“Be careful, those pair are more like crows that Dwarrow. Feed them once and you’ll never get rid of them, they’ll squawk and screech and make themselves a nuisance until you give in to their demands…” Spoke the mellow voice of Thorin Oakenshield. “How do you think they got us to let them come?” The lads were so outraged by his words that they proved him right with almost birdlike shrieks of protest. “I’ll be sure to be careful.” Belba muttered, even as she blatantly handed the pair a fresh muffin each. They hooted and scampered off with their loot, Thorin merely lifted and enquiring brow and Belba turned back to her cooking.
Thorin and a Female!Bilbo discussing Fili and Kili (chp. 3)
Not So Harmless by A_Winter (AO3) The Hobbit – Mature – Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield #Alternate Universe #Canon Divergence #No One Ring #Female Bilbo Baggins #Wrong Assumptions #Impied/Referenced Domestic Violence #Past Domestic Violence #Mental Health Issues #Incomplete #Recommendation
Based off Just a Harmless, Little Bunny... Right? by MumbleBARK (AO3)
Belba Baggins has spent years trying her best to be silent and invisible, just what Gandalf is looking for in a burglar! However the specific skill set and need to escape the confines of the Shire have less to do with her Tookish nature and more to do with escaping her demons. After losing her parents young, Belba was forced to be a respectable Baggins and marry. But wedded bliss was never on the cards for our Hobbit, after killing her husband in self-defense she is forever changed.
Haunted by her past and the stigma attached to her actions Belba becomes a hermit and hides away while secretly waiting to be run out of the Shire entirely.
Will Belba find the peace she’s looking for or perhaps learn to truly accept who she’d always been? And what of dark, brooding, stone headed Dwarves? Can Belba learn to trust again, to put her life in someone else’s hands again?
Note: This is a restricted story and requires an AO3 account.
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