Warning fluff and lots angst.
The song that Bilbo sings is the song that Pippin sings in LOTR. The song is Edge of night.
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Comments in Khuzdul


I forgot about that we had already left the Shire, and now there was no turning back.

It was late May and it was quite cold. Now that I was not complaining about everything everyone talked me about nonsense or the weather. I only smiled at them and make little comments but I rarely made major interventions because I loved hearing the stories of my dwarves, and I almost knew all of them, but some I did not and they made me smiled more. Fili and Kili told me stories of different pranks they did to their mother with the help of their uncle and how she caught them and gave them a good scolding. I would have paid to see younger Thorin running half naked with little Fili and little Kili after having dyed their mother's dress pink! The three of them were painted pink when they did it so they had to get off their clothes and run before Dis could see them. At the end of the story Fili, Kili and myself were laughing really loud while we were watching Thorin who was at the front of the line and seemed to be flushed. After two very, very, embarrassing stories about Thorin, Thorin turned and shouted to his nephews to be quiet. The only effect it had on the Company was that we all started laughing out loud, even Balin and Gandalf!

"Damn these kids..." murmured Thorin in khuzdul high enough for us to hear him.

"Thorin, I think Bilbo likes you, he's all day watching you." Kili said approaching him, and I blushed but I said nothing. I could not tell them that I knew khuzdul.

"Did you not hear what he said at his house, Kili? He is in love with another dwarf." Interrupted Balin while he approached the group. I tried to get a little closer petting Myrtel as if I was distracted.

"But the dwarf had not died? Anyway, Uncle has more possibilities and BIlbo has time to fall in love with him!"

Thorin grunted and raised his finger to Kili. "Leave the subject, Kili. I will not woo the halfling, I am King and as a King I have a duty to my people, I can not think of soft and gentle creatures..." Kili laughed and Thorin cursed softly. "You know what I mean."

Then Kili went to my direction while I tried not to look at Thorin because I was blushing. Kili winked at me and walked beside his brother.

What happened after I was not expecting it.

It was late and the last time we were in that road we weren't in those positions when it started to rain, I was between Ori, Bofur and Gandalf in a small road so now that I remember it I do not wonder why that happened. Gandalf was explaining to us the existence of Radagast and other magicians when Ori's pony and mine slid off the road because of the mud. Immediately Thorin, Dwalin and Ori's brothers dismounted thair ponys and went to rescue us. Myrtel seemed to be fine but she had dropped me and I knew I had a sprained wrist while Ori's horse bolted and threw Ori making him fall onto his ankle...

"Are you well?" Asked Thorin as he picked me up into his arms.

"Yup! Let me go, I can walk!" I said as Thorin pressed me against his chest.

"Nonsense, Master Baggins." Replied Thorin as I watched Dwalin taking Ori in his arms. I could hardly move and Ori was as blushed as I was. Meanwhile Dori and Nori caught our horses.

"It was my fault... We shouldn't have gone together on the path as narrow and wet as it was." I apologized as I watched how the water got through Thorin's hair who had me against his chest to keep me off the rain.

"Another silly nonsense, Master Baggins." Thorin said with a small smile and I buffet, I was old enough and I did not need anyone to take me in to their arms! But the truth is that it felt really good being there...

We approached to a tree where Oin examined us and I confirmed my suspicions. "They can not ride alone in a couple of days at least, Thorin."

Gandalf came to me and stroked my wet hair as he smiled slightly. "Maybe you'd better let us pass by Bree and we can stay there a couple of days, after all, we can pick up some supplies."

I frowned when I heard the words of Gandalf and I saw Thorin nod. That was not planned and it could change some events that I had lived.

"Thorin." I stood up and approached to him pushing him away from the others. "Ori can ride with Dwalin, and I'm good enough so I can ride, Myrtel is a good pony."

Thorin shook his head. "We will stay in Bree until the rain stops, and you will ride with me, I do not want other unforeseen happen again." I opened my mouth to complain but Thorin shouted to the others. "We're leaving! Dwalin, ride with Ori, I'll ride with Bilbo. Nori and Dori get the ponies, make sure they do not fall again." Thorin grabbed my waist and he got me up to his pony. I shouted him that I was fine but he ignored me and sat behind me taking the reins.

"Stubborn dwarves..." I whispered and looked at Ori who was completely red againsy Dwalin.

We ride 50 miles until we got to Bree. All I had done throughout the trip were try not to think about the pain in my wrist and the feeling of the dwarf who I loved pressed behind me and not to move against him but it was what we were doing with every step of the pony. Not on purpose, of course... Fili and Kili knew I was red and they laughed all the way to Bree and even Bofur made a remark to Ori and me.

