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'No More' They Say

They arrived on October the thirteenth, and were greeted by elves. All the hobbits, especially Sam, wanted to know where Frodo was being treated. They were told where immediately, and found Frodo lying in a soft bed in a healing room.

'Mr. Frodo…' Sam said, and ran next to his master. Megan was following soon after him, and sat down next to him.

'Tell me he'll be ok…' Megan said, and Sam shook his head.

'I hope so.' Sam said, and as the others looked on sadly, they could hear someone clear their throat.

'He will be fine, thanks to the healing powers of Elrond.' The voice said, and everyone turned. It was Gandalf. 'Now, go and rest, all of you, you have had a long journey.' He smiled, and everyone nodded, and was led by elves to separate rooms. Megan and Sam stayed with Frodo.

During the next few weeks, while Frodo healed, the hobbits enjoyed the hospitality of the elves. They often found themselves explaining hobbits, and their ways. Megan and Sam both stayed with Frodo for most of their time at Rivendell. One night, while Sam had finally gone to bed in his own room, Colleen and Susan found Megan still sitting there, asleep in her chair.

'Megan?' Colleen asked, and she jolted awake.

'What? Oh…' she yawned. 'What is it?'

'You know he'll be fine, why don't go to sleep?' Susan said, and Megan shook her head.

'How do you know he'll be fine?' she asked sharply, and Colleen exchanged glances. Had she forgotten about the movie?

'But-'

'No, you don't.' she said, and Susan and Colleen sighed.

'Right, well, try to sleep.' Colleen said, and she and Susan left. When they were out of Megan's hearing, Susan turned to Colleen.

'How does she not remember that?' she asked, astonished.

'I don't know… she's forgetting crucial parts of the movie and the book.' Colleen answered, and Susan shook her head.

'This is not cool.'

'Not cool at all.'

The hobbit did heal, eventually, and it happened at a point in time when Susan and Colleen finally were able to drag Megan out of the room. They were finally able to explore Rivendell, and it looked exactly as it had in the movies.

'I wonder what Elrond looks like…' Megan said.

'You know what Elrond looks like.' Colleen answered, and Megan shook her head.

'No, I mean here. He should look… younger, and wiser, don't you think?'

'Maybe…'

'You haven't seen him?'

'No, we haven't seen him yet, but we should at some point.' Susan answered and about two yards away from them, they could see Frodo walking with Sam. Megan practically hopped, and ran over to him, hugging him.

'Frodo, you're all right!' she cried, and he hugged her back. When they let go, he received a hug from Susan and Colleen.

'Are you three ok?' Frodo asked.

'We're fine, besides a few cuts.' Susan said, and Colleen nodded.

'Yes, you gave us a bit of a fright, you know.' Colleen pointed out and smiled kindly at him.

'There he is!' a voice called, and Merry and Pippin came rushing up to him. The three girls let them greet and hug him on their own, until Frodo saw Bilbo writing in his book. As he rushed over to the old hobbit, the three hobbit-lasses joined the others.

'The Gaffer'll have a few things to say about this, won't he Daisy?' Sam asked, and Megan nodded.

'He'll have more than a few, Sam.' she said, as Bilbo led Frodo to another part of Rivendell.

The next day, while the Council of Elrond was going on, the hobbits, minus Frodo, Sam, and Bilbo waited in Bilbo's room. They had a bit of trouble trying to figure out what to do; they hadn't been told of the council, and the three hobbit-lasses seemed to forget about it totally. And Rivendell, though beautiful and enchanting, was quite boring after the first few weeks there. They had explored all there was to explore, and memorized every way into the kitchen. There was positively nothing to do, so they sat… and sat… and sat…

'I miss Frodo…'

'He's got to be here somewhere.'

'But we can't leave, besides, Merry's here with you, anyway.' Merry looked up at the mention of his name, while Colleen turned a bright red.

'Shut up.'

'Why?'

'Because if you do-' Colleen was cut off by someone walking through the door. It was Gandalf, Frodo, Bilbo, and Sam. They walked in, and Bilbo was given his bed while Gandalf sat in a chair, and Frodo next to Bilbo.

'Well, where were you four?' Pippin asked, and Gandalf took out his pipe.

'We, Master Took, were at a council.' He replied, and Merry nodded his head.

'Oh really, now. And why weren't we invited?'

'Because it didn't concern us, Merry.' Colleen said, and he looked at her.

'Indeed it did not! Neither did it concern Sam, but he had his own ways of sneaking into it.' Gandalf replied, and Merry and Pippin became rather indignant. They argued their point, as it has been stated in the Red Book, and only until everyone left did Colleen and the other hobbit-lasses speak with each other.

'We must go!' Megan said, and Colleen looked at her oddly. 'What?'

'You're talking strangely.'

'Am I?'

'Yeah.'

'Sorry.'

'But… what if we get shot, or hurt or something?' Susan interrupted and Colleen shook her head.

'But we won't, Susan! A Mary-Sue never gets hurt. Just keep remembering that and we'll be fine.' She said, and Megan nodded.

'Yeah, it'll be nothing. Walk a little bit, use mad-ass fighting skills, kick orc-but, it'll be awesome!' She nodded, and Susan shook her head.

'What skills?'

'The ones we'll gain by asking an unsuspecting elf to help us.' Colleen said.

'What unsuspecting elf?'

'Um… I dunno, lets try to find one.' Megan offered, and Colleen smiled.

'Yeah! But, who will ask?'

'You.'

'Why me?'

'Because you're the one who can suck-up the best.'

'Is that a compliment?'

