Life After High School. Is It Scary? You Bet.
By Risty Maskell and Silver15
Disclaimer: We don't own them 'cept our characters…damn.
Summary: WooHoo! A sequel! I dunno where it's going, so there's no summary!
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When Jamie told me the news, I didn't know what to say. I was really pleased for her, but I was still shocked.
"Does Frodo know yet?" I asked finally, simply because I couldn't think of anything else to say.
"I haven't told him yet," she admitted. "I only found out myself yesterday"
"Are you pleased?" I asked next. She nodded.
"I am," she said with a small smile. "But I'm scared too. Everything is happening so quickly. It makes me wonder if I'm going to be able to cope"
"I'll always be here for you" I told her, giving her a hug. "And so will Billee. He's always been good with little kids"
"I know," she said. "But it's just so sudden. Especially with the wedding and everything"
"It'll be just fine," I promised her. "You have all your friends with you. We aren't going anywhere"
We sat there in silence for a bit longer, until the sun had completely gone down. Then Frodo came out and I slipped back inside to give them a chance to be alone. I went into the living room where Legolas, Billee, Boromir and Elrond were sitting round the table playing some card game and Colan was playing with Laddie in front of the fire. Over in the corner, Aragorn and Arwen were kissing and whispering to each other. I sat on Boromir's lap and gave him a quick kiss. Billee whistled and slammed his cards down on the table.
"I win," he said, smirking. "Come on, pay up"
Slowly, with a lot of complaining, the other three handed over their money. Billee pocketed it and grinned at Legolas, who smiled back. It was a nice scene.
Glancing out of the window, I could see Jaime and Frodo talking quietly. I hoped that Jamie had told him about the baby.
"Hey, where are we all going to sleep anyway?" Legolas asked. "This place hasn't got many bedrooms has it?"
"Nope" Billee said quickly. "I think Aragorn and Arwen are sleeping down here, Elrond's sleeping in the small spare room and the four of us and Colan are in the big room. We get the double bed, because we have to have Colan in with us"
"So we're stuck with a single bed, I take it?" Boromir said with a shrug. "Hey we'll manage"
All talking stopped as the guys resumed their game. Finally after two rounds, I grew bored of watching them.
"I think I'll go and check out our bedroom," I whispered to Boromir. He glanced at me and winked. I slipped out of the room and two minutes later, he followed me upstairs.
We were quite a while up there; well we both like to take our time. When we finally got downstairs again, Frodo and Jaime were in from the garden. Jamie looked at me and smirked, while Billee just shot me a knowing look. I checked that all the buttons on my shirt were done up and sat down next to Jaime.
Two minutes later, there was a loud knock on the door. Colan, who was holding a cup of hot chocolate, spilt it all down himself and began to cry. As Billee tried to comfort him and Jamie cleaned up the mess, Frodo answered the door. He came back a moment later, looking puzzled.
"There's some hobbit guy out there," he said slowly. "Says he has a message for Billee and Emma. He wouldn't talk to me, wanted to speak to you personally"
"I'll go see what he wants," Billee said, giving Colan to Legolas. As he stood up and went to the door, I went after him, curious to see what this was all about.
The hobbit standing at the door was one I'd never seen before. He certainly wasn't anyone we knew.
"What do you want?" Billee asked. "You have a message for us?"
"Billee Deamae and Emma Silverblade?" he asked. When we nodded, he gave a smile and took a piece of paper from his pocket. "Some strange guy in Bree gave me five gold pieces to bring this to you" he said with a shrug. "I don't know what it's about"
"Do you know who this guy was?" I asked. The hobbit shook his head.
"No miss" he told me. "Never seen him before in me life. He just grabbed me, asked me to do something for him, told me your names and where you'd be and sent me on my way. I never even saw his face properly"
"Okay, thank you sir" Billee shut the door and looked hard at the paper. Finally, he opened it. The message inside was short and written in barely legible writing.
Emma and Billee
Can you please meet me in Bree as soon
as possible. There are things we must discuss.
I will be in the Prancing Pony.
That was all. No name, no signature, nothing. But we both knew who it was from. And we both knew what we had to do. We went back in and told the others that we were riding to Bree that night because a friend was in trouble. Boromir and Legolas both wanted to come with us, but we told them that we had to go alone. They weren't happy, but they accepted it once they realised that we were not going to change our minds. Elrond tried to talk us out of going since it was so late, but Billee insisted that we had to. After promising Jamie and the others that we would be back as soon as we could, we mounted Flamedancer and Starlight. With Laddie running behind us, we set off to Bree, not completely sure what we were getting ourselves into.
