A/N: Well hello my friends! 'Tis I, your noble/cowardly HobbitHorcruxOf221B! I honestly can't wait to start this story! Of course, this is just the prologue, so I apologise for its shortness. Please review, favourite, or follow, as it means a lot!

DISCLAIMER: I, the munchkin, DO NOT OWN THE HOBBIT OR ANY OF THE WONDROUS WORKS OF SIR J.R.R. TOLKIEN (may he rest in peace).

Annabelle (known as Annie by most) skipped across the pavement, gripping her mum's hand tightly in her own. They were going to get ice cream by the docks, and for the first time ever, she was allowed to get two scoops!

Her mum was strolling along casually, laughing at her daughter's antics. Of course she was so excited; Mum would proudly admit to being a health freak. She wasn't going to let her only child poison her body with good-tasting toxins.

"Alrighty, Annabelle." Her mum exclaimed as they came to a pedestrian crossing. "Remember to look both ways- we don't want to cause an accident today, after all!"

Annie nodded furiously. She was going to get those two scoops!

Carefully putting a boot-clad shoe on the white zebra lines, her head moved both left and right to check for cars. Deciding it was safe, she pranced onto the road, ignoring her mum's protests to wait for the lollipop man. Oh, what a mistake she made that day.

~THIS IS A BREAK~

Mary watched as her child pranced cheerfully across the road, and shouted at her daughter to get back. Hadn't she raised her so she WOULDN'T do this?

Annie skipped across the road. Until she saw a big car coming towards her. She didn't even have time to shout 'Mummy!'.