Authors Note: So we are at chapter 3 and to be honest this isn't one of my favorites but I think it was... Idk. I know I'm a little late but I wanted to make sure I had the next chapter 80% done because that one is very important to this chapter. Also the next one might be split into two. I'm month sure yet. Again, I'm not feeling this chapter but just let me know what you guys think. Remember rate, review, and enjoy.
Also questions! How would you feel about a Thorin/Addy chapter? Or a Kili/Cayden chapter Without Dwalin?
They were fighting again but this time it was more serious.
Adelaide and Cayden would bicker back and forth then one would get an attitude then all would be well. This time there was something different. This time it was more personal then the others.
The company had stopped on the east road near weathertop to spend the night. During the day Addy and Cayden seemed fine but then a argument rose.
"Honestly Cayden, it's your fault why we are here." Addy yelled at her. "You're the one who had to go to the top of the cliff."
Cayden, who always would back down, was glaring at Addy from her seat beside Kili. "It's so easy for you to place blame isn't it? I didn't know how harsh the wind was and No one made you grab onto me. You could have let me fall."
Addy laughed. "Yeah, I can imagine explaining that to my dad and your mother. She would kill me if her precious baby got hurt."
Cayden stood up. "Leave my mother out of this." She growled. Kili looked up at Cayden noticing her shoulders push back in a defensive state.
Addy stared at Cayden and stood up. She didn't like the fact that the younger girl stood up. She was still a few inches taller then the younger girl and made that aware in her posture. "What Cayden? You don't think I notice how she would baby you? That's why you can't defend yourself! She's always fought your fights for you!" She screamed back. "My dad would never fight for me. That's why you aren't independent enough to even go outside by yourself. You are 19! You can't even stand on your own two feet! That's why we are here! This. Is. Your. Fault."
Then something snapped in Cayden. She charged at Adelaide tackling her to the ground. She then pulled her fist back and hit her in the stomach. After the hit Addy rolled so that she straddled Cayden by the waist and hit her in Mouth. Cayden's head turned with the hit and she could taste metal. Addy then grabbed her by throat with both hands. Cayden pulled back her arm and hit Addy in the nose before Thorin could pull Adelaide off Cayden.
"Get off me! I'm going to kill her!" Addy screamed while blood pour from her nose.
Dwalin walked over and pulled Cayden off the ground and drug her to the edge of the forest. He watched the whole thing but thought it was just another squabble between them. Cayden looked away from Dwalin with tears in her eyes and blood dripping down her lip. Dwalin stood back and looked at her. She was rocking and crying silently. She put her hands over her face and began to sob. He noticed she was breaking down.
"It's always my fault. I'm the one who has to take the blame. She's never wrong in her eyes." She said in a quiet watery voice.
Dwalin continued to say nothing and stare at her. In all honesty he had no idea what to do. She was out of line for attacking Adelaide that much was sure. As soon as Dwalin though the could say something, Thorin walked to where they were and stared at Adelaide.
"What do you have to say for yourself?" Thorin demanded an answer in his tone.
Cayden didn't answer. She honestly didn't know what to say. She was sorry for tackling her but at the same time she wasn't. She was still angry and hurt.
"You will answer me when I ask a question." Thorin growled.
Cayden looked at him as she tried to stop crying. "What do you want me to say?" She growled, breathing heavily.
Thorin stared at her with ice in his eyes. This girl, who never came off as rude, was disrespecting him. He would not have it in his company. Not by someone he never wanted in the first place.
"How dare you disrespect me like this. I have let you follow us on a quest instead of leaving you at the shire like I should have done. I should leave you in the next town but you would only be a burden on someone else." Thorin shouted at Cayden.
The word burden stung the most she thought. She then stood up and looked at Thorin. "Fine," she said in a eerily calm voice. "In the morning, I will go back to the shire and go to Bilbos hobbit hole. Then I won't be a burden on anyone."
Thorin then decide to actually look at the girl. her lip was bleeding, her face was dirty and her green eyes were red and puffy from crying. In a way he pitied her. "What you did was uncalled for Cayden. You are jeopardizing the morale of my company and I can't have that. I also, as much as it would ease my mind, can not let go go back to hobbiton by yourself. Do you not see where you were wrong?"
"I do see where I was wrong. I shouldn't have attacked Adelaide. But I am not sorry I did." She was standing her ground. In that moment Throin noticed how much she was like a dwarf. She was stubborn as a dwarf and she stood her ground like a dwarf.
"You will watch the ponies with Supervision by Bifir tonight. Maybe sometime by yourself will clear your mind." With that Thorin left Dwalin and Cayden standing there.
Cayden watched him leave then looked back into the forest. "I could leave you know. Without him knowing."
Dwalin sighed. "You think you've seen terrible? Do just that and, I believe, Thorin might actually try to kill you." He said with a straight face.
"Fine," she started walking to camp,"I'm going to watch ponies I guess."
"Cayden," Dwalin grabbed Cayden by the arm and stopped her. She looked atheist stern face and returned it with a confused one. He only continued to stare at her. "Do not disrespect our king again."
She pulled her arm out of his grasp. She tried to walk away but he grabbed her again. She glared at him again. "I'm sorry, Dwalin. I will not disrespect your king again." This time when she pulled her arm she walked quickly to the ponies a with Bifur, leaving Dwalin behind.
What Cayden did not know, was Thorin was her king but, that would become apparent later.