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Chapter 25 - Infections, Kingsfoil and Elvish Healing

It was early the next day when Thorin ordered the company to set off. Anne's side was on fire and she gritted her teeth as she approached the pier. Dwalin jumped off the boat and walked up to her.

"No Anne, ye have to stay here."

Anne looked at the dwarf. His eyes were concerned and his strong demeanour looked withered..

"Dwalin, I have to go...I want to see Erebor...where you and..."

"Lass, it's not that we don't want you there...we really do, but yer injured and yer tired. Please stay and recover...come the mountain when you've healed...alright?"

The girl looked at him. He had become very serious and Anne knew that there was no way she could win this one. Her head had begun to pound and her ears were ringing.

"Okay..."

Fili jumped off the boat and walked towards them.

"I'll stay with her."

Thorin looked round and walked, and stood, next to Dwalin.

"Fili..."

"Uncle don't. I am going to stay with her."

Anne put an hand on Fili's arm.

"You should go with them Fee, you belong with the company."

The prince smiled gently and then leaned down to kiss her. His lips were gentle and his hands cupped her cheeks. Dwalin visibly stiffened and Thorin sighed. Fili lent his head against hers.

"I belong with you...always and forever."

Anne blushed, and then looked down as her stomach flared with pain. Dwalin quickly hugged her, glared at Fili before going back to the boat. Oin jumped off.

"My place is with the wounded."

Thorin shook his head and gave the couple a small smile.

"You chose wisely."

Then the dwarf turned his back and jumped back onto the boat. Oin lifted Anne's shirt and she clenched her eyes as the Master began to speak and music started playing. Everything went hazy and blurred and she felt bile in her throat. Through the fuzziness she heard Fili call gently to her and heard another voice.

"So you missed the boat as well then?"

"Anne?!"

The girl collapsed in Fili's arms. The small group went around houses, begging for help, until they reached the last on their list. Bard opened the door and glared at them.

"No. I'm done with dwarves. Go away!"

Bofur pushed his foot in the way of the wooden door.

"Please. No one will help us. Anne's sick."

Bard looked at the weak girl in Fili's arms. Her skin was ghostly pale and she had a dark stain on the side of her shirt. The blonde dwarf spoke to her quietly and she groaned in pain. The hatted-dwarf looked back to the man.

"Very sick."

Anne had lost track of time. All she knew was that everything was on fire. She hurt all over. A hand was in hers and she heard a voice talking to her. She knew that voice. The room around began to quake and rumble and then the hand left hers.

"Go. Leave us. Take your children and get out of here."

"And go where? There is nowhere to go!"

The voices slipped away and she cried out when pressure was applied to her side. Time slipped away again and she screamed as the pain magnified and intensified. She heard someone speak to her.

"Pigs?...Don't move!"

Footsteps moved around her. The agony was increasing and the girl was beginning to lose hope that the pain would ever go away. Feeling someone lift her up she moaned. A person whispered to her, but she didn't and couldn't hear them. The ringing in her ears was too great. A crash broke through the numbness of her mind, then a scream. Through her blurred vision she saw shapes struggling around. Screeches and cries agonised the drumming in her head and she groaned. Something grabbed her and she twisted to get away from it, crying out as her side burned with deep fire. Her body left the safety of the ledge and she hit the ground hard. Someone yelled to her and then the hold on her was gone. She writhed as her body convulsed in agony. The screeching had died out and she tried to stand. Someone lifted her and placed her gently on something. A scruff or beard brushed against her sweating brow, she felt as if every morsel of her was burning up, and a voice whispered.

"You've got to be okay. Please Anne you have to be okay."

Fili watched as Anne twitched and jerked. Bofur hadn't been seen for hours and the girls condition had worsened. His heart wrenched when she screamed in pain. He squeezed her hand gently and stepped over the body of a dead orc. Suddenly the red-haired elf, who had helped them slay the beast, reappeared. She had a green, leafy plant in her hand and gracefully retrieved a bowl, water and various other herbs. Oin was cleaning Anne's side from the grime it had retrieved off the floor. The girl's eyes had rolled back and her body was arched as she trembled under the pain. Bofur had trailed in shortly after the elf and was bracing the girl's legs.

"Please hold her down."

