HELLO ALL! And a warm welcome to the sequel of "The day I met the Oakenshields" If you haven't read that yet, I suggest you do so first. You can find it on my profile page.^-^

I hope you are ready for this! Because I'm definitely not! Anyway...

Disclaimer: Let it be known for the rest of this ENTIRE STORY that I do not own the hobbit or the lines from the movie or anything like that! I just own my OC's... though I can't control them, they just do what they want.

Please Enjoy!

"We aren't seriously climbing down that, are we?" I asked, staring wide eyed at the steep cliff below my feet.

"Unless you want to stay up here and starve." Bofur smiled as he plopped down on the rocky edge, surveying the best way to get off the outcropping of rock.

"Don't worry." Fili grin from next to me. "I'll make sure you don't fall." I glared at him.

"I can get down by myself!" I was about to say, but Tille beat me to it. I looked over in surprise to see her pulling away for a worried Thorin.

"Tille, stop being stubborn." Thorin scolded her. "You're still injured from the Goblin tunnels. You need to take it easy." Though, he didn't look to steady on his feet himself.

"No." Tille repeated. "I'll be fine."

"Tille, please stop trying to prove yourself." Ori pleaded worriedly.

"I'm not trying to prove anything! I just-" But her words turned into a yell of surprise as she was hoisted over Adriana's shoulder like a sack of potatoes. "ADRIANA! YOU PUT ME DOWN RIGHT THIS INSAAAAAANNNTTTTT!" Again, Tille's words turned into a yell, but this time it was one of fear as her older sister jumped of the cliff and skidded down to the bottom. Glenn was immensely impressed that the she dwarf was able to stay on her feet the whole way down. As soon as Adriana reached flat ground, the older sister proceeded to drop the younger roughly on the ground before turning to look back up at the rest of the company.

"Hurry up you slow pokes." Adriana called up to us, not a hint of smile on her face. How she managed to do something so completely ridiculous without even batting an eye was beyond me. At the she dwarf's taunting, however, many of the dwarfs proceeded to slide down the cliff in a similar fashion. Most of them ended up tripping or falling half way down though. Only Nori, Kili, and surprisingly, Balin made it to the bottom without any mess up.

I myself simply stared for a very long time at the drop before me. I hesitantly stepped up to the edge, gulped, and immediately stepped back again. Then I felt a hand slip into mine and I turned to see Fili next to me.

"Together?" He asked.

"I'll make you fall, but okay." I shrugged. We stepped up to the edge and looked down. "On three?" Fili nodded. "One… Two… Two and a h-" And Fili jumped and I was pulled after. I managed to find my footing though and we made it down most of the slope no problem. Then my foot snagged on a rock and we went tripping down the rest of the hill at top speed only to run straight into an unsuspecting Bombur. Oh bless him and his uncanny placing. All three of us stood up shakily laughing like idiots, well, Bombur wasn't laughing very much, but Fili and I were. Considering how tired, happy, and relieved we were, it made sense. Gandalf and Thorin was also down the cliff by the time we stopped laughing, though I'm still not sure exactly how. Maybe they just slid down too, but for some reason I doubted it.

Everyone was ready to set up camp and sleep; food was omitted due to the lack of provisions. But Thorin, even leaning on Dwalin slightly for support, told us that we would continue travelling at least until we got away from such a distinguishable landmark. So, after walking for about an hour, we finally stopped to make camp.

Fili and I were almost giddy… scratch that. We were totally giddy the entire time, so once we stopped for camp, Thorin sent us to get firewood. That was fine by me. That way, Fili and I would be alone. And we had some things we needed to talk about. The look in Fili's eye as we left the others told me that he was thinking the same thing. We started picking up sticks as we walked, and, after a good distance away, Fili began.

"So…"

"So…" I looked over at him briefly before adding another stick to the small pile in my arms.

"So… I, we, um…" He stuttered a little bit before sighing. "I have no idea how to start this." I laughed and turned to him thoughtfully.

"Okay, how about this?" I gazed straight into his eyes. "Do you like me?" Fili laughed. "Come on! Be serious. Answer the question." I tried to scold him, but my face cracked into a smile before I finished speaking.

