Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings Imagines

Colours 7

Well, this is the final part. I will put a trigger warning here for major character death and grief. This has broken my heart a little to write but I felt that this was where the story had to go.

My sincerest apologies.

After the dwarves had chased Smaug from Erebor, they hurried back to help Lili. Luckily, she was unharmed, covered in a lot of dust and dirt, but unharmed.

They then stood and watched Smaug lay waste to Laketown.

"There must have been something else we could do." Lili said grimly, looking away, her eyes a deep, dark and sorrowful blue.

"No lass, we did all we could." Balin said, gripping her shoulder. "Do not bare this weight as well."

Lili doesn't answer, instead looking at Bilbo and following his gaze.

Thorin stood staring at Erebor instead of fires of Laketown.

She steps next to Bilbo. "Will he be alright?" She asked quietly.

"I...I do not know." Bilbo replies. "And it worries me."

They continued to watch Thorin until their attention was drawn back to Laketown, in time to see Smaug fall. They were amazed and cheered, not sure how the dragon was defeated, but in that moment, not caring.

Then Lili noticed that Thorin was gone.

"Uncle?" She walks to where he had been, in time to see his figure disappearing back into the halls of Erebor, she bites her lip and looks back at Balin, who had followed.

Balin's concern was clear in his expression. "We just need to be careful lass. We're not sure how deep it goes."

Lili's gaze flicks with yellow as she looks back to Erebor. She waits till the others are ready before they head back inside.

"Lili!"

The chorus from her brothers made her look up and she beams as Fili and Kili enter the room. With a half laugh, half sob, she runs over to them and embraces them tightly, something they tightly return.

"I knew you would be okay." She sobs, causing them to laugh. "What happened?"

Between Fili, Kili, Bofur and Oin, they managed to get the tale out of what had happened at Laketown and they all sat a little amazed at what they said, but then more serious questions began to be asked, such as what had happened with Smaug.

Lili let the others handle the tale, all of them knowing that the real question that they were asking was about Thorin.

"He returned to Erebor not long after Smaug was killed." Dwalin said slowly. "And now he hasn't been eating or sleeping."

"And he is set on finding that stone." Balin continues. "Of which I do not doubt that he will get us back in to do soon."

"Then we should find it." Lili said quietly. "The sooner we do, the sooner Uncle will return to normal."

Balin gives her a kind, gentle look. "Sadly lass, I don't think it will work like that."

Lili hangs her head. She knew that in her heart, but she wasn't willing to say it outloud yet.

"Don't worry Lili, we'll fix this." Fili said, wrapping an arm around her. "Somehow."

Lili was exempt from searching for the Arkenstone, Thorin now overly protective of her, to the point where he did not like her alone with anyone except him or her brothers, especially Bilbo.

She managed to escape him at one point, wondering the halls, and by chance she'd come across Bilbo.

She sinks into the chair next to him, making him jump.