Well my wonderful readers, the battle is won, Erebor is reclaimed. Now the real battle begins as our brave Dwarf King has to fight for his life. Keep reading to see what Philicia has in mind to accomplish what she was brought into their world for . Let the battle begin.
Disclaimer I do not own any of the Hobbit character's .Those belong to Tolkein. I only own myO/cs.
Chapter 45-At Death's Door
"No,No, Thorin!" Bilbo sobbed as he was pulled back. The Hobbit looked back over his shoulder as the noble face of Lord Elrond stared back at him a serious look in his eye's. "Master Baggins, let Galaderial do what she must." "No no, It's too late! He is already gone." Bilbo shouted as he fought against the elf. "He yet lives, dear Hobbit." Bilbo heard Galaderial's voice inside his head. " Elrond I have him It must be now." So as Bilbo sat back at a safe distance he watched as Lord Elrond placed his hand over the gaping wound in Thorin's stomach. Galaderial held Thorin's hand as Elrond rubbed a strong smelling clear liquid onto the top of both of Thorin's hand's. He then inserted a needle into his vein and as he pulled the needle out another remained within the wrist. Then there was these strange bag's that were hanging on poles that had a clear liquid inside of them . Elrond did the same thing with Thorin's other wrist then to the bend of his left arm. Then he pushed some button on this strange box that beeped and the liquid started dripping into Thorins body. Elrond then brought out another bag that was the color of blood and attached that to another tube and then he pushed another botton and the blood started running into Thorin's body rather quickly. "Wha- what is that stuff?" Bilbo asked as he looked on astonished. "The mean's to save his life Master Baggin's." Elrond replied. They lifted Thorin's battered and broken form into a thick board. They slipped the neck brace behind him and then secured the strap's tightly. "See that these do not slip off Master Baggin's." The elf told Elrond slipped this thing into Thorin's mouth to hold it open. Elrond then started sliding a small tube down Thorin's throat. He then pulled out a slim string pushed a button on the odd box and Bilbo watched in amazement as the King's chest began to rise and fall. They then lifted the board and began the decent from Ravenhill.
On the other side by the steps to the guard tower Gandlf and Oin were doing a similar thing to the youngest Durin prince. " ." Oin called. "Oin help me." He cried weakly. Gandalf ran over and held his hand over Tauriel's wounds and muttered a spell .She rose up and ran to Kili. Kissing his forehead she stepped back. In no time The I.V.'s were going and the bleeding had slowed. "We must go now. NOW!" Oin shouted. They strapped him down and slid in behind Elrond and Galaderial with Thorin. Oin reached over and pushed a button on the small machine as Kili caught a glimpse of Thorin's bloodied body before the medication took effect. "Uncle" he wispered weakly and then his head dropped back. Gandalf slid the oxygen mask over his face and they started the decent.
Philiia had sent them out as soon as the eagles flew over Ravenhill. Now she watched as the four small figures emerged from around the bend both carrying two stretchers. A smaller person that could only be Bilbo was following behind. As they got closer Philicia began to shout orders. "Fili"she called out! "Here they come, now keep it together,do you hear me." Philicia stared into his eye's her small hands grasping his head on both sides." Yes" He stammered. "You three help me get these tables set up." They carried the tables inside the room that Thorin was to be placed in. "Now everyone mask and scrup up if you plan on being in there." The team carrying the King and the Prince rounded the corner and that's when Fili lost it. He gasped as they brought Thorin in first tears falling down his face."Ok on the count of three." They gently but quickly placed his body onto the bed and Lord Elrond started giving Philicia an account of what had already been done. "Ori was writing everything down as Elrond and Gandalf counted them off. "Ok people let's get this bleeding stopped." Philicia grabbed the sissors and cut Thorin's shirt off and the elf began cleaning the blood and muck from around the wound area. "Oh God." She turned her face as the real extent of the damage was revealed. There was a gaping hole about three inches in length centered in the upper abdomen just at the base of the ribcage. His rib's had been shattered ,the stomach and lung's punctured resulting in the lung's collapsing and the intestine had also been nicked. "Elrond what can you do as for healing ability?" Elrond glanced at Philicia then placing his hand over Thorin's wound he began chanting in ancient elvish. His body gave off a light glow and Philicia watched as the bleeding receeded a little bit. "I have done all I can." Elrond said backing away. In the other tent Kili was being stitched up by Oin. Philicia knew in the movies that Kili had taken a blade to the heart but this wound was on the lower shoulder. Tauriel had jumped on the back of the orc causing him to miss his mark and hitting the shoulder instead. Now she was helping with the healing in Kili's tent.
