The Lord of the RingsAgain
Chapter 2
By: Autumn Took
Disclaimer: None of Tolkien's characters belong to me. If they did then they wouldn't be Tolkien's characters, now would they? And I wouldn't have a total of 68 cents to my name, would I?
Author's Notes: *dun Dun DUN!!!!! TADA! FINALLY, after a lllllllllloooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggg delay, I have finally decided that I am going to put Chapter Two upbut for whom am I doing this? Well, since I only got TWO REVIEWS (One flame, one BEAUTIFUL one from my bestest friend PIP!) I guess I'm doing it for Pip, so here it is, you wereworm! (Don't ask!)
Thank you, thank you thank you!
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Peregrin looked sorrowfully from his wife, Diamond, to his son, Leonen. "I'm sorry, Leo," he said, on the verge of tears. "It was going to happen sooner or later."
Leo was sitting in father's rocking chair, rocking back and forth, trying to stop crying. His mother lay on the couch, dead. As he rocked his chair back and forth, the mortuary people came and took her away.
As they walked out the door, he heard someone whimper and turned around to see Autumn standing there, watching them go, with her hand over her mouth, tears streaming down her face.
Peregrin looked at her also, and walked over to her. "I'm sorry, dear. Diamond is gone," he said.
Autumn looked in horror from Leo's tearstained face to Peregrin's, and burst out in tears, running over and hugging Leo. Leo stood up and hugged her back, and they just stood there, crying, until Tom, Pip, Angie, and Ruby ran in, looking around franticly.
Peregrin told them the news and they all hugged either him or each other, crying also.
It was a mournful way to start the morning, and no one wanted to plan anything that afternoon.
Later that afternoon, they all sat around in the Took's kitchen, drinking strong tea and talking as cheerfully as they could manage. Peregrin came in and sat next to Leo.
"Mr. Peregrin, sir? I was wondering if you cold tell us how she died, if you would, sir," said Eden.
Peregrin sighed. "I will, Eden. She died of what is called cancer. The Big Folk are normally the only ones that get it, and it takes years before you can actually die of the kind of cancer that she had. But, it was bound to happen sooner or later. It's a pity it had to happen so soon."
After that everyone was silent for a while, before silently agreeing to go back up to Ninniachir and spend the rest of the day there.
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"I need a drink" Leo said, grabbing at the wine that was still left out on the counter.
Ruby smiled. "I want some!" she said teasingly.
"No way!" Autumn replied. "You're far too young to drink!"
She put her hands on her hips. "And you're not? Mom and Dad would be furious if they found out about all those wine coolers you have up here, not to mention the wine, the ale, the beer, the–"
"Alright!" Autumn sighed. "Fine, you can have some!"
She smiled triumphantly. "Good," she said. "And I wouldn't tell Mum or Dad anyway."
Leo poured himself a big cup of white wine and took a long gulp of it. He breathed deep as he finished the cup and reached for more.
"Ai!" Autumn smacked his hand. "Not so fast! You don't want to drink the whole thing!"
He looked at her sleepily. "Wanna bet?" he asked.
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~*~Two Hours Later~*~
"Just one more!"
"No! We've had enough already! I–well, ok, just one more"
Autumn poured more beer into his jug. "Here's toto Pip!" she yelled, turning towards Pip and nodding her head.
Pip was on top of a table, doing some sort of dance to a song that Pippin was singing, and laughing her head off.
Tom and Eden were sitting on a bench watching Pip and clapping, while Angie was sitting in the other room with Ruby, smoking Old Toby.
Leo took the mug from Autumn and gulped the entire thing down. "Bahhhhhh!" he said, slamming the jug down. "I feel like dancing now!"
He got up out of his chair and jumped up onto the table with Pip, and they both started slow dancing to Pippin's lullaby.
Tom, Eden, and Autumn started cracking up. Autumn fell out of her chair and didn't notice, still laughing her head off. By the end of the song, everyone was on the floor, laughing their drunken heads off.
There was a knock at the door. "Come in!" Pip called in a singsong voice, making everyone crack up further.
To their horror, Rose and Samwise Gamgee opened the door, and found all of them lying on the floor, laughing their heads off.
Rose gasped. "Autumn Morkai Gamgee! What in the name of God are you doing? Eden, Ruby, Pippin, I expect all of you to answer that as well!"
Autumn, still laughing, got up off the floor, and went over to hang on her mother. "Ya see, mum, this is what happened. We all came up here to drown our sorrows about Leo's mum, and the next thing we knew we were all watching Pip do the Irish Jig on top o' that table o'er there!"
With that, everyone started another burst of laughter, and Pip jumped up and started doing her dance again.
Samwise could take no more of it. "Autumn, are you high?" he asked, knowing the answer.
Autumn gasped. "Me? High? Nah! I'm too drunk to be high!"
Everyone laughed again, and Samwise got red in the face. "Alright, I know you all are sad about Mistress Diamond, but that's no reason to go and get drunk. Wait, where did you get all of the alcohol?"
Everyone looked around at each other, not laughing, knowing they were in for the punishment of a lifetime.