Hello this is one of my first Hobbit Fanfictions. This is something that you must know though everybody is between 13-16. That is chronologically. If you want to know why, it is one simple thing, making one dwarf 16 makes them 46.8. Then one year younger is 43.16. It doesn't work for a school based fic. So they are all 13-16.*
Disclaimer I only own Finn. Juniper belongs to Madame Cross Marian. The rest of the characters belong to Tolkien.
Anything marked with an asterisk I own to my best friend Madame Cross Marian and her amazing research for me. ^-^
"This is Westron," for it is the common tongue.
"This is Khuzdul."
All Earth middle and high school for boys is one of the best in the world. It's such a good school that the girls masquerade as boys just to attend a week at the school. Though there are a few who can manage for a year or more. When they do they are hardly ever found out. This is their story.1
Finn's PoV
"Dori get my brother," I whisper to the Dwarf in front of me.
He nods and pokes my brother. He turns and I ask, "Do you have your notebook?" He holds up the red single subject notebook that he uses for note taking. My notebook though would be used to create a readable versions of the notes for Thorin. Due to my brother's hand having been broken too many times in the past his hand is better for writing runes than anything else.
Oh and I should introduce myself. My name is Finn, daughter of Thrain, son of Thror. Yes, I am one of the girls that hide as boys. Leave me alone, I've been doing this since I was eight.
"Hello class! Today we are welcoming a new student. Come in Mr. Bilbo Baggins," he said. Well at least this teacher is human not elf.
A boy came into the room. He had curly dirty blond hair and bright green eyes. He was wearing something close to formal clothing. With no shoes on I could tell that he was a Hobbit.
"Bilbo please sit behind Gloin. Gloin please raise your hand," the teacher said.
Bilbo is sitting diagonal to me. As class ends and he's trying to get his stuff together to go to lunch I ask him, "Do you want to eat lunch with me and my friends?"
He nods in the positive. I take him down to the fine arts wing where we eat lunch. I sat in the corner and leave just enough space on the left side of me for my brother to sit next to me.
It was then that I faintly heard something scraping against the floor. It hit me hard in the side. I looked over to see Nori's backpack. I didn't see Nori thought.
"Nori you know that I can't see it coming!" I yell just before Thorin come around the corner dragging Nori by his breads.
Thorin dropped Nori against the wall where Nori normally sat. Thorin sits down beside me and says softly, "Finny are you OK?"
I nod softly before taking a fry off his plate. It was then that I noticed that his lip was split.
"Brother who split your lip?" I asked looking up at him worriedly.
"That prat Legolas," he says and I leave to be. Knowing that it was the elf prince of Mirkwood means that I can't do anything about it.
It was then that Dori commented on who I was sitting Leander up against brother's side, "You two are the oddest pair of dwarfs ever."
"Oh shut up about their oddness. They really only have each other now," Balin starts as he glares at Dori. "Especially since Dis has came back home with her two kids."
"Yes, we're as poor as the next person here but at least we don't steal to make our money." I start to cry at the mention of our poorness. Thorin wraps his arms around me. Thorin then turns me to him. He says softly, "Remember that I'm getting a job, Finny." I nod softly into his side.
The others have learned not to bring up my family life, all but Nori and Dori. That's when Juniper Greenleaf comes over to us. She seemed slightly pissed at someone.
She was one of the only other girls that has managed to hide as a boy for more than a few weeks. Thought she is doing it to hide from her arranged marriage. She is half Hobbit and half elf, and while she is Legolas's sister none of us want to send her through the wall. The name that she goes by is Rowan.
"Hi Rowan," I say weakly as she sits down next to me.
"They just brought up that problem didn't they?" she asks quietly. I nod and press my face into my brother's side. He places his arm around my shoulders.
-Juniper's PoV-
If there is one subject that you must avoid when talking to dwarfs it would be money. Most definitely if they're from Erebor. For most of them were left without anything. This of course goes for Finn and Thorin. Though it's actually harder for both of them, for they are the heirs of the line of Durin. Thorin takes the brunt of the problems for he is only 16 and is a King. I don't mind living in poverty, but then again I chose this life. They didn't.
They were forced out of their home by Smaug a great fire-drake. Finn was badly injured by Smaug. She is sightless in her left eye, and deaf in her right ear due to concussions when she fell close to thirty feet* at age four when Smaug attacked. She also has scars running from her ankles to her shoulders from Smaug's claws.
