The Miracle of Love

Chapter 20

"Kiss me quick because I love you so…"

It was strange to be in a situation like this. Strange, but not unpleasant. Bilbo didn't quite know how it happened, but for now he wasn't complaining. So far he was enjoying what he was doing even if he was just getting the hang of it. Needless to say Thorin was far more experienced in this particular activity than he was, but he was a fast learner and Thorin was a really good teacher. Really good. Still, Bilbo wasn't quite sure how one minute he was watching TV with Thorin and the next one he was sitting in his lap having a make out session with him.

He was kissed before and he kissed others, but never like this. Thorin knew exactly what to do so that both were enjoying it. He was the one who was the 'dominant' first, but after a few minutes he allowed Bilbo to take control and so far the younger teen looked like he was enjoying their activity. He was straddling Thorin's tights, pushing him back into the armchair. Thorin didn't seem to mind. They broke apart every few minutes in need of air and Thorin would swear that Bilbo was impatiently waiting for him to catch his breath so that they could continue.

Bilbo would never dare to do something like that in the living room where someone could walk in any minute, but since they were the only two in the house he knew that couldn't happen. It was strange when Thorin allowed him to take control for the first time. He thought that he just had enough and that he didn't want to kiss him anymore. But Thorin allowing Bilbo to lead didn't mean that. He was just allowing the younger teen to get the hang of it. Besides he didn't allow him to take control completely. He as much participated in the make out session as Bilbo did.

Kíli thought they were loud enough when they entered the house. He was talking with his brother about Ori when they walked into the living room. Kíli didn't expect to see something like that. He hoped that his brother and Bilbo would finally become friends so he really didn't expect to see them like this. Bilbo's was straddling Thorin's tights, clearly enjoying what he was doing. His brother had his hands on the younger teen butt, pulling him as close as he could.

"Khmmm." Kíli cleared his throat loudly after he and Fíli stared at them for a few minutes. Bilbo and Thorin immediately pulled apart with a wet pop. Bilbo's cheeks and ears immediately turned into the same shade of pink as his swollen lips were. A few seconds ago he was enjoying what he was doing and now he was so embarrassed he wanted to run up to his room. Thorin on the other hand had a smug smile on his face, clearly not caring that they were caught. He put his arms around Bilbo so that he couldn't escape even if he wanted to.

"We just wanted to let you know that we are back," said Fíli, nonchalantly. "We'll be in our room," he added and pulled Kíli with him, who still had his eyes glued on Bilbo.

The moment they were out of sight Bilbo hid his face in Thorin's neck. "What?" Laughed Thorin.

"I'm so embarrassed," mumbled Bilbo in Thorin's neck. "I won't be able to look them in the eyes ever again."

"They saw us kiss before," reasoned Thorin.

"Not like this! That was just one kiss. Only Aulë knows how long they were watching us."

"Who cares if they saw us; we weren't doing anything inappropriate."

"You were gripping my butt!" Bilbo pointed out and looked Thorin in the eyes.

"You have a lovely butt."

"Ugh, don't start," puffed Bilbo. "Now please let me go. I want to go back to my room and hide under the covers until I find a way how to talk to Kíli without feeling so embarrassed."

"Just one more," pleaded Thorin with that fake innocent smile on his face.

"No," said Bilbo, "You had plenty. Now please let me go."

"Just one…" Bilbo rolled his eyes before giving Thorin a quick kiss and climbing off his lap. "If you want to continue this you know where you can find me," called Thorin after him. "I'll be in my room."

Bilbo just shook his head and smiled before he ran upstairs.

:::

A few hours later almost everyone came back to the mansion. Even Daín who was staying with Óin and Glóin so that Thorin wouldn't have to suffer him. The only two that didn't come were Dwalin and Ori. Ori didn't come because he thought that Dwalin will be there, and Dwalin didn't come because he didn't want to make Ori uncomfortable by being near him.

Bilbo still refused to leave his room until Kíli came to get him. "Why are you still up here," Kíli asked when he walked into Bilbo's room without knocking. "Everyone is downstairs."

"I don't want to go," complained Bilbo.

"Should I call Thorin?" Teased Kíli and Bilbo's ears turned red. Kíli smirked before he sat down on the bed next to his friend. "I don't know why you are making such a big deal out of this. I admit that I didn't expect to find you devouring my brother after one date, but it's really not a big deal. I didn't see anything." Bilbo looked Kíli in the eyes. "Except Thorin gripping your ass."

