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Kili starred at the tiny creature standing on Fili's back, who was lying on top of Kili, and the dog starred back at him, with eyes that held way too much intelligence for Kili's liking. He slowly lifted his hand to remove the dog, but stopped midair as the dog let out a deep, low growl that seemed impossible for such a little dog to perform, yet it pulled it off with remarkable ease. He tried again but was greeted with the same result.
"Don't just stand there-" Kili yelped, snapping his hand back as the little dog growled at him once again.
"Help us!" continued Fili. That only made the others laugh harder, even Thorin had trouble hiding the twitch of a smile that threatened to spread across his lips.
A young boy, having obviously heard their laughter and the brothers pleads, came rushing into the room. He groaned loudly upon seeing the scene on the floor, before turning around to yell down the hall: "Frodo! The little stinker is trying to eat one of the guests, again!"
Frodo appeared a moment later. He sighed upon seeing the brothers, before making a low whistle, drawing the dog's attention to him like a moth to a light. Its tail began wagging a mile a minute upon seeing Frodo, but it soon turned its attention back to the bodies beneath it.
"I don't see any blood on them... And haven't I told you not to call him that!" Frodo said, ignoring Fili's shriek of 'Blood!?' in favour of glaring at the younger boy beside him, before walking towards the brothers, who was still lying on the floor. "I'm so sorry for his behaviour; he isn't very good with strangers. Has he tried to eat any of you yet?" Frodo asked, earning whiny sounds from the brothers on the floor.
"He tried to rip my hand off!" Kili yelled, waving the offended limp above his head, careful to hold it far away from the tiny dog and its sharp teeth.
"If he wanted to eat your hand, it would already be gone." The other boy muttered darkly, he wore an apron covered in flour and his curly, sandy brown hair was therefore spiked with white.
"Sam! Don't talk so ill of him! He's just a poor little creature that hasn't done anything wrong!" Frodo chided, easily lifting the little dog, which promptly snuggled into his arms, looking wide eyed and innocent.
The boy – Sam, glared at the dog, before turning to help Fili and Kili.
"Are you alright?" Sam asked.
"We're fine. But what kind of beast is that?" Kili asked, apparently already forgotten the incident and was now peering curiously at the dog.
"He got two names, sometimes he's Gollum and sometimes he's Sméagol." Frodo answered, his hand carefully petting the fur on the dogs head. At the others shocked outbursts, Frodo looked up, surprised. "Oh, of course. You remember him from Blibo's book."
"Is that really..." Bofur muttered, starring at the dog in Frodo's arms.
"Yes it is, Gollum got recreate just like everybody else." Frodo said. "Though, I can't explain why he was reborn as a dog."
"This is so fucked up." Fili muttered, shaking his head.
"Wait... Sam. Weren't you supposed to look after him?" Frodo frowned, looking at Sam's apron. "What were you then doing in the kitchen?"
"Oi! It's the twins turn to look after him! They promised!"Sam held his hands up in surrender. "I was in the kitchen to bake some apple pies, and thereby stay away from the garden."
Frodo signed, that explains why Sméagol was by himself. "Do you know where they are?" He asked, placing the dog on the floor.
"No. I thought they had taken the beast up to their room." Sam replied, eyeing the dog warily.
"Then you have to look after him, so that he doesn't follow me and bite Mr. Duahakvras again, when I go out in the garden to tell Bilbo that his old friends are here." Frodo patted the little dog once on the head before leaving the room.
"Oh dear." Sam muttered. At the sound of Sam's voice, the tiny dog's head snapped around to stare at him. "Frodo! Don't leave me with that little monster!" Sam yelled and bolted to the door. Gollum beat him to it; he stood in the middle of the door opening, the dog let out a low growl and snapped victoriously after Sam's feet. Sam shrieked and scrambled back.
"Mongrel" Sam muttered, as he stood safely behind one of the couches.
"But it seemed so friendly when Frodo was holding it!" Bofur exclaimed, starring at the little beast at the door.
"He's adores Frodo, is nice to Bilbo, tolerates the twins and makes my life a living hell me." Sam replied, watching as the tiny beast left the room, no doubt to look for Frodo.
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Damn, I don't know what happened, this was supposed to contain the reuniting of Bilbo and the Company but Sam and Gollum just stole the scene... It will not happen again! Next chapter WILL be the reunion!
Cookies to anybody who can guss what Mr. Duahakvras means! ;)