Author's Notes: Holà again peoples. Hehehe, almost had a mini-balrog. Just spotted. I had written Galndalf. Miss Cam would've killed me! Anyways, yet another revised chapter. Hope ya like it. And I truely am sorry about this turning into a total Mary Sue. Might make a joke of it soon, have her name be Kimberly Sue or something I dunno. Anyways, I'd like to ask if anybody even likes this fic any more. Well? Should I even bother continuing it? Or is it too unimaginative? Cuz it was kinda my first LotR ficcy, and I was going off of what would be easy. And it's pretty much lost all it's meaning without me and Whit bein' in it. *sighs* Anyway yet again, hope you enjoy(ed) it. Buh bye.
Disclaimer: I do and don't own everything. Did I confuse you? Goodies! Anyways (I really seem to like that word lately), I don't own: Lord of the Rings, any of it's characters, any LotR action figures, a Merry t-shirt, FFN, the NeoPets site, or a pet snake named Constrictor. I do own: Kimmy and Ness, a copy of The Sims, and The Sims: Living Large, one of the posters for FotR that's from the theater, the id VampAmber, a green zafara named GwenAlyssa and a blue kougra named AquaHobbitKitty, and a size five shop, and I will soon own a website, as soon as Whitters gets it ready for me, and gets her domain. I also own a '92 Plymouth Dodge, colored Black Cherry, and a lot of cute things that go in it, including a bumper sticker that says 'Out of my mind, be back in two'. And I don't own a '67 Shelby GT500, light gray with darker gray stripes down it. Wish I did though, cuz Elanor was SWEET!
A/N 2: Anybody who spots a mistake where it says amber instead of Kimberly, or Whitney instead of Vanessa, please tell me, okies? Cuz I can never tell if I caught 'em all.
A/N 3: Done now... *sings along to Bitch by Meredith Brooks*
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Frodo was having an, err, an interesting conversation with Kimberly. First, she was talking to herself, then she all but refused to look at him. He tries to talk to her, but she keeps looking away. "Umm, ok, I'll be walking up there if you need me then," he says, trying to get away from the confusing girl.
He catches up with Sam, who was walking a little farther up from them. He gets into stride with Sam, and looks down at his feet. "Something wrong, Mr. Frodo?" Frodo sighs, and tells Sam his problems with the girl, Kimberly. "I just don't understand," he finishes. "She seemed to like me before. What could I have done to upset her?" Sam shakes his head in sympathy. "I may not have much experience in matters such as these, Mr. Frodo, but I do know one thing. All women have their odd quirks. Just give them space when needed, and all should turn out fine." Frodo beams at Sam, and thanks him for his advice. He then moves forward, knowing that everything would turn out the way it should, in the end. He hopes.
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Kimberly avoids Frodo for as long as she can. She thinks about everything that has happened, and keeps thinking. 'Nothing would come of it,' she reminds herself many times. 'You don't know what you're feeling,' her head kept screaming. Any whimper of protest she pushes down, as far as it will go. By now, she is walking with anger in her steps. Anger at herself, for falling for Frodo, anger at Frodo, for falling for her first, anger at the universe, for putting her in this situation.
Much later, they set up camp. Kimberly drifts off half way through dinner, saying that she isn't hungry. She finds a log facing away from the fire, and sits on it, staring up at the stars in the sky. Vanessa notices her friend's odd behavior, knowing full well that this wasn't just one of Kimberly's moods, but something serious. She makes a move to go after her, but Legolas grabs her arm. "She must work out her own problems, Vanessa. Your help would only hurt," he tells her. She looks over at Kimberly once more, then sits back down, hoping that her trust in what Legolas had said would be correct. Vanessa sighs, and leans her head against Legolas's shoulder. "I just don't know, Legolas. I've never seen her like this. She looks like if she doesn't get rid of her bottled up emotions soon, that she'll blow. Even her crush on Jason Henson didn't turn her into what she is now," her doubt filling her voice, making it very clear that she was worried. Legolas stroked Vanessa's hair, saying softly "Time will tell all. Now we must be patient, and hope that she will know what to do when the time is right. Feelings are different for every person, and ways of dealing with pain are also different. All should turn out well, I can feel it." Vanessa sighs again at his words, finally realizing that this man, this Legolas, was far from the character on the screen. 'Looks like I'm in the same boat as Kimberly now. Totally in love with a guy from a book,' she thinks to herself, leaning her weight up against Legolas's body. "I just hope Kimberly can learn to deal," she says out load, not noticing till it was too late that she did. Legolas looks down at her, and smiles, understanding fully. "Like you?" he teases. Vanessa just sighs, and replies, "Yeah." She looks over at her friend, having hope in her.