Bilbo groaned before he buried his face into the pillow. "I don't know what came over me."

"I would say that you are pregnant and that your hormones are going wild so you are hornier than usual."

"We were just kissing!"

"If we would have come half an hour later you wouldn't be wearing anything." Bilbo was mortified. "I'm joking," laughed Kíli. "Relax." Bilbo let out a breath. "But I would appreciate it if you and Thorin would take into consideration that I'm fifteen. I don't want to be scarred for life. Talking about it is one thing, see it is something completely different."

"It was just one time thing," said Bilbo. "It won't happen again."

"No, you should do it again," encouraged Kíli. "Just not in the living room."

"Can we please not talk about it?" Asked Bilbo.

"Fine," agreed Kíli. "I came because I need to ask for a favor."

"If it's history, forget it. I'm not helping you again if you continue sleeping during class."

"It's about Ori and Dwalin," explained Kíli. He didn't look happy. "Neither of them came. Dori is here, but he hasn't said a word. I'm worried that if we don't force them to talk now they will never get together again."

"What do you suggest we do? If we call them and tell them to come here they won't come."

"That's why I have Dori's phone," mischievously smiled Kíli and waved Dori's phone in front of Bilbo's face.

"How?" Asked Bilbo who couldn't believe his eyes.

"Nori," simply answered Kíli. "He knows about Dwalin and Ori and he is prepared to do everything to see his little brother happy again."

"Okay," said Bilbo slowly, "That's how we call Ori. What about Dwalin?"

"That's where you come in?"

"Me?" Questioned Bilbo.

"Yes. I need you to get Thorin's phone."

"Why me?"

"Because you have better access to his pockets than I have," pointed out Kíli. "He won't say no to you. And if he does you can distract him."

"I can't be around Thorin right now. Bofur is down there. How do you think he feels? I'm not doing this to him," stated Bilbo firmly.

"Just get the phone from Thorin and then you can ignore him for the rest of the day," ordered Kíli.

Bilbo didn't have much of a choice but to do what he was told. He returned with Kíli to the living room and took a seat next to Thorin. He could only hope that no one would notice anything. He decided to ignore Thorin as much as possible, but it was really hard since Thorin kept finding a way to touch him 'accidently'. His hand, his knee, his thigh,… Bilbo kept pretending to ignore him, but it was really hard. Luckily Balin soon engaged in conversation with him so Thorin forgot about Bilbo for a couple of minutes while talking to his old friend.

Bilbo used the opportunity and carefully reached into Thorin's pocket to get the phone out, but there was absolutely no way he could get it without Thorin noticing. He wasn't a really good burglar. Surprisingly Thorin didn't protest about him wanting his phone and pulled his phone out of his pocket and gave it to Bilbo. "Thanks," whispered Bilbo. He immediately started writing a text to Dwalin.

After a few minutes Thorin became curious what Bilbo was doing on his phone so he decided to check. "No, you can't do that," he said before he took his phone away from him. Bilbo pouted before looking Thorin in the eyes. "Dwalin, please come visit me when you have some time. –Thorin," read Thorin. "He won't come if you send him something like this, because he knows me and he would never believe I would write this." Thorin quickly wrote a new text and send it before giving the phone back to Bilbo.

I need you. Come ASAP. –T

Bilbo had to admit that this sounded more like Thorin. He nodded to Kíli who quickly sent a text to Ori from Dori's phone.

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Dwalin was the first one to arrive. It took him less than a few minutes to come. He had a feeling he was walking into a trap but he decided to come anyway. He was hoping that Ori would be there so that he could try to apologize to him, but he was disappointed because Ori wasn't there. Bilbo immediately moved from Thorin so that Dwalin could sit next to his friend. So far the plan was going great. All they needed to do now was wait for Ori to show up and then everything would be back to normal.

As expected it took Ori a little longer to arrive, and for a moment Kíli worried that he won't even come, so he was very happy when he heard him enter. Ori smiled nervously when he greeted everyone in the room, and he froze when he saw Dwalin sitting there. The last thing he wanted was to deal with him. Before he could find an excuse Fíli and Kíli stopped him and led him back to the living room. Now he was trapped and he would have to accept whatever they were planning.

