In this chapter I added a flashback. In this flashback Kíli is 6 years old and Fíli 11 years old. Enjoy!

Chapter 4

Kíli was walking at the borders of the forest. He was searching for the path that would lead him trough the forest and to the lake. It has been 7 years ago since he came to these parts, following Fíli. But he still knew where to look.

Kíli smiled at the memory.

*Flashback*

Kíli woke up from the door opening. Opening his eyes a little, he could see Fíli walking out of the room they shared.

"Fíli?" Kíli called out to his brother.

But Fíli never heard him, for he had already closed the door behind him. Sitting up in the bed, Kíli rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. Looking out of the window, he saw Fíli walking down the path and towards the woods. Getting out of bed, he quickly dressed himself.

He hurried outside the house, quickly closed the front door and ran down the path, following Fíli. There was already quite some distance between them, so Fíli didn't see him. But he still could see his brother, so that made it easy to follow him. Fíli would only have told him to go back home when he would've noticed him. And Kíli really wanted to know where he was going and go with him.

But suddenly he couldn't see his brother anymore. Kíli paniced a little and started running faster.

When he reached the place where he had last seen his brother, he looked around. There was no sign of Fíli however. Then he saw the path on the left side of the road he had been following until now. It leaded deeper in the forest.

Looking around for another moment, Kíli knew that Fíli couldn't have gone any other way so fast except for the path that went deeper in the forest.

How much he wanted to follow his brother, he didn't dare to go into the forest. It scared him. Certainly now the sky had turned darker and made the shadows of the trees grow even longer.

"Fíli!", Kíli yelled from the entrance of the path. There was no reaction.

"Fíli!" Kíli yelled again, louder this time. But still there came no reaction. Fíli probably couldn't hear him anymore.

Kíli just stood there for a while, thinking about what he would do now. After a while he decided to wait for his brother to come back through the forest, so he seated himself underneath a tree.

He sat there, listening to the sounds in the forest and looking up at the clouds wich were drifting by and getting darker every minute.

Kíli had been sitting there for nearly two hours when it started to rain. Drawing up his knees against his chest he moved even closer to the trunk of the tree he sat under, hoping it would shelter him more against the rain that was now falling down from the sky. It didn't help much however and he was soon soaked. He wrapped his arms around his knees and laid his head on them and closed his eyes. He shivered. It was really getting cold.

"Kíli! What are you doing out here, sitting in the rain?"

He opened his eyes and looked up. His brother was standing in front of him, looking annoyed.

"I f-followed you", Kíli said with chattering teeth.

"And why did you follow me?", Fíli asked him.

His brother now looked even more annoyed then he already was a moment ago.

"You l-left without t-telling me. I w-wanted to know where y-you were going. And I didn't w-want to be alone."

His teeth were chattering even harder now and the shivering had increased as well.

Fíli's expression softened a bit. He sat down on his knees in front of Kíli.

"I tought you were still asleep", Fíli said.

Kíli shook his head.

"I w-woke up when you opened the d-door of our bedroom."

"I never noticed", Fíli answered.

Fíli felt a bit guilty, for he was supposed to be looking after his little brother.

"I'm s-sorry, brother." Kíli said.

"It's alright", Fíli answered while hugging his brother close.

Kíli wrapped his arms around his older brother's waist.

Fíli grew a bit worried when he registered how much Kíli was shaking due to the cold.

"Y-you're not angry at me?" Kíli asked.

"You know I can't remain angry with you, you silly", Fíli said teasingly.

Kíli merely nodded his head. They didn't say anything for a moment until Kíli broke the silence.

"Brother, it's cold."Kíli said, sobbing slightly.

"I know", He answered. "Come on. Let's go home. Then we can put on some dry clothes. And maybe we can play a game in front of the fire after that."

"Really?" Kíli asked.

Fíli nodded and smiled. He knew exactly what his brother needed to be cheered up.

"Okay", Kíli said with a wide smile on his face. He instantly forgot about the cold and followed his brother home.

*End of flashback*

When he had located the path, he slowly started to walk down it toward the lake.

"It is even warmer now then it was when I was in the village. Like it wasn't warm enough already", Kíli tought.

When he had reached the end of the path he stood still for a moment, wondering if it really was a good idea to go to where Fíli and his friends were.

"Only one way to find out", he tought to himself and he continued walking.

Fíli and his friends had gathered their fishing gear and hided them in the bushes again. Since it had started to get even warmer, they had decided to call it a day.

After that they had removed their boots and were now sitting at the river bank with their feet in the water.

"It can't get possible any warmer than this", Bódin grumbled.

"Maybe we can do something else now", Fíli replied.

"You can't be serieus! It's much to warm for…"

Bódin never had the change to complete his sentence, for he got a lot of water thrown in his face.

Fíli sat next to him, grinning.

"Now you're going to get it!" Bódin said.

He pushed Fíli in the lake and jumped in after him. They started splashing at each other and wrestling.

"Water fight!" Lóni and Náli exclaimed, while jumping in the water.

They were so occupied, they didn't even notice they had a visitor who was walking towards them.

So this is chapter 4. I hope you all liked it.

I know that the flashback is the largest part in this story, but I really wanted to try it out. I also wanted to use it as an explanation how Kíli knew where he had to go.

This is the first time I use a flashback, so let me know what you think of it.

Please review. I really like it when people post a review. It gives me the courage to go on.

Thanks for reading!

Guest replies:

Shreeg: Thank you so much for you're review. I will try to update other chapters as soon as possible. Unfortunately it takes a while to write new chapters.

As for how they will react on Kíli joining them, I can't tell you that yet. So you will have to wait for a little while still. What I can already tell you, is that

I already have an idea how it's going to be. But I also have to do some correcting to do. So in the meantime I hope you will enjoy this chapter as well ;)

Many Greetings, Alicia