"So how do you like it?" Nori asked Bofur looking around nervously. They were a bit away from town, down one of the dirt roads into the forest. They were standing a meadow away from the town, clearly there were remains of a shed and probably a house, but it was in appalling condition. Nori was really worried what Bofur would say to all of it.
"It's even more away from town than Fili's house." Bofur noticed looking around. "How big is the plot?"
"From that Oak tree, to the end of the meadow. The forest belongs to the reservation." Nori explained unsure about Bofur's reaction.
"It's beautiful." Bofur finally told him pulling him into his arms clearly surprising the wolf. "I love the view, the meadow and the forest. I love the fact it's a bit away and no one could see make love in our own garden, or you transform." He kept kissing Nori with every word.
"There's a stream right over there. And the deer like to come here to drink." Nori told him. "So if we build a house over there, we could watch them come here every morning."
"I can imagine something small, comfy. Not as big as Fili's house." Bofur told him in a dreamy tone.
"I want a wooden house." Nori demanded. "More like Frerin's house. I always felt great there."
"I think we have a plan." Bofur kissed him deeply.
"Let me show you where I want the house to stand…" Nori pulled him along to the distant spot near the wall of forest. "I want you to love it here…"
"I already do… As much as I love you!" Bofur told him and pulled him closer.
"It's funny, how much I hated your ass when you showed up here…" Nori jumped and wrapped his legs around his lover.
"I still hate you sometimes…" Bofur taunted him knowing it would turn the crazy wolf on. "You still smell funny, and the crazy smell is drilling into my head…"
"You smell yourself! I think you should take a bath more often, the vampire stench can be smelled from ten kilometers." Nori taunted back kissing the vampire's neck with passion. He moved against the firm body of his lover to intensify the friction. "I want to fuck you…" He gasped with emotion.
"I feel like fucking you…" Bofur decided to play along.
"Nope… Not today!" Nori moved and in one swift motion pulled Bofur to the ground. "Fili and Kili can switch – so can we…" He kissed a trail down his lover's neck. He gently pressed against his body to give him the feel of his lust.
"You're a bad bad wolf…" Bofur gasped feeling the pressure of Nori's cock on his groin.
"I'm your bad wolf…" Nori moaned as he felt their bodies press into one another. He tugged on their clothes, pulling down Bofur's jeans. "You want this as much as I do…"
"You're going to have to fuck me senseless to make me shut up you slow poke…." Bofur moaned as Nori made a violent move against him.
"Bite me!"Nori insulted the vampire. "Or today I'm going to bite you!" He nipped on the vampire's neck.
"Stop stalling!" He taunted him. "I want more…"
"Beg you filthy bloodsucker…" Nori whispered to him in playful tone.
"Fuck me you mutt or I'm going to rape you!" Bofur told him with spite.
"Beg or I'm going to keep you hanging!" Nori licked his neck and gently bit on his collar bone.
"You're evil!" Bofur complained with spite.
"And you love me because I'm evil!" Nori replied and gently sucked on his earlobe. He pressed forward bringing their bodies closer and slightly pressing into him, but not enough to make the vampire satisfied.
"More…" Bofur inhaled deeply. "Please, I need you…"
"With pleasure…" Nori went into him in one swift move. "Tell me more…" He gasped into his lover's neck.
"More…" Bofur tugged on his hair and forced the wolf to fuck him harder. They were both worked up pretty badly, gasping for air, and touching tenderly. Nori gave in and showed his neck to the vampire. With a gasp of delight Bofur pressed his fangs into Nori's neck.
"I really like it here." Nori breathed in deeply looking at the blue sky above them.
"Me too. This is a perfect place." Bofur added taking his hand tenderly. "Thorin wants me to show up in town for a few days, and I'd like you to come with me. We could stop by a design company to take a look at house projects."
"I'd love that." Nori told him with a smile.
"Is this the final list?" Fili asked looking at the list of nearly fifty people coming to the gathering next week. They began using the word gathering since half of the guests weren't going to eat or drink anything due to their special vampire diet.
