Greenwood's Queen
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Greenwood's Queen
Five: Dwarves Arrive
"Who in the world, would be calling at this hour." She said to no one as she got up and went to answer the door. She opened it to see a large Dwarf she was sure he was a Dwarf on her doorstep.
Dwalin stopped before he was able to say anything. The Hobbit standing in-front of him looked weird. For some reason he saw her glow, like the Elves he had seen. This was not helping the fact that the Burglar was a Hobbit would anger Thorin and that she was a woman as well, he just hoped to be wrong.
"Dwalin at your service." He said bowing down.
"Billa Baggins at yours." She said. "Master Dwalin, may I ask who sent you?"
"The wizard, said our burglar was here." He told her as politely as he could.
"Of course, he would be involved." Billa said. "Come in Master Dwalin." If it was only one she didn't have to worry. But 'Burglar' why was Gandalf telling people that.
"Is there food lass?" he asked.
"Of course." Billa said and Dwalin went to get food and it was like Billa didn't exist and she wasn't surprised, she knew the Dwarves had a rough time.
"If you excuse me for a few minutes." She told Dwalin who just ignored her and just ate. Billa went to change and she came back with her dress on. She had to ask.
"Um…"
"Do you have more food?"
"Yes-yes of course." She told him and went to get it for him. She filled his plate and was about to ask him something when a knock came to the door.
"That'd be the door." He told her. She went to open it, to see an older Dwarf with white hair.
"Balin at your service." He told her.
"Good evening."
"Yes-yes it is." He said coming inside. "But I do believe it might rain later, now lass am I late?"
"Late for what?" she asked. He turned to see Dwalin and he seemed to get really happy.
"Oh! Good evening brother." Balin said. Billa noticed Dwalin was stealing her cookies.
"By my beard you are shorter and wider than last we met."
"Wider not shorter, sharp enough for both of us." Balin said and then they conked their heads together.
"Master Dwarves." She said and they turned to look at her "Are you alright?"
"Yes, lass just a greeting." Balin told her.
"Oh, I suppose you must be hungry from your travel, Master Balin." she said. She could handle two Dwarves it didn't matter, but she was still going to have strong words with him for not heading her words.
"We'll deal with it lass just lead us to your pantry." Balin told her. He found the burglar odd, she seemed almost of the baring of Thorin and wondered if Gandalf had made a mistake, why would someone of high class be a burglar but he didn't know much of the Halflings.
Billa only had to wait for Gandalf and that was the only things she had to do. She could do this. That was until there was a knock on the door and she supposed that it was Gandalf and now she could deal with it. That is until she opened the door.
"Fili and Kili at your service." two Dwarves told her politely bending down. Nope, she was done two were enough for her.
"You must be Mistress Boggins." The dark hair one tells her.
"No you can't come in you came in the wrong house." She says about to close the door when they stopped her.
"What has it been canceled." The dark hair one tells her.
"No one told us that."
"Not it hasn't been canceled."
"That's a relief." They say coming in. the blond one gives her his weapons.
"Be careful with this, they have just been sharpened." He tells her.
"It's nice…"
"Stop right there Mister that is my mother's glory box pleases." Billa snaps out and the brunet stops because the Hobbit sounded exactly like their Uncle.
"Fili, Kili come gives us a hand." Dwalin says coming out because Balin sent him after hearing the Hobbit raise her voice.
"Come fix the chairs or else we won't get everyone in." Balin says.
"Everyone?" she says. "How many are there/" she asks but they ignore her when the bell rings.
"Oh no." she says dropping the weapons. "No there's nobody home, go away and bother somebody else. There's enough Dwarves in my dining room as it is." She says and goes to open the door and everyone falls in. the one standing at the door is "Gandalf."
On the other side of the room Dwalin felt the burning and pull. He knew what that meant his One was near. He looked as everyone began to appear but he didn't see anything and decided that now it was not the time for this. He didn't notice someone who was hiding as a male feel the pull as well and knew she would not be able to find them.
