Chapter 5

When Kíli got closer to the lake, he could see his brother making fun with his friends in the water. He immediatly felt jealous of the other dwarves. They had something he had not, and that was the attention of his brother. He wished he was in there with them, certainly on such a warm day as today.

"Should I ask if I can join them?" He wondered.

Pondering about it for a moment, Kíli decided against asking it. He didn't know how his brother's friends would react on him joining them, but he was sure Fíli wouldn't like it. He hadn't asked him to come with, so that meant he didn't want him here to begin with.

So instead of joining the fun the others had, he walked over to one of the larger boulders at the side of the lake. Sitting down on it, he placed the bread and bacon next to him on the boulder. He drew up his knees and wrapped his arms around them. Then he rested his chin on top of his knees. Kíli looked at the clear, blue water and tried to block out the sounds of the dwarves that were having a lot of fun a bit further ahead. But he failed in doing so, and it made him feel even more miserable.

When Fíli had enough of being in the water, three hours had already passed.

"Guys, I'm going out of the water now", he said to his friends.

"Okay", Lóni answered.

Fíli headed back for the shore, leaving his friends to there games. When he got closer to the shore, he noticed Kíli sitting on one of the rocks at the edge of the lake. Getting out of the water, Fíli walked over to his brother.

"Kíli?"

Kíli looked up from the water, where he had been staring at, and looked at Fíli.

"Hi, brother", he said.

"How long have you been here?" Fíli asked his brother, sitting next to him. It bothered him that he didn't notice Kíli any sooner.

"Oh, uhm… I'm already here for a couple of hours." Kíli said and smiled at his brother. The smile never reached his eyes, however.

"You could have called for me, Kíli. Then I would've come to you sooner."

"Nah, I didn't want to ruin your fun", Kíli replied.

Before Fíli could react on his brother's last remark, Bódin appeared next to him and looked at Kíli.

"And who is this?" Bódin asked.

"This is my younger brother, Kíli." Fíli said to his friend.

"And this is Bódin", he added while directing his attention back to his brother.

"Hello", Kíli said and smiled at the other dwarf.

"Hmpfh", was all Bódin gave to him as a reply before he stomped of.

Kíli's smile immediatly disappeared.

"What's wrong with him?", Kíli asked to Fíli.

Fíli only shrugged at that.

"He lost from me with fishing and I think he's a bit upset about that still. Don't mind him, little brother. He'll come around."

"So you defeated him quite hard then, didn't you?" Kíli asked.

Fíli grinned.

"I did. Those are mine." He said, pointing at two rather large buckets.

They were filled with fish until the edge. Kíli gawked at them.

"And we have to take all those fish home with us?"

"Ofcourse. I haven't caught all those fish for nothing." Fíli said, laughing softly at his brothers reaction. "But you will have to carry one of the buckets as well when we return home, for they are quite heavy."

"Okay", Kíli answered. "But aren't those buckets coming from the forge where uncle works?"

"Yes, they do. I borrowed them." Fíli said.

"Uncle doesn't even now you have them, does he?"

"No, he doesn't." Fíli said with a grin.

"You know, normally I'm the one who does things like that." Kíli said.

They both started laughing at that.

"Yes, you do. But sometimes it's not so bad if you do something different, right?" Fíli answered.

"I guess not."

They both fell silent and watched Lóni and Náli, who were still in the water, for a while.

"And what have you been doing most of the time today?" Fíli asked, wanting to break the silence.

"I helped Bofur at his shop", Kíli replied. "Oh, and I brought something with me."

He took the bread and bacon he had placed next to him, and showed it to his brother. Fíli looked a bit surprised at it.

"Where did you get it from?" Fíli asked.

"I bought it."

Fíli looked a bit sceptical to Kíli.

"What? Do you think I stole it?" Kíli asked, looking a bit hurted.

"No, brother. I would never think you stole anything." Fíli said with a reassuring smile. "It's just that, when you were little, you used to go to Bombur when you were hungry and he would always give you something for free. So I was thinking that that was the case now as well."

"Oh…" Kíli picked up a small rock, dropped it in the water and stared at the ripples that were forming. He remained silent for a moment.

"I'm sorry…" Kíli eventually said.

"It's alright." Fíli replied with a small smile.

"But it's not!" Kíli yelled and jumped to his feet. "I shouldn't have tought you were thinking that!"

"Kíli…" Fíli said, also standing up.

"Maybe I better get going."

Kíli started to walk away. Fíli quickly grabbed his younger brother's arm and yanked him back.

"Let me go!" Kíli yelled, trying to free his arm out of his brother's grasp.

"No, I won't." Fíli said, taking a tight hold on both of Kíli's shoulders.

"Please, Fíli. Just let me go." Kíli pleaded.

"No." Fíli answered. "I want you to look at me!"

Kíli turned around, facing his brother. But he kept his head bowed and stared at the ground.

"I want you to really look at me, Kíli."

Kíli started shaking and his shoulders were shocking softly.

"Kíli?" Fíli said, slightly worried.

Kíli suddenly lunged himself forward. Wrapping his arms around Fíli, he started to sob.

"I'm sorry, brother. I'm really sorry." Kíli said with a shaking voice.

Fíli carefully hugged him.

"It's alright. It really is." He said.

Kíli looked up at him with tear filled eyes.

"You're not angry at me?"

"Why would I be angry at you?" Fíli asked.

"I just yelled at you…" Kíli said softly, lowering his gaze.

"Kíli, how many times haven't we had an argument already? Did I ever stay angry?"

"No…"

"And I never will."

"You promise?" Kíli asked with a small voice.

"Ofcourse I do", Fíli replied. "You're my brother, Kíli. So no matter how angry I might be at times, it will never be for forever."

Fíli smiled at his brother. Kíli quickly dried his eyes and smiled back a little.

"See. That's already a lot better, isn't it?" Fíli remarked.

Kíli only nodded.

"Now, why don't you tell me how exactly you got those?" Fíli said, pointing to the food.

Hey everyone!

So here is Chapter 5. It took me longer to write this then I first tought.

When I tought I had finished writing it and was reading again in search of mistakes I might've missed, I came up with some things from that, as I tought, would fit in quite nicely. So I rewrote it a bit at the last minute.
This is for me the first chapter where I put so much emotion in it (in my opinion). So I really hope this worked out quite well.
Also they will be at the lake for a little while longer. Originaly I told everything else what happend at the lake in this chapter.
But I decided to make two chapters of it, because it was nearly 8 pages long. Wich would've been a lot of text for you to read. Certainly if it was already written in type size 10 on my computer, wich is very small.

I hope you like it.
And as always, don't forget to R&R ;)

Alicia

And now on to the guest reviews.

To 101olive4u: Thank you so much! I can't say how much I like it that you are still reading this.
I also can't thank you enough for all the kind reviews I got from you already. I hope you will enjoy this chapter to. ~Alicia

To Shreeg: Haha, yeah that part was great. I was watching at a part from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey extended edition where the dwarves are swimming/Bathing/Playing (you can choose how you want to call it) at one of the waterfalls in Rivendel. So that's when I tought that using that in some sort would be fun. And, seeing your reaction, you really liked it ;)

It's indeed not that easy to write at times. But my second story, where I recently uploaded the first chapter from, is much harder to write at this moment (in my opinion).
I hope you will like this chapter as well. Thank you for your review!

I hope you will keep reading ;)

Alicia