http://i-saw-myself.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] i-saw-myself.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-05-22 10:26 pm

a dragon lives forever but not so little boys [open]

"Toothless! Oh, Toooothless! You hungry, bud?"

Hiccup still preferred to feed the dragon, even if Toothless could will up food anytime if he wanted. It was their way of spending time together. Hiccup would feed him, Toothless would happily regurgitate some, Hiccup would politely decline and maybe fry up his own, un-eaten fish, and they'd just spend an hour or two in each other's company.

Toothless wasn't there in his Sensorium, though, but that didn't worry Hiccup at first. The dragon was free to wander where he wanted, and he could've been anywhere.

So he took to the halls.

"Toothless! Where are you, buddy? It's dinnertime! Toooothless!"

Not in his forge. Not in Daja's Forge. Not in the Drunken Dragon. Not near the river, not on Obs, not in the halls, not in any of the other Sensoriums, not there, not there, not there, not there.

Hiccup was in something of a panic towards the end.

"Toothless! Buddy! C'mon, where are you? Toothless! This isn't funny! No hide and seek, okay? Where are you?"

He knew. In his heart of hearts, he knew.

It was in the Spacewalk that he finally stopped, late, very late, when most were sleeping, when Astrid would've been expecting him come to bed, and there, heartbroken, he asked Stacy the question he knew was going to get an answer that he didn't want to hear.

"Stacy, where's Toothless? Where is he?!"

||There is no one named Toothless on the active crew roster.||

Repodded.

Hiccup knew he was safe, he knew he was even safer than if he was outside, he knew he'd see him again, but all the things he knew didn't matter when juxtaposed with one, simple fact. His best friend was gone. His best friend, who'd been by his side near-constantly since they'd taken their first flight together, was gone. His best friend who'd comforted him through the end of his world, through horror and being bed-bound with injuries, who'd kept him sane even when trapped in another form in Fairplay, who loved him all the times he couldn't love himself--he was gone.

Gone gone gone.

If anyone were to come by the Spacewalk, they'd find a teenage boy sitting on the floor, staring out of the clear panels of the tunnel there, at the stars and twisting dimensions going by.

"I'll find you, bud. She can't hide you away forever, and if she tries, I'll find you. I swear."

His knobbly knees were drawn up, with his arms around them, and he was very pointedly, very purposefully, not crying. He wasn't crying at all.

[ooc: Can be a standalone, as he's emo-ing pretty badly, but if anyone's nice to him during it, he'll probably seek them out and try to be friends later.]
governorkang: (Sulking / Mopey)

[personal profile] governorkang 2011-05-23 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Kang was worried as soon as he saw the boy's face, and immediately moved over to kneel down next to him. "...Hiccup? What's wrong?"

[identity profile] found-myway.livejournal.com 2011-05-23 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
"What are you crying about?"

Zuko appears to have gotten even shorter. And as a boy who recently remembers very pointedly, very purposefully not crying himself, he's not fooled at all.

[identity profile] found-myway.livejournal.com 2011-05-23 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
". . . fine."

Zuko gets it. They're men. And men don't cry. Not even when they're extremely sad about something very bad happening, like, say, a loved one leaving you recently.

Since Hiccup hasn't looked up, he feels, rather than sees, Zuko sitting down at an angle to him, pulling his own knees up to his chest with a sigh, his back against the Viking's side.

They can just . . . sit here and not-cry together. It's much better than not crying by yourself. In a manner of speaking.
governorkang: (Neutral)

[personal profile] governorkang 2011-05-23 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
The not crying was definitely noticed, but Kang wisely didn't say anything, sitting down and staring out the panels with Hiccup. "Repodded?"

[identity profile] ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com 2011-05-23 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
"So, did Astrid throw your ass out finally?"

This callous and cruel joke brought to you by Ruffnut and the large mug of beer she had in hand. She was wearing some strange clothes she had picked up on the last planet so if it weren't for her braids and helmet you would have never known she was a viking under the long jacket and knee high strappy boots.

[identity profile] ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com 2011-05-23 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh...sucks." She looked funny, it might take a minute for Hiccup to realize that this was a face she made when thinking about something related to emotions. This was a subject she was not terribly well versed in.

She offered her mug. "Drink." She ordered. It wasn't a question.

[identity profile] found-myway.livejournal.com 2011-05-23 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Your dragon?"

There's real sympathy in the question, at least. Tiny Zuko is much less of a snob than his older self - if only because he needs someone to glom onto, as a child in a strange place.

"I'm sorry. I wanted to get to know him better."

You didn't met dragons in Zuko's Fire Nation anymore. And there might never have been ones as friendly as Toothless.
governorkang: (Council business)

[personal profile] governorkang 2011-05-23 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
"...I'm sorry," Kang said sincerely. He knew Toothless was extremely important to Hiccup, and honestly, he was going to miss the dragon too. He wasn't like the ones from home, who pretty much all disliked his kind. That just brought to mind Crucible, and he firmly shoved it away for the time being.

[identity profile] ternaui.livejournal.com 2011-05-23 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
The Chancellor's daughters used to not-cry sometimes.

"Are you all right, young man?"

[identity profile] ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com 2011-05-23 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ruff smirked. He was no where near the boy she remembered from Birk. Though the sad look might be close.

"That's more like it. I took Mindy drinkin' a couple days back. She thought she could hold her own against a daughter of the Thorstons." She laughed a hearty full laugh. "Showed her!" She slid off a ratty looking rucksack and dug around producing a jug. From which she poured more beer into the mug and took a draft for herself. Her cheeks were a little ruddy but still plenty sober. She'd only just started drinking tonight.

[identity profile] ternaui.livejournal.com 2011-05-23 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"I am sorry to hear that. I can understand how frustrating that must be."

...Particularly because, when it came right down to it, the Chancellor disliked how much he'd had to say 'I' of late, instead of 'We.'
governorkang: (Sons-of-bitches command face)

[personal profile] governorkang 2011-05-23 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
"It still hurts."

Kang glanced at Hiccup out of the corner of his eye, frowning. He hated seeing him like this. "At least you got to have him around for a little bit. He'll come back."

[identity profile] found-myway.livejournal.com 2011-05-23 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah."

Well, he doesn't REALLY know. He's never had a pet. But it feels like the right thing to say.

The tiny Fire Prince buries his face in his knees for a moment, trying not to think of how his mom left - it feels like recently, even though it isn't.

"This is stupid. People getting taken."

Ursa wasn't taken, but gone is gone no matter how you look at it.

[identity profile] found-myway.livejournal.com 2011-05-23 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
"My mom."

He admits it too fast, and buries his face in his knees again.

"Not here. At home. She wasn't repodded or taken, she just . . . went away."

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