Flight of the Wargs with a twist of Lemon
Lexi sat next to Bilbo on the log and gave him a friendly should bump. "That was some quick thinking, about the parasites."
Bilbo gave her a small smile and then sighed. "I think Thorin is angry with me."
"I think Thorin is angry most of the time." She realized that sounded a little critical and tried to explain the thought further, "He's literally got the weight of all his people on his shoulders…I think that might be hard to be, ummm, cheery about." It didn't come out quite right, but she figured Bilbo knew what she meant.
She saw Gandalf headed towards Bilbo with a purposeful expression on his face, so she headed off to find Fíli.
She was just a few metres from the brothers when they heard a crashing sound in the underbrush.
"Somethings coming," warned Thorin.
"Arm yourselves!" Shouted Gandalf.
Fíli pulled her behind him and unsheathed his sword. Kíli nocked an arrow. Lexi unshouldered her bow and reached for an arrow just as a crazy old man emerged from the underbrush, on a sled pulled by…rabbits?
"Thieves! Fire! Murder!" He bellowed.
He headed straight for Gandalf.
Lexi took in his appearance and murmured to Fíli, "Radagast the Brown, I think. Another wizard." Just as Gandalf confirmed it by addressing Radagast by name.
She let her bow arm drop and leaned against the rocky outcropping behind her, feeling drained and exhausted from the lack of sleep, and terrifying ordeal, of the previous night. She wasn't sure how many more surprises she could take.
Fíli parked himself beside her, sword still at the ready. Lexi rested her head on his shoulder.
The wizards went into a huddle at the far end of the clearing. Watching their faces and stances, Lexi could tell that whatever was going on was serious.
Suddenly a howl rent the air. Fíli jumped up, sword at the ready. Fíli and Lexi nocked fresh arrows.
"Is that a wolf?" Bilbo asked in a panic.
"That is not a wolf." Answered Bofur, eyes scanning the area for danger.
A warg sprung from above the company, getting immediately cut down by Bifur and Thorin.
As Thorin was pulling his sword out of the dead warg, another sprang down behind him.
Fíli and Lexi's bows twanged in unison, bringing the warg down and Dwalin and Thorin finished it off with some mighty blows.
"Warg scouts, which means there will be an orc pack not far behind," panted Thorin.
"Orc pack?" said Bilbo with a trace of disbelief.
Gandalf rounded on Thorin. "Who did you tell about your quest, beyond your kin?"
"No one."
"Who did you tell?" Gandalf accused.
"No one, I swear. What in Durin's name is going on?"
"You are being hunted," said Gandalf grimly.
Lexi looked in terror at Fíli. He looked grimly back at her.
"We have to get out of here," said Dwalin.
Ori came running down the hill. "We can't, the ponies, they bolted."
Then Radagast, rather foolhardily Lexi thought, offered to draw the wargs off them using himself and the rabbits as bait.
They waited until they heard the barking wargs recede in the distance and then they started to run.
With Gandalf and Thorin leading them, they struck out over the plains. Lexi had no idea where they were headed. She just knew they had to run. And run they did.
With Fíli on her left and Kíli flanking her on her right, they trio ran for all they were worth.
Like an elaborate game of cat and mouse, the warg scouts seemed to be everywhere. Radagast seemed to be everywhere. Frequently, the company was forced to double back and hide amongst the boulders that dotted the plains.
Lexi started to wonder if she was going to make it. After missing a night's sleep and a couple meals, she worried about her endurance.
Fíli yanked her in against a boulder as a rogue warg scout peeled off and started sniffing around on the boulder above them.
Lexi saw Thorin nod at Kíli's bow and she whipped hers off her shoulder nocked an arrow too.
She watched Kíli closely. When she saw him take a deep breath and step out, she stepped out at the same time. Her bow twanged a second after his. The warg rolled down the boulder towards them. Fíli made a grab for her, but she evaded him and both bows twanged again. The warg and orc rider landed a few feet in front of her. This time, Fíli got a good grip and yanked her back against the boulder again.
Bifur and Dwalin hacked at the warg and Kili shot another arrow into the orc. The warg screeched, the orc screamed. It was a racket.
Gandalf scanned the horizon.
Their jig was up.
"Move!" Roared Gandalf.
And they were off again, literally running for their lives. The wargs knew where they were now.
The barking of the wargs got louder. Lexi's muscles were burning and she was gasping for breath. She'd never been so scared.
She prayed that Gandalf had a plan, and that it wasn't to run until they dropped one by one. She'd be one of the first to drop.
Thorin pulled up short, warg and orc rider ahead of him. Lexi skidded to a stop, panting for air, seeing wargs and orcs popping up all around them. She was terrified.
"Kíli, Lexi, shoot them!" Thorin screamed.
As Lexi pulled her bow off her shoulder and reached for an arrow, her mind decided to register the fact that it was the first time Thorin had addressed her as 'Lexi' rather than Alexandra. It's strange where the mind will go when it's consumed by complete and utter panic.
"We're surrounded," called out Fíli in a tense voice, right next to her.
If Lexi had any sense, she should throw down her bow, tackle Fíli and kiss him until a warg or orc killed them both. They were going to die here. Of that she was sure.
