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She could hardly believe what she was seeing. Gloin was here? He worked with fake Bifur? Was he fake too then? So many questions in her head and not one word was able to be spoken from her.
he stalked around her, glaring at her the whole time. "Nothing? You've nothing to say?!"
She attempted again to say something, but only spluttered. "I, they kidnapped me."
"Maybe it was ill of me to have ever had any association with you." He spat. "Always running off, working long hours but you care not to show a wee bit of appreciation."
"What?" Alicia shook her head thoroughly confused. " I never asked anything from you. You invite me! And I do help out! You never made mention of any other requirments anyway."
Gloin crossed his arms over his chest. "Humans." he spat, ignoring the disapproving glances from the human men in the room. "Really only a two step difference betwen them and orcs."
The men scowled at him in return, grumbling their own snarky comments about dwarves.
"What is going on?!" Alicia demanded.
" You know too much now. So when our trustee gets here, and hopefully in a good mood, you'll get a merciful choice. One between working with us, or...permanent termination." Gloin grumped.
"Permanent...are you threatening to kill me?" Alicia couldn't believe what she was hearing. Her eyes narrowed to angry slits then. " You're not real. Your impersonation is horrid. Really. You gave yourself away the seco-"
A large back of hand slap collided with her face. The strength behind it sending her reeling to the right. Her ace exploded with stinging pain. " That real enough for you stupid girl! Let me spell it out for you. I do not care for you, not the way you think. I took you becuase it was easy. This territory belongs to the dwarves. We built this with our own hands and once again humans are trying to establish their own rules. Not this time." Gloin roughly hoisted her up, forcing her to look at him. Tears stung her eyes, beginning to fall like small streams down her face. " I'll have my own collection of mud crawlers. You are mine now. I'll claim you for myself. You'll do as I bid." He stopped to scowl at Dwalin, gripping Alicia possesively. "Mine only."
Gloin snorted and looked back to her. His inhuman grin stretched across his face as the pad of his thumb rubbed the tear tracks from one of her cheeks.
"We'll teach you how to act right, and all your needs will be met. So long as you do as I say."
Angry and scared, the islander did her best to keep her head on straight. No plan of action really came to mind. She had no idea what to do. So she didn't do anything.
Gloin released her in a heap on the floor.
She felt as if her mind had gone a little numb from the over exhertion of trying to logify everything.
One thing she knew for sure was that this was not just some rag tag group of criminals.
No. These people were clearly not just theives and bullies, but they had spies on their team, stalking the real Gloin and his kin to learn whatever they could about them.
Mocking, dark laughter filled the room from the people around her. They pointed and traded cruel jokes while they did. Alicia tried to ignore it as best she could.
Some other man came up, calling for some reinforcement assistance. " All of ya go. I'll stay hee with her." He glowered back down at her. Quickly the others had left. Gloin paced in the silence, looking as if weighing his next words. That was unlike him and it made her nervous. "Humans. Ya try to be fair with them and they just want more and complain that the shiny gold coin has a scuff on it. What appreciation do you show for our hospitality other than sticking your nose it it shouldn't be?" He turned back to her. "I can't imagine all the stupid plans you have in your head all the time, but you forfeited them the minute you came to this place." He had stepped back up to her then, leering down at her in such a way that made her want to cringe and shrink back. She did teeter and shuffle, but her fear was suddenly discentegrating. "I was going to try easing you in, but best come out with it now. Aye I've had my eye on you for a good while. I wanted to know more about this purple eyed cross dresser. Your scent is alluring to my instincts." His voice went a notch lower and huskier in tone as he leaned closer, one of his hands creeping its way onto hers.
Anger replaced fear in her. It was too much now. Whipping her hand away, she planted a punch on the dwarf's face. It no doubt hurt her hand more than it hurt his face. She winced in the pain of it, picking herself up to high tail it out of there.
The dwarf over-powered her quickly though. Grinning with a horribly stretched mouth, he yanked her back to him, tossing her easily back to the hay stuffed mattress against the opposite wall. She hit it hard enugh to gasp, but not enough to stop her fight. Scrambling back to her feet she glared at him, angry for this whole situation, angry that once again, she was at the mercy of someone she thought she could trust. How could she be so gullable?! Frustrated with herself, angry at Gloin as he continued taunting her, she let out a horrible sounding scream. Gloin rose his brows like she had lost her mind. His grin only faltered for two seconds before he slowly came to approach her again, fingers flexing in anticipation.
"Got that out of yer system?" He said.
"I think I'm about to get my lunch out of my system too." She said groggily. She looked up at him with a sour face. "Why not go back in your mountain then?"

