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Nat's POV.

Oh fun. Presently we are climbing some crappy old mountain, just because of some
stupid spies of Saruwoman. And to make things even *better*, it has about 3 feet of snow
covering the ground.
"I'm tired." I moaned.
"You should have slept like me, instead of taking secret walks with your BOYFRIEND."
Emma said, smirking at me. I ignored her. Boromir was looking confused.
"What does she mean?" he asked. I shook my head.
"Nevermind......Oh!" I stopped. "Frodo's dropped his ring. Where IS Frodo anyway?"
I looked all around. "He seems to have disappeared." Boromir bent down and tried to pick up the
ring. I sighed.
"Ouch!! You trod on my hand!! That REALLY hurt." Boromir was now sitting on the
ground, nursing his injured hand. Emma was standing over him.
"You shouldn't have put your hand where people were walking, now should you?!" she
scolded. "You're bound to get hurt if you do stupid things like that." Emma grabbed the ring
out of Boromir's other hand and went down to the line give it to Frodo. I rolled my eyes and
helped Boromir up.
"Come on. Let's see your hand." I took hold of his right hand and looked at it. It was
red, and seemed to be swollen. I winced. That MUST have hurt. And I'm sure Emma didn't just
do it by accident either......."We need to put some snow on that, to get the swelling down."
I grabbed a handful of the snow and pressed it on his hand.
"It's cold!!"
"It's snow. Snow IS cold." I snapped. The snow was melting and the water was
FREEZING. It was running down my arm and making me shiver. "There, all done." I said,
removing the slush from his hand.
"I can't feel my fingers." Boromir said, rubbing them hard. I sighed deeply.
"You will soon."
"But they're blue." he said, showing me his fingers. I sighed again and
took his hand.
"We need to catch up with Gandalf and the others." I said. Emma is going to have a
field day when she finds out I'm holding his hand again.
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More walking. The snow is getting even deeper now. Dammit. Emma is looking at me,
and smiling. Crap. She's seen us. I'm not going to live this down.
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Great. Saruwoman is trying to bring the mountain down on us. A lump of snow goes
down my neck. I squeal in surprise, causing Boromir to jump out of his skin. Poor guy, he
really is nervous.
"What's the matter?" he asked, shaking like a leaf.
"Just snow going down my neck. It surprised me. That's all." Next thing I knew,
a whole load more snow came down on us.
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Everyone is trying to break free of the mass of snow which fell from the mountain side.
I hear Emma shouting at someone about them putting their hand on her leg while she was buried.
I'll take a rough guess as to who that mystery person is and say it was Gimli. Legolas is poncing
around in his/her stupid frilly dress. Damn that stupid......thing.
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Yep. You guessed it. We're all up and walking again. Except now we're going to the
Mines of Moria. I don't like the sound of that. Considering Gimli's cousin lives there. I shudder.
More porno freak dwarves. Having one is bad enough but more.....I don't think I could take it.
And by the look of him, I don't think Boromir could either.
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Yay! We're finally stopping to have some food and to get some sleep. It's not the best
of places, Moria. Especially with that rather suspicious looking water. But I don't care. Rest!!!
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The fire is lit and everyone is eating a meal of.......erm......I'm not sure what it is.
Brown globby stuff. It tastes awful and smells funny too. Rather like sewers. Boromir was turning
his nose up at it.
"I don't like this stuff." he said loudly, "It tastes horrid."
"I spent a LOT of time preparing this." Sam said, "And this is the thanks I get!"
"What IS this we're eating?" I asked.
"It's a mixture of some lake weed and mud." Sam replied, "Nice isn't it?" I couldn't
eat anything else after what he just said. Emma seemed happy enough. I'll just take it she was
starving.
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Bed. Ah, finally I can get some sleep!!!
"Hey, Nat." Emma whispered, "I saw you with Boromir again." She smirked. "You
two were holding hands! For the second time!"
