"Isn't she a beauty?"

"Yep."

"Well, don't get too excited there, brother."

Kili rolled his eyes and walked up to their car. The sleek black 1968 Dodge Charger looked as beautiful as ever in the spring afternoon. "I still can't believe Uncle gave us the Charger."

"Well, if we're going to be hunting on our own we might as well look bad ass while doing it, right?" Fili laughed and slid into the driver's seat. Kili moved around to the trunk and set his duffel inside, closing it with a thunk.

"So how long of a drive is it to Halfmoon?" Kili asked as he sat in the passenger's side.

"Uh, seven hours that is if we don't have to stop too many times."

"Well, let's get it over then." Kili sighed as he tried to get comfortable.

Eight hours and four disgusting burgers later they've finally arrived; the town of Halfmoon was old to put it lightly. The buildings were all in disarray and slowly falling apart and their motel wasn't any better. The lobby smelled strongly of moth balls and the woman who gave them their key was less then delightful. When they finally entered their room it was covered from wall to wall in a cheesy floral pattern. The bedding was a drab green hue complete with frills on the edge of the blanket.

"Well, it's-"

"Hideous. Absolutely Hideous." Kili sighed as he threw his duffel on the floor, Fili following suit.

"Right anyway, Thorin said were here for a ghost so with any luck we won't have to stare at this ugly room for too long." Fili laughed as he opened his laptop. After ten minutes of cursing the crappy motel Wi-Fi he finally found the news article. "Ah here it is The Mirkwood House… says it's haunted by the youngest daughter, Bonnie, that lived there in the 60's. Apparently the she went postal and killed everyone in their sleep with... Oh get this; she killed them with an antler from one of the deer heads mounted on the wall."

Kili looked up from his shoe laces. "Well that's uh.. I- I don't know what to say to that."

Fili merely shrugged closing his laptop and walking over to the bathroom and shutting the door. Seconds later the sound of running water filled the motel room. Kili moved to sit on the bed and lay down, eyes closed and hands laced together behind his head. He sat there in content silence the only noise permeating the air being the sound of the water steadily falling from the shower head. Kili allowed his thoughts to drift to his mother, Dis. He was only 4 when she died and all he knows about her death is a series of lies told to him by Thorin. Kili sighed; he only vaguely remembered her lullabies and her hearty laugh. Though even those memories we muddled since he was so young when she was alive. He always wondered what Fili remembered of their mother but it was never a topic they liked to cover. His fingers traced over the faint scar on his collarbone, though no one would tell him the actually story on how it came to be, he has a suspicion it had something to do with his mother. Kili's train of thought was suddenly interrupted by his phone, the opening beats of 'Rock of Ages' emanating through the room. He sighed and rolled off the bed toward his duffel, rummaging through it until he finally found what he was looking for. "Hello?"

"Good you're still awake. Have you and Fili made it to Halfmoon yet?" Thorin's deep voice rumbled from the other end of the line. Checking in on them, always worried, as usual.

"Yeah we got here…" He paused looking at the clock. Damn is it really midnight? "About an hour ago."

"Good. Call me after you're finished there."

"Sure." He said as the line went dead. Nice talking to you too.

"Who was that?" Fili asked as he stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist.

"Just Uncle." He replied as he threw his phone back into the duffel and made his way back to the bed and flopped down face first.

"Oh let me guess, 'are you there yet?' 'did you remember to get rock salt' 'don't forget to put the demon trap in front of the door'" Fili said in a comically deep voice while waving his hands around in the air.

Kili laughed turning around so he was lying on his back. "Actually he was quite brief. He just asked if we arrived yet and to call him when finish here."

"Huh that's unlike him to be so brief." Kili shrugged and turned to lie back on his stomach this time wrapping himself in the blankets. "Anyways we should get some shut eye so we can hit the house early and get it over with." He said as he made his way to his duffel and grabbed a pair of sweatpants. He shrugged them on then rubbed the towel in his golden hair. "You gonna change out of those jeans or…?" He moved over to where his brother lay and nudged him with his foot, laughing when Kili snored in response. Goodnight little brother.

