The dwarves and the half-breed waited patiently for the hobbit to join them, but they had very little time. The elves would surely know they were no longer in the dungeons. "We need to leave now! If we hope to escape before the elves catch up to us!" Dwalin hissed.

"We are not going anywhere, until my cousin is with us!" Honoria snapped at the dwarf.

"We don't have time." Dwalin declared, as the others began to mumble their agreements, even though they wouldn't have even gotten this far without the help of their burglar. Honor turned and looked at Thorin to say something to them.

"She's right. Were not leaving to till the hobbit is with us." Thorin ordered and he ignored the sighs of frustrations from his company. They waited for a few more minutes when the ceiling began to open up and the hobbit let out a shriek as he fell into the water.

"Bilbo!" Nori said as he grabbed onto the hobbit to keep him from drowning in the water.

"Well done, Master Baggins." Thorin applauded. "Go! Come on, let's go!" He pressed and the dwarves began paddling through the water, with their hands to move faster, when Honoria saw that they were about to go over a waterfall.

"Oh no!" Honor shouted.

"Hold on!" Thorin yelled as they were the first to go down it and one by one they all yelled until the got submerged under the fast moving water, their barrels slamming violently into the rocks as they continued down the stream trying to keep from tipping right out into the water.

Honoria could hear the elves had figured it out sooner than they thought and her head snapped in the direction they were coming from and she saw the king's son and another elf as Legolas gave an order and the elf blew his horn. They all looked back in the direction they were heading towards and saw they were coming towards a wall with a gate underneath it and dozens of elf guards. They all see the approaching barrels, carrying dwarves and they drew their weapons as another guard went running over towards a lever and pulled it, the gate began to close before they could get through.

"No!"Thorin roared in outrage. The barrels began knocking into each-other, some under the bridge. When an arrow came from the other side, into the back of an elf and killing him and he fell into the water as an orc showed up and growled.

"Watch out! There's orcs!" Bofur warned. More orcs began ti show up, crawling over the walls and attacking the elf guards so they could get to the dwarves.

"Get under the bridge!" Thorin yelled to the others, as they had no weapons to defend themselves. One tried to attack Nori when Bilbo stabbed the orc with his sword. The dwarves began fighting anyway they could to get rid of these orcs; which meant the elves and the dwarves had to work together and eliminate their common enemy. Kili saw the lever wasn't surrounded by elves and saw this would be the only chance to get away from the elves and the orcs and he started fighting his way over to the lever.

The young dwarf was only just out of reach of it when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his leg. Kili gasp from the burning that he collapsed backwards before he could pull the lever, to set the others free. "Kili!" Fili cried out for his brother, who was now wounded and defenseless. Thorin turned at the sound of his oldest nephews cry's for his brother.

More elves began showing up to fight the growing number of orcs being led by Bolg. Finally the gate opened and the barrels were going once again as the shot down another waterfall, being plunged under the water once again. Bolg ordered his orcs to follow the barrels before they vanished from their sights. Orcs leaped at them, trying anything to stop them. Releasing arrows; trying to pierce it through them, but all managed to hit the barrels. Honor tried, when she could to see how her cousin was making out in the chaos but she was too preoccupied with these foul creatures as they kept leaping at her and Thorin.

"Cut the log!" Thorin shouted, as he hacked the log with the weapon he had gotten from an orc that leaped at them. Dwalin hacked through the rest and the log collapsed with the orcs falling into the depth of the water. Honoria caught sight of the elf prince catching up to them as he used the dwarves head's to get across to the other side. He was clearly trying to be a show-off with his moves. Honor sliced through an orc that tried to jump onto their barrel. The half-breed hadn't noticed an orc was about to jump at them from the side when she looked at the last moment and had no time to react and she let out a sudden whimper when the orc with struck with an arrow and she looked to see it was Legola's and the two of them shared a look for a few seconds before he had to fight off another orc trying to come at him from the front. Thorin saw another orc was approaching the elf prince from behind while the orc he was currently fighting kept him distracted. The dwarf glanced at his weapon and then remembered he shot the arrow that killed the orc that could have ended Honor and threw the weapon, impaling the orc in the head, Legolas saw he had just been saved by a dwarf and he shot another arrow at orc that tried to take out another dwarf and he and Thorin glared at each other and the elf prince decided to stop following them as they continued on down the stream with what was left of the orcs charging behind them.