'Not really…'

'Fine, I'll ask.' Colleen said, and left, Megan and Susan looking quite content with themselves. She held true to her word, and by overly-flattering a younger, yet very experienced elf, got them sword-lessons. They were allowed to borrow a sword each, all of them a great elven-make. Their lessons were held in one of the many clearings, away from the eyes of everyone, but were unfortunately always made to give the swords back. Their lessons continued for a month, and none except the elf, and the three hobbit-lasses. They slowly gained fighting skills, and were becoming rather good in the month they were given the lessons.

'But you still have a good way to go.' The elf said the day before Elrond called all the hobbits to him. Again, things that are stated in the red-book took place, and after Elrond finally let Pippin go, Megan spoke up.

'Hey, now, we're going along too!' she said, and Elrond shook his head.

'No you will not. I have said nine will go, and nine I have chosen, which excludes you three.' He said, and Gandalf nodded.

'Yes, besides, the wild is no place for three young hobbit-lasses. You would surely be killed, and I am positive certain peoples of this party would not want that to happen.' Gandalf said, and the sureness they had had of themselves drained.

'But, we survived this far!' Colleen argued, but Gandalf and Elrond would not be moved.

'But you do have a choice.' Elrond said after a moment. 'You may choose to stay in Rivendell, or return to your family with escorts of my house.' He said, and Susan shook her head.

'I'd rather go home.' She said, and Elrond nodded.

'Fair enough. You will leave the afternoon that the Fellowship leaves from Rivendell.' Elrond said, and nothing more was said. After everyone departed, the three girls pouted to themselves.

'Damn it.' Colleen said when all had left. 'We would survive.'

'I thought you said all Mary-sues were let to join?' Susan said, and Megan shook her head.

'We're obviously not Mary-sues, then, are we?' she asked, and they fell silent. After a moment Colleen got an idea, and hopped up.

'Why don't we follow them?' she asked, and the others looked at her.

'Follow them again?'

'Sure, if we get far enough away from Rivendell, they won't turn back, or let us there to die, they'll have no other choice.' She explained, and Megan nodded.

'Yeah, they won't!' she said, and Colleen smiled smugly with herself.

'Nine my butt.' She said, and they left to their own room to make plans to leave.

They decided that they would leave the night before, and wait behind some foliage for the group to pass, and when they were enough ahead, follow behind so they were just in sight. If all went well, and the elf never turned around, they would be safe and the others would have no choice but to keep them.

They waited until the night before to get ready, and they hurried to do so before light came. In the privacy of Susan's room they got all their clothes, including vests, together, and packed extra food.

'Come here, Megan.' Susan said, carrying a pair of scissors in her hand.

'Why?' Megan asked suspiciously, and Susan shrugged.

'Well, I've been thinking.'

'Uh-oh.'

'Yeah, I know, scary, huh? Well, I've been thinking, elves have super-duper sight, right?'

'Yeah…'

'Well, we're obviously girls if we have long hair, but if they don't see the long hair, they won't take a second glance.'

'I guess…'

'Exactly!' Susan said triumphantly, 'and so I think we should cut our hair so we look like hobbit-guys!' she said, and Megan backed away.

'Good idea, Susan!' Colleen said, but Megan shook her head.

'Oh no, I like my hair, thank you very much!' she cried, but it did no use. Colleen jumped at her, and pinned her arms to side while Susan cut her long hair down to a Frodo-style. When she was done, Susan stepped back to look at her work.

'Not bad.' She said, and Megan was given a mirror. Susan was right; it looked the way Frodo's was. She whimpered anyway.

'Ok, now me, Susan, give me a… Merry!' she said, and Susan shrugged, doing so. It looked just like Merry's when she was done.

'Coooooolllll!!!!!' Colleen said, and ran her fingers through it. 'You're good.'

'Thanks! Now, do me!' Susan said, and gave the scissors to Colleen. 'I want a-'

'I know what you want.' Colleen said, and started on a Sam cut for her. She was done quickly, and it looked the way it had when Susan was in their old world.

'Yay!' she said when she looked in the mirror. 'I still like this cut.'

'It's going to take forever to grow back…' Megan whined, and Colleen shrugged.

'Oh well.'

'You should know hobbit girls have a hard time growing their hair back, especially when it was cut this short!' she said, and Susan laughed.

'Ok, now…' she looked out the window. 'Let's go.' She said, and they put their cloaks on, followed by their packs, and quietly walked out the door, down to the weapon's room. There hung the same swords that they had been training with for the last month. They took the belts and the sheaths, followed by the swords themselves, and sheathed them. They then closed the door quietly, and snuck out of Rivendell unnoticed by everyone. They found some full bushes to hide behind, and sat down, waiting for the group to walk by. It was early morning by now, and the day's first light started to show through the clouds in the sky. They waited five more hours for the Fellowship to pass them, Frodo a rather pale color.

Elrohir knocked on the door to the young hobbit's room. They had been slowed down, and it was two days later than they had wanted He had been asked by his father to help them return to their home-land, and he was happy to help. When no one answered, he opened it slowly. There was no one there.

'Ada!' he cried, and before he knew it, Elrond had come to him.

'What is it, Elrohir?' he asked, and Elrohir pointed to the empty room.

'Oh no…' Elrond said, and shook his head. 'They have followed the Fellowship.'

'Should we send scouts?' Elrohir asked, but Elrond shook his head.

'No. They will be too far away; it would be a waste. I hope only that they can survive their perils, for they are getting into more than I think they thought possible.' Elrond said, and the door to their room was closed quietly.