"Open the door, Fleur, let me in, let me explain what happened" I could hear his voice from the thin wooden door but I shook my head, sitting against it holding my body too tight. "You....you were gone again" Hiccup "You are...you are gone every day," I said with strain fighting off the tears that were pouring from my eyes as I kept wiping them off. I cared about him, but I didn't want him to know that. He had been like this since Mother had left us. He had been disappearing in the night. I had heard the rumors, had heard what people were saying about him. He was a drunkard now. After my mother had left, he had stopped going to the castle and started drinking every night, same time, he was drinking, trying to forget her and forgetting I was still here, alive, "You ..you don't know what th

