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pulling into the parking lot of the studio, recognizing the cars that arrived before he did being only of the staff members, Viggo always being the first dancer to arrive to insure he gets his usual parking spot and usual barre spot, grabbing his keys, bag, and water has he makes his way inside ready to get his body moving again.
“Good morning, Agatha, how was you’re break?” viggo asks the front desk worker “good morning! it was really good, i got to go home to see my dogs, how was yours?” excited as she always is to be making small talk with viggo as she’s shuffling through papers “very much needed, my body isn’t as young as it used to be” viggo exclaims as he's grabbing his bag from his locker and making his way down the hall towards the dressing room he can’t help but stop and take a look inside the studio room to notice a new brown haired dancer standing in HIS barre spot, but how? there weren’t any cars in the lot yet that he didn’t recognize, viggo always arrives 45 minutes before class begins no one ever arrives before he does.
frustration starts to rattle his bones, he decides to just go get dressed and hopes this won’t become a recurring problem this season, continuing down the hall he stops by the dancer wall to take a quick look to see if the new members were added yet and which dancers might have left, seeing his brother ryker being the only non-returning dancer since he retired last season made him feel good that all of his friends decided to stay, and even though there should be only one new dancer to replace rykers contract there seems to be two, a red haired man with a crazy looking beard entering his 3rd professional season and then he sees that brown haired man “Hiccup haddock? first professional season?” he reads under the picture, “oh dear this is going to be a long season”
turning around to finally step into the dressing room, taking his gray shirt off and stepping back to look at himself in the mirror noticing he lost some of his muscle over the summer adding on to his frustrations, the door opens once again as tuffnut walks in, viggo starts to grab his marron shirt throwing it on “hey man, where have you been? you didn’t come to a single class over the summer or ruff’s birthday party, and you know how she is about her party's” tuff starts harping on viggo “why would i go to one of your party's?” viggo deadpans clearly not in the mood for this.
“uh because they’re awesome? you should’ve been there; we made a boar pit! we didn’t have any boars for the pit… but that’s beside the point. all of the new members were there! there’s this one new guy, he knows how to make weapons, oh oh oh! i can’t wait for you to meet him he’s gonna blow your mind.’
“fascinating” viggo grabs his bag and makes to leave and head to the studio with tuff right on his heels still rambling on about the party “then there’s this other dude! called himself dagur or something and let me tell you that dude is insane, crazy, dare i say deranged? oh man, dude started a food fight, it was insane pizza was flying everywhere, ruff and i can’t wait to get him to join the Loki club” opening the door to the studio and seeing what he assumes got viggo in a bad mood already “oh hiccup! you’re totally in viggo’s spot but i bet the vigstar won’t mind he needs to find a new spot anyways he had that one for yearss”
hiccup looking up to see two people staring at him one he recognizes from the party he just attended about 2 weeks ago and the other…. oh! that’s the principle, widening his eyes “oh gosh I'm so sorry! no one was here when i walked in and normally i would ask where a good spot to stand would—” “you’re rambling” viggo interrupts, hiccup can feel his cheeks warm, not wanting to upset or embarrass himself farther he quickly grabs his things and moves to a new spot awkwardly smiling at the pair. viggo oddly enough starts feeling grateful for tuff’s boldness for getting the browned hair dancer to find a new spot.
“you standing behind me today tuffnut?” “it would be an honor”
finally sitting down and grabbing his foam roller and warming up his body before class starts, tuff still trying to talk his ears off notices viggo staring at the new dancer, with a knowing look he decides to go bother the other dancers that are just now coming in.
viggo can’t help but stare at hiccup through the mirror, the brown hair with shades of ginger, the freckles, the way the light catches those green eyes just perfectly, a rather beautiful thing he is, he just hopes this hiccup won’t cause too much trouble in rehearsals.
more dancers walking in to start warming up, viggo doesn’t seem to notice them, some are catching on to the way viggos staring at hiccup, others too excited to see their friends again to notice. but one in particular loves to get in others business and rattle things up “yo viggo, you okay there? you’re kind of staring at the new member” viggo blinks in to focus just to realize the worst person caught him staring “good to see you again snotlout, hope your summer went well?” not really wanting to talk to the man in front of him but knowing everyone always seems to be watching him since he is the principle, didn’t want to come off rude to the newest dancers “uh ya man, my summer was great, it always is. but why are you staring? you’re going to freak him out dude” “i was not staring i was simply just zoned out” snotlout knowing viggo well enough to know that isn’t true. “Dude come on you were totally staring, you like him, don’t you? viggo has a crush” snotlout slightly singing that last part “we have yet to be acquainted snotlout, i cannot like a man i haven’t met”
“so you’re saying you could end up liking him?” viggo starting to feel the frustration he had from earlier come back , glares at snotlout “i don’t see how this is any of your concern, now if you don’t mind I'd like time to myself before class begins” snotlout groans and wonders why viggo has to be so hard to mess with.
perhaps snotlout might be on to something, viggo does already seem infatuated with him but he could never like his coworker, dating another dancer is highly discouraged in the ballet industry, at least in viggos mind it is.
soon after, the director walks in to welcome the new dancers and introduces herself as mala while giving a short run down of her career, she doesn’t always teach the class, but when she does it’s always a bit challenging, she loves to keep the dancers on their toes (pun intended) knowing this viggo starts to regret not preparing his body for this a couple days ago.
throughout class that new guy keeps catching his eye he can’t help but to admire him, his leg lines are immaculate, those calf muscles are insane, and the arches of his feet, most male dancers don’t have beautiful feet it’s not really needed for them as much as it is for the ladies, viggo wonders if hiccup is one of those men that like to put on pointe shoes in his spare time for fun, he hopes hiccup gets cast in a female role for one of their series, envisioning him playing Juliette in their rendition of Romeo and Juliette later on in season, viggo has to shake himself out of that thought real quick.
viggo almost starts to worry, this new dancer walked into his first professional season and is already better than half the dancers in the room, he’s young and still malleable, willing to bend and be bent for the person in front of the room, viggo has no doubt that this hiccup would soon best him.
we can’t have that happen now can we?