"You two must have a fever caused by the trauma, that must be why you are so red!"

I growled softly and I felt as Thorin approached my ear and whispered. "Do not worry about their comments, they are just jealous." I laughed for the first time since the incident and noticed how Thorin was smiling as well.

We stayed at a small inn where we arrived later that night. We decided to share rooms. Bofur, Bombur, Bifur, Nori, Gandalf, Dori, and Gloin in one, and Thorin, Kili, Fili, Dwalin, Balin, Ori, Oin and myself in another room. Ori's brothers complained about the distribution, but Ori and me where together so Oin would be closer if we needed anything. Fili and Kili forced us to stay in bed while they went after our meal which made the whole company dine in our room. They told stories about Durin I and their great battles. Durin I reminded me of Thorin and the truth is that every time I looked at him he had a twinkle in his eye that made me smile. Balin explained that Thror used to tell the stories of Durin I before his madness and before Smaug came to Erebor and Thorin smiled sadly. Fili and Kili had gone a little before that story, and they arrived with something behind their backs.

"Uncle, look what we found!" Shouted Kili and took the blanket off of what they were carrying on their backs. It was a wooden harp. I looked blankly at it and Thorin growled.

"I haven't played it for many years now."

I raised an eyebrow. That's not what I expected. "Do you play the harp, Thorin?"

Thorin slowly nodded without looking at me, his eyes fixed on the harp. "But long ago was the last time I'd practiced it."

Fili and Kili sat in bed with me and looked at me with that face that Frodo and Pippin used to look at me when they wanted something. I cleared my throat and I looked back at Thorin. "I... I would like to hear you..."

Thorin stared at me. "I... seriously?"

I nodded and made myself comfortable until Bofur sat on my bed too. The bed was of a size of a human bed but too many people in it was uncomfortable. "Please?" I said, and Thorin kept staring at me until he stood up and began to inspect the harp. He played a soft melody that reminded me of home, Frodo, my Thorin and Erebor. When he finished I smiled slightly, the other dwarves and Gandalf were lying against each other or against the wall. "It was beautiful. Thank you, Thorin."

Thorin smiled under his head. "Thank you, Bilbo..."

We all fell into silent and I watched Balin's eyes filled with tears for a while until Thorin gave him a hug and whispered. " W e will take back Erebor, I promise." I nodded and except for Gandalf no one noticed I had understood him.

Bofur after a long and comfortable silence looked at me and said. "Bilbo, would you sing for us something like what you sang in Bag End? Some of the songs you've been writing."

I smiled. It was true that while they talked to me on the road I started to write different songs I had composed in my other life. "Bofur, I think it's time to go to bed now. I won't sing because I will not break your eardrums!"

Everyone laughed but started shouting "Come on!" and "Bilbo! Bilbo!" Then Thorin sitting away from me but right in front said. "Come on, Bilbo, you have had me playing the harp, it's your turn."

I sighed, it seemed logical. "Okay, but I'm not very good at writing songs and definitely I do not sing very well. If you are deaf tomorrow do not steal Oin's trumpet." The Company laughed and settled back in the middle of the room or over the beds watching me, Thorin in front of me. "This song is called Edge of Night." And I started singing the song I used to sing to Frodo, Sam, Pippin and Merry when they were little.

Home is behind

The world ahead

And there are many paths to tread

Through shadow

To the edge of night

Until the stars are all alight

Mist and shadow

Cloud and shade

All shall fade

All shall

Fade

Everyone in the company had fallen silent, only the sound of the fire was heard on one side of the room. Thorin was no longer staring at me, he was looking at the fire as if he was very far away.

Ori whispering broke the silence that absorbed us. "What is this song about if I may ask, Bilbo?"

"It's a song about the roads that go ever on until they return you to your last familiar place you'd have always known" Ori nodded and leaned back a little, resting his head on Dwalin's shoulder who was sitting on his bed.

"It's about the trip you did with the other dwarves?" Whispered sleepily Kili in his brother's arms.

"I...I..." I cleared my throat and nodded without looking at him and this time the silence became uncomfortable. When I raised my eyes Thorin was staring at me. "I can tell you what happened... if you want to..." Since I had invented a story that was a half truth.

"You do not have to." Said almost all the dwarves at a time and I laughed a little.

