School Dazed

SCHOOL DAZED

Summary: When the Global Pandemic causes schools in Berk to shut, Hiccup and Astrid suddenly find themselves home schooling their children. What could possibly go wrong? Modern AU

Disclaimer: I don't own HTTYD. Rights remain with Cressida Cowell and Dreamworks.

A/N: Many of us are in or have been in lockdown/stay at home due to the Global Pandemic. Some of my friends are struggling with having to home school their children. Vala 411 asked me if I had thought how our favourite couple would do...some situations are based on personal or firsthand accounts...

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"Face it, Cuz-I've got nothing to worry about!" Snotlout's brash voice-amplified as he leaned back and swigged a can of mead-grated Hiccup's last remaining nerve as he silently counted to twenty. Talking to Snotlout was never fun at the best of times but now, keeping in touch over COMVERSE was a necessity since everyone was stuck at home. His other friends were all in on the chat and Astrid, his beautiful wife, was popping in and out as she tried to wrangle their two children and stop them destroying the house.

"Really?" Hiccup asked dryly, sipping his coffee and calming his breathing. Tall and lean with messy auburn hair and bright green eyes, he was still shocked daily that his blonde Valkyrie wife had married him. It was a conundrum that had annoyed the short but buff Snotlout no end, though he was now married to Mindy. "How are you going to cope with the lessons we have to deliver to our kids now the schools are closed?" Snotlout blinked.

"What lessons?" he asked, draining his can. "Schools are out and all we have to do is keep the kids fit and..."

"Teach them the lessons that the teachers have emailed over," Raquel 'Ruffnut' Ingerman cut in. Half of the destructive Thorston twins, she had married Hiccup's best friend Finlay 'Fishlegs' Ingerman straight out of High School and had fitted in her studies on Interior Design with her twin brother Tommy (or Tuffnut) around producing the next generation of Thorston-Ingermans. Now an established fixture on the Berk Scene 'Eugene and Laverne' Interiors were both award winning and so crazy there was no end of celebrities wanting their homes ruined by the pair's insanity for an equally insane price. Snotlout paled, his blue eyes widening.

"Teach? Me?" Snotlout asked and then burst out laughing. He continued until he realised he was alone and the smile fell slowly from his even features. "You're serious?"

"Deadly," Tuffnut said. He lived with Ruffnut and Fishlegs in their sprawling farmhouse on the edge of town, though he had joined from his office in the converted pigsty. Interestingly, Fishlegs had insisted on decorating their home so it was a model of Nordic simplicity with clean lines, pale colours and plenty of wood. "Sister Nut, Meatlug and I are sharing the burden-which is fair enough since my sister has partially filled an entire Elementary School on her own..."

"Have not," Ruffnut argued.

"You've had a football team!" Tuff told her.

"I've only had six kids!" Ruff told him hotly, her grey eyes annoyed. She shoved her thick pale blonde braids off her face.

"As I said-a five a side team with one substitute!" Tuff told her, sniggering. He had pale brown eyes with long blond dreadlocks.

"Well, Bjoern is only six months old so he won't be coming on yet," Ruff told him.

"Snotlout-didn't you check your emails?" Fishlegs asked. A serious and kindly man with round face, wide blue-green eyes, pudding-bowl blonde hair and thick moustache, he was the voice of reason in a crazy household. The fact that he was actually a History Teacher meant he was less stressed than anyone.