here's another hobbit story for yall. Just had this idea floating in my head so I typed it out. Voila. And I did NOT hold back with the hurt!Kili. I let him have it. :)
Rain. It had to be rain. Each pelting droplet was like a frigid bullet upon the company. And just as everyone was doubting the end of their deluge...they found it. Their salvation. After hours and hours of traipsing through the sopping forest, were only lucky enough to have found a outcropping. Albeit small and dark, it was high enough off the ground for the dwarves (and hobbit) to crawl under and have a dry rest. It was at the moment when everyone was unpacked enough for the night, and Bofur was preparing to cook that the awful realization hit them...they were out of food.
"All we got is some...uh...actually we don't have nothing," the toymaker reluctantly admitted.
"I can just go hunt something," Kili volunteered, "it won't take but an hour in these woods."
The company eyed Thorin suspiciously before he spoke up, "no. What if you get lost, of something happens?"
Fili spoke out from behind his uncle, "I'll go with him. I mean, anything is better than sitting here wet and starving. If we have to be one, at least lets not be hungry."
The king stared at his nephews and contemplated the request. As usual, the two made a most convincing argument when they were trying to prove their uncle wrong. And he always ended up giving in. They were right.
"Fine. Go hunting. But if your out too long, I'm coming after you two, " Thorin redirected his attention while Fili and Kili grabbed their various weapons, "Dori, Nori, get a fire going."
"We'll be back soon!" the brothers yelled as they disappeared into the rainy shrubbery.
How long had it been since they left? An hour? Two...maybe two and a half? Regardless Fili and Kili were about to return just as soaked as before and empty handed. Just when they were about to turn and head back, a twig snapped loudly off somewhere close.l the two paused.
"Hey, Fili, d'you hear that? I think I found us a nice, big, buck," Kili smiled and drew his bow.
"Yeah. But, how do you know what type of animal that is? I wonder about you sometimes."
"Shush. Hey I saw something move over there! This'll be quick!" and he was already running through the bushes towards his target.
He didn't see what Kili was aiming at, actually. Fili went to grab his brother to follow him after the alleged deer...only there was a slight problem. Kili was gone. As in nowhere to be found.
Fili's heart began to race. Where was Kili? One second he was right there running to look for a deer...the next he was nowhere in sight. The blonde began yelling his brother's name at the top of his lungs. No answer. He tried running through the nearest trees. No luck. Fili's heart was beating in his throat.
Fili rubbed his temples in thought, Where would Kili go? The camp! Maybe he went back to the camp. If he got lost he would just look for the fire. He's smart. I'll go back a-and there'll be Kili roasting that damn deer on a spit.
The only problem is that he didn't believe that. Not one bit. But he had to. Fili had his mind made up, mostly. But he ran off that "mostly". And ran towards the tiny orange dot he saw off about a mile away that he knew as the company's fire.
Kili was lost. No avoiding that fact. He. Was. Lost. The deer went off one direction, he went another. And now he was in the middle of drop-dead-nowhere. He kept hearing branches snap around him, which told him he that he was either losing it or he was being followed. But he disregarded both. Then he saw it. That deer. Moving a few meters in front of him.
Gotcha.
Kili ran at the animal, but soon found himself laying on the forest floor with an excruciating pain ripping through his right leg. His ears rang and it took a minute for him to gather his bearings. Finally he decided to look at what grabbed him. But the second he looked he want to puke out his stomach. A grisly bear trap was squeezing its way through his flesh and he could feel the bone splitting under the harsh spikes.
The young dwarf's first instinct was to pry the trap off...bit he didn't have the time. Before he could think he was being pulled up in the air. The figure was strong, obviously, and quickly spun Kili around to face him. But where the dwarf was expecting someone like Dwalin...he got a menacing Orc.
"Look wha' I caught," the Orc spat out in a voice like gravel, "we're gonna have fun with you."
that was the last thing Kili saw before his forehead collided with a knife handle and all went black.