The exact moment
title: the exact moment words: 1122 rate: K (fluff) paring: Merida/Hiccup
Hiccup tells Merida about the moment he fell in love with her
A.N: I took this idea from this RP generator, it gave me many ideas for many one-shots but this one was one of my personal favorites
Hiccup is cornered by a bully, but Merida comes to the rescue.
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He remembered well the exact moment he fell for her, the exact moment where his eyes saw her for the very first time and she smiled at him, making his heart skipped.
"Aren’t you going to tell me?" Merida asked him, looking up at him from where she was laying, using Hiccup’s lap as a pillow. Hiccup smiled to her question while playing with her red wild curls "what else is there to say?" he told her shrugging one shoulder, not yet ready to tell her the moment where his heart no longer felt his own.
"Och, don’t be like that!" she pouted, acting a bit childish. Hiccup could help but to chuckle "I already told you when I fell in love with you, and you were the one who forced me!"
"no, correction, I did not forced you" he said raising his finger to her as she just rolled her eyes, crossing her arms acting all offended "you, young lady, wanted to know how and when I fell in love with you and said that you were going to tell me your story first and then I was supposed to tell you mine, but I never agreed to that, you just started talking and did not stopped till now"
"Well… We come to the same question, are you going to tell me?"
Hiccup shook his head with a smile “nope” he simply said.
"You are the worst!" Merida exclaimed, taking one of the pillows from the sofa and throwing it into his face. Merida let out a chuckled, sitting on the couch ready to hit him again.
"Oh so you want war, eh?" He teased, laughing at this and taking another of the pillows, keeping up the game.
"You are with a Scottish lad, what did you expected?" she replied with a smirk on her face.
Hiccup chuckled to this and rolled his eyes, pulling her closer and taking away the pillows from her hands and taking her by the wrists “and I’m a viking lass, don’t you remember your history classes?” he teased kissing her.
He could feel her smiled against his kiss, making him melt. He couldn’t just believe how lucky he was to have her, to be loved by her in return. To think that he had been in love with her for so long, always thinking that she wouldn’t even look at him, that they would be for ever friend and nothing more than that.
Hiccup cupped her face gently with his hand and broke the kiss slowly, staring at her light blue eyes for a moment. Merida just smiled, with a slightly blush on her cheeks. “Snotlout Jorgenson” he suddenly said making Merida blink a couple of times.
"ex- excuse me?" she pursed her brows really lost at the sudden change of conversation.
"It was in second grade, and he was cornering me, y’know, making the whole ‘give me your lunch nerd’ thing that all the bullies’ do-"
"wait- wait- I’m lost" Merida interrupt him "what are you talking about?"
"Didn’t you want to know when I fell for you?" Hiccup raised his eyebrow with a smirk. He loved to see her eyes widen in surprise "I can tell you later if-"
"Wait, wait, wait!" she interrupted again, her eyes fixed in his "second grade? You were-"
"shh, I’m telling you the story" he shushed her placing his finger on her lips "well, the thing is that he was bothering me, you know that back then my self-esteem was the worst and I wasn’t really making any effort on defending myself. That’s when you come into scene." hiccup said nuzzling her cheek ”a very petite girl from first grade, with her hair pulled on a pony tail and using a teal dress, very pretty by the way"
Merida couldn’t help to chuckled to her description, rolling her eyes “I can’t believe you remember that” she said, embarrassed. Hiccup just shrugged, like it was nothing and continued.
"This little girl stood between the bully and me. With her hands on her hips she started yelling at him, saying thing like ‘it was wrong what he was doing’ and something about ‘getting his ass kicked’ "
"Oh god, did I said that!?" Merida couldn’t believe it, hiding her face with her hands. Hiccup smile to see her reaction but did not stop with his narration.
"Of course that Snotlout laughed at you, ‘a first grader against a boy from second grade?’ he started teasing you too, making fun of you, but you weren’t like me at all, and you pushed him so hard that he tripped over his shoelaces and fell on the ground. I remember well his expression when you went to punch him on the face, he was so scared of you that he ran so fast he tripped over at least twice"
"Oh god, I remember that" Merida sighed "everybody stared making fun of him because he was beaten up by a girl" she laughed.
"but that wasn’t the moment when I fell on love with you" he said taking her by her hands "then, I was just amazed by how cool you were" Merida made a small gesture as if she was overwhelmed by his comment, and he couldn’t help but to smirk "the moment when I fell for you was when you turned around and offers me your hand, when you asked me if I was okay or if I needed anything. It was later when you sat down with me each reassess and talked to me about you family and that you were going to became a big sister, it was when you held me when I cried, when I felt alone"
Merida was mouth open by this point, felling that she was about to cry at any moment.
"I don’t have an exact moment where I knew that I loved you, I only know that this feeling that I have for you has been building inside me from that exact moment, the moment you kicked Snotlout’s butt" he finished, with a grin.
Merida let out a laughed, wiping away a tear that threatened to fall. “Really, Hiccup! Did you have to ruin everything with that ending?” she said still laughing.
"What?" he teased, "but it was since that moment that I start loving you! It’s not my fault that Snotlout’s butt was involved in that moment" he chuckled as he started kissing her cheeks.
"You are a dork!" she said throwing a pillow at him again, laughing and falling on the couch with him above her.
"You still love me" he said kissing her lips again.
Yes, she loved him, and he was thankful for that each day they spend together.






