The sun was shining, the breeze cooling the smials of Hobbiton, and the Baggins twins were bored. Really, really, bored. So bored that Penny had decided that using Lobelia's front door and windows as target practice was a good idea.
"You're going to break something." Grinning towards her equally amused and 'peace disturbing' sister, Penny motioned to the sweet smelling pie sitting on the front window sill.
"What do you bet I can make that shot?"
"No way, thats at least five yards!" Penny waggled her eyebrows and lined up her smooth pebble for the shot. It happened in the blink of an eye, as the elder troublemaker let the stone slip through her fingers, Lobelia opened her creaky window.
Splat!
Amethyst stood stock still and quietly turned to her twin. "We have five seconds before she-" A screech interrupted the brunette. Grabbing Penny, who was laughing so hard it turned her already flushed face an alarming shade of violet, Amethyst ran for cover towards their cousin Bilbo's. Red faced and covered in steaming black berry pie was Lobelia, rushing after them. Her sister, finally over her fit of giggles, snatched her twins pale wrist and started running in ernest.
They ran all the way across the Shire, passing colorful gardens and rolling green fields, coming to a rest at their cousin Bilbo's home, Bag End. Their 'proper' cousin sat outside smoking what smelled undoubtably like Old Toby. He glanced up took notice of the twins harried, panting forms and sighed to himself.
"What've you done now?" The twins looked at each other grinning and a new fit of giggles overtook them. Penny flopped onto the ground, staining her trousers in the process. Following after her elder twin, Amethyst smoothed her skirts and regaled Bilbo with their story, embellishing it. Five yards became twenty and instead of being splattered with her prized blueberry pie, Lobelia became soaked. There were a few times throughout the story when Bilbo would have to catch himself from laughing at the girls's antics.
"See you later Bilbo! We're probably not coming over for dinner!" Soon enough the girls had disappeared down the path and it left Bilbo to wonder what it would be like to go on an adventure...
'No matter. It's not like I'll ever have the chance, or even the desire to go on such an awful thing!'
Back at their home, the twins found themselves eating and getting ready for bed.
"Amethyst?" The elder twin turned to face her sister, bed creaking in the process. "Do you think we ever will go on a proper adventure? One with Elves and monsters and a prince or a knight of a forgotten kingdom that'll just swoop in and take us off to go on more adventures?" Looking at Penny, that wistful expression on her face, Amethyst sighed and smiled tightly.
"Penny, the pranks and wandering around the woods are amazingly fun, but I don't know if we'll ever get the chance, you know?." Penny's hopeful smile cracked a little bit and she turned around to face the wall.
"Yeah, I guess."