A/N: hey guys in back with a slightly late update. As uni has started I'm only going to be updating once a week on Thursdays. Thank you to intothefire92 who followed my story and thank you to everyone who reads this. But I'm starting to think that none of you do by the overwhelming lack of rerespinse. Tell me if you think I should continue this story because if no one responds I won't know!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of Tolkien's work only my OCs and storyline.
Anyways enjoy this chapter!
-AngelsandDouchebags
"Luna! Luna!" I heard faintly before opening my eyes and groaning. Who was here at this time?
"Go away." I shouted. I heard chuckling coming from outside the door before more knocking on the door.
"Are you decent?" The voice asked.
"Mmph."
"I'll take that as a yes I'm coming in!"
The door swung open as a neatly braided Durin prince marched in jovially.
I turned around as I sat up my blonde hair sticking up in places whilst the prince in front of me had perfectly braided hair. I rubbed my eyes.
"Well don't you look as beautiful as the radiant sun." Fili observed giving me a smirk.
"Shut it Fee. Why am I awake?"
"Because the world gets up in the morning?" I glared at his face before he gave me a proper answer.
"My brother is very demanding and is requesting your presence in his chambers." Fili answered.
"I'm going to start charging for my services." I muttered. Fili raised his eyebrow in slight shock and began laughing.
My eyes widened at what I said.
"You know what I meant!" I threw one of my cushions at him before he caught it. Curse the Durins and their fast reflexes!
"I'll be there in 10 minutes. Can his majesty wait that long?" I mocked.
"Of course for you Lu." He grinned. For me? What does that mean? Fili left the room before I put on my new blue tunic and black breeches along with my boots. I brushed my hair into a braid and splashed water onto my round face.
I walked out of my chambers as a few of the guardsmen greeted me and walked into Kili's chambers.
"Good morning." I rolled my shoulders and said to the three Royal members who say enjoying breakfast and a meal.
"Good morning Luna. Did you sleep well?" The King asked politely drinking his ale.
"Yes I did, thank you." I bowed my head slightly.
"Good morning Kili." I smiled at the handsome Durin prince sitting in bed conversing quietly with his brother.
"Morning Lu." He gave me a wide smile before putting some bacon in his mouth.
"Sleep well?" I asked, eyeing him carefully.
"Yes I did." Earning a shove from his brother he corrected his sentence.
"I mean not at all." He grinned.
"Won't you have breakfast with us Luna?" Thorin asked me.
I eyed the feast of food on the table as my stomach did the talking for me. I felt myself turning pink slightly.
"I think she answered your question uncle." Fili smirked.
I sat on the chair next to Kili's bed as I took a handful of bacon, eggs, toast and some water and started eating.
"Kili it's time for your medicine and I need to change your bandages."
The prince's face fell as he knew what was coming. Getting bandages from the side I cleaned them and carefully removed the old ones from his face. I closely inspected his nose as Kili kept fidgeting.
"That looks much better!" I said brightly. I secured the bandages on his face before giving him the mug. He turned his face at the sight of the liquid.
"Drink." I ordered him narrowing my eyes. He drank down the whole thing in one gulp with distaste then continued eating.
"I think one day of bed rest and you should be fine for the rest of the day."
At this Kili's eyes sparkled and looked excited like a small dwarrow. I laughed at his joy as he started wolfing down his breakfast.
I looked at the bracelet on my wrist as I finished breakfast.
"Thorin there are some matters I wish to discuss with you. In private." I added glancing at the princes eating their meals and joking with another.
The King raised his eyebrow before replying.
"I see."
"We can take this in my study." Thorin stood up as I began to follow him out.
"Luna!" I turned around and looked at Kili's expectant face.
"As my healer I think you may need to spend the whole day here." He flashed me a smile.
"Sorry Arya and Alyssa have me for the day." I smiled apologetically.
"In the evening then?" He asked hopefully.
"So needy." I joked with him as Fili chuckled at my response.
"Yes I'll come later on I promise." He seemed satisfied with this and carried on talking to his brother. The King gave a slight smile towards his nephews before walking away.
We left Kili's chambers as a few of the guardsmen bowed to the King. Thorin seemed to be loved by all despite all he had been through he managed to remain calm and patient when dealing with matters. Something which I deeply admired in him.
After a few minutes we reached his study which was filled with books all around the shelf. Now this is what I want in my room. I walked around his study in wonder, a number of the old books were stacked on the desks, some open and some closed. The King sat on a chair in front of a desk as he beckoned me to sit opposite him.
