Poppy literally ran back home. Occasionally she turned around to make sure that the dwarves didn't follow her. Vili seemed to sense her fear and started to cry. Poppy hugged him closer with one hand and stroked his golden curls while whispering comforting words into his ears.

When she arrived home, she found Fili sleeping in their armchair with Lili in his arms. He looked so peaceful that Poppy didn't want to wake him. If these dwarves were indeed here to take Fili, it would be too late anyways and there was nothing they could do.

Poppy tried to distract herself and played with Vili in the nursery after he had finally calmed down when she heard the doorbell. She took a deep breath and put her son in the cradle. Then she went to open the door. The two dwarves were standing in front of her smiling. The young hobbit shrieked and started to tremble. She tried to breath normally to calm down but couldn't stop the tears from rolling down her face. "Please, don't hurt him! Please don't take him away from me!" She said in between sobs.

The two dwarves looked at each other when Fili arrived at the door. He gasped as well. Poppy turned around and clutched his tunic. "Fili, they saw me at the market and must have followed me. I'm sorry! I-"

One of the dwarves touched Poppy's arm but quickly pulled it away agin when she started to scream once again. The three dwarves looked at each other and realised that Poppy had no idea who they were and that she must have thought that they're here to kill Fili.

Poppy had buried her head in Fili's chest and held tightly to his tunic. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of her head. "Don't worry, my love! Everything is fine. They won't hurt anyone." Fili whispered into her ear.

The hobbit slowly looked up at her husband and frowned."But, but you said that no dwarf could know that you're here."

Fili kissed her nose and wiped her tears away with his thumb. "Aye, but these two knew that I was here. This is my mother, Dis, and her husband, Dwalin. And if I'm not completely mistaken, their little daughter, Dwalis, is wrapped in mother's coat."

Poppy turned her head around and looked at the two dwarves who smiled brightly at her. Then she noticed the brown hair sticking out of Dis' coat, too. "I'm sorry!" She said and tried to smile.

Dis stepped closer and petted Poppy's shoulder. "No, we should be the ones who have to apologise! Of course you had to be scared after Fili told you everything. When we saw you at the market, we wanted to follow you. But then we lost you. Dwalin suggested to visit Bilbo and he told us were you lived. I'm sorry." Dis said with a smile.

Poppy let go of Fili's tunic to turn around. She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and looked up at them. "Why don't you come in? I'm sure you're hungry and thirsty. There is so much to talk about."

Dis still smiled and nodded while Dwalin rubbed his hands. "That's a wonderful idea! I hope you have such wonderful cookies like Bilbo had back then."

Now Poppy had to chuckle. Bilbo had told her how he found Dwalin in the pantry with his hands in a jar full of cookies and that he ate all of them. "Well Mister Dwalin, I baked these cookies as a gift for Bilbo."

"Really?" Dwalin grinned like a dwarfling and then looked to Fili, who stood behind his wife with his hands around her waist. "Now I understand why you married her." Then he winked at the younger dwarf.

"She had much more to offer than just her wonderful cooking skills." Fili said with a grin and kissed the tip of his wife's ear. Poppy could barely hold back a moan and blushed.

Dwalin shook his head. "I don't want to know any details."

Once they were inside Dis gave her daughter to Dwalin and threw her arms around Fili ans kissed his cheeks. "Oh my boy, I thought I'd never see you again. I'm so happy to be here."

Fili closed his eyes and held her close. "Amad, I missed you so much, too. But why are you here? What did you tell Thorin?"

Dis cupped her son's cheek. "Don't worry! Lord Elrond wanted to meet Thorin in Rivendell to discuss an agreement about keeping the road across the Misty Mountains safe. Of course he wouldn't leave his gold for such a long time and so Balin and Dwalin suggested that I could go there with my husband as a representative of Erebor. The King agreed. The road is quite save at the moment and it will still take some time until I can conceive and perform my duty to the kingdom again."

Fili snorted and shook his head. "That's hilarious."

"Yes, sometimes I think his sickness is even worse than Thror's, but it gave my a chance to see you. It's like Mahal granted me my biggest wish. Lord Elrond knows the truth anyways and if someone asks why we stay there so long, we prepared letters. They will explain that we traveled to your father's grave. He's dead for nearly 80 years and I wanted to see it again."

