Well, here is the next chapter, finally. I'm sorry about making you all wait such a long time but now that it's summer it should be a lot better. I hope that you enjoy. Also for the sake of this story, lets say that Tookland is close to Hobbiton .
"Hurry!" Merry shouted when he could feel Pippin start choking on water.
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It was about a minute later when he heard Sam say, "There we got it!" They lifted Pippin out of that water as fast as they could and sat him by the riverside.
"He's not breathing!" Merry yelled thinking that he had failed his friend.
"Here, let me see," Sam said, and lifted Pippin up and began to smack his back to get him to cough up the water. Merry briefly thought there was going to be quite a bruise on Pippin's back.
After a couple of minutes the tense silence was broken by Pippin, who coughed up all the water he had swallowed. He looked around until he found Merry's eyes, and smiled up at him before once again slipping back into the darkness.
Merry cried tears of happiness and slung his arms around Sam. "Thank you Sam! You just saved Pippin."
Sam smiled back at him and said, "It was nothing, Mr. Merry, and any one of you would have done it too."
Merry took one of the blankets that had been set before him and wrapped Pippin tightly in it. He lifted him up and started back toward Bag End.
Pippin was small for his age and had always been like that, so it was nothing for Merry to carry him back. Merry held on to him tightly, and after walking for awhile he saw Bag End and saw that the lights were on. He breathed a sigh of relief knowing that everything was going to be all right.
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As Merry and the rest walked up the steps, they saw Bilbo open the door and rush out, "Hurry!" Bilbo pushed them. "I have a bath waiting for him, to warm him up and then we have to make sure that he won't get very sick."
Merry walked into the hobbit hole and saw Pippin's parents get up and start to come toward Pippin and him.
"Don't," Merry said. He handed Pippin to Bilbo, telling him to take him to the bath. Bilbo must have seen the look on Merry's face because he nodded and walked into the bathroom.
Sam's father had gone home but said he would check in soon, but Sam stayed behind, "Frodo and I will get Pippin's room ready," Sam said, and gently pushed Frodo out of the room.
Merry waited until everyone was out of the room, and he glared at Paladin and Eglantine. "I don't see how you can show yourselves," Merry said, "with all you have said."
"Listen, we..." Paladin started.
"No, you listen. You have been pushing and pushing Pippin way too much and you want him to be perfect, but guess what-- he's just like a regular person. And he is still just a little child, he wants to laugh and play like all the other little children. Sure giving him lessons, that's fine, but not so much that it just wears him down and makes him think that you don't love him anymore." Merry angrily stood in front of Pippin's parents.
"He thinks that we don't love him?" Eglantine whispered in shock.
"Yes, he's mentioned it a couple of times, but always made me promise that I wouldn't tell, I am just fed up with the way you treat him, so until you learn how to treat your son better, you are not allowed to see him," Merry said, and turned on his heel and walked down the hall to help Bilbo.