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It was cold, she felt as if she was floating. Images flew past her; one was where she was barely a few hours old, another when she was 12 and cowering in her room.

'Daisy!' A gruff voice called and she turned to see her Dad coming towards her. She panicked and backed away, only to find he went straight through her to the small child behind. Daisy winced as the sound of something smacking against flesh reached her ears.

Then all of a sudden she was standing outside a door, watching her parents shouting something at it.

'Daisy! You stupid girl, open this door at once!' Her mother cried, hitting the wood.

'If you do not open this door, I will knock it down!' Her father shouted, shoving her mother out of the way. There was silence. 'I'm warning you child!' Still no answer. Her father growled and left to go downstairs.

'Where are you going?' Her mother asked, timidly.

'To get a mallet.' He replied without turning around. Her mother's eyes widened and she ran to the door.

'Daisy dear, open up, otherwise it won't end well for you' She said gently. Her father returned with his big mallet he kept downstairs.

'I will give you three seconds to open this door. If you don't then I will break this door down, and then break you.' Daisy's eyes widened at his words, he had never threatened her like that before. 'Times up child.'

He suddenly took a hit at the door, smashing it to pieces in his anger. Her mother was crying, and once the dust had settled from the wood being smashed so violently her father barged his way through.

Daisy froze, this was the bathroom. This was when they'd found her.

Her mother screamed. Daisy wanted to look away, but instead she could only stare in horror. She was lying in a pool of red, her head tilted to the side; her eyes open yet not seeing.

Daisy looked to her Dad to see how he would react. Her mother was screaming, pulling at her hair.

'Shut it woman!' Her father hissed. 'Look what the child has done now. The police will be after us! She's condemned us!'

'She's our child! We k-k-killed her' Her mother sobbed.

'No we didn't. The child killed herself.' Her father said, shaking her mother. 'And to be completely honest, good riddance.'

Daisy's mouth hung open in shock, and then she began to scream and sob with her mother. Her own father just said he was pleased at her death. She screamed, she wanted to get away, why was she here? Why was she seeing this?

'Daisy!'

Oh no, she couldn't go back to her home. Stop saying Daisy, please please.

'Daisy!' She felt as if she was being shaken. She screamed harder.

Daisy! Please, wake up!' Daisy snapped her eyes open and was met by the face of none other than Thorin Oakenshield. When she'd opened her eyes, Thorin looked relieved.

Daisy was aware she was breathing heavily and there was a soft wetness on her cheek.

'Daisy,' Thorin said softly, pulling her into a sitting position. Daisy stared around the clearing checking that all the dwarves were sleeping. 'It's alright, you were just dreaming.' Daisy looked at him.

'W-what happened?' Daisy asked, her voice hoarse. She couldn't believe what she just dreamt.

'I was just about to wake Bilbo for his watch.' Thorin said as he helped her up to sit on a nearby log. 'And all of a sudden you were screaming and thrashing about; I had to keep shaking you for a good few minutes to get you to wake up.' Daisy stared blankly at the forest floor as he spoke. 'What in Durin's name made you scream like that?' Daisy saw her vision blur as more tears swam about in her eyes.

'C-can w-we not talk about, please' Daisy whispered, her voice thick. She felt Thorin shift next to her on the log.

'Was it your home? Did you dream you were-'

'P-please, Thorin. Don't make me talk, I'm begging you' She sobbed.

'What happened to you?' Thorin asked, though it wasn't directed at anyone. He sat quietly and watched the crying girl, not knowing what to do. He debated getting Bilbo, she seemed to be friendly with him and it was now his watch. 'Gandalf said it would be hard for you, I won't push you. You don't deserve that, lots of questions that is. So, um, what's your favourite colour?' Daisy took a deep breath and looked at him.

'Isn't that a question?' She half smiled through her tears. Thorin mentally kicked himself.

'Well, um , yes. I'm trying to make you feel better.' He said rather awkwardly. She gave a shaky laugh.

