Everyone walked into the throne room and took their places, the babies were settled in a crib by the kings throne that had been brought out, both thankfully asleep, admittedly they would much rather have left them with a sitter, but everyone else wanted to join in on the trial and not to mention quite a few of the other people in the throne room attending were already trying to catch a glimpse at the new prince and princess with huge grins on their faces despite the serious aura in the room.

Roki was led in by Dwalin and another guard,his goons also being led in, all were in chains, both Dwalin and his guard keeping a tight grip on the Roki who now sported a black eye, the king wondered who gave that to him, Thorin made a mental note that he needed to send them a present.

Thorin kept standing even as everyone behind him sat in their respective seats and stepped forward to address the room and did his best to hide the true anger he was feeling at the moment, he had to be the king first here, he could not just pull out Orcrist and take this bearded goblins head as a trophy, as much as he desperately wanted to, it would not do for him to lose his composer, his One was safe, his children were safe, his family was safe, he would control himself for them.

"I thank everyone who is here for attending, as much as I wish it was for a much happier reason, I feel this should be taken care of as soon as possible, so we all can move on and lead much happier and safer lives without the fear from these four, who have tried to murder two expectant mothers and than innocent children,all to try and gain position within the royal family, and put not only innocent children in danger but also their own family! For how would any of us have known better? If they had succeeded in their plans to murder the royal consorts, no one would have been able to proclaim any member of their family was innocent of any wrongdoing and could have faced punishment as they are now, they would have taken four lives and then would have doomed countless others to fates they did not deserve" Thorin had to take a breath to calm himself and regain some air after his speech and watched the reactions of the crowd.

Most members of the audience looked angry and glared at the shackled foursome in the middle of the carpet, knowing that any one of them could have been possible victims if they had succeeded in their plans, whether it was because they were a species they did not like, or because they let loose another bigger and meaner troll in the mountain to serve as a distraction for another scam, endless blood could have been spilled because of them.

Then Roki spoke

"You all are FOOLS! You really want THIS to be how our proud race ends?! sullied with the blood of halflings and leaf eaters?! And a brat who does not even bear a title of any sort!? The kingdom of Erebor...a proud DWARF kingdom! Now has been filled with dirty blood! My noble line should have been the ones to be in the royal line! Not some creature that lives in a hole of worms and dirt who's race now is just a bunch of freeloaders! Those orcs should have wiped them all out! And an elvish whore who's was even at one point banished from her own homeland! Why would the prince want to mate with a creature that was most likely fucked into the sheets by the Oathbreakers spawn before she decided she wanted more with the youngest prince!?"

Thorin opened his mouth to silence the fool who dared speak such words but felt a soft hand enter his own and knew Bilbo wanted him to let Roki talk, to keep digging himself deeper into the grave he was already doomed to.

Then Roki glared at Bilbo who stared back, giving a blank, uncaring look that showed he was not going to let whatever trash that erupted out of the filth before him affect him as all manner of restraint disappeared as the dwarfs eyes bulged out in his rage and he tried to lunge at the thrones as if to try one last attack only to be shoved to his knees by Dwalin, but this did nothing to stop his screaming.

"And to you 'queen under the mountain', it must feel really good, to have our king wrapped around those fat-filled fingers, bearing two freaks to secure your comfort! Bet you and the bitch planned this from the start! I know you speak their foul tongue, you could have plotted to invade the royal line since the start! Did you promise she would be a princess under the mountain? Or did you at first say she would be queen? But our kings proper mind would not allow that to happen? So you settled for her putting a hex on the youngest who was susceptible to her witchery!? Kakhuf inbarathrag!"

That was it

But before Thorin could introduce this scum to his internal organs he saw a small red and blue streak go by him and the sound of a sword being unsheathed and now had the pleasure of seeing his consort standing above Roki, Sting pointed right at his neck.

"You will do well to remember, that both Ori and I knocked you onto your considerable bottom and my nephew in law even took out your eye! And Tauriel killed your co-conspirator as easily as she walks into a room, so you would do well not to shout abuse if you wish to keep your head attached, and I would like to point your gaze towards her gems, you should recognize them as belonging to the previous queen under the mountain, the king himself, my husband, gifted them to her freely, to show everyone that she is just as much a legitimate princess of Erebor as our daughter, Thora"

Bilbo then removed his sword from Roki's neck and walked as straight and tall as he could manage, back up to the thrones and stood next to Thorin who was trying really hard to not crack his face open from holding back a grin and inappropriate laughter, though he could hear several snickers behind him and from in the crowd.

Thorin cleared his throat and spoke once more "You have been given your chance to speak your mind and also had the option to apologize to perhaps save your life, but you have chosen to show us all just how corrupt you are, you are obviously beyond all redemption, Roki, son of Voki, you shall have your head and face shaved, then you will be taken away from the mountain, where you will be beheaded by an executioner chosen by the ones you have wronged, you will never return to the stone and will never go into the halls, this will take place as soon as possible...guards! remove this filth from my sight!"

