Mid summer...4 months

Tia was sitting at Dis kitchen table in her nightgown as Kechi was altering some of her clothes since they were getting tight already. She was only four months along and her belly was getting more noticible ..so much so that her clothes didnt fit and this was not the norm for a dwarven woman. Tia asked Ahmi if this was normal but all her cousin did was give her a shrug of shoulders and say maybe before leaving out the door to go to her shop...which is so not the answer any mother to be wants to hear.

" Well my dear..i must admit i didnt show till later on with either of my boys..maybe this is a big baby..your momma was after all half human." Dis just shrugged then went back to making supper for that evening while Kechi kept letting out seams and resewing some of her clothes to fit her new waistline. As she sat there waiting a young darrowdam came in with some papers in her hands. She had dark reddish brown hair that fell to her mid shoulders and pretty hazel eyes that was full of laughter and kindness. "Kita..come on in."

"Morning maam" she spoke shyly as she walked over to Tia."Master T..." stopped when Tia held up her hand...Tia..just Tia please..."Tia...i have the orders you wanted to review here." she walked over to place a small stack of order forms in front of her. Tia looked over the papers and sighed at all that was needing to be done..while her mind wandered to Bofur..knowing he was far away from her by the ache in her heart.

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somewhere in the High Pass mountains

A violent thunderstorm is making itself heard through out the mountain range as thirteen dwarves and one hobbit are stumbling along the cliffs of the mountain pass as the rain tries to wash it out from under them. The hobbit suddenly slips only to be caught ,at the edge of a steep plummet, by some of the others of the group.

"We must find shelter!" shouts Thorin to the others..suddenly there is a shout from Dwalin and everyone looks up to see a giant rock heading thier way..hitting the mountain above them and raining debris as they try to evade the pieces.

"This is no thunderstorm ..this is a thunder battle. Look!" Balin points at the sight of a stone giant fighting another giant all around them. Bofur steps forward at the spectacul before him in awe of what hes witnessing .

"Well bless me. The legends are true! Giants! Stone giants!" Bofurs voice is filled with wonder as he witnesses the legendary battle in front of him..not even seeing the rock being thrown until Thorin grabs the back of his jacket pulling him against the cliff side while shouting..take cover you fool!..thus saving him from being knocked off. As the giants fight Bofur feels the mountain side shake under him and realizes in horror that they are on the very knees of another giant who decides to join the fray..seperating some of the group from one another. The battle doesnt take long and the group finally reunites with one another..Bofur is the first one who notices that they are a member short.

"Wheres Bilbo? Wheres the hobbit?" he looks around and suddenly heres a voice calling out as he looks down he sees Bilbo holding on for dear life to the cliff side..dangeling over empty space. reaching down for him he hollers out "Grab my hand! Bilbo! Come on and take it!" he sees Bilbo trying but is unable to reach for fear of falling. Suddenly Thorin jumps down the side and helps push him up to the awaiting hands. As everyone is gasping and breathing in sighs of relief Bofur heres Dwalin say how he thought they had lost thier burgler.. and then Thorins voice filled with contempte diminishes everyones mood as he states ..Hes been lost ever since he left home. He should never have come. He has no place among us. Bofur sees the hurt in Bilbos eyes from those words and he pats the hobbit on the shoulder to give him some solace from the pain..then they move on finding a cave. They eventually get settled down for the evening after checking that the cave is safe enough and Bofur takes first watch while everyone sleeps. Taking out his pipe he sits down on a rock against the wall thinking of Tia and how much he misses the warmth of her arms and hearing her laugh. As he sat deep in thought he heard a noise and saw movement, shaking him out of his reverie he sees Bilbo quietly making his way to the front of the cave with pack in hand.

"Where do you think your going?" Bofur asks hoping that he wasnt doing what he thought was doing.

"Back to Rivendale." he whispers loudly not noticing that Thorin wakes upon hearing voices.

"No. No. No. Yeh cant turn back now. Yur a part of this company. Yur one of us." Bofur tries to reassure him but feels it was no use as Bilbo argues how hes not and Thorin is right..how hes shouldnt have come. Bofur tries once more to reassure him. "Yur homesick, I understand."

"No you dont! You dont understand, none of you do, your dwarves! Your used to..to this life, living on the road, never settling in one place, not belonging anywhere!" Bofur feels a deep pain in his chest at Bilbos words and he wanted to sink into his lonliness and pain from missing his wife. Bilbo sees pain cross Bofurs face and realizes what he just said." Im sorry. I didnt..."

"No yur right. We dont belong anywhere." Bofur hears Tias words in his heart ..this grey reminds you to stay calm always..this brown -may Mahal watch over you..watch over you..watch over you..her voice fades as he realizes what he needs to do ..show compassion and understanding." I wish yeh all the luck in the world. I really do" he pats Bilbo on the shoulder and as hes about to turn around he sees Bilbos sword glowing." Whats that?" suddenly the cave floor cracks and he hears Thorins shout for everyone to wake and get up..but it is too late the ground swallows them up down into its depths.

