Astrid's POV

I charged at the wolf, axe head in hand, tears flowing endlessly, IT KILLED HIM! ILL AVENGE HIM! I WILL END THIS THINGS LIFE FOR HIM!! I SWEAR!

I swung the axe, the wolf unaware takes it to the torso, a deep,deep cut slashed into it, blood flowing from it.

It collapses, in a blind rage I continue to slash the wolf, crying and cursing it out. I grow tired and drop my axe, it lands at my feet with a clang.

I heard the others shouting hiccups name, I turn and see him clutching his collar bone as it bleeds.I rush over and try and help him up, he stands and tries to take a few steps before tumbling down unto his knees.

"HICCUP!!" We all shout as he collapses unto his side, I race to his side, his eyes fall but they look at me, those beautiful forest green eyes fluttering open and closed, looking at me with love and bliss he's at peace. We are all crying, I can tell snotlout is trying to stop it but is failing.

Hiccup's eyes shut and his breathing get slower, slower, slower.

They stop

We all panic "FISHLEGS DO SOMETHING!" I yell as he scrambles over to Hiccup to check for a pulse "it's very very faint but he has a pulse, it's a medical mystery though, we need gothi, where are the dragons?!" He responds as I look to snotlout "find the dragons, get gothi here and fast." he nods and rushes out.

I put my arm on hiccups upper back and tilt him upwards a bit, I put my palm on his chest, sure enough the rising and lowering of his chest is there, short shallow breaths. I look at his features, he looks pale, a chunk of his collar bone and flesh is missing on the right of his neck, bits of blood still dripping from it, his chest has deep scratches that broke through the armor. I look to his eyes, I find not the comfort of forest green, but the disturbance of pale, lifeless white lids enclosing them.

I lay him on my lap, I look up to the twins and Fishlegs, not even the twins are joking, fishlegs in flipping through pages of a medical book, I lean hiccup up close to me where his back is resting on my chest, I lean in close to him holding him still with my arms holding his waist, "Hiccup?" no response, not even a budge.

Silent tears fall, a hold him close, repeating the same things over "I'm sorry, I couldn't save you, I lost my focus, I'm sorry-"I repeat it over and over. My tears are no longer silent, it's not like I care if they see me cry, my best friend, the love of my life is dead, or dying it was because of my foolishness. I bury my face into his left shoulder, crying into it. Fishlegs comes to comfort me, the twins are sad too, I can't tell if they're crying but it doesn't matter, nothing matters anymore if Hiccup dies, it feels like forever until something happens, the whole time I'm sobbing and mourning, I already avenged him but what does it matter, it won't bring him back.

HOUR LATER

I'm still holding him even if gothi is treating him, I'm holding him, she seems overwhelmed, stoick came too with gobber. She wrote something in the gravel, gobber translates "it's a miracle he survived, his condition is on the edge of death, the amount of blood he has is low, he will need to be resting for days on end and people will need to care for him, for will be in a coma." Gobber reads off, as we stare at hiccup in fear and sorrow "so that means we have to get him back to berk, to rest right?" I ask her, she nods, toothless and the others walk in, toothless' eyes dilate in fear and he runs to hiccup's side, he warbles with worry for his buddy.

I wrap an arm around his head, and pull him close, he licks Hiccup, no response. I help hiccup up onto toothless' saddle and I follow. Everyone mounts unto their dragons. And we fly off, it takes a while for me to get toothless' fin working but I got it. Once in the sky I moved Hiccup to be in front of me, in my arms, I trusted toothless to keep us steady, and I could tell he was being careful, knowing his rider is severely injured on his back. The others would fly back a bit to check up on us. It would take time to get to berk from here, it would be longer when you add how miserable we all were. But in due time we got to berk, skullcrusher, grump, and all the others landed, I had a bit of trouble carrying Hiccup all by myself but stoick took him.

We arrived at gothis hut a few minutes later and laid him down, gothi treated his wounds and sewed them up, it was kinda gross but I was mainly just concerned for hiccup.

When the treatment was done gothi wrote us a message, gobber came to explain "she says he won't be dead, but he won't be awake for at least a few days even a week." He reads off as we look at hiccup's slow breaths and healed wounds, if it weren't for hiccups condition I'd be all over him right now, I mean look at him, he has the body of a Viking god. He had finely toned muscles and a 6-pack, biceps and all that great stuff, you'd be crazy to call him a fishbone or a twig Thor forbid.