And with that Roki was removed from the throne room to be prepared for his execution, screaming insults, and threats the whole way till his screams faded into the walls.

The rest of the group proved to be just as hateful as their leader and were given the same sentence as him and also were dragged away.

Thorin sat on his throne as Bilbo sat in his own and everyone got to talking about possible options.

"Who do you all think should be the one to do this duty?" Thorin asked, he would do it himself if they requested it, gladly so, which Bilbo took notice of the look on his face.

"I know you want to get your hands on them all, as do you Fili, but being executed by the king or the prince would do nothing, they might even take some sick pleasure from it" Bilbo pointed out.

"I am not sure who I would pick, I don't want my brothers near them," Ori said a sick feeling in his gut over the idea that his siblings would be so near to his would-be killer.

"Am I allowed to make a suggestion?" Tauriel asked and Thorin nodded

"Please do"

"I would rather enjoy my brother-in-arms Legolas to be the one to deal the blow, he was also insulted in that filths little tantrum" Tauriel started and everyone considered it.

"It would be good comeuppance if their executioner was an elf, and Thranduil's son at that" Thorin had to admit, it was a good choice.

"I agree that would be a fitting punishment," Bilbo said nodding

"And it would show everyone that his relationship with Gimli is being acknowledged" Ori noted smiling a bit.

"It is decided"

Legolas was more than happy to be chosen to have the honors of getting rid of the ones who had said such foul words against the one who he saw as a sister, who dared insult him and tried to act like what was happening was unnatural.

None of the royal family was expected to attend, assured that Legolas would do his duty swiftly and cleanly, Gimli and a few guards went along to make sure things went smoothly and they returned saying it was finished and everyone went about their day, trying to put everything that had happened behind them.

And with that, more months passed by

Ori was due any day and looked and felt like it, most of the time he spent sleeping or eating, save a few 'awake' days that were spent writing and driving everyone mad with his new nesting instincts, his body preparing for what was to come, hoping it would go smoother than the twins birth had, then again they had no psychotic killer at their heels this time and everyone was thankful for that mercy.

The twins had gotten a bit bigger and Frodo now was thankfully getting over his hair chomping addiction, though he still attempted it with new people he met, Thora was as just as much of a charmer and enjoyed snuggling into everyone and making a habit of trying to perch her feet on random places of her current holders chest.

No one complained

That day happened to be one of the 'awake' days and Thora was currently being held by Ori who was doing his best to keep his beard from being used as a foot hammock.

No one could tell who was winning just yet

"How about I take the little princess now and you hold Frodo? He is a bit less wriggly" Dori said and the brothers traded the siblings around and Thora quickly got to work sticking her feet under Dori's beard and settled down when he let her sit there, used to strange quirks of babes.

Frodo was content to play with a loose yarn on Ori's jumper and thankfully did not try to eat it, he seemed to have figured out yarn was not very yummy at all, big blue eyes looked up at his buddy and did not seem to mind it when the scribes own baby gave a small kick to the light pressure that was on it and only gave a mildly annoyed grunt before settling again.

Both Thorin and Bilbo were having one of their 'sleep days' where it was them who needed to sleep wherever they dropped and had thankfully landed in their own bed this time and entrusted the fed, freshly diapered twins to their friends to watch so they could get some much-needed rest from caring for them and their regular duties as king and consort and they thankfully had no shortage of willing nannies.

Even Thranduil himself had been charmed by the twins when he came to visit his son, though the odds of him being chosen to babysit was less than zero.

Thorin drew the line at that one

Though the king under the mountain had forever committed the image of the elf king getting his hair yanked by both Frodo and Thora to memory and it never failed to bring a smile to his face.

"Ouh, hey now, please be nice to little Frodo now" Ori winced as his baby suddenly seemed to become angered at the attention being directed away from it to the babe in it's Amad's arms as cramps went through his stomach.

"I'll take him now then," Bofur said as Frodo became fussy at all the movement under him and was more than happy to be deposited into the hat-wearing dwarfs arms.

"Are you in pain?" Fili asked worried and walked over to his One to feel his belly only to find it was hard to the touch under his hands and turned to the group"someone go get Oin! Now!"

Kili ran from the room, Tauriel at his heels so they both could look for the healer/midwife and bring him back.

Gloin and Bombur quickly got to setting up a spot for Ori to be settled, both having children of their own and knowing the drill very well.

Fili settled next to the scribe and rubbed his back to offer some assistance and Nori went to wake up Thorin and Bilbo who still managed to remain sleeping after all the shouting Fili had done.

Oin appeared in record time and quickly started barking at random members of the company to fetch him what he would need "Do you want to be moved lad? We can get you to the infirmary if you want"

Ori shook his head "I am comfortable here"

"Alright then, let's have us a pebble!"

what do you guys think? I think the next chappie will be the last one...should I throw in another pregnancy to end it? a little extra surprise? if so who should it be?