After the amputation of his leg Hiccup had been in his bed resting peacefully for three days. For three days Hiccup had not woken up, and for those three days Astrid would always be by his side. She would watch him and take care of him for many days. Now everyone did not know about Astrid's feelings towards the young boy. Not even she knew about them, but they were there. Stoic did not have much time to take care of his son. Helping the villagers build some new ships and going back to Dragon Island to pick up more Vikings, because of this Stoic's days had been incredibly occupied. Most of the ones he picked up over there were wounded first, the healthy ones stayed back to make sure the wounded survived.
Stoic was thankful that Astrid had been watching over his son. It would have been hard for him to try to do both. Every time he would come home and run upstairs to check on his son Astrid would be there. Stoic most of the time would walk in on different scenes between the two. Sometimes he would walk in on Astrid leaning over Hiccup's bed slowly pouring some water into Hiccup's mouth. Other times he would see her actually sitting on the bed with Hiccup's head on her lap. Today he walked in on her asleep with her head on Hiccup's stomach and with her hand and fingers entangled on his. Instead of waking them he decided to go the Hoffersons and explain to them what their daughter has been doing.
It took a lot of Convincing for the villagers to not harm any dragon that had been brought back by the children. It especially took a while to make sure no one hurts Hiccup's dragon. Now he left the idea of training dragons to the rest of the people, but the ones who seemed to be doing the good caretaking is the younger generation of kids. Each had already bonded with the younger dragons that have been coming in. The Problem for Stoic and the older generation is that many of the dragons did not trust them. Not only that the guilt of killing a few younger dragon's is what made them fear trying to bond with a dragon. Now that he thought of it, they have been killing such innocent creatures just because of a bit of food.
He shook his head as he continued his walk toward the Hofferson's Home. Once there he knocked on the door and waited for it to be answered, after a couple of seconds the door creaked open and out from within the house came Astrid Hofferson's mother and father. He took off his helmet in a show of respect toward them. Behind him was Astrid's dragon, which followed the scent of her favorite rider and finally found the home of Astrid. At first Astrid's parents were ready to run back in to get their weapons, but ultimately stopped when Stoic spoke in a calming yet sad voice, "good evening Mr. and Mrs. Hofferson. Do you mind if I come in I would like to have a good word with you two."
Astrid's parents both looked at each other in confusion as they saw that Stoic had his helmet removed from his head. After a small moment of silence Astrid's mother spoke, "uh... yes chief Stoic. Um... do you know you have a dragon behind you right now." She said as she pointed to the waiting Nadder. Stoic got a confused look as he looked behind him and saw the recognizable dragon that Astrid had ridden on to save Hiccup's life. He chuckled as he turned toward the two and said, "I do believe that dragon belongs to your daughter Astrid, Mrs. Hofferson."
They were shocked to hear this. Neither knew what was going on, while Stoic went to Dragon Island, he left only a steady few Viking behind to watch over all of Berk. Astrid's father and mother being one of them. This was going to take a while to explain, so Stoic said, "may I... well... May we come in," he said gesturing towards the Nadder. They nodded as they stepped aside to let Stoic and the Nadder into the house. Stoic walked into the house and sat down near a fire pit on a spare chair that they owned. He looked to see that their fire had died down and Mr. Hofferson had already gotten to work on starting a new fire. He had gathered the wood and set it down onto the fire pit. He looked around to find something to light the fire, but was stopped by stoic.