"His fingers were freezing, so I was just warming them up for him."
"Sure you were." I sighed and turned away.
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I was just getting to sleep when I felt someone come and lie next to me. I opened my
eyes to see Boromir staring back at me. I groaned and sat up.
"What is it?" I asked, trying to keep calm.
"I can't sleep." he replied. "I miss my teddy." He began to cry. "I can't sleep without
it."
"Sshhhh!!" I was panicking now. Everyone will wake up, and I didn't want that.
Boromir was still crying very loudly. "Oh for god's sake." I rolled my eyes and went over to my bag. I pulled
out a little blue rabbit. You could call it my lucky charm or something. I looked at Boromir, and
at the rabbit. At least it might shut him up. I returned to where I was sleeping.
"Here." I said, holding out the rabbit. "Take it." Boromir stopped crying and looked
up. "You want me to have this?"
"Yeah." I pushed the rabbit at him. He was lost for words, but I could tell he was
really pleased with it. I lay down again and closed my eyes. But not for long.
"I'm cold." By this time it was really late and I was rapidly loosing my patience.
"Come here." I said. I closed my eyes again. I could hear Boromir breathing loudly.
"Ummmm, I'm still cold." My eyes snapped open again. I rolled over to face him.
"Come closer then." So he did.
"But..." I sighed and put my arms around him.
"Better?"
"A bit."
"Good. Now go to sleep!" I closed my eyes for the fourth time. This time I was lucky.
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"Ah ha!!" A voice said above me. Even with my eyes shut I could tell it was Emma.
I opened my eyes. Yep, I was right. I tried sitting up, but Boromir had moved sometime during
the night and was now lying on top of me. He was still sound asleep, and I thought it best not to
wake him. "Well, well, well. You really ARE a fast worker, aren't you Nat?"
"What DO you mean?" I asked.
"I mean THAT." she pointed to Boromir. I just KNEW she'd get the wrong idea of the
situation.
"He must have moved on me during the night...." I started.
"Whatever. It is SO obvious what you two were doing." she said smirking at me. I
threw her a withering look. Emma shook her head and laughed. I scowled. God, she really is
asking to get her arsed kicked. "Breakfast is ready, by the way." she said.
"If it's more of that crap we had yesterday...."
"It's not. We have sausages and bacon and eggs....." she turned and walked off.
Oh well, here goes nothing. I gently pushed Boromir off me and got up. He stirred slightly and
put his thumb in his mouth. I went to join Emma and the hobbits.
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Ah. Breakfast was good. WAY better than the crap we had last night. God, that was
AWFUL! Boromir STILL hasn't woken up. Lucky bugger. Hmmmm, I'd better wake him, or else
Emma and Merry will eat his bit of breakfast.
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It is proving more difficult than I thought it would be.
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I need to hurry, Merry has already started on the egg.
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NO! Emma has the bacon!!
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And the tomatoes!!
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Merry has the sausages. Oh dear......Boromir's missed his breakfast.
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He wakes!!! At last. "I'm hungry." he said, sitting up. I look at him. "What?"
"Ah....there's a *slight* problem regarding breakfast."
"Oh. What is it?" his face is full of concern.
"Well....how do I start...." I sit next to him. "Ummm, Emma and Merry....they,
erm....ate your breakfast. I'm sorry but you were taking ages to get up......" He looks over at
Emma and Merry, who are licking their lips.
"It was SO nice." Emma called.
" Yeah! Thanks Boromir. We owe you one!"
"Nevermind." I said to him. "I have something." I pulled out a packet of biscuits that
Emma and I were going to have as part of our 'picnic in the park'. "They might be a bit squashed.
But they'll taste good anyhow." I gave him the packet.
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Ah. Great. Now we can't actually get into the mines, because you need a password.
And Gan-da-man has no idea what it could be.
"Yo! People! I could do wid a lil help here." This, could take some time.