Kili immediately carried Tauriel out of the room and into the car, leaving a very startled Thranduil and Legolas. As they arrived at the hospital Tauriel was taken into the maternity ward, and Kili refused to leave her side. For Tauriel it was torture, but for her husband it was even worse. He never felt so helpless in his life, he had to be there with her, hear her scream and yell at him, and there was not one thing he could to ease her pain. Suddenly the doctors asked him out, saying that instead of a natural labour they are going to perform a C-section, and that the child is in the wrong position.
Thranduil and Legolas found him in front of the operating room, looking silently at the door with a stern face and tears flowing down his cheeks. Legolas hugged him tightly and kept whispering everything was going to be fine, but Thranduil sat and looked equally grim as Kili. For what seemed hours they sat there in shock waiting to hear from the doctor about Tauriel and the baby. Finally the doctor came and told them the baby was a girl, and that Tauriel is still under narcosis, but she should wake up soon. Kili hugged the doctor and asked if he could see his baby girl. All three men followed into the special room where infants were taken care of, and a nurse gently gave Kili his new born daughter. She was so small, barely two and half kilogram, and he was scared he could hurt her. She had a soft fluff of dark hair on her head and when she opened her eyes to look at him, he saw pure blue. She was adorable, and Thranduil and Legolas both couldn't help but smile. Accompanied by the nurse they went to the post operation room to check on Tauriel, and they waited until she woke up. She smiled weakly at Kili as he gently gave their little girl into her hands.
"She's perfect." Tauriel whispered in a weak voice.
"So what are you going to name her?" Legolas asked smiling.
"Mirien" Kili told them and Tauriel smiled brightly.
"After your mother." Thranduil immediately noticed with tears in his eyes.
. . . . .
Fili was surprised with a phone call from Legolas saying he was an uncle and that Tauriel gave birth a bit early and that they had a beautiful little girl in the family.
"Are they fine? What happened?" Fili asked worried.
"We had a meeting with our father, and she had to go to hospital. It was a difficult labour and she finally had to have a C-section." Legolas explained.
"What's going on with your father, no one has heard from him in almost a month." Fili asked quickly.
"He's been having a difficult time." Legolas briefly replied. "Why are you asking?"
"I'm worried. Uncle's is doing some strange financial manoeuvres and he's dead set on making it even with the Mirkwood family." Fili finally confessed. "I'm worried he might do something bad."
"I'll talk to father and Tauriel." Legolas replied slowly.
"I'll call as soon as I know more." Fili replied. "I'll come and visit as soon as possible."
"I'd like that." Legolas gently told him and soon they said their goodbyes.
. . . . .
"What did you want to talk about?" Kili asked Legolas as they were sitting down to dinner with Thranduil.
"I called your brother to tell him about Mirien, and he said something strange about your uncle. He suggested Throin is doing something against the Mirkwood family." Legolas slowly explained.
"Don't tell him more." Thranduil spoke quietly.
"If we don't trust him, we might lose it all." Legolas brutally told his father. "We came here to talk with you two, because father has been neglecting the business due to a nervous breakdown. Mirkwood International is doing badly. I'm not an expert but what my mother told me, the companies are doing really badly. Ever since Tauriel left, it had been shaky, but when father broke down it went to hell."
"We don't know if we can trust him." Thranduil spoke quietly.
"I can trust him. Tauriel trusts him. This is why we came here, to ask you both for help." Legolas finally told Kili the full truth.
Kili looked at them with a cold glare. "You disinherited Tauriel and now you came asking for help? You gave her a miserable childhood and now you came asking her for help?" He spoke in a low menacing voice.
"I told you he wouldn't listen." Thranduil spoke quietly to Legolas.
"Kili please understand, father made lots of mistakes in his life, and coming here was a declaration he is ready to face the past, and have the whole family whole again." Legolas spoke in the name of his father, who was looking worse with every minute.
Kili glanced at the older man, and saw a person in emotional ruin. He sighed deeply. "If I help you, will you welcome Tauriel back into the family without any attacks on me or our child?"
"Yes, we will embrace all three of you." Thranduil spoke barely above a whisper. "And I promise to continue therapy and work on my issues and settle all problems of the past."
"I'm going to need to talk to all your managers, and I need the company reports as of yesterday." Kili told them firmly.
It took Kili five days to work out what Thorin had planned out. He knew his uncle well, and after Fili gave him so scraps of info from inside Erebor inc, Kili slowly got the idea that hatched in Thorin's mind. He suspected his uncle was buying out shares of Mirkwood companies, and he knew now that Mirkwoods have been doing the same for years. Quiet shareholders who never entered the management board, or sent fake representative to play the role of shareholders. In fact the more he compared the share list, the clearer it was to him that both families were entwined in the business world more than they would acknowledge. Using the indisposition of Thranduil Thorin began actively discrediting the Mirkwood companies, and buying shares at a lowered price. If Kili's calculations were correct, his uncle would soon have enough shares to take over Mirkwoods International the flagship company of the Mirkwoods. He asked Thranduil how much free assets were available, and quickly noticed it was not enough to do a jump buyout of shares. When he told that to Thranduil and Legolas both men were terrified.
"Fili I know what uncle is doing." Kili told his brother over the phone. "He's going to make a jump to take over Mirkwood International."
"Is there anything we can do?" Fili asked quietly.
"Are the assets in our trust fund frozen?" Kili asked the man question.
"No, I've been moving them over the last two years and managing them by hand." Fili confessed.
"How much is in the trust fun at the moment?" Kili asked hesitantly.
"Almost seven hundred million." Fili finally told him.
"You've done well managing it." Kili noticed. "Do you trust me?"
"Of course I do." Fili replied.
"Will you help me do something very crazy?" Kili asked and he could only hear his brother laugh.
"What trust fund?" Legolas asked after Kili hung up.
"Our parents died when we were children. The Oakenshield family was never in the same league with the Mirkwoods and Durin, but our father was the only child from a quite rich family and the money left by him and insurance from their deaths was turned into a trust find in my and Fili's name. That's where I had enough cash to start up "New Age", and Fili has been moving it the last years and making quite a lot. My brother is the sole disposer at the moment." Kili explained.
"You might not like my plan, but here's what we're going to do." Kili finally told them.
"We're going to make the shares go down rapidly. And then I'll get Fili to buy it all out. I mean all the shares on the free market." Kili told them.
"Can you trust your brother?" Thranduil spoke slowly.
"Legolas tell me can we trust my brother?" Kili asked with a huge smile, and his smile became even wider seeing Legolas blush slightly.
"Yes we can." Legolas finally told them, trying to avoid his father's glare.
"How are you going to make the shares go down?" Thranduil asked worried.
"Power of the press. We're going to create a huge scandal, and the shares will fly down within minutes." Kili told them with a grin. "And then Fili will step in and buy it at a low price, and that way we'll always have the majority share. If my calculations are correct the trust fund money will be enough to do that kind of buyout."
"That means officially your brother will be part owner of my company." Thranduil noticed grimly.
"Who do you prefer, my brother who is reasonable and wanting to invest in your company, or my uncle who is going to buy it just to tear it down?" Kili made him realise.
"Can you guarantee your brother will not take over?" Thranduil asked hesitantly.
"Yes, I trust him with my life." Kili confirmed. "He's not a big league player, he prefers the stock market, so be worried that I'll be taking a look into our investment, and be sure my brother won't break the deal with us."