The next few days Fili and Beorn would practice with Dain and Frerin in the woods. Fili had little difficulty in transforming, and Beorn was slowly controlling the change as well.
"So I think we need to do something about your studies." Fili told Beorn as they were eating dinner. "You're stable enough to study, the university is just two hours by car. That is if you want to continue."
"Of course I would. But there are many problems in the scope, first of all my grant, secondly my grant never included accommodation and other everyday expenses." Beorn noticed sternly. "Even if you somehow play your magic in getting my grant back, I have no family to support me, or no job to support myself."
"I'll handle the grant problem, and you can stay in my flat. My friend currently lives there, but as long as you deal with the idea of living with a vampire he can't say no to me." Kili told him. "Money is not the question."
"I'm already in your dept." The bear spoke in a harsh tone.
"And we will collect the dept in time." Fili told him using his powers. "You will help us later in the future, and for that perspective we will help you."
"I don't deserve this." Beorn was solemn and serious.
"You do. We consider you a member of the pack now, you're one of us. You've got two more years, and then you'll be welcome to rejoin us here. The village could use a good vet around." Fili added to make him realize a way he could pay off the dept.
"I really appreciate all of this." Beorn told them seriously. "If not for you two I would be a bear for all my life."
"For eternity." Fili added seriously.
"What do you mean?" Beorn asked surprised.
"Why do you think we're so happy together, Kili's a vampire." Fili made him notice. "We're both going to live a very long time."
"When the wolves transform they can chose to live as long as they want." Kili added. "Some chose to die along their family and mates, but many live on. Like Frerin is over five hundred years old."
"If you got stuck in the bear form, you would roam the forests in that form forever." Fili made him realize.
"The more so I have a huge dept to pay off now." Beorn added in a grim voice.
"So would you like me to pull some strings?" Kili asked with a smirk.
"Yes, I'd really like to continue my studies." Beorn told him looking at him with a shy smile.
"Great I'll call Elrond tomorrow." Kili told him with a smile.
"So what's your idea of getting it done?" Beorn glanced at Kili.
"Easy – I'll get you papers saying you were in a coma after a car accident. You're skinny enough to make it work." Kili told him. "Then we'll go to your former university and get the office to give us your documents."
"And the rest is just a piece of cake." Fili noticed. "You should invite them to my party at the same time."
"Party?" Beorn asked.
"Well since you're here with us, we're going to slave you out." Fili laughed. "My birthday party is less than two weeks away, on Saturday."
"I'll gladly help." Beorn confirmed.
"First you have to get ready to meeting a large number of vampires." Kili added.
"Are they like you?" Beorn asked.
"Some even more. I drink Fili's blood, but some of them are vampire vegetarians feeding only on animals." Kili told him with a shy smile.
"Cool. I'd like to meet those." Beorn told them honestly.
The next few days Kili and Fili drove with Beorn to his former university, the four hour drive pretty was surprisingly nice. At the university Kili worked his magic on the admissions office and got hold of all the paper work. They drove to town the next day and Kili again got the university to accept the papers with a slight psychic nudge. It took a bit more to get the grant back, but the papers sent by Elrond were strong enough to get it done.
The first meeting of Beorn and Legolas went better than expected. The bear sniffed the vampire and could easily tell this vampire never tasted human blood.
"You have a tendency to find strange company Kili!" Legolas told him with a grin refereeing both to the wolves and bear.
"My life is very interesting now." Kili grinned back at him.
"You both have to come to my party!" Fili insisted.
"We'll be there!" Legolas smiled. "I'll take care of your bear!"
"So what happens now?" Bofur asked Nori with a tremble in his voice as the two were laying in his bedroom in the small house belonging to the brothers. "My work here is done." He noticed is a sad voice.
"It's not like I have to stay here." Nori told him taking Bofur's hand.
"Would you come with me?" Bofur glanced at his lover with tenderness.
"To the ends of the world." The wolf replied with confidence. "But don't you think your boss will mind a wolf in the coven?" Nori joked.
"He's more tolerant than he may seem." Bofur added.
"Will we come back to Fili's party?" Nori asked shyly.
"I wouldn't miss it for the world. Just because we're going away a bit, it doesn't mean we won't come back every now and then." Bofur assured him warmly.
"I was wondering a lot about what happens now, are we going to make this official?" Nori suddenly asked.
"We already are official." Bofur told him. "Your family seems to be accepting this, my friends do too."
