Kili Cannot Be Dead

by Sirene71

After having watched Hobbit 3, I refuse to let Kili be dead and this is the only way I could "keep him alive." Aidan's amazing and nuanced portrayal of the endearingly sweet but cheeky Kili made me completely fall in love with him (not to mention he is the most beautiful human on the planet!) and I thought Their relationship was totally sweet! They MUST have a happy ending!

6. Chapter 15

Good morning!

Heres the next chp~~ hope you like it? Maybe more later today :)

Chp15

Tauriel was finally startled back to the present with the dwarves exclamations. She hadn't even noticed anyone else was there, so intent on cleaning up Kili and being next to him. After managing a weak smile to them, she set about finishing what she started. The rest of the surviving company and Bilbo watched her with appreciation, Dwalin even managed a slight smile and sigh. Balin bent down and put his hand on top of Tauriel's, he quietly said, "lass, I'm so so sorry, but we need to take him back to the mountain with his uncle and brother." But Tauriel refused to stop her task until it was done, so they stood there and watched in mournful silence.

Once she was satisfied, she looked up and into the dwarves stony faces, now not chiseled with rugged features as she had observed before; but with soft eyes and bowed heads. Dwalin and Bofur gently picked Kili up and put him into the stretcher they brought with them and began carrying him down the hill. "I am staying with him," Tauriel said firmly. Their nods affirmed for her that that was okay, and she grasped Kili's hand determined not to let even his body escape being near her presence.

Early evening descended on them, the sun long since gone on this tumultuous day. On their way back down the mountain, they stopped to gather Thorin and Fili's bodies too so that all the dwarves except for Balin, Ori and Nori weren't carrying someone. Bilbo held the lantern that help light their path as they made their trek back to Erebor. The dwarves began a quiet dirge for their fallen kin and it brought Bilbo to tears again, as they walked. Without knowing it, Tauriel also began singing in her own language, it spoke of loss and sorrow so deep, that even the animals that had come out of hiding after the battle, paused from their labours to listen to it. So wrapped up in her grief and the song that issued from her, Tauriel didn't even look up to see that the moon was a very bright shade of reddish orange and there were thousands of stars glittering in the sky.