Author's Note: HEY! Sugar high! Gonna write some kewl stuff now. Oh, and one more thing, I need to ask an important question; Do you think Gabby should get to go home or die because I'm trying to stick to the book as much as I can and Legolas is supposed to be all over the place with Gimli. HELP!
Judgement Chapter Eleven
"You know Meriadoc isn't his first name. Faramir is, he's really Faramir Meriadoc Took." Merry told Virginia. She mumbled something in her own sleepy language. Her head was on his shoulder and her eyes were closed. Merry arrived three days earlier much to the surprise of Virginia and Gabby. The two had been inseperable since he appeared outside their door.

"Thanks. I'll add that to my Bank of Useless Knowledge." Gabby said. She smiled nonetheless at the way Virginia had become falsely tired as an excuse to cuddle up with him. He didn't seem to care the reason, she was his size, and letting him close to her.

"Well. It's important to some." he replied haughtily. He turned his nose up in a snobbish manner as a joke. Gabby giggled and hurled a pillow at him.

"Once again, I'll add that to my-" the pillow filled her mouth. She yanked it out and watched Virginia glare at her for taking Merry's attention away from the form curled up at his side.

"Excuse me, Lady Gabriel?" asked a polite voice. Gabby turned and saw a young maid standing before her. The maid curtsied and gestured for her to follow. Gabby rose from the bed and cautiously followed the girl outside. "I have been asked to deliver this to you." the maid explained. She handed a small rolled piece of parchment to Gabby and left with another curtsy. The paper read:

"Dear Journal,
I am having such a bad day. Have arrived in England late only to be picked up by none other than Gabby. She is braindead or something. Anyway, can't believe Pierce's kid is missing, I mean, how do you lose a 1966 Chysler in a parking lot, with a kid inside? On a different note, Virginia is also acting strange. Colin told me Lisa and Molly were acting strange as well. I think it may be some sort of disease because Molly died recently. Oh well, guess I'll ask Gabby when she's acting normal again.

With Love,
Ryann"

"All right, what is the deal?" Gabby cried out to anyone who happened to be listening. Legolas craned his neck out of his room and frowned. Gabby looked distraught and confused. Virginia walked out of the room with an annoyed look on her face.

"What is it now?" she asked impatiently. She placed her hands on her hobbit hips and tried to look important and powerful.

"Ryann, our beloved cousin is in England but also happens to have lost a page of her journal. Guess where it landed." Gabby challenged.

"Here?" Virginia asked, praying she was wrong.

"Bingo." Gabby replied placing her index finger on the end of her nose. She removed her finger and began to pace the floor.

"Gabriel, I do believe you will wear a hole in the floor if you continue to walk that way." Legolas warned her. Gabby sighed and waved Legolas off. He frowned again and sat down on the ground, as if doing so would make her forget he was there.

"Do you think she's out there, Virginia?" questioned Gabby worriedly to her cousin. Virginia shrugged and opened her mouth to answer when Merry answered for her.

"A girl named Ryann? A lass named Ryann was found in the Shire a week ago. She's staying with Frodo." Merry said. He looked at the alarmed faces and tried to appear calm. "Why?" he asked innocently. A growl errupted from Gabby's throat. She took a step towards him, her hands held high in a threatening manner.

"No! Gabby, stop! Um, Merry," Virginia began, sweet as sugar. "Could you take us there, please?" she batted her eyes at him and smiled. He nodded dumbly and allowed Virginia to lead him inside their room.

"Do me a favor Legolas, don't tell Elrond about us knowing who Ryann is." Gabby pleaded with the elf on the floor of the hall.

"As you wish, Lady-" he tried to become formal.

"Gabby. Just Gabby." she interrupted. She couldn't believe he was still pulling that crap on her. After all, they had said the "L" word to each other!

"Right." he smiled, he loved messing with her mind like that. He knew exactly when to stop, which made it okay.

"Alrighty then, let's go have some fun before I have to go back to the Shire, again." she took his arm and led him to his room. They ventured out five minutes later, both laden down with archery gear and food supplies.

When Legolas and Gabby returned from their archery lesson (which quickly dissolved into a kissing spree) Merry, Virginia and Gabby all began packing for the short trip to the Shire. Legolas chose to remain at Rivendell so that he could be at peace while Gabby and Virginia ventured all around the Shire looking for their lost cousin or sister or whatever she was to them. The only responsibility he carried with him in Rivendell was little Maureen.

They left at midnight, the moon was new so they had no light on the journey. They all followed the sounds of each other's horses' hoofbeats. By early morning they had reached the southernmost entrance to the Shire. Merry was extremely tired so his horse was to be led by Virginia. She tied his reins to her waist and easily kept his horse and hers in line with Gabby's. When they reached the Brandywine Bridge that evening, they received several ominous looks from the bridgekeeper but he was not one to keep them from entering. They didn't know whether to stop at Diamond's hole first, or head straight for Bag End. Diamond decided for them by bursting out the front door at nine o' clock at night and yanking them all inside for the night.

"He's standing by himself you know." bragged Pippin about their little son, Faramir. They had decided to call him this instead of Meriadoc because (as Pippin jokingly said) Meriadoc was not a good influence on a growing hobbit. Diamond sort of watched everything dreamily, Merry clutching Virginia's hand, Gabby having a great time playing with Faramir, and Pippin helping her tickle him until he screamed with laughter. ~She would make such a great mother.~ mused Diamond. She had grown up around sixteen kids younger than her, she knew how to discipline, award, and take care of any type of child. She had confided in Diamond, (when they were still in America) that the only thing she wanted to do was play volleyball, play guitar, and be in constant contact with kids. It never made her unhappy to have an occupation that made others laugh though. Lots of people thought she was great at that. Her Monty Pythonesque humor was greatly appreciated over in England. Hence her moving over there secretly to join in on a British sketch comedy show. Secretly to her hick parents in Kansas that is. Potatoe farmers they were. Diamond snorted, if anyone could've guessed Gabby was raised on a potatoe farm, she would have given them her wedding ring.

"Well I guess we'll bombarde Frodo's hole tomorrow." Virginia said. She blinked at the swaying chandlier, was it supposed to be doing that? "Is it just me, or is everything moving?" she asked confusedly. They all looked around when Gabby recognized a grassy knoll outside.

"Virginia! Look! It's the hill from Maureen's little episode!" Gabby cried anxiously. Her anxiousness was quickly proven as she bolted out the door to the knoll. She bent at a small depression in the side of the hill. She began to dig with her bare hands, Virginia quickly comint to her aid. What they saw amazed them. A safe. The lock was rusty and breaking off. Did they dare open it?