I am not the best writer so i do apologize that this story is a bit rushed. I have a trouble detail and environments

But here is the new chapter! hope you enjoy it

Journey Through Starlight.

Chapter Four

Kili yelled for someone to help him, but no one knew any healing magic. The open wound in his daughters shoulder was pouring out blood, he had never seen such a simple wound bleed so badly. Panic was seething through both of them, Tilli was in an astounding amount of pain and her father was making things worse by the second.

Kili and a guardsman tried to get Tili back on her horse. But, Kili was too small and couldn't reach. The other guardsmen had left the moment the last orc had been slane. They were stuck, and stuck with an elf who was frozen out of fear.

The forest went silent as Kili's screams for help went unheard. As if the forest did not want to help the dwarf.

"Quiet Prince of Erebor, there are more fearful creatures in the forest than orcs" A voice came up above in the trees. It was Kili's long forgotten neither friend nor foe… Legolas.

"My lord, please help me. We will leave immediately but please I need your help" He pleaded with Legolas, who dropped from the tree and had a look at his daughters shoulder.

Legolas winced, it was indeed a nasty wound. But it was the concern that it wasn't an Orc wound. He looked to the young dark haired elf. Who was missing an arrow.

"Daughter, what is the mean of this? You shot someone who was not an orc. You are lucky you didn't kill her, you might have started a war otherwise" Legolas would finish the lecture later, for now he held the injured young one in his arms.

"I will take you to my kingdom, where your daughter will receive medical treatment. But I ask you Prince, you will leave the moment she is fit enough to ride."

"I would do anything for my daughter my lord"

The beauty of the Mirkwood had long been forgotten in Kili's imagination, he had forgot its flawless work throughout the entire realm.

He walked briskly along with Legolas, who was still holding Tilli in his arms. Blood had spilled from her wound and now covered the prince.

Tilli had gone pale and quiet, she was in extreme danger. Kili could barely look at her without crumbling.

They placed her on a nearby bench, she was soon well attended to.

Within an hour colour had returned to her face and she was awake.

"Kili, your daughter will be fine" The elf that had nursed his daughter smiled at the grief stricken dwarf who dared not leave his daughter's side.

"Thankyou milady" Kili smiled back.

He saw something in his daughters hand, it was the object that the dark haired elf dropped which Tilli had mistakenly picked up.

Kili opened his daughters hand and the very air left his body. He felt as cold as ice.

Because that stone was the one he had given Tauriel so that she kept her promise to return to him.

Tilli woke up to find her father as white as snow as if he had seen a ghost.

"Father? What's wrong? You look like death has taken you"

"I...I… I need to speak to Legolas, remain here. I won't be one moment"

Legolas was in the gardens with the young elf that accidently shot Kili's daughter.

"Please Father, I didn't know. I just froze, I had never seen a dwarf then there was that girl who looked like mother and then everything happened so quickly"

"You cannot wonder out into the forest by yourself, what you did was reckless. You shot the Princess of Erebor and could have caused another war" Legolas was stern with his words, it was something that was punishable now.

"Elanor, you know you're not a soldier. Yet, you still break the rules and go off with your bow"

"I want to be like you and mother, I cannot stay within these walls for eternity. It is maddening knowing that there is world out there and I'm stuck in here learning to heal the sick and injured"

"If you leave again without permission, I won't let you out of my sight again" Legolas was very strict with Elanor for good reason. Last week it was a cave troll she stumbled upon and now she had shot the Princess of Erebor.

"Legolas please be reasonable, she only wants to know what is beyond the forest" Legolas looked up, someone he knew was coming down the stairs. A smile on her face as usual when she saw her daughter.

"Mother"-

"-Tauriel you need to leave, you were not expected back for a few more days" Legolas interrupted, he panicked she was not supposed to be from Rivendell so soon. His voice has Tauriel concerned, something was causing the prince distress.

"What is the matter?" she asked

"We have guests who are about to leave, I want them to leave without any theatrics" Legolas attempted to tell Tauriel not to interfere. But the look on her face told him otherwise

"Who are they?" Tauriel asked

Unknown to them, Kili stood not far from them. He was in mad rush not long ago and now again it felt like someone had walked over his very grave.

There she was, someone who was supposed to have died long ago.

And unknowingly to Kili, his daughter was not too far behind. Witnessing that her father has gone still as a statue while watching the Elves in the garden.

"-Dwarves, one was injured. Elanor accidently shot one. They are just about to leave" Legolas wanted Tauriel to leave them alone. He wanted the dwarf and his daughter so everything would remain as it were.

"Would I know any of them?" Tauriel asked politely while pulling a few leaves from her daughter's hair

"No-"

"-You sure about that? Oh mighty Legolas of the woodland realm? Because I feel like someone in this garden was supposed to be dead" Kili was hysterical.

Legolas looked at the Dwarf and sighed. He wasn't sure if the Dwarf was mad or upset, but at the moment he looked completely beside himself.

Tauriel fell to her knees, he was supposed to be dead. After all these years there was the man she loved, not five feet from her. He was supposed to have died that day, she saw Bolg crush him like he was nothing more than a apple. They had lied to her, Legolas had lied to her.

Tauriel was lost, tears over flowed dripping down her flawless face. Her hands covered her mouth to quieten the sobs.

Kili too was in tears, he was in a state of disbelief. After so many years of dreaming of this moment and so many years of begging to the gods for Tauriel return. Here she was, as beautiful as the day he last saw her.

"You were never meant to see any of this dwarf!" Legolas shouted at the Dwarf who was sitting on the steps to the garden.