We didn't move from our spots for a few minutes before gothi insisted we go, one by one everyone reluctantly left after saying silent words of prayer for hiccup. It was stoick and I who were left, gothi smacked stoick on the head "OOF- gothi!" Stoick yells as gothi just points away telling him to go, he goes off after placing a hand on the medical table hiccup lays on and leans forward, his head down saying silent prayers.

Gothi looks to me and I look at her, I was desperate to stay, she looks at me, deep into my soul, she nods "soo I can stay?" I asked her and she nods showing a hand motioning towards hiccup.

I walk to him and pull up a chair, his eyes stay shut but he seems peaceful. I wait and watch, and I swore :I will not leave your side without a fight! I failed to protect you once, I won't again!

HICCUPS POV

It was darkness, pure and utter darkness, I could hear sobs, I didn't know who's they belonged to but I felt guilt, I didn't know why I felt that way, but I wanted to hold them and comfort them, it was a woman she sounded familiar but I couldn't place it, who was she? Why can't I see? What's going on?

I tried to move but I was stuck with my arms to my sides and my legs straight out. Why was I stuck like this? I don't know, I just want to see, and move, to remember.

I lie in darkness for hours, unable to sleep, to speak, to do anything but listen to the sobs of the unknown maiden. I listened and I felt a pang of sorrow for her, what happened to make her like this, was it because of me? Is it because I'm like this? What exactly happened? Why am I in pain? Why am I like this?

ASTRIDS POV

I came for my daily visit to hiccup, so far it's been 10 days and counting since hiccups injury. He should've been able to wake up 3 days ago, I make it up the stairs to gothi's hut, she sees me wonder in and waves at me then motions to hiccups table, I wave back then go to sit down next to him. I couldn't help but sob quietly as I thought about him, and everything we've ever done together, the missions, the fun times, the other fun times, ohhh geez wow that was......... wow I never knew he was that good at making out.

I'm snapped out of my thoughts by gothi walking up to the table and checking up on hiccup. I was still crying but she looked to me and smiled, it means he is perfectly fine, I'm happy he's healthy but what does that matter if he spends the rest of his life asleep. She walks to me and touches my hand as a sign of comfort, I smile warmly at her, and she points at hiccup.

I stare intently at him, he continues his slow breaths, his bare chest rising and dropping slowly. But other than that nothing happens, just as I was about to look away, his fingers twitch, he moves a bit.

I ran to the table, holding his cheeks with my hands and holding him close. "HICCUP??" I whispered yell, he mumbles, I began to cry happy tears "HICCUP ARE YOU AWAKE?!" I whispered louder, he slowly opens his eyes "oh hey........... what did I miss?" He groggily replies as I hug him closer.

"A-astrid, I cant b-breathe" he mumbles as I blush and let him go "I'm sorry I'm just rreeally happy to see you awake." I answer

"how long was I out?"

I tensed, he wont believe me if I said he was out for 1 1/2 weeks. I told him anyway "you were asleep for 10 and a half days... on end." I answered quietly, his eyes froze in place, he tensed, he took a shaky shallow breath, then looked at me with bright green eyes.

"How did this happen?" He asked after a while of more silence

"The lycanwolf bit you in the collar, severe blood loss, it was really bad, we were all there, we couldn't save yo- I- I couldn't save you I'm sorry." I'm explained in sorrow as he stared into space again.

I began to cry remembering that night, the blood, the cold stone and air that carried the misery we all had across the sea. And him, bleeding, crying out to us, the screams, the pain, the tension. It was to much for me to handle. I broke down right next to him.

I thought that he was mad at me failing him, I felt cold as I cried there, it wasn't even cold in the hut, it was just my heart. But suddenly the cold went away, replaced by arms around me, and a soft familiar voice "Astrid I messed up, you didn't do anything wrong, the last thing I would ever think is that this is your fault, if you want to blame someone, blame me, just please no more tears, I heard them, when I was asleep I heard them. I was there but I couldn't comfort you, please no more I couldn't stand to hear you crying then, I can't now." He comforted as I wiped my tears.

He moved his hands down to my waist and pulled me closer, placing his head on my shoulder, I leaned against it, "Hiccup I-i can't stand to lose you again, I can't live without you, y'know that?" I whispered just loud enough for him to hear, he doesn't respond, he just takes a finger, places it on the right side of my chin and makes me look at him, his forest green eyes, flaming with an indecipherable emotion I've never seen. "I know, and I feel the same, never doubt that, there will ALWAYS be a hiccup and an Astrid, always." He responded

When I looked away he gently grabbed my chin and made me look back at him, he pulled me in for a soft, tender kiss. In that moment I regained all I thought was lost, hope, faith, and-

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