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Deep in the mountain the biggest..fattest.. ugliest goblin is dancing around the dwarves singing a horrid song in his grating voice with glee.

Bones will be shattered, necks will be wrung, and youll be beaten and battered, from racks youll be hung. You will die down here and never be found, down in the deep of Goblin town.

When the dwarves fell through the floor they fell down into a cage where a horde of goblins set upon them, kicking and pushing them all before them straight to the feet of the foul goblin king who taunted Thorin with knowledge of a certain pale orc who wanted his head.Now they were being pushed along a path to be tortured by these grotesque things as thier weponary that they had been stripped of earlier was rummaged through. Suddenly there was a shriek from one of the goblins as he threw down Thorins sword before the king who shrinks back in horror at the sight of it.

"I know that sword! Its the goblin-cleaver! the biter! The blade that sliced a thousand necks." he looks over at the dwarves now " Slash them, beat them, peel them, kill them all!" he shouts in rage. " cut off his head" he points to Thorin when suddenly there is a loud explosion and a flash of great white light..knocking everyone down to the ground...a great voice booms out into the silence.

"Take up arms. fight. Fight!" gandaulf shouts out ralling the dwarves to thier feet to fight the goblins. As the fight rages on Gandaulf realizes there are too many to fight and he hollers for everyone to follow him...Bofur follows them down along the paths hoping they can escape this demon pit and make it out of there in one peice. As he is running across a bridge almost free of the goblin swarm the goblin king appears before them pushing the group back..blocking the exit of them all as he stares evilly down upon them.

"You thought you could escape me!" he looks down at gandaulf with a sneer on his face." What are you going to do now..wizard" swiftly gandaulf strikes out with his staff at the kings eye..then using his sword he cuts open his belly..as the goblin falls to his knees he looks in disbelief at gandaulf."That would do it." At that moment Bofur sees Gandaulf cut the kings throat who falls over backwards dying. Before anyone can cheer the bridge suddenly collapses under them ..falling into the great chasm below..hitting and scrapping along the walls..slowing down its flight down until finally coming to a halt at the bottom of the cavern floor. Bofur looks around and sees everyone is not hurt to bad even though they are under alot of bridge kindling and cant help crowing "Well, that coulda been worse." ..jinxing them as the dead body of the goblin king falls ontop of them..squishing them under his great wieght. Groaning he hears Dwalins gruff voice .. Youve gotta be joking ...finally he pulls himself out helping some of the others when Kilis voice screams in panic..looking up he sees goblins swarming down the walls heading towards them.

"Only one thing will save us. Daylight! Come on! " gandaulf shouts directing all to follow him to safety.. to an opening within the cave where they see light radiating from..the promise of safety before them as they run for thier lives towards it.

The suns light momentarily blinds him but he keeps running ..knowing distance is the only way to be free of this cursed place...vaguely noticing the trees as he weaves his way pass them in his flight down the mountain side. Bofur finally comes to a stop along with the others ..hearing gandaulf counting out ..making sure everyone is there when suddenly he hears his concerned voice shouting.

"Wheres Bilbo? Where is our hobbit? Where is our hobbit?!" the panic sets in his voice as he looks at them all. Bofur glances around not seeing him any where and sadness fills his heart at the loss as Thorin spoke how they will not be seeing thier hobbit again..how hes long gone. Bofur bows his head for a moment when suddenly he hears the voice they truely believed they wouldnt hear ever again speak from behind them.

"No .He isnt" turning around they all see Bilbo standing there looking nervous as he sees the surprise and joy on thier faces. Bofur breathes out a sigh at the sight of him there..as Thorin walks over to Bilbo questioning him.

" Why did you come back?"Thorin growls at Bilbo..seeing him become nervous he waits for his answer and when it comes he is both shocked and humbled by it.

"Look, I know you doubt me. I know..I know you always have. And your right, I often think of bag end. I miss my books, my arm chair, and my garden. see thats where I belong. Thats home. And thats why i came back, cause..you dont have one. A home. It was taken from you, but I will help you take it back ..if I can." Bofur lowered his eyes to hide the tear that came to his eyes at his words. Suddenly there is a familiar howl that echoes down the mountain side..everyone looks up and sees the orc pack that they thought they had left behind heading straight for them.

"Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Run..Run!" Thorin and gandaulf shout as they start running away from the oncoming wargs.

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Ered Luin..at that moment

Tia was just setteling into bed for the night when she suddenly her mind went to Bofur and a feeling of intense fear washed over her. Gasping in bed she tries to calm herself while chanting out a mantra of ..Theyre alright ..they are all right.. its just a panic attack because hes so far away.. breathing deeply she calms herself enough to lay back down..but sleep never comes to her that night.