"Yes." He smiled at me. "No, even more than that, I love you." My face broke into a huge grin.

"How on earth can you say such cheesy lines like that?" I laughed.

"Cheesy?" He asked in confusion. Stupid pop culture lingo.

"Eh, forget it. Anyway, now you ask me." I looked at him expectantly.

"Ask you what?" Fili puzzled.

"Ask me whether I like you." I laughed, explaining it to him.

"I think I already know that much." He smirked. "Are you sure there isn't a better question to ask?"

"Oh, come on." I sighed. "Just say it so we can move on." And then my mind went numb for a second as Fili knelt in front of me. Is he? Is he doing what I think he is?

"I notice you got some shoes." He said before bending down to pick up another stick. My smile dropped as he stood back up. Oh right, he was a dwarf. He probably doesn't even know about that custom. It might not even exist in this world! My face turned red. Idiot! Why would you even think he would do something like that? I turned away quickly.

"Do you usually kneel to pick up sticks?" I asked while bending down like a normal person to pick up another, larger stick.

"Sometimes." He shrugged. "Why?"

"Just seemed a little odd to me." I shrugged back.

"So, do you love me?" He asked finally. I turned around to look at him. No reason to be spiteful I reminded myself. He wasn't being annoying on purpose.

"Yeah." I smiled at last. "Yeah, I think I do."

"You think?" He cocked an eyebrow.

"I do." I laughed picking up another stick.

"Okay. Well, good." He smiled. "No what?"

"Well…" I thought. "We're two people who like each other, so now we start dating I guess."

"Dating?"

"Oh um… what would be the equivalent around here? Ummmm… Courting?" I guessed.

"You do realize that for a dwarf, courting means a promise of marriage." Fili looked at me.

"Really?" I looked at him. "I thought that was being fiancés or something."

"For a dwarf, they're pretty much the same thing." He replied.

"Oh, right. Because of the whole 'One' thing." I nodded, remembering the conversation with Thorin back in Rivendell.

"Right." Fili nodded.

"I don't know." I sighed. "That whole concept seems a little weird to me. Like, what if one person's One had a different One? Or what if your One dies? Are you then doomed to be alone forever?"

"I'm not sure." Fili admitted. "Though I think it has something to do with how few dwarven women there are. If everyone is destined to be with only one person, it'll keep people from fighting about it too much. Mostly anyway." He added at the end.

"So your saying that the whole 'One' thing is just kind of weird and ridiculous?" I asked, making sure. He laughed.

"It's not ridiculous. I just think that not everyone has a predetermined One." Fili clarified. "But I believe some people do. For example," He started, stepping closer and stroking my cheek. "I am positive that you are my One." I couldn't help but smile. Ugh, Looking back on it now, it's like some sort of bad romance. But at that time, I felt like I had stepped into the shoes of every princess who finds her prince. Granted, we were both a bit muddier, cut up, and poorly dressed than those princes and princesses, but it didn't matter then. It was all just so perfe-

UGH Hurry up already!

SO BORING

Can you just skip to an action scene already?

…You want action? Fine. Fine, I'll give you some action.

Flame lit the sky as Smaug surged back around toward Lake Town fire glowing in his throat as he prepared to-

WAIT! Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You can't just jump ahead like that!

Yeah, when did Smaug arrive?

And what's Lake Town?

You said you wanted an action scene. I switched to an action scene.

You can't do that though!

Then stop rushing me!

Fine. Just hurry up and finish talking about your stupid romance.

Well, you'll all be happy to know that Fili and my conversation was rudely interrupted as Bofur stumbled out of the woods next to us.

Yay!

Thank you Bofur!

Quiet.

"Oh, sorry about that." He apologized. "I seem to have a knack for walking in at the wrong times."

"It's alright." I smiled quickly. "We were just about to head back. Right Fili?"

"Right." Fili agreed.

"Where's the firewood then?" Bofur asked in confusion. Fili and I looked down to see that we had dropped the firewood absent-mindedly and it now lay scattered at our feet.

"Oops." I winced before bending down to pick up the sticks again, as did Fili. Bofur came over to help and we all returned quickly to camp. Where the company grumpily commented on our lack of speed when it came to gathering twigs.

Ah Bofur!

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