Unexpected

Stormy Weather

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Here's a bit of history: This chapter was originally a Love on the Battlefield one-shot but then the idea became too detailed and interesting to keep it in the confines of that story. So I decided that this had to be its own story. This is in the Love on the Battlefield canon, as you'll discover in later chapters. Since most of you are following that story as well, I'm glad I can clarify details in this story without having to do a bunch of flashbacks.

This story is definitely not your typical Hiccstrid pregnancy fic. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

~KateMarie999

Chapter One: Stormy Weather

The subsequent months after Hiccup and Astrid's nuptials had been relatively uninteresting. As far as the village was concerned, nothing had changed. Even before their wedding, it had become a running joke in the village that you weren't a true resident of Berk unless you caught the couple fiercely kissing in a bizarre public location at least once. Gobber held the record at having caught them a total of eight times. It was becoming so frequent that the newlyweds would blush scarlet every time they encountered him.

Life had returned to normal for Hiccup and Astrid as well. They had stayed confined to their new residence, which was just a tad outside the hustle and bustle of the village. They had picked it specifically because they were less likely to be intruded upon and, though neither of them would say it outright, because it had an extra bedroom that would transition perfectly into a nursery. At that time, they were using it for their wedding gifts, which lay forgotten for quite a long time thanks to the distraction of each other.

At long last, the two emerged and got on with their business as though they hadn't been absent at all. Astrid in particular was beginning to grow tired of the older women in the village casting sideways glances at her thankfully flat stomach. She could occasionally hear them whispering about when she would give birth to the next chief. The idea was making her very uncomfortable but the telltale signs of nausea and weight gain had not overcome her so she was reasonably sure it would be a while before children were even a consideration. Of course, both of them wanted children but it was far too early now. They had to focus on their new lives together before adding another new life to the mix.

Toothless and Stormfly had been rather annoyed at the antics of their humans. They loved the new house because the master bedroom had plenty of room for them both to comfortably fit with their owners. Most nights, especially after the wedding, Hiccup and Astrid wouldn't allow the dragons access to their room, instead instructing them to sleep in the sizeable pen next to the house. The dragons didn't mind it at first but the unpredictability was beginning to get slightly annoying. Their owners, for some reason, seemed to be especially friendly with them after the nights they didn't allow them into their room, though the dragons suspected there was an unrelated reason for this sudden affection. The way their owners grinned at each other while they fed them made them wonder what on earth they were doing that was so important.

Two days after they had emerged from their house (for longer than half an hour) and reopened the academy, Hiccup and Astrid had decided that it was time to attempt to find out what their friends had remembered in the last two months that they hadn't been studying.

The day before they emerged, Ruffnut and Snotlout had begun a publicized and very affectionate relationship. Having finally decided that Astrid was off the table the day he had walked in on them kissing at the academy, he decided to pursue Ruffnut, who didn't mind being second choice. In fact, she had displayed a surprising amount of cleverness when it came to allowing him to chase her. Hiccup and Astrid didn't know she was capable of subtlety but she had proven them wrong. Now that the two were together, they weren't paying attention to a word either Hiccup or Astrid said. For completely understandable reasons, Tuffnut was also a bit preoccupied with his sister's new boyfriend. Fully expecting his words to fall on deaf ears, Hiccup plowed through his speech anyway.