Soft skin moved below his callous hands and quiet moans reached his ears. Thorin slowly kissed his way down Kayas collarbone and over her breasts. His hands soon joined his lips and gently stroke over the sensitive flesh. He could feel Kayas hands in his mane and he let out a quiet hiss as she began to tug at his braids. He could feel her body arche against his and her hips grinding against his groin. Her eyes were gleaming with passion and love as she looked up at him and her lips formed one word...Thorin.

Thorin woke up with a start. He needed a moment to realise that he had fallen asleep and that Kaya was not there with him. She was still in the Thain´s smial, with Tauriel and the southrons. Shaking his head to clear his mind, Thorin stood up from the bench on which he had slept and stretched his limps. Soon, he wished to be asleep again, for the worry about his beloved drove him mad. He hoped that his confession had not distracted her from her task and that she would be careful. That she would fight to come back to him. The thought of the southrons hands on her made Thorin pace furiously. Thorin was about to storm out of the smial they used as a listening post, as Kili rushed in.

'Merry and Pippin were able to speak to Tauriel!' he informed his uncle, panting heavily. 'There are a dozen southrons in there and four of them are garding the Thain. Tauriel will try and distract the four guards and Kaya will take care of the rest.'

Thorin nodded slowly. He just had to ask. 'Did anyone touch her? Them?'

Kili leaned back against a wall and frowned at his uncle. 'I did not ask, uncle. I dared not.'

Thorin was about to walk back to the window as an alarmed cry sounded over to them. Thorin and Kili rushed out the door of their smial and watched one southron emerge from the Thain´s house. He clutched his throat, but he could not stop the blood from rushing out of the deep cut. Thorin had no time to think.

'Kili, with me!' he yelled and the dwarves stormed towards the house. Fighting noises could be heard from inside the hobbit hole and Thorin hoped that they did not come too late. With a mighty blow he beheaded the first southron who crossed his path and knocked another one unconscious with the hilt of Orcrist. Kili swiftly moved over to Tauriel who struggled against two of the remaining guards of the Thain. Thorin desperately looked for Kaya and found her pressed against the kitchen wall by one of the southrons. She was bleeding from a head wound and was fighting against the man who was about to push up her dress. Thorin saw red and with a loud battle cry he charged the man. The southron was nearly two heads taller than him, but the dwarf´s fury made him invincible. With a growl, Thorin impaled the man on Orcrist and rushed to Kaya before the dead body hit the ground. Kaya was shivering, but she did not recoil as Thorin reached out for her. The dwarf was relieved to see that she did not shiver from pain or fear, but from anger and disgust. She eyed the dead southron with a hateful glare before she looked at Thorin. For a few moments they only stood there in the middle of the fight and stared at each other. With a remorseful sigh Thorin turned away, but in this moment Kaya threw herself in his arms and wrapped her arms around his neck . As she burried her face against his neck, Thorin jerked out of his torpor and held her tight. Kili and Tauriel had finished off the rest of the savages and freed the Thain and his family. Bilbo, Merry and Pippin, who had followed the two dwarves into the house, took care of their relatives and calmed them down. Nobody noticed Thorin walk out of the smial with Kaya in his arms. The woman had fainted, probably due to the headwound and Thorin would not leave her side this time.

Kaya woke up in a tent to incredible loud yelling. She could not make any sense of the words which echoed in her head and winced as the yelling grew even louder. She burried her head under the cushion and began to panic. Why did she not understand the words? Had she been so severely injured? But then she realised that the language spoken was Khuzdul. Peeking out from below the cushion, Kaya blinked a few times to see through the blurr in front of her eyes. After a while she could recognise two dwarves standing at the flap of the tent, both with dark hair, but just one with a beard. Thorin and Kili. But why were they yelling? And why was she here? The voices grew louder as a man in a gondorian uniform stormed in and snarled at Thorin.

'I demand to take the lady Kaya with me! She is under my responsibility and she belongs to the gondorian delegation.' he snarled in Westron.

'She belongs to no one!' Thorin growled and made Kaya smile. 'The lady Kaya has been injured and we took care of her headwound. And I recommend you keep your voice down.'

'You are the one to talk.' Kaya murmured and caught Kilis attention.

'Kaya! You´re awake!' Kili exclaimed and made Kaya wince and grab her head. Thorin frowned at his nephew and slapped the back of his head before he rushed to Kayas side.

'How are you feeling?' he asked and cupped her cheek. Kaya could not help but lean into his touch.

'I am alright.' suddenly Kaya realised that she was able to speak to Thorin without the awful memory of their last encounter in Erebor ghosting in her mind. All she knew was that he had been at her side during the fight and had rescued her from that southron. The Shire had been almost completely destroyed and it would take months to rebuild everything. The hobbits were devastated and had suffered heavy losses. Compared to that Kaya almost felt bad for dwelling on her past with Thorin. 'I guess I needed a hard knock on the head to remember your real self as well as my own.'

'What do you mean?' Thorins hopeful expression nearly broke Kayas heart.

'I mean that I should have stayed at your side instead of fleeing years ago. I knew that you were not yourself, but the words you threw at me had hurt so much...' Kaya felt tears fall down her cheeks.

'I did not mean one single one of them.' Thorin whispered. 'I am so sorry! What I did was wrong and unforgivable. I cannot forget them myself and there is not one night in which I am not haunted by the pain and grief I saw in your eyes that day.'