They continued down the stream, the current giving them quite a speed advantage as they had lost sight of Bolg and his pack but it didn't last much further as the current began to enter calm water and they had to paddle with their hands or sticks.

"Anything behind us?" Thorin shouted behind him.

" Not that I can see." Balin yelled back.

"I think we've outrun the orcs." Bofur stated as he spat out a bunch of water and Honor rolled her eyes, they may have escaped the orcs for now, but it won't take them long to catch back up to them, they were stranded now.

"Not for long. We've lost the current." Thorin pressed. " Make for the shore!" Thorin ordered. The managed to get to the outcropping of rocks. Thorin let Honor climb out first, the half-breed looked around desperately for her cousin.

"Bilbo..?" She muttered to herself. She was beginning to think he must of drowned or worse, when she let out a sigh of relief to see him climbing out of the water and she dashed over to him and hugged him tight like she hadn't seen him in years.

Kili suddenly collapsed on the rock, groaning in pain; from the wound he got from earlier. Honor wandered over to him, worried about him." Kili are you okay?" Kili put pressure on the wound, hoping to stop the bleeding when he looked at the woman.

"I'm fine, it's just a scratch." He grumbled, trying not to show that he was actually scared.

"Kili let me look at it." Honor pressed, but the young dwarf let out a mumble but let her look at it. She could see a piece of the arrow was still lodged in deep and she tore a piece of the bottom of her dress and began wrapping the wound to prevent it from getting further infected. Fili was at his brother side to check on him.

"On your feet." Thorin demanded as he kept looking behind to see if the orcs were in sight yet.

"Kili's wounded, his leg needs binding." Fili pressed as he helped Honor.

"There's an orc pack on our tail, we keep moving." Thorin ordered, not paying any attention to his nephew.

"Thorin! Kili is hurt. We need to bind his leg properly." Honor growled at the dwarf as he looked at her.

"We don't have time." Thorin snapped back, he was sure the pack had to be close now.

"To where though?" Balin interrupted.

"To the mountain." Bilbo declared. "We're so close."

"A lake lies between us and that mountain. We have no way to cross it." The elder dwarf stated, having a point. Thorin listened to the older dwarf and hobbit speaking.

"So then we go around." Bilbo suggest.

"The orcs will run us down, as sure as daylight." Dwalin explained, if they were to do that. " We've no weapons to defend ourselves." He added and Thorin quickly rethought things as he stood by the woman.

"Bind his leg, quickly. You have to minutes." Thorin pressed and the dwarves wasted no time and then he looked at Honoria. " Come with me." He ordered pulling her by the hand, and they wandered away from the others.

"What?" She grumbled slightly.

"Do not ever do that again." Thorin hissed and she narrowed her eyes at him.

"Do what?" She questioned.

"Trying to trade your life to save ours. That was a stupid thing to do." Thorin growled at her.

"We'll I wasn't going to just let you all rot in the cells for the rest of your lives when I could do something about it! So forgive me for not thinking about myself!" She snapped, and turned away from him and she let out a huff and folded her arms. Thorin let out a frustrating sigh, his choice of words didn't come out the way he had intended them to.

"Honor, I'm sorry, that didn't come out right." Thorin apologized.

"Hmm...could have fooled me grumpy." She answered, not turning around. Thorin face slightly heated up, when she called him that, but he remained calm before trying to speak to her again.

"Honor, please look at me." Thorin begged her. The elf slowly turned around and raise her eyebrow. "What I was trying to say is that. I didn't want you to agree to King's Thranduil's deal was because there's no way I would leave without you." He stated as he stepped towards her, stroking the side of her face, as he felt her relax and he pulled her towards him and pressed his lips against hers. He pulled away and looked at her. "Just promise me you wont do it. No matter how tempting the deal is; I won't risk your life for me." She didn't agree but leaned her head against his chest as he held her close.

Honoria suddenly pulled away from him, hearing approaching footsteps, Thorin was about to protest when he noticed the figure that had emerged from behind them on the rocks. Dwalin jumped in front Ori, gripping his log to fight off this new threat when the man release his arrow and got embedded in the log. Kili went to chuck a stone at him, when the man released another arrow just as quick and knocked the rock right of the dwarf's hand. Thorin pushed Honor behind him.

"Do it again...and you're dead." The man threatened as he aimed a third arrow, ready to kill if any of them should make a move.