Kimberly sits on the log, hunched over. Her head had not shut up since that morning. Spouting every excuse for and against, it had given her a headache. She lay her hand on her forehead, then wipes the hair from her face. Doing this, she doesn't even notice Frodo's soft approach. He sits down next to her, and she just hunches more. Frodo speaks up, breaking the silence Kimberly had formed around herself. "I'm not exactly sure on what I did to upset you Kimberly, but whatever it was, I'm sorry." He looks over at her to see if she had heard. She just sighs. "You didn't do anything Frodo," she says, without turning towards him. "Then why are you acting this way towards me?" He asks her. "I'm not acting any way," she says, sounding defensive now. Finally, she looks over at him. "Could you... Could you just go away for a little while? I'd kinda like to be alone." She turns her back towards him, and he stands up and starts to leave, his heart very slowly breaking. A small tear runs down Kimberly's cheek, as she remembers them picking apples. She had been happy then. They had been happy then. "Wait," she calls to Frodo, who was still slowly walking away. He stops, and turns to her, and rushes back when he sees the tears in her eyes. He pulls her into a hug, while her wet tear drops splash onto his shirt collar. "I'm sorry about the way I've been treating you," she said through the tears. "You did absolutely nothing wrong. It was all me. I'm sorry," she says again, Frodo still holding her, starting to stroke her hair. Frodo feels a few tears coming to his eyes. "It wasn't just your fault, it was mine. I just liked you so much, I couldn't help the way I acted." He pauses to wipe the tears on his shirt sleeve, then continues. "It's ok if you feel nothing back, I would understand." He makes a move to get up, but Kimberly holds him back. "No, that's not it at all. It wasn't my lack of feelings making me act that way, it was the presence of feelings. I just don't do well with these kinds of feelings. I fall in and out of crushes so easily, and the one time that I thought it was love, it turned out the guy was only dating me because I reminded him of a girl he liked that wouldn't date him. I thought it was love, but I was only the substitution." The story only made her cry harder. Frodo starts whispering in her ear, "Shh, it's alright, I'm here, shh." She starts calming down at these words, and pulls out of the hug. "How can you care for me this much, when we've only known each other for less than two days?" She asks, puzzled at his immense feelings. "I couldn't really tell you, for I do not know myself. But one thing I do know is that these feelings are real." She looks up at him, her grayish-blue eyes filled with tears. "Really?" she asks, amazed by what this small hobbit had just said to her. He nods, and she reaches out to hug him. But they end up kissing instead. A long, deep kiss, one that searches your soul, shows you each other as you had never seen before. They pull out of it to take a breath, and he looks over at Kimberly. Her hair was falling into her face, her tear filled eyes were puffy and reddish looking, but as far as Frodo was concerned, he had never seen anyone as beautiful.
The others look on at the new couple, politely turning away after they saw that the kiss was going to last awhile. Vanessa sighs. "I knew they could work things out. Or actually, you did. I'm so glad for her," Vanessa says to Legolas. He kisses the top of her head, "Yes. She should feel much better, now that her feelings were made known." He puts his arm around Vanessa's shoulders, and she sighs once again, this time from contentment.
Kimberly looks over at the little hobbit, and starts crying all over again. "Why are you crying again Kimberly?" Frodo asks, worried. Kimberly sniffles, then looks over at him. "It's almost too much to believe, that I found someone so much like my perfect guy. You're my Prince Charming, my Mr. Right, my knight in shining armor." Kimberly spouts, quoting more than a few lame cliches. Frodo just looks at her, and nods along. But he was confused. He wasn't a prince, or named Frodo Right, and he definitely wasn't a knight. She went on, in words that he could understand. "I mean, you're perfect. Everything about you, it's just," She falters, trying to find the right words. "It's almost like this was a predestined thing. Soul mates or something." She shakes her head. "Naw, I've just been reading too many L. J. Smith books." She stops for a moment, trying to gather up the courage to say what she wanted to. She gulps, and goes on, hesitant sounding now. "Frodo, what I'm saying is, in my less than eloquent way, is that," She coughs, and gulps again. She clears her throat, and says, in a very fast way so that the words are almost blurred together, but not quite, "Frodo, I think I'm in love with you." She then looks down at the ground, waiting for him to reply. She then looks up nervously, afraid to see reject on his face, even though deep down, she knew she wouldn't see it. Their eyes meet, and Frodo leans in, and whispers in her ear, "Well, Kimberly, I think I'm in love with you as well." He then kisses the side of her head, and her body greatly relaxes.
