Nicole Lightfoot

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo Baggins & Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo Baggins/Fíli/Kíli/Thorin Oakenshield Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Thorin's Company, Kíli (Tolkien), Fíli (Tolkien), Gandalf | Mithrandir Additional Tags: The Company Walks A Lot, Modern Music, Fíli and Kíli Are Little Shits, Fíli and Kíli Brotherly Love, Singing, Domesticgoddess inspired this, Fluff, Pranks and Practical Jokes, Drabble Summary:

@domesticgoddesswriter​ and I were chatting and laughing together about songs for her Hobbit fics last night and one of our antics led to me writing this for her. It’s a little ghost chapter that can fit in with any of her work if you squint. Enjoy! 

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The company had been walking for hours, miles, over hills, through mountains and hiding from Orc packs. While it had been an uneventful week, the company was running out of conversations to have with each other. The princes were absolutely restless and waiting to cause trouble, especially with their Uncle. 

It was a beautiful sunny morn. The sun streamed in through the trees in golden rays, drops from the shower last night made the forest sparkle like jewels. With the lush grass tickling Bilbo’s feet, he wondered if that was what the starlight gems looked like. Erebor, it was such a long way to go still, but this was nice. The velvet ground was keeping their steps silent so that the songs of the birds that filtered through the trees were uninterrupted. 

Bilbo walked along the back of the company at the moment. He was admiring a bit of everything, letting his mind flutter like the butterflies on the daisies he passed. A sharp movement at the corner of his eye interrupted the airyness of nature's movements. The princes were dropping back. They slowly made their way back from the lead with Balin. Maybe that leather lace finally broke on Kili’s boot, Bilbo thought to himself. Looking closer, they both had that look. That they’re up to something, look. 

Thankfully, Bilbo was excited to see what they had in mind for the company. They started walking behind Dori who was behind Ori who was behind Bofur who was behind Thorin. So Thorin was the target. Oh, this was gonna be fun. 

Silence. Nature. Time passed, and passed some more. A doe was enjoying a meal watching them pass uninterested, a bluebell sticking out of the bunch of grass she was currently sampling. 

“Rockn. Rockn and rollin” 

Kili’s voice broke the peace. Bilbo’s head snapped to the dark-haired Dwarf. Heads started to glance back when it seemed that was the only thing the prince had to say. Thorin seemed unfazed. Dori stifled a giggle. 

“DOWN TO THE BEACH I'M STROLLIN’!!!!” Fili’s voice startled everyone, they started to skip forward up the line. Subtle groans could be heard from the company. Thorin’s shoulders were no longer moving as loose as they had been. The birds seemed frozen mid-song at the sheer audacity of the breaking of peace. 

“BUT thE SEaGuLLS pOke At mY hEAd,” both Princes now sang as they jogged and swatted at Thorin’s head, messing his hair up. Kili even did a little spin on one foot and lightly kicked Orcrest hanging helplessly at his side. They giggled, but what really caught Bilbo's attention, other than the steam that started coming off Thorin, was that he could hear Gandalf humming with the boys. 

They continued singing, “Not fun! I said Seagulls, st-”

“STOP!!! WILL YOU BOTH SHUT IT!!!” Thorin Exploded.

Fili and Kili, now next to Bomber, giggled, smiled, and patted each other on the back in congratulations. They had simply wanted to get on their poor uncle's nerves and get a reaction out of him. Bilbo heard everything from sighs to giggles from various parts of the company, but all were smiling… except one. It felt good. Bilbo could almost see the thoughts of the company shift to happier times. Quiet returned, the birds now just chittering away. 

“EVERYONE TOLD ME-” All heads snapped to Bilbo as he continued the next line of the song. Not even a hummingbird flapped its wings as fast as the princes sprinted back to Bilbo while picking up the song again, singing with Bilbo “-NOT TO STROLL DOWN THAT BEACH!!!”

Bilbo remembered doing this same annoying prank on other poor hobbit adults when he and his friends were faunts. It only seemed appropriate to help the princes in their time of need.

The three of them sang the next verse together, Gandalf resumed his humming, Bilbo felt his face hurting with the smile he wore, as they continued walking past where Thorin had been frozen to the ground. Fili and Kili split from Bilbo opting to run in the grass fields singing the chorus of humms so that their uncle could not catch them. They were smiling, laughing, and shoving each other. Bilbo also gave Thorin a wide berth, even though he stopped singing. 

Thorin’s head and body swiveled to track his hobbit. “Why?” Bilbo turned to walk backward to answer the Dwarf. He shrugged his shoulders, “Because I wanted your attention.” He completed his turn and walked forward listening to the princes continue the chorus. He could hear Thorin sigh and start moving again.

“There are better ways to get it, Amralime”

“...and I felt like annoying you,” Bilbo quipped back

Thorin huffed. He was now right next to Bilbo. He leaned over slightly to speak into his One’s ear as he passed, “I shall fix that tonight.”

Bilbo’s stride faltered, and he all but almost tripped. “T-Th-Thorin -now, wait, W-wait a second…” But Bilbo didn’t know how to finish the sentence. He simply felt the blush on his face became worse and worse as they continued walking. 

“I think ye broke yer hobbit” Dwalin had fallen back to his King and chided Thorin with a smile. 

“Good.” Poor Bilbo simply blushed harder at his dwarf’s response.

Fili and Kili were now flipping and cartwheeling over trees that had fallen, picking each other up and bowling through the company, “Run run run jump I can be a backpack while you run……”

Maybe everything would be alright. Maybe they would make it. Maybe the princes would rule Erebor one day. 

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