at 9:29pm, by a white car with your plate-number, which seems to have been stolen and returned before anyone understood it, there weren’t really cameras around, just one on a kiosk. Which gave a clear -but dark - footage, of what happened, I will give it to the other cops when I go to the police station later, and I’ll keep you updated.”
“Can I see the video?” Hiccup asked
“Yes, Yes, of course.”
The video played once more, Hiccup looked really carefully, paying attention to the details and writing down some of them, he paused a few times and then the car appeared and hit Ryker Grimborn, he paused it, taking a closer look he froze
he had seen this car before
but he didn’t remember who the owner was, he focused too much on the thought over the next few hours, but didn’t remember at all, he just couldn’t, he couldn’t even focuse at work… After he was done with his work, he returned back to his house, trying to push the thought away just as long as he will be with Astrid
He opened his bedroom door, finding Astrid finally sleeping peacefully after days she had stayed awake worrying about him, he smiled looking at her, he covered her with a blanket, then went to his closet to change clothes and finally lie down next to her, he wrapped his arm around her, pulling her closer to him, and closing his eyes aswell
—
Astrid woke up first the next day feeling warm arms around her, she opened her eyes, looking up to see Hiccup, placing her hands on his chest, she started kissing his neck, as he opened his eyes looking down at her, then she kissed him, and lied down besides him again.
He was still thinking about who the car belonged to, but tried to push the thought away to focus on Astrid, who realised immediately he wasn’t okay.
“What’s wrong?”
“What?! What no! Nothing is wrong…”
“Tell me what’s wrong. Now.”
“I don’t want to bother you with my problems Astrid…”
“Are you seriously saying that to me…? You need to understand the importance of what has happened, and you need to understand I’m here for you, Hiccup, you can tell me anything”
“Oof… Astrid there are new clues. There is footage of the crime scene…”
“And?”
“And I’ve seen the car before, but it has my car’s plate number, and- I don’t know, I just can’t remember.”
“Seriously if you need any help, I’m here…”
“I know.”
His phone rang, he picked it up, it was Eret
“Hey Eret… Oh… Oh okay! I’ll figure something out. No no don’t worry. It’s fine!”
Astrid looked at him confused as he turned around to look at her
“He can’t take me to the police station today.”
“I can, if you want… I can come with you.”
“Really? Seriously you don’t have to.”
“I’m not letting you go alone.”
“Fine.”
Astrid got up and got ready, Hiccup was behind her and placed his head on her shoulder, she looked through her clothes, and found a pair of jeans, Hiccup looked at her
“You are going to wear jeans?”
“Yeah I wanna see how you feel everyday.”
“What?” he laughed
They were a dark blue colour, with a skull printed on the left back pocket, she put them on, she hadn’t wore them over a year, she was surprised it still fit her. She looked again at him taking off her shirt to find another to wear, Hiccup looked down blushing, as she placed a finger on his chin, pulling up his head. Laughing, she then looked over the closet to find a shirt, she pulled out a black vest, putting it on.
“Are you gonna get dressed or are you gonna keep staring at me?”
Hiccup didn’t respond immediately, he was focused on her too much to listen she said something
“I- uh? What?” she giggled
“Come on, get dressed.”
He got dressed immediately, taking her hand as they went downstairs and outside the house.
“What would you say if I offered you a motorcycle ride?”
“I’m down.”
She hopped on her motorcycle, putting on her helmet and giving Hiccup his, he got on the motorcycle aswell, hugging her waist, as she started the motorcycle to the police station
A few minutes later they arrived on the police station, they got inside the police station and Hiccup looked for Teeny, he spotted him a few seconds after they arrived
“Hey Teeny! Hey!”
“Hello, Hiccup Haddock, where is Eret?”
“Eret had something to do and couldn’t take me here, this is my girlfriend, Astrid.”
Astrid waved
“Hello, Astrid, I’m Teeny, in charge of the investigation!”
“Teeny?” she giggled “and I thought the name Hiccup was weirdly funny”
Teeny laughed aswell, and then he lead them to the room where they looked at the camera footage, Astrid went through the clues with Hiccup, she saw the car aswell
she froze, she knew this car, she knew the car well, she couldn’t believe it.
