A Brothers Vow

Hey! So I'm back, exams are over (apart from one!), but it's the holidays and I'm fed up of revising ONE subject!

So here it is the Durinest fanfic, with WHUMP, love and brotherly fluff galore!

I'll use very little Khuzdul (as I know like none!)

Khagun - Mother/Mummy

Thane - King/Lord (This is what Fili and Kili will call Thorin as young children)

Age wise as a child Dwarves age half the speed as Men and when they reach 40 (Maturity) the aging gets mental like (mans age x 4.2 - 44 = Dwarf age) do I worked out at 166 a Dwarf is about 50.

Fili is about twelve Dwarf years or six human years older then Kili.

Chapter 1 - The Day and Night

"Khagun, Thane!" Fili cried. He didn't understand, no matter how hard he tried. He didn't like not understanding and began to panic, his cropped corn hair plastering itself to his sweat and tear stained face, "Khagun!"

"Fili?" A dwarf's face swam into view and Fili through the tears couldn't recognise it, "Fili, lad?"

"B-Balin?" He sniffed rubbing his face with his sleeve, not caring for his mother scolding right now, "Khagun?"

"Fili, lad. Listen, Khagun isn't here ok, shh." Balin looked down with sympathetic eyes at the young dwarf, he was twelve summers old and as strong and lean as many others his age, but right now that didn't matter he was scared and worried.

"Where, is she?" Fili gasped his eyes darting around the emptying room.

"Fili, ok. Your Khagun is getting your little brother or sister." Balin whined inwardly, 'that was a terrible way to put it'.

"But, Khagun says he's not ready yet. She says I have to wait longer, I have to be patty-ent."

"Patient. Yes, but Fili, your little brother or sister isn't patient, they want to meet you and Khagun now!" Balin stuttered moving the boy over to the stool by the fire and sitting him down. "And Thane?"

"Yes, Fili and Uncle Thorin too." Balin couldn't help but smile as a sparkle of wonder crept in to the boys stormy grey eyes, "Come little lion, we'll get some pastry, yes?"

"Yes please, Uncle Balin." The young Dwarf hopped off the stool and burst out in to the streets roaring and growling like his name sakes, "I'm a lion!" He squeal roaring again and Balin smiled, forgetting any troubles to see the grin spread across the sandy haired heirs face.

"Brother?" Balin looked up from the floor; he'd almost fallen asleep, his eye landed on the dozing prince on the pillows by the fire and he smirked to himself before pushing himself up and ushering Dwalin in to the next room, "How is she?"

"Oin, says she'll make a recovery, but the child…" Balin sighed and Dwalin combed his fingers through his beard. "It is good new to hear Dis will be ok." Balin lowered his head.

"Yes, but the Prince Balin, he is so small… I have never seen a halfing newborn that size let alone a Dwarf."

"I'm not small!"

"Fili!" Balin cried, "No, my lion, no."

"I'm not small. Am I?" Fili pouted before looking up at the brothers.

"No, Fili. We speak of your baby brother. Now Fili, we need to speak with you." Dwalin gave a small smile, which made Fili giggle, "Mr Balin, Uncle Dwalin smiled!"

"I can smile too, little lion!" Dwalin chuckled deeply. Balin herded the still giggling child back to the stool in front of the fire and the brother settled on chairs next to him.

"Now Fili. Your Khagun has your brother," Fili gasped in wonder, "But, Fili, listen. He is quite ill." Dwalin added.

"Ill?" Fili questioned his eyes widening in panic, "Where's Khagun?"

"Fili, Khagun is very tired. She is sleeping." Balin added and Fili nodded numbly.

"Now, Fili, your little brother may not be ok, like you said he was not ready, but like his Uncle he is very stubborn."

"But, he will be ok." Fili asked tears brimming in his eyes.

"He is small and tired, but Fili we do not know." Fili gave a sob which was followed by a wail as he dashed through the front door, Dwalin close at his heels. "Fili!"

"No!" Fili cried and ran, he knew when his Khagun was tired or Thane was ill they would go to Mr Oin's house, so Fili ran the streets he knew so well and hammered on Oin's front door. However, it was not Oin who answered, but Thorin, his eyes deep and dark from lack of sleep, "Fili?"

"Thane!" Fili sobbed and clung to Thorin's leg and Dwalin came to the door, red in the face, "They said, he is ill, my brother."

"Fili, come in out of the night." Thorin led the boy in and looked him deep in the eye, "They tell the truth little lion, your brother is ill."

"Bu-but…" Fili started.

"But, Fili, you know what your little brother is? He's a Durin, a Prince and tell me Fili what is he?"

"A little lion? Like me?" Fili asked, his eyes drying.

"Fili, he is strong and stubborn, like us." Thorin tried to smile.

"I'm not stubborn!" Fili moaned with a grin.

"No, Fili. Now come, I'm sure Mr Oin will let you sleep on his couch." Thorin watched fondly as Fili drifted off, he was curled up on the pillows, his golden hair splayed like a fan around his head. He was so much like his father and like his father would make a wonderful Durin Prince.

"Oin!" A shrilled cry came from upstairs and Thorin rushed out of the room, closing to door, protecting Fili from what he would hear. "Dis!" He shouted taking the stairs in twos. He burst through Dis' door and rushed to her, she was sobbing uncontrollably and staring down at the lifeless babe in her arms, "Thorin!" She yelp, "He stopped, he's stopped!" She wailed and Thorin leapt in to action pulling the babe with hurried gentleness from he arms and laying in on the ground. Over Dis' cried and sobbing Thorin muttered to himself, "Come on."

"Thorin? What happened?" Oin fell to him knees ungracefully beside the babe.

"He's stopped breathing. I th-think we are loosing him." Thorin struggles to keep his usually infallible mask from slipping. "Ok, right." Oin muttered to himself pinching open the boys mouth and pushing with no great lightness on his chest.

Minutes passed, but then the child took a breath, a minuscule yet treasured breath. And the tense, screams of Dis stopped. The panicked faces of Thorin and Balin relaxed and the babe cried his first tiny wail since he entered the world.

"Thorin?" Thorin shuffled in to the candle lit room to see Dis awake with a tiny bundle in her arms. "It is me sister."

"Did I hear Fili, earlier? Is he ok?" Dis slurred from tiredness.

"Yes, he is sleeping as should you be. How is the babe now?" Thorin added.

"Ok, Thorin. I was so scared of loosing my little wolf."

"It's ok, sister, be at peace, he is ok now, Wolf?" Thorin enquired lowing himself in to the seat beside the bed.

"His hair, it is as black as the night, like yours." Dis smiled tears in her exhausted eyes.

"Yes, I see," Thorin muttered leaning over to look at the baby, he was fair - unusually so for a Dwarf, "He is fair."

"Don't be jealous so Thorin." Dis smirked, " I will be sad if he…"

"Dis," Thorin warned clasping her face in his rough hands, "Don't think like that, he is small, yes and sick. But, like I said to Fili, he is a Durin."

"Kili." Dis smiled as a single tear rolled down her check, "I wish to name him Kili."

"Then Kili, the Little Wolf, he shall be, now Dis sleep, I shall care for the child!" Thorin lifted the babe effortlessly from Dis' arms and held it to his chest.

End Of Chapter

I actually nearly cried! OMG! Please review, question me, scrutinise me all you want.

Thank you for reading, I promise to update as quickly as possible.