DragonQueen3 asked me to call it Pain so...
A year later, on another camping trip, the gang was woken by a cry of pain. They looked around, only to find Hiccup, laying on the ground, weeping. "Phantom... Pain. I'm... Fine!" Astrid immediately told the other riders to go back to sleep. She then sat down next to Hiccup and rubbed the boy's shoulders, helping him relax. The other riders eventually went back to a restless sleep. The dragon riders could never truly rest while their leader was in pain. After twenty minutes Astrid asked, "Do you want me to take the metal leg off?" Hiccup quickly replied, "No! Yes! I... Really don't want... You to see my leg!"
Astrid frowned. "Would it make you feel better?" Hiccup didn't answer. "I think it would. You just don't want anyone to see it. I'm going to take it off." Astrid slipped off Hiccup's prosthetic. Hiccup immediately gave a frantic moan of "No!," but he relaxed a little bit. The skin under the prosthetic was a huge white scar, a little inflamed and puffy, but otherwise not bad.
"It's fine, Hiccup. It's not the first time I've seen your stump. I saw your leg before it was amputated. It was a mess. Bloody, cut up, broken in three places, burned. There was no salvaging it. I also helped hold you down when they amputated your leg." Astrid shuddered at the memory. "It wasn't just burned off."
The rest of the night went like that, with Hiccup and Astrid exchanging stories about what happened whenever they were separated, what went through their minds when the other was in danger. One thing became apparent. Hiccup always had Astrid's back, and Astrid always had Hiccup's.
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Pain-A HTTYD Fanfic
FanfictionMy friend wrote this and asked me to post it. I think it's really good! There is more coming as she writes... Her username pretty much every where but here is DragonQueen3
