"Merry!" his mother called, Merry only groaned and pulled the blanket over his head.

"Muma, go away" he hissed from under the blanket, his mother seamed not to hear him that or she chose to ignore him.

"Merry, Pippin is here!"

Merry's eyes flew open; not Pippin, not here after that dream, why was he cursed with such bad luck? To have forgotten that today was his sweet Pippin's visit and he had to lock the door or other wise……….

The door to his room burst open and Pippin bounced in, apple in hand.

"Hello Merry" he trilled.

"Umm!" said Merry from beneath the blanket, Pippin took a bite of his apple.

"Aren't you going to get up?" he asked through a mouthful of apple; wondering why his cousin would hide under his blankets on this nice warm day, it was boiling and Pippin was already considering he suggest that they go swimming with Frodo.

"Mm……nah" said Merry from beneath the blanket. Please go away Pippin he thought please!

Pippin sighed and jumped on Merry's bed (and Merry!) making said hobbit grunt.

"Come on sleepy head; time to get up" Pippin teased flicking Merry's ears throw the fabric of his blanket.

"Go way Pip" Merry whispered, the young Took sighed and cuddled up to his elder cousin.

"Don't you want to go swimming Merry? It's a lovely warm day and the water will be nice and cool"

Yes Merry did want to go swimming, he wanted to go do the honourable thing and jump in to the cold water so Pippin would never know what his squirming was doing to Merry's sensitive body.

Of course if they went swimming Pippin wouldn't ware any clothes and he'd want to play games with Merry and press against him and…

"No!" Merry bolted out from under Pippin (knocking the Took to the floor) and into the bathroom, locking the door behind him. Pippin scrambled up and rubbed his bottom.

"Merry…Merry! What's the matter with you?"

"Go away Pippin, Please!" came the reply from the other side of the door, Merry sounded very breathy.

"I will not! Open this door or I'll get your Da!"

On the other side of the door Merry froze imagining what his father would think if he found Merry like this naked upon his bathroom floor with wicked pictures of Pippin running through his head. (well not really running more like naked and covered in jam…but we won't go there).

His father would thrash him to with in an inch of his life if he knew what Merry would like to do to his young cousin…have Pip do to him.

"NO! No Pip I'll be out in a moment I just need to get dressed" he said voice shaking.

Merry heard Pippin sigh on the other side of the door and could almost see the pout that came with that sigh, Merry thought he knew a better use for those lips than pouting.

There was the sound of feet padding across the floor and the sound of the door opening and shutting then all quite.

Cursing himself, Merry pulled on an old baggy shirt he found on the floor and carefully unbolted the door, no Pippin in sight.

He tiptoed out and checking his room free from Pippin; locked his bed room door and set about getting dressed, hoping against hope that Pippin would just let his strange behaviour lie.

Down stairs Pippin finished off a large slice of bread and jam, think he would have to find out just what was wrong with Merry…He was behaving very strangely.

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Frodo Bagins ( has a bloody hard last name to spell when it's late evening!) sat outside in the garden of bag-end drinking tea and watching Sam Gamgee his trusted friend and gardener go about his work.

The sun was so hot today that Sam had already stripped off his shirt so watching him was getting even more enjoyable for Frodo. Now if only he could persuade Sam to take of his sensible hobbit breaches as well, but of course people would start to talk and they talked about Frodo and Sam enough already.

Maybe he could persuade Sam to stop work early and come inside…..and in to his bed!

Frodo contented him self with these dirty little thoughts for a while till he heard the tell tale off key singing of his young cousin Pippin.

Turning Frodo saw Pippin running up the road, tripping in pothole's every now and then, never stopping his cheery song.

Behind his stomped Merry looking less than what his name suggested him to be, in fact he looked down right miserable.

Frodo had hardly anytime to wonder what could be wrong with Merry when Pippin bounced up to him and pulled him into a hug. Frodo lost his footing and they fell over, Pippin laughing.

"Good morning Frodo" he trilled in Frodo's ear making Frodo wince.

"Morning Pippin, any idea what's up with Merry?" Frodo asked making conversation while looking for away out from under his cousin.

Pippin's face fell suddenly and he shook his head, his little curls falling into his brilliant green eyes (I'm not to shore what colour is eyes are).

"no, but I'm going to find out" Pippin smiled impishly and Frodo felt his stomach sink; that was the same smile Pippin always wore before he suggested something that would get them in to a lot of trouble!

"what?" he asked shakily, but Pippin only giggled and tapped the end of his nose.

"wait and see!"

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Chapter 2 finished…..With the worst reception ever I am listing to the LORD OF THE RING'S sound track on the radio. Shows how desperate I am.

Thanks MarigoldG for all the help, I appreciate it!

what do you think Pippin's plan should be and or include!