"So let's put the table out in the garden like we did while the renovation. Is it going to rain the next few days?" Kili asked with a smirk.
"Nope, so a garden party!" Fili smiled happily. "I want a traditional American barbecue, and hamburgers and sausages and chili."
"Anything for you!" Kili kissed him deeply. "Beer, wine or vodka?" He asked with a smirk.
"I get hangovers after beer. I won't get drunk with wine cause I hate it." Fili noticed.
"If you get a hangover after vodka I'll kill you…" Kili threatened him.
"You'll still love me." Fili kissed him.
"If you insist!" Kili laughed. "I want fireworks! And I want music and dancing…"
"No disco!" Fili scolded him.
"Nope, I want dancing things, like those kinda country music you play in the hinterlands." Kili told him. "I really want this to be fun."
"So do you have idea what you're going to get me?" Fili asked with a cross smile.
"Surprise…" Kili kissed his neck and began gently nipping.
"You fucking know I hate surprises!" Fili yelped feeling a stronger bite. "I love when you bite me…"
"I know…" Kili replied with hazy eyes and pulled him into the house. They were in the middle of a very heated kissing session when the phone startled them.
"It's mom." Fili wanted to hang up, but suddenly a different emotion reached him. "Mom what's wrong?"
"I need to talk to Kili." She told him. He passed the phone to Kili with a very surprised face.
"Kili, I'm in a lot of trouble and I really need your help, can you please come to the Big Bom?" Dis sounded desperate. Kili glanced at Fili, both of them could feel the worry and strain in Dis.
"Let's go!" Fili grabbed Kili's car keys.
"We're on our way!" Kili told her and hung up.
"Do you really think we can manage?" Hali one of the waiters was pestering Dis about the restaurant. The restaurant was in an uproar, from early morning Dis was trying to get the staff to work properly but without the chef there was no way it could work, and despite Dis's cooking talent she wasn't skilled enough to pull it off.
"We'll have help soon." Dis told her coldly.
"You'd better be right!" Joli one of three other waiters added with a grin.
"Hey mom what's going on?" Fili asked entering the restaurant. The waiters gasped with delight seeing the handsome boyfriend follow him. They all were thrilled with the idea, Fili has always been considered one of the most handsome boys in town, and the news he was gay and his boyfriend moved in with him caused an uproar.
"Hi I'm Joli!" The beautiful black haired waitress immediately approached the tall dark haired boy following Fili.
"Kili! I'm so happy to see you!" Dis grabbed his hands and hugged him. "I need you in the kitchen, Bombur had to go to hospital his wife is in critical condition!"
"Why not close the restaurant?" Fili asked with a smirk.
"This is their only income, we just cannot close the restaurant!" Dis scolded him.
"So you want Kili to take over the kitchen?" Fili asked with a huge grin.
"He's the only person in town who has experience in a professional kitchen, he's phenomenal." Dis told him with a smile.
"And he has trouble saying no to you…" Fili noticed.
"I'll gladly help." Kili told her with a smile, and was rewarded with a kiss on the cheek.
"You really have some experience?" Holi asked in a slightly flirtations tone.
"He's fantastic!" Fili told her and in a swift gesture kissed Kili in front of the three young waitress.
You don't have to mark me as your territory… Kili noticed.
Just for the record so that they don't forget! Fili replied.
"Show me the menu." Kili told Dis with a smile.
"You should taste the tomato sauce!" Sorin one of the sous chefs brought a pot to the new chef.
Kili carefully sniffed it and mixed it. "Smells great! Let's get to work!" He told the young chef putting on an apron.
"I'll handle it." Kili assured Dis with a smile.
"So what restaurant did you work at?" Tilly one of the sous chefs asked suspiciously.
"In the city." Kili told her curtly, he was focused on the menu. "Is the kitchen prepped?"
"We don't know what to start from." The young chef admitted.
"How long have you worked here?" Kili asked crossly.
"Two months." The girl named Tilly replied.
"Half a year." Sorin the other sous chef replied.
