Well Dis has finally arrived and what a way to greet her brother she hadn't seen in nearly a year. What will she think of Philicia ? Let's find out...together. Also I have so many chapter's written but not posted so i am trying to catch up by posting five at a time. thank you to all my followers and readers . Love you all. Durinsdaughter 2469
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Chapter 51
Princess Dis
Dis kept her gaze focused on The Lonley Mountain as they made their way from the City of Dale. She had not set her eye's on her childhood home in many decades and was anxious to see how it had changed. They had set out two month's to the day Thorin had began his quest hoping he would susceed. She had been near Dunland when she got news of the battle and the human girl that had travelled with them since The Shire and had pushed the caravan hard praying she would have a family to return too. Now as the front gates came into focus something strange had caught her eye's. On the sides of the massive front gates there were two things stuck in the dirt and painted with red and white stripes. Also there was a red swagged fabric hanging from the top balcony over the gates and a large wreath hanging on the doors. As the gates were pulled open Dis wondered what was happening. "What has my brother been up too?" The Dwarven Princess said as she stepped into the Grand Foyer. She took in the spectacle before her as she spotted the large tree standing in the center of the the entryway. It had been decorated beautifully with glass and jewels, ribbons and a red fabric had been covering the bottom. Dis then turned around as she spotted the garland and wreaths hanging from the inside rampart's." How extrodinary." Dis breathed. Suddenly she heard the sound of heavy dwarvish boots coming up the corridor. Her eye's instantly went to Thorin as he came walking toward her. Remembering the conversation she had shared with Gandalf the Grey and Bilbo Baggins Dis reared her hand back and upon reaching her brother let it fall with a smack across his cheek so hard his head jerked back. "Welcome home Dis. "Thorin said as his sister collapse in his embrace great sob's heaving from her body.
"Thorin. When they had told me you had fallen I had feared the worst."The Dwarven Princess cried into Thorins shoulder. "I am fine you need not have any more tears." Thorin said . "Kili they also told me he was seriously injured and Fili did not fight at all. Thorin tell me please what has happend?" Dis pleaded. "All in due time Di..." Suddenly Fili and Kili came dashing up the corridor at a full run. "Amad, ,Amad, your here we did not expect you till at least late summer." Kili said as she and Fili embraced her simoultaniously. "Oh my boy's." she cried throwing her arm's around her son's. "Let me look at you? You have filled out more Kili and you Fili you have grown up." Dis said looking over her two son's wth admiration and love. "Amad Amad come join the feast." Fili said holding his arm around her shoulder."You boy's return to the fest I need to speak with your uncle, alone." Dis said dismissing her two son's. Balin, Dwalin and Philicia also discreetly excused themselves leaving the two siblings standing alone in the Grand Entry. Dis's sharp eye's caught sight of the firey headed girl as she made a quiet retreat."WHAT IN MAHAL'S NAME DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING THORIN? SHE IS JUST A CHILD."Dis shouted not caring who heard. "What are you referring to?" Thorin shot back keeping his temper controlled. "I so happend to cross paths paths with a certin wizard who had told me you had taken a human girl with you on this quest." Dis grabbed him by the tunic giving the fabric a hard twist. "WHAT OF IT?" Thorin shouted back finally losing his reign on his temper. "What did the wizard tell you?" Thorin asked Dis as she dropped her hand. "He said you came to the home of Bilbo Baggins carrying this girl in your arm's. Please do tell Thorin?" Dis breathed. "Not here, in my study." Dis followed her brother as he took off down the corridor. Shutting the door Dis turned to Thorin her arm's crossed. "Speak brother I am waiting." "I found her on the edge of the Shire as I was coming from Erid Luin. She was injured and all alone. I was only going to take her as far as The Hobbit's home but..."Thorin trailed off not knowing how to explain. "But what Thorin?" Dis asked, her paitents strained. "I could not leave her behind." He answered looking his sister in the eye. "Why not?" Dis barked. "Oh Mahal no, please tell me you have not fallen for this human gold digger." Dis softly said as Thorin jerked his head at his sister. "You have havn't you!?" Thorin's face told her alll she needed to know. "She is not after the treasure."He roared at his sister. " Oh come now brother surly you are not that naive." Dis said. "IF IT WERE NOT FOR HER YOU WOULD BE COMING HOME TO US COLD IN OUR TOMB'S." Thorin roared as his sister stepped back. "What are you talking about?" Dis said shock setting in a little. "She saved Kili's and my life in the battle." Thorin contemplated spilling everything to her but deceided to stay quiet for now. "And what of Fili?" she asked. "He did not fight." Thorin said his eyebrows arching up." Dis, do not judge her so harshly. You do not know her." Thorin repromanded his sibling. "Fine then bring her before me I will see for myself who and what she is." Suggested the Princess. "Remain here I will bring her." Thorin rushed out the door.
