Author's Note: Okay, so, this isn't what I meant to write today. I meant to write Wolf Labyrinth. I wrote about sixty words for that and then fell into tumblr and couldn't write another bit. I'm so mad about that you have no idea. Anyway, this is going to be a series of drabbles within my modern au of Hobbit. These are most likely going to focus on Tauriel and Kili and their relationship. Don't expect anything but the circling around each other unless I jump forward a few years, because as they are now (Tauriel 20, Kili 18) I don't see them together. But anyway, enough of me talking, here's something I wrote during class.
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get off facebook you loser you're supposed to be in class
Tauriel bit her lip to hide her grin, dragging her laptop closer by her fingertips. The screen was already tilted toward her as much as she could stand, but she tilted it forward just a little bit, slouching in her seat as she did so. There were thirty other students in the classroom, but with her luck her TA would see her and call her out on her shit.
You're supposed to be in class too, she typed, trying to keep her emotions off her face and make it look like she was typing up notes.
m'sick, Kili messaged back, almost immediately. Bilbo's left me to die on the couch and I'm bored
Poor baby, she messaged back, shifting in her seat. What are you sick with? Flu? Stomach bug?
the plaque
I'll order flowers for your grave.
if you don't cry at my funeral I'll haunt you
Tauriel pressed her lips together as tightly as she good to keep from grinning. Don't die, she replied, I'd miss you.
okay but only because you asked so nicely
Tauriel glanced up at her TA, who had moved on to the next slide. She scanned the information present, not finding even a bit of it interesting, and glanced back down at the chatbox in the corner of her screen.
have you seen the trailer for the guardians of the galaxy movie?
Even though he couldn't see her she shook her head slightly. No, I left my headphones back at my dorm. This is my last class, though, so I'll get to see it soon.
it's fuckin rad we've got to see it before you go back to school this summer
Something warm swept through her. Fili had been accepted into an overseas internship for the summer and she'd had offers of her own to stay on campus, but the idea of home called her too sweetly. The rare days of sunshine and chasing Frodo in the yard, the chance to sleep in and catch up with the number of books that had come out during the school year that she hadn't had a chance to read. Staying up all night like they had in high school playing video games and eating junk food. The thought alone was enough to make her shoulders go slack with relief and the smile she had been fighting finally curled around the edges of her lips.
I wouldn't miss it for the world.
not even for the stars?
I wouldn't miss a summer with you for anything. Not even for the stars, she promised immediately. Class was winding down around her, so she shifted to pack up her stuff, reaching for the lid of her computer as she typed up one handed class ending talk to you later. Kili didn't respond before she shut the lid of her laptop, even though she paused for a moment longer, waiting. Eventually she was forced to close the lid and shove the device in her backpack, zipping the whole thing up and slinging it onto her shoulder. There wasn't a message waiting for her when she returned to her dorm and Kili stayed quiet even when she messaged that she had finally watched the trailer for the Marvel movie. A thought agitated her, that something had upset him, something she'd done, but she shoved it away, telling herself that he'd just fallen asleep.
God help us all, Kili's sick, Fili texted her the next day. She could hear the exasperation in his text, as if he was talking in her ear. She missed him more than ever, suddenly lonely and tired, freezing even in her three layers of knitted wool and blankets.
I know, she responded, he messaged me yesterday during my history lecture.
He won't leave me alone, Fili whined. Tauriel knew he was worried about his younger brother and bluffing as if it didn't bother him, but suddenly she didn't want to hear it. She turned the sound off on her phone and tossed it onto her desk, pulling her blankets around her shoulders more firmly as she returned to her assigned reading. There were three messages from Fili complaining about Kili's pestering when she checked later that night. Kili still hadn't messaged her again. The rest of the week was cold and miserable all around.