Oin came in and helped assist Elrond and Philicia. "Oin we need to repair the damage to the intestine and stomach."Philicia looked to the Dwarven Healer."How lass?" Oin said looking to his king. "Elrond we need to cut him open." "Are ye daft ,that will surly kill him." Oin roared. "She is correct. I have been studying the medical book extentivly and I am confident I can perform this surgery." So after making sure Thorin was not going to wake Oin made the first cut. Elrond took it from there and within the hour the damage had been repaired. The bleeding from the stomach wound and the rip in the intestine had been staunched. "When will he wake?" Fili asked coming in to give a report on Kili's condition. "We are going to keep him sedated for at least a few week's to make sure that everything is healing properly." Philicia informed him. The rest of the company was waiting outside for any news on Thorin and Kili's condition."I will go and tell them." Philicia said exiting the tent. She removed the mask from her face before speaking. All eye's were upon her as she emerged into the setting sun. Balin was the first to ask. "How is he?" She wiped her hand's on the bloodied scrub's as she thought on what to tell them. "Well out with it lass. What are his chances?" Dwalin barked coming up to her. "We had to repair the internal damage surgically and we packed the wound in the stomach. His lower rib's have been broken he had a gash in the intestional wall and a laceration to the stomach." The companies faces paled as she informed them of Thorin's chances. "Now he has to do the rest. Lord Elrond is administering healing balm's to speed up the proscess and repair the broken bones in the rib's. His left arm was also broken however that is the least of our worries." "What about infection." Balin asked as murmurs and gasps were heard amoung the dwarves. "The antibiodics will prevent any infection." Suddenly Lord Dain came sauntering up. "How is me cousin doing?" So Philicia told Dain everything she had just said to the company. "I am going to see me cousin now." Dain started toward Thorin's tent when a bellowing voice came from behind him. "Lord Dain, if you so much as breathe into that tent I will grab Thorin's sword and run you through myself." She shot daggers at him. "Ah Lord Dain I would listen to her if I was you." Gandalf said coming out of Thorins tent. "She has saved your king's life I need not say anymore." Philicia turned to Dain then. "Lord Dain I am not trying to keep you from him however I would ask that you clean up and put on scrub's and a mask before entering a sterile enviroment. Right now I would not recomend any visitor's he needs rest and he is being sedated to immobilize his body." "When then lass,can we see him?" Dwalin said his head hanging low. The mood of the company was solom and quiet a they returned inside to make ready for all the dwarves that would be pouring into the mountain tonight. "Fili, you are acting king while your uncle recovers we deviate to you all authority in all matter's concerning Erebor and the Khazad. "Balin signed the order making Fili temporary king. "Now you understand why I had you remain out of the battle." Fili's head turned toward the two tent's set up just inside the main gate's. "I am begenning to see why." Fili replied . Suddenly a small framed girl came running up to Fili launching herself into his arm's. "Fili ,Fili", she said tears streaming down her face. "You are alright." Sigrid held his head between her hand's. "I am uninjured Lady Sigrid. "I am praying for a speedy recovery for your king." Bard said placing his hand on Fili's shoulder. "Thank you and I hope your losses were miminal also." Fili excused himself and made his way to his brother's tent.
