Summary: We check in on Borin and Bazani comforts Thorin.
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Getting Closer
The brat would not shut up. He had ben crying since he woke up in the dark room. Calor groaned. Why would the child not shut up?
"Shut it!"
The child shut it's mouth, fear evident on his face.
"Look, you will be returned to your family. Until then, you're staying here with you don't want to piss me off, trust me. So keep quiet and I might untie you."
Borin was tied to a chair in the middle of the room, watching Calor as he paced around the room. The young dwarf wasn't stupid. He knew family would be looking for him. He also knew that this kidnapper would more than likely be executed for what he had done. Borin also knew that he small for his age and fast. If he could get untied, maybe he could that thought in mind, Borin plastered a smile on his face.
"I can be quiet."
"You'd better be."
Borin shivered as Calor glared at him. That was one scary dwarf with a big knife. Borin knew better than to get on Calor's bad side. Valar only knew what he could do with that knife. Borin did not want to find out.
"What do you mean, missing?"
Bazani gasped, hands flying up to her mouth.
"Oh Valar, I was certain you would have been told. Borin went missing while he was at the market."
"When?"
Bazani could admit, the growl kind of turned her on.
"This morning. Frerin and Dis are searching for him now."
Of course they'd never find him. Calor had taken the little brat to a room practically destroyed by Smaug. No one even went into it anymore. Or that part of the kingdom for that fact.
"Why would they not tell me that my nephew was missing?"
"Oh, I'm sure they just didn't want you to worry."
Thorin collapsed onto the couch that was in his office. Bazani grimaced before sitting beside him. She knew what Thorin and his hobbit had done on this couch.
"But they know I would drop everything to help them. Borin is my nephew! I love him."
Bazani smiled sadly and rubbed Thorin's back.
"I know that darling. But you have to admit, you are emotional at the moment."
Thorin knew that was true. Without Bilbo beside him, Thorin wasn't sleeping well at night. Combine that with his worry for his lover and his family on their trek and Thorin's emotions were very close to the surface. Just this morning Thorin made a servant cry because she tripped over a loose stone in his office and spilled tea on Bilbo's armchair, brought especially from Bag End. He sighed and relaxed into Bazani's arms. The Queen was running her fingers through Thorin's hair, calming him down.
Bazani grinned as she felt Thorin slump in her arms. Now that Bilbo wasn't here, Thorin would need somebody to help him, with his work and his emotional needs and Bazani was more than happy to end him. The Queen smirked. Bilbo going to the Shire could be the best thing that happened to her.
A/N Done. R&R please. Next chapter, Bilbo arrives in the Shire and Avna tries to get closer to Fili