Greenwood's Queen
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Greenwood's Queen
Twelve: Audience
Kili was resting after being cured by his mate. Tauriel was with him and they were both sitting down close to the outside away from everyone else, Kili was playing with a stone.
"The stone, what is it?" Tauriel asked.
"It is a talisman." Kili told her. "A powerful spell lies upon it, if anyone but a dwarf runes in this stone-they will be forever cursed." He said moving forward and Tauriel moved back and was about to move.
"Or not, depends if you believe in that kind of thing, it's just a token." Kili told her with a smile and Tauriel looked at him. "A runes-stone, my mother gave it to me so I remembered my promise."
"What promise?" Tauriel asked.
"That I will come back to her-she worries, she thinks I'm reckless." Kili told her.
"Are you?"
"Nah." Kili said and he almost slipped the stone before Tauriel caught it and looked at it. They both heard the noise outside.
"That sound like quite a party down there." he told her, hearing the noise.
"It is the Feast of Starlight; all light is secret to the Elder Wooden Elves like best the light of the stars."
"I was taught it was a cold light-" Kili told her. "Remote and far away."
"It is memory, precious and pure." She told him and they looked at each other. "Like your promise." She said and gave him the stone and Kili took it and their hands were held together.
"I have walked there sometimes, beyond the forest and up into the night, I have seen them all from far away and the white light forever filled the air."
"I saw a fire-moon once, it rose over the pass near Nudland, huge red and gold it was, it filled the sky, we were an escort for some merchants from Ered Luin they were trading in silver and furs we took the greenway south …"
They didn't notice that Fili and Legolas were looking up at them.
"Will there be a problem?" Fili asked.
"Not from us." Legolas told him and moved away.
"Is Billa alright?" Fili asked surprising Legolas. "Kili and I know the truth, is she safe."
"Billa is safe, she is with my Father and I will not think of it." Legolas told him and Fili chuckle.
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Thranduil woke up early leaving Billa, sleeping still. He got ready because he was going to have an audience with Thorin before Billa woke up. He needed to know, how Thorin was mentally, if he could handle the duty and would be able to make plans. Like Billa; he didn't want Lake-Town to suffer for something they unleashed.
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He stood in his Throne Room and waited for the Guards to bring him. Thorin walked toward the throne and wondered where Billa had been gone too. He was worried that she was in the cells or they had done something terrible to her. When he stood in-front of the Elven King, he said.
"Where is she?" Thorin asked.
"Who?" Thranduil asked with a raised brow.
"The Halfling." Thorin said and Thranduil's eyes narrowed, Billa had been travelling with them for months and they still didn't know her name.
"Billa." Thranduil said. "She is sleeping."
"What do you want?" Thorin asked with eyes narrowed.
"We will talk." Thranduil said.
"About?"
"Your quest." He said. "A quest to reclaim a homeland and slay a dragon, I'm myself suspect a more prosaic motive attempted burglary or something of that end." He said walking to Thorin's side and getting close to his face. "You found away in, you seek which would bestow on you the right to rule, the kings jewel the Arkentstone, it is precious to you upon measure, I understand that-" he didn't really care for the gems in the Mountain anymore he had his wife and his son and his people he cared for.
"There gems in the Mountain I too had desired, white gems of pure starlight." He said but at the moment he cared for his wife, because he knew exactly where they were sending her too. The danger Gandalf had put her in. "I offer you my help." He said.
"I am listening." Thorin said.
"I will let you go with your promise the safety and return of Billa." Thranduil told him.
"A favor for a favor." Thorin said, he didn't know the care Thranduil had for the Hobbit.
"You have my word, one King to another." he said.
"I would not trust Thranduil, the Great King on his word, should the end day be upon us." Thorin said before turning around and pointing at him. "You! Lack all honor, I have seen how you treat your friends, we came to you once starving homeless, seeking your help but you turned you back. You turned from the suffering of my people and the inferno that destroyed us..."
"Don't talk to me of dragon fire; I know its wrath and ruin." Thranduil said and he lost a bit control showing his scar. "I have faced the great serpents of the north, I warned your Grandfather of what his greed would summon, but he would not listen." Thranduil began walking up the stairs to his throne. "When I allow you to leave you will not be taking Billa with you, you are just like him."
"You cannot…" but the Guards got next to him and walked him back to his rooms trying to protest but couldn't since the Guards wouldn't let him turn around. Thranduil was not happy.
"You do realize we will have to talk to them." Thranduil turn to see his wife standing there in her outfit her usual outfit home with her crown upon her head.
"You heard that."
"Yes." Billa said walking the stairs to sit with her husband. "I did sign a contract."
"He will fall to the gold-sickness; his pride will be his downfall." Thranduil told her.
"Gandalf and Elrond believe the same thing." Billa told him.
"And you?"
"Thorin is a good person, but he had gone through harsh things, he holds grudges too much though." Billa said. "I worry it will be a trouble for Tauriel and Kili."
