***Flashback***

Sparkle's P.O.V (As if she is talking to Thorin.)

It was before Smaug took Erebor.  I didn't work then. I would just wander around town, and no one really noticed me. I saw you a couple times, but only from a distance. But, unlike all the other girls around, I wasn't fangirling over you. I had a crush on someone else.

He worked at the blacksmith's stall, and my father would always send me there with his broken tools or horseshoes.

He would always try to ask me about my family, but I was too shy to answer, and would blush badly. He laughed at me everytime.

One day, when I was sitting by the river, he just happened to be off that day and came to talk.

"Hi." he said.

"H-hi." I stuttered.

"You don’t talk much, do you?"

"N-not really."

"If you want me to leave, I will."

"No!! I-it's fine."

"Ok."

For a while , we sat there talking about many things, my drawing, my family, his family, his job, and random things.

Eventually, I realized he was staring at me.

I turned to face him, and he stroked my cheek with his thumb.

"I love you, Sparkle." he whispered.

"I... Um..."

"You don't have to reply, I just wanted you to know that."

"I'm scared of falling in love with anyone. "

"Why? "

"I'm afraid that I'll get hurt."

"Oh."

He put an arm around my shoulders, and I layed my head on his shoulder.

"I love you too, Glinar."

By the end of the week, I had fallen hard.

That's when he started to not care anymore.

He started abusing me, and a month later, he stabbed my side, my leg, and cut up my arms pretty badly.

I thought I was just going to lie there and bleed to death. A couple of times I thought that I deserved it for trusting him.

That's when I was found.

"Are you ok?" came a voice I had never heard.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Electro. What's yours, and what happened?"

"I'm Sparkle, the Weaponsmith's daughter. I'll explain once I can get these cleaned and bandaged,  but please don't take me to my parents. There are some things they should never find out about."

"Then I'll take you to my place. My parents are out of town for a week or two."

"Ok."

He carried me to his house, and immediately began cleaning and bandaging her wounds.

"Who did this to you, Sparkle?"

I explained everything to him, and he looked like he could kill someone.

"Well, I don't care how cut up and beat up you are, you're still beautiful."

"No I'm not. Please don't say that. "

"Ok. Do you want me to walk you home?"

"I don't want my parents and brother to know."

"Well you could stay here."

"We'd have to put a note at my house saying that I'm staying with a friend. "

"Ok. You write it, I'll take it there."

My parents never found out, I met my best friend that day, and I lost all my trust of men.

The next day, I took a turn for the worse,  and Electro helped me walk to the throne room to ask your grandfather what healer to take me to.

"How was she attacked?" Thror asked.

"She doesn't want anyone to know. Please."

You are the one Thror had check my wounds and find out what was wrong. Turns out they were infected.

You cleaned them, and applied some kind of salve before rebandaging them.

My parents never found out, and to this day, only Electro and now you know.