Astrid's POV 

It was a Saturday morning and I woke up to the warmth of another body beside me. I smiled at the scent realizing it was Hiccup. Who else would it be? I looked at the clock on his night table and it was only 8:00am. I laid my head on his chest and closed my eyes again to fall asleep. 

I slept for a couple more hours when I woke up to find Hiccup was already out of bed. I heard voices coming from downstairs. I sat up and stretched before getting out of bed. I didn't care that I was still in my pajama's. A pair of black yoga pants and an over-sized grey t-shirt. My hair was a bit messy so I took it down and brushed it and put it back up in a messy bun. I put on my glasses and headed downstairs to the kitchen. I went to the fridge to look for the orange juice, but I couldn't find it. I felt to arms wrap around my waist and kiss was planted gently on my cheek.

"It's already on the table m'lady." The familiar voice told me.  I smiled and looked at him.

"Good morning." I told him. 

"Good morning." He said kissing me. "I'm taking care of breakfast, for all three of us." He said.

"Three of us?" I asked taking a sit at the table.

"My dad is actually home for breakfast this morning." 

"Oh." 

"What's wrong?" Hiccup asked looking at me. 

"Nothing. It's just, I haven't formally met him yet, and I've been living here for almost 2 months." I said. 

"It's fine. He knows you've been here. I asked him if we could take you in and he said it was fine." 

Stoick walked into the kitchen and took a seat at the table. 

"Good morning dad." Hiccup said putting a big stack of pancakes on the table, followed by some eggs and bacon as well. He sat down. 

"Good morning Hiccup." Stoick said. "and Good Morning....Astrid is it?" I nodded. 

"Good morning Sir." I said with a small smile. He let out a bit of a laugh. 

"No need for the Sir, lass. You call me Stoick." He said. "You're the one that was in the hospital that night, correct?" 

When he asked I looked down at my plate cutting up some pancake and nodded. "Yes, that was me." I said thinking of the memory that still lingered in my mind of my mother shooting me. 

"Ah, well I'm glad to see you're okay." He said with a smile and took a big bite of food. 

"Thank you." I said continuing to eat. 

Hiccup and I sat there eating and having a conversation. Stoick was done pretty quickly, cleaned up his plates and headed out of the house shortly after Hiccup and I finished up and cleaned up and I wasn't really up to getting dressed yet. I was comfortable. Hiccup and I went to the living room and laid on the couch together and turned on a movie. Stormfly and Toothless came to the couch and laid at the foot of it together. I smiled at the two puppies. They were adorable. 

"Hey Astrid." Hiccup piped up. 

"Hmm?" I said still looking at the TV well I felt his hands play with my hair. He had taken it out of the bun and been combing it with his fingers for the past half an hour. 

"I want to take you out tonight." He said. 

"Where too?" I asked. 

"Not sure. Dinner, a movie? a walk? I guess you could say our usual." He said with a smirk. I smiled at him. 

"Sure babe." I said looking back at the tv. I felt a soft touch on my head realizing he had kissed it gently. 

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Later that night I put on a white skirt that went about mid-thigh, a red tank top, with my black leather jacket. I wasn't in the mood for heels so I found my black flats with the bows and put those on instead. I didn't bother with make-up or jewelry, knowing Hiccup would care less. I also kept my glasses on too. I grabbed my small black purse with the gold chain and put it over to my other shoulder so it was across my body. I went downstairs and Hiccup was waiting at the door for me. He was pretty casual himself. I nice pair of dark blue jeans and sky blue v-neck t-shirt with a grey jacket over top. 

"You ready m'lady?" He asked as I came to the bottom of the stairs. I smiled at him. 

"Yes handsome." I said and his face lit up with a smile. I giggled a little and he grabbed my hand and kissed my forehead. 

"You look beautiful." He whispered. I smiled and we left to go to dinner and a movie. 

We talked all through dinner and only took about an hour or so for dinner. We went  to the movies next and picked one we both been wanting to see. Afterwards we headed to the park where we always took walks. We found a grassy clearing and laid down beside each other star-gazing. It was fun, we headed back to Hiccup's house and went upstairs to my room this time. Hiccup went and changed first and so did I. I got into bed and was laying on my side when he came in. He crawled into bed with me and wrapped an arm around me holding me tight. I snuggled up to him with my nose in the crook of his neck and my eyes shut taking in his scent that I love so much. 

"I love you Hiccup." I whispered. 

"I love you too Astrid." He said kissing my head. 

Soon after we fell asleep. 

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It was Monday morning, and I was at my locker getting books for 3rd period. I heard the voice of a girl that I hated. Kara Williams. 

"Still not knocked up? Or are you Hofferson." Kara said. I felt my face turn into a glare and I turned and faced her. 

