The Elfling Twins
By: Moonling child
Disclaimer: nope, don't own.
Key: the same as last time.
Bilbo thought that he was rather abrupt when asking if the young ones wanted break fast, but then again, Bilbo did not really know what to do with two small and frightened toddlers on his hands so he was just going with what seemed right in the moments that he said it in. Bilbo also reasoned that the children needed some food, and Bilbo was determined to fatten them up. When Bilbo saw them nod, he smiled again and said, "Well, come on then. The kitchen is right down the hall." But when he moved to go over to them, they pushed themselves away and were looking at him fearfully again. Bilbo noticed this and instead, Bilbo turned around and walked thru the door while saying that he would be in the kitchen with all of their break fasts.
As the hobbit left, Harry and Willow were both relived and disappointed. They were relived because they did not know him, and had never been comfortable with strangers. But they were disappointed because their magic's wanted to be with the Hobbit. The twins waited until the heard him enter what they thought to be the kitchen before they got up and out of bed. As they were heading for the door, Harry stopped Willow and asked mentally 'Can you make up the story about how we got here please? You have always been better at that kind of stuff then I have been.' 'Of course' Willow said with a smirk, 'I have a good idea too!' Harry groaned slightly and started to wonder if having Willow make up the story was such a good idea after all. The only thing that Harry could get about the story from out of her head was that it was going to be mainly true.
When Harry and Willow enter the hall, they subconsciously fell into a defensive stance with Harry in the front and Willow guarding their backs as they had done for many years. Once they got to the kitchen, they put back on their masks of being frighten children. They felt bad for manipulating the hobbit, but they also thought that it would not lead to anything bad for anyone so the guilt went away for the most part.
Bilbo was sitting at the table to try and appear less of a danger to the little ones. While he had no idea as too how he was going to find out what had happened to them, or how to approach them, he had a weird feeling that he was doing the right thing, though he did not know where the feeling was coming from. When Bilbo saw the frightened youngsters standing in his door way, he put on a warm smile and gestured to the two chairs on the other side of the table that had two plates of food in front of then and said "why don't the two of you sit down and start eating? Then we can talk if that's alright with you two?" The twins looked at each other before looking back at Bilbo and nodding and then warily walking to the chairs and sitting down. The twins waited until Bilbo had started eating before they themselves started eating, after making sure there was not anything harmful in the food, they had just been thru war after all.
Once the elflings had eaten all that they could, witch was not enough by far in one Hobbits opinion, Bilbo coughed softly, causing the children's eyes to become fear-filled once more, and gently asked, "What are your names little ones? Mine is Bilbo Baggins, Hobbit of the shire." Bilbo was looking more at the little boy elf because he had answered his earlier question
Willow looked the newly named Bilbo in the eyes and said "My name is Willow, and he is my twin brother Harry. Thank you for the food Mr. Baggins." Softly, surprised at how soft, musical, and innocent it seemed to be.
"You're welcome" Bilbo said with another smile. He was slightly surprised to find that the female, Willow, answered his question, but he was not going to question it. It was then that Bilbo noticed that even while eating one of the elflings kept their eyes on him at all times. Bilbo then asked the question that would really get the ball rolling for other questions to come. "Harry, Willow, how did you two come to be unconscious on my door step? Do you even remember?" Bilbo asked gently.
Harry looked at Willow because he wanted to know what she would say as well seeing as she had a wall up to block him from her plan. Willow spoke up and said "We remember but if we tell you, you would think that we are crazy and send us away." Willow looked very sad when she said this and Bilbo wanted to hug her and chase away all of her fears and troubles.
But instead he just settled for saying, "I will not send you away and I will not think that you are crazy." Harry was gazing into his eyes and read the surface thought and could only find truthfulness in them. Harry quickly relayed the information to Willow who could not read minds but could make it so that no one could enter hers' or his. They made a great team.
Bilbo was watching how the twins seemed to have a silent debate about something after Harry broke eye contact with him. Bilbo was broken out of his musings when he heard Willow say "Okay, I'll tell you what brought us here. It was a bright light that surrounded us after we made a wish with all of our hearts on a moving star. We are not sure why we wished on the moving star but something seemed to pull us too. We wished to go someplace with someone who would love us and it brought us to you." Willow finished looking at Bilbo like she was afraid that he would kick out her and her twin but also with longing.
Harry realized with a jolt that, that could actually be true. After Sirius was killed in the ministry they had gone up to the astronomy tower and wished to go to a place where they would be loved. But as the white light surrounded them the headmaster came out of the shadows and bound the light so it would not be able to take them. He then tried to erase their memories but he did not erase them together and that is the only way to get rid of memories in magical twins but they went along with it anyways.
