The Beauty In Our Fate

Help me understand

Merida walked along the dark hallway that lead to Hiccup's room, only the light of the moon reflected through the massive windows. Her breath hitched when she opened the large doors that lead to the largest room of the castle. She took a step inside, the doors creaking slowly to a close. She released a restless breath and started to proceed up the stairway.

At the top she hesitated for bit before regaining her posture. She quietly opened the left door popping her head inside before fully entering the dark room that held only a faint light of moonlight. She could only hear her feet echo through the hardwood floor. Just like before the room was scattered with items that once held position in the room.

"H-Hiccup...?" Her voice was above a whisper. She looked around trying to find any hint of his figure. Usually she would hear a faint growl but it was far to quiet.

"I thought you would be long gone from here."

Merida whipped around trying to find the source of the voice but with the faint light she had the difficulty to see clearly. Realizing how she probably looked trying to find him, she quickly stopped and held her ground before answering him.

"I needed some time..to think about everything that has happened.." she fell silent not knowing what to say next.

"To be honest, I thought you wouldn't reside in the castle anymore....I believed that I wouldn't see you again."

"Do you want me gone?" With out thinking Merida blurted out what she was thinking. Only to realize that he fell silent at her remark.

"Is that really what you want..." she fell silent once more waiting for his answer in which it never came.

"Stop hiding in the shadows come out were I can see you." Merida turn her head looking around trying once more to find a familiar figure. Moments passed and he stayed silent to the point that Merida was losing her patience and courage.

"I'll take that as your answer then." Merida confessing to herself the disappointment she held in how things turned out couldn't bare to stand in the middle of the room probably looking like a fool, decided to turn to the path she had come from. But not before she spoke the words she wanted to say the most.

"I'm trying to understand you but I can't if you don't show me who you really are. In any case.....I......."

Merida didn't understand herself in what she wanted to say next all she knew that these past two months she had taken a liking to the beast and considered him a.....friend.

"I want to help you because....I care for you...you're my first real friend outside my family..... but if you don't want me here I understand.....I'll leave just like I came. I....bare you a farewell Hiccup." Without another word she started to lead her way out of the room.

"Wait!"

She felt a sudden warmth touch in her right hand. She turned around to find herself staring into memorizing green eyes that belong to the one who she thought she knew. She looked down to find his hand holding hers.

"Please wait, I want to talk to you." He looked at her for a while before releasing her hand.

"Now you want to talk." Merida trying not to be faced by him, crossed her arms trying to have the upper hand of the conversation.

"I'm sorry. I should of said something sooner." Hiccup looked down trying to avoid eye contact.

"You are forgiven." Merida couldn't help but hear how his voice didn't have that raspy edge when he was a beast. It was very smooth and calming but yet very powerful.

"Wait...just like that?" Hiccup looked at her confused by her quick forgiveness.

"With ONE condition." Merida pointed her index finger in the air. Hiccup looked at her waiting for her next words.

"You explain everything and I mean EVERY detail of all this that has happened." Merida looked at him straight in the eyes trying to intimidate him with her famous look she was known for in her house. She couldn't quite see his expression since it was far to dark to make out his features, the only thing that popped out more to her was his eyes.

"Right, I understand."

"Can we go were there's more light, I can barely see you in this darkness." Merida motion her hands to everything around her.

"Sure, follow me."

Hiccup started walking to the balcony, Merida following right behind. She was about to settle down in a bench when she saw Hiccup climb a table and took a leap to the very low part of the roof top.

"Climb on the table I'll help you up."

Merida did as he said, before taking her own leap she saw his outstretched hand. She contemplating for a while before letting him help her up. They settled by the edge of the roof looking out towards a view of mountains sides and a frozen lake that reflected the moonlight with a bright light almost illuminating the forest around them.

"It's feels very peaceful to be up here especially with this view." Merida whispered, taken in at the sight before her.

"You should see it in spring, it's really something else." Hiccup looked at the view never getting use to it even as many times his spend his lonely nights up here.

"Spring? I thought that it only snowed in this part of the region?" Merida asked confused.

"The outside world has four seasons while this area has only two, winter and spring."

"You make it sound that there's a barrier covering you guys..." Merida thought about it, turning to look at Hiccup and seeing him make a face that made her realize what she just said was true.
"You...are in a barrier..............can you get out?"

"I tried once to see how far I could reach I discovered that I can only go as far as the mountains that you see from north to south and east to west."
Hiccup pointed to the directions the mountains' shadow laid.

"I just realized that there's four mountains covering this land, making it into a square....is that how far you can get then?" Merida looked at him curiously. Hiccup could only nod.

"So in other words you guys are...trapped in here..." Merida spoke softly the last piece of her sentence, thinking it wasn't just her prison but his as well.

"More or less, the outside world has access to this part of land, that being said that's why your father and yourself wandered in here, even though it's really hard to find it, that's why I was surprised when you guys found it so easily......but such as me and the others we can't go far beyond those mountains."

She looked out again to the view not quite understanding why he was trapped in such place. Her thinking only brought her to the one question she intended to ask from the very beginning..

"What happened?....Who are you Hiccup?"