Kissing him again proves to her that he's real, that isn't alone. With his arms wrapped around her pulling her in, she finally finds hope again, the chance that they could make it through all of this, whatever it was, just as they did with every obstacle that had challenged them in the past.

Even as their lips part, she refuses to pull her arms away, keeping a hand nestled at his neck, fingers playing into the ends of his hair. Even in a different setting, a harsher setting at that, at least they still had this, these precious moments that often guided them along.

She still finds that high pitched bell ding when the elevator doors opened to be quite obnoxious, struggling to find a purpose in it the thousands times she's already heard it in one afternoon, but this time she finds cause to drain it out, finally giving Hiccup a smile, albeit a sad one.

"Well, I'm here now. And I don't plan on leaving you. You won't be without me ever again."