*Author's note*

Title inspired by the Titanic scene after watching that scene plus the beginning of BOTFA I thought it'd be cool to make this. Sorry if it sucks I kinda rushed it a little last night and finishing it today. Anyways all rights belong to their owners and in case you guys don't know the character Hilda Bianca is the woman who argues with Alfrid in the BOTFA that is her character's name and u guys are her daughter and inherit her snappy attitude and you'll find out why shortly. Enjoy my lovelies :)

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The sound we all heard was like the sound of a hurricane coming from the mountain towards the town. We all knew it could only be one thing that was coming towards us. 

 The dragon Smaug. 

 He was coming to kill us all. 

 All for a greedy dwarfish King who sought out to reclaim his own kingdom blinded by his own desires.  

With my husband Bard arrested while he and I hid the black arrow that he had stowed away in our house, I was the only hope the children had now. 

 I became Bard's second wife just recently about 5 years ago but we've known each other ever since we were children. He and I grew up together in Laketown with my mother being the town's seamstress and his father the Bargeman like he is now. While I did feel heartbroken when he married his first wife, I couldn't hate him nor the woman he chose and ironically she and I did become friends and made me her children's godmother. But ever since the sickness spread when Tilda was just a babe, Bard was heartbroken for years until that day five years ago Bard proclaimed his love for me and we ended up marrying.

 My Godmother position became step-mother and I enjoyed taking care of the children and being with the man I love. 

 But now I fear that our happiness will now burn in dragon fire and ruin. 

 As the town began to evacuate as fast as they all could, the she-elf I was told to be Tauriel said. 

"We've no time, we need to leave". She and the dwarves that stayed behind all began to pack up. As Sigrid helped Tilda pack what we needed I told her. 

 "We won't leave. Not without my husband!" 

 "If you stay here your children will die! Is that what your husband would want?" She questioned me in a command as she turned to look at me. 

 I knew that she was right. 

 Plus Bard's stubbornness would force me to take the children to safety even if he wasn't there with us. 

 Once we were all ready, we went down to the steps onto our bottom docks and got on our escape boat and all piled on and the dwarves took each oar and we took off rowing down the lake to hopefully escape before Smaug unleashed his wrath upon the town. 

 But it was soon too late. 

 The next thing I knew, I was shielding my children from the flames of Smaug and hearing the screams of agony and fear from all my friends of Laketown. 

 The houses burned like a wildfire and lit up like torches in the night. Smaug's wrath burned with a deep passion as he lit up the town, killing innocent lives with no remorse or a second thought. 

 It wasn't until I heard Bain exclaim. 

 "Da!" The girls gasped and Tilda cried out. 

 "Da!" There I saw my husband and best friend up on the bell tower with a long bow and a set of arrows firing one arrow by another at the dragon hoping to bring his attention towards Bard instead of the town. 

 "He hit it! He hit the dragon!" One of the dwarves called out. 

 "No" said Tauriel. 

 "He did! He hit his mark I saw it!" 

 "His arrows cannot pierce it's hide. I fear nothing will". It was then we passed the statue of the Master where I saw the boat that I had hid the black arrow just awhile ago. I looked towards Bard on the tower who was probably down to his last arrow and knew what I had to do. 

 If Bard dies, I die with him. 

 Noticing a grappling hook just above me, I stood up and grabbed it and swung myself over to the docks as the dwarves and my kids all cried out for me to come back but as soon as I landed on the docks I kept running for the boat. I threw away the fishing nets and took the black arrow into my hand and took off running for the bell tower. 

 Dodging flames and falling houses in my path hoping I would get to my bargeman in time. 

 Though I now bare ash marks and inhaled much smoke and felt a flame or two lick across my face and clothes, I still pushed on till I finally reached the bell tower and ran up the stairs till I finally reached Bard. 

 "Bard!" He turned to me and immediately pulled me into a kiss before shouting at me inbetween our intense kisses. 

 "(Y/n)! You're so stupid! Why didn't you leave?! You're so stupid (y/n)! Why didn't you leave!? You were suppose to leave with the kids! Why aren't you with them!? Why?!" 

