#i feel like a criminal for fridging thorin & bilbo but it's necessary for the narrative 😭

[queen-of-obsessing]

"Can…can I stay with you?" Bilbo asked, softly. "If only for the night? It's just…I share a room with Kili, and he snores, so…" Thorin freed a spot on the seat next to him before he finished speaking, and Bilbo collapsed into it, resting his head on his shoulder. "You're never forgiving me for this, are you?" he whispered. "Never," Thorin replied, but there was no malice in it. He simply pulled him closer. "But I'm beginning to understand." His lips brushed the crown of his head, in the gentlest of kisses, as sleep began to tug at him. “Go back to your books,” he said softly, the same words he said to him that haunting day on the hill, now a gentle whisper above Bilbo’s head, with his firm hand parsing through his curls. “Plant your trees, watch them grow.” Lying in Thorin’s arms with his head nestled against his broad chest, lulled by the steady beat of his heart, Bilbo fought sleep for as long as he could, until he eventually drifted off, and had the most pleasant dreams of home.

Chapter 3 has (finally) been uploaded!!