Thorin found Philicia waiting outside the Great Hall with Balin. "Well laddie could ya have shouted any louder. The whole kingdom heard you two a having it out." Balin scolded." My apoligies, Philicia come with me." Thorin said curtly."Balin, I will return, go, enjoy the feast." Balin knew a order when he heard and posed no further argument. "Where are we going Thorin?" Philicia asked as she walked beside the king her hand clasped tightly in his. "My sister wishes to speak with you. "Oh aright. I can't wait I am excited to finally meet her also." Philicia smiled at Thorin even tho she was shaking inside for she had heard the shouting between Thorin and his sister. "Curtsy upon facing her and do not answer anything you are unsure of. My sister can be far more severe than myself." Thorin then directed her on immediate manners she would be expected to practice in the Dwarven Princess's presence. Thorin opened the door to his study and planting a quick kiss upon her lips he walked away. "Come child I am not going to harm you." The feminine voice came from the room."I want to look upon the girl who has managed to capture my brother's heart when many have tried, and failed." Philicia slowly stepped up to the Princess and clasping the sides of her dress she tucked her right leg behind her left and gave the Dwarven Princess a very regal curtsy. "It is a very grand honor to finally meet you." Philicia stood up strait her shoulders back and her head high. "Well the honor should be mine apparently." Dis spoke to her in soft tones. "So what have you done ,you are no one special." The princess scrutinized her slowly. "NO I am not however you are."Philica said carefully. "And what makes you think that my dear girl?" Dis asked her as a maid came into the room and set out two cup's and saucers and poured a dark black tea into each cup. "Thank you." Philicia said to the woman as Dis said the same in Khazadul. "So tell me Lady Philicia what makes me special? "Well for one you are an amazing mom. Two, your brother he always has awesome things to say about you and he has shared some good stories." Philicia chose her word's cautiously so not to offfend. "Fili and Kili are like the brother's I never had." Philicia said her eye's tearing up. "Here, pat gently"Dis said handing her a cloth to wipe her eye's. "Now let us talk seriously." Dis said as she took a sip of her tea. "My Lady Princess I will answer anything you ask of me as best I can. You have but to ask.
"So how did you and Thorin meet? Did you run away from home my dear girl? Dis sat with her hand's over her breast just as Thorin did but not do intimidatingly. "I , he found me face down in the mud in the pouring rain. He took me to a cave and that's where I woke at. I was scared at first till I realized who I was with." Philica breathed slowly. "And how did you reconize him? Dis asked curiously. "I ... oh , I don't know how to answer that one." Philicia stammered. "The truth would be the best way." Did returned . "Yes, I agree . My Lady Princess before you hear this I ..." Philicia trailed off. "Come tell me I would like to hear it from you for I could not wring it out of that stubborn brother of mine." Philicia stood and started pacing the floor of Thorin's study. "May I ask you something Lady Dis?" Philicia said her deep purple eye's glancing at her. The Princess nodded. "Do you believe in the existence of other world's and that Middle Earth is not the only world?" Philicia chose that moment to look the Dwarven Princess directly in the eyes. "I have always wondered, perhaps." Dis answered. "Well you can believe it cause I am living proof." Philicia said with as much courage she could gather. "And how did you come to be here? Thorin told me that him and my son's would be dead if not for you." Dis's voice shook with emotion. "He's right ,I suppose I should sit down this could take a while."
