Anger Born of Worry

Much to his shame, embarrassment and a pinch of pride, Hiccup did what he always did during dragon raids. That is, he did the opposite of what everyone told him too. While Ash was off leading the numbskulls on fire brigade duty, Hiccup made it to Gobber's place and got to work mending weapons as he usually did. When Gobber ran out to join the rest of the village, Hiccup took the opportunity to test his newest invention: The Mangler. It was a bola launcher of his own design, and he was confident that it would work.

Of course it did. Sort of.

Even with its calibration issues, Hiccup snagged a dragon with it. A Night Fury! He was sure of it!

Of course he had also attracted the attention of a particularly ornery Monstrous Nightmare and soon enough it wound up freeing all the dragons his dad had caught. Not to mention a lot of property damage.

As Hiccup took the walk of shame to his house with Gobber keeping a close eye on him, they passed by the rest of his generation. Snotlout made a few cracks at his expense, the twins were punching each other in the shoulder before devolving into wrestling on the ground, Fishlegs was jotting notes in his miniscule notebook and Ash...

Ash just starred at him.

Starred right at him. Unblinking. In judgement.

If looks could kill, Hiccup knew there wouldn't be a corpse left.

Less than an hour later, confident that no one would be expecting to see him, he snuck out through the back door of his house. He barely took two steps before a hand grabbed the front of his shirt, lifted his svelt frame and slammed him against the wall, his feet off the ground.

"Look, I'm sorry alright I-- Ash?"

Holding him up with one arm was his boyfriend. While Ash looked skinnier than the average Viking, he was still impressively strong, as the axe he had slung over his shoulder with his other arm would prove.

What they wouldn't have seen was that Ash's face, his cheeks bright red, had tears running down it.

"Ash, I--"

"DO YOU HAVE A **** WISH? HUH?!"

Hiccup almost gave his first excuse, but Ash shook him violently as he did.

"What did I tell you? What did I fucking tell you?!"

"Ash."

"I told you to stay in the forge! But you don't, and what happens?"

"Look--"

"You almost get eaten!"