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A/N: Ok here is where the plot really starts I just wrote that last chapter because it was fun. I don't know, here we go then.







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We all sat in a circle whispering quietly in one of the small back rooms of Bag End, we being the members of the conspiracy Merry, Sam, Fatty, Pippin and me. Sam had heard some things when he was "gardening" yesterday and only now did he have time to tell us what he had heard.

"So he's going to leave as soon as he gets to Crickhollow, he will depart the mourning after he arrives" He finished.

"So is it agreed that we should go with him?" Merry asked. We had talked about going with him before but had never known the exact details of when he would leave and were becoming increasingly worried that he would just up and leave in the middle of the night and we wouldn't have a chance to stop him.

"Well I for one am going." I stated firmly.

SILENCE

"What" I asked starting to feel uneasy, what were they hiding from me?

"Daisy" Merry said slowly " we don't think that you should go, from what Sam has told us it will be dangerous and we don't even know where we are going. We only say this because we care about you Daisy, the Shire is safe, where we are going is not I for one couldn't live with myself if we let you go and something happened."

What!? They were going to leave me here, not let me go! But why, I was not too young, Pippin was apparently going. Then is dawned on me, they didn't want me going because I was a girl that was it wasn't it. I looked around at their faces in turn. Merry looked sincere like he really cared, Sam just looked worried like I would yell as I always do, Fatty's expression I couldn't read and Pippin looked pained like something was happening against his will that he had no control over.

"But why" I asked giving them one more chance before I let my temper get the better of me.

"Because out wherever we are going is not the place for you, you could be hurt." Fatty said trying to reason with me but I was far from reason now, I was to the point of no return. He had just without knowing it pushed me over the edge, my eyes grew cold with anger and pain. They assumed that I couldn't take it? The wild or wherever they were going was no place for me? I was lesser than they were? So much for what they knew I am stronger than all of them.

Before I could speak and not let my anger take total control of me Pippin voiced for the first time.

"Daisy, if you went with us you could get hurt."

"And you the same," I spat back "You could all get hurt but still you go weather it is you wish. But no I have no say over weather I chose to go. But why I ask you and all I get is "You could be hurt, it's not safe." Oh but I see the real reason you do not wish for me to come, you think that I can not take it, you think I am weak. You are wrong." With that I stormed out of the room, a single tear running down my cheek. Quickly I brushed it away; I would not let them see me cry.

Merry, Sam, Pippin and Fatty sat in silent thought for some time after, finally Pippin spoke.

"Do we really have to leave her behind? I mean she should be able to chose if she goes or not."

"Pippin we already told you," Merry sighed "she would only be putting herself into danger, you know as well as the rest of us that she doesn't think before she acts and many times that putts her into peril. Don't you remember the boats?"

"But she is in pain, all of her friends will be leaving her and who knows when we will return, she'll be alone and all she will be able to do is wonder about where we are and when we are going to return. I for one will miss her dearly."

"I could stay behind," said Fatty a little unsure of himself "I wasn't all for going in the first place. Besides someone needs to stay behind to watch over the house in Crickhollow and tell Gandalf weather you went if he returns too late, Daisy and I could do it together."

The rest of the conspiracy (save Daisy) nodded their heads in agreement. It would be better if Daisy wasn't the only one that stayed behind. Just then they heard a door open and Frodo's voice come floating down the hallway.

"I guess that this meeting is over then," said Merry

"Until next time then" said Fatty and he left the room. The others followed until Pippin was the only one left, lost in his thoughts.

'Well' he thought to himself 'there's no use trying to convince them anymore about Daisy coming, they had never listened to me anyway. But I will miss her, we've done everything together, shared every experience even our first kiss.

(A/N: Awwwwwww, hehe ok I'll shut up.)

Pippin chuckled at the memory; it had been at Bilbo's birthday party. They had been sitting on a small grassy hill not to far from Bag End. They had been watching Gandalf's firework display when a particularly loud one had scared Daisy and she buried her face in Pippin's shoulder. When she had realized what she had done she looked up at him quite embarrassed, their eyes had met and the next thing he knew Pippin had kissed her and she had kissed him back. It was a very short childish kiss considering that they had only been eleven at the time but ever since Pippin had cherished the memory, he knew not why but whenever he was feeling down he thought of it and it made him smile.

The sound of a female voice yelling and the slamming of several doors stirred Pippin from his thoughts. Apparently someone had tried to talk to Daisy and she just blew up in their face, as she had done to Pippin many times.

'Well Pippin,' he thought to himself 'you had better go and try to calm her down before she breaks something. (Daisy was known to throw things when she was angry.)' So off he went searching through Bag End to try to fine his friend.

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A/N: Ok so that's chapter 2. How do you like it so far? Answer that by clicking on the review button. You see it down there in the bottom left hand corner. It's calling your name it's saying "click me, click me."