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Chapter 26

Dwalin still stood there, his arms crossed over his chest. Emilia had her hands behind her back, waiting for him to say something of what he saw. Though she was growing impatient. "All right," she began. She tried to look at something else than Dwalin. "Oh fine… I am not sure what you saw, so why are we playing this game?" She asked him.

"You´re not planning on giving Thorin the Arkenstone back are you?" He asked her. She shook her head. "Good." She looked surprised at him.

"Good? Is that good? I mean I know it´s good, but… What? You´re like a brother to him," she said. Dwalin chuckled.

"I´ve seen what the Arkenstone did to his grandfather," he said. "I´m not going to let that happen to Thorin, not while I´m still alive." Emilia smiled, liking the sound of that. "Especially not the Arkenstone. Though, you should´ve been more careful of where you hide it."

"I thought I was alone. So you will not tell anyone?"

"Not a soul," he said. She took her arm around his and they walked back to Erebor.

"You were quite scary when I met you in Bag End, but now you´re not that bad," she said. Dwalin frowned. "I mean even Nana likes you. Do you have soft spots for kitties? Or Wargs?" He gave her a deadly look and she stopped right away. "Sorry." He then laughed, making her laugh too.

…

Emilia looked around in the throne room, she also looked down from the edge. It was far way down. She looked around with wide eyes. Dwarves really do wonder. It was a lot left to rebuild, but they got so far and Emilia couldn´t wait to see Erebor in its former glory.

"Are you enjoying your time in Erebor?" A voice asked her. She looked towards the entrance from the Front Gate.

"Gandalf!" She was happy to see the old wizard again and hearing his warm laugh. "Where have you been?"

"Oh, a little over here and there," he said. She chuckled. "I see everything goes well here in Erebor. How is Thorin? I hope you´re giving him a big knock on his head if he´s too stubborn." Emilia laughed.

"He has changed for the better. Rebuilding Erebor have kept his mind off the gold, and I´m not sure if it sickens him much," she said. "I´ve seen him in there."

"That´s good," he said. "And how are you?" He asked and studied her.

"I´m not using magic," she said. "Well… I had to, to hide a special stone… But not anymore." Gandalf smiled warmly to her.

"Do you remember back in Bag End? When you accused me from kidnapping you?" She smiled and nodded. "I said that you would find something by the end of this quest."

"I found my sister," Emilia said. Gandalf nodded.

"Yes you did."

"Gandalf!" Thorin said, coming from one of the side ways. "I did not know you were here."

"I just arrived," the wizard said. Thorin placed himself next to Emilia, she took his hand and he squeezed it, looking down into her eyes. "I assume you don´t want me to send you back. Which you desperately wanted at the beginning of the Quest." Emilia looked at Gandalf.

"You can send me back?" She asked.

"That I can yes, with the help of Lady Galadriel," Gandalf said. Emilia looked at Thorin and smiled.

"I´m not going anywhere. I have a feeling I need to give a stubborn King a knock on his head, when he is too stubborn," she said. Thorin smiled.

"Good, for he will need that," Gandalf said. "I´m glad everything worked out for everyone, and I see for you two too. Now I hope I won´t be concerned if Middle-earth suddenly gets an earthquake?" Emilia and Thorin both laughed.

"That won´t happen… I think," Emilia said, suddenly getting worried about that. Thorin took around her.

"I will look after her, as all the Dwarves here will," Thorin said.

"Now, I´m hoping I can speak to our Hobbit," Gandalf said. "Where is he?"

"I think he´s at library," Thorin answered.

"Still? Does he never leave?" Emilia asked. Gandalf left them and walked towards the library, even it was a good walk to get there. Emilia was about to follow, but Thorin grabbed her, pulling her in him. "As you are a King, should you show these feelings in public? To someone you´re not wed with?" Thorin smile and kissed her cheek.

"I don´t care, you´re mine now," he said. Emilia had her hands on his chest, feeling his heartbeat. "Let the world know that, you´re my lady, my queen."

"And you´re mine," she said. She took her hands around back of his neck. "I love you, Thorin." They shared a deep kiss.

"I love you too, Miss Taylor."

…

"This is very good," Thorin said to a young Dwarf who showed the King his new made sword. "You will be a skilled blacksmith one day." He took his hand on the boy´s shoulder, he was as young as twenty. The Dwarf smiled shyly.

"I´ve always wanted to be a blacksmith after my father, my lord," he said. The Earth suddenly shook with an earthquake. "What was that?" He asked his King rather nervous and frightened. Thorin knew what it was.

"Nothing, go back to your work," Thorin said and ran out of the forges. He ran up to the library and saw Bilbo peeking out of the door. "Master Baggins. Have you seen Emilia?"