 "You jump, I jump, remember?" When we were kids that saying got us through a lot of stuff. Whether one of us was down or too stubborn to leave the other behind, 

 It was our saying of that we would always be together. No matter what. 

 Bard smiled softly and said. 

 "Yes". We kissed one last time before tightly embracing each other as I sobbed to him repeatedly saying that I couldn't leave him and he kept assuring me that he and I were now together. 

 And if so then we die together. 

 We separated from each other and I showed him the black arrow. He placed his hand over mine and said. 

 "(Y/n), no matter what happens you stay near me understand?" 

 "I do". I looked behind him to see Smaug flying towards the bell tower with his back legs extended outward. I exclaimed his name and pushed him down as Smaug grabbed the top of the tower and ripped it off exposing Bard. He cried out my name after not seeing me and I cried out his. 

 I was now dangling by one hand off the side of the tower still gripping the black arrow with my other hand. 

 Bard quickly pulled me up and set me down on the floorboard while I was frozen with fear. 

 He then stood in front of me holding the black arrow in a protective, challenging stance as Smaug now landed on top of the burning city and took notice of my husband. 

 "Who are you!? That would stand against me!" Smaug snarled. Bard went for his bow only to see that it had broke in the aerial attack. 

 Bard was completely defenseless. 

 "Now that is a pity, what will you do now, Bowman? You are forsaken! No help will come". Smaug slowly crept forward towards us. His eyes blazed with fire glowing with hatred, until he set his eyes on me. 

 "Is that your mate?" I sat up in fear as I couldn't take my eyes off this fearsome beast. Bard turned to me worriedly then back at Smaug as he continued to say as he continued to slowly stalk toward us, "you cannot save her from the fire, she. Will. BURN!!!" 

 Bard then placed the two ends of his bow and shoved them into the sides of the tower and attached the elastic creating his own windlance. He then turned to me his eyes begging to help and even though my body was weak from inhaling the smoke and slightly burned, not to mention paralyzed with fear. 

 I stood up and got in front of Bard and allowed myself to be the arrow's balance. 

 Bard pulled the arrow back as far as he could keeping his eyes on Smaug waiting for the chance to fire the arrow at the loosened scale underneath the beast's left wing. 

 I couldn't help but shake as I could still hear the dragon coming closer but my husband assured me. 

"Stay still (y/n), stay still". I took a deep breath and allowed my body to relax as Smaug then taunted to Bard once again. 

 "Tell me, wrench! How now do you challenge me?!" 

 Bard's eyes grew as I knew he had found his target as the dragon continued, 

 "You have nothing left! But you DEATH!!!" He let out a furious roar and began to charge toward us. A roar so fearsome that it made me turn my head when a voice called me back from my fear. 

 "(Y/n)! Look at me. You look at me". Bard's voice comforted my fear. His voice soft and warm and his eyes while focused on Smaug with a fierce determination to kill him, also assured me that he wasn't going to miss and that everything would be alright if I just kept looking at him. 

 My fear disappeared and I nodded with my eyes to him letting him know I would be with him. 

 You jump, I jump. 

 Bard pulled the arrow back just a couple inches as he told me, 

 "Little to your left". Slowly I leaned towards my left until he said, "that's it". He waited for the right moment and as soon as the scale was revealed to him. 

 He then released the arrow. 

 I let out a gasp as I felt the wind from the arrow zoom past my shoulder and it felt like a great burden was lifted off of me. 

 Exhausted and in fear I collapsed into Bard's arms and he reached out towards me and collected me into his arms. We both turned to see the arrow pierce Smaug and he let out an agonizing roar but still charged toward us. 

 His body grazed the tower which caused it to break and soon we were about to fall into the freezing water. Bard kept a tight hold on me as he cried out. 

 "Hold on (y/n)! Don't let go of me no matter what!!" As soon as we hit the water, the freezing cold pierced my skin like needles and tried to drag me down when Bard grabbed my hand and pulled me up onto a stray boat. 

