Middle-Earth || The Hobbit and LOTR Oneshots

Sacrifice || Thorin

"You like him." Dís, my best friend, tells me bluntly one morning. 

"No, I don't!" I insist, telling her again for the 100th time that week. "Why are you so insistent that I like him?" 

"Because you do. I know for a fact that you like my brother. Best friends don't keep secrets from each other." She replies.

"Wow. You really went there." I say, surprised that she pulled that card on me. "But I don't like him!" 

At that moment, Thorin walks past, but he doesn't seem to have heard the conversation. 

"Hey sis," He greets his sister, before turning and looking me up and down. "Hey (Y/n)." He greets me with a barely noticeable smirk, before continuing on to wherever he was going. 

"Hey, Thorin." I greet back, and as soon as his back is turned my face flushes pink, and Dís nudges my side. 

Okay, so maybe I did have a tiny crush on my best friend's brother. 

It was about a week later that Thorin approached me and, knowing how good of a dwarven warrior I am, asked me to join his quest to reclaim Erebor. Of course, I couldn't pass up an opportunity like that and agree to join his company. 

Over the course of the journey, the two of us become better friends than we were. We saved each other's lives numerous times, and I was the only one in the company who could get him to smile. 

I was devastated that when we reclaimed Erebor he was overtaken by dragonsickness. One day I decide to go and see him again, to see if I could change his mind. 

"Hey, Thorin," I say, walking over to where he was standing near the throne. 

"What do you want?" He spits at me, seemingly angry from my mere presence. 

"You've never been one to run and hide from fight. You've never been one to let others fight your battles while you cower away behind your walls of stone." I say, getting straight to my point. "Somethings wrong, I can tell. You can talk to me, you know that right?" 

"I'm fine, and I don't need help from anyone, much less the likes of you!" 

I try not to show how much his words are hurting me. "Well, you can stay here and rot then! But do not keep the rest of us from fighting for our home!" I yell, trying to get through to him. 

"Fine! Go and get yourselves killed! See if I care!" He roars back at me. 

I storm out of the room and to the entrance, grabbing my bow and sword as I go. I pass the others on my way to the front wall. 

"Come on guys! Thorin may not be joining us, but that doesn't mean we can't fight for our home!" I say, to which I am met with sad faces and no action. 

"We won't go into battle without our uncle, (Y/n)," Kili says, standing, everyone else seems to agree with him. 

"I guess I'm going by myself then," I say, strapping my sword and quiver to my back, and not saying another word to any of them as I exit the mountain, still angry after my encounter with Thorin. 

I pull my sword from my back and start slashing at all orcs in sight. I end up fighting alongside Thorin's cousin, Dáin. Together we cut down orc after orc, littering the battleground with copious amounts of orc filth. I am somehow separated from Dáin, however, and I end up on Ravenhill, fighting the Bolg. From this distance, I don't notice that the door to the mountain is smashed open and out comes running a company of thirteen dwarves, weapons raised high. 

I am so busy fighting to survive that I don't notice my name being called, or the clashing of blades in the background of my fight. I somehow manage to deflect blow after blow that the Bolg tries to take me down with, but just as I am about to make an attack of my own, its sword comes swinging towards my head. With no time to move out of the way, I stand there, close my eyes and accept my fate. I wait for the agony that I know will accompany the landing of the blow, but it never comes.

I open my eyes and standing before me is Thorin, blade raised in front of him, deflecting the blow that would've killed me. With a quick maneuver, he slashes the beast down the back and pushes it towards Tauriel, who has just finished off the orc she was fighting. Thorin turns and looks at me. 

"Look at you, sacrificing yourself for others! When did you get a heart? I had thought you lost your moral code!" I yell at him, still angry about earlier. 

He looks shocked by my words, but his expression quickly turns to one of remorse. 

"(Y/n), I'm so sorry for the things I said to you. I was sick, I wasn't thinking straight. I'm so sorry, please believe me." He says, his eyes showing that he is truly remorseful, they beg me to understand. 

"Do you have any idea how much your words hurt me, Thorin? Do you have any idea how much it hurt to hear you say that you wouldn't care if I died? I thought I meant something to you, I thought-" I can't bring myself to say anything more, tears threatening to fall. 

"I don't." He admits, tears forming in his eyes. "I don't have any idea. But I am so, so sorry for all the pain I have caused you. I'm sorry for lying and saying that I didn't care because I do. I do care, I care about you more than anything."

"How can I believe you, Thorin? How do I know you aren't still affected by the dragon sickness? How do I know that you do care?" 

He takes my hand, taking a step closer to me. "I need you to trust me, (Y/n). I love you, more than anything, more than gold or jewels, more than my crown. I love you, and I need you to trust me." He professes, his cheeks turning slightly pink and his eyes shining with sincerity. 

"I-I love you too," I say, stunned. "And I would trust you with my life."

"You already did." He chuckles. "Do you mean that (Y/n)? Do you really love me?" He asks, going serious again. 

"I really do love you, I have since well before the beginning of this journey," I say, looking into his eyes. 

"Can I kiss you then?"

"Yes," I giggle. 

He presses his lips against mine and wraps his arms around my waist. I kiss back and wrap my arms around his neck. When we pull away, both Kili and Fili are looking at us in shock. 

"I guess we should start calling you Aunt (Y/n) now." Fili teases. 

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Sorry, I haven't posted in a while, I had last week off school and had one of those weeks where you don't feel motivated to do anything at all. But I'm happy with how this turned out and I'm glad I pushed myself to write this at almost midnight. 

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