"You and I both know that you will send them to the Shire if it means they will be happy." Thranduil said and Billa smiled at him.
"We must speak with them." Billa told him. "I suggest we have Balin."
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"I will not speak with that tree-shagger again." Thorin said to Balin.
"We have too and we will see Billa again." Balin told him.
"He had the gall to tell me that we won't be taking Billa when he lets us leave." Thorin told Balin.
"Billa is fine." Balin said because he knew that Billa was really important. "If we want to get out, I suggest we go Thorin."
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"Is he really making me wait?" Thranduil asked sitting with his son.
"Where is Billa?"
"I told her to wait, she is the surprise." Thranduil said with a smile.
"You are evil Ada." Legolas told him and Thranduil smirked.
"Where is Tauriel?"
"With her Dwarf, we are using the excuse of him being injured." Legolas told him. "A few of them know who Billa actually is."
"Who?" Thranduil asked him.
"The Two Princes and their Scribe believe they have become close to Billa." Legolas informed him. "I have a feeling another one of them knows." They heard noise and turned to see Thorin and Balin coming their way, they didn't have a guard to bring them. They sat down, Thranduil and Legolas looked at them.
"You were supposed to be here thirty minutes ago."
"We didn't know, we weren't been escorted by the Guards." Balin told him. He didn't want to say that Thorin had gotten them lost.
"My Queen has asked me to give you some freedom; she believes you are capable of being civilized." Thranduil told them putting an emphasis on 'My' and both Balin and Thorin began to wonder who the Queen was. Balin got the exact plan and knew who the Queen was. Thorin was not going to be happy to know that Billa was the Queen, who else would trust them.
"I don't care." Thorin said. "What do you want, I want my hobbit."
"She is not yours." Thranduil snapped. Legolas eyes even narrowed, he didn't like the fact that they were incredible possessive of Billa.
"She is my hobbit." Thorin said. Before Thranduil was able to do something he regretted and probably killed the Dwarf. They heard someone coming, he had to smirk.
"Sorry for being late." Thorin and Balin looked up to see Billa coming in; she was wearing a green grown that hugged her curves, long sleeves. The thing that surprised them all was the crown in her head.
"Billa." Thranduil said with a smile and she came next to his side, sitting next to him.
"Billa?" Thorin said.
"You're the Queen." Balin told her.
"That is correct."
"But you told us that you had no one." Thorin said.
"No, the question you asked was that if I had no one in the Shire? Which I do not." Billa told him.
"You lied." Thorin said.
"I did not, I was not very important." Billa told him. "Now what we need to talk about is what we are going to do."
"I want to get my Mountain back." Thorin told her.
"You will not be the only one affected." Billa told him.
"I do not care." Thorin said. Thranduil was about to snap even Balin, but the one that did was Billa.
"You should, a King should ask for help when he needs it."
"I don't need help."
"You are not the only one in danger, if the Dragon is awake people will die, Thorin." Billa told him.
"You want the gold." Thorin told them.
"We will be getting gold, it will be the 14th share that I get for helping you, isn't that right Balin." Billa told him.
"Billa is correct Thorin, she will get 14th share of the gold." Balin said. "We might need help, Billa what do you have in mind."
"I want to get the people out of Lake town that way we won't be putting them in danger just in case." Billa told them.
"Where would they go?" Thorin asked.
"They would come here to the Greenwood to seek shelter." Thranduil answered that.
"You will grant them shelter when you let my people starve."
"You grandfather did not ask me that, he asked for an army and I would not risk my people."
"Do you expect me to trust you?" Thorin bellowed, but it wasn't Thranduil who answered.
"He isn't asking; I am." Billa told Thorin. "Thorin, you have to think if Smaug is alive, he will not just be coming for you, but also the people of Laketown and Greenwood and nobody else knows were."
"You want us to trust you, him!"
"Me." Billa said. "Thorin, I want you to trust me, you do realize I didn't have to come with you, I could have stayed both in Hobitton or Rivendell, but I was serious about, what I said after the Misty Mountains."
Balin and Thorin looked at Billa. Thranduil knew what it was, since Billa had told him everything.
"Very well." Thorin said. "I will trust you on this."
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They had to plan, which meant that Thranduil and Billa were getting food together for the people of Lake town. They had ended up with the Dwarves would be going first and then the Elves would come to help them getting them out before something bad happened.
"Are you entirely sure about this?" Thranduil asks her.
"Yes." Billa said.
"You will not be going the river." Thranduil told her. Billa tried not to shake her head at that, Thranduil told the Dwarves that he couldn't show anyone that he was favoring their mission at all and that they would be going down the river. Billa knew the truth and it had to do with the fact that Thranduil was angry they had tried to take down Bag End and a little revenge for being rude to Elrond, he was still thankful to him since he had found Billa in his home. So that was said and down, the Dwarves were going down the river, inside the barrels.
"You know they could."
"No Billa; they will be going down the river in barrels." Thranduil told her.
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