Poppy and Fili looked at Bilbo and Gandalf in shock. After a few seconds Poppy started to cry and sank to the floor sobbing her son's name.

The Grey Wizard whispered something to the little boy. Then Vili ran to his mother as fast as he could and shrieked happily. "Mama! Mama!" He wrapped his little arms around his mother's neck and kiss her face.

Poppy pulled her son close and smiled but she couldn't stop crying. "Vili, you're back. I missed you so much!" She sobbed and stroked his golden curls.

Vili touches his mother's face and tried to wipe her tears away. "Mama sad?"

Poppy pulled him even closer and kissed his cheeks and nose. "No, Mama is so happy that you're back. I missed you so much, my dear!"

Fili watched Poppy and Vili for a few moments and then kneeled down and wrapped his arms around both of them.

Vili slightly turned around and put one if his hands in his father's cheek "Papa, Papa!"

"Aye, my dear! I'm here, too. And I'm very happy that we're all together again." Fili kissed his son and his wife and smiled happily at them. "I will never let you go again."

They stayed in their tight embrace for a while until Poppy had calmed down and had realised that Vili was truly back with them in Hobbiton.

Finally Fili looked at Gandalf. "You took him, didn't you?"

Gandalf looked surprised and nodded.

"Poppy and I worried that he was dead for nearly twenty-four hours." Fili answered a bit more angry than he had meant to.

Gandalf sighed and looked at Bilbo. "You never told them?"

The hobbit looked at his friends who were still kneeling on the floor and and then back to the wizard. "No, I didn't! I didn't want to raise any hopes. And I didn't know that the letter might arrive that early." Bilbo sighed. "Why don't we sit down and drink a tea. Gandalf and I will explain everything."

Fili nodded and help Poppy stand up with Vili in her arms. He smiled at her and patted her arm. His wife's face was still tear-streaked but he hadn't seen her smiling like that for the last two years.

They sat down on the sofa in Bilbo's living room and waited for the hobbit to arrive with the promised tea.
Vili sat in his mother's lap with his arms around her waist and his head on her left breast.
Fili watched his son closely and stroked over his golden curls. He looked so much like him. Dis had braided Vili's hair similar to Fili's and he even wore some of his old clothes.

Poppy caressed Vili's face with her finger and smiled down at him. "Oh Vili, you have grown so much."

"Aye, I'm big." The little Dwobbit answered proudly but then rubbed his eyes.

Poppy worried that he might have caught an infection on the road but then he yawned. "Are you tired, my dear?"

Vili frowned and seemed to think about his answer. He buried his face in Poppy's hair and clutched her dress. Then he yawned again and nodded. "Aye, but... but Mama not go away. Please."

"No, Vili, don't worry! Mama and Papa won't go anywhere. We will stay here. Just sleep. Mama will hold you and when you wake up again we will still be here." Poppy said and pulled him close.

Vili still looked a bit scared. "Promise?"

"We promise!" Fili answered and wrapped his arms around Poppy and Vili. "You can sleep peacefully and when you wake up Mama and I will still be here. And then we go home and meet Lili and Tulip. Alright?"

Finally Vili smiled and nodded. He mumbled his sisters' names and fell asleep in his mother's arms with his head on her chest. Poppy smiled; her heartbeat still calmed him down in the same way it did when he was a baby.

Finally Bilbo arrived and sat down opposite to Poppy and Fili. He smiled at them and started to speak. "I'm so sorry! I didn't know that the letter would arrive that early. Otherwise I had told you immediately."

Fiili swallowed. "I believe you Bilbo. But how did you know of Gandalf's plans to take Vili in the first place?"

"Im sure you remember how Poppy begged us to stay here when we found out that Vili had been taken to Erebor?" When Fili nodded, Bilbo continued to speak. "Right! I wanted to do something to help. So I wrote to Gandalf to ask him for his assistance. I thought that he might be able to negotiate something with Thorin to get him back. Maybe Gandalf should explain everything he did after that. But in the end I got a note that they had a plan to bring Vili back to Hobbiton. I still didn't tell you because I wasn't sure if it worked out in the end. A few days ago I got a note that Gandalf and Vili would arrive here very soon but I wanted to surprise you. You have to believe me that I never meant to cause you even more sorrows." Bilbo said sadly.

"Of course you didn't! And in the end you brought Vili back. That's all that matters." Poppy said with a smile.

Fili agreed. "Poppy is completely right but-" Fili bit his lower lip. "Amad has to worry terribly. Didn't you have any opportunity to tell her before you kidnapped him?"

Gandalf cleared his throat. "Don't worry about your mother, Fili! Lady Dis knows everything. Making it look like Vili had been kidnapped was the easiest way to bring him back home without serious trouble for her. And the letter was a part of the plan since we're sure that Thorin read her letters. But actually we thought that the letter would arrive here after I brought your son back. Lady Dis chose a rather old raven and told it to fly slowly. But it seems like this didn't work."

Fili sighed in relief. "Thank you, Gandalf! So how did you get my son back?"

"That's a quite long story but I'll try to explain everything. So, when I got Bilbo's letter, I was in Lothlorien to meet with the Lady Galadriel. She is a very powerful elf and I asked her for help. She can also see things that might happen in the future and was completely sure that Thorin would never return Vili no mater what I promised him simply to punish his father. I had feared the same thing from the beginning. But she also told me that Lady Dis often went to Dale with him. So I rode there as fast as I could and waited until I saw her in the market one day. I told her about Bilbo's letter and together we contemplated what to do. Two weeks later everything was prepared. She had packed a small backpack with some of Vili's clothes and Dwalin hid it in the appointed place. She also told Vili very often that he had to go with a stranger and that he must not scream and listen carefully to what the stranger said since he was here to bring him back to his family. In the end I took him in one of the least crowded corners of the market and hid him under my cloak. I fetched the backpack and left as fast as possible. We rode to into the direction of the Greenwood and met with Gwaihir, the Lord of the Great Eagles. He brought us close to Rivendell and from there we came here as fast as possible. At first Vili was quite silent and scared but soon we got along very well. I told him many stories and he loved to fly on the eagle. A few hours ago we finally arrived here." Gandalf finished his story.

"What about King Thorin? Is he suspicious?" Poppy asked nervously.

Gandalf shook his head. "No, in Rivendell we met Lady Galadriel again. She kept an eye on him. He didn't seem to care about Vili's disappearance as long as he won't have to spent any of his precious gold for him."

Poppy sighed and whispered. "Maybe everything will be fine after all we've been through."

"I hope so, too. The Lady Galadriel also promised that she'll keep an eye on the happenings in Erebor. If King Thorin planned something against you, she will inform you as fast as possible." Gandalf said and watched the young she-hobbit closely. Galadriel had told him some interesting things about Poppy. She wasn't sure how and when but it appeared like Poppy and a child she'd give birth to in the future would play a big part in the fate of Thorin Oakenshield and the Kingdom under the Mountain one day.

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