AU: Well, this is the beginning of the Kili!hurt, for those of who who have waited for that. Also, if you saw/enjoyed the new movie Maleficent, please check out my friend RolledUpInOne's Maleficent story Last Minute Memories. :) /s/10458149/1/Last-Minute-Memoirs
"Hello?"
The little bell over the door clinked softly as Kili opened the door to Krangon's shop, yet Krangon didn't appear. The store was empty, and yet the door was unlocked.
Strange... Kili thought, making his way further into the shop.
"Hello, I've got your package! Anyone here?" Kili ventured further, standing next to the desk and tapping the bell that was sitting here, "Krangon?"
"Oh, Kili!" Kragon's muffled voice suddenly called from the back, "I'm sorry, I'm trying to take care of something back here, could you bring it back to me?"
Kili frowned for a moment, but then dropped any suspicions. After all, what was there really to be suspicious of?
Entering in through a faded, wooden door, Kili found himself in a tiny square room full of inventory-type items. Krangon was balancing a large box in his hands, which he carefully placed on top of a wooden chest.
"Ah, this must be the package from the stand I ordered the other day!" Krangon smiled at Kili for a moment, before he tossed it aside.
"It looked nice at the stand, but I was in a hurry that day, and I couldn't bring it with me while I traveled the town. Did you make the wares, or did the other dwarves?"
"Oh, it depends, but my uncle made a lot of them," Kili explained quickly, glancing at the door quickly. He didn't mind conversation, but he wanted to get back to Rae.
"Oh, that reminds me! You remember the stone I gave you? I realized only recently that I'd sold you the wrong thing! You wanted to buy a selkie rock, and I sold you a fairy rock! I'm quite sorry, but it'd be fine if you wanted to return it and do a trade."
"Oh, no that's alright," Kili shrugged, "I've got to be going now, I'll see you around."
"Wait," Krangon stopped Kili, "You don't mind that I sold you the wrong kind of rock?"
"Well, it doesn't matter much, remember? A selkie showed up anyway!"
"Oh?"
"Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter much about the necklace. Remember Rae? Well she is a selkie. Now I must be getting back to her…"
"Actually Kili, I think it's best you hand over that pendant. If you already have a selkie around, you don't need a fairy pendant. Besides, you know fairies cause problems when they're around."
"I wouldn't know, I've never really heard about fairies," Kili replied, edging toward the door. He wasn't sure why, but suddenly the looming man was making him feel ill at ease. Perhaps it was the way his voice had begun booming, or the way that he was suddenly demanding something from Kili that Kili had bought, well and good with his own money.
"Kili, I need the pendant. Are you just as attached to this pendant as you are to your selkie?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you seemed rather attached to Rae."
"Well, I don't know. I mean, we're friends and all, and since she's not gone back to the sea, I suppose she might even go back to the Blue Mountains with me…"
Kili was suddenly interrupted by a loud growl, and he spun, shocked, just to be knocked to the ground. A box behind Kili fell, shells rolling out of it and flying about the room, while in the mean time, something had Kili firmly pinned to the floor. He struggled to stand, letting out a grunt of surprise as whatever it was shoved him back down again angrily.
"You're not taking her anywhere!" a voice shouted, and Kili shook his head once to clear it, and then he looked up to see a young man slightly taller than Kili's own size, glaring down at him before fairly punching him in the side. "Now hand over that token!"
"Now Lee," Kili was shocked to hear Krangon's voice take on an almost patronizing tone as he heard the door to the room shut and click locked. "We can ask one more time, nicely. Give me the token, and all will be resolved."
At this point, Kili was beyond baffled, and quite worried. This token he'd been sold must have been important. It also must have been more than it seemed, for Krangon seemed almost desperate to get his hands on it, perhaps he shouldn't say where the token is?
"I don't have it any more!" Kili finally said, deciding it was as good a thing to say as any.
"Where is it then?"
"I… I lost it," Kili decided, and almost immediately he was shocked to feel someone slap him across the face. The abruptness of it made him gulp and he blinked several times.
"I don't believe you," Krangon leaned down, his previously friend face was now replaced with an unrecognizable fury, "And I expect you to tell the truth. If you don't, believe me, I'll find it anyway, Lee will make sure of it."
Lee, who Kili assumed was the other small man, leered at him, unmasked fury fueling his rage as well. Suddenly, Kili felt quite worried indeed.
He had been hiding behind the desk when the dwarf came in. Krangon had told him all about the plan, and what might happen, and so Lee had prepared himself quite thoroughly.
"So, his name is Kili and he has a token that keeps Rae attached to him in a way. It is my belief that this token is even stronger than having a selkie pelt. It is vital that we get it from him.
"Now, as you know, once one gets his hands on a selkie pelt, he or she can take the pelt and bring it away from the sea so that the selkie cannot return. I believe that Kili might bring the pendant with him, thus bringing Rae with him back to his home. In which case, true, you would not be seeing her again. That is why it is so important this plan be carried out correctly. Of course, Kili may not hand over the pendant. Then, I suppose, you'll want to get it from him so that your sister doesn't disappear with the dwarves off somewhere?"
And Krangon had been right. From the other room, Lee had clearly heard this Kili say that he planned on taking Rae back with him to the Blue Mountain, and he simply couldn't sit there any longer and bear the thought of not seeing his sister again; and so he had acted accordingly.
Flying from his hiding spot, he leaped into the room, tackling the dwarf to the ground and punching him in the side in the process; it was a light punch at best.
The dwarf tried to explain himself, and he tried to get away, but Lee held him firmly down as Krangon closed and locked the door to the storage room. Kili proceeded to claim that he'd lost the pendant, but this only increased Lee's furry. It was an obvious lie, only created so that he didn't have to hand over his powerful magic. It was disgusting, and Lee slapped him across the face.
"I don't believe you," Krangon leaned down next to the two, "And I expect you to tell the truth. If you don't, believe me, I'll find out anyway, Lee will make sure of it."
Kili said nothing for a moment, and then Lee shouted again, "Well? Going to say anything?"
Kili blinked, seemingly unsure what to say. He opened his mouth, closed it, and then opened it again.
"I already said, I lost it," Kili shrugged, though his voice was full of nerves.
"Stupid dwarf!" Krangon stood abruptly, and Kili stared up at him with wide eyes that narrowed a moment later, full of suspicion.
"I can talk to him and try to find out the truth," Lee said quietly to Krangon, who shook his head.
"Don't talk to him without my permission; this must be handled in the right way," Krangon replied. "Leave us for a moment."
Lee hesitated, but then went out to stand behind the desk of the store. Glancing back in, he spotted Krangon trying a gag firmly into Kili's mouth.
"If you ever feel like telling us, just nod," Krangon sneered, and then aimed a kick at Kili's middle.
Kili swallowed hard, but then simply growled and glared up at Krangon, who shrugged.
"Fine, now I have some dwarves to tell of little Kili's unfortunate departure. They won't find you, you can count on it." And then Krangon shut the door on Kili, leaving him in darkness.
AU: What'd you think? Want to see more Kili!hurt? Love all of your reviews!