The party began as planned. Kili wasn't enthusiastic, especially when all of Fili's friends began arriving, but Tauriel kept him close and held him firmly in place. Legolas did everything to keep them busy and they three spent most of the time together. After some time Fili showed up with Sigrid at his side, but the girl was even more withdrawn and silent.
Legolas used the first chance to ask Sigrid for a dance, to get her away from Kili and Fili. Tauriel noticing her chance to make them mingle just said she had to go to the toilet, leaving the two brothers.
"Are you bored?" Fili asked with a smirk.
"A bit." Kili agreed sipping on his drink.
"We don't have to be here all night..." Fili told him with a smirk. "I've got some plans..." He spoke in a low flirtatious tone.
"An hour more?" Kili suggested and was rewarded with a smirk.
"I'll see you at the west lift." Fili nodded to him and mixed with the guests again.
The moment Sigrid ditched Legolas she found Fili back with Dain and Gimli.
"There is your beautiful girl!" Dain sniggered.
"A dance?" She asked with a timid smile.
"Why not!" Fili smiled and put away his empty glass and guided her to the dance floor.
"Why do you spend time with them?" Sigrid asked him gently. "It's not like they are even likable."
"Why do you say so?" Fili's eyes became narrow.
"You're a very nice person, but some of your friends... are just plain mean." Sigrid complained.
"At least they are not boring." Fili added grimly.
"Am I boring?" The girl asked suddenly.
"No. You're fun." Fili told her curtly.
"Fun..." Sigrid's lips went narrow.
"You're my girlfriend..." Fili told her gently.
"Am I really?" She looked at him seriously. "Then why can't I even spend this night with you?"
"I respect you too much..." Fili told her with a gentle smile.
"To much to show you want me or love me?" She asked grimly.
Fili gazed at her silently unsure how to answer such an accusation.
"I get it, I might not be as beautiful as Tauriel. I get it I might not be fun and daring. But I would appreciate my own boyfriend to at least like me a bit." Sigrid spoke bitterly. "You don't kiss me really, you don't touch me... You behave as if I am just a friend..."
"I don't know what you mean..." Fili felt lost.
"Tell me honestly, how would you react if I told you I've been dreaming of having sex with you?" She asked trying to be outgoing.
"I thought so..." She sniggered as he was silent again. "How would you react if I would really kiss you?" She asked again, and when he was silent for a longer time, she wrapped her arm around him, and forced him into a deep sensual kiss, pressing her body against him.
Someone next to them began clapping, but Sigrid felt disappointed. As she gently let go, she could feel her boyfriend not react to the daring assault she just did. He was unmoved and not attracted to her.
"Why the hell do you need a girlfriend you don't even like to kiss girls?" She hissed at him, and ran out with tears in her eyes.
He followed her with grim thoughts in his head. He found her weeping the corridor away from the party.
"I'm sorry..." He gently told her. "It's just..."
"Girls don't really work for you, do they?" She gasped adding all the facts together. He just nodded.
"So I was just a cover to cover up the fact that you're gay?" She hissed.
"I didn't want to hurt you... I just like you..." Fili tried to calm her down.
"As a friend..." She was devastated.
"I'll call your brother to pick you up..." He proposed.
"So this means it's over?" She asked in a voice full of pain.
"It means you need to calm down and think this over." Fili gently told her. "I don't want to break up with you..."
"But you don't want to fuck me either..." She gasped annoyed.
"I just can't..." Fili confessed.
"We'll talk sometime later..." She pulled out her phone and called her brother Bain to pick her up.
"Don't worry I'll be waiting in the lobby, go and have fun!" She spat at him and ran towards the lift.
Fili returned to the party feeling lost and hollow, he grabbed the first drink a waiter was carrying around and decided not to think about what just happened. After the fourth drink he felt Legolas pull him away.
"Calm down, where is Sigrid?" Legolas asked him worried.
"She left me." Fili told him bluntly.
"It's not like you loved her, so why do you care..." Legolas spat at him.
"I just don't like hurting people..." Fili told him.
"So stop getting wasted, or you'll hurt the one person who really loves you..." Legolas hissed.
"You think so?' Fili asked surprised.
"I do..." Legolas insisted. "Leave them... they are having a great time with you or without you..." They gazed at the drunk dancing crowd.
"Come on!" Legolas pulled him towards the lift, where Kili was already waiting for them.
"Have fun!" Legolas smiled and handed Fili a key, and pushed both of them into the elevator.
"You're drunk..." Kili scolded him as the door closed on them.
"My girlfriend just left me..." Fili hissed.