Fili kissed Anne's forehead before gently pushing her shoulders down. She wriggled and twisted, crying out as the elf squeezed her wound to remove any excess blood. Tears trickled from the brunette's eyes and Fili felt his own tears running down his face. He couldn't lose her, he'd already lost so much. The she-elf scrunched the white flowered plant, murmuring in elvish, before pressing against the wound. Anne screamed and tried to roll away, but the dwarves and Bard's children had her held against the table. The elf chanted faster and kept pressure between the plant and Anne's side. The girl's twitching and jerking began to decrease. Fili kept on whispering to her.

"It'll be alright. You're gonna be okay love. Shh...I love you, don't worry...just be okay...please be okay."

He kissed her head gently and the brunette's breathing became steadier. The elf began to slowly remove her hands. The dark veins had vanished and now all around the wound was red, but any sign of infection was gone. The elf held in her hand the plant and a broken arrow head. Fili looked at it.

"What is that?"

"A morgul shaft Master Dwarf. Very poisonous and deadly, but I have removed the poison so she will be fine."

The she elf smiled gently. Fili nodded gratefully, to overwhelmed to speak. Oin looked to the elf.

"I've heard the wonders of elvish medicine, but that was truly a sight to behold My Lady."

"Tauriel. That is my name. And thank you Master Dwarf, I have never heard of your race being particularly fond of anything from us elves."

Fili looked at Bofur and Oin. The dwarves smiled.

"Well we're only just learning to appreciate them."

Fili stroked Anne's hair.

"I was so afraid of losing her...I don't think I could've bared it if I had."

Tauriel put a hand gently on his.

"Love is a powerful thing, to find it is magnificent and to lose it is crushing. She loves you deeply, and you here. As I told you before, she will be fine."

Tauriel turned to talk to Oin.

"Thank you, Tauriel."

The elf turned and smiled a little.

"You're most welcome."

Anne felt numb...no wait she did feel a small amount of pain in her side. A hand brushed over her head and through her hair. Someone kissed her head gently and she lifted her eyes heavily.

"Anne?"

The girl's eyes fluttered open and she moaned a little.

"Fili..."

The dwarf brushed her cheek gently.

"Hello love..."

"What happened?"

"You got really bad...nothing was working...then orcs attacked and then Tauriel and her elf friend arrived..."

"Tauriel and Legolas are here?"

The brunette raised an eyebrow and looked around. She was in Bard's house. She and the prince were in another room. Anne looked around and saw that Fili was holding her snugly under a blanked. She shuffled closer to him.

"Well Tauriel is...Anne I was so afraid of losing you. You weren't getting any better and I felt so helpless and Oin couldn't do anymore...you nearly died Anne! Do you realise how much that would've affect me? You mean everything to me...I...I couldn't've bared..."

Anne's heart swelled as she saw fresh tears roll down his face. The girl put a finger to his lips and smiled gently.

"I love you Fili."

The prince leaned closer to her, careful not to add pressure to her wound.

"I love you too, always and forever."

Then Anne tilted her head up and kissed him. Fili's hand went to the back of her neck and pushed her lips closer to his. Anne wrapped her arms round his back, not caring that her side protested weakly. The dwarf darted his tongue along her lips and growled when she moaned quietly, not in pain, but in pleasure. Anne opened her mouth and moved her tongue against his. Fili nibbled on her bottom lip and emitted another moan from the girl. She moved closer to him, spreading his legs and lay a hand on his chest, pushing him back onto the bed they lay in. This time it was Fili who moaned as they broke for air. His pupils were blown wide and he licked his lips as Anne looked down at him smiling. He then pulled her down onto him and kissed her again. Moving his mouth all over her face, trailing light kisses everywhere, before biting and sucking the bare skin on her neck. He spoke as he kissed her.

"I am never going to let anyone hurt you again."

Anne ran her hands through his hair. Pulling it back so she could capture his lips again. The dwarf's hands travelled up the back of her shirt and felt along her skin. He liked the way she shivered under his touch. The girl nuzzled her face into the crook of his neck and kissed his jaw gently. Her hands moved down his chest and rested on his, that now lay on her hips. Her gusted twisted as butterflies battered around. Fili felt something tighten inside of him and heard Anne giggled when moved his kisses to the front of her neck. He felt her move against his leg, the tightening feeling increased and she pulled the blanket over their heads. Fili grinned and kissed her again. They were both glad that no one else had planned on entering the room.

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