 The two of us panted heavily then I felt Bard place his coat over me trying to warm me up. 

 "Are you alright?" 

 "Yes". I panted as we looked at each other then he took one of the oars and began rowing out of the town and the two of us saw the dragon finally fall down upon the burning town. 

 Smaug is dead. 

 And my husband was the one to end his life. 

 By dawn we reached the mainland to see the survivors of Laketown all trying to patch up the wounded, still trying to find their loved ones, and camps were set up as temporary homes. Bard and I walked through the crowd of people trying to find the kids if they had made it out alive as well as trying to find someone else that I've been praying for who also escaped with the survivors and not amongst the dead. 

 My mother, Hilda Bianca. The seamstress of Laketown. 

 At first I thought I was hearing things when I heard my mother's voice. I ran towards the sound of her voice with Bard calling out my name. When I came to a clearing I saw my mother arguing with the weasel of the town Alfrid, the Master's dirty dog who would stop at nothing to ruin my husband's good name and make the people of Laketown more miserable than it was. He pulled my mother back and was just about to hit her when I ran and gripped his hand as tight as I could. 

 "I wouldn't go turning on your own Alfrid. Especially on my Mother!" I snarled in his ear as I twisted him around and tripped him up on his feet sending him to the ground on his back. 

 I looked to my mother and hugged her tightly and sobbed thanking to High above that she was alive. 

I also heard another familiar voice cry out from the crowd. 

 "DA!" I turned to see it was Tilda along with Sigrid and Bain. 

 "Come here!" Bard said as he knelt down and picked Tilda up and Bain and Sigrid said to their father and hugged him. I smiled and leaned against my mom who then nudged me forward. 

 "Go on love, be with your children, they lost one mother already, don't make them think they lost another one". She then placed one of the blankets she managed to smugly out of the town before it burned and gave it to me. I nodded to her and she kissed my forehead and backed away while I walked towards Bard and the kids. 

 "MA!!" Bain cried out soon Sigrid gasped and she and Bain held onto me and Tilda reached out towards me crying out Ma over and over. Bard handed her to me and she held onto my neck tightly. 

My mother instincts went into flash flood as I held my kids tightly and sobbed just as they did thanking that they made it out alive. 

 Bard then came up behind me and the two of us held onto our children kissing them and holding them tight. 

 "I thought we lost you again Ma!" Tilda whimpered. I separated from her and said as I wiped away her tears. 

 "No my little Tilda, as long as I'm here. I'll never leave you or your brother and sister. I'm going to be here for a long time to see you grow into a beautiful young woman". I kissed her forehead and held her against my breast. 

 After Bard got his praises for killing the dragon from the town and Alfrid trying to be the good guy in saying that Bard was a born leader, but Bard denying that he was the 'Master of Laketown'. The town turned against Alfrid for helping the Master escape with all the gold Laketown had only to be sunk down the water when Smaug died and landed on top of his boat. 

 I strongly went with the town ripping Alfrid's limbs off but my husband being the sane one, ordered the men to let him go as he delivered his speech. 

"LOOK AROUND YOU! HAVE YOU NOT HAD YOUR FILL OF DEATH!? Winter is upon us! We must look to our own! To the sick and the helpless. Those you can stand tend to the wounded, and those who have strength left follow me. We must salvage what we can". 

 "What then? What do we do then?" My mother asked, Bard turned to her and simply said. 

 "We find shelter". 

 So as it was stated, we packed up only what we needed and began our journey to seek the nearest shelter before Winter struck us hard. Bard and I were alone together when I said. 

 "You know that we now have barely enough to survive on our own right?" 

 "I do, but whatever happens, I'll be right there by your side to protect you, our children, and the town remember? You jump, I jump". I smiled and said. 

 "Yes, you jump, I jump". We kissed each other lovingly then lead the survivors of Laketown to seek shelter within the ruins of Dale near the mountain now that the dragon was gone we could seek shelter there and try to survive. 

 For Bard and I live by the code and if one of us goes, the other will follow to the ends of Middle Earth. 

You jump, I jump.