Instead, with shaking hands, she nocked arrow after arrow, shooting any orc or warg that came into range.
"Hold your ground!" Roared Thorin as the dwarves formed a loose circle. Their last stand.
Just as Lexi brought down another orc rider, she heard Gandalf bellow behind them, "This way you fools!"
"Come on, move," commanded Thorin, "Quickly, all of you!"
Lexi wheeled around, looking for Fíli. He grabbed her hand and they raced towards a rocky outcropping that the dwarves were rapidly disappearing behind.
Thorin was standing point, protecting their flank as the dwarves dropped behind the rock.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Kíli nearby, loosing another arrow at the orc pack. She was drawing her breathe to yell at him when Thorin and Fíli called out to him in unison, "Kíli!" Kíli spun and pounded after them.
When they reached the outcropping, Lexi only had a moment to register that there was a drop into a cave before them. Fíli crushed her to his chest and slid them down to the cave floor. Kíli and Thorin followed immediately behind them.
An elven horn sounded and moments later, an orc rolled down into the cave, slamming into their feet. Lexi and Fíli jumped back. It was the first close-up orc Lexi had really seen. It was hideous. And it was dead.
Thorin yanked out the arrow impaled in its ugly neck. "Elves." He said in a tone of disgust. Though Lexi knew about the animosity that existed between the elves and the house of Durin, she still thought Thorin sounded ungrateful, especially since they had just been saved by the Rivendell elves.
"I canna see where the path leads," growled Dwalin from the rear of the cave. "Do we follow it? Or no?"
"We follow it of course," reasoned Bofur as he wasted no time headed in that direction.
Fíli snagged Kíli's sleeve as he passed them. "We'll be along in a moment."
Kíli nodded, all the usual boyish charm and twinkly eyes erased from his countenance. He looked older than he had the day before.
As Kíli rounded the corner and disappeared, Lexi looked curiously at Fíli, wondering why he'd held them back.
Fíli pushed her gently up against the cave wall and then not-so-gently kissed her.
Over the course of their stolen 'gathering wood' time, Lexi had learned a great deal about Fíli's kisses. His general repertoire consisted of: gentle and lingering kisses, open mouth exploring kisses and her favourite (what she called in her head), his promise-of-more kisses.
THIS kiss however, was something new entirely.
This kiss didn't promise more, it demanded it.
His hands fisted her hair, holding her mouth against his demanding lips. He kissed her long, deep and hard and then switched angles to repeat it. His tongue traced her lips before delving in to explore more deeply.
His hands slid down her back and cupped her bottom, pulling her tightly against his erection.
Lexi moaned into his mouth and she was sure she felt him briefly smile.
He moved down to her neck, sucking and licking.
A blissed-out, moaning Lexi suddenly realized she was being rather passive in this situation. That was unlike her.
The fire pooling in her belly roared to life.
She fisted his blond mane and dragged Fíli's mouth back to hers and poured all her desire into it.
She hooked a leg around his to keep his hard cock pressed tightly against her pelvis.
Fíli's hand slid up her ribcage and started gently squeezing her breasts. He broke the kiss and dipped his head down to bite the nipples through the layers of fabric. Lexi let out a noise, she swore she'd never made in her life before. She could feel liquid dripping out of her vagina in anticipation of his cock entering her.
Desperate to reciprocate the fiery burn he was invoking throughout her, Lexi reached between them, gripped his bulge through his breeches and started enthusiastically stroking.
Fíli froze for a second and then let out a guttural growl that started low in his chest. She'd never heard that noise before, but she'd dedicate a lifetime trying to get him to make it again. It was sexy as hell.
He was on her mouth again and this time, his tongue was delving in and out in an erotic imitation of what was she was doing with her hand. Momentarily overwhelmed by the sensation, Lexi's hand came to a stop.
Fíli took the opportunity to remove her hand up to his chest and then gripped her bottom again, lifting her up, pulling her pelvis into his erection. Lexi wrapped both legs around his waist as they ground into each other. She could feel the friction of his cock on her clit and wondered idly if it was possible to come when fully clothed.
He explored her mouth with his tongue and she met his time and time again.
They began to wind things down.
Even though neither said it out loud, they both knew that this couldn't go any farther than it had. Between the multiple layers of clothing each wore, the fact they were in a cave with a dead orc hard by and sooner than later, someone in the company was going to double back to look for them, it just wasn't going to happen.
Lexi's legs reconnected with ground. She was breathing like she was trying to outrun the orc pack again.
Fíli rested his forehead against hers, taking deep steadying breaths.
After a moment, they stepped apart and started readjusting their rumpled clothing and excited anatomies. Fíli straightened his overcoat on his chest and adjusted his cock in his trousers. Lexi straightened her collars and peeled her damp undergarment out of her vagina.
Fíli hefted his pack and then helped her on with hers.
Once they were set, he leaned over and kissed her once more. This was one of his gentle, lingering kisses.
Fíli broke the kiss and looked at her with intention. "We're going to finish this."
"Absolutely we are." Lexi grinned at him in anticipation.
He took her hand and led her down the path.