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Billa had been shocked out of her mind, the Dwarves had eaten and they were destroying things throwing her dishes blunting her knifes. They even made a song about it, Yes she was thankful that they had cleaned their dishes but really they didn't need to do that. They all froze when there was a knock on the door.
"He's here." Gandalf's voice came out and she was going to have serious words with Mithrandir for this. Gandalf was the one to open the door.
"Gandalf, I thought you said this place was easy to find I lost my way twice, I wouldn't have found it at all if not for that mark on the door."
"What mark, that door was just painted." Billa says. Gandalf closes the door.
"I put that Mark there." Gandalf tells her. "Billa Baggings, allow me to introduce you to the Leader of our company Thorin Oakenshield." She looks at him and she recognizes the name for certain things she spoke of with her husband but they weren't coming to her. She had to admit he was handsome but he seemed to have an attitude.
"So, this is the Hobbit." He says and began to circle her and she didn't like it. "Tell me Miss Baggins have you done much fighting?"
"Excuse me?" she asks.
"Ax or sword what's your weapon of choice." He asks her.
"Bow and Arrow but I failed to see how's that relevant." She replies and stands like she does in Council and she doesn't notice that some Dwarves have noticed her standing had changed.
"Really, Gandalf she seems more like a bar maid than a burglar." He said and she hear the others laughed and that was something she was going to permit, she did not travel to Mordor while not being of age to be disrespected that way.
"I would really calm my tone Master Oakenshield for you are in my home as a guest even if I did not invite you, no do suppose that there is still food so you can eat."Billa said with a tone that was cold and that reminded Thorin of Elves of one particular Elven-King.
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Billa was listening in when the Quest came in; she wondered where they were going exactly.
"Billa dear could we get more light?" Gandalf asks.
"Yes of course." She tells him bringing a candle.
"Far into the East, over ranges and rivers, beyond woodlands and wastelands lies a single solitary peak." Gandalf says as he unfolds a map. Billa comes in and reads it.
"The Lonely Mountain." She says and something comes to her mind.
(Flash-Back)
"Who lives in that Mountain?" she asked Thanduil when he had come for her in Laketown after her visit with Bard's wife.
"Now something terrible he's name is Smaug the Dragon." he tells her. "Before it was a Kingdom of Dwarves."
"Are those the Dwarves you told me about?" she asks.
"Yes." Thranduil admits. "I know they think me cowardly and wish my death but I wouldn't put my people for the greed of Dwarves."
"Is he still alive, the Dragon I mean?" she asks.
"He has not been seen but he could just be sleeping."Thranduil explains to her. Billa dislikes the dark tone he takes and wishes to brighten it.
"It would have been nice to see it on its glory days."Billa tells him with a smile and Thranduil just kisses her forehead.
"I know they had a wonderful library." He says knowing of his Queen's love of books and maps and she smiles.
"Would you help them now?"
"Honestly I would; I do regret some of my actions you know, I should have fought to snap their King out of the Gold-Sickness I knew what it would bring."
(Flash-Back)
Billa snaps back from her memory when she sees the Dwarf with hard of hearing speak.
"Ravens have been seen flying back into the Mountain as it was foretold." He told them. "When the barrens of yore return to Erebor the reign of the beast will end."
"What beast?"
"That would be a reference to Smaug the Terrible, the biggest calamity of our age, airborne fire-breather, and teeth like razors like meat hooks extremely fond of precious metal."
"Yes I know what a Dragon is thank you." Billa tells him. She wasn't afraid she had been in Mordor and she sometimes had nightmares about it.
"I'm not afraid I'm up for it, I'll give him a taste of Dwarfish Iron right up his jacksie." The Dwarf that to Billa reminded her much of a woman said just to be sat down by one of the Dwarves.
"The path will be hard with an army behind us, but we number just 13th and not 13th of the best nor brightest." Balin said.
"We may be few in number but we're fighters all of us."
"Let's not forget we have a wizard in our company, Gandalf would have killed hundreds of Dragons in his time."
"Oh-I." Billa tries not to laugh at Gandalf's fluster face, how he explains and the table explodes.