Everyone was talking when Kíli suddenly stood up and pulled Bilbo with him in the center of the living room. "Can I have everyone's attention?" Called Kíli and everyone stopped talking and looked at the pair. Thorin kept his eyes on Bilbo who was still holding Kíli's hand. He wasn't jealous, but he wasn't happy about it either. "Thank you. We have something important to announce."

"We do?" Asked Bilbo who had absolutely no idea what Kíli was preparing.

"Yes. I… We want to say something important to Dori."

"Just tell me," said Dori, who was expecting to hear something stupid from Thorin's younger brother.

Kíli took a deep breath. "For the last year Dwalin has been dating Ori."

Kíli immediately took a cautionary step back.

"What?" Roared Dori. He turned to Ori. "Is that true?! Tell me he is lying and that you are not that stupid."

"Hey!" Interrupted Dwalin who stood up. "Don't you ever again dare to call him stupid!"

"You stay out of this," cut Dori sharply. "I will deal with you later, brute."

"That's my brother you are talking about," interrupted Balin.

"He violated my brother!"

"I love him!" Interrupted Ori. "I will always love him. He didn't force me to do anything I didn't want to do. I agreed to have sex with him!"

Everyone went silent as Dori just stared at him with mouths open wide. "You!" He growled before wanting to attack Dwalin, but Ori immediately stepped in front of his boyfriend as Nori tried pulling Dori back. "Let go of me!"

"You won't hurt him," said Ori with confidence. "I love him and if you hurt him you'll hurt me!"

"He doesn't deserve you!"

A few moments later there was chaos in the living room everyone was yelling at each other and it was hard to tell on whose side someone was at the moment.

"Enough!" Thorin's voiced calmed everyone down immediately. "If they want to be together that's their business. None of you have the right to oppose to it."

Dwalin and Dori stared at each other for a minute before Dwalin stepped around Ori to talk to his brother. "Master Dori," he started, "I ask you for permission to date your brother, if he forgives me of course," he added as he looked back at Ori.

"No."

"But…" protested Ori and Dori's heart melted when he saw his little brother.

Dori sighed. "Fine… But if you hurt him you won't get to see another day."

The moment Dwalin turned around to ask Ori for forgiveness he had the younger teen's arms around his neck pulling him down for a kiss.

"I'm going to kill you," threatened Dwalin to Kíli after they pulled apart. "Maybe later," he mumbled as Ori pulled him down for another kiss. Dori just collapsed back on the couch. He couldn't protect his younger brother and now he lost him. It broke his heart when he saw Ori kissing Dwalin like that, but at the same time he was happy that his brother was happy.

"Okay, you can stop now," said Kíli. "You made your point." Ori just waved his hand at him without even breaking a kiss. Bilbo couldn't help but to look at Thorin who offered him a smile. For a moment Bilbo wished he could strode to him and kiss him. But now was not the time.

Things got back to normal after that. The only one who was annoying was Daín and everyone wished he would just shut up. Ori was sitting in Dwalin's lap, Fíli and Kíli were playing games on TV, Óin, Gloin, Balin and Thorin were having a conversation about who knows what,… Everyone was busy for the moment so Bilbo decided to slip in the kitchen to get a quick snack.

But of course someone had to follow him.

"Here we are again."

Bilbo was expecting him so he took a deep breath before he turned around. "What do you want Daín?"

"Nothing. I just wanted to tell you that I didn't like what your boyfriend did to me the last time we were here."

"You deserved it," pointed out Bilbo. "And he is not my boyfriend."

"But you want him to be." It was like Daín was reading his mind. Bilbo didn't like that.

"It's none of your business what I want."

"But you do want him," said Daín with that creepy smile on his face. "I know you do. Something changed between you two in the last two days. Something happened. I just know it. And now you think everything is better between you two. Think again. You are not that stupid. In how many relationships was Thorin before?" Bilbo just stared at him and didn't answer. "Exactly. None. What makes you think you can change that." Daín left after that, leaving Bilbo to his thoughts.

"You okay?" Asked Bofur as he entered the kitchen.

"Yeah. Why?" Bilbo wanted to sound as undisturbed as possible.

"No reason."

Bilbo saw right through his friend. "You heard what he just said. Don't even try to deny it."

"Yes," admitted Bofur. "I heard what he said. But I'm not blind you know. I see the way you look at him. You never looked at anyone like this. You love him."

"Isn't that a really strong word?" Tried to argue Bilbo.

"I know something changed between you two. I was just hoping you would tell me about it. The last thing I want is to find out from someone else that you are dating him."

