I've been in a bit of a writing slump so I'm writing some 'based on real events' type drabbles, though some liberties have been taken. These are a bunch of random University AU stories, they're probably all going to be modern so heads up to anyone who's not into that.

Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train Your Dragon or the characters. This is all for funsies.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BLOOOOOOP BLOP BLOP BLOP!

There was a crowd of students milling around outside in the cold.

"Do you know if we can go back in yet?"

The question came from the blonde girl who lived down the hall. Hiccup had caught a glimpse of her the day before when he'd been unpacking.

"Uh, we have to wait for the fire brigade to get here and turn the alarm off." As if to illustrate his point, the fire alarm started its repetitive shrieking once more.

"Second time tonight. I wonder if there is a record," he muttered to himself. "Uh, I'm uh, H-Hicc-Henry, by the way."

"Hicc-henry? Interesting." The blonde smiled briefly and rubbed her arms.

"It's Henry," Hiccup ran a hand through his hair. "Hiccup –it's a nickname… I guess. I never really liked it but, it just kinda stuck in highschool." He realised he was flapping his hands around and shoved them into his pockets. "And… yeah."

The blonde girl pushed a strand of hair behind her ear, then hugged herself against the cold. She eyed the jacket Hiccup had wrapped around himself. She'd left hers in her room when the fire alarm went off.

"I'm Astrid." She replied finally.

Hiccup saw her shiver.

"You know, I don't think it's an actual fire. You could probably run in and grab a jacket before the fire brigade get here. It took them twenty minutes earlier and at least fifteen minutes last night."

Astrid scoffed "Are you kidding me? The station is just down the road. Is this going to happen every night?"

Hiccup shrugged. "Welcome to university." He spread his arms wide to gesture at the old brick building that was currently being bathed in the flickering, orange glow of the street lamps that lit the side walk.

"Oh joy, because it's not like I planned on sleeping at all while I'm here." Astrid smiled again. This time it was more genuine.

"You're not partaking in the orientation week rituals?" Hiccup joked. "I've heard it's a rite of passage. Drinking cheap cask wine and vomiting in bushes."

"I just got back from dinner with my parents before they left," she shrugged. "And for all you know I'm all about cask wine. What about you? You're living in the 'party dorms', why aren't you joining in with all the partying?"

"I'm a bit of a lightweight," Hiccup confided. "I had one drink and they didn't know what to do with all… this…" He curled his biceps in a show of manliness.

"I can only imagine," Astrid laughed.

The stood silent in the cold for a minute, all out of small talk.

"So what are you studying-" "What degree are you-"

They spoke at the same time.

Hiccup bit his lip. "Sorry, you go."

A siren sounded in the distance, barely discernible under the wail of the fire alarm.

"Oh, uh, I'm studying sports science, you?"

The siren was getting louder.

"Um, engineering."

"Okay… cool…"

Red and blue lights bounced off the buildings and moments later two firemen appeared clad in yellow. They entered the building and glorious silence descended as the wailing of the alarm was cut off.

"Finally!" Astrid threw her arms into the air.

The crowd began to move towards the doors but the firemen were blocking the entrance.

"Hey, what's the hold up?" Someone called out from the mass of bodies.

"What's going on?"

Hiccup watched Astrid push up through the crowd towards the doors. "And I'm talking to myself." He waited but she didn't reappear. Suddenly the crowd started moving again as the firemen left.

Hiccup made his way upstairs to his floor.

Astrid was standing by the door to the common area.

"They said if the alarm goes off again they're locking us out," she explained, answering his earlier question. They pushed their way past into the hallway.

"So, this is my room." They paused outside Astrid's bedroom.

"Oh, um." Hiccup stood awkwardly in front of her door. "Goodnight. Astrid. Uh… I'll…" He pointed towards his own room. "Yep." He wandered back towards his own room and unlocked his door.

He glanced back down the hallway but Astrid had already gone into her room.

Hiccup went inside and flopped onto his bed. "So very smooth." The clock on his side table told him it was 1am and he had work at 8.

Sighing, he tugged off his jacket. He'd been in bed before the alarm and was already wearing the sweatpants and t-shirt he normally wore to bed.

The sheets had gone cold and Hiccup shivered as he crawled back under the covers. He closed his eyes and tried not the think of the pretty blonde girl down the hall. Astrid. He committed her name to memory as he began to drift off-

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

For the third time that night Hiccup was startled awake by the discordant blaring of the fire alarm.

"Again? Really?"

He reached for his phone and tapped the lock button for a glimpse of the time. Great. He'd been asleep for less than an hour.

He was tempted to stay in bed, sure that some idiot had set off the alarm again but doubted he'd get back to sleep with all the noise. And he'd get to see Astrid again.

It was silly, Hiccup knew this. His room was just four doors down from hers. Of course he'd see her around again but she wasn't the sort of person he normally hung out with. Maybe come morning she wouldn't want to talk to him. A few of the other students had already made that decision themselves.

He made up his mind and pushed the covers back. The night air was chilly, even inside, but his jacket was still bunched up at the end of his bed from earlier. Hiccup shrugged it on and reached over to flick on the light switch beside his door.

Harsh yellow light spread across the floor, illuminating the mess of books and boxes and clothes he had half unpacked.

He reached down to grab his foot, but his hand met empty air. He looked around before realising he had never taken it off before going back to bed. That was a first. It wasn't particularly comfortable to sleep with, much like wearing shoes to bed- he glanced at his right foot- which he had also done. He supposed that's what happened when you were woken at stupid o'clock because someone kept setting off the damn fire alarm.

