The Hobbit | Chapter four.

"Miss Butterbite. Will you please shut your mouth and mind your own business." said the hard voice from the King himself. "It's, Lillybite." I whispered. "It doesn't really matter to me what your name is." he answered inmediatly back. I stood there not knowing what to do, what to say. A few seconds later Gandalf started to speak: "The task I have in mind will require a great deal of stealth and no small amount of courage." He looked at Bilbo and went on: "But if we are careful and clever, I believe that it can be done." - "That's why we need a burglar." said Ori "Yeah, and a good one if you ask me." said Bilbo. - "And are you?" asked another dwarf. All the others stared to Bilbo and the Hobbit looked at me. "They're looking at you." I said. Bilbo pointed at himself - with confusion - and I nodded. "A burglar? Me. I've never stole a thing in my life!" he stuttered. "I think I have to agree with Mister Baggins." said Balin. "He's not a burglar." Again the group started to yell at each other. A minute I thought Thorin would throw with his cup or something else just to let them shut up, but instead of Thorin it was Gandalf who stood up and raised his voice. "ENOUGH! If I say Bilbo Baggins is a burglar, then a burglar he is! Hobbits are very light on their feet. The dragon is used to the smell of a dwarf not from a Hobbit. You asked me to find the 14th member. So here he is. I chose for Mister Baggins." - "Very well." said Thorin after a minute of silence. "Give him the contract." Balin handed him a large piece of paper. Bilbo started to read and came to me. Curious as I was, I also started to read the contract together. "I think you can agree with the payment." I whispered. "Yeah, that's what I thought too." After reading a few lines I hold my breath. "Lacerations, evisceration ... " the Hobbit asked confused. "Incineration?" he asked now a little bit more loudly. "Bilbo, it's a dragon. Don't expect that he will come to hug you when he sees that you're stealing the Arkenstone." I said whithout looking up from the contract. "Don't do it." I whispered. Thorin stood up: "Are you still here? Just go and leave us alone." - "No way, I'm staying here. I can't let it happen that Bilbo signs for this. How can you ask something like that? I mean, are u all insane? It's been sixty years. GET OVER IT. Listen, that dragon destroyed my hometown Dale. It has destroyed your home, and I understand that it is hard and it is far from fair, but don't you think that it has destroyed enough? Do you actually thought about what could happen if you wake the dragon?" I said with an angry tone in my voice. Because, I was angry. How selfish was it from those dwarves to ask a Hobbit to solve their problems. Thorin wanted to speak but I didn't gave him a chance. "Listen, if you want that stone so badly then go, but you can't ask something like that to a poor Hobbit like Bilbo." I took the contract out of Bilbo his hands and pushed it to Thorins chest. "Bilbo, what ever they may promise you. Don't do it." I said while holding his hands and looking straight into his eyes. "There's nothing that can happen." said Bofur suddenly. "Just do it Bilbo. And if there something happens, you wont feel anything of it. It's just a furnace with wings." I let go of Bilbo and gave a not understanding look at Bofur - "I think I need some air." said Bilbo - "Flash of light, poof you will be nothing more than a pile of ash." - "Bofur, stop it." I said slightly irritated. After that I heard a big smash on the ground. I turned my head and saw Bilbo lying on the ground. "Great!" I mumbled. They all stood up and made a circle around Bilbo. "Don't look at him like that, just give him some space. He needs air!" I said, so I pointed to the window and in one second it opened himself. I kneeled next to Bilbo and tapped his face a little bit. "Okay, that doesn't work." I said so I stood up looked around a saw a cup standing on the table. I stretched my arm and held my hand in front of the cup. When I felt I had the cup in my power, I lifted my hand up so the cup fled in the air. Slowly it came towards me, I picked the cup and saw that is was full of beer. "Call for water." I whispered, in no time the beer changed into water. I threw the water in Bilbo his face and a few seconds later he opened his eyes. "Are you okay?" I asked worried. "What happened?" he asked back. I took his hand and helped him up. "You fainted." I replied. "Come, let's take a seat." Together with Gandalf we walked to the room where I sat before. "Don't do it Bilbo." I said before I let him and Gandalf alone. I walked past the group of dwarves straight to the front door, I took my backpack and decided to leave. But then I realized I forgot my coat. So I went back to the dwarves, took my coat that was lying on the ground and looked at each dwarf. I knew that I better shut my mouth, because it wouldn't make any sense. So i took a deep breath and left the Hobbit hole.