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Sex is what?! Part One:
Kili found he kind of liked Dale, it was turning into a place in the sun. He found it easier to imagine what it looked like before then he could with Erebor. His home was only busy with Dwarves, this city was bustling with all kinds of people. The Men of course, and with them a number of Dwarves over to work on repairs or having a stop over on their way to Erebor. Around every corner Kili passed their seemed to be an Elf as well. Kili didn't have a whole lot of experience with Elves, being held prisoner by one, and fighting along side others didn't leave him expecting to see so many of them dressed casually and mingling with citizens. Even with his own experiences with Tauriel. It was that which had driven him out here. There was a rumour going around Erebor that for Elves at least, sex was marriage.
Nobody had said anything to his face exactly, nobody would dare, but they're had been a few awkward snide congratulations on his nuptials. Their reason for their distaste was multiple, Tauriel was an Elf, he was a Dwarf, Dwarves married Dwarves and Dwarves married only on one day a year. Never mind that now that they had taken back Erebor his Uncle was insisting on a return to the order of marriage custom put aside during their exile.
It was the Dwarven custom as lest in certain families, of which he was one that the family members married in a particular order. For them it would be Thorin, then his brother and then lastly him. This thankfully was left in Erebor when his mother and uncles were driven out but now Thorin was determined to bring it back along with every other obscure custom he knew about.
Thorin was a different person now even without the influence of the dragons sickness. He'd never been much of a Dwarf for customs. Not those ones anyway. More honour and bravery over petty etiquette. To say that the idea that sex was marriage for Elves was an issue for him was an understatement to say the least.
By Dwarvish custom he could only marry on a that one day and only after Thorin and Fili had. There's wasn't much hope that Thorin and Bilbo would marry this spring, although Thorin had been pressuring him for some odd reason. Bilbo for his part had insisted on next spring. So it was next year for them and with Fili not even courting anyone, not even showing an interest in anyone, instead throwing himself into his new role as first heir to the throne, Kili's chance at marrying, even with Thorins' and really everyone else's objections to him courting an Elf existed in a distant future.
But if sex was marriage then this was a whole other problem for him. It would mean not only a complete violation of the Dwavish custom but also himself. It would mean that Tauriel knew their activities, and oh had there been activities to much complaints. Ori had even banned them from the library without supervision. When Fili could be bothered to give him a passing thought he'd even joked about getting them a second escort.
Tauriel's welcome in the mountain was conditional upon her not being left alone to wonder. She either had to be with him or with another guard with clear purpose as to her destination.
His people weren't comfortable with an Elf, even one that an heir to the throne was courting mucking about the Kingdom. They still weren't over the scandal of letting so many Elves and the Lakeman in Dale into the mountain during the dead of winter. Even if it was necessary. Necessary even for his people. They were just a mortal as any other. Their grip on their newly reclaimed home just as fragile. It would take them a while to get over needing help. It was one thing for the race of Men help, but Dwarves. Pfft. Forget it.
His people were a lot more comfortable with Bilbo. Partially because of his role in taking back the mountain and partially because nobody would dare cross Thorin. Kili suspected they also though Bilbo possessed some unseen power and was a fierce warrior belied by his grocer appearance. Well they weren't completely wrong.
Kili didn't want to think that if sex really actually was marriage and he was indeed married to Tauriel, then she had failed to tell him about this. Failed to tell him about this in advance, failed to ask his consent. Maybe Elves just didn't care? Maybe she just didn't enough care about him to ask? Kili didn't know and it upset him that he didn't know, that he wasn't sure if he couldn't trust her about this after spending months trusting her implicitly.
Kili didn't like himself for thinking that and he liked himself even less for not wanting to go and ask her. She should be the one he talked to about this, the one he asked. He shouldn't be here in Dale, wondering around looking for a good enough Elf to ask and turning away every time one caught his eye.
He kept going, rehearsing his question over and over his mind, it was going to be awkward enough, cowardly even for him to ask, he could at least present his inquiry in the best possible light. Casually as if he was a scholar with a mere curiosity to satisfy. Respectful even. Just pretend he was Ori out on a quest for knowledge for knowledge sake.
So long as he kept repeating his prepared question in his mind he could ignore the little voice in his mind that desperately wanted an answer another question. Maybe it didn't matter that sex was marriage for Elves because he wasn't an Elf and Tauriel hadn't brought it up because it wouldn't be marriage for them. Maybe Elves can't marry Dwarves at all.
Kili turned another corner and practically ran right into the Elf King himself. He supposed that was going to have to be a good enough Elf for him to ask because the guy was already asking him want it was that he wanted.
Kili opened his mouth to give it his best shot and promptly forgot his well thought-out and prepared speech.
Shit.
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