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16/03/03 - wow, I started it?! Oh yay! I think my writer's block is gone people! Just a pity it has to disappear at ten at night, when I'm suffering from a freaking cold and when I haven't slept enough for at least a week! Oh, and it's school tomorrow! * shrug* That's inspiration for you!

"Are you alright?" he repeated, Kalina's heart still thudding heavily in her chest.

"Yes, I'm fine, thank you," her green eyes gazed at the lush ground. He was talking to her. "I'd better go now," she stood up, blushing furiously and had already walked a few steps before she realised something.

"I'm not that frightening am I?" he called, already walking after her. Kalina laughed, "No!"

"You looked really startled," his voice faded as he said something she couldn't hear. "As though I'm some form of a ghost."

"Not many people who disappear into the Grey Havens ever return," she answered, her heart still racing. "Everyone thought you'd gone forever."

"Your family must have loved that," a grimmer tone came into his voice.

Kalina blushed again, casting her eyes downward again. "They did."

"You're wondering why I returned, aren't you?" Frodo asked.

"How did you know?" her eyes widened, it had been exactly what she was thinking.

"You never used to be quiet!" he smiled. "Then again I've been absent for a long time." he sighed.

"In answer to your question, only slightly," Kalina grinned. "People say it's perfect bliss over there - that everything's beautiful and plentiful and that it's impossible to get ill over there and that it's so wonderful that-"

"Some things never change!" Frodo laughed, and Kalina slapped her hand over her mouth. "The Grey Havens are all that, maybe more. There's everything you ever wished for - some form of heaven. Supplies of food are plentiful, as well as pipe weed that kept both Gandalf & Bilbo very happy. The countryside over there is nothing but beautiful.but it lacked one thing. It couldn't rid someone of their love for a place and even there, I longed for the Shire. All the rivers and sloping fields and the friendliness of the inhabitants. And maybe I returned because there was someone." his voiced faded and he showed no intention of continuing.

"Yes.?"

Frodo shook his head. "She's someone I'll never have. It's probably better that way." His face was completely serious, a hint of sadness in his deep blue eyes. Shaking his head slightly again, he put on a forced smile to cover his dismay. "So where are you going this fine morning?"

'Anyway from Hugo.as far away as I possibly can,' crossed her mind, and she started shaking again, remembering how his body was so close to hers, how his breath had touched her neck. "I'm going to the Brandybucks," she informed him, trying to shake off the images in her head. Maybe she would have gone home, if it wasn't for him - she didn't want Frodo to face her family's spitefulness if he'd just returned.

"I never thought a Brandybuck raised this early," Frodo raised an eyebrow curiously.

Kalina laughed. "Not many do, but Rosa will have." Her eyes fell to the ground again, as a silence grew between them. All that had happened in the past few minutes flooded her memory. Hugo.his warm breath on her neck, the strong grip on her wrist, the strength of his force when he'd thrown her into that tree, the way he'd smiled triumphantly when he pined her against the tree, the way 'feisty females' and 'lover' had slipped from his lips. The look on his face, that look of such a dangerous desire, the way he'd hissed like a snake.

"Kali?" Frodo spoke suddenly, startling Kalina from her thoughts and the use of her nickname on his lips making her breath catch in her throat. "Who was that hobbit?"

"Hugo," Kalina grimaced slightly, opening her lips to expand on him - how her parents wanted her to marry him when barely no one would believe her if she told them his true nature.

I~"You look so, delightful when you're frightened"~/I

The way those words had hissed from his moist lips, the panic that had surged so strongly through her veins, the rate her heart had thundered, the way her brain had screamed so much to get her away from him.and she was helpless, she couldn't have escaped if it hadn't have been for Frodo.how Hugo had pressed his body so close against hers, the way his finger had trailed down her cheek, how his lips were so close to hers.

Something wet ran down her cheek and Kalina suddenly realised she was crying uncontrollably and she was shaking violently. IWhat would have happened if Frodo hadn't appeared?/I She covered her face with her hands as her crying shook her body even more.

She didn't know what she was expecting Frodo to do, she was so caught on imagining what Hugo could have done, and when Frodo slipped her arms around her, she gratefully buried her face against him, while he tried to soothe her.

When she'd eventually stopped crying, her heart started flying when she consciously realised Frodo was hugging her.

"Thank you," she whispered softly, "for saving me from him." her voice trailed off uncertainly.

Frodo shrugged. "Anytime," he smiled, releasing her from his arms, fighting the feeling that was running throughout him.

Someday, he reminded himself; someday she'd know.
A/n. Okay, it's a little bit too short.but I couldn't think of any other way to end it.Anyway, a little update on me (I'm bored stiff!) I've got a new computer which has kinda put me off writing.or maybe it's just my family are always looking over my shoulder or are in the room which makes it harder for me to write.

hehe, no one will ever guess this.I'm obsessed with Billy Boyd now (Pippin)! I guess I still am less obsessed with Elwood, it's just he never really made me laugh and hell, Billy sure does! He's so great! * sigh* He just had to be 20 years older than me!

~Pip, I'm just off to download AIM to this computer, so talk to you then, yeah? I haven't talked to you for ages! :'(