"It's about this bracelet." I showed him and he looked as though he had seen a ghost.
"Where did you get this?" He said after some time.
"In the marketplace in Dale. Kili actually bought this for me." I smiled into the bracelet when I realised the King was far away.
"Thorin?"
He snapped out of it. "Sorry Luna please continue."
So I told him about how I felt searing pain in my wrist before I got sucked into characters wearing the bracelets which appeared to be memories. I told him of both incidents and he addressed the first one.
"Well that would make sense considering Gandalf gave me this bracelet to give to my betrothed one day."
"What was that memory?"
"That was the council of the Istari, an order of wizards set out to protect the free peoples of middle earth and to guide them." The King informed me.
"It must've been when Sauron the accursed was coming to power."
"And the first memory?" I asked tentatively.
"What of it?" The King changed his demeanour and said harshly.
"Is it true? Did that happen?"
"It was a fateful day. It was the day I was going to ask my beloved to marry me. Naina." The King closed his eyes as if he was living a painful memory. Oh poor Thorin.
"But the dragon took that away from me." He pounded his fist on the desk as I jumped slightly. He looked apologetic before continuing, his hair falling in his face slightly.
"As you know. Dwarves seldom love again." He said with a sad smile.
"I am truly sorry Thorin, for what happened to you." I said sincerely.
"It is alright Luna. I am sorry you had to live through that memory. But it is only a memory." The King replied.
"I trust you went to Balin with this bracelet?" He enquired looking to me.
"Yes he said it is a memory stone?"
"Of course." The King muttered.
"It latches on to the memories deemed most important or crucial by the wearer." He continued. So that makes sense. But could I access it for my own use?
"I will offer a simple piece of advice when wearing it: just be careful Luna. Some memories are extremely painful to go through even if they aren't your own." I nodded in understanding.
"You say my nephew bought this for you?" The King said with raised eyebrows.
"Uhh." I blushed recalling our first meeting.
"Yes he did, it was more than I could afford that's why." The words stumbled out. I wouldn't want the King getting the wrong ideas about me and his nephew.
"Of course." He replied.
"Is that all?"
"Yes that's it. May I be excused?"
"Yes enjoy the rest of your day Luna." He smiled at me.
I started walking away before I stopped.
"Make sure that nephew of yours drinks his medicine." I heard the King laughing at my commands before I left his private study and ran into Fili.
"Fee, where are you going?"
"Guarding the gate today." He groaned.
"I don't envy you." I chuckled.
"Arya! Alyssa!." I waved to the twins walking towards me all dressed up.
"Luna," Alyssa grinned at me.
"You're ours for the day!" She smiled.
"I'll leave you in the less capable hands of my cousins." Fili said with a cheeky smile before walking away.
"That blonde haired cousin of ours needs a good thrashing in training." Arya pondered.
"I couldn't agree more twin of mine." Alyssa stated.
"Ready?" Arya asked.
"Let's go." I said and followed the twins down to the marketplace.
"So we heard an interesting story." Alyssa drawled.
"Is that so?" I asked nonchalantly.
"Just a little fact about you carrying Kili through here with a bloody race." Arya stated.
"I'm not sure I know what you mean." I gave them a little smirk.
"Apparently you broke his nose." She said bluntly with a slight laugh.
"Completely accidental!" I tried to explain.
"What were you two doing anyways?" Alyssa narrowed her eyes as she browsed through the books on the stall.
"He was giving me an archery lesson."
"A one-on-one archery lesson?" Arya interrogated.
"Well yes."
"Seems to me you have the hots for our Kee." Alyssa smiled at me.
"No trust me it's just a friend thing."
"Right." Arya said sarcastically not believing me for a minute.
"Alyssa I'll make a bet with you right here." Arya said mischeviously.
"Wait a min-" I started but was cut off.
"5 gold pieces that these two will get married in a few years time. Within 10 years it will happen."
My jaw dropped. What in the name of the Valar is she playing at? She didn't really think that was going to happen. Did she?
"I'll take that bet Ar." Alyssa shook her twins hand with a smirk.
"You two are unbelievable." I shot them both a glare. Paying the dwarf for a book I bought.
"The chemistry between you two is undeniable Lu. You can't not see that." Alyssa began eyeing me curiously.
"Yeah of course it is, we make good friends!" I defended.
"My young friend, you have much to learn in the ways of the male dwarf." Arya put her hand in my shoulder as we walked towards the food stalls.
"Besides the rest of the company also made bets." Alyssa shrugged.