His feet hurt but he couldn't stop. He had to keep running. If he didn't, he would surely be dead. Kili spared a glance behind him and immediately wished he hadn't for they were gaining on him and fast. He willed his feet to move faster but he was already pushing his physical limit. He yelped as he twisted his ankle and fell onto the unforgiving dirt. Then he was surrounded cold nails breaking skin as he was pulled in every direction. The air filled with the sound of his screams mixed with the taunting laughs of his captors. Suddenly he was aware of warmth, a familiar presence.

"Kili! Come on wake up! Please, Kee!" Fili yelled as he shook his brother. Kili jolted out of the nightmare, sweat covering his form as he fell off the bed to be caught by his brother's arms. He held onto them will all his might. "Hey, hey its ok I got you. You're ok Kee."

"They're getting worse, Fee." Kili managed to get out as he squeezed his eyes shut to will away the tears.

"Is it the same one?"

"Yeah, except there's more of them now and I can't get away anymore."

"I wish I knew why this is happening to you Kee, I'm so sorry." Fili sighed and held his brother closer. Kili was notorious for being a troubled sleeper it started with just a nightmare every so often and he'd wake up right away crawl into bed with Fili and sleep soundly the rest of the night. Though in the past few years Kili's nightmares became closer together and every time it was increasingly harder to wake him. Tonight's was the worst in a while; it took five minutes to wake Kili. Fili closed his eyes and hoped that whatever Thorin's secret mission was that it would somehow help his little brother.

Two hours later and they found themselves in front of the Mirkwood house. It looked just as you'd expect any haunted house to; run down, windows boarded up and complete with graffiti on all the walls. They moved around to the trunk opening the fake bottom and grabbing two shotguns and a small duffel. As they entered the scent of decay was overwhelming and they stopped for a moment before heading upstairs to the Bonnie's bedroom. It was rumored that she crawled into an air vent or somehow got into the walls, either way her body was never found. Fili found his senses taking him towards a wall to his left covered by a bookshelf. Him and Kili quickly moved it out of the way and noted the hole that was haphazardly covered by dry wall.

"Well that was easier then I thought it would be." Fili said as he grabbed an axe out of the duffel and went to work knocking down the wall. Kili busied himself by looking through the photo albums that were left on the desk. After ten minutes the wall was down and the temperature of the room had dropped significantly.

"Guess she is still around. Keep on your to-" Fili's eyes widened as he looked over his shoulder and saw the ghostly girl standing behind his brother. "Kili look out!" Before Kili could even react Bonnie threw him against the wall with a flick of her wrist and he fell limp against the floor. Fili wasted no time blasting her full of rock salt and burning her bones.

"Kili are you alright?" Fili leaned down shaking his brother, heaving a sigh of relief when he earned a groan in response.

"Well, she was rude." Kili gave his trademark smirk and made to stand, wobbling slightly on his feet.

Fili caught his brother as he began to fall forward. "Why don't you go to the car, I can finish up here. Think you can make it?"

"I'm not four, Fili I can walk. I'll be fine." Kili responded as he headed out of the bedroom and out of sight. Fili watched as his brother left, worry evident in his gaze. He's 21 he can take care of himself. Yet still something still didn't bode well within Fili and he shrugged it off for the time being and set off to finish the task at hand. After finally getting the bookshelf back into place and making sure he put everything back into the duffel he headed back to the car. The first thing he noticed was that the car was empty. Alright maybe he just went to take a leak? But as Fili moved closer to the car he realized there was a note on the passenger's seat. He dropped his duffel and grabbed the note, his heart leaping into his throat as he read it: "I was dearly hoping to find your uncle here instead of his two nephews. Either way I learned the best way to get to someone is through whom they treasure the most; the fact that Kili is the younger only makes this prize sweeter for me. You may see Kili again if Thorin gives me what I want, until then your little brother is at my mercy. -Smaug"

Fili felt his body go numb. "No... No please no..." He breathed as he rested his forehead against the car. I will save you Kili. I promise I'll save you.