NOTE: I wrote this one before BOTFA came out, so it does not mesh with Smaug's actual attack on Laketown or the events that followed. Please consider this AU of a sort.
A Dream
It was a dream.
He barely new her. She would never touch his face or stare into his eyes. He must have fallen asleep after they left town. Had they left town?
He smelled smoke, heard voices crying. The house fell away and he went under. Red rippled above him; the icy water turned hot. Then the world went black and he drifted.
But they found him. They pulled him out of the water and he felt breath in him again.
And her hands touched his face, and she looked into his eyes.
But it must have been a dream.