transjiimhawkins:

It only took a touch – the barest brush of Bilbo’s fingers across the back of Thorin’s hand – to shatter him. With a broken sound, Thorin sank to his knees in front of the bench and leaned forward, his arms wrapping tight as steel around the hobbit’s middle as he buried his face in Bilbo’s lap. He was trembling like a fragile tree in a hurricane.

After a moment two small hands settled on Thorin’s head, twisting his braids between calloused fingers and rubbing them fondly.

“Silly old dwarf. I suppose I’ll have to keep you.”

comm for mariejacquelyn of the last chapter of her fic An Expected Journey. thank you so much dear!! thus begins my foray into environments..

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