Spring FRE: Beyond These Stars: Chapter Seven: Fili and Kili
This chapter takes place just before Chapter Six:Ori, when they crash landed after stealing a mattress.
It was the Hobbit’s fault.
If the beds at his home hadn’t been as insanely comfortable, Fili and Kili might have lived their entire lives satisfied with the standard-issue cots everyone had in their quarters, theirs personally shoved side by side in an arrangement that had, more than once, caused injury during sexual activities (they tried to bolt them together but it just didn’t work, and falling between two metal bedframes is not fun).
But then came that night in Bilbo’s guestroom.
A mattress, one mattress, made for two people.
No concave bits, no fear of collapse.
Just a wide, soft-firm expanse of perfection that stayed in one place even as they giggled and rolled and managed to get each other off without waking anyone up (as far as they knew).
They needed one of those mattresses! In the interest of personal safety!
It would be even more amazing aboard ship, in their soundproofed room, where they could make all the noise they wanted!
“We’ll never talk Thorin into going back to Shire,” Kili whispered. They were curled together in the main communication room, surrounded by Ori’s knickknacks. Their friend was currently off in the mess with their uncle – a date Fili and Kili chose not to think about.
Dwalin and Ori as a new couple was the weirdest thing in the universe – and they were Khazad who were born on ships and ran illegal goods for a living in hopes of one day reclaiming their world from a race of sentient lizards.
Still not as weird as their best friend and their uncle making eyes at each other across the communal mess.
“We don’t have to. We have a supply drop on Bree, and they sell Hobbit-style mattresses,” Fili grinned up ant his brother, causing Kili’s heart to do a delighted little pitter-pat. He loved a playful Fili, ready to cause some trouble. “No reason we can’t acquire one, even if it’s Atani-sized.”
Kili kissed him, because he could. “Three mattresses.”
“Three?” Fili wrapped his arms around Kili’s waist and nuzzled one round ear. Ori would knock their heads together for cuddling in his domain, but they just couldn’t resist.
“One big for us, and two little ones for Bilbo and Ori.”
Fili hummed against Kili’s ear, making his brother wiggle and laugh. “Ori is obviously a bribe, but Bilbo?”
Kili was quiet a moment, sharing breath and warmth. “He’s left everything behind to help us. The least he deserves is a good night’s sleep.”
His Kili was so much kinder than some people realized.
They decided in the end to buy the two smaller beds and …secretly permanently borrow the large bed.
The price on a “queen” sized bed was just ridiculous. And after extensive testing in the form of rolling happily across the test beds at the shop (rolling all over and every inch soft, like absolute magic and big enough for three Atani to sleep comfortably!) they had decided they definitely needed the queen.
They would have gone for the king, but it actually had more square meters than their entire floor space. They’d have centimetres free all around the queen.
“Thank goodness for vertical space,” Fili said, and Kili nodded agreement.
Bargaining for the two small beds fell on Fili, who could charm even Atani down to a skinflint price. Finding a way to sneak out a queen was Kili’s.
“Whoever put in their security scanners is completely incompetent,” he reported cheerfully as Fili improvised a system of straps connected to his beloved bike.
They probably should have thought through the whole transportation thing a bit more. Ah, well. They knew how to think on the fly.
“Easy mission?” Fili asked.
“Ridiculously,” Kili confirmed. Fili straightened and tugged him in for an enthusiastic kiss, leather on leather and so hot Kili moaned low in the back of his throat. Fili smiled, slow and warm and obviously fully aware of what he was doing.
“Don’t look at me like that,” Kili protested. “We won’t get anything done.”
Fili made a soft humming noise that made Kili think thoughts that weren’t conducive to pulling off a caper (Kili had been reading too many classic detective novels of late). “Well, if you’re sure it won’t take too long, I suppose I can wait. Especially if it means not doing anything too athletic on concrete.”
And he wasn’t sure he’d ever managed to regrow all the hair on his right pectoral, no matter what Fili said.
“Three minutes in and out and we’ll be halfway to breaking the new bed in,” Kili promised, and he met that slow smile of his brothers with a grin of his own, all sex and sunshine.
They crash-landed, but that was no big deal. It certainly wasn’t the first time. They knew how to relax on impact and make sure they were safe. Even the altercation with Thorin was relatively injury free. Maybe a bruise or two.
Certainly not enough to keep them from testing out the mattress for…several…hours.
It was excellent for exhausted sleep, as well.
