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"Jack... We need to talk !"
The immortal white-haired boy turned around, scared, to look at his boyfriend. This typical sentence wasn't good at all in his mouth.
"Yes... Sunshine ?"
He answered.
Hiccup walked toward him, an unusual hurted look on his face. He sighted. Once. And then he began.
"Listen. You know how much I love you, and that it will never change... But... That... Us... It can't continue like this anymore..."
Jack's face had become as white as his hair, as he answered, his voice cracking.
"Are you... Breaking up with me ?"
Hiccup stroked his head with his hands, uncomfortable about the situation.
"Jack... It's not like you think..."
"And so what is it if it's not what I think ?"
He sobbed.
"Please... Don't begin to cry... I... I don't want you to be sad..."
"And what ? You'd prefer that I act as it was nothing ? As YOU were nothing for me ?"
The viking took his boyfriend in his arms. As Jack was crying, tears began to roll on his own cheeks.
"Jack... Angel... It's... I don't want you to suffer... And that's why I'm doing that !"
The white-haired one just sobbed louder as an answer.
"I love you. I love you so much that I don't want you to be hurt because of... Me."
Hiccup was now on the ground, his boyfriend in his arms, gently rocking him, as he tried to focus on what he had to say, and to not fall apart.
"I'm a viking chief now. And that means I have to be a warrior too... And we both know what happend to warriors... They die."
He took an inspiration, and continued.
"And even if... Even if I don't die in a fight. Even if I survive. I'm not strong enough to see your smile fade because of me. Because I'm growing up without you. And the day I'll die, I don't wanna see you crying, because I'll know it'll be for eternity. Jack... Angel... Please say something !"
The immortal boy swallowed a sob to answer.
"Hic... You know I won't forget you. Us. Never. You're the only one I've loved that hard in all my immortal life. And you know how long it means... You... You're not gonna disappear. You just can't disappear. You musn't disappear."
"Jack, angel ! Please... Calm down..."
Hiccup tried to calm his boyfriend, as he was using his powers unconsciously. His skin was already burning, and his cheeks were freezing, but he wasn't caring. The only important thing was Jack. Broken because of him.
Jack didn't stop crying before he fell unconscious, worn out.
Hiccup carried him to their house. Jack's house by now, where he left him, only giving him a letter he had wrote, some months ago, as he first had thought of the fact that Jack was immortal when he was not.
It was surely the last time he would see his boyfriend. Ex-boyfriend, he thought, but the word was too hard to say aloud. Instead of what he decided to kiss one last time his white-haired angel.
Jack woke up alone, and watched the letter with anxiety. His sadness was gone, and his heart was now just filled with emptyness.
He broke the wax seal, that he knew was an invention of Hiccup, and read the text his viking had wrote to him.
Tears rolled his cheeks. Even if he was too worn out to cry, he did it. Because his heart was torn apart. And because he knew it was better for them both, even if it hurts.
" I'm giving you back your freedom angel. Fly with your frosted wings to the sun and back. And don't be too hard with him, because you're the same. You're stars.
And stars don't belong to anyone. Stars are free.
Hiccup."