"But I'm not dating him," protested Bilbo.

"I don't know what's going on between you two, but I know that everyone noticed that you two act differently around each other. I'm not blind. I just hope that you know what you're doing. The last thing I want to see is you getting hurt. Just be careful," warned Bofur before he left.

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Bilbo didn't understand why everyone was constantly warning him of Thorin. Thorin wasn't flawless, but who was. Yes he made a few mistakes in the past, but now he was changing, or just showing his real self. Bilbo was hoping for the latter. He wanted to trust Thorin, be his friend, but it was really hard to ignore all the comments about him. A few months ago Bofur wouldn't have anything bad to say about his friend, now it looked like he was his worst enemy. Bilbo really didn't know what to make out of all this.

Luckily the guests didn't stay long. Dwalin and Ori were the first ones to disappear. The next one was Daín who was going home and everyone couldn't be happier about it. Then slowly one by one everyone left and the house was once again empty.

Bilbo wasn't in the mood to stay up. He was tired and he had a lot on his mind so he decided to go to bed early. He changed and climbed under the covers, but the sleep refused to come so he decided to read a book to get his mind off Thorin, even if just for a couple of minutes. It didn't take long before a knock on his door brought him back to reality.

"I just wanted to say Goodnight," said Thorin and offered Bilbo a smile.

"Goodnight," said Bilbo before trying to focus back on the book.

Thorin stared at him for a minute before he closed the door and sat down on the edge of Bilbo's bed. "Okay, what's wrong?" He asked as Bilbo sighed.

"Nothing's wrong," said Bilbo.

Thorin pulled the book out of his hands to get his attention. "Something is bothering you. If you tell me what it is maybe I can help you."

"It's nothing," repeated Bilbo and reached for his book that Thorin now put out of his reach. Bilbo sighed in defeat before looking Thorin in the eyes.

"It's about me." It was more a statement than a question. "Someone said something about me and now you can't stop thinking about it."

Bilbo bit his lower lip. Sometimes was Thorin really good at deductions. "They didn't tell me anything I didn't know before…"

"But?"

"What but?"

"There's always a but."

"It's nothing," tried lying Bilbo once again, but the look in Thorin's eyes told him he won't go away that easily. "You were never in a relationship," said Bilbo slowly.

"Neither were you," pointed Thorin out.

"It's different."

"How?"

"I wasn't whoring around for the last five years of my life!" Bilbo immediately covered his mouth after he spoke those words. "I'm sorry Thorin. I didn't mean it like that."

"Unfortunately you did," said Thorin as calmly as he could, trying to hide his hurt.

"I'm sorry…"

"It's okay. I get it. You care about what other people think. I don't. When people start rumors I don't try to stop them because I don't care what they think about me. You do care, that's why you'll never give me a chance to be with you."

"It's not about that," argued Bilbo. "It's just… Just… I don't want to get hurt," he explained. "I have a feeling like I'm gambling with my happiness when I'm with you and I'm not sure I'm willing to bet everything when there's a big chance I will lose in the end."

"How do you know you'll lose everything? You don't even know me," pointed out Thorin.

"Exactly. I don't even know you. I want to get to know you, I really do. Is just… I don't want to be a toy that you'll throw away when you'll get bored. I want to be with you, but I want the whole package. I want everything."

"I want it too," admitted Thorin. "How about we start from the beginning?"

"Okay," nodded Bilbo.

"Ground rules?"

"No kissing, no inappropriate touching, no sitting together, no –"

"You do know we need to get to know each other right? That would require from us to be in the same room," teased Thorin. "Go easy with your rules."

"Fine. The point is to get to know each other better before we start anything. If we start anything," he added.

"Alright," agreed Thorin. "I'll see you tomorrow then." He was ready to get up, but Bilbo pulled him back.

"Don't go…" he pleaded.

"What…?"

"Stay here," offered Bilbo and moved on the bed a little to make some room for Thorin under the covers.

"What about your rules?" Asked Thorin.

"We can start tomorrow," answered Bilbo and waited for Thorin to make himself comfortable on the bed, before resting his head on Thorin's chest.

"Comfortable?" Asked Thorin and pulled Bilbo closer to him. The younger teen only nodded before closing his eyes. It didn't take them long to fall asleep.

Author's notes:

All mistakes are mine.

Let's say that Bilbo is now 20 weeks pregnant so that things can finally start progressing.