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The dragon shifter sighed and wiped his arm across his forehead, eying the dragon hangars in approval. The dragons were settled for the night with enough food and water, the paddocks had been cleaned, and the saddles had been scrubbed and polished for the next day’s lessons. It was his favorite class tomorrow too. The children who wanted to ride dragons were the cutest, and the dragons selected were always the sweetest and most gentle-tempered they could find. Other than Toothless, of course.
“Hey, bud, you did great today,” Hiccup told the Night Fury while pressing their foreheads together. “Some of the older ones were rough, but you definitely did great. Go on home, I’ll meet you there.” He scratched under Toothless’ chin as they exchanged gentle purrs, before Toothless took off, the mechanical tail adjusting perfectly.
The brunet watched him fly off before the touch of cold hands on his shoulders and a cheerful voice startled him. “Such a majestic sight. Not as majestic as you, of course~”
“Jack, you flatterer.” Hiccup laughed and turned around to see one of his best friends, local ice spirit Jack Frost grinning brightly at him. “What do you want?”
“Now now, Hic, why is it that whenever I compliment you that you automatically think I want something?” Jack all but cooed with a flutter of his eyelashes.
Hiccup rolled his eyes as he put his hands in his pockets. “Because last time you complimented me you ended up begging me for help in fixing Merida’s bow?”
“I couldn’t figure out how to de-ice it, I figured your heat would work! And I was right, wasn’t I?”
“You still got in trouble with her.”
“Well, at least I didn’t have to pay for a new bow,” Jack replied simply, wrinkling his nose. “Those things are expensive! But you’re right, I did want something. Nothing bad, I promise!” he quickly said, waving his hands insistently when Hiccup raised an eyebrow. “I just wanted to ask you if…um…” All of a sudden Jack found himself tongue tied, and he could feel his cheeks turning a faint violet. “Ah, if you wanna…go out with me?”
Hiccup’s eyebrows furrowed in confusion as he tilted his head. “Sure, but don’t we usually go out?”
“Not like usual, I mean–oh hell, this is harder than Punzie said it would be.” Jack ran his hand through his hair with a deep breath. “I mean it as–like–more than friends, Hic.”
“…Best friends? Like we already are?”
Jack heard the audible smack of his hand meeting his face. “No, I mean–romantic! A date, Hiccup! I want to go on a date with you!”
It took a few minutes for it to register, but then green eyes went wide and all of a sudden he shifted, his eyes now with thin-slit pupils and black ear fins sticking straight up. “W-wait, a date? Me? With you?” A blush broke across his cheeks and even gave the black scales dotting his skin a faint tinge.
Jack gave Hiccup a nervous grin, his cheeks growing a deeper violet shade. “Yeah, I was thinking dinner tomorrow. There’s a nice restaurant not far from here, so I could come pick you up after work and then we could go.”
After a moment Hiccup gave Jack a beaming fanged grin, his tail wiggling back and forth in excitement very much like a dog’s. “I’d love to, Jack!” He suddenly hugged the smaller human, purring in the back of his throat while nuzzling the slowly suffocating ice spirit.
“Hic…! Dragon strength!”
“Oh! Sorry!” Hiccup sheepishly let Jack go. “Sorry, just got kinda excited.”
“I could tell,” Jack joked, coughing twice as he caught his breath. “But that’s not all I came by for.” He pulled out of his hoodie pocket a carefully wrapped, if now squashed, package. “Happy birthday, Hic!”
Hiccup was surprised as he took the gift. “You remembered…” He had forgotten himself that it was his birthday–technically he wasn’t going to hit his birthday for another year, but that was the price for being born on a leap day. He tore into the gift and when he saw the scarf he laughed. “Slytherin colors! Did you make it?”
“Yep! Punzie taught me how to knit, so I was able to make that for you. I know you technically don’t need it, but–”
“I don’t care, I love it!” Hiccup immediately wrapped it around his neck and gave Jack another hug, this time not squeezing so tightly but his tail wrapping around Jack. “Thanks, Jack.”
Jack grinned happily and returned the hug, liking the tail that was so possessively curled around him. The best part was that half the time Hiccup didn’t even notice what his tail did. “You’re welcome, Hic. Come on, we need to get you home for cake and ice cream!”
Of course when they did make it to Hiccup’s home all of their friends had planned a surprise party, which Jack of course had failed to mention. It led to Hiccup shrieking and jumping onto Jack’s shoulders in surprise, before they fell in a heap. But even with that, the party was a rousing success.
And Hiccup and Jack would on occasion hold hands under the table when no one was looking, with small smiles meant only for each other.