'Green.' She sniffed, and went back to looking at the ground.

'That's a nice colour.' Thorin said. There were a couple of awkward minutes of silence. Until Thorin, in a desperate attempt to break said: 'Blue.'

'I'm sorry?' Daisy questioned, not understanding.

'My favourite colour. Blue.' He explained and Daisy shrugged her shoulders. 'What?'

'Where I lived there was a saying: Blue and Green shoulder never be seen.' Daisy said, and then looked at Thorin with the closest thing he'd seen to a smile. 'Guess someone will have to tell Ori.' Thorin laughed, remembering Ori saying something about all his colourful knitwear he had back at home.

'That is a strange saying. Are there any other strange things from your home?' Thorin asked, genuinely interested. Daisy pushed the hair out of eyes and noticed it was wet.

'Many, well at least compared to here. We had a thing called a hairdryer. I could do with one now' She gestured to her wet hair.

'What's a hairdryer?' He asked, puzzled. Daisy thought about how to explain.

'It has a button, and when you press it air gets heated up and blown out. You point it at you hair and it dries it. But you need electricity. I'm not even going to try and explain that.' Daisy told him.

'But, if it gets hot, doesn't it hurt?' Thorin asked, trying to get his head round the idea.

'Not if you move it about enough. But if you don't it does hurt when you burn yourself.' She trailed off; memories of hairdryer burns came back to her. They sat in silence before Thorin realised Daisy was crying softly again. He sighed; hopefully she would talk to him when she ready. Gandalf had promised him she would tell him all in time, though he was beginning to doubt the wizard's words. He wasn't impatient, ok maybe he was, but there was more to Daisy than she was letting on and he knew it would take more than a few conversations to explain everything.

That wasn't to say he wasn't intrigued by the girl sat next him, if he was honest she was the most interesting person he'd come across in a while. He'd seen how she'd been around his nephews and the hobbit, and even Ori and Bofur seemed to be getting to know her. She was never fully open with anyone, but he'd watched her carefully since he first spoke to her back in the Shire and every time she spoke she seemed to let herself go a bit more.

But he knew something terrible must have happened, for he had never heard screams like that before. Not even when Kili was young and had terrible nightmares. He sighed heavily; his words could not comfort her. He wasn't used to caring for a girl, and an upset one seemed impossible. He wanted to help her, to show her he could care, but he didn't want to get it wrong.

And so he put a hand on her shoulder, then got up and went to wake Bilbo.

'Master Baggins' Thorin said as he shook the hobbit awake. 'It's your watch.' Bilbo yawned as he sat up.

'Thanks for waking me.' Bilbo said sleepily.

'There's a problem with Miss Daisy.' Thorin told him quietly so Daisy could not hear. Bilbo's eyes widened.

'What?' He asked, concerned.

'She was screaming in her sleep. I tried to get her to talk but she wasn't going to. She's in quite a state, I suggest you go and see to her.' Thorin explained. He watch as the hobbit nodded and quickly jumped to his feet. Thorin made his way over to his own bed roll and lay down, casting one last glance at the two figures on the log before falling into slumber.

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Bilbo carefully approached Daisy, who was resting her chin on her knees.

'Daisy?' He said quietly. 'Are you ok?' Daisy looked at him and Bilbo could see tear streaks down her face.

'Bilbo' She whispered and Bilbo sat down and pulled her into a hug. Bilbo felt her shake as she sobbed.

'Hush, it's alright.' Bilbo soothed. 'Do you want to tell me what happened?'

'I dreamt they found me' Daisy sobbed. Bilbo held her tighter.

'Who found you dear?'

'My parents. They found me dead and they didn't care,' Daisy was shaking uncontrollably and Bilbo was trying to calm her down. He remembered when she'd told Gandalf and himself when she first came, how her parents treated her. In Bilbo's opinion they shouldn't have been parents at all.

