Your Love Changed Me

Chapter 12: Diagnosis

Astrid's POV 

It was a Saturday morning and I woke up to the warmth of another body beside me. I smiled at the scent realizing it was Hiccup. Who else would it be? I looked at the clock on his night table and it was only 8:00am. I laid my head on his chest and closed my eyes again to fall asleep. 

I slept for a couple more hours when I woke up to find Hiccup was already out of bed. I heard voices coming from downstairs. I sat up and stretched before getting out of bed. I didn't care that I was still in my pajama's. A pair of black yoga pants and an over-sized grey t-shirt. My hair was a bit messy so I took it down and brushed it and put it back up in a messy bun. I put on my glasses and headed downstairs to the kitchen. I went to the fridge to look for the orange juice, but I couldn't find it. I felt to arms wrap around my waist and kiss was planted gently on my cheek.

"It's already on the table m'lady." The familiar voice told me.  I smiled and looked at him.

"Good morning." I told him. 

"Good morning." He said kissing me. "I'm taking care of breakfast, for all three of us." He said.

"Three of us?" I asked taking a sit at the table.

"My dad is actually home for breakfast this morning." 

"Oh." 

"What's wrong?" Hiccup asked looking at me. 

"Nothing. It's just, I haven't formally met him yet, and I've been living here for almost 2 months." I said. 

"It's fine. He knows you've been here. I asked him if we could take you in and he said it was fine." 

Stoick walked into the kitchen and took a seat at the table. 

"Good morning dad." Hiccup said putting a big stack of pancakes on the table, followed by some eggs and bacon as well. He sat down. 

"Good morning Hiccup." Stoick said. "and Good Morning....Astrid is it?" I nodded. 

"Good morning Sir." I said with a small smile. He let out a bit of a laugh. 

"No need for the Sir, lass. You call me Stoick." He said. "You're the one that was in the hospital that night, correct?" 

When he asked I looked down at my plate cutting up some pancake and nodded. "Yes, that was me." I said thinking of the memory that still lingered in my mind of my mother shooting me. 

"Ah, well I'm glad to see you're okay." He said with a smile and took a big bite of food. 

"Thank you." I said continuing to eat. 

Hiccup and I sat there eating and having a conversation. Stoick was done pretty quickly, cleaned up his plates and headed out of the house shortly after Hiccup and I finished up and cleaned up and I wasn't really up to getting dressed yet. I was comfortable. Hiccup and I went to the living room and laid on the couch together and turned on a movie. Stormfly and Toothless came to the couch and laid at the foot of it together. I smiled at the two puppies. They were adorable. 

"Hey Astrid." Hiccup piped up. 

"Hmm?" I said still looking at the TV well I felt his hands play with my hair. He had taken it out of the bun and been combing it with his fingers for the past half an hour. 

"I want to take you out tonight." He said. 

"Where too?" I asked. 

"Not sure. Dinner, a movie? a walk? I guess you could say our usual." He said with a smirk. I smiled at him. 

"Sure babe." I said looking back at the tv. I felt a soft touch on my head realizing he had kissed it gently. 

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Later that night I put on a white skirt that went about mid-thigh, a red tank top, with my black leather jacket. I wasn't in the mood for heels so I found my black flats with the bows and put those on instead. I didn't bother with make-up or jewelry, knowing Hiccup would care less. I also kept my glasses on too. I grabbed my small black purse with the gold chain and put it over to my other shoulder so it was across my body. I went downstairs and Hiccup was waiting at the door for me. He was pretty casual himself. I nice pair of dark blue jeans and sky blue v-neck t-shirt with a grey jacket over top. 

"You ready m'lady?" He asked as I came to the bottom of the stairs. I smiled at him. 

"Yes handsome." I said and his face lit up with a smile. I giggled a little and he grabbed my hand and kissed my forehead. 

"You look beautiful." He whispered. I smiled and we left to go to dinner and a movie. 

We talked all through dinner and only took about an hour or so for dinner. We went  to the movies next and picked one we both been wanting to see. Afterwards we headed to the park where we always took walks. We found a grassy clearing and laid down beside each other star-gazing. It was fun, we headed back to Hiccup's house and went upstairs to my room this time. Hiccup went and changed first and so did I. I got into bed and was laying on my side when he came in. He crawled into bed with me and wrapped an arm around me holding me tight. I snuggled up to him with my nose in the crook of his neck and my eyes shut taking in his scent that I love so much. 

"I love you Hiccup." I whispered. 

"I love you too Astrid." He said kissing my head.