"No, actually I'm not, and even if I was, I wouldn't tell you." I spat at her. I saw Hiccup down the hall out of the corner of my eye hoping he would get her fast to pull me away from her. Kara was saying something how I'll probably be pregnant by the end of the year, if not before. I was still glaring at her when I felt Hiccup touch my arm a little. I relaxed slightly at his touch. 

"You know, you basically have no parents. Since they're both in jail because of you." Kara said. 

"Why do you care if my parents are in jail. You have no idea what they did, do you?" I said. 

"Actually I know everything that they did. I know a lot more than you would think I would." She said back. I could sense Hiccup getting mad now too. 

"Kara, leave her alone. Astrid's life is none of your damn business. You shouldn't even know anything about her." Hiccup said. 

"I would Fishbone, but sadly I can't. Do you know why?" She said. 

"Cause you like to ruin people's lives." I mumbled under my breathe so she couldn't hear it. 

"Because my mom is seeing Astrid's father." She said. 

I was shocked. Hiccup and I looked at each other. 

"Wait, what?" I said. 

"Your father, and my mother, have been dating for 3 years. And now he's in jail thanks to you." She said. 

I didn't say anything. 

"You don't realize why he's in jail, do you?" Hiccup said. 

"What because he hit her mom a couple times. Who cares." She said. That made me mad. 

"He's in jail because he would BEAT my mom every damn chance he got. He was always drunk and beat her for no reason. My mom even took the beatings he wanted to give me so that he wouldn't touch me." I spat at her. 

None of said anything for a minute. Than Hiccup spoke up. 

"Kara, here's a suggestion. Go to class, and leave Astrid alone. You have no good reason to be doing this to her." He said. 

Kara said something back that made me even more furious already. 

"I'm surprised you have gotten her pregnant yet Hiccup. Let alone dated her, and stayed with her, and still with her. She's so messed up, you should just leave her like everyone else did. She's worthless anyways." She said. 

"That's it!" I said making a fist I went to punch her and Hiccup grabbed my arms holding me back. 

"Screw off!" I said to her. 

"Gladly, although I won't get screwed. But you probably will. Oh that's right, you already have been." She said referring to what Liam did to me. I went for her again and Hiccup had a tight grip on me I couldn't get out of it. She walked away to her class with a stupid smirk on her face. Hiccup let me go. I was furious. I went to my locker again and grabbed my books and slammed my locker shut walking away while Hiccup walked beside me. 

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When we got home after school I was still furious about what had happened with Kara. Hiccup was trying to calm me down but it obviously was not working. 

"UGH! I HATE HER! I HATE HER!" I yelled walking into the house. I heard Hiccup sigh. 

"Astrid, I know she upset you, she made me mad too but you need to relax." He said. 

"Relax? Hiccup she knows everything about me! She probably tells everyone about how my dad is an alcoholic/drug user and abused my mom. She probably tells them how my mom was knocked up with me at my age and became an alcoholic an shot me and beat me sometimes. She's probably told them how all my mom's boyfriends after she left my dad all abused her and some abused me. How all the boyfriend's I've had have abused me. She's probably told them how Liam raped me. She thinks I'm gonna get knocked up and is surprised I haven't been. She probably thinks your gonna abuse me too at some point. She even asked why you haven't left me yet. She called me worthless because it's true. If me and you weren't together I would probably be homeless right now...." I was breathing heavily from anger and the rant I just gave. Hiccup was looking at me and I could see sadness in his eyes. 

"Astrid. Listen to me." He said walking up to me, I didn't look at him. He took my hands in his and I finally made eye contact. "She's just trying to get to you. She knows how all of it bugs you and hurts you. She knows it makes you mad." I sighed. "You just have to ignore her. We all know she has no right to do that but you can't let it get to you."

"But it does Hiccup. It does get to me. I mean they may not be the best parents. But they're still my parents. I've been through enough. I don't need this from her too." I said. 

"I know Astrid. I may not know everything you've been through, and I can tell you right now that I'm not going to ever make you tell me or talk about it. Unless you want too. You know I would never leave you and I especially will NEVER hurt you. Okay?" He said. I felt his soft lips kiss my forehead. 

"Okay." I said softly. 

"I have a great idea to make you cheer up." He said. I looked at him curious. 

"What's that?" I asked. 

"How about, we order some pizza, and just watch a movie?" He said. I smiled. 

"Sounds perfect." I said. "Thank you Hiccup." I said giving him a kiss. He kissed me back. 

"You're welcome." He said. 

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"You can't hide forever baby!" A male voice said. The male voice sounded to be about 16 years old. 

