They returned at the end of the week in Kili's car with the last things they wanted to take from the flat. Kili did a huge shopping trip knowing there would be limited food supply in a small town like Erebor. Fili complained seeing the huge number of bags from the supermarket, but Kili showed him a vision what he needed many of the products for, and the sight of those fancy dishes in his head made Fili shut up.
"It's not like you can't order it delivered home, some should be available in Dale." Fili noticed after a while.
"Does it really matter?" Kili asked.
"Fine, do whatever you like." Fili told him taking the bags out of the car. "Where do you want all this?"
"Kitchen, I'll sort it out in a moment." Kili noticed. "Have you called the leader about Dwalin and Bofur coming in on Monday and staying for at least two weeks?"
"I almost forgot about that." Fili noticed.
"Thank goodness your sclerosis is not bond shared." Kili added with a laugh.
"Since we got two days alone, I would like to show you around." Fili smiled at his mate. "This place is not only forest and wolves."
"Anything with you at my side is fine, ever forests and wolves." Kili kissed him and ran into the house bringing in more things. Using his super speed he quickly put all the shopping away, the cupboards were mostly empty from the last cleaning. "I'm ready!" He yelled to his mate.
"Let's go!" Fili pulled out a hoodie from one of the bags. He led Kili into the forest behind the house and began running.
"I hope you change wolf soon, this snail pace is killing me!" Kili joked.
"I might be faster than you!" Fili noticed with a smile, feeling a bit offended the human form he was in was uncomfortable.
"You wish!" Kili made five circles around Fili with a grin. "I'll always be faster! Only Tauriel is faster than me!"
"But she's not as strong as you!" Fili noticed.
"Good for you, she would have killed you the first meeting if not for my firm position." Kili replied in a grim voice.
"She's obsessive about you…" Fili noticed. "I hope my instincts are right about her finding a mate soon."
"Or she'll be a pain in the ass. Your ass to be exact." Kili sniggered. "So where are we going?"
"There's a river like six more kilometers south from here." Fili told him with a gentle smile.
"Are you tired?" Kili suddenly insisted.
"No, why…" Fili asked.
"I'm tired…"Kili replied with a smirk.
"You're a vampire you should never get tired…" Fili noticed impassively.
"I'm tired of this slow pace!" The vampire suddenly grabbed him and with ease lifted him in his arms.
"You're fucking crazy!" Fili noticed delighted with the fast pace, the world was blurring and hazy.
"You're just too slow!" Kili sniggered setting him down at the river bank.
"I'll be fast enough later…" He kissed his lover deeply.
"I surely do hope so!" Kili leaned down and kissed him even stronger.
"Why did you stop?" Fili asked surprised as Kili pulled back.
"I'm pretty crazy, but not crazy enough to have sex with you here when three wolves are watching us." Kili whispered to him with a smirk.
Fili laughed whole heartedly and glanced around, not noticing them. Just because you can't see them it doesn't mean they are not there! Kili told him, and showed him where exactly the wolves were hidden in the woods.
"A swim?" Fili proposed.
"Without towels and swimming trunks?" Kili smiled widely clearly delighted with the idea.
"On second though I'm not sure I want those wolves to see your perfect ass…" Fili hugged Kili tightly and kissed him again.
"Just six months, and later you can have all the outdoor sex you can handle!" Kili licked his neck, knowing Fili loved the feeling.
"You're on!" Fili replied in a chaste voice and kissed him deeply.
"You're turning us on again…" Kili complained. "As much as I'd love to fuck you right here and now, even with those three wolves around, I really don't think this is a good idea."
"Snail pace running back home?" Fili proposed jokingly.
"Nope. Vampire pace running home!" Kili grabbed him yet again, and within minutes they were back in their yard.
"Can the wolves keep up with you?" Fili asked looking around.
"Just barely." Kili noticed. "Without your dead weight, they wouldn't have a chance." He noticed with a wide grin.
"I fucking love you!" Fili closed their lips together and pulled him in a firm move into the house. "Indoor sex now!" He ordered his vampire, and he could feel the enthusiasm emanate from his lover.
"Damn that fucking vampire!" Gimli could barely catch his breath after the marathon run from the house to the stream and back.
"He's fucking fast!" Nori complained.
"I just wonder how fast he can run without the extra weight." Ori noticed barely breathing. "I wonder what was the hurry to get back to the house…"
"I think I have an idea, but you're too virgin to listen to it." Nori laughed gently at his younger brother.
"You think they are…" Ori's voice went in a low whisper.
"I'm sure." Gimli smiled at the younger wolf boy. "If not for the vampire noticing our presence, you'd have the best porn movie of your lifetime live in the woods."
Ori went all red and his ears laid low on his head. He looked at them as if he finally realized what the wolf and vampire were probably doing now.
"I think your virgin brother finally discovered sex…" Gimli laughed at Nori.
"As if a wolf should need to miraculously discover that…" Nori replied. "He should be all hormones and sex drive."
