The Hobbit: Unexpected Allies

Chapter 6 of my Hobbit story, enjoy.

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Disclaimer: The Hobbit belongs to JRR Tolkien.

Chapter 6

That night, in Lake-Town, the sounds of merriment and cheer could be heard all over. Despite usually hoarding the food and wealth all to himself and his few treasured nobles, the Master had, in response to Thorin's speech and claims that he would see Lake-Town restored using the gold in the mountain, decided to host a feast in the Dwarves honour.

This had pleased the people greatly, many of them swayed by Thorin's words. They also were pleased at the prospect of the feast and seemed willing to overlook the Master's hypocrisy. Kaitlin however wasn't so enamoured, she didn't trust Thorin's words.

In fact, she strongly disliked the Dwarves now, especially after their treatment of Bain. However her family, misguided as usual, had ensured she had no choice but to sit with them at the feast. She would much rather be with Bain, especially since he and his family had remained at their house, away from the hypocrisy of the Master and this feast in the honour of a returned Dwarven King who wouldn't keep his word.

'Yet I am stuck having to endure this nonsense, urgh…' She thought bitterly, glaring.

She couldn't believe it, it was bad enough this had happened the way it had; but the fact that the Master's generosity only stretched so far meant, as she well knew, there would be no food for many of these poor people tomorrow.

Seeing Kaitlin's expression however, her family were not impressed. They felt she was showing ingratitude and knew they had to talk her around.

Andreia was the one to speak to her. "Kaitlin, don't be that way."

"Excuse me?" She replied, an almost accusatory tone in her voice.

She could see all her family looking at her, all of them disapproving.

Andreia continued. "This is a happy occasion, these Dwarves and that Hobbit are our guests, we should be happy, they are going to…"

Kaitlin shook her head. "Taking the Dwarves at their word, don't be foolish, they don't mean any of it."

Her family looked shocked at that, her mother glared.

"How dare you, girl; you should appreciate our good fortune." She remarked. "We will get that gold that we rightly deserve, and everything will be grander than ever."

Kaitlin rolled her eyes. "Yes, for us, not those who truly deserve it. We bring out all this food for the Dwarves, yet tomorrow, these poor people won't see a single bite of it. We could easily have brought it out before but…"

"This again?" Samantha groaned.

"Mother..." Kaitlin tried to reason with her.

Samantha shook her head however. "Why should we care for those fools? They are beneath us."

Kaitlin was horrified. "How, how can you say that?"

Her mother glared at her however and Kaitlin knew that she had no chance of getting through to her, or the rest of her family.

Instead her mother shook her head and spoke severely to her.

"You listen to me, girl." She remarked sharply. "You have no idea for fortunate you have it. We are better then these lowly worthless pieces of trash. We have everything we need and we are the ones who deserve it, otherwise, why would we have it. We should not waste our time even paying attention to the lower classes, they aren't worth the air they breathe any way."

Kaitlin was horrified by this. "Mother, that is wrong, you cannot…"

She was cut off by her father. "You are in no position to dictate such foolishness girl, are you trying to ruin us?"

Kaitlin was shocked by her father's sudden choice of words.

"Excuse me?"

Andreia sneered. "Do we really have to explain ourselves again?"

She shook her head. "I don't know what you…"

"We've seen you, with that boy." Joseph explain; his voice deathly serious.

Kaitlin froze, she realized now, her family had seen her with Bain, most likely when they had been hurrying to the square. What was worse, she distinctly remembered holding Bain's hand during this, making it rather obvious to anyone who saw, just how close they were. She blushed at that and her family took that as a strong indicator that they were right.

"So it's true…" Andreia gasped. "I cannot believe you have stooped so low."

Joseph shook his head. "Have no shame, my daughter, fraternizing with such common trash, and the son of a criminal on top of that…"

Kaitlin glowered. "They aren't criminals, I don't see the problem, Bain and I care for each other; why does that even matter?"

"Of course it matters, surely even you aren't that stupid, girl." Samantha snapped.

Kaitlin was startled by her mother's outburst. "How dare you!?"

Andreia cut across her however. "Oh we dare, you are a noble, you have a duty. You should not fraternize with someone beneath you. Especially when you must be kept pure for your future husband."

Kaitlin glowered, she might have expected this.

After all, being a noble, her family no doubt had some other noble in mind for her to marry, but she wasn't having that.

"You think I would marry some obnoxious fool who thinks just because he has money he is important." She snarled. "I will not…"

"You will, and you shall." Joseph informed her sharply. "You will do as you are told, my daughter. That boy, has he touched you…"

Kaitlin got to her feet sharply, glaring savagely at her family. "Silence! That is none of your business, I can make my own choices, especially on who I will love, you will not decide for me."

Before anything else could be said, she turned and stormed away, ignoring her family. As she tried to leave however, she nearly ran into one of the Dwarves; the one with the unusual hat, Bofur she recalled his name was. He looked at her, unfocused, clearly drunk.

"Something wrong?" He slurred. "Unusual to see someone slipping away from a party, especially one so fun."

She gave him a withering glare before pushing past him and leaving the noise behind, desperate to get away from it all.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.