Thorin had been holding his own and Philicia deceided to grab a bite to eat when suddenly the alarm in his tent went off. " OH GOD NO,NO," She screamed as she took off running down the main passiage toward Thorin's tent. "Elrond, Oin .Galaderial, Now S.T.A.T. CODE BLUE ,CODE BLUE, KING'S TENT!" She screamed . They all took off right behind her as the company followed. "Code blue what does that mean?" Dwalin asked as he caught up to her. "Not now ,stay back please."Philicia pushed him away as she threw the tent flap open. Elrond the difibiulator!"She shouted. They had set the cups in place as a precaution and at that moment she was glad for the quick thinking of her team. Elrond rubbed the paddles together as Philicia watched for them to charge. He handed them to her. "CLEAR!" She shouted as a shock was given to Thorins body making him rise a little off the table. She turned her eye's to the monitor."Nothing!" Elrond said. "AGAIN, CLEAR!" She delivered another shock. Elrond shook his head no. "COME ON THORIN! She screeched. "AGAIN,CLEAR" Another powerful shock was delivered to Thorin's heart as Philicia's head jerked to the monitor. "NOW,AGAIN", She screamed. "No lass, he's gone." Oin said his grasp coming to remove the paddles from her shaking hand's. " NO, She screamed shoving Oin away." NO ,NO NO! " Philicia suddenly jumped onto Thorin's leg's and started pounding into his chest. "NO , DAMN YOU, DON'T YOU LEAVE ME HERE FIGHT, DAMN YOU FIGHT,YOU HAVE NEVER GIVEN UP ON ANYTHING, YOU DAMN STUBBORN DWARF, NOW FIGHT, FIIIIGHT." Philicia administered blow after blow to Thorin's chest and her hand's only stilled when Elrond clasped them between his and turned her head toward the monitor. There was a heartbeat. Philicia collapsed onto Thorin's chest as a terrenteral flood of tears came pouring out. She was barely aware of someone lifting her off Thorin's chest. Her hand's were bloodied from the blow's she had enflicted and someone was rincing them with cool water and a soothing balm was rubbed into them. Oin wrapped her hand's in clean gauze and she was out into the fresh cool crisp evening air. "Oh" Philicia moaned as she bent over. She was barely aware of Fili holding her hair out of her face as she retched then collapsed.
Philicia woke with a quick jerk. "Oh god Thorin." She gasped as Balin came to check on her. She sat up and a warm blanket fell from her shoulder's. "Thorin" she wispered as fresh tears ran down her face. "He's holding his own lass. Elrond has been giving him injections throughout the night to keep his heart rhythm normalized." She looked up at Balin as Fili came and joined her bearing a cup of steaming hot coffee with cream and sugar on a tray. "How's Kili doing? She asked taking a sip of the hot liquid. "He is dong really good, he woke early this morning. He is asking about Thorin tho. I do not know what to tell him." Philicia said "I will go and talk to him and explain what he will see when he enters the tent." So Philicia finished her coffee and made her way to Kili's tent. She pulled the flap back unzipping the zipper. "Hey , How are you feeling?" She gave Kili a half smile."Oin came to see me a little bit ago he says the wound is looking good. Philicia what is this thing in my hand?" Kili held up the I.V. . "That is to administer medication's and pain killers and to give vital nutrient's." Kili looked at his hand again before looking at the machine on the table next to his bed. "Kili remember what I told you about me and where i'm from?" "I remember" he said. "Well these things are medical devices from my world and they will help us help you." He suddenly paled. "Uncle Thorin, how is he?" Philicia glanced toward the other tent. 'He is doing as good as expected. He is sedeated to keep him still and he has a breathing tube in his throat and we had to give him blood too much had been lost." Philicia reached for Kili's hand's. "Kili Azog had stabbed Thorin in the stomach and the wound would have been fatal but we managed to stop the bleeding and now he is holding his own." Kili held on to Philicia's hands as she cried and she told him she would send in the company for a visit but only two at a time. "I will check on you later." With that she went to Thorin's tent. When she opend the flap her sences were assulted with the scent of blood and herbal balms. Philicia reached for the book she had placed on the table beside his bed. "Thorin I know you can't hear me but this passiage has always been a source of comfort for me and I want to read it to you. She opend the Holy Bible and turned to the 23 Pslams.