Across town in another home a scream is heard waking up the house inhabitants from thier slumber.

"Stop!..No!...They are coming!..Please dont go!" Ahmi was in the middle of a nightmare of blood and carnage surrounding her as she stood on a tower looking down upon the sea of orcs slaughtering dwarves with glee in thier eyes. She turned her dream self around and saw the most horrifing thing ever ..there laid the bodies of Thorin and Kili..looking past them she felt her heart shatter beyond repair.. there lay her beloved Fili... coughing on his blood that was pooling around him. She saw a huge white orc saunter over to his prone form with the most hidous smile forming on his lips..he looked down at Fili..then back up to her as her body shook in terror..then smiling malicously he peered down at him raising his sword . As she watched the blade decend towards Fili he looks over to her one last time with the words falling out of his mouth .. save me my love..help .... the sword silenced him as she screamed into the night as she woke up "NOOOOOO..FILI!" hands were grabbing her and shaking her out of the nightmare..opening her eyes she sees her sisters there and she collapses into thier arms sobbing in grief over what she had witnessed. They whispered soothing words, trying to calm her down as thier father burst into the room with sword in hand..halfway dressed to battle whatever was threatning his family. Upon seeing no danger he looked at her with relief..not understanding why she was crying over a stupid dream..its just a dream..not like it happened. He sighed and stomped back to bed..letting the girls handle this over emotional womanly problem. Finaly Ahmi settled down and fell into a dreamless sleep.

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Bofur was clinging to a branch on the tree that hung periously over the cliff face..threatening to fall down with them upon it.As he held tight praying on not falling , he sees Thorin standing up and walked down the trunk of the tree..then breaking out into a run heading straight for a white warg that had appeared with the white orc astride it..Azog..the defiler lived. Shouting to the enraged Thorin to stop...knowing he wouldnt listen .. he starts climbing up the branch that he hung on to go and help his friend. As he finally get up to safety he see Thorin has been knocked down and was now in the beasts mouth being crushed by its powerful jaws..even throught the armor he was wearing. Thorin struck at the warg who threw him across the clearing into a rock ..impactly loudly with it as he fell to the ground into unconsousness. Bofur felt his blood boiling at the sight of his fallen king and rushed along with others to defend him against the savage orcs ,who were advancing upon Bilbo standing in front of Thorin,to slay the mighty king. They all fought valiantly, pushing the pack back but to thier dismay it looked like they were about to be defeated..when suddenly on the night air a battle scream was heard on the wind and looking up Bofur saw giant eagles swooping in...plucking the orcs and wargs up to throw off the cliff to thier death. Before Bofur could cheer at the sight an eagle swooped down snatching him up into its claws ,to only drop him onto the back of another eagle ..spiriting the dwarves off into the night away from death and into the unknown.

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Dawn was rising over the horizon as many eagles glided on the wind with thier precious cargos upon thier backs..some sleeping others just gazing in wonder at the sight before them. Eventually a large rock comes into view and the eagles start landing letting the dwarves clamber off them to the blessed ground. Bofur finally makes his way off the eagles back noticing Thorin on the ground with Gandaulf leaning over his still body whispering something that no one could hear. As he runs over to them he sees Thorins eyes open and breathing out a sigh of relief he watches as he stands looking for the halfling.

"Its alright. Bilbo is here. Hes quit safe." gandaulf speaks to Thorin who rumbles as he walks towards where Bilbo is standing with everyone watching with worry upon thier faces as he growls out in his anger to him.

"You! What were you doing?You nearlygot yurself killed!Did I not say that you would be a burden? That you would not survive in the wild, and you had no place amongst us?" Bofurs heart starts to fall as he looks upon Bilbo whos eyes go down in shame...as Thorin aproaches him. "I have never been so wrong in all my life" Bilbos eyes fly up in surprise as Thorin embraces him and everyone looks on shocked at the unexpected words. "But, I'm sorry I doubted you." He looks at Bilbo with an abashed look in his eyes as Bilbos words hearten him.

"No I...I would have doubted me too. I'm not a hero,nor a warrior. Not even a burgler."everyone chuckeles at his statement..even Bofur had to laugh at that while shaking his head..then something catches his eye which Bilbo notices and turns around to look." Is that what I think it is?" He steps closer to cliff as all follow gazing at the sight before them.

"Erebor! The lonely mountain. The last of the great Dwarf kingdoms of Middle- Earth."gandaulf spoke in the silence as Thorin stepped forward with a mixed look of hope and longing as he replied.. " Our home." He turned to the others and smiled..not knowing what was to come was going to test those words.

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Clear across the lands all the way back in Ered Luin screams were heard in a certain household every night since...that were unconsolable.