'I cannot forget it either.' Kaya whispered and quickly grabbed Thorins wrists before he could recoil from her. 'But I can forgive.'

'I have not deserved your forgiveness.' Thorin sat down on the cot and laid his forehead against hers.

'You insufferable dwarf.' Kaya smirked as he looked at her with an irritated expression. 'Just let us be happy again.'

Kili and the Gondorian quickly retreated from the tent as Thorin crushed his lips onto Kayas and pulled her into his arms. Kili was grinning and the man shook his head. He would have to tell his queen that her courtlady was lost. Lost to a dwarf.

'Are you sure? And you are, too?' Arwen looked at Kaya and to Tauriel.

The two women had made their decisions in life. Tauriel would go back to Erebor with Kili. The former captain of the guard had resigned her post and decided to live the rest of her life at the dwarf´s side. Kili was already wearing Tauriels necklace and Arwen knew best what it meant.

Kaya had decided to stay with Thorin, but neither of them would return to Erebor. Thorin had officially declared Fili as the king of Erebor, the youngest ever to sit on the throne below the arkenstone and had decided to return to Thorins Halls in the Blue Mountains. There was still one person who had to forgive him and that was Dis. Thorin was determined to plead for his sisters forgiveness, with his new wife at his side. Kaya had agreed to marry Thorin and she had been overwhelmed by the sacrifice Thorin made for her. He had forsaken his throne, his crown and his home.

The Thain had married them under the huge willow tree in the centre of the Shire and it had been the first celebration after the conquest. Hobbits, men, elves and dwarves had been at the wedding and had cheered for the married couple. Elessar and Arwen had eyed Thorin suspisciously, but Thorin had sworn that he would love, respect and honor his wife more than anything else and his words had been sincere. Even Arwen, who had witnessed her friends despair for so long, managed to smile at the wedding.

As Kaya threw the bridal bouquet, Pippin was the one who caught it, again. Merry laughed his behind off at his cousins shocked face.

'I am sure.' Kaya glowed of happiness and Tauriel also looked more happy than Arwen remembered her.

'What is it with dwarves? And then two from the line of Durin!' Legolas paced behind Arwens back. 'No good can come of this.'

'Excuse me, you pointy eared elvish princeling, I am from the line of Durin, too!' Gimli exclaimed and looked at his friend with a played sour expression.

'But you...you...' Legolas waved his hands in the air. 'Oh, never mind.'

'You are our friend, Legolas, and I know that you are happy for us.' Kaya and Tauriel walked over to the prince of Mirkwood and took one arm each. Blinking at each other they each gave Legolas a kiss on the cheek and the elven prince actually blushed. Someone cleared his throat and the merry gathering froze as they saw Thorin and Kili stand a few paces away, glaring at Legolas with glares that would have made Thranduil shrink.

'Huh.' Legolas closed his eyes in defeat. 'It has been some time since I went running. What did you say, Gimli? You heard Merry and Pippin call out for us? I guess we should be leaving then.'

Legolas turned on his heals and fled the scene, followed by Gimli who was grinning madly. Arwen only shook her head in amusement and watched as her friend and the red haired she-elf walked towards their loves. All of them looked happy and even the grumpy former king looked at ease and worryless. The queen of Gondor smiled as her own husband joined them and sighed in relief. War was finally over and the shadows of the past had disappeared. They would all look forward to a peaceful and bright future. And if Arwen was right, she would see her friends again if they would visit her to the birth of her newborn child who was already growing inside of her. She looked at her husband and smiled secretly. She still had to tell him.

'Tell me more about Dis.' Kaya asked Thorin as they took a walk over the green hills of the Shire. The men, elves and dwarves had left, but they would soon return to help the hobbits rebuild their home. 'She must be an awesome lady. Raising Fili and Kili on her own and facing death since her childhood must have been hard to bare. After all I heard she remained strong for her sons...and for you.'

Thorin nodded and smiled sadly. 'Dis is one of the most important people in my life. I promised her to bring her sons back to her unharmed. Now, one of them is king and the other one will marry an elf. I hope that you enjoyed our married life, because when we meet Dis I will not be able to execute my marital duties for a long time.'

Kaya had to laugh at that and squeezed Thorins hand in hers. 'I enjoy it very much and after all that happened I had never thought that I would be that happy again. I am sure that Dis will forgive you. I am not sure how she might react to Tauriel, though.'

'Those two are more alike than you all know.' Thorin smirked. 'I always thought that females tend to marry men who are like their fathers. But apparently, males are the same.'

'Am I like your mother?' Kaya looked at Thorin in surprise.

'She was a strong, confident and passionate woman.' Thorin nodded. 'In a way you were very much alike. But only in a way.' he smiled as he saw Kayas face. Kaya obviously did not know wether being like her late mother in law was a compliment or not. But as she saw Thorin smile, all her doubts faded.

'I can see you smile now.' Kaya whispered and cupped Thorins face in her hands. 'It is the most beautiful thing in the world.'

'No, it is not.' Thorin replied and smiled even wider. 'The most beautiful thing in the world is in my arms.'

'Charmer.' Kaya grinned and kissed her new husband. They would leave for the Blue Mountains with Kili and Tauriel tomorrow. Kaya hoped that if Dis was confronted with all four of them, she would have to take some time to decide who of them to kill first and that this would give them time to run. Kaya was pretty sure that it would be either Thorin or Tauriel. She looked forward to find that out.

The End.

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