AN: I'm back!!!! And it looks like the last chapters are approaching. (Insert evil smirk cause the author is snacking)

Hiccup's body ached all over as he fell onto the bed after Astrid had shoved him off the top of City hall four times. The springs on the bed creaked and all he wanted was to enter the blissful embrace of Morpheus right now. He glanced at the clock to see that it displayed 2AM and felt Astrid climb into the bed next to him. She snuggled close and lay her head on his shoulder. "Who would have thought you'd be such a cute bat." She said in a teasing voice. Hiccup blushed and tried to hide his face just like when he discovered that he could turn into a Honduran white bat. Astrid called him fluffy and cute. He didn't know if he should preen or blush.

"Are you still thinking of going later?" Astrid asked as she ran a hand through Hiccup's auburn mop of hair. Hiccup nodded wordlessly as both settled on the bed. Toothless had taken his Charmander plushie and settled into a nook on Astrid's bookcase in the room. The little dragon was already snoring away as the two vampires lay on the bed.

"I have to see him one last time Astrid." Hiccup told her as he didn't know when he would be able to talk face-to-face with his brother again. Hiccup felt Astrid's nod and he knew that she didn't agree, but this was supposed to be Hiccup's choice and he was grateful to his girlfriend for understanding. How the conversation tomorrow would go was another matter entirely.

"You're afraid." Astrid murmured as she glanced at Hiccup and saw him staring into space. "Afraid of his reaction."

"In his eyes I'm an abomination now Astrid." Hiccup lamented.

Astrid proceeded to swat his arm. "In my eyes he's the monster Hiccup." She mumbled and then swatted him again for good measure. "And I won't have you talking like that. Your brother did awful things. You shouldn't be worried if he will accept you as a vampire. He should be worried if you'd still accept him as a brother." Astrid's voice was confident as she looked at Hiccup. "You are still the same person as you were before, only with a bit more love for......... hemoglobin." She added as a little tease. Hiccup snorted before he let out a yawn. Both fell into a comfortable silence in the room as Hiccup and Astrid drifted off to sleep.

"Are you sure this is safe?!?!" Hiccup asked as they found their way to the roof of City Hall.

"Don't worry." Astrid told him as she went to the edge to inspect the height. The cold wind was blowing past her and small strands of hair came loose from the bun she had kept them in. Toothless, being the curious dragon that he was, peeked out of the handbag that he now called his, much to Astrid's exasperation. Leave it to a dragon to covet her Louis Vuitton bag.

"So........ how are we going to do this?" Hiccup asked as he joined Astrid near the ledge. Astrid proceeded to give Hiccup the rundown of how to change and gave him the time to try it for himself.

"You aren't concentrating." Astrid told him after twenty minutes of watching Hiccup in several different poses. She did like a couple of the odd poses as his tight fitting jeans accentuated certain parts she could ogle at.

"It is rather hard when I don't know what exactly I'm turning into." Hiccup told her. "I know you said that the flying form is always a bat, but I don't know which one."

"Well......" Astrid thought. "There is another, faster, way."

"There is?" Hiccup asked as Astrid stood pensively before him. "Why don't we use that?" Astrid remembered her own on the job learning experience and ultimately shrugged before kicking Hiccup off the roof. Toothless watched this all unfold and gave Astrid a questioning yip while Hiccup's scream was followed by a loud thud on the pavement.

"He'll be fine." Astrid had told the small Nightfury and true to her word both vampire and dragon saw Hiccup standing back up.

It wasn't long before Hiccup was back on the roof and shouting "You kicked me off the roof."

"I did." Astrid nodded as she now knew why Heather had done it. Who knew kicking a vampire off a roof could be so...................FUN.

"Why?" Hiccup asked as he approached Astrid with suspicion. He frowned at his girlfriend who was smirking.

"Let's call it learning on the job." Astrid told him before throwing Hiccup off the roof again.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Hiccup shouted as his vampire hearing picked up Astrid telling Toothless "Oh, he'll learn." before he hit the pavement again.

Hiccup woke up with a groan as his bones creaked. Why did he have to dream of that after just going through it he wondered to himself. He glanced at the clock to see it display 4:23AM. So he had two hours of sleep, which was all a vampire needed for a few days according to Astrid, and now Hiccup sat on the bed watching his girlfriend snuggle, or more accurately strangle her pillow in her sleep. His head hit the wooden headboard and he felt the need for blood again.

Hiccup's reflexive breathing slowed as he tried to calm down. He still remembered what had happened when he and Astrid started their make-out session in the hospital. The need for blood arose much quicker than Astrid had anticipated and he had looked skeptical at the bloodbag Astrid had pulled out of a portable cooler. The taste was horrible. Hiccup remembered gagging on it while Astrid assured him that he would get used to the taste. Seven bloodbags later and he still found it disgusting. He remembered Astrid telling him that fledgelings needed a lot of blood in the first week, not enough to drain a human but still a lot.

Hiccup's stomach rumbled and Astrid who was still snuggled close stirred. "You hungry?" She mumbled still half asleep. Astrid inched closer to Hiccup and her hand went a bit........ South. Hiccup blushed but nodded.

"There are blood bags in the fridge." She said and while Hiccup was loath to like it, he did go and get one. Hiccup sat on the bed and looked at the bloodbag in his hand. The scarlet liquid that his body now yearned for was right in front of him yet he couldn't dig in. Astrid was watching him carefully before she laid a hand on his shoulder. "You'll get used to it." She told him softly.

"I don't think I ever will." Hiccup mumbled. "If I were to hunt I don't think I'd even be able to drink from a human." Astrid, now much more awake, sat up and leaned against Hiccup.

"What me to tell you a secret?" She whispered.

"A secret?"

"I couldn't keep blood down my first time." She told Hiccup. "You're already doing much better than me. When Heather let me feed for the first time I ended up puking in a trench." She made a grimace. "Not my finest moment."

"What did you do? Just get used to it?" Hiccup asked.

Astrid took the bloodbag from Hiccup and used her very sharp nail to poke a hole in it. "It took quite a while before I was comfortable drinking blood." She revealed. "It's not like the Gothic novels where vampires immediately like blood. Sure we're a bit higher on the food chain. Doesn't mean we can't be put off by it. I once even met a vegetarian vampire."

"A vegetarian....." Hiccup looked shocked. "Wait, how can a vampire be a vegetarian."

"The guy only drank animal blood." Astrid explained. "He needed twice the amount of animal blood to equal that of a human's but he did refuse to drink from the species he was once part of. I do admire him for that." As Astrid said this she started drinking Hiccup's bloodbag.

"Wait... how is that even possible. Blood is blood right?" Hiccup asked as he couldn't wrap his head around the idea of a vegetarian vampire.

"I guess you could see it as animal blood being the vegetables, while human blood can be considered a steak dinner." Astrid told him as she had drunk all the blood.

"Astrid what are you doing?" Hiccup asked as his girlfriend inched closer.

"Let me teach you something else." She whispered in Hiccup's ear in a sultry voice. "Vampires can drink from vampires, but only if they have enough blood in their system." She ended her teasing by giving Hiccup's earlobe a playful nip.

Hiccup was definitely blushing as Astrid bared her neck for him. He could feel his fangs growing as she looked at him with that seductive stare "Why don't you find out how I taste babe."