Philicia sat back down and thought for a second where to start. "In my world this is all a story. Erebor, the dragon attack the dwarves being driven from their home. The year's that followed till the settling in The Blue Mountain's. Thorin's quest. It's all just a book that was made into three movies. Movies are like play's only more real. Anyway at the end of The Battle of the Five Armies, Fili fell first." Philicia breathed out quickly. "How, how did my son's die? "Dis asked her face ashen as she reached for Philicia's hand's." Fili was thrown off a high ledge after he was stabbed in the back and Kili was stabbed through the heart trying to save Tauriel. And Thorin, Thor-Thorin he took the full force of Azog's blade in the rib's and stomach. He died on Ra-Rave Ravenhill." The sob's Philicia was holding back broke free as she buried her face in her hand's tears leaking out the sides. Suddenly there was a soft touch on her shoulder. "And this story was how you were able to save my son's and Thorin's life." Dis spoke softly to her. 'It is, I knew that events were playing out as they did in the story so I was able to anticipate them and therefore save them all." But why you?" Did asked kindly. "I have loved Thorin since I was fifteen years old. Right from the beginning he took my breath away and through the story I loved him more and more . Oh god and when he died in the end something inside me broke. I died also. When we were in Rivendell I met Lady Galaderial and I asked her ,why me." Dis sat there quiety as Philicia continued. "She told me It is because the great love you bore Thorin Oakenshield. None of this makes any sence to me. It never has but I do know this. I felt everything he felt. When the warg bit into his side . When Azog stabbed him in the foot and when he rendered that final blow. I felt it all. I was inside the theatre lobby when I met an old man. I was crying so badly and I told him I would have saved them if I could. I went back to the girl's home I was staying at." Suddenly Dis interrupted her. "Were you not living with your family?" The Princess asked kindly. "No, I am an only child. My parents were killed in a accident I have no family. I am all alone." Dis thought for a moment. "So you were brought here to preserve the line of Durin and my brother brought you with him on his quest." "Yes." Philicia answered. "And during the journey here you fell in love with Thorin Am I assuming correctly?" Dis asked her as she spat word's in Kazadul. "No, not exactly." Philicia said raising her face to Thorin's sister. "I loved him before I came here. I loved him in my world and I love him in this one. When he was going through the dragon sickness everyone told me I should leave ,leave him before it was too late and he saw me as just another posession."
Dis halted a moment before speaking again." And did you,leave that is?" Dis asked. "NO , I thought about it .Thorin was -not himself but even tho he was treating the company and I terrible I couldn't leave him .I loved him too much for that. I know you probably don't understand some of the things I am talking about but I hope you know at least that I love your brother more than life itself." Philica hung her head fresh tears spilled down her face. She went on to tell Dis everything that had occured since Thorin had found her. About how when in Rivendell Lady Galaderial had sent her back to her world for three days and how Thorin had gone with her. "I brought you something from my world I hope you will like it." Philicia told Dis she had all the proof if asked for. She told her about her computer and her cell phone even the I Pod she had ." I would love to show these things to you but they are up in my room." Perhap's another time my dear." Dis told her covering her hand gently. Philicia went on to explain how her mom was a great healer and the step's she had taken to save Kili and Thorin's life after the battle. "So you had Thorin chain Fili to the throne so he could not fight?" Dis laughed as she looked at Philicia in disbelief. "I couldn't take the chance of something going wrong and if it would have Fili would have been alive to rule Erebor." "So you did not do that to be cruel but to preserve the line." Dis shook her head slowly. "Yes." Philicia answered her. 