Chapter 5

A/N~ Yea! The Green Dragon!!! We're going to the Dragon! Ok, we know it's not really in sequence with the movie (we're not even sure this has anything to do with the movie yet!), but I really, really, really wanted to do the Green Dragon!

"We're going to the Green Dragon!" I thought to myself. I was really overjoyed because I love the Green Dragon scene in the movie.

"Not long now and we'll be there," Merry told me.

"Well, hurry up!" I said running past him. "Last one there's a rotten egg!"

~ At Bag End ~

"Sam, what do you say we go over to the Green Dragon and see if Merry and Pippin are there?" Frodo asked.

"Sounds good to me, Mr. Frodo," Sam replied heading towards the door. "We haven't seen them in a while."

"And, besides, you want to see Rosie, don't you?" Frodo inquired.

"Aye," Sam responded dreamily.

~ Back with Vanessa and Pippin ~

"Are we there yet, Pippers?" Vanessa whined.

"For the 50th time, not yet! And for the 1000th time, DON'T CALL ME 'PIPPERS'! We're almost to the Dragon, thank Eru!" Pippin yelled.

"OK... I'm sorry for calling you 'Pippers'. Will you forgive me?" Nessie apologized.

"You're forgiven," Pippin replied and reached his hand out for hers to show that she was truly forgiven.

"He is so bloody hot!" Vanessa thought blissfully.

~ Meanwhile, back to me ~

"Oh, look! It's the Dragon!" I yelled.

"And I hear Vanessa and Pippin," Merry informed me.

"Nessie!" I shrieked as she cried "Chrissy!"

"Hey, guys. I need to tell Nessa something. You wanna go inside and get us a table?" I asked my hot Hobbit and his cousin.

"Sure. Do you guys want some ale too?" Merry asked in return.

I looked at Vanessa as she looked at me. "Yeah!" we both answered. "See y'all inside."

As soon as the guys had gone inside, I turned to Vanessa and said, "I don't ever want to leave!" at the exact time she asked, "Do we have to go home?" We started laughing and yelled "no!" I think we scared some of the Hobbits leaving the tavern.

"Let's go get drunk!" Vanessa yelled and started laughing harder.

"I think you about half-way there," I answered. "Let's go meet the guys."

~ Several hours, and a lot of ales, later ~

"So this is what a bunch of drunk Hobbits looks like," I thought to myself and stood up to get another ale. I almost fell flat on my butt, but Merry was there to save me.

"I think that's enough ale for you, Love. You're drunk," Merry teased me.

"Hey, hey, hey! I'm not so think as you drunk I am!" I told me, but sat down anyway as went left to go get our ales.

Soon Frodo and Sam arrived and Merry and Pippin greeted their friends. Sam and Frodo went and sat with Gaffer Gamgee and the Sandymans (That's who those two other Hobbits are, according to the LotR credits, anyway.). Sam pulled out his pipe and some Old Toby and started puffing away while Frodo went and order five ales from Rosie, one for each Hobbit at his table. Soon the whole tavern was laughing.

Merry and Pippin had dragged Vanessa and myself onto a table and the surrounding chairs with them and started singing while Frodo hopped around, trying to dance obviously. Soon Vanessa and I joined in because, even in our intoxicated state we knew the words.

*Hey-ho! To the bottle I go

To heal my heart and drown my woe!

Rain may fall and wind may blow

But there still be

Many miles to go!

Sweet is the sound of the falling rain

And the stream that falls from hill to plain

Better than rain or rippling brook...*

*Is a mug of beer inside this Took! * Pippin finished. Vanessa and I were laughing harder than anyone was because, in addition to being sloshed, we love this song. Soon Merry and his cousin decided that it was time to take their inebriated humans home.

"Bye-bye, Nessie!" "Bye-bye, Chrissy!" we yelled to each other, slurring just a bit (Yeah, right!).

"This ought to be fun getting them home!" Merry told his best friend sarcastically.

A/N~ That was fun! Is it as much fun for them getting us home, Nessie? The "I'm not so think as you drunk I am" comment comes from the wonderful show M*A*S*H. Shameless writer plug real quickly. Please read my solo fic! My name is Fuzzy Hobbit (Don't ask. It's a mix of two of my nicknames!). Also I recommend the movie, and the book, The Count of Monte Cristo to anyone who has not seen/read it.