Babysitting : Hiccup Haddock x Reader

Chapter 2: The Dragon That Didn't Bite

Word Count: 1898

"I really did hit one", Hiccup said to Gobber as they walked to the door of his house.

"Sure Hiccup", Gobber said following a little ways behind the both of you, "Did he?".

You thought for a second whether you'd lie or not.

"I didn't get there in time to see the shot", you said, you didn't say that he hit it and you didn't deny it either, it was a safe middle ground to keep him out of trouble. Or were you defending the dragon from the wrath of the village if they found out? You never had a desire to kill a dragon the only reason you might, would be because you'd protect your people and yourself, maybe that's what they were harming us too.

"He never listens", Hiccup added, complaining about his father.

"It runs in the family", Gobber said making you laugh with then got a glace out of hiccup.

"When he does it's always with this disappointed scowl, like someone skimped all the meat in his sandwich. 'Excuse me, barmaid. I'm afraid you brought me the wrong offspring. I ordered an extra- large boy with beefy arms, extra guts and glory on the side. This here, this is a talking fishbone'". Hiccup did a hilariously inaccurate expression of his father which made you laugh.

"You're thinking about this all wrong, its not so much what you look like, its what's on the inside he can't stand". Gobber told him.

Hiccup had a very confused and annoyed face, "Thank you for summing that up".

"Look, the point is, stop trying so hard to be something you're not", Gobber said to him.

"I just wanna be one of you guys", Hiccup walked in with you following close behind.

Hiccup quickly went to grab some bandages for your wound as he promised you earlier and helped wrap your arm up.

"Okay, lets go find this dragon", he said to you grabbing your hand on the arm you didn't hurt and dragged you out the door with him, and into the woods.

He was crossing places off on a small map he drew in a book, he got visibly frustrated and started scribbling all over his page. You grabbed the book from his hands and put it in the pocket inside of your coat.

"Out of sight, out of mind", you said to him, trying to keep him from getting too frustrated.

"Thank you", Hiccup said in response, he was very grateful for you.

"Anytime", you sent him a playful wink. His face went slightly red but he turned away so you wouldn't notice.

"Oh, the Gods hate me", he sighed as you both were now aimlessly wandering. "Some people lose their knife or their mug. Not us, we manage to lose an entire dragon". You felt flatter that you were apart of his dragon hunt and that you weren't just seen as following him around, you were seen with the same goal he has, finding the dragon, which is correct, you want to find this dragon as much as he does.

He hits a branch as he finished his speech and it comes back and hits him in the face. You giggle slightly but put a hand on his shoulder to make sure he was okay. You both saw that the branch was unnaturally broken down the middle, so it must have been where the dragon landed. You both followed a very large indent in the ground and tried to stay quite. He put his head up over a small ledge only to see the black dragon lying there, wrapped up in the ropes and quickly pulled himself back down and you with him. He slowly looked back up and looked for his knife as you slowly came up. He ran down to a big rock and hid behind it, you followed and watched him get closer.

"Oh wow. I did it", he said, "Oh I did it, this fixes everything! Yes! I have brought down this mighty beast", he put his leg on the dragon to assert some sort of dominance but the dragon pushed his leg of with it's own.