She tried to act cool and not make her shock obvious, Hiccup looked at her, worried
“Is there something wrong…?”
“No… no, all fine, I just feel like I’ve seen this car before.”
“Yeah, me too, but I can’t seem to remember who owned the car…”
“Yeah me either.”
Oh… Astrid, you know the car pretty well
“Mr Haddock you will have to bring the car in here to get it tested, and especially the plate number from the back and from the front”
“Okay… Alright, I will, you need it today or tommorow?”
“If it is possible, today.”
“Okay.”
Hiccup called Eret after they were outside the police station, Eret was free on the evening to go with him to the police station
—
Later on, the entire gang met, in a nearby park
“Did you hear the news? Our teacher’s brother got killed by a car on an empty road.”
Fishlegs said as Hiccup and Astrid looked at each other, it was in the news already?
“Yeah I’ve heard a thing or two.” Heather said
“Yeah me too… I heard that Viggo Grimborn blamed Hiccup for that…” Snotlout said
“He did, indeed, he told the police, they interrogated me, but I was proven innocent.” Hiccup said
“They don’t know who did it? do they?” Snotlout asked
“Nope.” Hiccup said
Astrid got nervous, thinking again about the car they saw, she looked nervous as Hiccup understood it, looking at her, she had rested her head on his lap
“Everything okay, babe?”
“Yeah, yeah everything is fine.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah, just my head hurts.”
“You wanna go?”
“No, no, it’s all fine.”
“Hiccstrid! Take it easy.” Snotlout said
“Shut up.” They said at the same time
“Jealous much? Snotlout?” Ruff said
“No! No. I’m not jealous, because we also have a big announcement to make with my pal here, Fishlegs.”
“Is he planning on finally killing you?” Astrid joked
“No?” he did a side eye on her “We are officially together, well for a few months now, but we now decided to be official, well, let’s hope my dad is not going to find out.”
“Woah we are all happy for you two!” Heather said
“Yeah and we can always kidnap your dad and send him to Australia if you want!” Tuff said
“Yeah, he will be frightened as hell with all those giant spiders!” Ruff continued
They all laughed as a group hug happened
Ruff spoke again “Since all of you are finding a partner, Hiccup… could you set me up with Eret…?”
Hiccup laughed “I don’t think I can do that…”
they continued talking for over an hour, when they all had somewhere to go, so they all left.
—
Hiccup and Astrid returned to their house, to their room, meanwhile Stoick and Valka were in the next room, but they didn’t know it.
“Tell me what’s wrong. Now!” Hiccup said
“Nothing is wrong.” Astrid insisted
“Cut the act, Astrid, something is wrong and it shows from the way you act!”
“So I can’t have a day that I’m not in the mood for anything?”
“Since the moment we left the police station you’re like this!”
“I’m here,’protecting you. And all you have to say is that I’m hiding things from you? Are you fucking serious?”
“Don’t raise your voice Astrid, because I can do the same and they will hear us blocks away.”
“Alright then, Yell, Haddock, yell!”
“Oof…” he stopped, looking at her “I’m sorry alright? I’m just stressed and worried, I’m sorry. I just want to know what’s bothering you.”
“I talked to Viggo.” she confessed
“What? What?”
“Yeah, I went and taught him a lesson.”
“Did he hit you?”
“No, but he insisted you did the crime and grabbed my hand, he said that he’s always a step forward than the police.”
“He grabbed you? Did he do anything else?”
“No, but I punched him.”
“You need to report that to the police.”
“I will be blamed for that if I do, Hiccup, I’m the one who visited him, the one who pushed him against the wall, and the one who punched him.”
“Yeah but we need to report it.”
“No.”
“Yes Astrid, what are you so afraid of? Do you know something more than I do?”
“No… NO! I’m just worried about you and believe that we should tell your parents.”
“I’m not telling my parents!”
“No, you are.”
“I have to go the police station, Astrid.”
“It would be better if we told your parents.”
“How the fuck do you know that?”
“I just do, it would be better if a legal adult helped us.”
“No, it wouldn’t.”
“It would”
“You know who did it, don’t you? You’re just not telling me to not make me worried.”
“I DONT?”