Those sly bastards. I honestly wasn't surprised with the amount of teasing we were getting. This subject was making me feel very uncomfortable and I wanted to talk about something else.
"Can we just talk about something else? I thought this was our day." I grumbled.
"It is Luna! Okay no more male dwarf talking for the day." Alyssa said firmly.
"Agreed twin."
"Good." I sighed with relief.
We looked at the food out on display and my stomach rumbled again. I was ready to eat more food. Arya and Alyssa bought some roast chicken, turkey, ham and fried chips with some ale before taking it out to balcony which led to the side of the mountain.
We set a mat out and put the food our before we started eating. We began talking about our lives when we were younger and I can honestly say I definitely needed this girl time with them. They were great listeners and gave great advice. I decided to ask them about their involvement in the battle of the five armies when they went quiet for a while.
"Sorry I didn't mean to bring it up. We can talk about something else if-"
"No it's fine." Alyssa gave me a small smile before Arya got up and took a walk away from us. She had always been the more reserved of the two.
"We attained loss in the battle in different ways." She started and I waited for her to continue.
"I was shot in two places." Two?
"One in the shoulder." She showed me the mark on her shoulder.
"And one in my stomach." She lifted her shirt as I saw a faint red mark stretched across.
"My shoulder wound affects my archery but I make do. But my stomach wound-" She closed her eyes as tears welled up slightly.
"Means I can never have children." She finished quietly.
I sat closer to her and pushed her head onto my shoulder as I comforted her. She sobbed quietly as I ran my hands through her thick red hair.
After I while she looked up at me and sniffled.
"I'm okay though. Really." She gave me a weak smile.
"What about Arya?" I prompted gently.
"You don't have to tell me if she doesn't want you to. It's ok-"
"Dereck." I turned around and saw Arya standing up behind me.
"He was cut down by an Orc which I made sure never killed again." She started shaking with anger then calmed down.
"Alyssa and I have been through a lot but know this Luna. We care fiercely for our loved ones."
"The ones we left." Arya added.
"Whatever your intentions are with Kili."
I began to protest but she wouldn't let me finish.
"Make them clear. We don't want to see him hurt again. Okay?" She asked firmly.
"Okay. I understand." I said with a smile. She didn't need to worry about my intentions with him, it was purely just a friendship.
"So archery lessons?" Arya raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, I'm a terrible shot." I breathed out a laugh as the two twins chuckled returning to their normal demeanours.
"You can still shoot better than Kili most likely." Alyssa joked giving me a wink.
"You have no idea Lys." I laughed. So we continued on like this, laughing and talking like friends do before Arya stood up.
"Luna honey, we are getting very fond of you." She started.
"But your style choice has to be upgraded." She looked me up and down.
"What's wrong with this?" I gestured to my blue tunic.
"You have curves Lu. You should flaunt them. Kili will like it." Alyssa joked. I rolled my eyes ignoring her comment.
"So what do you want to do then?"
"Follow me." Arya said mysteriously before disappearing inside. The other twin and I followed her back to a separate women's marketplace as we noticed some clothes.
"We're buying clothes?" I said with disdain.
"No, we're buying you some new clothes." Alyssa clapped her hands together.
"Something more suited to your figure." Arya observed browsing through the endless colours and fabrics of form fitting dwarrowdam outfits.
"How about this?" Arya held up a tight red dress with a low necklace.
"Please tell me you're joking." I deadpanned.
"Our cousin would love this." Arya stated.
"Then you should buy it as a get well present for Kee." I joked. Arya gave a little laughed as her sister joined her in looking for clothes.
I moved over and looked at the new tunics they had.
"No." Arya stood next to me with her arms crossed.
"Aw but they're comfortable." I whined.
"I'll let you buy one, if you buy two new outfits." Arya gave me an ultimatum.
"Deal."
I looked at a maroon coloured tunic and handed it to the shopkeeper to wrap as I gave her some money.
Arya steered me over to where Alyssa was wearing a light pink dress.
"Oh you look pretty." I said politely.
"Thanks Lu! It's too girly though isn't it?"
"You are a girl Lys." Her twin pointed out.
"Okay Luna, anything here that jumps out to you?" Arya asked me as I went through the rack of clothes. My hands stopped at a midnight blue form fitting tunic that went down to the knee with golden patterns and cuffs to go with it. It had tight leather breeches and a slightly lower neckline.
"This one?" I held it up to the twins.
"You should try it on then come out and show us!" Alyssa said excitedly.
I moved to the drawn curtains and stepped inside the small space to change. I came out a few minutes later to show the twins. I pulled the neck up slightly which was almost showing parts of me I didn't want to be seen.