'Oh, dear Daisy,' Bilbo sighed as he rocked her gently. 'You're safe now.' They sat like that for a while until Bilbo said: 'Why don't you try and get back to sleep?'

'No! No I can't go back to sleep, they'll see me' Daisy cried. 'Please Bilbo don't make me' She pleaded, gripping onto his jacket tightly.

'Hush, hush I won't make you.' Bilbo reassured her.

'Stay here, with me. Don't go away.' Daisy mumbled as Bilbo felt her grip on his jacket loosen.

'I won't, don't worry.' Bilbo knew she was falling asleep. Soon the sound of her slow breathing filled the air and Bilbo held her tighter, praying that she would be disturbed from her sleep again.

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The next morning not one word was exchanged between the Thorin, Bilbo and Daisy about the previous night's events. Daisy had woken up lying against Bilbo's shoulder, and they had somehow managed to sleep sitting up. Bilbo had felt her stir and apart from a reassuring squeeze on the shoulder, nothing else was done.

Slowly the camp had come to life and Thorin had nodded at Daisy to make sure she was alright.

'Who are you riding with today?' Kili asked while they were packing up. Daisy shrugged. 'Would you like to ride with me? I promise I won't be an idiot.'

'Alright then,' She agreed. At least Kili's pony had luggage on it to soften the bumpiness.

Within the hour they were on the road yet again, and unfortunately the bad weather had caught up with them. There was mud everywhere and Daisy was glad she rode with Kili; his pony had the most luggage and therefore the smoother ride.

Thorin had surprised her by giving her and Bilbo small quilts to put over their shoulders as they had the least protection. Bilbo had obviously been surprised but when he asked Thorin about it Daisy thought he said:

'Thank you for helping her last night.' She couldn't have been sure with the noise of the rain however.

'Are you alright Daisy?' Fili asked when after she'd swapped over onto his pony after their break. 'You've been awfully quiet this morning.'

'Yeh, just….tired I suppose' Daisy sighed. 'And fed up of this rain.' Fili chuckled just as Dori voiced his opinion.

'Here, Mister Gandalf can't you do something about this weather?'

'It is raining Master Dwarf,' Gandalf said without looking around. Daisy suspected he couldn't tell which one had spoken. 'And it will continue to rain until the rain is done. If you wish to change the weather of the world you should find yourself another wizard.' Fili snorted at that.

'That told him' Kili whispered.

'And are there any?' Bilbo asked suddenly, causing most to look at him.

'Any what?' Gandalf said.

'Other wizards.' Bilbo explained.

'Yes. There are five of us, including myself. The head of our order if Saruman the White, and then there are the two blue wizards…' Gandalf trailed off and all the company were eagerly awaiting him to continue, Daisy included. 'You know, I've quite forgotten their names. And then there is Radagast, the Brown'

'Is he a great wizard?' Bilbo chirped. 'Or is he…more like you?' Fili and Kili collapsed into suppressed laughter while Daisy shook her head. Even Thorin seemed to crack a small smile.

'I think he's a rather great wizard. He keeps a watchful eye on the Green Wood in the East'

After that conversation they had lapsed back into silence and didn't speak much until they finally made camp. By this point they were all tired and were not willing to listen when Gandalf suggested they did not stay in their current location.

Daisy watched as Gandalf and Thorin had a very heated discussion, which lead to Gandalf walking away.

'He is coming back, isn't he?' Bilbo asked Daisy, worriedly.

'I hope so, I really do,' Daisy replied. And she did, because she felt the group would run into trouble before too long without the wizard watching them.

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The phrase: 'Blue and Green should never be seen' varies depending on where you're from, sometimes it's 'Red and Green should never be seen' and I don't know if it's used anywhere else other than the UK.

Yes and I missed out the night where Fili and Kili make fun of Bilbo about Orcs because I plan to introduce the Pale Orc in my own way

Thanks for reading!