A few days passed by as Bard allowed Bilbo to recover in his home, and even let Ori and Fili stay as well, so both the pregnant dwarrow and the new 'mama' could rest in a safe place well Erebor was being cleaned up and places patched up from where the troll had been and destroyed random items in its stomping around.

Not to mention he was actually very happy to help with the babies, as were his kids, though little Frodo had developed a habit of trying to chew on loose hair, though that was normal for any baby, little Thora seemed to enjoy it when Bain would tickle her feet and would squeal in delight and kick around, it was a very adorable sight and a welcomed one for everyone.

Soon Bilbo felt well enough and Oin deemed the babies could make the journey as long as they remained bundled up and got inside the warmth of Erebor quickly, everything would be fine.

Dwarves did not like to take chances with their little ones, till they developed the tough skin and hearty body that dwarrow were known for, they were soft, easily made sick or bruised, hobbit babies also took time to get the strong calloused feet the race was known for, but they did not get sick easily and Bilbo even told a few stories of Bell Gamgee's children tumbling from their cribs to the floor and just gigglin, like nothing happened and going for a crawl to find their mother or father.

Every dwarf who heard the story went pale and checked every piece of baby furniture they had for weaknesses, though Bilbo did try and assure them that there was no fault in the woodwork as hobbit children would just climb over the railings of the crib or shake and flail in their cradles till they toppled over to get loose.

This did nothing to comfort anyone and just made them consider nailing the cradle to the floor

Roki had unfortunately not been caught yet, but Thorin had tried to assure his family, not to mention himself that, with the wound, Ori had dealt him, he would not get very far, especially with every available dwarf, man, hobbit, and elf looking for his treacherous hide, a hideous dwarf with an eye injury was bound to not go unnoticed even by the thickest person.

"He can't have gotten far, most likely slithered into some dark corner like the snake he is and licking his wounds" Thorin rumbled as he helped Bilbo into the cart and handed both babies to him, bundled up as Oin showed them, Fili got Ori in as well, both had been even more paranoid than usual, but now that they knew a large source of the issue had been handled, they could deal with it.

Most of Roki's goons had been captured and had been tossed into cells at the furthest side of the mountain, far away from the royal chambers and the new babies.

Even Bilbo was perfectly willing to accept whatever horrible dwarfish punishment that Thorin and Fili had planned for his and Ori's attackers, even suggesting a few himself that left Thorin grinning like he had just been offered an all meat feast at his One's imagination and had nearly decided to give his hobbit a good snogging, public or no, but the fact his love was still weak from the birth and had just confessed the truth to him, after months of keeping it quiet, stopped him, they had time to enjoy each other after all later, once Thorin figured out which punishment he chose to use, Bilbo really could be vicious when he felt like it.

Perhaps he should watch that...

Though Ori had not exactly been silent on his own ideas for how to deal with his would-be murderer, the sweet little scribe hid his dark side very well, and it was DARK, though he was still with child, Oin did say that being with babe made their carriers very honest about themselves.

Both the king and his heir supposed a hidden ability to come up with nasty punishments was a thing all royal consorts had...Thorin still had nightmares of the punishments his grandmother and mother could dish out when they felt like it towards traitors.

And then drive their spouse into starry eyed rambling, though it might just be the power of finding their other halves, it's like a broken off part of their soul rejoined their body, nothing was like it in the world.

"ababbbaaabaabaaaaaa!" Thora squealed as she laid her eyes upon Erebor as if sensing this was her home, where she belonged, large green eyes, the exact copy of her Amad's sparkled and darted around, Frodo seemed more content to stay curled into Bilbo, blue eyes hooded sleepily, or at certain points on the climb, make a valiant effort to grab his fathers braided hair to gum on.

Hobbit and human hair did not seem to be to his palate as dwarf hair seemed to be, as he usually the minute he was settled on his fathers or one of the other members of the company's shoulder, he would try to scale up to whatever strand he could reach to try and introduce it to his mouth, he seemed to enjoy just tugging on Bard and Bilbo's locks, no attempted feasting of hair except on random occasions.

Baby logic

"I will have another crib commissioned for them, but for now they will have to share I'm afraid," Thorin said, he wished he had been more prepared, but twins were unheard of in dwarves, plus Bilbo was very small to him during the pregnancy,no matter what Oin and Bilbo himself had said, how did he expect him to carry more than one?

"That is perfectly alright, I think they will enjoy sharing a bed, it should help them adjust to being in a new place, plus the crib is large enough to fit four babies, thankfully I did not have to push out that many" Bilbo said, letting Thora play with his cloak clasp, he did not want to separate them, even if it was just by another bed just yet.

New parent logic he supposed

Not to mention Fili and Kili even as adults still would snuggle in the same spot when they had been on their journey, so siblings still being comfortable sharing a sleeping spot was not seen as a negative thing.

