"I have never doubted that I was special to you, Kili. Even had you never said a word I would have known, I would have felt it as I hope you have felt my feelings for you."

That was perhaps her greatest fear, that Kili would not feel appreciated or cared for by her. She would not say that she loved him until she knew so without a doubt, but she did care for him more than she did any other in a way she never had before. To say that she loved him was truly an important thing and she imagined that Kili wished to hear such words. But Tauriel hoped that he knew that he was more important to her than any other, that she would do anything for him.