-Only a few minutes and I get a review. Nice. Well here is chapter 8 for Mary and I hope you all enjoy. I'm thinking of working on a new story for Harry Potter. Can't tell you anything though. Sorry.
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The rest of the trip to Bree was rather fun with no danger at all on the way. I spent most of my time walking with Bofur who told me stories about his past and his family. He told me that he was a toy maker where he lived. His brother, Bombur, is apparently married and has a lot of children. Thrain seems to find Bofur rather enjoyable and I can tell that when this quest is over they shall be hard to separate. As we travel I quickly pick flowers and place them in Thorin's hair when he isn't looking. His nephews help me, of course, with this small plan and when we are finished we move to the back of the pack and begin to laugh at the picture of Thorin, the great, with flowers in his hair. He doesn't come to notice until Dwalin taps him on the shoulder and tells him that he likes his new look. Thorin, of course, became enraged at the sight of flowers in his hair and made us remove them. He wouldn't talk to us for the rest of the way to Bree until we were begging for forgiveness.
Bree was exactly the same as the last time I saw it, over a year ago. Dwalin and Balin are able to convince Thorin to let us rest for a while at the Prancing Pony where they all order kegs of ale and sit around for some time while Thrain, Josie, and I go to check on the ponies. The man in charge of the ponies tells us that all of them made it safe to him and that he had found a very special pony for Thrain. She's a small thing, the smallest of the bunch, with sun-kissed strands of hair and baby blue eyes. He says that he found her when he was traveling the forest and decided to take her in; just a baby she was when he found her. We left an hour after the sunrise came into the sky and began our journey with Gandalf in the lead of us.
"Do you think he'll come auntie?" Kili asks as he pulls his horse up to the right of me while Fili takes the left and Thrain rides at his fathers' side with Josie's head sticking out of a pack on the side of his pony, Cleo.
I look at him "I honestly don't know if he will or not, dear… but he might."
"I think he'll come." Fili says proud and strong.
"I think it was a total waste of time." One of the other dwarfs in the back calls up.
"Shut up Dori." Nori calls to his older brother.
"I say we take a wager of who thinks he'll come and who thinks he won't." Bofur shouts over the group.
"I bet 5 that he'll come." Ori calls to Bofur.
"Yeah me to." Gloin calls.
"I bet he won't." Nori calls in.
"I believe that our hobbit shall join us." Gandalf bets as well.
"Are you going to bet to Mrs. Mary?" Dori asks.
I look up to Thorin, who seems to not be listening, and say "Sure, I bet that he'll come."
A bunch of the dwarfs send up a roaring cheer at my bet and I smile.
"Good girl auntie." Kili assures me with a pat on the back.
"I'm telling you he won't come; it was a complete waste of time." Oin shouts louder than necessary.
"Oi come on Oin give 'im a chance." Dori shouts from his pony.
As they start to shout at each other I hear something very small coming from behind us and I pull my pony to a stop and turn around.
"What is it auntie?" Fili asks as he to pulls to a stop.
"I thought I heard something; Thorin! Stop for a moment, would ya?"
"What is it?" He asks as he pulls his pony next to mine.
"I heard something. I believe someone is following us." I answer with a small smile in his direction.
"Mary… he…"
"Wait," a voice interrupts Thorin "wait, I signed it."
Just as I thought… our new burglar comes running at us from behind and in his hand he's waving around his contract "I signed it." He says as he hands it to Balin.
Balin looks down at the hobbit with a smile and takes the contract "Everything seems to be in order; welcome master Baggins to the company of Thorin Oakenshield."
A wide smile glows on Bilbo's face "Great."
I look at Thorin in time to see him roll his eyes "Give him a pony."
As we continue I can hear Bilbo protest to riding a pony but soon he is riding with a great amount of hesitation. Only a little into the ride the dwarfs begin to throw money about and I gladly catch mine and also throw a huge smile in Thorin direction which he returns with an annoyed frown.
"Mama," I hear my beautiful boy say "can we play I'm bored?"
I smile at him and pull my horse up next to his "Sure my dear, what do want to play?"
"Um," he hums as he looks around "will you chase me?"
I pull both of our ponies to a stop before I climb down and then help Thrain from his. I take Josie from her spot inside the bag and put her on the ground where she immediately runs off to use the potty and then hand the reins to Fili and Kili. The two boys smile at me before I run off after my son.
"Don't go to far Mary." Thorin calls to me as I run off.
"Why don't you come join oh mighty king under the mountain?" I mock a bow to him as I turn around and look at him.
He raises his eyebrow at me and smiles wide "You'll wish you had never said that."
I squeal and quickly run in the direction that my son had taken off in only a few moments ago. I find both Josie and him playing in a small pond; I quickly grab them both and continue to run around in a full circle until I am back in the safety of the company. We continued to play the game until almost all of the company had joined us before we continued on our way with our hearts much lighter than they had been only a few hours before.