“THEN EXPLAIN WHY YOU ARE LIKE THAT SINCE THE MOMENT WE LEFT THE POLICE- Fuck Astrid! Oh my-“
He was cut off as the door opened, it was his parents who got inside worried
“What the fuck is going on? Why are you two screaming? And what police station are you talking about…?” Stoick said
“Do you have any idea that you can be heard almost a block away?” Valka continued
their voices calmed as Hiccup’s parents talked, they sat them down and explained everything that had happened, they were shocked hearing the entire story.
“I, now have to go, Eret and I have to go to the police station to give them the car to test it.”
“Just be careful son, and please don’t stay alone, in any case, it’s serious.”
“I won’t dad, I promise.”
“I trust you.”
“Thank you dad, see you later.”
The moment Hiccup left, Astrid went to their room and dialled a number, the caller responded
“Astrid?” he said
“We need to talk. Meet me in 20 minutes on the cafe close to the house.”
—
20 minutes later, Astrid got off her motorcycle, entering the cafe and sitting down on a table, she saw the man she was waiting for
“Hello, dad.” she said in a cold tone on her voice
“Hello, Astrid how are you? How have you been?” Her dad said but she cut him off
“Cut the act dad, I know everything.”
“Oh come on, you really believe that killer?”
“You seriously think… that I will believe you? I know the truth, I’ve seen the footage! I know what you did.”
“What footage are you talking about?”
“Oh you really are so dumb, of course you would be, since you thought beating up your daughter was a great idea. Now tell me the truth… or else, you will pay.”
“So now, you’re threating me… Alright, you will know the truth… but not here.”
“I’m not going anywhere with you, dad.”
“Oh you will.”
Astrid and her dad moved outside her former house, her family house
“Get inside.” Her dad insisted
“No.”
“I insist, nothing bad will happen.”
“Fine, but I swear, I’m not afraid… if you dare to hit me, I will fight back.”
“No need for violence, we will just have talk.”
They got inside the house as Astrid sat down on the couch, she hadn’t been there for over 4 months, she kinda missed the house, but definitely not her parents, she didn’t see her mom though…
“Where. Is. My. Mom?”
“She’s outside with a friend, but she doesn’t know anything about what I did…”
“So you’re admitting that you did it…”
“Okay… let’s start from scratch…
I never stop trying to bring you home, and nor your mom, we never stopped trying… I knew about the hate between your little boyfriend and the teacher. I wanted to make him pay for taking you away, I knew Ryker, we never liked each other anyways, scum, we had a fight a few days before the night of the murder, I stole Hiccup’s dad’s plate-number while he was away from the house, the garage door was open, so I stole it, replaced it with mine and hit Ryker, I left him there, and it was all to blame Hiccup, but that son of a bitch was too pure, and he found him and called an ambulance, Damn it! Even Viggo Grimborn couldn’t finish the job… he’s still alive. He shouldn’t have been.”
Astrid was furious listening to her dad, doing all of that just to frame her boyfriend because he was dating her, she couldn’t keep listening to his words, she punched him, then kicked him, with all the strength she could possibly find.
“You did all that… just for revenge? You fucking killed someone…” she tear up “you killed someone, just to make it look like he did it, so he can go to jail… and what? You think I would change my mind about him? I would never stop loving or caring about him-“
she was cut off by a hard slap, as her dad grabbed her arm
“You will stay here.”
“No.”
“Your mom will be here and you’ll sit down like a good girl and keep your mouth shut.”
“No… I won’t, and mom will realise what a scum back you really are, even after 18 years… better late than never…”
She said, blood running from her cheek, her hand run down her cheek, feeling the blood running down, she giggled to herself
“Well I’ve always known you were a shitty dad, but never thought you’d kill someone to frame my boyfriend because he had the balls to admit the truth and take me from the abusive house I lived in… Come on, hit me again. I dare you…”
“That’s not a way for a woman to talk…”
“Fall in a ditch, dad… I’ll enjoy it.”
She proceeded to leave, he grabbed her arm again, her arm was red from the pressure her dad held her, he slapped her again
“That’s the way you’re talking to your dad?”
“Be grateful I’m still talking to you.”
She let go of his hand, he grabbed her once more, when she punched him with her free hand, she broke free and ran towards the front door, running away from her house to the cafe they met to hop on her motorcycle