"Definitely the one." Arya remarked.
She walked over around me, inspecting the clothes.
"The neckline is just deep enough." Alyssa winked. I blushed slightly.
"Why don't you take a look for yourself Lu." Arya moved a full length mirror in front of me as I observed myself in the mirror.
The tunic looked very nice and managed to hide most of the fat which I hated about myself. It was accentuated my curves more than I was used to and the neckline was also deeper but it looked casual yet respectable.
I smiled in the mirror as the reflection smiled back. I actually looked decent for once.
"Shopkeeper I think we'll take this one." Arya said noticing my smile.
"We're not done yet though." Alyssa stated.
I went back in the room to change into my normal more comfortable clothes.
"Pick a colour fabric." Alyssa held different colours in her hand. I chose the maroon coloured one as a dwarrowdam came around me with a measuring tape.
"Uh guys?"
"We're making you a gown." Arya stated not asking.
"So you'll look more like a lady." Alyssa grinned.
"What my twin means is that it's for slightly more formal occasions."
"Oh okay." I said unsure of it. The female dwarf began measuring my body which I felt slightly embarrassed about as I was slightly larger than the average dwarrowdam. Once she was done Arya paid her and sent her the address of my housing quarters so she could deliver it.
"Thank you guys. Really it was nice of you." I took the twins arms.
"No problem Lu. We had a good time today." Alyssa said looking at me.
"Besides at least you have some more clothes than those old tunics you always wear." Arya said with a smirk.
"I happen to love these thank you." I said defending my style choices.
"Just watch how much more attentive male dwarves will be to you now." Arya gave me a smile.
"I'm not interested in that even! I just want to focus on my studies and becoming a healer." I stated as we left the marketplace.
"Never say never." Arya and Alyssa said at the same time.
"It's creepy the way you do that."
"Good lassie!" I blocked another blow from Dwalin's staff and jabbed at him with my own managing to make contact as I smiled at the warrior.
We put down our staffs and shields on the floor before we sat on the benches. After I had said goodbye to the twins I had another gruelling training session with Dwalin mainly teaching me to attack and I was glad to be improving considerably.
"I think that's enough for today. You did good Luna." He smiled toothily wiping sweat off his forehead.
"Thanks Dwalin." I grinned back at him.
"How were Fee and Kee as students?" Dwalin gave out a hearty chuckle before answering.
"They were absolutely terrible. They never listened, they played practical jokes. I'm sure you know by know I used to have hair." He gestured to his head as I nodded with a chuckle.
"Especially Kili, he wasn't always as graceful on his feet as he is now. He was very impatient."
"But they grew up to be my finest warriors." Dwalin's eyes filled with pride as he talked about the Durin princes.
"Why do you ask lassie?"
"I just want to know more about them. I feel like I've known them for a lifetime."
"They do have that affect on you. You seem to be very fond of them too." Dwalin stated.
"Well I don't know about that." I joked as we both told jokes for a while and laughed.
"Well I better go check on your prince." I said.
"Until next time Luna." The warrior bowed his head as I smiled and ran off.
I made my way to Kili's chambers when I entered the room and saw both brothers asleep in awkward positions on Kili's beds. Aww. They must've been tired.
I checked Kili's bandages and slowly peeled the ones of his face as he scrunched his nose up in his sleep. I saw his face was clear of blood so decided not to apply any more to his face. I checked in the empty glass on the side of his bed. Good. He was taking his pain relief.
I brushed some of his hair out of his face as Fili let out a loud snort. Oh well done Fili, that's attractive. I hugged. As I was about to walk away from the bed a hand grabbed my own and pulled me back.
"No." The voice groaned belonging to a brunette prince.
"Stay." He said firmly.
"Go back to sleep Kee." I whispered.
"Only if you sleep with me."
I tried to not laugh but it came out as a strangled sound at Kili's proposition. I sat on the edge of the bed until Kili fell asleep before I began to move away again.
"Stay." The husky voice said once more in a sleepy state.
"Luna needs to sleep too!" I whispered hastily to not wake up the blonde prince.
"I will come tomorrow okay?" I asked. No answer. What a surprise.
"Kili!"
The snoring continued and echoed against the walls of the room. I sighed and slowly untangled my hand from his and planted a kiss on his forehead without thinking. If Fili saw he would never let me here the end of it.
I draped the blanket over the sleeping brothers and closed the curtains to allow them to sleep in peace before going back to my own family.
A/N: little girl time, a little thorin time. Review?