There was a pattering of feet past his door. People were making their way outside.

Hiccup grabbed his backpack and threw some clean clothes into it. He had a friend in one of the smaller residences. If he crashed on the couch he could still get a couple of hours sleep before work.

He slung his bag over his should and snatched his keys from his desk, his phone was still in his hand.

Hiccup exited his room. The hall was empty but he could hear people on the stairs. He made his way carefully down to the next floor. Though his gait contained trace of a limp, exhaustion messed with his co-ordination and last thing he wanted was to go ass over face in front of everyone.

He made it outside without incident. It was even colder now than it had been an hour ago.

Looking around Hiccup couldn't spot Astrid. He unlocked his phone and scrolled through to one of his contacts. It rang once, twice, three times.

"Come one Fish, pick up the phone." Hiccups teeth were beginning to chatter. Despite the jacket , his thin sweatpants didn't offer much in the way of heat retention.

The call connected and was answered by a groan.

"Really Hiccup? It's three o'clock on the morning."

"Yeah, I know that." Hiccup wandered away from the building to find a quieter spot.

"What's that noise?" The voice of Hiccup's friend Fishlegs became clearer as he woke up.

"Oh, that? Oh, that's just the fire alarm. It's been set off three times tonight but who's counting?" Hiccup rubbed at his weary eyes. "Look, Fish, can I crash on the couch at yours?"

"Couldn't take the party lifestyle huh, Hiccup?" Hiccup and Fishlegs had been friends through highchool. They had joked when accepting their accommodation offers about the parties that went on at West Lodge where Hiccup was staying. With eighteen students per dorm and nine dorms per building it was bound to get noisy, compared to Fishlegs' accommodation in North Lodge with just seven students per building.

"Yeah, yeah. Look, I'm coming round. I'll be there in five minutes okay?"

There was a great big yawn from the other line. Then nothing.

"Fishlegs?"

A snore.

"Really? Did you really just fall back to sleep? FISHLEGS?!"

The snore choked off.

"What? Yes. Door. I'll open it."

Hiccup shook his friend and hung up.

"Can you believe this?"

He spun around.

Astrid was standing in front of him gesturing wildly at the building.

"Uh-"

"I mean seriously. Heads are going to roll when I catch the idiot who keeps setting that thing off."

Hiccup eyed her nervously as the fair-haired girl cracked her knuckles menacingly.

"What?" She snapped.

"Nothing," it rushed from his mouth. "I just-" he was going to say that this wasn't like her, but he realised he didn't really know Astrid at all. Maybe this was like her. "-angry much?"

Astrid scowled. "Don't you think this is more than a little ridiculous? It's really, really late and I have to be up really early tomorrow." She glanced down at her watch. "Well, later today." Her shoulders slumped. "I'm tired."

"Yeah," Hiccup glanced over his shoulder towards the other side of campus. "I'm uh, going to head off and crash on my friends couch. It's much quieter over there." He paused. "You, ah, you can maybe come… you know… if you wanted, I mean- you don't have to. It's just. You said they were going to kick us out if the alarms went off again." He was rambling.

Hiccup watched Astrid size him up. She shrugged.

"Yeah, sure. I'll take you up on that." Her eyes narrowed. "But only because I need a few hours of sleep before practice."

"Oh, okay. Cool." Hiccup tried to play it off like it was no big deal. He lead Astrid up the path towards North Lodge. When they reached Fishlegs' building he knocked on the door. After a minute of waiting around he tried again. Still nothing. He glanced nervously at Astrid and pulled his phone from his pocket to call Fishlegs again.

"Did you fall asleep again?" He asked as soon as the call connected.

"No…" Fishlegs voice trailed off. "Okay, yes, but you know I need at least eight hours sleep or-"

Hiccup cut him off.

"Can you just let us in please?"

"Oh, yeah just a minute."

Hiccup could hear the sounds of Fishlegs thumping down the stairs through the speaker of his phone and a dark shape appeared in the glass window in front of them.

The door opened to reveal Hiccup's large friend in the dim light of pre-dawn.

"Thanks buddy," Hiccup took a step forwards. "Fishlegs, this is Astrid. She lives in my building."

The larger man hadn't moved. He was staring at Astrid.

"Uh, can we come in?" Hiccup tried again. Fishlegs moved out of the way but continued to stare as Hiccup and his petite companion came inside.

"Uh, so you can choose, booth or couch?" Hiccup gestured towards the long booth seat behind the dining table and then the small blue couch up against the opposite wall. He turned to his friend.

"Thanks."

Fishlegs mouth opened and closed like he wanted to say something, but the big man shook it off and nodded before lumbering back up to the stairs to his room.

When he turned back around Astrid was sitting on the couch.

"Uh, goodnight then."

Astrid flapped her hand in response but was already curling up on the plump cushions. Hiccup carefully picked his way around the dining table in the dark. The booth seat wasn't as comfortable as the couch but given the late growth spirt Hiccup had had just before leaving for college, he'd have had to fold himself over three times to fit.

He dropped his backpack on the floor and stretched out, debating with himself whether or not to take the foot off or leave it on. He decided to leave it. He could tell Astrid already thought he was a bit awkward. Imagine what she'd say if she found his foot just lying on the floor. No, best to leave it on for now, Hiccup decided as he fell asleep.

I know this has sort of been done before, but this kinda happened to me in real life, but I was Fishlegs, getting a call at the ass-crack of dawn because my friend had been locked out of her dorm because someone kept setting off the fire alarm.

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