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The cast for Giselle has been posted on the billboard by the time the day was over.
all of the dancers gathering around it to find out what roles they will be playing, of course viggo already knows he’s been cast as the lead male Albrecht so he doesn't bother joining the crowed, making his way towards the locker room instead to gather his things to go home for the day, he opens the door to find tuff already on the same page except he’s just standing by his locker quietly, very out of the ordinary for him and tuff is usually always making a commotion when casting comes out, why is he already in here?
“what’s with the long face tuff?” viggo says trying to catch his eye, tuff glancing over his shoulder finding viggo staring at him “heh funny joke” said with a somber tone while picking up his stuff making viggo worry “seriously tuff, what’s bothering you?” viggo starting to feel really worried now it’s rare to see tuff in a mood like this, tuff already making his way to leave “you should really check the casting" and he’s already out of the room, “check the casting?” nothing is ever different about the 2 lead casting? it’s always viggo and tuff for the male and astrid and heather for the girl, it’s been these pairings for at least 3 seasons why would they switch it up now? deciding it would be better to let the crowed disperse before going out there to take a look, he sits down to clean out his locker from all the trash he left in it from last season.
soon dancers started making their way slowly into the locker room too busy talking about the roles they got and how excited or upset they are with them, making it easy for viggo to finally slide out making his way to the billboard to see what got tuff upset and finding hiccup still standing there staring with wide eyes, ignoring him for the moment and looking at the cast list himself noticing it’s all as it should be except tuffnut isn’t his second cast, how could they demote him? the only other person higher in the company then tuff is viggo and to find out they replaced him with… with hiccup? “you’re awfully talented” speaking out loud with a flat tone acknowledging the boy next to him “oh um… i wouldn’t say— um… thank you i guess” viggo smirking turns to look at the boy “you don’t think so?” dancers without confidence don’t get very far, the audience can always feel when a dancer isn’t sure of themselves and the directors simply don’t want to work with their insecurities.
“well no it’s not that, i know i can dance but i just don’t think— being your second cast… it’s truly an honor, i just don’t think i have what it’s takes to fill those shoes” avoiding eye contact as he voices his concern, viggo remembers feeling that way when he was just starting out, never being able to see how good he actually was and just focused solely on his flaws, reluctantly starts to feel almost protective over boy, softly grabbing hiccups shoulder “you will” viggo states as he starts to make his exit not turning around to see hiccup lightly touching where viggo had just laid his hand and the awestruck look in his eyes staring after viggo.
and it truly was an honor, hiccup had looked up to viggo in his time as a pre-professional, it was an incredible feeling being able to join the company his favorite dancer resided in, he always knew the man was quite pleasing to look at but the brief conversion proves that he also is pleasing to be around as well even if he was pretty flat to begin with, realizing he’s staring when the front desk worker starts speaking to the older dancer and jealousy sparks inside him, perhaps he’s starting to feel another way about the principle, looking away and recalling back to the complement he was given he catches himself smiling hoping he could get closer to his inspiration.
“viggo, it was wonderful watching you dance again” Agatha catches viggo by the arm before he gets to walk out of the building “ there’s just something so special about the way you do that foot side by side thing” stopping and glancing at agatha “foot side by side thing?” not caring too much what she’s talking about tries to get her to release his arm “we should go out some time, you know, just the two of us? i bet it would be fun” as flattered as he is viggo does not want to be going anywhere with her “agatha, you and i both know that wouldn’t be a good idea” finally releasing her arm he steps out of the building leaving her behind without filling her in on why it wouldn’t be.
hoping into his car, putting his keys into the engine and starting it up he sees a glimpse of a sleek black bike in the lot as he’s pulling out to start his drive home, he hopes one day he can get himself one. he starts wonder which dancer would have gotten a bike over the break? astrid is the only one he could think of, but she has mentioned wanting to wait till she retires to get one, not wanting to risk her career for a ride.
thinking of the other dancers brings his attention back to tuff, feeling sorry for his friend who was demoted this series, hoping he doesn’t also lose his title as a first soloist to a dancer who’s brand new to this side of the industry, he can’t image what that feels like and once again starts to worry for his own career with out fast this young dancer just jumped in and got a lead role.
pulling into his driveway not quite ready to get out yet he rest his head on the steering wheel, tomorrow starts the real rehearsals and knowing he has to go into it without his friend but with hiccup instead is really starting to upset him, tuff really helps him get through long and hard rehearsals and surprisingly he’s really good and remembering chorography and now he’s having to work with this new dancer, he has no clue how hiccup works, will he be able help him when he starts to forget or catch him if he falls like tuff did? or will he slow down the whole process, he doesn’t want to like him, he wants to hate him in fact but he can’t help but to think about how beautiful the boy is instead, the way his eyes glimmered when he complimented him, he wants to see his eyes shine like that again and he wants to be the one causing it.
stepping out of his car grabbing only his keys and deciding everything else will be a tomorrow issue, his phone starts to ring as he steps inside the house, answering the phone when he sees that it’s tuff “viggo, i saw that look in your eyes, you totally like him and im not going insane because snotlout saw it too, he told me himself!” viggos shocked, he was not expecting to hear this when he answered the phone, “glad to see you’re in a better mood, tuff” “ya I'm totally over that, it might be nice to not have such an intense run, that’s beside the point! answer the question viggo, you couldn’t stop staring at him you so have a crush” rolling his eyes, he loves his friend but he can totally get on his nerves sometime “tuff you’re looking too much in to this, i was simply watching to see how well he’ll do in the company” says while sitting down on the couch propping his feet up grabbing the remote to turn the tv on and hitting the mute button “if that were true why didn’t you pay any attention to dagur? maybe it’s cause you don’t like that one as much”
is it that obvious that he’s attracted to hiccup? “listen, you can’t go around talking about this to others tuff, it’s not their business and i don’t need it getting back to hiccup” reluctantly he admits to it as much as he can without flat out saying it “you like him! i can’t believe you actually admitted to it! i don’t think you need to worry too much about it getting back to hiccup though he was staring at you quite a lot too, and it’s only the first day!” widening his eyes, he didn’t realize hiccup was also staring at him “he probably was just watching me for the same reason most new comers do” not wanting to get his hopes up, he’s the principle dancer, they’re always watching him, feeling exhausted all of a sudden “tuff I'm gonna let you go now and head to bed, I'll see you tomorrow” “oh totally dude, i can’t wait to see you guys staring at each other again without noticing the other doing it too”
maybe tomorrow won’t be as hard as he thought it would be and perhaps this hiccup won’t as much of an issue as he originally thought.