Please note! I have this story up on AO3. I had it up there before I had it up here!

Disclaimer: I own nothing! But the LOTR Trilogy on Blu-Ray and The Hobbit on Blue-Ray! Lol

Summary: A chance encounter, that's all it took for her to begin her fall.

Warnings: Gender-Bent Bilbo Baggins, Modern Universe- AU, Smaug-Bilbo Paring

Chapter One: I'm So Sorry!

'You are still coming to see me right?' Bilba let out a tired sigh and answered the text with a short 'Yes Sméagol. Don't worry you're pretty little head over it.~BB'.

She shoved her phone back into her pocket as she got out of her car and headed into the small super market, cart and list in hand. She wondered how on earth she was able to remain friends with him after their break up. They had been together less that two months and she called it quits. She hated how possessive he was, and she hated his pet name for her, 'My Precious!' Bilba shivered and just as she turned the corner she hear someone let out sound of surprise.

Eyes wide she looked up, before her was a handsome man, with blond hair and eyes that seemed bottomless as the ocean. He mouth opened a few time before she was able to speak.

"I am so sorry!" she covered her face with her hand as her curls tumbled over her shoulders to curtain her from his eyes. A soft chuckle met her ears and she looked up, he was smiling and shaking his head.

"It's alright, no harm done." She felt her knees go weak at the pitch of his voice, and it set her nerves at ease.

"But I still should have been watching where I was going… " he just smiled making her even more flustered, then he held out his hand. Timidly she put her hand in his. What he did made her face go red. He kissed the top of her hand, like a true gentleman.

"I'm Smaug. Smaug Tarakona*, and you're name might be?" he arched a brow at her making her face turn a lovely shade of pink.

"Bilba, Bilba Baggins Mr. Tarakona." He let go of her hand and stood up straight. It was only then she realized just how tall he was! At least a good 10 inches taller than her is not a foot, even with her small heels on!

"Please, Smaug Miss Baggins."

"Then you must just call me Bilba. Miss Baggins was my mother as far's as a I know." She said with a grin at his confused look. "Adoption. But come now! You must be busy, I'm sure that I've interrupted you."

"No Bilba you haven't. I was just wondering about contemplating getting something to drink." That made her perk up.

"They have a lovely herbal tea that you can buy, not pre-made of course. But they do have a small café just back in the north part of the store. They have an amazing Lavender Spice Tea as well as Orange Spice." She had a small smile in her face as she spoke, and he just watched her in amusement of how exciting the thought of tea made her. "They also have coffee is tea isn't to your taste."

"Would you like to join me for a cup?" he held out his hand again and she looked at her phone, 'A few minutes wouldn't hurt…'

"Very well, I've some time to spare." She placed her hand in his, abandoning her empty cart in favor of a strangers company.

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A few minutes turned into an hour before she knew it. What alerted her to this was he phone ringing. Trying to stop her giggling, she answered, "Hello?"

"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN YOUNG LADY!? You have us worried sick!" Bilba near about dropped her phone at the sound of her brothers angry voice.

"Hello to you too Thorin… could you yell any louder? I don't think New Zealand heard you!" Smaug gave her a worried look and she mouthed the word, 'My Brother.' Before listening to her brothers rantings.

"Bilba, Sméagol has been driving us up a wall wondering where you are!" Thorin, she knew, hated the guy, but put up with him because he was one of her few friends.

"Thorin, I've been out. And he has no right to bother you about my whereabouts! He isn't my father! Or boyfriend. You've my blessing to tell him off next time he calls you!" that made him laugh.

"Very well princess, but next time please keep better track of time?" Bilba smiled at her phone and laughed.

"Very well my princeling brother, I'll keep you informed!"

"Excuse me?! Princeling?!"

"Oh would you look at the time! Gotta go! BYE!" she hung up the phone and stuffed it back into her pocket.

"Have I kept you to long?" she looked at her friend and shook her head. "No, I'm glad for a reason not to see Sméagol for once…" she pinched the bridge of her nose. "But this also will cause some trouble… he's always on my case about what I'm doing."

"Here…" he held out a business card, and stood once she took it. "Give me a call Miss Bilba Baggins. I'll be waiting." He took her hands and kissed it before walking off. The side facing her had a small massage written on it, "Feel like entering the Dragon's Lair?" Turning it over she smiled. She pulled out her phone, sending the written number a text.

'Only if you can keep said dragons at bay.'

'Oh Course. -ST'

A.N. I suggest to look it up on AO3 because there I have the ability to add images into the story. I have a dream cast for the story, as well as things that will appear in the story.

*Tarakona, I got that from here : dragonsinn net / say . htm

At first I was going to have his last name Draconis, but it flow well from my point of view...

Tarakona is Maori for dragon, according to the before mentioned link, so I thought it fitting seeing as how The Hobbit was filmed in New Zealand.

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