What is and Could Have Been
Author's note: I don't own The Hobbit. Warning, major spoilers ahead for Battle of Five Armies. I love the Hobbit, and BOFA even though it ripped my heart out and made me cry like a baby. So I decided to write an ending that even though I read the book I had been hoping for. Depending on how this story pans out I may continue writing beyond what I've already planned. I hope you all love reading this as much as I loved writing it, and I hope you review. May the grace of the Valar be with you all.
Prologue
Fever still wracked the small dwarf prince's body and though her medicine had stopped the poison that been coursing in his veins, Tauriel knew it would still be a long time before he was back to his full strength.
"Tauriel?" She heard him call softly for her and she flitted gracefully to his side and pressed a hand to his forehead, even now she could feel his fever going down.
"Lie still." She gazed down at Kili, the rather tall dwarf who broken his way into her carefully guarded heart. The memory of his antics in her king's dungeon, that he could be humorous in such a situation, brought a smile to usually somber face.
"Tauriel?" Kili called out again and he opened his eyes open a crack and Tauriel saw that they were still cloudy from the morgul arrow's black magic.
The poison was gone, she had healed him herself but she knew she wouldn't be completely relieved until his eyes were their bright vibrant brown once again.
As she leaned down Kili's face broke into a smile, but it soon faded and he furrowed his brows. "You cannot be her." He moaned.
Tauriel almost reached out to take ahold of his hand and reassure him that it was really her standing there, but she caught herself from doing so. She was an elf, she was not supposed to act like this toward a dwarf. It wasn't natural. Then why did it feel so right? Tauriel thought.
"You cannot be her." Kili repeated with a voice full of sadness. "She is far away, far far away from me."
I'm not far away, I'm right beside you. Tauriel all but screamed in her mind and yet couldn't bring herself to say the words.
Kili turned his face away and gazed outside through a window to the night sky beyond. "She walks in starlight in another world." Kili turned back to her and met her green eyes with his cloudy brown ones. "It was just a dream."
With great effort that seemed to spend all his strength he reached his hand out to her and against her own violation she found her hand moving to meet his halfway. She sucked in a bated breath when their fingertips met and lightly brushed each other.
Kili's eyes traveled from their joined hands and up to her face before he squeezed them shut. "Do you think she could have loved me?"
Maybe I already do. But Tauriel told herself she would never say it out loud.
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