Modern AU/One Shot challenge with Vala 411 Summary: A green-eyed guy is very sad and drunk in Thorstonton Bar in Berk. An equally sad blonde is drunk in a bar in Miami. Coincidence or machination? Ruffnut smells a rat...but playing matchmaker halfway across the country isn't easy-especially with an idiot brother and a conniving would-be suitor... Disclaimer: I don't own How To Train Your Dragon. Rights remain with Cressida Cowell and Dreamworks.

Hiccup's love story is the usual. Zero to hero after the defeat of the Red Death. Hiccup and Astrid go back and forth about each other, but never really getting what they truly want. They want to be together. Hiccup would do anything for her, even give his own life. As things start to happen, that just might be necessary to save her. (Takes place before True Feelings/The Beginning (sixth part) of my story Love Between Riders)