"The Lord is my shepard,I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. he leadeth me beside the still water's. He restoreth my leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil, for tho art with me. Thy rod and thy staff comfort me. Tho has prepared a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Tho anointest my head with oil,my cup runneth goodness and mercy shall follow me all the day's of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Amen"
When Philicia had finished reading she looked up as Balin stood at the entrance his eye's wet with moisture. "That lass was beautiful. For whence does it come from?" Philica reached for Thorin's hand and held it tight between her's. "The Christian Bible, that is the God I believe in." She handed the Bible to Balin and he said he would return it to her in a while. "Balin read Fst. Corinthians thirteen. When Thorin and I marry I want that read at our wedding, read it and you will understand." Balin left leaving Philicia alone with Thorin he went to see to Kili. When Balin had gone Philicia laid her head on Thorin's chest and let blessed sleep take her. Oin came in to check Thorin's wound and change the gauze when he saw Philicia asleep her head laying on the king's chest he didn't have the heart to wake her. She woke a few minutes later on her own tho. "How's he doin lass?" Oin asked reaching for the package of sterile gauze. "Do you think these masks and covering's are still necessary?" he said pulling at the scrub's. "No I think just the mask's for a while still especially when changing the gauze. "Oin had determined that Kili was healed enough to leave the isolation ward but was under strict order's to not use the shoulder for a few weeks. "Lass" Oin began. "Kili want's to see his uncle." Philicia went quiet for a second. "Ok but tell him not to be too shocked at what he will see." A little while a weak but walking Kili emerged into the tent. "By Mahal?" he gasped. "What is all this stuff?" Philicia stood up from her chair and started walking around. "This machine here is breathing for him ,his lung's collapsed due to the wound. This one here is monitoring his heartbeat pulse and blood pressure. and this one is delivering fluid's so he doesn't dehydrate. She didn't tell Kili about the catherter tube that was in place .She thought that too private of a matter." So all these devices ae keeping Uncle Thorin alive. "No"We just have him medically sedated so he doesn't move around and to speed healing." Philicia swept a lock of Thorin's hair out of his face her eye's misting over. "He is so beautiful, Kili, I don't know what I would have done if he had not survived." She reached for Thorin's hand and clasped it to her heart. "I love him so much I would die inside if something were to happen to him." Kili stayed a few minute's longer till Oin made him scadaddle saying he needed to take it easy . So that's how thing's went for the next few week's and as the King Under the Mountain lay at death's door Philicia prayed as did the rest of the company. Fili as acting king ordered that the rebuilding and the cleaning out should be carried out. The dwarves from The Iron Hill's stayed to help out with the clean up a well and within a fortnight a good amount of the debris had been cleared out. By the end of the third week They deceided after a thorough examination that Thorin was healed enough to be brought out of sedation. "We should still keep the I.V.s in place for a while tho." Lord Elrond said . Philicia and Oin both agreed since that was the fastest way to deliver the pain med's he would definatly need upon waking. So while everyone gathered outside the tent Elrond removed the breathing tube and Oin took care of the catherter ."Now talk to him lass let him hear your voice." So she sat down next to Thorin's bed and clasping his hand tightly in her's she let her heart do the talking. "Thorin, Thorin wake up please. I need you .Open your beautiful blue eye's please my love." So for the next two hour's she sat and softly talked to Thorin finally giving up, Philicia laid her head down on his chest and let herself weep.
As from far away he could hear her deep heartwrenching sob's. Thorin tried to talk but his mouth was so dry he could not speak. He slowly moved his hand and a pinching sensation was what he felt first. Then tiny fragment's of light then darkness again. "Thorin please you have got to open your eye's , Someone was brushing his hair from his face. Philicia. She was here, But how did she get in the Hall's of Mandos. "Thorin wake up now ,time to wake up. "Philicia."he wispered his voie barely audiable. "Oin I think he's coming around." She gasped. Sound's, there were strange sound's everywhere. A noise he didn't reconize was close by and a swishing sound could be heard from somewhere also. " Oin cut the sedeation med's." Philicia said as the Dwarven Healer turned off the I.V. pump. Thorin slowly opened his eye's that felt as if they weighed a ton and what stared back at him made his heart leap for joy. Deep Purple orbes were smiling at him . "Welcome back to the world of the living my love." Philicia wasted no time not caring who saw sealed her lip's to his as tears of relief coated her cheek's. So while they explained to Thorin all that had ben done to save his life Philicia took a few moment's to let the company know that Thorin was awake and talking. "Mahal be blessed!" Balin shouted. There were various murmurs of approval and relief knowing that their king was past the danger point."Thorin is too stubborn to give up that easy." Dwalin added. "When can we see him?" He asked next. "In a little bit ,but not for long. So that's how the rest of the day went. Balin and Dwalin went Fili and Kili ,and Gloin and Bombur followed by the rest. After everyone had a chance to talk with Thorin and exchange battle stories Philicia scooted everyone out siting that the king needed his rest. A bed was brought in for her as she refused to leave Thorin's side. Bombur brought a light supper for her and some broth for Thorin hungrily he drank it all. Last to visit was Bilbo who had been down in the elven encampment with Gandalf. "I am glad to hear that you are awake." Bilbo told Thorin. "We were not sure there for a while weather you would pull through or not." Bilbo started to tear up till Thorin said something and instead of sob's a hearty laugh filled the night ."I am so glad you deceided to stay dispite what I had told you." Thorin lamented. "Pah, I am not that easy to scare off" So after a little talk Bilbo left leaving Philicia and Thorin alone. Oin came in and gave him something to drink and within a few minute's Thorin was fast asleep holding his own and Philicia's hand all the long Night.
All medical knowledge in this chapter is accredited to Evie Marquez ,R.N.
Yeah, he survived!
