Petrified.

A/n. OMG! Have you seen the two towers trailer?! It's the BEST freaking trailer EVER! Go to www.lordoftherings.net and you'll find it there!

She was sitting, sitting on the hill overlooking Hobbiton, sighing happily as her eyes surveyed the holes and gardens and general beautiful scenery Hobbiton possessed. Shadow, the kitten she'd rescued was prancing about merrily over the soft grass, but never straying far from Kalina.

Kalina laughed softly, as Shadow energetically tried to catch a butterfly by playfully running over the grass, giving in and then trying to catch her tail.

She couldn't believe someone had tried to kill such a sweet kitten. Especially by tying her to a stone and leaving her to drown. She shuddered. The past week had gone by swiftly and she'd barely seen Hugo, which was a great relief. She'd confided in Hilary, about Hugo, and after she'd stopped Hilary marching out the door to go and scream at Hugo, she'd been brilliant, staying close to Kalina when Rosa couldn't and stopping their mother arrange anything.

Where Kalina was at now, was a completely different direction that she ever went in the mornings, and she was sure Hugo wouldn't find her here.

Shadow had stopped trying to chase her tail and was busy again, attempting to catch another butterfly. As she was so busy looking intensely at the butterfly, she didn't look to see where her paws were going and she tripped over on a stone. Standing shakily up, Shadow shook her head and realised the butterfly had flown away. A slight hiss erupted from her mouth, and she returned to Kalina's side, and started purring contentedly as Kalina stroked her.

Rosa had been telling her that a sister of Pippin's was coming to live in Hobbiton, with the Tooks', and that she had a baby and a girl hobbit their age. According to Rosa, she and her were good friends and that Rowan (her name) was totally mischievous, as Tooks' were. Quite possible, the result of putting a Brandybuck, a Took AND a Burrows, wasn't exactly going to be brilliant for Hobbiton! Especially if Rosa and Rowan turned out to be anything like Merry and Pippin! Well, the younger Merry & Pippin, as they'd matured since the Quest. If the three combined together, it would probably have caused havoc if they'd been younger, she and Rosa had caused more than enough trouble for 'the evils' with their gang!

She giggled as Shadow started prancing around her and then hid behind a small rock, and emerged with a daisy dangling from her mouth. She instantly dropped it though, when she saw another butterfly, opening its wings on a fallen leaf. Approaching it stealthily, Shadow suddenly sneezed and the butterfly instantly flew up into the air.

"You stupid kitten!" Kalina scolded playfully, as Shadow leapt back to a sitting position beside Kalina, purring and then jumped off out of sight, probably chasing another butterfly.

"Mad kitten," she muttered to herself. She thought she heard leaves crunching together, but she ignored it, thinking of how beautiful the sky looked over Hobbiton, purple and pink. She got jerked out her thought after five minutes, as she realised Shadow hadn't come back. Glancing quickly around the Shadow-free area, she started to get to her feet when she saw someone she didn't want to see.

"Good morning," Kalina said politely. "You wouldn't have happened to have seen a kitten-"

"Morning Kalina," Hugo replied, coming out of the shadows, holding a familiar shape in his hands roughly. "So this kitten belongs to you?"

Kalina nodded uncertainly.

"It was born into our family, except it's a runt, so we tried to drown it.it seems it's still alive," he said evilly.

"She's mine now, as you did not want her," she answered. "So put her down."

To her relief, Hugo put Shadow down, who instantly leapt to Kalina, and hid behind her.

As Hugo made no attempt to move or say anything, Kalina scooped Shadow into her arms, and made as to go past him. As soon as she started moving though, Hugo blocked her way, that evil sneer on his face.

"What do you want?" Kalina asked, backing off slightly, sensing she shouldn't be here.

"What do I want?" he repeated leisurely. "Quite simply, I want you."

"Hugo, what you want is a two-way thing.It doesn't matter how strongly you feel towards me, I won't return any feelings to you and nor will I walk out with you," Kalina explained, her voice calm.

To her surprise, Hugo loosed his grip on her arm, and tears welled in his black eyes. "No one ever returns them. No one ever does. Not even my family love me, they don't care what I do, and now, you're going to get added to my list."

"You're lying, your family do care and you have loads of admirers," Kalina said bluntly, just wanting to get away from him.

"And you're one."

"No, Hugo, I'm not," she said firmly. "I've got to go home now, have a good day," she struggled to free her arm.

Instead of letting her go, Hugo's grip tightened, and he said, "I'm sorry I have to do this, lover." Panic was surging through Kalina, like before, only much, much stronger. She struggled again to free herself, but she couldn't.

"I like feisty females," Hugo commented dangerously, before using all his strength and throwing her straight into a tree, and then appearing in front of her.

"You look so, delightful when you're frightened," he grinned evilly, pinning her to the tree.

"Let me go!" Kalina shrieked, trying desperately to get him off her, trying to hurt him, but his grip on her was too strong.

"I can't let you go," he said sadly, "You're in my heart."

Kalina's heart was beating so fast she thought she might explode, and panic was surging through her body, but whenever she spoke her voice was calm and only slightly shaky. "If you truly loved me, you wouldn't be doing this."

"If you truly loved me, you'd be doing this," he reversed the words.

"I DON'T LOVE YOU!" she screamed. "I NEVER HAVE, AND I NEVER WILL!"

She shuddered violently as he ran a finger down her cheek, pressing his body closer to hers.

"Please don't," she pleaded tearfully, attempting to push Hugo off her. "Please Hugo."

"There's nothing to be scared of."

"GET OFF ME!" Kalina yelled, tears still trickling down her cheeks in fear. "I don't even love you! You don't even love me and LET ME GO!" Her screaming had loosed his grip on her, but all she could do was make me wince in pain as she repeatedly kicked his feet.

"Let her go!" a voice ran over the hill, and then Kalina was sure she heard a sword being drawn, except not one hobbit carried a sword in the Shire, save Merry & Pippin. The voice sounded familiar but it definitely wasn't them, she couldn't see as both Hugo and the tree were in the way.

"You heard me, let me go and go yourself," the voice challenged, sounding closer.

Hugo looked at the face of the attacker and the weapon, Kalina could see a glint of it off the sun, gave a longing look at Kalina, and disappeared so swiftly he could have been flying.

Kalina sank against the tree, huddling herself together, tears still trickling down her face, feeling too weak with relief to move, trembling.

"Kalina? Are you alright?"

Lifting her head up from her knees, she took one look at her saviour and just whispered, "Frodo."

A/n. I am an evil writer! Anyway.to the anonymous reviewer, uh, sorry, but maybe Hugo is evil. And I hope this chapter wasn't.too.disturbing.lol. Sorry if it was. Annnddd, I have two lil questions to ask you'se! Can anyone think of a MUCH better name from Shadow? Because Shadow's kinda plain.and I am brain-dead and you guys definitely aren't, so any ideas? And number 2.Ok; I write my stories in Microsoft word, and I think I've finally managed how to get the paragraphing that I get in word, onto ff.net, but can anyone tell me how to get italics and bold and underlining from word onto ff.net?! Anyway, reviews would be welcome!