"Just fucking great!" Kili murmured. "Get the vegetables done, set the two soups and start baking the beef on low temperature."
"Hey love is there a chance I can get something for lunch?" Fili peaked into the kitchen.
"In ten minutes!" Kili yelled back at him with a grin.
"Where's the free lunch at today?!" Nori yelled from the main room.
"No free lunch or dinner today!" Dis scolded both Nori and Fili. "Sit down and order like normal people do!"
Kili swiftly gave orders in the kitchen, both sous chefs didn't feel enthusiastic, but the firm control was something they were used too. Soon when the orders started coming in, Kili proved to really know what he was doing.
"Kili could you come out for a moment?" Dis asked him with an unsure smile. "Bofur and Nori are making a scene… so to say."
"You can't fucking go around and…" Nori was yelling at Bofur. The three of them were sitting at a table and discussing loudly something.
"Hey honey!" Fili greeted him and pointed towards the extra chair.
"Everyone loves the food!" Joli took her chance to talk to Kili.
"Thanks!" Kili replied calmly taking Fili's hand. Everyone is the restaurant was glaring at their closeness.
Kili glared at the two wolves and vampire. "Keep it down a bit." He scolded all three of them. "If you two feel like fighting go somewhere else, I'm trying to work here!"
"It's not like you need to work! Like ever!" Bofur noticed with a grin.
"Bombur and his wife are in hospital worried about the pregnancy and baby, so I just have to do this." Kili told them.
"Because you're the only one who can." Fili noticed.
"Precisely!" Kili kissed him before going back to the kitchen.
"Hey boy! Long time no see!" Gloin came up to their table. He glanced at the vampire verily.
"Where is your… friend?" Gloin asked in a tense voice.
"He's cooking in Bombur's place. Bombur is with Mathilda in hospital." Fili explained.
"That's kind of him to help out." Gloin noticed dully.
"That's one of the…?" A woman from a wolf related family began whispering with someone.
"You see what I mean?" Nori gasped at Bofur.
"A beehive." Bofur noticed.
"More than that." Fili added.
"Hey how's it going?!" Ketri came up to them, Fili could easily tell Kili's mental imprint was still working, the young man surprisingly nice and polite. "So where is your boyfriend?" He asked politely.
"He's the one cooking tonight." Fili explained.
"That's so cool!" Ketri was so nice it was difficult to bear.
They stayed on longer, listening to the gossip and chatter in the restaurant. Some especially the older village people were contenting. Some targeted their relationship, some gossiped about Bombur having too many kids, some clearly talking about the unsaid of what his boyfriend was. There was also a firm voicing of separating the odd color people from the dark colored "pure" native ones.
"The shit around here is surprising bitter considering this should be tight close nit community." Bofur noticed with spite. "I'm not sure this is really a nice place to live."
"Are you trying to bail out?" Nori asked in a tense whisper.
"Never in your lifetime!" Bofur took his hand not caring they were in public. The crowd gasped and went silent, and then restarted gossiping yet again.
"This is actually pretty funny!" Fili chuckled. "So you two are making it official?" He glanced at their joint hands.
"More than that actually." Nori added with a happy grin. "We were waiting for your party to announce it."
"Please do tell, before I ask Kili to get it out of your brain." Fili told them with a dreamy smile.
"Dain and Frerin gave me permission to settle here on the same conditions Kili got." Bofur finally told him.
"So we're officially announcing at your birthday to both our families." Nori told him hesitantly.
"You wanted to add more?" Fili noticed.
"We're getting married." Nori split the news.
They are not fucking getting married before us! Kili scolded Fili.
"It seems Kili is pissed with that declaration!" Fili began laughing.
"Why?" Bofur was clearly worried.
"I just had to listen to a whole berate under the title 'They are not fucking getting married before us!'"Fili told them with a smirk. "One advice if you don't want Kili to hate your asses keep us informed on the topic. So what are your plans later?"
"We're going to build our own place on Barim's land in the forest." Nori admitted.
