Silence a Kili love story

Chapter 12 Barrels

A/N: So sorry for the super long wait. I've been dealing with all of life's BS. I've also been working on other stories. Thank you to those of you who asked for updates, reminding this story sat unfinished. This chapter is a little longer than the others to make up for the long wait and I kind of skim over a lot of things, but that's what I've been doing this whole story so I hope you don't mind too much. I'll shut up now.

Chapter 12

We had been in the cells for a while now, I wasn't sure how long, I just knew it was cold. Being an elf I could see in the dark, but even for an elf, it was dark down here. I used my dragon side to heat the stone I laid on, sending heat to the other dwarves to try to keep us warm. I knew Bilbo wasn't among us, I couldn't smell him. I could try to transform to get us out but that would make too much noise.

The prince was now outside my cell watching me. I seemed to be fascinating to them. The fact that I didn't speak or respond to sounds going on around me. It also surprised them I could understand them and had learned other means of communicating with others. He left after about an hour and Bilbo showed up with the keys. Thank the stars; I had been in this tiny cell for far too long. I followed him and he had to get the dwarves to follow as we went further in. He took us to the cellars where some barrels were.

"Get in the barrels," he said. I looked at him for a moment. I could sense the dwarves were unsure but I could see the barrels were on some kind of trap door and there was a lever. What was that hobbit up too? I smiled looking at the lever then back to the barrels. I got in the top one being the tallest in the group. Soon enough the others joined me and Bilbo dropped us into the river. We waited for the hobbit to join us before we went on our crazy river ride.

Before we could escape though the gate closed and orcs appeared on the scene. We were trapped between a rock and a hard place. I leapt out of my barrel as elves started battling orcs and I pulled the lever and I transformed and started killing orcs and pulled my sword off of the red-haired she-elf. She wouldn't be able to wield it anyway. I flew above the river following my friends as they too fought. As they moved further and further from the fight the orcs started leaving the elves alone. I grabbed Thorin's sword off of Legolas, Legolas having claimed it as his own when we were first captured.

I caught up to Kili and dropped both weapons in his barrel before dropping myself in the river to swim so I wouldn't be seen from Laketown. The current would eventually have us in front of the orcs, but not for long. We would have to find a way to cross the lake. It didn't take long for us to wash up on the river bank, most of us water logged. I transformed back into my elf form and swam up to the bank and helped the others out.

I helped Kili with my weapon and Thorin's. Once everyone was out of the water I took Thorin his weapon. "How did you get this?" he asked.

"I took it," I replied not knowing if he would understand my hand gestures. It was high time he learned. Bilbo was halfway through mastering it and he had started three months ago.

"Thank you," he replied. I guess he was able to figure out what I was telling him or close enough to it. I nodded in reply. I wish I had been able to grab weapons for everyone. Two swords among 15 was better than none. I suddenly spun around, smelling another person. He had his bow drawn on us and had fired at Dwalin and Kili.

"Do it again and you're dead," he said pulling the bow string tight. If I could I would growl at the man, but I noticed he had a boat. Perhaps he could be of use to us. Balin seemed to think the same as he stepped forward and began to talk with the man. I saw the man mention something about smuggling. I knew that would take money, not something we had a lot of. I picked up a large rock worn smooth by the river and breathed hot air of a dragon it, turning it into a diamond.

I brought the once meaningless rock over to the man and held it out to him. I pointed to me and my friends and then to his boat. "What's wrong with her?" he asked. I glared at him at his question.

"Nothing is wrong with my future wife!" Kili said coming forward. His voice sounded in my head. He came forward and put his arm around my waist. "She can't speak or hear, but she understands you fine, just as long as she can see your lips when you talk and it doesn't matter what tongue you speak in."

"How did she learn to do that?" he asked.

"I've always been able to do that master bargeman," I replied pushing my voice into his head.

"How did you do that?" he asked.

"Do what?" Kili asked.

"I heard her voice in my head," he said.

"She very rarely does that. She only does that with people who don't understand her hand gestures or want her to speak. To her it is an invasion of privacy," Kili answered. Once again I held out the diamond. He nodded and we got on. We had passage into Laketown. We just had to get through Laketown with supplies and weapons in a boat to get to the mountain alive in the next two days. Without waking a dragon. And we had orcs on our tail. Should be easy.