"I was more thinking about when we travel or anything you do." Nori told him. "If someone asks what will you say about me…" Nori lifted himself and glanced at the vampire with a huge smirk.
"You're my boyfriend by any definition." Bofur added.
"That's the problem, I don't think spending an eternity as your boyfriend works for me." Nori made him realize.
"Is that a proposition?" Bofur began laughing.
"You tell me?" Nori smiled.
"You want to ask the council if I could stay as a resident and the get hitched?" Bofur began laughing. "I doubt your brother would want us to just stay here forever."
"Neither do I. I was thinking of getting a place of our own. We still got a plot of land nearby from my mom's uncle." Nori proposed with a smile. "We could do jobs for your boss and come back home."
"Dwalin would definitely help, our friends too." Bofur realized. "I do have some cash stashed away, my boss is quite generous."
"So do we have a plan?" Nori kissed his neck.
"You're fucking adorable, my possessive wolf." Bofur kissed him back.
"I just want to make sure we'll spend eternity together." Nori smirked with a wide grin.
"Like that would change anything." Bofur sniggered referring to the marriage idea.
"If we plan to live here it might." Nori hissed and hid his head in Bofur's neck.
"What do you mean?" Bofur noticed the worry in his lover.
"Life here has both good and bad sides. Fili, Kili and the pack and some wolf related families are cool. But some are narrow minded small town folk. Since Fili and Kili moved in, it's been a storm of gossip about their male on male relationship. When it turned out my mom was a slut and she slept around and the three of us have different fathers, well the gossip made our life hell. Life in school was miserable, even now I still feel the glares and hear the hushes comments." Nori began explaining. "I wish I had known who was my father, I would beat the shit out of the guy. Dori's father is a businessman from Dale, but he rejected him. We have no idea who is my dad, the gossip say it was a truck driver driving due west to Mahal knows where. We have no idea who was Ori's father. It was really difficult, our mom kept drinking and then she died and left us alone. Dori struggled to raise us both and to make enough money to support us."
"So you want to make a statement?" Bofur noticed. "Both to the pack and to the village."
"So what do you say?" Nori was a bit nervous.
"Let's talk to Dain and Frerin. On our way back we can take a look at that plot of land." Bofur smirked. "I'm going to stand by your side, I'd love to stir up this town and fuck up their lives for what they did to you."
The next day the two of them drove to Frerin's house in Nori's derelict car. Frerin looked at them puzzled. He told them about the training they were doing with Fili and the bear who showed up in town. They spent a lot of time talking and chatting, and both Nori and Bofur just raised their eyebrows when Dain came in dressed only in shorts.
"Hey!" He greeted the fiery couple. "What are you two about today?"
"We were planning to talk to you as well." Nori began. "We're surprised to see you here."
"A bit." Bofur added with a grin, he nudged Nori to drop the topic.
"So why did you come here today?" Dain asked and sat at the table.
"We wanted to talk to you both." Nori began but went silent and glanced at Bofur for help.
"We want to be together. Officially." Bofur told them.
"What do you mean?" Frerin asked narrowing his eyes.
"I was wondering could we get the same deal Kili did." Nori finally managed to utter. "The trial thing and chance of permanent residence."
"And what later?" Dain asked looking at them seriously.
"We would built a house on old Barim's land." Nori told them. "And settle here."
"What will the vampires say?" Frerin noticed.
"My leader doesn't mind, as long as I'll be able to continue working from time to time." Bofur told him. "I can live anywhere I feel like."
"I'm fine with it." Dain told them.
"I'm not so sure." Frerin told them, but Dain kicked him under the table. "The town has already been stirred because Kili moved in with Fili in a open gay relationship."
"We want to get married." Nori finally managed to gasp. Both leaders looked at him clearly surprised, the hyperactive troublesome wolf was acting timid and shy.
"That's great!" Dain smiled to them. "I'll set the motion during the next meeting, but we can both assure you, you have our support."
"You do." Frerin told them in strained voice.
"Can we have the decision by the time of Fili's party?" Bofur asked calmly.
"Yes." Dain spoke calmly.
"Thank you!" Nori smiled at the two elder wolves, clearly he was very happy.
"It's funny to see him happy for a change…" Dain noticed glancing at the leaving couple.
"I'm not sure that's a good thing." Frerin added, but Dain just glared at him. "They are too much like us."
"But we never wanted to get married." Dain noticed.
"As if I'd ever merry you." Frerin scoffed with a playful smirk.
"If I gave you the chance you'd jump for it." Dain noticed calmly.