Gloin chuckled in dry humor, one hand finger combing his beard. "You truly know nothing. We tried taking back our mountain, Erebor. Didn't work. So we make our lives better here in Ered Luin. You humans laugh and slam your doors on us in our time of need and have the nerve to still call us greedy and mistrustful. Now we have, improved The Blue Mountains. And still you come looking for your share. Well, you may have it, with a price. Work for us. Sate us. Then you can stay and have a fair living here. Ered Luin is ours and you will know the same rejection you show us."
"Woah come on! I wasn't even there to slam no doors in anyone's face!" Alicia voiced as she got up again.
"Doesn't matter. You're here now." Gloin replied. He came up to her again to grab her arm.
"Shit. et away from me!" The islander kicked out as she screamed more at him, trying to focus her hits on key points. Gloin was having none of it for very long. Once again he had easily grappled her in an iron grip, laughing mockingly at her pitiful attempts and cries.
The door burst open suddenly under the barrage of two hammers. Dwalin's hammers, splintering the door off it's hinges. Dwalin came stomping in, eyes immedietly found Gloin and Alicia. "Get away from her." His voice a deadly growl as he hefted his hammers in demand.
Gloin looked surprised to see him. "You..."
"Come 'ere lass. Get behind me." Dwalin commanded.
Gloin growled, tightening his grip on her arm. "Not a chance! Always you try to steal everyone else's treasures. You'll go find your own this time!"
"Do not speak as if you know who I am intruder! I AM Dwalin! An' I've had enough of you throwing about our names in the dirt!" His eyes glared with an age old passion that looked like it had been on his face for many years, the few wrinkles on his face would easily mold into.
Gloin stared in tense silence, but did not have much time to think. Dwalin roared and luanched himself at Gloin, who in turn shoved Alicia at him violently. Dwalin had the quick reflexes to hold his hammers out of the way and just let her crash against his chest. Though to her, it was another wall. Alicia gasped in panic as she flaied from one captor to the next. "Run lass." Dwalin growled out. Oh she did not need to be told twice. Alicia pushed off to his right side to escape, the furthest way from Gloin.
Gloin too, sought escape, but Dwalin did not allow him to get far. Hooking him with one of the hammers to yank him back. This cleared the way for her to bolt out. But what if theother dangerous men and dwarves were down the hall ready to snag her?
Hard pounding on the ground reminded her of the wrestle that was happening not five feet from her, spurring her choice to run for it.
Down the open hall she went until she heard yelling and pounding feet about followed by furniture being tossed. From behind her Alicia could see oddly shaped large shadows dancing on the walls of the hallway. One man staggered up the stairs. SHe would have been bowled down had the man been able to shove her squarely.
"What?.." She breathed out. To answer her rhetorical question, a loud baying, barking laugh and odd screaming answered him from downstairs.
Yikes...that sounded terrifying.
Somethig big was coming right up the stairs. Then it showed it's face.
A long snout showed first, followed by large eyes and long, curved horns on it's head that resembled more like a saw-tooth saber. Thick dark red fur hung from it's body. It's large nostrils flared out as it let out another angry baying that hurt Alicia's ears.
The islander jumped into one of the side rooms, heart thumping madly as she hid behind the door. The creature's loud hooves thundered past her door, and so she forced herself to run out and make it down the stairs. The lobby down there was empty, save for a few unconscious or worse bodies and a very large spotted hyena with it's back to her and his head down, obscured by a table of what it was doing.
Alicia tried to sneak againast the wall to not be noticed, but the stripped hyena looked up just as she made it half way. He let out that signature laughing bark when he spotted her.
Alicia backed into the kitchen to avoid him. He walked around the table to the bar as he approached. Alicia balked and started throwng everything her hands could get on to discourage it. The hyena yelped then ducked away, dodging her flying objects that she aimed at him. He hid under another table across the floor to avoid her, paws over his head to cover it.
Alicia didn't waste a second in using his temporary shock to run outta there.
She ran out the back door in time to see some screaming man flying out a window and hitting the ground in a heap. Next a very large and actually a little familiar, fox jumped over the old fence, baring it's teeth at another attacker.
She was jolted from her thoughts when a loud bellow erupted from inside. The islander scrambled to wrench open the gate just as the enraged red furred creature from before stepped out.
"Bloodclots." She cursed when the thing spotted her.

I know it's kind of a weird ending, but I had to break the chapters right here or it would easily end up with a 6,000+ word count. But OH NOOOO! TROUBLE AT EVERY TURN! XD XD

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