Judgement Chapter Three



"OW! Watch the needle!" Lisa shouted to the elf doing her dress. Gabby frowned up at her.

"Well excuse me, Queen of the Shire, but I have NEVER done this before in my life." Gabby snarled. Legolas grinned and watched her sow the
hem so it wouldn't drag across the floor except for the back train part. When she completed they both sighed. "Well, you win." conceded Gabby dreamily.

"Yeah." agreed Lisa. "He was going to be TALL, dark, and handsome. I get cute, tall for his race, and very rosy-cheeked all the time." she said.
Gabby giggled and led Lisa over to the garden outside of the shop. "All we need is the bouquet and the papers signed now." insisted Lisa excitedly.

"Diamond!" shouted two older-looking hobbits. Lisa grinned up at Gabby.

"It's official now, I am Diamond of Long Cleeve." she whispered.
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A lot of boring words to which Gabby almost fell asleep standing, not to mention three hundred eyes fixed on her because she was an elf. Not
what she would call enjoyable. But she watched the two walk back over to the carraige to their new hole, happy.

"They met how long ago?" she asked Legolas softly.

"Three and a half." he offered.

"Ah. See, back home, it's more like, 'Date for six months, ask your parents and pop the question, get married have kids, croak." Gabby said
matter-of-factly. "Of course not everybody does it that way." she lost the ability to go home four days ago. There was an absence in her voice, you could
tell she was trying to go home. Virginia smiled at her and hit her in the arm weakly.

"Hey, that Charlie guy was asking for you in Detroit, I don't think your'e going to be alone anymore." she chided.

"Not there anyway." she replied watching Merry not succeed in walking up to the pair casually. He kept wincing and glancing at his feet. They
were hobbit feet, he couldn't hide them. ~I am going to invent shoes for these people.~ tried in her head to picture Pippin and Merry wearing shoes. She
snorted and ditched the idea.

"Hi ladies." Merry said with a small smile. Virginia squealed and plopped down on the ground. She began to play with his hair and clothes. When
she stopped messing around he looked quite stylish. His clothes were clean for the wedding, the hair was now slightly combed, and his shirt was no longer
rumpled. He glanced down at his feet one last time. "Thanks..." he muttered. Gabby couldn't hold it any longer. She laughed and looked at Virginia happily.

"You should be a hobbit fashion designer!" shouted Gabby. Soon they were both laughing. Merry raised an eyebrow but watched the two girls,
perhaps a little more closely to the one called Virginia. She saw him watching and stopped laughing almost immediately. Virginia then dragged Gabby away
from the festivities.

"He won't stop staring!" said Virginia. She threw a murderous glance at Merry who whirled around and sprinted away. Pippin was dancing with
Diamond listening to her talk and making him laugh. Merry sighed and kicked a rock, he was going to be an idiot, he could feel it. Elf and hobbit was probably
not a good combination. He shook his head. ~Already thinking about marriage? ARE YOU NUTS!?~ his head screamed.

"Hey Merry," Sam said as he plopped to the ground next to him. "What's wrong?" he frowned at Merry. He waved Sam's question off when the
sensible part of his brain stepped in. ~Your'e lovesick.~ was all it said. He reeled and laughed.

"I think you hurt his feelings." Gabby said to Virginia.

"Mmph. He probably just sees the 'Elven Beauty' or something." Virginia whined.

"You know, we could go in search for some Aarondiel stones." Gabby said slyly.

"A what stone?" Virginia asked curiously.

"Aarondiel, shapeshifter stone." said Gabby with a smirk. "I could get people off my tail and you could tell Merry whatever the hell you want." she
waved her hand to indicate she didn't care.

"When can we leave?" Virginia asked quietly.

"Right now." Gabby said turning to go.

Lisa watched Gabriel and Virginia go into the hole to her right. They came back out with lots of bags and hitched up some horses. Lisa excused
herself for a moment as she ran off to ask them what they were planning now.

"I just need to explain this to 'Diamond' before she offers to decapitate me again." Gabriel said over her shoulder.

"Bye. I don't wanna know. I would come after you if I could, just tell me this, why and I'll tell him so he doesn't have ANOTHER heart-attack."
Diamond said non-chalantly.

"Who's he?" Virginia inquired from the horse up top.

"Legolas I suppose." Gabriel said with a smirk. "In that case I won't tell you!" she hopped onto her horse and they ran away.




HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! CLIFFHANGER!!

Chelsea