"Good location! Quiet and secluded." Fili remarked with a smirk. "You're both nature lovers." He joked lightly.
"Keep your nose to yourself!" Bofur laughed.
"Believe me I try… It's Kili who is the snoop." Fili told them with a mean smirk.
"Hey what are you guys doing here?" Borin yelled at them from the entrance. He and Farin were guiding four kids with them. Moli, Dainy, Rili and Hain.
"So where is the rest of the family?" Fili asked with a serious grin.
"Mom is still critical, so dad is staying there. Nobur and Tabur are staying around so they can take care of both of them, dad is panicking even more than mom." Borin explained with a sad grin. "We decided to stop by the way home to make sure Dis is doing okay."
"Everything is just great!" Dis showed up with a huge smile.
"If you're here then who's cooking?" Moli the twelve year old red head girl asked curiously.
"Kili is." Dis told them shortly. The younger kids gasped with excitement.
"That's fantastic! He's as good as dad!" Farin noticed with a huge smile.
"Sit down all of you I bet you didn't eat any dinner." Dis told them firmly. "I'll get Kili to make you something delicious."
"Hey how are you guys?!" Kili glanced from the kitchen and came over to children. He hugged Farin and Borin. "Fili tell them, it will make them feel better." He told his mate.
"Tell us what?" Borin glanced at Fili.
"Everything is going to be fine." Fili told them.
"You're sure?" Farin looked at him with a shy smile.
"I'm sure." Fili added.
"Thank Mahal!" Borin finally felt relieved.
"I'm going to make you something special, all of you sit down and relax. I'm going to handle the restaurant until needed." Kili assured them with a calm smile.
"You're the best!" Farin grabbed Kili in a strong hug, and Borin and the kids hugged him as well.
"Let me get back to work, or those two will burn your dinner!" He told the kids with a shy smile. Fili could see the happiness radiate from his mate, as if Kili finally felt needed and fully accepted for who he was and what he was.
"That boy has the purest heart possible." Dis whispered to Fili as Kili was going back into the kitchen. "He's phenomenal, nothing like I thought his kind to be."
"He's always been special." Bofur noticed with a smile. "Meeting you Fili was the best thing that ever happened in his life. And mine as well." He smiled at the wolves, and especially at his mate. Nori took his hand and held on tightly.
When Kili returned Tilly and Sorin were clearly very worried.
"What's wrong?" He asked them looking at the kitchen.
"Nothing…" Tilly looked down but he could easily tell she was scared.
"You're worried about something…" He told them with a smirk. "I'm good at reading people."
"We heard some gossip about you…" Sorin decided to confront him.
"What kind of gossip?" Kili asked trying to be friendly.
"We both come from wolf families." Sorin told him in a firm voice. "We've been observing you since you came in today. So we know what it means." Tilly was clearly scared and looking away.
"I mated one of your pack, doesn't that count for something?" Kili asked gently. "Or are you more worried I would take your jobs away from you?"
The way Tilly looked at him, Kili knew he had the right idea even without going into their heads.
"I'm not planning to work here. I'm just here until Bombur comes back. I've already got a job." Kili told them with a smile and began reading out the new orders.
"What do you do?" Sorin glanced at him surprised with the open attitude of the vampire.
"I'm a game programmer." Kili smiled. Both of the chefs glanced at him surprised. Later they just did as instructed and began cooking again.
The next few days Kili stayed at the restaurant and managed everything. Borin and Farin would help as much as possible, but none of them inherited the cooking talent. Only ten year old Dainy was showing some talent, but she was way too young to go and cook full time in the kitchen.
Fili would stay around with Narvi who was working on his laptop. Nori and Bofur decided to go to town for a few days to talk with Thorin about their plans.
Four days after Dis called in Kili for help, Mathilda finally gave birth to their ninth child, a girl who they called Keli, clearly hinting to Kili's name. Bombur joked that they would never be able to make in to the end of the pregnancy without the soothing though their business was well taken care of, and their children were fed and safe. The fifth day Bombur officially came back to work, with his wife at home tending to their youngest child.
