A world without you

Epilogue - Hiccup's POV

The dizziness started to wear off as I felt the cure do its job. The world stopped spinning and I could finally see Astrid clearly. She smiled for a mere second before she put her hand on her head and then fainted.

"Astrid!" I yelled, to no use. I couldn't shake her awake. She was extremely pale, not greenish pale as she had gotten by the scourge but as if she had close to no blood in her body. Beads of sweat ran down her forehead and she was shivering. All I could think of was that she could not die on me now, not after everything we had been through. I ran to the Buffalord to get the saliva. Every second felt like an hour and the voice in my head said that she would die if I didn't get her the antidote now.

I ran back to her but as I was about to give her the antidote another dragon came flying. It was my Mom. She yelled at me to not give her the antidote.

"Why?" I asked.

"We have to let the scourge kill the poison first, if we don't the poison will kill her."

My heart raced. We waited for anything to change, to let us know that The trick of Loki had been killed. I had her head in my lap and shakingly stroked her hair. Her breath was shallow and when mom looked at the wound it was purple. The sun had begun to rise when we saw it, her skin was pale, greenish pale. She had the scourge. Mom rose and ran to the Buffalord. We made Astrid drink the cure and she started to regain some colour. But she didn't wake up.

"Shouldn't she wake up?" I asked a bit panicky

"She is cured but her body is exhausted. It has been broken down for so long. She needs to rest." Mom answered.

"Wait, do you mean that there might be a chance that she can't recover from this?"

"I don't know. I hope she will, she's a strong woman and a fighter. She hasn't given up yet, has she?"

"No she hasn't." I said

"Then let's take her home."

She woke up a week later. I had fallen asleep beside her and woke up to her stroking my hair.

"Hi." She smiled. I sat up quickly and gave her a light kiss of happiness.

"Hi."

"No more near-death experiences for a while, okay?" She said.

"Deal." I laughed and kissed her again.

She fell asleep in my arms. I held her, quietly stroking the hair out of her eyes. For the first time in years, I relaxed. I felt safe. I felt as if we were safe, like we were going to be okay. Viggo was gone, the damage he had made had been fixed. Astrid had fought through and overcome everything he had thrown at her, like she always had. Now we could build our lives together. We had a future, we could grow old together, have children and lead Berk. We would be happy. As long as we were together. And never would we have to live in a world without each other again.