Sorry for long update, been super busy (I had my prom)

Thorin had been watching Fili grow quieter, it had now been 3 days since the lightning, and Fili was practically a zombie, he just functioned. It broke the Kings heart, he had sworn to protect his Sisters sons, and one of them had been 'teleported' somewhere else. Had he even survived?

By the fourth day, it was obvious Fili had lost weight; it was too quiet without the youngest member mucking about, telling about orc attacks and scaring Bilbo. The whole company was missing him, but not as much as the depressed brother.

"Gandalf" Thorin started "Is there nought you can do, to bring Kili back?" He glanced hopefully at the wizard

"Thorin, if there was i would've done it by now" Gandalf sighed as Thorin's shoulders dropped slightly

"When will he return?"

"When the time is right"
"When is that, wizard?"

"Whenever it is"

"Is he alive?" Thorin asked the question that had been bugging him. The pause of response made Thorin look at the ground, his nephew was dead

"Yes"

"How do you know?"

"My heart tells me so"

"Your heart?" Thorin scoffed, before dropping back to Fili "Fili, how are you?" Fili remained staring at the ground as he trudged on "Fili" Thorin demanded, and Fili looked up at his uncle. As soon as they found Thorin's eyes Fili's watered "Fili? What is it?"

"I failed" Fili muttered

"What in Durin's name are you on about?"
"I failed mother's wishes. She said to look after him..." Fili's voice broke "... Now I don't know where he is or if he's alive" Fili looked down again

"He's alive" Thorin reassured him, there was a slight more light in Fili's eyes as he looked up

"How do you know?" His voice more hopeful

"Gandalf said he's sure of it. He's a wizard, he'll have some way of knowing" Even though Thorin had scoffed, it was better than Fili keep thinking Kili was dead. Fili's pace picked up slightly at the news, and seemed slightly happier

"I miss him"

"I know, Fili, i miss him too"

For the last day, since Kiera had mentioned it she and Kili had been working on what dwarf woman would wear in Middle Earth, and both of them were enjoying themselves. Kili had reasonably quickly adapted to modern life, and Kiera had taught him lots to know, but hoped when he returned it was going to be okay.

Then it came to her, a perfect idea

"Hey Kili-" Kiera started

"Hey!" Kili grinned, Kiera flashed him a smile

"Oh shush. I was thinking do you want to go camping?" Kiera asked, biting her lip waiting for a response, Kili looked up interested

"I'd love that! That's one thing i can do better!"

"Tent or no tent?"

"Tents? We just sleep in open ground"

"What about if it rains?"

"We get shelter"

"What if there's none?"

"Our clocks get wet"

"Fair enough. I think it'd be fun" Kiera said, almost finishing her shirt. "Does this look okay?"

Kili looked up "Yea! You'll soon look like a dwarf women! In a good way i mean"
"I know- don't worry" Kiera smiled.

By that evening Kili and Kiera had just about finished the clothing, Kiera had been quicker but Kili was skilful and managed to keep up. Even though dwarf women wore dresses, Kili had designed it based on men's clothing but changed it to be more womanlike and it turned out better then he'd expected. They had got belts and other material as close as they could to what it would look like.

"Okay. Let's make our camping more interesting. We have to wear these?" Kiera grinned at Kili

"Okay, let's do a dwarven trait of betting. I bet i last longer then you"

"In what sense?"

"In what we're wearing, i mean like we're camping my way"

Kiera laughed "I'm up for that"

"Okay, bets on" Kili grinned and shook her hand once.

"We're setting off at 7 by the way" Kiera smiled as she went off to bed, not long after Kili joined her

The next morning at 6, Kiera's alarm went off, waking both people at the same time, which had closed up the gap between them during the night, so now they were lying with their arms touching. This had happened previously but usually one woke up first and moved so the other wouldn't suspect, but they opened their eyes looking straight into each other's.

Kili noticed the blush spreading across Kiera's cheeks before she rolled over and got up and he smiled softly, it beat waking up next to his brother, which they did for comfort and because they were close anyway.

Then an hour later they were in a taxi driving out to the middle of nowhere. Kiera paid and they clambered out grabbing their packs, and getting changed into their dwarf clothing, before emerging looking at each other.

"One thing first" Kiera said fishing out her phone from the bag "I need a photo of this" Kili frowned, but they got a photo, before she switched off the device and dropped it in her bag.

"Alright then Mr Dwarf, we're going on an adventure!" They both laughed and headed into the forest.