Bilbo was surprised by Willows answer as he realized that the valar must have had something to do with it. Bilbo pushed down the question for they why he was chosen and d not the elves as he knew that the elflings would not know the answer to it and instead asked "why did you wish on the star? Surly your parents must be missing you by now!" Willow and Harry both looked sad when Bilbo said that then Willow said very quietly "Our parents were murdered when we were 15 months old. We got sent to relatives, who are in no way related to us by the way." Willow spat out, her voice full of venom "Who completely and utterly hate us. So no, we will not be missed from where we came from." Willow finished her mini rant and then smiled slightly with a glint in her eye that was gone again before Bilbo noticed and said "As for your question as to why we wished on the star, as we said before we do not know why but our magic really wanted us to." Then suddenly Willows eyes filled with fear and the two youngsters pushed themselves back against the chairs they sat on.
Bilbo was shocked. As far as he knew no elves could magic as a wizard could? Suddenly Bilbo understood, or at least thought he knew, what had happened to the two elflings. The little ones had been beaten because they could use magic. While it was unheard of for someone to be born with magic, they're people out in the world who hated and are afraid of magic. So whoever the people who raised them were re then likely one of those people and they had probably try to beat the magic out of them. The thought infuriated Bilbo but now at least he understood what had happened to them even if they had not spoken it out loud. Bilbo now wanted the names of who had hurt the little ones because even if HE could not destroy them, he knew some dwarfs and elves that would be glad to do it for him…
So Bilbo asked "where do you hail from? What happened to the ones who hurt you?"
Harry bit his lip and wondered what Willow was going to say. Willow knew she couldn't really tell Bilbo what had happened to them so instead she just said "We hail from a land father away then the farthest sea and the ones who hurt us can never reach us again."
Bilbo was happy and upset at the news. Happy because they could no longer be harmed by their first tormentors. Bilbo was upset though that no one could get revenge for the youngsters. Bilbo then saw that the twins start to look uncomfortable with all the questions so he let them drop for the moment. Instead he asked them if they knew anything about hobbits.
Willow was happy that he left the questions because they had been making Harry uncomfortable. Harry answered his question by saying "some Willow had-" "a vision about this-"Willow continued "world when we arived-" Harry said looking at Willow who finished "on your doorstep"
Bilbo shook his head at their antics and asked "am I going to have to get used to this twin talk thing?" But before he could ask another question Willow cut him off saying "Wait, you're going to let us stay here? You're not going to send us away?" Sounding very much like the child that she looked like.
"Yes I will let you two stay here." Bilbo assured her. "Though the Elves might want you with them." Bilbo mused.
This time Harry answered the unasked question. Looking up thru his eye lashes at Bilbo with big, round, and innocent looking emerald eyes he said "B-But we want to stay here with you" and Bilbo's heart melted at the sight.
"There may be a problem though." Bilbo suddenly said. Harry and Willow looked at him in confusion and they said together "what might that be?"
Bilbo sighed slightly and said "They head of the town will not let any youngsters stay here without a guardian of some sort. For you two to stay I, or some one else, would have to either adopt you or become your guardians. I am willing to become either for you to stay here but someone else may not be. I shall give you a few moments for you youngsters to decide." Bilbo finished and walked over farther into his kitchen to start the second meal of the day.
Willow and Harry nodded at Bilbo before starting a mental conversation with Willow keeping a eye on him. "Well, it looks like we can get what we have always wanted. A family…He could be our father… The father we never had… " Harry said dreamily. Willow just smiled at her brother; she knew how much he wanted a family. And while she wanted one too, she was quite happy to have just her brother. "So, we agreed?" Willow asked. "Yes, yes we are." Harry said.
"Mr. Bilbo?" Willow started hesitantly. After all, Willow's power of SIGHT was not going to be working for anything non-important for the next several days because of their world-jumping.
"Yes Willow? Have you and Harry decided?" Bilbo asked. Bilbo hoped that they decided to stay with him. "Well, we decided that… we would… like for you to adopt us? That is if you want." Harry said biting his lip nervously. Bilbo's face broke out into a big smile and he said "Of course I can adopt you! Though the elves might not like it…" Bilbo added almost as a after thought.
"Would they try to take us away?" Harry asked worriedly. "No," Bilbo said "though they might try to move here!" Bilbo finished with a laugh that caused the little ones to join in.
AN: sorry for the wait people. I got really sick and lost my note book. From now on I'm going to try for weekly updates. Now for some answers to some questions.
Larisya: I don't know how old he is. But I will try and find out. No, they can not tell and yes you are right for your assumptions.
LILEVILONE96: post-Hobbit pre-the lord of the rings. Frodo was briefly in the second chapter.