"It's like he's not related to you… He's all like Dori, asexual." Gimli added.
"Dori is asexual?" Ori gasped.
"Not really, but he's placid and not fun." Nori explained.
"Oh!" Ori gasped. "So I'm also placid and not fun?" His voice was meek and he was clearly embezzled.
Both wolves just glared at him, clearly they agreed with what the younger wolf said about himself.
When the brothers reported to Frerin, leaving Gimli on guard duty, they heard a new schedule had to be assigned. They would have three vampires around for at least two weeks. Excluding the oldest wolves and the pack leader, that left only a few to take turns watching the unwanted guests.
"This is going to be a pain in the ass." Nori noticed the tight and thick schedule.
"I don't really mind." Ori glanced at the schedule, guard duty alone did not sound that bad, as long as he got the big tall vampire to watch over. His brother's words about him being placid and not fun, were still ringing in his head.
"I think you should talk to your senseless uncle…" Dis told Fili the following day. She was dead curious about the renovation and their plans and she wanted to talk with him before the vampires come.
"What about?" Fili glanced at her, as he was putting plates into the kitchen cupboards.
"He's slaving those poor wolves. Do they really have to be in wolf form while watching you guys? I was thinking if you get them to come in their human form, and actually feed them and let them stay here, it might do good for Kili's integration in the tribe." Dis noticed.
"I was thinking the same thing, the idea was to get Kili to know the tribe and the tribe to accept Kili." Fili realized.
"Exactly." Dis smiled at her son. "I've heard lots of gossip the last week."
"What kind of gossip?" Kili asked from the doorway peaking in as they were putting things in the cupboards.
"About you two, do you want to know what's the official story behind the tribe's attitude towards you?" She glanced at Kili with a smirk.
"Shoot." The vampire told her curtly.
"Everyone thinks that the council meeting and the general disfavor comes from the fact that the chiefs son chose to be in a relationship with a man." Dis gently chuckled.
Both of them looked at her and when the idea finally hit them they laughed at the same time.
"It's not like we're the first couple like this in the tribe…" Fili kept laughing.
"You're the first official couple in the tribe." Dis noticed with a smirk.
"Then I had to head lots of gossip about the poor wolves being forced to some kind of supervision schedule." Dis noticed. "Mathilda, Bombur's wife, said their sons Farin and Borin spent over forty hours watching over you last week."
Bombur runs the only bar in the village, his wife is known for being pregnant all the time and they already have eight kids… Fili added telepathically and gave him images of the family.
"The Ry brothers are on the list as well." Dis added.
Ori, Nori and Dori Fili showed Kili the mental image of the three wolves. Dori is the accountant around here, Nori is known for fixing and breaking things, and Ori is the only Ry brother to graduate from College, he has a masters in history. They are also known for the fact that they have three different fathers. It was quite a scandal when I was a kid.
"So how many wolves are watching us?" Kili asked with a grin. "I've counted eight so far."
"I think there are nine or ten." Dis told them. "The oldest like Dain, Frerin, Gloin, Groin are probably off the list."
"I think it'd be best to suggest not taking them from their normal lives." Kili noticed. "Sacrificing their private time and lives will only increase their resentment towards me." He added.
"That's why I'm trying to convince Fili to go and talk with Frerin about it." Dis pointed out.
"Fine…" Fili gasped. "I'll go after lunch."
Frerin was very surprised to see Fili seek him out at his house. It was a small wooden building away from the village, slightly deeper into the forest.
"What do you need?" He asked without a polite greeting.
"We need to talk about the wolves." Fili told him.
"What about them?" Frerin wasn't looking at him, and the annoyance was radiating from him.
"I've heard a lot of complaints from the wolves about that they feel tired with the schedule you devised." Fili went straight to the topic.
"Or are you and your bloodsucker tired of them trailing around you?" Frerin asked in a bitter tone.
"It's not that. But I want to suggest doing it a bit differently." Fili told him after a moment.
"Meaning?" Frerin was firm and cold.
"Instead of forcing all the wolves to a supervision schedule, I'd like to have two or three of them stay over in human form. Like have dinner with us, sleep at night in a normal bed and be able to use the toilet if they need to." Fili told him. Frerin just glared at him.
"So you want them to live at your house instead of watching from the forest?" Frerin wanted to make sure.
"You can call it that." Fili told him trying to please the older wolf. "It would be more effective that way, and they can change to wolf form at any given time anyway."
"I'll think about it." Frerin told him and glared at the woods again. "I'll call you later tonight."
As soon as Fili was gone Frerin glanced at the disappearing person. He could smell the vampire on him, but there was a slight change as well. Fili was slowly coming of age, and he wondered how the wolf in Fili will take living with a vampire.
He pulled out his phone, he still hated the blasted thing, but it did prove to be useful.
"Tell the wolves we have a meeting tonight." He told Dain. "You go and watch them while the wolves will be at my place."