The others once again look at the couple. After a few low "Aww"s, they start looking around at each other, trying to decide who had to tell the love birds that it was way past time to go to sleep. Everybody looks over at Vanessa, and she is unofficially nominated for the job. She grimaces and stares down at Legolas. He nods, and she walks over to Kimberly and Frodo, who had just started sharing their second kiss. Vanessa lets out an annoyed sigh, and starts to tap her feet. She waits for over a minute before she taps the two on their shoulders. They break the kiss and look at Vanessa, the confusion on Frodo's face mirroring Kimberly's. Vanessa motions to where the blankets were set out, ready for the night. "Sleepy time you guys. Cuz you can't stay up all night smooching, you'd be way too tired in the morning." Vanessa walks off then, letting the two decided what to do. Kimberly yawns, and that makes the decision final. They both get up, Kimberly helping Frodo when he stumbled. They walk over to the blankets, still holding hands. Only breaking the hold once, to lay out the blankets, they lay down next to each other, Frodo snuggling up to Kimberly. She falls asleep within minutes. Vanessa looks over at Legolas, who is laying down blankets for him and her. "She's never fallen asleep that fast. One time, we stayed up for over twenty-four hours at a slumber party, and even then it took her almost a half an hour to fall asleep." She looks worriedly over at her friend, concern written all over her face. "No need to worry Vanessa. Love does strange things to people. Maybe that's all she really needed to fall asleep," Legolas tells her. She still looks worried, so Legolas walks over and gives her a good night kiss. A goofy grin appears on her face, and all her worries literally fly out of her mind. "Yeah," she says, not even sure on what they had been talking about before. She falls asleep, wearing that same grin for hours.
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Kimberly wakes up the next morning with hair in her face. She reaches up to brush the hair aside, and realizes it's not her own. It's not semi-long and blond, but short, brown, and curly... Oh, it was Frodo. That's right. She had fallen asleep next to Frodo. Frodo stirs under her then, and she looks down at him. "Hi there," she says sweetly to him, and kisses the top of his head.
He yawns then, and almost hits her in the face. "Ooh, sorry," he says quickly. She giggles, and starts to get up. She, of course, stumbles, being the graceful creature that she was. This makes Frodo giggle. They walk over to where the others are sitting around the fire, eating breakfast. They all glance up as the two walk over, knowing looks on their faces. Kimberly is confused, until she remembers last night. The kiss. Or kisses, plural. Apparently, they had had an audience.
Making what she assumed was a scary face, her and Frodo sat down. "Peeping Toms, the whole lotta ya," she said in an angry voice, just before dissolving in giggles. Everybody just stared at her. "What's so funny?" Frodo asks her. Through her giggles, Kimberly shrugs her shoulders and says "I have absolutely no idea." Which just made everybody stare more. Then Vanessa starts giggling. Legolas stares over at her, not sure what to do. The hobbits join in then, followed by Legolas, Boromir, and Gimli. Aragorn looks over at Gandalf, the only person left other than himself that wasn't laughing. "Stress relief?" Gandalf shrugs his shoulders, smiling. Aragorn just rolls his eyes.
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After the odd fit of giggling that everybody had seemed to fall to, the fellowship finished up breakfast and set off on their journey once again. Per usual, the others walked ahead of Vanessa, Kimberly, Frodo and Legolas. Kimberly swung her shoe back and forth, which she had been carrying since the day they had landed. "I'm bored," she whines.
Vanessa looks over at her, "We could play I Spy or something."
Kimberly smiles at her friend. "Sounds fun. Cuz we can't exactly play the license plate game or anything like that." She grins goofily. "Who goes first?" She looks over at Legolas, just then realizing that him and Frodo probably had no idea what they were talking about. "Yeah, oops, almost forgot. I Spy is this game back home." Her and Vanessa then proceed to explain the rules to Legolas and Frodo, and to Sam, Pippin, and Merry, who had wandered to the back when they heard a game was to be played.
"I'll go first, because I know how to play best," Vanessa says, bragging. Kimberly sticks her tongue out at this comment. Vanessa looks around, then says "I spy, with my little eye, something silver." The other players all look around. "Aragorn's sword!" Sam shouts out. Vanessa nods, "Yep, now it's your turn."
This went on for a little while, everybody eventually getting a turn, except for poor Pippin. Kimberly notices this, and says "You guys, we should let Pip have a turn." Merry, who's turn it was, nods. "Go ahead Pip, you try," Kimberly says, and smiles at the little hobbit. Pippin stares around at the surrounding forest, a look of concentration plastered on his face. Suddenly, his face lights up. "I spy, with my hobbit eye, something big and scary." Kimberly looks over at where Pippin had been looking. "Orcs! Coming right for us!" She screams. The others all get ready for battle while Pippin smiles and nods. "That's what I spied."