"N-No, I´m actually wondering the same," he said. "Is she all right?" It was another earthquake, a powerful one too.

"I hope," he said and walked down the hallways.

"Thorin? Where are you going?"

"I´m going to find her," Thorin said and ran down. He found Ori in the Gallery of the Kings. "Ori, have you seen Emilia?"

"Yes, I think I saw her running out through the Front Gate," he answered. Thorin thanked him and ran out of Erebor. He could not see a sign of her, he asked several Dwarves, but no one had seen her. He looked at the ground for any trace. He smiled when he noticed she had used magic to hide them.

He saw a hint of green grass leading around the mountain. After three weeks, it still looked like Desolation of Smaug. He followed the trace and after forty minutes he saw Emilia. She was sitting on the ground with her knees up to her chest, her arms around them. She looked quite shaken.

"Emilia…" He said calm. Emilia looked at him, she stood up to sit down on a rock.

"Thorin…"

"What happened?" He asked her and sat down next to her. She had been crying, he saw that.

"I´m losing control over my magic," she said. "Again." She sniffed and took away her tears. "Fíli and Kili were only teasing me, I of course laughed with them, but then I got slightly irritated by it. I was just a little irritated and… You know the rest. I do think the whole world felt it." Thorin took her hand and squeezed it. "Last week I snapped at Bofur, and by the Wind I got him thrown across the room. He of course ended up on a coach, and he laughed by it. I said sorry… And that was because I was on my period."

She took her face in her hands. Thorin touched her shoulder. "Emilia…"

"No Emilia here… I´m so afraid, Thorin." He took her in his arms. He stroke her back and calmed her down. She enjoyed the silence and she sat more up, looking down on her hands.

"You need time," Thorin said to her. "You will get control."

"How? For I don´t see it coming the next years." Thorin sighed, not liking the idea that came up his mind.

"There is something," he began. Emilia looked at him. "I don´t like it, but maybe it is for the best. After all I know how Dwarves can be, and I don´t think it´s best for you to be so much around them, in this state."

"You´re telling me to leave?"

"No, no, not like that," he reassured her. "I don´t want you to go." They had their backs to the mountain and Thorin looked at his home. "It will take many years to rebuild our home, many hardship. And in a year, the Dwarves from Blue Mountain will arrive, for they who wants." Emilia nodded, she already knew this.

"What I´m meaning to say is; King Thranduil´s wife was a Keeper." She looked at him surprised.

"She was?" Thorin nodded.

"The Elven King told me this if it was needed. I told him to leave of course and never mention it again, but now I see he might be right." Emilia smiled. "No need to smile, for I don´t like this." She then chuckled. Thorin smiled at the sound of her happiness. "He offered his help. He knows what his wife went through, and she became great. He would like to help you control it."

"He? Do you mean King Thranduil?" Thorin nodded. "The Elven King?" Thorin only got confused. He did say his name didn´t he? "I never thought he would help anyone except for his own race." Thorin smiled.

"I´m surprised as you are."

"But then again, if he don´t… I can literally take down Middle-earth." Thorin smiled and touched her face.

"I´m worried about you, Emilia. I don´t want anything to happen to you, even if it means that you have to stay in Mirkwood." She took his hand that was close to her face and kissed it. "Of course, I expect to hear from you every day, and if something happens to you, the Gods-"

"Yes, yes, we all know what will happen," she interrupts him. "Is it really all right for you?"

"Anything for you. I love you." He looked at his ring on her finger. "There is something I´ve wanted to ask you for months now. During the Quest it was never the right time, and now we rebuild Erebor. Not the right time either."

"What is it Thorin?" She asked. "Just tell me."

"Do you want to marry me, Emilia?" He asks. "Do you want to be my wife? The Queen of Erebor? To be my Queen and the mother of my children?" He went down on his knees, taking her hand in his. "Can I have this honour to be your husband?" Emilia looked at him completely frozen. She then blinked and thought of what he said. For she was still stuck on the first question. "Emilia?" Thorin now grow nervous, thinking she might say no. "If this is not the right tim-" Emilia jumped down in his arms, kissing him, stopping him for saying anything more.

"Yes," she said.

"What?"

"I want to marry you." Thorin smiled, took around her and lay over her on the dead grass. "Are you asking that just because I´m going to stay with quite some handsome Elves?" He frowned.

"I´ve wanted to ask you for quite some time, and I don´t want to say it too late." They kissed with passion and it got more intense. "Even… I want to have you here and now, others might… Find us." He said in between the kisses he gave her. As they touched each other, kissing each other and taking off their clothes, piece by piece. The grass under them got greener, trees grow up from the ground, green bushes and flowers shield them from the outside world as they gave in to each other.