Hello everyone=) Sorry for the delay but here is the next chapter to Goblin town.
I want to thank each and every one of you for reading=) Just so you know I will be going back and polishing these up later on but I hope you all enjoy=)
Also to my guest I know! Lol I am sorry I know I promised the whomp like 4 chapters ago but Fili stole the spot light o-o, I'll have to talk to him about that XD but the Kili whomp is coming I promise^^.
~Chapter 5: Bloody and Beaten~
Bofur had set the bowl of water down on the ground next to Fili, kneeling to examine the prince.
The toy makers stomach felt tight with worry as he held his breath, afraid of what he would find under the mess of hair. Bofur placed two fingers on Fili's neck and he let out a sigh of relief when he felt Fili's pulse.
Bofur pulled his hand back and brushing Fili's golden locks back out of his face. The princes hair was tangled from in the storm earlier that day, causing Bofur's fingers to catch, so he pulled them out.
Bofur knew he couldn't avoid seeing Fili's damage any longer, so he let his eyes fall upon Fili's face, his breath hitched in his throat as tears built up under his eyes. Bofur looked away, looking at anything else, anything other then Fili's busted up body.
He felt his lower lip tremble for a moment as he looked around the room avoiding the others eyes and Fili's face while he regained his composure. After several seconds he returned his eyes to Fili's beaten face only fearing what the rest of him must look like under his clothes.
The golden haired prince had two black eyes, his nose crooked and bloody, and whelps were developing across his cheeks and jaw already. There was a gash across his forehead and not one, but, two splits in his lips, three if you counted the one that started on his lower left side of his lip and went up through his top left. Bofur immediately saw the cause of his black eyes and reached down using both hands to reset the prince's broken nose. Some where behind Bofur there was the sound of a sharp intake of breath when Fili's nose reset.
Bofur looked over his shoulder to see Ori standing at the edge of his cell watching, his hands on the bars his eyes red as he watched, obviously scared and worried for his friends as well. Bofur felt bad for him, he felt bad for all of them, but especially the young ones.
He then noticed the other dwarves all had their eyes on him as well except for Balin, who was still looking after Dwalin. Of course they would watch the care of their friend, their prince, the next heir to the throne of Erebor who was now in the hands of a toy maker.
Bofur reached down grabbing the cleanest area of his own tunic he could find and ripped it off with his free hand. Bofur decided to work on the already visible parts of Fili's body so he took the cloth, wet it, and started dabbing it across Fili's face as gently as he could. The toy maker first cleaned around Fili's lips knowing the water would only get dirtier as he continued, he then moved on to the gash on the princes forehead then to his cheeks. The whole time wished it had been Oin in with Fili instead.
Instantly the toy makers attention was pulled back to Fili's battered body as he heard him cough and then start choking. Bofur quickly moved, pulling Fili up, putting an arm around his shoulders to keep him supported, which stopped the choking.
"It's ok lad I have you... " Bofur said.
As he held him up he saw the cause of the choking, there was blood lightly trickling down from the oldest prince's mouth. Bofur screwed up his face as he feared the worse, he turned his head away looking from Fili, then caught Oin's eye. though the healer was now without his hearing device, he didn't need to hear to see Bofur's fear.
"Don't worry... that isn't always
fatal. Check his tongue, see if he bit it...you're doing fine." the healer said in a loud voice.
Bofur lightly nodded hoping Oin wasn't just trying to keep him from worrying as much.
He managed to pry Fili's mouth open and Bofur saw that' his tongue was fine. He pulled his hand back, then gently laid Fili down again.
Bofur then took off his coat. Folded it up the best he could as fast as he could hearing Fili choking again. He then took one arm lifting Fili up then slid his coat under the prince with the other then laid him back down. After he had Fili laid on the coat he looked to the others near Ori.
"Mine isn't enough, I need something to..."
"Here you go lad" Balin interrupted from behind.
He saw Balin handing his and Dwalins coats through the bars. Dwalin stood behind his brother, he must have awoken when Bofur wasn't looking.
He stood and collected the coats, folded then placed them behind Fili, setting him up more so he wasn't at risk of choking
"There...that's better" he commented, as he knelt next to Fili once more.
Bofur looked to his hands next. His left was mostly fine, with just a few cuts, scratches and bruises, but his right hand had a swollen wrist,which worried Bofur. He reached out taking Fili's hand in his own and started feeling for broken bones.
As he neared the wrist Fili pulled his hand back unconsciously, still not yet awake. Bofur gently took it back, being as gentle as he possibly could. As soon as he felt for the first bone he looked to Fili nervous.
Fili's face was tight, obviously in pain, his eyes were squinted closed and his jaw locked, his breaths jagged. Bofur continued, seeing that his reaction was not as bad as it could have been.
He sighed relieved when he learned the prince's bones were not broken and that his wrist was only sprained. Once done with cleaning Fili's hands up, the toy maker looked to Fili's torso and placed his hand on the bottom of Fili's shirt, hesitant to pull it up. He was about to lift when he felt a hand grasp his arm, making the toy maker jump. Bofur's eyes flashed over to the hand, seeing bruised and skinned up fingers and realized who they belonged to, he shifted his eyes to Fili's face.
"T-thank you...but, I'm fine." the prince whispered, letting go of Bofur, how long he had been awake Bofur didn't know.
The prince had his right hand cradled against his stomach now and placed his left on the ground next to him as he tried to force him self up off his back. Bofur watched Fili as his body started to quiver, then shake violently at the attempt to sit up as his muscles rejected movement to bruised and beaten to carry out Fili's command. Fili started to fall back but as quickly as his body started to go limp, Bofur wrapped his arm around the young prince for support since Fili's own body was too pain stricken to do so.
"You really should be taking it easy lad..." the toy maker said, his brows creased with worry as he looked into Fili's eyes, one with red all around the beautiful blue pool with in the black bruised circle "I need to check your injuries"
Fili frowned, clenching his jaw and holding his eyes closed tight once more, as a rush of pain raced through his body.
"B-bofur I..."
Fili's words were cut off by a terrible scream that echoed through the halls
"What was that!?" Fili barked, forgetting his pain for a moment, as Bofur looked to each of the other dwarve's, his eyes stopping on Balin and they shared a look of worry and guilt.
Fili looked between the aging dwarf and the toy maker, then it was as if realization hit him, he searched the room for...
"Where is Kili?!" Fili barked.
Two more blood hurling screams ripped through the air and made their way through the halls like bats flying from the very pits of hell and Fili looked to Bofur, noticing Bofur was watching something else, then he saw it wasn't something but someone as his eyes rested on Balin's face, seeing the emotional hurt in his oldest friend's eyes, as another pain stricken scream was heard.
"Those screams...would belong to, Kili..." the old dwarf said. Before dropping his eyes to the ground
Bofur still using his arm to hold Fili in a sitting position was surprised when the prince,
Jolted up out of his arms and started toward the cage door before he slowed down dramatically,
Bofur rushed to his feet as he watched Fili stumble in his step, remind his footing then came to a stop 3 feet before reaching the cage door. The prince then started to collapse to the ground right when Bofur reached around him pulling him to his chest and dragging him back toward the wall he said in a low voice before winching at another scream.
Bofur leaned Fili against the wall then used the coats to prop him up and make him more comfortable. Bofurs eyes were then drawn to Fili's shoulder seeing the blood stain on his shirt.
Bofur let out a sigh shaking his head when another scream caused him to jump he commented as he started to examine Fili again.
Balin looked to be every bit as worried as the toymaker or more so
Right then a scream louder then the rest, ripped through the caves and caverns as if to confirm Balin's statement.
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