And was very adorable to witness

Soon they got to the gates and they got to the tasks of unloading their precious cargo and getting everyone inside the warmth of the mountain where a horde of dwarves came forward to get a peek at the new prince and princess.

"Alright back up back up! No crowding the children!" Oin bellowed before Thorin could even draw a breath "they have been through enough without you all prodding them like farm animals!" thankfully the shout was all that he needed to do and everyone backed off and let the royal family pass by to get into their chambers.

"Want to test out your new bed little ones?" Bilbo asked and got a spit bubble from Frodo in response "I shall take that as a yes"

Both babies were settled into the cradle, that was, in fact, not nailed to the floor thankfully, so it could still rock and soothe them when needed, Thora decided she was also sleepy and snuggled into her brother who had already drifted into dreamland.

Thorin had Bombur bring up some food, after making sure Bofur went with him so that the whole thing made it into the rooms in one piece and everyone got to eating their fill.

"O-oh! Fili come here!" Ori said excitedly having his hands resting on his abdomen "baby is kicking!"

The heir needed no more prompting and shuffled over to gently feel the bump, soft ripples flowed under his palm and then a firm kick was felt making him grin "He or she is strong" Fili said proudly "Just two more months till we see our child face to face"

"I never thought my life would be like this, after everything, and then that trip...it went so badly so fast" Ori whispered but it still caught Bilbo's attention.

"Seems we all have a lot to discuss," Bilbo said trying to find the right words to ease into this conversation "We all have memories of our past"

"You do remember?!" Ori said and would have bolted to his feet if his new shape did not hinder him and Fili's hands on his shoulders "why didn't you say something sooner?"

"I thought you would think I was insane, so I decided I would wait and see, since, unlike you all it seems, I did not have my memories from this place right away, they came to me in dreams and sometimes randomly during the day, it was a lot to take in" Bilbo fussed with a sofa pillow as his feet seemed to become very interesting to him.

"You did not trust us?" Kili asked looking hurt

"O-of course I trust you all! I just was not sure how much I trusted myself at that point in time, everything was mixed up and confusing, then we found out I was with child, an old hobbit hearing that, someone way passed their prime from when they last woke up, hearing that was enough to make anyone panic" Bilbo did enjoy feeling young again, but it did take some getting used to, he had earned himself more then a few odd looks when he had randomly felt his now smooth hands as if expecting pains to shoot through them or to feel loosened skin like this whole thing was just some hallucination his old mind had come up with.

Thankfully he had covered his bum by saying the pregnancy was making his hands dry and had gotten some nice lotion for it, he still had some left now that he thought about it, despite both him and Ori sharing it, turns out it worked wonders on stretch markings as well.

The dwarrowdam who gave the bottle to him was overjoyed when she received a pretty bracelet for her generosity, even saying it would become a nice heirloom for her family.

"It makes sense he would not want to alarm anyone, we still have not told anyone outside of the company of our previous existence, it would just lead to a lot of panic or possible rumors of madness like Bilbo was afraid would happen to him, we just need to move past this, his experience was very different from ours," Thorin said and it made Bilbo smile at him and lean into the king.

"Why didn't he have his memories from the start of this place?" Ori asked curiously, he remembered everything in both worlds, he was so happy when he saw that Oin and Balin were still alive and could not hold himself back from hugging them both tightly.

"Perhaps it's because you all died before your time? I was very old when I passed on, far older than most hobbits usually get to as well, a hundred and eleven years old, only the old Took lived longer at a hundred and thirty years" Bilbo suggested "Though I do think that cursed ring had something to do with it, though I did feel the age like I was stretched out, it was tiring"

"That thing is still around where you came from!?" Fili shouted and things quickly evolved into everyone shouting in alarm and questions of how that could be.

"WAAAAHHH!"

"Now look what happened!" Bilbo said as both babies awoke from the shouting and quickly made their displeasure at the noise known by shrieking at the top of their lungs, the Shireling went over and scooped Thora up well Thorin took Frodo and gently rocked them to try and calm the cries, eventually with both parents efforts and some help from the company making silly sounds and faces, both babies were lulled back to sleep.

"Alright, now, calmly ask questions, if you wake them up like that again there will be no more jam tarts for anyone"

Everyone was calm after that

"That's better..."

"That, thing, is still in the other place?" Fili asked again struggling to sound calm at the thought, they knew what that thing was, what evil it contained and would have brought back if it had not been destroyed.

"No, it has been destroyed...many years after I first discovered it" Bilbo sighed and sat down in a chair to think, handing Thora to Ori, it was a long tale and a story he wished went the same as it did here, where Frodo had a chance to stay happy, but it did not happen that way, and now he had to fess up his part in his pain.

"Not long after the battle, I returned home-"

sorry about the wait...