Swords are drawn, battle cries yelled, and many another type of cry let out. "Oh, shiiiiiiii......" Kimberly yells out as an orc starts chasing her. "Stay the hell away from me you nasty orc," she yells, before tripping on a tree root. She jumps up just in time to miss getting killed by it's blade. Not knowing what else to do, she swung her shoe at the orc, knocking it out. She grins, and goes after the first orc she sees, swinging her shoe around, letting out a Xena war cry. Vanessa, on the other hand, fares much better than Kimberly. After the orc attack had started, she grabbed Legolas's extra bow and arrows, and started firing.
The orcs all killed or unconscious, the fellowship looks into the woods, trying to figure how the threat had snuck up on them. Wiping the sweat off her forehead, Kimberly grins and says "Now that was fun." Vanessa looks over, rolling her eyes at her friend. "Kimmy," she says, "you are such a Gabrielle." Kimberly just looks smug. "Just call me Kimberly, warrior princess," she says jokingly. She looks down at her platform shoe, now stained with orc blood. The strap was almost just hanging on by a thread. "I think I killed my shoe Ness," Kimberly says, grimacing.
Aragorn walked up behind Kimberly and Vanessa. "Well done girls. And you," he points to Kimberly," I'll just have to teach you how to use a sword, seeing as how your current 'weapon' seems to look the worse for wear." Kimberly just smiles wider at that. "Cool." Aragorn walks off, and Kimberly leans over to Vanessa, and whispers into her friend's ear, "I get to use a sword," in a sing-song whisper. "That is just, neat," she says using a fake British accent, not in a whisper this time.
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A few hours later, they were settled down in a clearing, even though it was still light. Vanessa and Legolas were off practicing their archery, and every so often, the others at the camp heard Legolas giving compliments to Vanessa. Aragorn was teaching Kimberly how to use a sword, which she was learning somewhat quickly. Not that she was an expert or anything, but she had already learned some of the basics.
Kimberly charges towards Aragorn, sword raised high. Letting out yet another battle cry, she rams her sword down, a loud clash and sparks as it hits Aragorn's sword. In a whirl of motion, they dodged and thrusted, making loud clashing noises as the swords hit repeatedly. Then, suddenly, Kimberly no longer held her sword, it having been knocked out of her hands. Aragorn stops, and says to her "You're not holding it correct. We'll have to work on it. Take a rest, you look as if you need it." And she did. Her hair was all over her face, and she was sweating just a smidgen, her breathing sounding almost labored.
She nods to Aragorn as she picks up her sword, and goes to sit on a log. She flops down, letting all the air out of her lungs. Wiping the sweat off of her forehead, she grins as Frodo sits down next to her. "You were doing very well there," he comments. She just grins more, trying to catch her breath. "Gimme a few more hours, and I'll be able to whoop Sauron himself," she says teasingly. They both giggle at that remark.
It was then that Vanessa and Legolas came back from their shooting inanimate objects with arrows spree. Kimberly calls over to her friend, "Hey Ness, did you kill all the bad, mean trees?" Vanessa just laughs. Kimberly grins, and calls again "You do realize that I'm gonna kick your bow bearing butt once I learn how to use this sword, right?" Her and Frodo laugh. "Oh yeah?" Vanessa calls back. "That's only if you can get close to me before I stick an arrow in your arm." Her and Legolas grin at that. Kimberly just replies by making a face at her friend. Whispering down to Frodo, she says, "She's just jealous that I'd beat her." They both giggle.
Kimberly gets up then, because Aragorn is starting to look impatient, a look he was getting a lot of practice with, what with Kimberly around. Kimberly grins, and tells Aragorn "Beware the wrath of Kimmy," before starting the sword fight anew.
Legolas looks over at Vanessa, asking "How did she learn the sword so fast?" Vanessa looks over to him, and explains "She's a Xena addict." At Legolas's puzzled look, she sets him down, and explains to him about Xena, and tv for that matter. "It's a tv show. And tv is, kind of like, umm, a play. Yeah. Xena is this play series that has a Warrior Princess and her sidekick Gabrielle fighting evil things. Pretty good show, actually." Legolas nods his head, understanding it as much as could be expected.
With a sudden commotion, Merry and Pippin rush out of the woods. "We found mushrooms!" They cry out. Kimberly and Aragorn stop her lessons, and Kimberly walks over to Vanessa, Legolas, and Frodo. "Looks like we'll be having mushrooms for dinner then. Cool." The others just giggle, as they all walk off to gather mushrooms.