Oh here's an angsty au: Thorin and Bilbo started courting some point during the quest, and since Thorin couldn't make a bead he gave Bilbo one of his rings. Fast forward to the arkenstone debacle, Thorin tears the ring off Bilbo's finger and throws it over the gate, "I would never marry a Shire rat!" After Bilbo is banished and is walking through the elf army, one of them gives Bilbo the ring with a pitying look. When the battle is over he gives it back to Thorin (alive or not. Pick your poison)
oh my heart, let’s make it worse (:
Okay, instead of going over to Thorin as he lays dying, Bilbo slips on the Ring and goes to get help. Even though his heart is broken, he doesn’t have it in him to just let someone he once loved die. When Thorin is in the healing tent, attended to by the best elven healers, it’s clear he’s not going to make it. Azog tipped his blade with a poison that is already causing the wound to fester.
Bilbo doesn’t go to him. He can’t face it. A few days pass and he would much rather have left already, the weather is letting up, he would make swift time. But Gandalf assures Bilbo that he would escort him home, it would be safer that way, reluctantly, Bilbo agrees. He spends his time avoiding dwarves and instead helps the men regroup. Out of everyone, he thinks, they have lost the most, and not one of the other races seem to pay them any attention in their time of desperation.
A messenger comes to him once again with news of Thorin. It is the end and he has been repeatedly asking after the hobbit. He would have Bilbo go to him before he died, with a heart full of anger and sorrow, he goes.
Even as the once mighty Thorin lies in swaths of cloth stained red and brown by his blood, his skin ghostly pale and hair limp, Bilbo cannot find it in himself to forgive him. Even when tears roll down Thorin’s cheeks and his hand desperately searches for Bilbo’s, all the hobbit can do is look down at the fallen king and feel nothing but hurt and betrayal.
When Bilbo presses the ring Thorin had carelessly tossed over the battlements into the dwarf’s palm, Thorin growls in frustration. He wants… he needs Bilbo to understand, everything he did, everything he said, it wasn’t him, it was all a mistake, it didn’t mean anything. When Bilbo flinches and shies away from him, he apologises again. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.
Even when Bilbo turns away, Thorin continues to beg. ‘Don’t go, don’t leave, Bilbo, please. I love you.’ And they are the last words he says, the last thing he sees is Bilbo looking back at him with distant eyes and clenched fists. Thorin is dead before Bilbo leaves the tent.
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