Wow I am so pleased with the way this story is developing ,lot's of adventures ahead for Thorin and Philicia. There is still a dragon to slay and gold sickness to deal with and not to forget the big battle ahead. Now on with the story.
Disclaimeri do not own any of the Hobbit characters, they belong to Tolkein. I only own my OC's.
Chapter 37
Tauriel in Laketown
After the boat's had left Bofur looked around spotting Fili and Oin he ran over to them laughing. His laughter died as he saw the young Durin prince sitting on a crate as Oin checked him over. "Help us get him to Bards house?"Fili ordered Bofur as Oin supported Kili on the other side. Suddenly Kili collapsed on the dock. "What's happening Oin?" Fili cried out worried for his brother. Fili knelt and started to wake him but Kili's eye's just rolled back in his head and blood ran from his mouth. They got Kili up and made their way to Bard's house. Getting Kili up the steps was a slow go but step by step they reached the door. Bofur pounded on it and the door jerked open. "Go away I am done with dwarves." Bard said in an angry but controlled tone. "KIli's sick." Bofur offered."He's very sick please no one will help us." Bofur pleaded with the bowman. Kili moaned as blood dripped from his leg. "Bring him in here." Bard directed them to place KIli on a table . Sigrid helped Fili make him comfortable she wanted to comfort the handsome golden haired dwarf but was not sure how. Fili watched his brother sleep as his eye's rolled around under his lid's. He would wake ever so often asking for water then wouild slip into sleep again. Kili moaned his eye's shooting open he let out a cry of pain as Sigrid peeled away the blood soaked wrappings. She had put water to boil to make some tea of feverfew and herbs to help bring down the fever. "I am sorry Fili tell mum I love her . You must take care of her make sure she reaches the mountain safely." Kili slipped back into a death like sleep" Kili, no!" Fili cried out. "Sigrid hurry please." Fili called to the blond haired beauty. Sigrid rushed to Kili's side handing the herbal tea and feverfew to Fili. KIli's hair was stuck to his side soaked in sweat. Fili got him to stay awake long enough to choke down the tea and feverfew then went back to sleep resting his again on the pillow. KIli woke to Fili weeping over him. He felt foolish but he had no regrets doing what he did at the gates when they were making their escape from The Elven Kings dungons. His sacrafice had ensured they had indeed reached the mountain. Kili's leg was in agony as Sigrid peeled away the soaked cloth . Oin spoke up at that moment. "What else do you have?" Oin asked Bard as he listed off the herbs he had." Do you have any Kingsfoil"? Oin asked as he applied a slave to Kili's young Durin Prince hollered out in pain as Oin pushed on the deep wound in his leg blood and pus leaking out and dripping onto the wooden floor a foul odor coming with it. "Aye it's a weed,we feed it to the pig's." OIn sent Bofur in search of The Kingsfoil as Fili sat by his brothers side. Bard hugged Tilda as she sat nearby tears in her eye's she sobbed into her fathers shoulder.
Sigrid her eye's followed Fili as he went and sat on the steps his heart breaking. Sigrid followed quietly. "You must be strong and believe he will pull through. This weed will hopefully help him."She took a chance and laid a comforting hand on Fili's arm."My uncle Thorin got sick from eating something bad and Philicia gave him Kingsfoil tea and it helped him get better." Fili looked at Sigrid and for the first time he noticed how beautiful her eye's were and how her hair shown like spun gold. "Kili and I have never been without one another I would not know how to go on should he succome." Fili let a few tears roll down his face and Sigrid's heart broke for the future king. "He will pull through you have to believe." Sigrid without thinking reached up and cupped Fili's bearded chin caressing it softly. She quickly jerked her hand away. Suddenly Fili clasped Sigrid around the back of her neck and gently brought their lips together. She shuttered then her arms went around Fili's neck and she kissed him back. He instantly pulled away." I apologize I should not have done that." Fili wispered his head down staring at his hands. "No it was my fault-" Suddenly Kili let out a strangled cry and Fili bolted from the steps to be at his brothers side. "Kili,Kili"he shook him gently his hand moving his head to try and wake him.
The Orcs moved silently over the rooftops of the town on the water till they picked up the scent of the Dwarves. Sigrid after her stolen moment with the Durin Prince went out on the balcony for fresh air when an orc jumped off the roof landing in front of her. Sigrid screamed as Fili and Oin went for their swords. The door was thrown open and the orcs charged the of them had Kili by the legs as he kicked and screamed to get away the orc tossing him about like a rag. Oin was fighting off the orcs with forks and knives stabbing wherever he could knocked an arrow hitting a orc in the head. Tilda and Sigrid hid under the table as the orcs were hit with arrows. A tall blond Elf appeared in the doorway and shot at the orcs till they retreated and ran. "Tauriel" Legolas called to her. She started out the door when she almost collided with Bofur. Legolas said something in elvish and just then Oin said"Were losing him!" Bofur showed the weed to Tauriel. "Altheas,Altheas." She breathed. "Kingsfoil aye" Bofur answered."What are you going to do with it?" Bofur asked as the elleth took the fragrant weed from his hand's."I'm Going to save him." Legolas tried to get Tauriel to go with him but she looked back at the young dwarf and her heart constricted. She came into the room issuing orders as Oin listend without questioning her motives. He reconized the she elf as the one that Kili had spent the evenings talking with when they were prisioners in the Mirkwood dungons. Oin brought her a bowl of steaming water and she laid the weed into it."Help me hold him down."She said." Fili grabbed Kili's arms while Sigrid and Tilda held his left leg while Oin was next to Tauriel on his right . They carried Kili over to the table and Tauriel loomed over him placing the soaked plant over his wound. He screamed as the liquid asorbed in. She started speaking in Sindarin and started to glow a soft light filling the room. Kili stopped thrashing about and stared in awe at the she elf as she smiled at him. The pain in his leg was gone as she stood next to him."Tauriel, Tauriel,you cannot be her, she is far,far away from me. She walk's in starlight." She stares at Kili as their fingers touched."Do you think she could have loved me?" Kili wispered weakly. Why had she come back ? Why did she leave her starlight and for what a dwarf . Maybe this was indeed all a dream.