"Shazara!" Thorin said. "If we have read this signs do you not think other would have read them too, Rumors have begun to spread the Dragon Smaug have not been seen for sixty years."
'That doesn't mean he is gone.' Billa says.
"Eyes look East to the Mountain Assessing, Wondering, Weighing the risk. Perhaps the vast wealth of our people now lies unprotected, do we sit back as others claim what is rightfully our or do we seize this chance to claim back Erebor." The cheers that go round make Billa jump bit.
"You forget to front-gate is sealed." Balin says.
"That my dear Balin is not entirely true." Gandalf says appearing a key in his hands.
"How did you get that?" Thorin asks.
"It was given to me by your Father by Thrain for safe keeping, it is yours now." Gandalf says.
"If there is a key, there must be door." Fili says.
"These runes speak of another passage in the lower halls."
"There's another door." Kili says.
"If we can find them, Dwarven doors are invisible and I don't have the skills to read them, but they are others in Middle-Earth who can." Gandalf says. "The task I have in mind take a lot of stealth and if we are careful and cover I believe it can be done."
"That is why we need a burglar." Ori says.
"A good one too and an expert I imagine."
"And are you?"
"Am I what?" Billa asks.
"She says she's an expert."
"Me-me I never stolen a thing in my life."
"The wild is not for gentle folk who can't fend for themselves." Dwalin says. Billa wants to correct him, but she imagines they won't believe her and it is just better they think she is a simple Hobbit than who she truly is. For if her husband is right Thorin Oakenshield would not thing twice of hurting her.
"If I say Billa Baggins is a burglar, a burglar she is!" Gandalf roars. "Hobbits are light on their feet, Miss Baggins especially, Dwarf is known to Smaug but Hobbit is foreign giving us an advantage."
"You asked me to find the 14th member of our company and I have chosen Miss Baggins." Gandalf said." There is something more she has to offer than she appears."
"You must trust me on this."
"Very well we will do this your way, give her the contract."
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"I cannot guarantee her safety." Thorin says as Miss Baggins is reading the contract.
"Understood." Gandalf says.
"Nor will I be responsible for her fate."
"Agreed."
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Billa begins to read the entire contract.
"Elazaration, evisceration, incineration?" she says.
"Yes, he will melt the flesh off your bones in a matter of seconds." The Dwarf with the hate says. He begins to explain everything and she sees that all of them seemed to be expecting something from her.
"Gandalf, I must speak to you alone."Billa says. Gandalf gets up and they walk into her study now. "I must think this through before I make my decision." Tells the Dwarves as they moved around.
"Do you think she will accept?" Balin says. "Maybe she won't accept probably for the best the odds were always against us after all what are we, merchants, miners, tinkers, toymakers, hardly the stuff of legend."
"There are warriors amongst us."
"Old warriors."
"I would take them over an army from the Iron Hills, for when I called upon them they answered, loyalty, honor a willing heart, I cannot ask any more than that."
"You don't have to do this, you have a choice you have done honorably by our people, and you have built a new life or peace and plenty in the Blue Mountains a life that is worth more than the gold in Erebor."
"From my Grandfather to my father, this has come to me, they dreamt for when we reclaimed it, for me there is no choice Balin."
"Then we are we you laddie we will see it done." Balin tells him.
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"Is this what you plan?"Billa asks Gandalf as they were sitting down the door was a little open so they spoke in soft voices.
"Billa, helping the Dwarves regain their home will be kind."
"Let's say I accepted." Billa says. "What will happen if they find out exactly who my soul-mate is, do you think they will care."
"It would mend relations and Legolas might find his happiness."
"You know?"
"He had questions it was not hard to guess."
"I have an Elven Guard waiting for me in Bree, if I accept he would need to get a letter to Thranduil that I am traveling with you and not have them see it…" she stops her talking when music seems to filter inside, Gandalf smiles.
The broken heart of that song, the wish for a home she can feel it. She closes her eyes and just listens to it. When it ends she looks at Gandalf.
"I am blaming you when Thranduil asks." She says with a smile, Gandalf smiles as well.
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