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For Those Below by Im_a_huge_fan_of_coffee for Linane
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types
17 Feb 2019
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Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like they’re running.
They’ll walk side by side or Kili will lead for Fili to follow, his stronger boots more suited to route-finding than Fili’s. The stories don’t stop even then, Kili turning to smile back over his shoulder and making Fili’s chest ache with something that he doesn’t know the name for.
They take bearings and frown at the map with their heads crowded together, and there are moments that Fili wonders if it could always be this way, if they could just keep on putting one foot in front of the other and walking and walking through the nights and the winter and the war; because with Kili rubbing sleep from his eyes with his fist, leaving his stories woven in the forests behind them like a breadcrumb trail, dragging the heavy coat across their exhausted bodies as they press together to keep warm through the breaking dawn, it feels like the simplest thing in the world, and Fili isn’t sure that he wants anything more.