Fili sighed in relief and led his mother and Dwalin to the living room. He held his little sister while the two other dwarves took off their coats and quickly washed themselves. Poppy made tea and prepared some food. She also fetched the cradle and a blanket from the storage room and offered Dis to use it for her daughter. Dis thanked her and Dwalis was asleep almost immediately.

Soon the four adults sat at the table and started to eat. Dwalin had placed the plate with the cookies in front of himself and made sure that no one would take any. Poppy was still slightly scared, especially of Dwalin but tried to smile and relax. They were her husband's family and they wouldn't hurt him or the children.

Fili seemed to sense her discomfort and put his hand on hers and smiled at her reassuringly.

Dis smiled at them, too. The moment she had first seen them together, she had known that they were made for each other. They loved each other dearly and she had never seen her son that happy.

She once again apologised for scaring Poppy that much when the twins started to cry. Fili wanted to stand up but Poppy put her hand in his forearm. "Stay here, I'll feed them in the nursery and then I'll bring them here."

Fili nodded and as long as his wife was gone, he told Dis and Dwalin about how difficult it had been to get used to live with twins. For example how they were inseparable but they had only the small cradle, Dwalis was sleeping in at the moment. But luckily the carpenter had made one that was big enough for both of them and that he even put wheels on it. In that way Poppy could easily push the children to the room she was in.

When Poppy returned Dis stood up immediately and looked into the cradle at the two babies who looked up at her with big blue eyes. She gasped and tears glistened in her eyes. "Oh Fili, when I received Bilbo's note that you had twins, I couldn't believe it. But now that I see them, it's real! I'm a grandmother. They are perfect. What are their names?"

Fili frowned. "Which note from Bilbo? Didn't you get my letter about the twins?"

Poppy took her husband's hand. "I forgot to tell you. Bilbo sent a note to your mother right after the babies had been born. He had no idea when you might come back and we wanted to inform her as soon as possible that everything was fine."

Dis smiled at her daughter in law. "We've been on our way here already when we received the note. I nearly fell off the cart when I read that you had a daughter. Your letter arrived a few days later but we were in a storm and the rain erased the ink."

Fili nodded. "I see. For a few moments I pannicked that it might have gotten in the wrong hands."

Dwalin had stood up, too and slapped Fili on the back. "Well done lad, they are a real treasure."

The foreign voice had startled the children and they began to whimper. Fili took the little girl in his arms. "This is our daughter, Lili." He said proudly.

Dis trailed her fingers over the little one's face. "She's so pretty and I love her name." Lili looked at her curiously but smiled.

Meanwhile Poppy had taken their son in her arms. Dis turned to her and caressed her grandson's face, too. The boy started to cry and clutched his mother's wedding braid. She wanted to talk to him but that seemed to make it even worse.

Poppy looked at Dis. "I'm sorry! But he always behaves like that around strangers since he's blind."

Dis gasped. "The poor little lad."

"It will become better when gets to know you. Vili is a happy child as long as he's with Fili, Lili or me."

Dis paled and put her hand in front of her mouth to stifle a sob. "Vili. His name is Vili?"

Poppy simply nodded while Fili took his mother's hands. "Aye, Amad! His name is Vili. I hope you don't mind that I gave him a dwarven name even though he's a dwobbit and not a pure blooded dwarf. But I always dreamed of calling my son after my father."

Dis smiled at her son and couldn't hold back her tears any longer. "Oh Fili! He would be so proud! And I am proud, too." She threw her arms around her son once again and sobbed into his shoulder.

After a few minutes she calmed down again and looked at the little boy. "Vili, your grandfather would love you so much." Then she placed a kiss on his tiny nose.

The three dwarves and the hobbit sat together with their children for a few more hours and mainly talked about what had happened in Erebror. Everyone was quite tired though and so they went to bed early. Poppy suggested that Dis and Dwalin could sleep in her old room. Dis barely fit into the small bed but Dwalin had to sleep on the floor. He assured Poppy that he didn't mind that at all. As long as Dis and Dwalis were comfortable, he'd be happy, too.

Fili and Poppy lay down together soon afterwards. She had placed her head on his chest and he had wrapped his arms around her waist and had placed them on her belly. Suddenly Poppy remembered why she had gone to the village that morning in the first place. So much had happened that day and she had completely forgotten to tell her husband. Fili was already asleep though and so she decided to tell him first thing in the morning. She closed her eyes and soon fell asleep with a happy smile in her face.

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