"Father! Are you alright?" Tilli came to her father's aid. He was crying, she had never seen her father cry for so many years. The last time, she hadn't even seen him cry. She had only heard his quiet sobs at night when she was growing up. About her mother, the woman she had never met

But there stood this Elf, one of the most beautiful Tilli has ever laid her eyes upon. She too was crying, her long fire coloured hair was something that caught Tilli's attention. It was the same as hers?

"Father?" Tilli wrapped a arm around him. But, he was sobbing slightly still completely perplexed by the she elf

"What is going on here? What have your kind said to my father! How dare you upset him!" Tilli stood in front of Kili, attempting to act tough. But the blonde elf, couldn't care less about her.

"This was never meant to happen. You and your dwarven kind were never meant to re-enter the forest. But I couldn't turn you away with knowing it was Elanor who had shot you. I should have known better, I should have put you on a horse and sent you away! "

"I need to go. I cannot process this" Kili got up and turned his back to leave.

"What did you do Legolas!" Tauriel yelled at him. Kili stopped and looked at woodlands prince. Tauriel had gotten off the ground and stood next to the prince giving him a look that could kill.

"You have to understand, I had orders. Once it had become apparent that you were with child after you came in from the battle field my father gave me orders. But I had to negotiate! He didn't want any more mixing of the blood lines, so when the twins were born. I was supposed to kill the bigger child… But I couldn't do it. So we reached an agreement, one child would remain within the Mirkwood forest and the other sent to Erebor. You and Kili were both told that one of you had died. It gave my father peace and comfort he needed to make Mirkwood great again" Legolas looked at Tauriel with such sadness and regret.

"You were so sick when you were carrying them. My father was extremely confident that all three of you would die"

"You had no right!" Tauriel yelled at him in anger. Legolas knew what he was apparent of and he didn't do anything. His father had left nearly a decade ago for the Rivendell to join houses with Lord Elrond, he had so many opportunities over the years to reveal the truth. It was overwhelming for him, Tauriel was everything to him. He quickly left the garden to be alone with his thoughts, to see if he could remedy this later perhaps.

Tauriel looked at the young elf, Tilli looked at her back. Tears started to stream from Tilli's face, she rushed over to Tauriel on the ground and hugged and sobbed in her arms. Tauriel was too crying, as she embraced the daughter she was told didn't even take her first breath.

Kili watched on from a few feet away. Still waiting to wake up. His daughter looked like she was never going to let Tauriel go. But, he was distracted by Elenor. Who looked immensely uncomfortable with the whole situation.

Elenor caught on that the dwarf was looking at her, she slowly made her way over to him.

"I had often wondered where I got my hair colour from" she shyly smiled at him.

Kili smiled as he took a few strands of her hair in his hand.

"Your grandfather and Uncle share the same hair, of course yours is a lot more prettier" He attempted to laugh a bit, but the tears of joy running down his face was ruining his sense of humour. Elenor saw this, she approached her Father and wiped the tears from his face. Both smiling at each other like fools.

Everyone was in a state of disbelief

This was turning out to be a strange day indeed.

Later that night, the three of them were left to be alone in Tauriel room. The girls giggled and played with each other's hair. Tili was insistent that her twin sister and herself had the same braid. She had too much to catch up on. Her sister was a bit different to her which she found interesting. Elenor had never been trained for anything other than being a healer, which made sense. She was too kind and too gentle, as if an animal died in front of her she would shatter like glass in a heartbeat.

But things weren't quite fixed between the two former lovers. They went into a different room needing to find answers from one another. The pair hadn't spoken directly to one another, they had been too busy fussing over their children.

"This all feels strange, as if it was a dream or I have died" Kili said as he watched Tauriel sitting there with her mind obviously in torment, Tauriel looked at him. He had the same face when she left him with his kin by the ruins of Laketown. Though slightly aged, and his beard getting a bit thicker he was still the scruffy Dwarf she had taken a liking to in the dungeons all those years ago

"Kili I.. –"

"-Did you know you were pregnant?" Kili asked. Tauriel shifted on the seat uncomfortably, was he going to be angry with her if she told him the truth?

"I did" Tauriel didn't want to sugarcoat it.

"But you still didn't tell me and went into battle" The moment Kili said that caused her heart to stop almost. He said it in a way that she knew he was not too pleased with her.

"I had only just found out, you were sick and then the dragon.. I would have told you. But, everything happened in a blur and then I lost you… now you're here demanding answers"

"You should have told me!" Kili nearly yelled, but remembered the girls were in the other room.

"I know, but when I was sick and they told me you had died. It felt a lot better in my mind that you didn't know. When I was in labour and they told me my eldest child was born dead I thought in that moment that she was going to join you in the stars. Away from all evil in the world"

"I should have been there, I should've helped you bring our daughters into the world. Legolas robbed me of the duty as a father" Kili looked at his boots, never has he ever wanted more than to push Legolas off a cliff for what he had taken from him.

"For that we can fix, we can start again." Tauriel bent down in front of Kili. "Please do not be angry with me, I could not bare the looks you are giving me right now. They are burning a hole in my heart. We have two precious girls together, we have a family. I am sure with all the years I have left I can give you a bigger family that you have always wanted. We can both die, surrounded by love and our grandchildren" Tauriel smiled at Kili, who smiled back as he pulled her in for a kiss.

But what she had sent had him panicked.

"Hold on, you cannot die-

-Oh I can, my immortality was shattered long ago. The light of my Kin has left. I will grow old eventually and I will die just as you will one day. We will both die within years of each other if age takes us that I can promise."

Both of them were blubbering like fools, when they both went out to watch Tilli finish braiding her sisters' hair. They had a small family, but a family that will need love and kindness to make up for the time that has been stolen from them