Hey. Here is the next update for Strictly Bilbo. In this chapter young Bilbo will have a foreshadowing nightmare of things to come. I would like to thank blueskydog for the prompt idea and review. I hope I do your idea well.
Bilbo thrashed in his bed as the horrible visions played through his young mind. He didn't understand where they were coming from.
Strange people. Strange people some who treated him as friend. Some who treated him like he was a pest. The dream took a happier turn when they reached the land of elves. Or at least the first of such lands.
But then it darkened. There was a pale orc or goblin. He couldn't really tell. The pale whatever it was egged on what Bilbo could only call the leader of the band of dwarves. He watched in horror as the warg the whatever was on clamped his teeth shut around the majestic dwarf. The dwarf was thrown around like a rag doll.
Bilbo raced forward to face the pale whatever it was. As death was about to come for him and the majestic dwarf he was defending Bilbo awoke with a scream of terror.
Bilbo climbed quickly out of bed and scampered to his mother and father's room. He first tried to wake his father. But his father only told him to tell his mother and then rolled over and went back to sleep.
He walked around the bed to his mother's side. He gently shook his mother to wake her.
"Mama," he said gently. "I scared mama."
Belladonna blinked her eyes open slowly to find her four-year old son Bilbo standing at her bedside with tears streaming down his face. She could have sworn she put him to bed hours ago. He was sound asleep when she checked on him before going to bed herself.
"What's wrong sweetheart?" asked his mother gathering Bilbo gently into her arms.
"I have bad dream," said Bilbo tears still flowing. "About scary people."
Belladonna sighed. She didn't like when her son had bad dreams. She stood up and carried Bilbo back to his room.
"Now tell mama about this bad dream you have just had," she said.
She sat and listened as Bilbo told her about his horrible dream. It broke her heart to hear the terror in her son's voice. But she had a way to help get past these bad dreams.
"Bilbo," she said, "there is a way you can keep the bad dreams at bay."
"There is?" asked Bilbo looking up at her with wide eyes.
She nodded. "You just tell the bad dreams that they are not real. That you are stronger than them. And they will go away. Do you want to try it?"
Bilbo nodded his head fervently. He climbed into his bed and snuggled back down into his pillow. His mama pulled the blankies up to his chin and tucked him in. She gave him a big kiss and went back to bed.
After while the bad dream came back but Bilbo did as mother had told him.
"You are not real bad dream," said Bilbo in his dream. "I am stronger than you are."
And like that the dream stopped.
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The dream hadn't returned to young Bilbo Baggins again after that. That is until the night his doorbell rang and he received thirteen unexpected visitors and Gandalf. And he figured out then that all dreams do come true. Not always for the best.
There you have it. The next chapter of Strictly Bilbo. I hope you all enjoy. Please let me know what you think.