"No, I think it is your right." I sat a little better in the bed and when I saw that everyone looked at me interested I started. "As I told you, I found the lost Dwarf family when they were passing through the Shire. They came from the Iron Hills. Theon, Freyon, Kion, Narvi, Loni, and Frár... Theon, Narvi, Loni, and Frár were cousins, and Kion and Freyon were the children of Theon. We walked together for months, telling stories about how wonderful was their home..." I smiled slightly and looked at my fingers. "Their house... was taken from them before Freyon and Kion were born. I never knew exactly why, Theon just told me that there was a great battle for the gold of his family and that I should not worry because once we got there we would be safe." I laughed reluctantly remembering those words spoken by Thorin before reaching the mountain. "The thing is... that they soon adopted me as if they were my family. My parents had died long ago and I just had my cousins, but those dwarves were more than family to me. For me they were hope for getting me off the feeling of being surrounded by people and still continue to feel alone." Then I looked and smiled sadly to Thorin while he kept looking at me seriously. I looked down at my hands. "I still do not believe that we were a family in so little time, but we were... Even for me it makes me feel weird now, but... well..." I cleared my throat, not knowing if I could tell them about that I knew Khuzdul.

"Well... what?" Asked Bofur who had moved from my bed to the next bed, Nori at his side.

"You know," I said looking at Thorin who had sat on the edge of my bed, and I ended the story getting my head back down. "He was like you. A leader who cared about his family, who even cared about me. He was the one who convinced me during the trip to stay with them once we got there, with him. I loved him and it made little difference to me thet they taught me how to fight or their culture, I was happy... I was happy and I thought I could stay with them and live as a family although I was a hobbit. I saved him once from an attack of orcs and since then I knew he cared about me, and he did not care that I was a simple hobbit. Until we got to their home and a disease, like the one your grandfather had, corrupted him. He was not himself. He was mistreating their sons and brothers, he nly cared about his gold while I tried to get him back. It took him too long to get back to being the dwarf I fell in love with. The house was at the end of one of the largest mountains I have ever seen and there was a human market near that supplied the whole area. We did not had enough food and I could not get us die of hunger. I gave all my food to Theon's children and he hardly ate or rested, he only cared about his gold. The night I saw we would die if we continued like that I stole some gold from Theon to buy some food. I knew that betraying the person I loved the most would hurt, but I could not did another thing. When I returned, Theon got crazy and grabbed me so hard that I still have nightmares of that day. He said I had betrayed him, that I was a dirty rat from the Shire and... If it were not for some elves, who were patrolling nearby the house, I know that he would have killed me. The love of my life would have killed me for something material that was not worth half of the worth of a smile from Kion or Freyon. The elves and humans decided they would accompany me to the Shire a little after I regained from some wounds that had caused me Theon, but I could not leave them there knowing that Theon was prisoner of the disease. I could not leave Kion or Freyon in his hands knowing that they could die for lack of food at any time, so I decided to return to their home. When I was returning I heard horns sounding and drums, and then the men who had saved me running towards the house. I noticed that the old market had been completely burned. I think I have not run as much in my life like as then. When I arrived there was a group of orcs in the house. I heard screams and I ran everything I could but it was too late... I watched as the leader of the orcs killed Freyon in front of Theon and me. Theon chased him and I tried to recover myself and search for Kion but one of the orcs knocked me. The next thing I remember is Kion lifeless and Theon lying on the ground. I ran after him but he had a deep wound that the orc had made him after he had killed Freyon. He begged me to forgive him, and there was no longer gray in his blue eyes, now free from the disease. He said he wanted to leave in pace with me, that I will have to return to my books and plant my trees for him. I hugged him and told him to stay with me but... but he died in my arms. The only person I have ever loved died in my arms begging me to forgive him. I kissed his cold lips for the first and last time that day. All my family had died there that day and all that I have of them are the memories of our trip and broken promises." I looked at Thorin and I realized that I must have been crying. "I should have died that day with my family and I'm sure that at least my heart did." Thorin stepped back and I saw that his eyes were a little red restricting the passage of tears.

"I'm so sorry, Bilbo." I shook my head and looked at the rest of the Company. Kili was trying not to mourn against his brother's shoulder, and Ori was sobbing against Dwalin who had Ori against his chest. Most of them were not looking at me as they were trying to process what they had heard.

"Promise me that you will not die, any of you, please, I do not think I can go through that again." I began to cry covering my face with my hands. I felt like someone was hugging me and I was against a chest. It was Thorin. It was some time after I stopped mourning when all the dwarves went to their different rooms. I fell asleep against Thorin's chest, tears still running down my cheek hoping I would never have to see Thorin lifeless face in my arms ever again.


Narvi, Lóni, y Frár were dwarves named in TLOTR and they died in Moria.
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