Still Waters.

A/n. Wow! I can't believe you all seem to love this so much! So thanks for all your reviews!

Where was she? Kalina blinked and let her eyes focus. It was so dark. And everything was so silent, there were no birds singing or animals moving.and yes it was night, but there were owls and badgers and.

She gave a little gasp as she suddenly recognised her surroundings. She, she was back where she was when she had followed Frodo and Sam to the ship that would take Frodo and all the elves and Bilbo and Gandalf to the Undying Lands. She was back behind the bush Frodo had smiled at.

Yet why was she here? He was away recovering from the wounds the Quest had left him with.

She stepped out from behind the bush and into the open clearing, her eyes searching the horizon for any shapes. The gentle breeze ruffling her hair, she could taste the salt on her lips.

After about three minutes constantly searching the horizon, she sighed and was about to turn around and go back, when her eyes saw something. It was barely a shape she could make out, but it was still a black dot and as this was the sea that black dot had to be a ship. And as she was here this had to be the ship that took people to the Undying Lands.her heart leapt.and back.

Was that why she was here? To see this ship come in and unload and then load again with more elves? Surely Frodo wasn't coming back.yet.he was.She just knew it. Somewhere something inside her knew he was. He was coming back.

* * * * "KALINA!" someone yelled, shaking her.

"W-what?" she yawned.

"Get back to the house quick!" Tomo hissed urgently. "Look, if you get back soon Mum won't know you never came back to the house and she won't go angry."

"WHAT?" Kalina sat up instantly, all her tiredness disappearing. "I didn't come back? I slept here?"

"Yes," Tomo answered. "So get back now! Mum's getting up in ten minutes! And you know what she's like if one of us is late back or if someone stayed out late and fell asleep here. I've taken ages finding you!"

"Thanks Tomo," Kalina leapt to her feet and stretched quickly before running as fast as she could back to her hole. She was a fast runner so she knew she'd make it, the thing she was concerned about was how the heck she was going to cook or make her mum something for breakfast in two minutes, as today was the day it was her turn to cook her mum breakfast in bed.

As soon as she shot through the door, her older sister Hilary instantly pushed a tray into Kalina's hands.

"There," she smiled. "I'm not in your debt anymore-" catching Kalina's confused look she added "when you covered up for me when I was at that party.Go on! Mum's been waiting a minute already and she's in a really ratty mood this morning."

"Thanks Hil!" Kalina smiled, and started waking up to her mother's room; her father would be out in the fields doing farming work.

"Here you go mother," she said happily, placing the tray beside her mother's bed and walking to the other side of the room and drawing the curtains open letting the sun shine through. "Lovely morning today."

"It had better be," Nora sat up. "Your father's trying to work on something and if it's rains today, it fails. Now Kalina."

"Yes mother?"

"Hugo Gardener seems a lovely nice lad."

"I'm sure he is," Kalina said stubbornly, wishing her mother would stop making obvious hints like these.

"Not at all like those Bagginses," a hint of disapproval came into Nora's voice.

"Yes mother," Kalina sighed. "Hugo is lovely," she crossed her fingers behind her back, meaning she didn't mean it.

"You still haven't found a suitor you liked enough to bring home?"

"No."

"You'll tell me when you have won't you?" Nora looked keenly at her daughter.

"I will mother, promise," she answered. "May I go now mother? I promised I'd meet Rosa in three minutes."

"Course you can," Nora replied. "As long as you're back in time for dinner."

"I will be mother," Kalina disappeared out the door.

A/n. god. Hate writers block so fucking much. Don't worry, it's not serious! I love this story and I AM going to write. Dammit. Sorry for the deadly boring chapter, I've got the next one pretty much figured on what I'm gonna write so it's gonna be more interesting. Hopefully! Review please!