Warning: Some awkwardness. Nothing serious.
October 30th, late in the afternoon
Sam
We made it out of Mirkwood today, and we were all so happy about it – no more headaches! Yay! – that Thorin decided to throw a party. That's the reason why we had stopped by the side of a river, in the middle of nowhere, and the only sounds one could hear tonight were the quiet chirping of birds, the rushing of the river and the loud sound of music and singing Dwarves.
Unfortunately, I couldn't join them in their singing and playing and dancing, because:
One: I couldn't sing,
Two: I didn't have an instrument,
Three: I didn't know how to play an instrument,
Four: I couldn't dance, and
Five: I didn't have anyone to dance with.
So I just sat on a rock, close to the riverside, along with some of the younger Dwarves, watching the older people party. It was like a kids' table, only we all weren't kids anymore. It was kinda awkward. And boring. And maybe, just maybe, I felt a little left out, as I watched – for example – Fíli and Kíli jump around and play their violin, and I couldn't join them without looking like an idiot.
I sighed and let my thoughts wander, to things I can't remember, but I let them wander, and I was so lost in my thoughts that I jumped a half metre in the air when someone suddenly put a hand on my shoulder.
It was Kíli, and he looked utterly pleased with himself for startling me so much. I scowled at him, and he grinned back.
"Sorry," he said, not sounding at all as if he meant it. "I wanted to ask you if you wanted to dance."
"With you?"
"With all of us. We are going to switch partners every once in a while."
I sighed and put a curl behind my ear. Oh, why not. Otherwise I'd just be sitting here, doing nothing.
"All right, then," I then replied. "But I gotta warn you: I can't dance at all."
"Neither can I."
He grinned again and pulled me to my feet and towards the two circles the many Dwarves had formed. We stood in front of each other, I was in the inner ring with the women and he in the outer one, along with the men, facing each other.
I didn't quite understand what was going on or what I was supposed to do, but before I could ask, the music started, and before I even knew it, Kíli had stepped forwards, lifted me up and thrown me into the air. I was so surprised that an embarrassing yelp escaped my mouth. Of course, the Dwarf caught me again and put me back on the ground. He was smirking, the little shit that he was.
The music became different for a couple of seconds as the outer ring took a step sideways, so that everyone was facing someone else, and then it went on where it had left off.
That was the beginning of something crazy, crazier than anything I'd ever experienced – and that's quite a thing, seeing as I had been in at least twenty stories by now, and I had gone through quite a few crazy things. I was being thrown into the air, spun around, accidentally kicked a couple of times and dropped onto the ground once after being thrown into the air.
In other words: when I eventually stood in front of the last Dwarf I was going to have to dance with, I was dizzy, out of breath, my shins were black and blue, and I was feeling too exhausted to feel uncomfortable about the fact that the last person I had to dance with was Fíli.
I looked him into the eyes with an almost pleading expression on my face.
"Please don't toss me into the river," I panted, and I wasn't even joking.
He grinned back. He was all sweaty; I wondered how many girls/women he had thrown and caught already.
Wait a second, why did that hurt?
I didn't have time to wonder about that, because the music became faster again, and before I even realised what was happening, Fíli had picked me up and put me onto his shoulders. It wasn't that high, barely higher than the trees I used to sleep in when we were still in the forest, and I knew he wouldn't drop me, but I couldn't help but scream a little.
When I looked around, I saw that every woman had been lifted up into the air, and I could already guess what was going to happen when the men started to run towards the river. I grabbed Fíli's hair so that he wouldn't drop me, and he yelped "Ow!", but I couldn't hear him over the sound of someone yelling "Chicken fight!"
The prince ran over to the other prince, who was carrying a girl around who looked like she wasn't much older than me, though I knew she was, and yelled loudly: "Push her off!"
I threw myself forwards, towards the girl on Kíli's shoulders, but she pushed me back, laughing.
"Thought you could beat me that easily?" she mocked.
I tried to throw her off the black-haired Dwarf's shoulders, but didn't succeed.
"Come on, Sam!" Fíli encouraged me. "Push her off!"
"Never!" the girl yelled back.
I could barely hold my balance – she was a lot stronger than I was – and she was winning until Fíli suddenly took a step backwards. The girl yelped and tumbled into the river, dragging Kíli with her.
"Fíli!" he shouted, struggling up to squeeze the water out of his hair. "That is not fair!"
The blond prince didn't reply; he was laughing too hard. His brother made a face at him before tackling him. I fell off his shoulders, into the water, and immediately, I was soaking wet. Damn, that water was cold.
I stuck my tongue out at Kíli, who was laughing now, and he laughed even harder when he saw that.
"You're mean, Kíli," I pouted. "Now I'm wet. And I'm cold. And you're making fun of me."
He continued laughing his ass off. Luckily, his brother went along with my act, so that I wouldn't be entirely making myself look like a moron. He lifted me out of the freezing water – why did he keep picking me up? It was becoming kinda weird – and lied me down on the narrow strip of grint next to the river.
"There, I have saved you," he said dramatically, smirking. He reminded me of someone, although I couldn't quite remember who it was.
Kíli broke my line of thoughts, saying something completely unexpected, completely random – or maybe not – and because of that, extremely uncomfortable.
"Perhaps we should take off our clothes to let them dry in the night," he yelled from behind Fíli's back.
His brother, who was still bent over me, choked. His face became bright red.
"Kíli," I said to the Dwarf with that name, who was, judging by the look on his face, trying to figure out what he had said wrong, "do you even realise how awkward that sounded?"
He opened his mouth, then realised it, and closed it again.
"Sorry," he apologized sheepishly. "Although I do not think it is a bad idea."
He climbed out of the river, patted his still coughing brother on the back as he walked past him, and took off his soaking wet clothes until he was only wearing his underpants. I wasn't sure where to look.
It wasn't until Kíli was back in the river that Fíli stopped coughing. He didn't break character when he turned towards his brother and bellowed: "Now, brother, you will pay for that remark!"
He hurled towards him and pulled him under water, making him sputter.
"Hey!" he protested, and then threw his hand towards his brother, through the water, so that Fíli got a torrent of water drops in his face. Now he was the one sputtering. He decided that he wanted revenge, and threw water back at Kíli, who threw back.
It kept going on like that until the sun had set, and Thorin and Dís had to drag the soaking wet brothers out of the river.
It was a good day. I think I had decided that I had forgiven Fíli for the somewhat clumsy remark he had made.
A/N:
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