You see when someone tells me something I remember it forever. I never tell things though without permission. I think what someone tells me should stay with the people that they choose to tell.
"Hi, my name's Bilbo, what's yours?" the boy next to me asks. He has dark blond curly hair and green eyes. He was definitely a Hobbit.
"Rowan," I say. Though it sounded more like a question even to me.
He nods and asks, "What's wrong with Finn?"
I look over at Thorin and Finn and Thorin says to me, "Go ahead and tell him. Finn seems to like him."
I nod before starting, "It should be obvious by now that Finn's a dwarf. Thorin and Finn both came from Erebor. That does mean that they lost just about everything to the fire-drake Smaug." I pause and look over at Thorin.
"He'll know soon enough it's still the talk of the school," Balin says from his place beside Thorin.
"Both Finn and Thorin are from the line of Durian. Thorin even at the age of sixteen is a king with no land to rule. It's also hard for the dwarfs of Erebor to live at all. They lost everything. Did you hear about the Battle of Azanulbizar?" I start, and at Bilbo's weak nod I continue, "They say their grandfather and brother die. Their mother died of an illness not long after. Their father just wandered off. Leaving Thorin as the last male in the line of Durin, and at the time he was only nine."
"Finn was scarred badly not only by those events, but by the ones that happened in Erebor. He was standing in the way of Smaug as he went into the main part of Erebor. His back and legs have scars all the way from his ankles to his upper back. They affect his sense of balance. He's deaf in his left ear and blind in his right eye. This is due to around a thirty foot fall from one walkway to the one below it in Erebor," I look over at both of them before saying the last bit of this sad tale.
"It got even worse for the two of them in the past year and a half. Their sister got laid off from work, then her husband just walked out on her in their two sons. She moved back into the house with Thorin and Finn. Thorin started working close to twenty hours a week at one of the bars around here as a bouncer. That's what's caused the worst problems for Finn. She relies on her bother so much. I became a good friend around then as well," I finish.
I look over at Thorin and Finn to see Finn's body jerking erratically. Thorin started trying to restrain her movement before yelling at them, "Go get the nurse now!"
Dori and Nori ran off to get the nurse. The nurse is the only person in the school that knows of all the girls in the school. He doesn't tell anyone though. He knows that most of us are just trying to get a better education, or trying to hide from family that wants us married off before we exit high school. Which might I add is extremely stupid because the only ones that come of age upon leaving high school is the humans and they hardly have arranged marriages.
It was then that Bilbo moved to close to Finn. She lashed out and slapped him hard on his cheek. He fell to the floor. Thorin was hit several times in the chin and over places, but he was extremely used to this and doesn't even flinch. Though when Finn tries to slap me I catch her hand and keep it in my grip.
It's then that the nurse comes around the corner and takes her hand from me. He injects a good amount of sedatives into her arm. She slowly goes limp in Thorin's arms and when she's finally out he passes out against the wall from over exertion. Even though Finn's small she can still cause a lot of damage.
"Bofur, Bifur take Thorin to my office. Juniper and I can get Finn. Someone please bring their things as well," the nurse says. He helps me get Finn up off the floor so they could get Thorin. We manage to get them to the nurse's office. Bilbo had followed behind us with all of our stuff.
"Rowan, please call Dis for me," the nurse says. I nod and take Finn's phone from her bag. I call Dis and she picks up on the first ring by saying, "If your brother got into a fight again I don't know what we're going to do."
"It's Juniper, Dis. Finn had another breakdown today. Can you come and get us?" I ask.
"I'll be there in a few, okay, Juniper?" Dis says before hanging up.
I sit down next to Finn and yell at her, "Echuio….Rhaich!" She doesn't even twitch. I switch to muttering, "Sevig thû úan. Echuio..." Again no movement. I say louder, "An ngell nîn?"*
It was then that Dis came into the room. She looked over at me and Finn and said softly, "Come Rowan, let's get these two home." I nod and pick up Finn. Dis manages to get Thorin with the help of the nurse. We head home and I sit with Finn for the rest of the day.
Translations:
"Echuio….Rhaich!" is "Wake up… Curses!"
"Sevig thû úan. Echuio.." is "You smell like a monster. Wake up."
"An ngell nîn?" is "Please?"