"Good for me..." Kili noticed and pulled him into his arms. They kissed each other deeply and feverishly feeling safe in the small space.
A polite grunt brought them back to reality as the lift stopped and took one more passenger. They broke the kiss with hesitant smiles and held hands trying to seem invisible.
Soon they reached the floor the room was at, and Fili pulled Kili along without a word. As the door closed both boys did not noticed the hawk eyes glancing at them with contempt.
Finally being alone with his brother Dwalin urged Balin to come to his room.
"What did you want to talk about?" Balin was a bit worried.
"This new family of ours is pretty strange." Dwalin spoke coldly.
"What do you mean?" Balin asked suddenly.
"I've just seen your new step son make out with a boy in the lift, and later pull him into a hotel room." Dwalin spat out.
"But he has a girlfriend from what I understand..." Balin gasped surprised.
"Clearly he prefers fucking boys to girls... I can tell you one thing, the way they were kissing I doubt they are reading books or watching TV..." Dwalin added grimly pouring himself a whiskey.
"My wife will be devastated..." Balin gasped.
"Is him being gay such a problem for you?" Dwalin spoke thinking of his own hidden preferences.
"Not at all. It's just, she thinks so highly of him, it might hurt her." Balin noticed.
"So what are we going to do about it?" Dwalin urged his brother.
"Absolutely nothing. The boy's preferences are his own business." Balin told him calmly. "If he decides to come out, I'll support him, and try to calm her down, but until then I see no point in discussing this publicly."
"How was the ballet?" Dwalin sniggered.
"Better than I thought it would be." Balin noticed. "Tomorrow I'm going to the office to see the new project for the Madrid hotel. It seem both boys drew the whole design."
"That's rather surprising considering their age." Dwalin noticed.
"That's why I'd like you to come with me. Your professional opinion would be invaluable." Balin told him gently.
"Fine, but later in the afternoon I'm flying home. Our company won't run by itself for long!" Dwalin hissed.
"I hope you don't mind I'm taking a few days off?" Balin asked hesitantly.
"By all means please do, you deserve a break." Dwalin encouraged him.
Fili awoke with a huge headache, he stretched lazily in bed with the feeling of his warm brother right next to him. Last night was hazy, but he had a feeling a lot of things happened.
"Good morning Sunshine!" Kili told him with a huge smile.
"Good morning Lover boy!" Fili kissed him deeply.
"As much as I'd love fucking yet again, I think we better take a shower and return to our room..." Kili scolded him.
"Can we have sex in the shower?" Fili smirked.
"Of course we can!" Kili kissed him and snuggled closer.
"What do you mean return to our room?" Fili asked finally adding all the information together.
"We're in a room Legolas booked." Kili told him gently.
"He thinks of everything..." Fili sniggered.
"It's more like he wanted some privacy himself..." Kili noticed with a smirk. "Move it gorgeous!" He pulled Fili to his legs and dragged him into the bathroom.
"You're fucking adorable..." Fili pushed Kili into the shower wall with a chaste move.
"And we have just enough time for you to prove it to me..." Kili gasped feeling his brother's warm lips caress his skin.
"It's nice to see you both back..." Tauriel stretched with a wide grin on the sofa in their suite. "Good that you took the other room, Dain and Gimli were trying to find you last night..."
"What did they want?" Fili asked in a deadly voice drinking a coffee.
"Something about a drinking competition..." Legolas sniggered. "Anyway we ditched them."
"So what are your plans for today?" Tauriel asked them with a smirk.
"Uncle said we should come by the office..." Kili told her slowly.
"Today?" Tauriel gasped annoyed.
"It has something to do with our step father..." Kili gasped annoyed.
Tauriel glanced at them. "You're taking a taxi." He decided gazing at Fili. "I'm not losing both of you just because you have a crazy hangover."
"Crystal clear..." Fili groaned holding his head.
"At what time did uncle want us in the office?" Kili gazed at the time.
"At noon I think." Fili replied curtly.
"Shit we got like fifteen minutes to get there!" Kili urged him to move.
"I'll call reception to get you a taxi." Tauriel dialled room service.
"Thanks!" Kili smiled at her and dragged Fili out of the door.
"Is it me or do they know?" Fili spoke in a deadly tone as they got into the taxi.
"They always knew." Kili told him. "And they don't mind."
"Fucking great, next thing you'll tell me they are fucking each other..." Fili sniggered ignoring the taxi driver who was gazing at them curiously.
"Because they are..." Kili hissed with a grin.
"Fucking fantastic!" Fili hissed and rested his head against the seat.
"Come on!" Kili pulled him out and paid for the taxi and dragged him into the office.