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Hiccup and Astrid were stacking empty crates in the Arena when Astrid yelped. Something sharp pricked at her palm and send a jolt through her nervous system.

"Ow!" Astrid jumped and the crate in her arms fell to the ground with a thunk. She grabbed her palm and stared at the skin, a large stick of wood dug into her palm, blood starting to bead around the cut. She scowled at it. Thor's hammer, she just had to get a splinter...

"Astrid!" Hiccup hastily set down the crates and rushed to his girlfriend's side. He grabbed her wrist gently and grabbed her waist with the other, pulling her to him and bringing her hand close to his face, scanning it with a frown. "Are you okay?"

Astrid rolled her eyes at Hiccup's unnecessary worry about a Thor Forsaken splinter, but smiled at how adorable he really looked, fussing over a shard of wood in her palm with big emerald eyes. 

"Babe. It's a splinter. Splinter." Astrid deadpanned and repeated the word splinter with emphasis. It was a literal splinter, not a knife or a sword or an arrow that impaled her. A splinter. And yet here he was.

Hiccup pressed his lips together. "It's big..." He muttered as he brushed a drop of blood that surfaced on her skin away. "And pretty deep, hun."

Astrid shrugged and tried to flex her hand to prove her point she was okay, but winced as she felt the wood dig into her flesh.

"Ow..." Astrid mumbled reluctantly, stilling her hand. Hiccup's frown only deepened.

"Babe..." Hiccup tenderly held Astrid's waist and guided her to sit of an upside down crate. "Stay here. I'll get the bandages. It's deeper than it looks, Ast." Hiccup straightened up and flashed her a soft grin that warmed Astrid's insides. He leaned forward and pecked her cheek, making the skin tingle, wanting more, before walking off to the other side of the arena to rummage around a chest full of equipment. After some shuffling and clanging of scourging through the chest he pulled out a strip of bandages and a rag out and made his way over to her.

He kneeled in front of her and outstretched his hand. Astrid mumbled something under her breath, something along the lines that she was a twenty year old adult that could handle a splinter, but nonetheless let Hiccup cup her hand and bring it close to him. 

Hiccup let his hand drift up to stroke her thigh gently, his feathery touch ticklish, making Astrid giggle quietly. "It's gonna hurt." Hiccup leaned forward, his freckles like sand speckled across the ground and his green eyes glowing with love. 

"I can handle it." Astrid breathed, her heart pounding against her ribs as Hiccup's nose brushed hers. It wasn't barely the first time he kissed her but every time she could feel his hot breath against her lips she felt just as giddy.

"I know you can..." Hiccup's lips swiped at hers before pulling back a fraction of a second later, leaving Astrid slightly disappointed at the lost of warm contact she always craved; but it was overtaken by a biting sting that pinched at her palm.

"Eep!" Astrid squeaked as Hiccup held her wrist firmly and gripped the top of the wood before yanking it upwards in one, powerful, swift move. Astrid jolted at the nip and glared at Hiccup's hair, starting to scold him but it was halfheartedly as Hiccup's gentle and benevolent fingers starting to work on her wound; pressing the rag to her bleeding palm securely with one hand and with the other, untangling the strip of bandage by clamping one side between his teeth and straightening with the other hand. Astrid bit her lip - finding the sight of her boyfriend caring for her in front of him, the bandage between his teeth, hand holding hers firmly and his eyes burning with concentration and compassion, very irresistible.

Getting the bandage straightened, Hiccup removed the rag dotted with blood and tossed it over his shoulder. He quickly winded the cloth around her palm tightly, knotted it off and tucked it into the folds in a blink of an eye.

Hiccup pressed his lips to the surface of the linen and leaned back up to give her a proper kiss, latching his mouth onto hers. Astrid sighed into his velvet lips and kissed back, gripping onto Hiccup's shoulders. She grinned, letting her drug of her boyfriend help her forget the spiking pain...