'And I am to assume that Thorin return's your felling's?" Dis stood as she walked around the study that once her grandfather had sat long ago."My brother has had a hard life my dear I do not want to see him hurt. If indeed he has fallen in love with you that is it. He will never give his heart to another." Dis spoke slowly as Philicia stood next to her inspecting the tapestry dipicting the line of Durin that hung on the wall. "I know that. I also know what he had gone through. How he hammered steel in every forge from here to Gondor just so his people wouldn't starve or freeze to death. I know about the battles the mistrust he suffered how bad the race of man treated him." Philicia without warning turned to Dis and reached for her hand's. "Please believe me when I tell you I know. Thorin didn't deserve to be treated like that and if I could track these people down I would, I would pound them into the ground." Philicia squeezed Dis's hand's gently and the Princess did not pull away. "You are an enigma Philicia Anderson an enigma I hope to unravel." Dis said as she returned to her seat. Philicia sat down and as she did her courtship brade fell from where it was hidden in her hair. Dis slowly picked the braid up and let her fingertip's trace over the bead at the end . "These are Thorin's bead's." Dis breathed. 'Yes he asked me while we were staying in Bree." She went on to tell Dis how Thorin had asked for her hand in marriage while they were at Beorn's house. "And what was your answer?" Dis asked her eye's widening. "I told him I would only accept when his people accepted me for who I was." " Oh my dear if you are waiting for that the council will have Thorin wed to a dwarrowdam for many year's before you ever gain acceptance in a Dwarven Kingdom. I am not trying to crush your hopes dear girl however you must fully understand what you are up against. On my journey here several of the women were already squabbeling about who Thorin would choose as queen. Do not get your hopes too high." Dis was not trying to be deliberatly harsh but Philicaia broke down anyway. Sobbing her heart out she finally spoke. "They have to see me with their own eye's and then deceide for themselve's." Philicia breathed her word's hitched. "Tell me truefully my dear have you and my brother, has he known you intimatly?" Dis held her breath as Philicia raised her tear streaked face to her's. "No, I ,we are waiting for marriage, both of us." Philica exhaled a Dis blew out a beath in relief. "You do realize that if circumstances were different and my brother had taken your innoscence under Dwarven Law he would have to marry you human or not." Dis informed her. "I know that and I will never put Thorin in that position. I love him too much for that." Philicia clenched her fist tightly. "And my dear, do you love him enough to let him go?" Dis asked steeling herself against Philicias answer. "I do and I would given no other choice." "And what do you hope to gain from all this. Wealth, power, presteige being Queen under the Mountain?" Dis said sourly. "No, I don't want any of those thing's. Having Thorin's love is all I want. I want to be there when the day is done and he comes into his chamber. I want to be the one that is there to hold him close to me and say how was your day. I want to be the one that when he's having a bad day to say hey I love you." I want to be there when he wakes from a bad dream to throw my arm's around him and say it's alright, i'm 's all I want." Dis leaned back in her chair a loss for word's at how this pretty young girl poured her heart out. Not once did she mention anything about being queen and all it intaled. All she did is speak of Thorin and her great love for him. "I am not usually rendered wordless however you are indeed special and I am sorry I treated you like I did." Dis shuffeled in her chaor suddenly.."It's alright and I do understand. You don't know me and you are only looking out for your brother. That is what makes you such an amazing person." Philicia stood in front of the Princess. "My brother is indeed blessed to have you. Against all odds he has finally found someone. And we all thought no woman would ever have him at least till he became king then all the women wanted him." Dis stood also placing her hands on Philica's shoulder's. "They only wanted him because he was king. Thorin deserves better than that . He deserves someone who will love him for himself. Someone who will love him no matter he's sitting on his throne in all his finery or on the back of a shaggy pony in old clothes with mud handing in his hair." Philicia started sobbing and Dis pulled her into her shoulder. "I do believe he has found that someone." Dis said holding Philicia now at arm's legnth. "You are in for a long hard road but I will try and help all I can. I willl start introducing you around and let's see where it goes from there."Dis hugged Philicia gently. "Now let us go and find my brother." With that the Princess and Philicia walked back to the Grand Hall chatting as if they were the best of friend's.
