"So you were behind those attacks!" Bilbo did not want to shout but after everything that had happened that night, he felt entitled to a little noise! Not to mention it added to his performance.

"That foolish dwarf did not understand that I meant to just kidnap you two till you got far enough along to where a somewhat fully formed child could be delivered...good thing that fool is no longer on this earth did not need him ruining my plans"

"What plans?" Bilbo asked hoping Roki would keep talking and give him and Ori some time to recover from the fall.

Luck was on their side thankfully

"You should know, as consort to the king," Roki said spitting out the word 'consort' like it was a dirty word "that divorce and remarrying are pretty much unheard of in our culture, usually only happening if one is abusive, but it is not seen as taboo to remarry if there are children involved, so all I need is for just one of those brats to survive long enough for a proper noble dwarf to marry either the king himself or the crown prince"

"And I'm guessing one from your line is 'proper'?" Ori said giving a glare that Bilbo never thought he would see on the sweet scribes face.

"Of course" Roki gave another grin, exposing hideous teeth that looked more like rotted wood then actual teeth.

"And just how do you plan on explaining coming back with two bloody babies, one possibly...dead...with us being found cut open?" Ori asked, now knowing that something was screwy with the balrog situation since he did not seem worried about either royal dying any time soon, much less both of them from a fire demon attack.

"What do you think that landslide was for? I just have to say you died in the fall, but I was just in time to save the babies from dying inside you and did what was necessary, that will, with no doubt, make my relatives a shoo-in for next royal spouse!" Roki advanced on Ori, no doubt planning on killing him first since he thought Bilbo would be in too much pain from his supposed labor to attack him.

Think again, you nutter!

Bilbo saw a rock next to him and snatched it up, he wondered for a moment were Sting fell to just in case they ran into other problems, but that would be an issue for afterward, the hobbit threw the stone and despite his weakened state, the stone hit home and Roki fell to the ground whimpering and Ori took that moment to launch his own attack.

Ori pulled out one of his knitting needles from his coat pockets and when Roki lunged at the scribes legs, trying in vain to hurt the expecting dwarf for the rock to the head that Bilbo had given him, said dwarrow plunged the knitting needle right into Roki's eye, blood spurting out of the wound like a small fountain and the traitor fell to his knees and then to his side clutching the injury.

"RAAAAAAAAARG! YOU LITTLE BASTARD! I'LL MAKE YOUR DEATH AS PAINFUL AS POSSIBLE!" Roki shrieked loudly as if he was not planning on doing that anyway with his sick plan for their babies, Bilbo smirked at the sight of the treacherous drarrow on the ground before getting to his feet as best he could, using the rock wall for support.

"Are you ok to walk? You are-" Ori started, gently reaching for the hobbit to support him if need be, but Bilbo just took his hands and gently put them over Ori's own belly.

"I'm not in labor, yet, I was bluffing to see if that arse would show his true colors" Bilbo explained quickly as the other dwarves with Roki ran passed them to tend to their leader's wounds, temporarily forgetting about the two of their would-be-victims for the moment.

They saw their chance and took it

Both ran into the darkened forest as fast as their bodies would allow till their tired legs and feet made them both stop.

"Should we try and get back into Erebor?" Ori asked as they crouched behind a large boulder, they knew they had to keep moving someplace despite how tired they both felt and how sore everything was, that distraction would only last so long, they could take Roki to wherever and then send one or two of their group into the woods to catch the escapees.

Bilbo's lower back in particular was throbbing and felt tight, but he could ask Thorin for a back rub later when they were safely back inside and the traitors in the dungeons.

"No, they most likely will suspect us trying to go back to where Thorin and Fili are and will try to cut us off, we need to head into Dale as planned, there we can meet up with Bard and explain the truth of what is going on, then we can head home with the others, it will be best to travel back with a crowd, now that we know to keep an eye out for any more landslide traps that they might have set"

Ori nodded and they both stood back up to start the trek into Dale

Fili was ready to murder

So was Thorin

When they caught the fool who tried to distract them all with a mountain troll, there would be severe punishment! They better PRAY that their Ones were not hurt, or they would be taking every single bruise and scrape out on their hides! With Intrest!

"Hope they made it into Dale with the others," Fili said as he handed Kili one of his own knives to use just in case they ran into problems on the way into the city.

"If not we will find them, it has not been too long so I hope nothing has happened since they started their journey," Thorin said clutching Orcrist tighter, wishing he had something other then that trolls corpse to use it on, and he hoped that he would soon, the king under the mountain was going to hunt down the ones behind this trick and make them bow and kiss their One's feet! And then let Tauriel kill them as indignified as she saw fit! Thorin admitted his niece in law had fabulous ideas when it came to dealing with that one assassin before they actually did find the culprit.

He would not say that to her in public of course, but the months stuck in a room did make the two of them closer, so well he could not publicly at that moment forgive the elf for what happened in the past, but in private he could offer his niece her proper praise.

"Are you sure you are alright?"

"Yes, I am fine Ori, just some mild back pain, it's normal after what we just went through" Bilbo assured him, he hated that the young dwarf was even more paranoid after the hobbit had a particularly bad spasm and clutched his back to try and sooth it, perhaps before they headed home, Bard could spare a couple of chairs for them to sit in for a little while, just till they got some proper energy back.

"I found them!"

Well, speak of the ring wraths...

Bard ran over to the duo and Bilbo was glad to see that even after becoming king, the bowman was still dressed in sensible clothing, the man started looking the two over for injury as a couple of other menfolk, including Bards own daughter Sigrid followed behind the king of Dale at his call.

"Are you and your little ones alright? I heard of the landslide and managed to start a search party to look over the spot, but we did not see anything but some blood, where is the wound?"

"We are fine, thank you, Bard, it was not our blood you saw, though we would not be opposed to a proper seat to rest on! It has been a bit of a walk" Bilbo chuckled trying to lighten the air.

"Not your blood?" Bard questioned as he led them over to, thank goodness, a bench!

"I gave one of those traitors a good old eye full when he tried to attack us!" Ori proudly stated grinning at the memory.

"That should make them easy to track then" Bard nodded "I will find Thorin and inform him that you made it here safely, for now, I will let Sigrid lead you over to a proper spot to rest that is not so exposed, my home is not far from here"

"We are thankful to you Master Bard" Bilbo smiled and got to his feet...

Before a pain struck down his spine and radiated to his stomach where it tightened like someone was trying to crush him with a belt, and he was forced to his knees clutching his hurting stomach and cries of surprise came from around him.

"I-is it?" came Ori's voice

"Yes, it seems we are staying in Dale for longer than expected..."