I breathed heavily in a closet hiding from him. My boyfriend. My first boyfriend. I was 14 and he was 16. He turned extremely abusive. I looked through the crack and saw a knife in his hand. He has beat me so many times I was already covered in bruises head to toe. 

"Astrid baby! Come here. I'm not gonna hurt you. I just want to have some fun!" I heard him say. I backed up against the wall in the closet and caused something to fall and I froze. I heard his steps come towards the closet and he opened it grabbing me. I screamed as he began hitting me, punching me, trying to stab me. I managed somehow to get the knife out of his hand and threw it across the room. I had cut my hand opened in the process though. 

"If you don't do as I say, you and your mother will pay!" He said to me. I heard banging on the door and he stood up and police and paramedics came into the room grabbing him and attending to me. 

"AH!" I screamed shooting up from the bed breathing very heavily and sweating. My eyes were filled with tears and I was trying to make out where I was. I heard the doors of my room open and saw Hiccup standing there. He ran over to the bed and hugged me and I clung to him as if my life depended on it. 

"What happened?" He asked. 

"Just...just a...a night....nightmare." I stuttered between sobs. 

"Do you wanna talk about it?" He asked. 

"No! Please, no." I said trying to slow my breathing down. Hiccup was trying to help me clam down and slow my breathing back to a normal pace again. 

"Come here." He said laying down under my covers holding me close to him. I was still clinging to him tightly. 

"Don't leave me." I said. It was muffled into his shirt but I knew he heard me when he replied. 

"I won't leave you." He said. "I'll never leave you." He said again kissing my head. 

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Over the next two - three weeks I was having nightmares, flashbacks and memories of every abusive thing that has ever happened to me. I woke up almost every night screaming. Hiccup was always there. Some nights I couldn't even get back to sleep. I could tell Hiccup was worried about me. I hadn't eaten a full meal in two weeks, and you could tell I lost weight. I didn't do much, I was almost always falling asleep in class, missing half of the lessons, than having to figure them out for homework when I got home, which I usually just ended up giving up on. 

Something else I noticed is that I've been very jumpy. I love holding hands and being close to Hiccup. But recently whenever he goes to touch me or reach for me, I jump out of fear that he's going to hurt me somehow. Even though I know he won't. Hiccup finally convinced me to go to a doctor, that's where we were now. At a doctor's office. 

Hiccup and I were waiting for results. I had just answered a bunch of questions and Hiccup had explained what had been going on. They than of course had to ask about my abuse and such, which was the last thing I wanted to talk about, yet it was the entire reason why I was at the doctor's anyway. 

After a few more minutes the doctor came in. 

"Alright, Astrid." He said. I grabbed Hiccup's hand. "You have PTSD." He told me and I just looked at him for a second. 

"PTSD? Like what people from war get?" I ask. He nodded.

"Yes. But anyone can get it. PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is caused by any traumatic event in someone's life. And by the way you told us how you were abused so much. That is the cause of it. PTSD is mostly known for nightmares, and flashbacks. They can come at anytime. Things can trigger it." He told me. 

I felt as if I couldn't breathe for a few minutes well he explained to me why I had it. I was holding Hiccup's hand still, a bit tighter now. 

"It's nothing to worry about Astrid. Yes it affects your life, but it doesn't affect everything. It is something you can live with. You just have to learn how. I don't want to put you on any medication yet, and I'm not sending you to therapy right away. Mostly because you said this only started a couple weeks ago correct?" I nodded. "Alright, so go home. Just do what you normally do. When they come, try to calm yourself down in anyway you can. Whether that be with your current boyfriend or by yourself." He told me. "By the way Astrid. I think you have a keeper with this boy here." He said and I smiled at him and looked at Hiccup who's cheeks had turned slightly red. 

After we went home, I sat on the couch and Hiccup brought some food and drinks to the living room. He sat down with me and I cuddled up to him. 

"You're mine." I said grabbing his hand with mine. "Forever." 

"Oh really?" He said I looked up and he was smiling and I smiled back and nodded. "Well good, because you're mine, and I'm not giving you up anytime soon, or at all." He said back. I giggled a little and he leaned over and kissed me. 

"I love you." He said. 

"I love you too." I told him. 

We smiled and both looked back at the TV. I had my head on his chest and my smile wore off. 

'PTSD.' I thought. 'Is it really going to be that bad?' 

I pushed the thought of it aside for now and just enjoyed the movie with my Hiccup. 

I like that. 

My Hiccup. 

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There ya go!!!!! 

Sorry for a bit of a wait. I went to the movies with my mom last night, and than today we helped my sister and her husband move into their new apartment, which was about an hour away. 

Hope you enjoyed!!! 

Love you guys!!! :) <3