The Lord of the Rings Lovers
Chapter 2: The Search Begins
She stared at the tattoo, speechless. At length, she managed to say, "S-se…a…n?" Sam, or Sean, nodded. She sighed with relief and flung her arms round Sam and they hugged.
"So you'll come with me to find the others?" Asked Rose.
"Of course I will." Said Sam, "I need to get back home too."
So Sam and Rose went to pack. They packed all the food there was and all their clothes, (Rose did this rather reluctantly, as all her clothes were frilly dresses). It was going to be a long journey ahead of them.
Once they had packed everything Sam and Rose set off, first to Bag End, where they would hopefully find Frodo and Clara. They did not have far to go before they came to the door of Bag End. It was lucky Sam knew the way, or Rose would have been helplessly lost. There were so many roads leading off the main path and many more leading off them. Sam knocked on the circular, green, hobbit-hole door. There was the sound of hobbit feet on a polished floor, followed by the rattling of the doorknob. The round door opened to reveal a hobbit with dark curly hair and big blue eyes. It was Frodo.
"Hello Sam, Rose," he said. Then he noticed they had backpacks with them, "Where are you going? Has something happened?"
"You don't need to pretend, Lij," said Sam.
Frodo was taken aback, "how…?"
"It's us, Sean and Rose."
Frodo relaxed, "Oh, I see. You'd better come in then." They entered the hobbit-hole and set their packs down by the coat stand. Frodo told them to wait in the living room, while he went to fetch Clara. Sam and Rose sat them selves down in big comfy chairs and waited for Frodo to return. A moment later, Frodo was back, accompanied by a hobbit-girl with dark spikey hair and eyes almost as blue as Frodo's.
"Clara!" Rose cried, jumping from her seat.
"Am I glad to see you!" said Clara, running over and hugging them. They all sat down and discussed the events that had happened and wondered how on Middle Earth they came to be here. Nobody had any answers.
"We could always go and see Gandalf," suggested Sam.
"He wouldn't believe us," said Clara, "Ian wasn't in the crash, so he won't know what we're talking about." The others realised this and groaned.
"What are we going to do?" moaned Rose, "we've got no way of getting back home or anything!" She was starting to panic.
"Don't worry," said Sam, "I'm sure we'll find a way. But first we need to find everyone else."
"You're right," said Rose, "Come on, we'll help you two pack," she added to Clara and Frodo. The four hobbits went off to pack everything. Half an hour later they were done and headed out the door to continue their journey. This time they were heading for Buckland. This journey took quite a bit longer than the road to Bag End previously, but was just as uneventful. At length, they arrived in Buckland and continued onto Merry and Pippin's homes. Once they had met up with Merry and Elenya (Kym), and Pippin and Diamond (Dezzy) they decided to go on to Mirkwood to find Leoglas and Lou.
After a good night's sleep at Pippin's they set off again, refreshed and full of food.
They travelled for two days before they saw any sign of the forest of Mirkwood. Rose had misplaced the map and none of them had been to Mirkwood before and were beginning to worry that they were hopelessly lost. Just then, as they walked over a grassy hill, they saw in the distance a great endless forest.
"That must be Mirkwood!" said Elenya, sighing with relief that they weren't lost after all. Before they went any further they decided to stop for food (again). After they'd eaten Sam packed up his cooking pots and they set off again towards Mirkwood.