Well guys....thank you to everyone who has read this story faithfully. I am sad to say that this will be the end of my Daisy/Pippin stories...but I hope you all liked it. Everyone who is still reading and reviewing thank you for everything...those review kept this story going. And I decided to end it with my longest chapter yet....just for you....so read, enjoy(i hope) review and thanks again.

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Daisy sighed as she opened the front door of Frodo's hobbit hole. After spending the entire afternoon wearing her wedding dress so that her mother could make adjusments, she was exhausted. When she entered the living room, she could see that only Merry and Pippin were still up.

"Frodo already go to bed?"she asked.

"Yes, and Sam went home about an hour ago,"Merry replied.

"Well I stopped by your place on my way home Pip, and your mother sent some mushrooms over."

"I don't suppose any of my cousins were over there visiting,"Pippin muttered.

"No, only your sisters. Why do you ask?"Daisy questioned.

"Why didn't you tell me you enjoyed Brandy's companionship so much?"Pippin demanded.

Daisy's face paled slightly but she merely replied,"I didn't know it would be of interest to you."

"Of course it's of interst to me if you were off kissing someone else last year, while I was laying half dead on a battlefield dreaming only of you!"Pippin shouted.

Merry stood silently and crept out of the room, not wishing to be drawn into the middle of their argument.

Meanwhile Pippin stood, waiting, hoping that Daisy would deny his accusation. Instead Daisy paled and stepped back,"Pippin...I....please it was nothing...."she whispered.

His shoulders drooped and he turned his back on her, "so you really do love him."

"Pippin no!....I've only eaver loved you!"Daisy cried placing her hand on his arm, but he wrenched out of her grip and spun on her, his eyes flashing.

"If you haven't been honest about kissing him, how can I expect you to be honest now?"he growled."I always loved you and was faithful to you always, but if I can't trust you to do the same, how can our love survive? If you don't love me with your whole heart you might as well not love me at all!"

With that he turned and strode towards the entrance of Bag End.

"Pippin!"Daisy cried,"where are you going?"

"Home, where I can trust people!"he yelled slamming the door behind him.

Daisy dropped to the floor, hands covering her face as tears poored down her cheeks.

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Pippin arrived at his own home sometime later and by then most of his anger had dissipated. Now he simply felt worn out and dissapointed. He had done nothing but love Daisy for probably his whole life, but now it appeared she didn't feel the same. Well if she was the slightest bit unsure of who she loved then he didn't want to make her choose. He sighed as he opened the door and entered his home.

As he walked into the living room his mother looked up and smiled,"well if it isn't the future groom himself!"she beamed.

"Not anymore...you might as well notify our relatives now so they don't make the trip for nothing."he muttered.

"Why? What happened?"his mother asked, immidiately concerned.

"Well I ran into Brandy today, and he let me in on the little secret Daisy's been keeping about what the two of them were up to while I was gone."

Pervinca walked in as Pippin was finishing his statement and she rolled her eye's,"For goodness sakes Pippin all he did was kiss her."

Pippin whirled on his sister,"You knew about this!?!"he demanded.

"Well she came to talk to me afterwards, and if it makes you feel better she was completely torn up about the whole situation."

"That doesn't make a difference. What she did was betrayal and I don't know how I'll trust her again."

Pervinca's eyes narrowed and her face grew red,"Will you stop being such a baby?"she yelled,"All he did was kiss her and she felt horrible. You'd been gone a year and she didn't know if you were coming back so how was she to know?Besides you were the one that always wanted her to be happy but she wasn't Pippin. It was like she was dead,she wasn't the same anymore and when she was with Brandy there was just a hint of her old self there."

"Well I'm glad Brandy can make her happy."Pippin muttered.

"Fine Pippin think what you want, but you know I think the only real reason she liked him...is because he reminded her of you."

"I thought my family would be on my side!"Pippin growled,"but I guess I can't trust anyone here anymore..."

And with that Pippin turned on his heel and stalked out of his house. He wasn't sure where he was going, he just wanted to get away from everyone...and everything.

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The next day no one had any idea where Pippin had wandered off to. They were about to send out a search to make sure he was alright, but Frodo intervened and said,"let me go find him. I want to talk to him."

Frodo was barely involved with anything in the shire anymore, mostly staying home with his family and friends, so no one wanted to argue with him when he volounteered.

Frodo headed off into the woods,thinking he had an idea where his cousin had wandered off to. Sure enough he found Pippin sitting under a tree he had often visited as a child.

Pippin looked up and saw Frodo approaching,"So cousin, if I can't trust my family or future wife, I suppose that leaves only my travelling companions."

"Don't condemn Daisy, Pippin. She definitely regrets her actions that night."Frodo said softly.

"So I suppose you've taken her side as well,"Pippin sighed and glanced away.

"I don't take sides against my friends Pippin, only my enemies."

Frodo sat down next to his cousin joining him in silent contemplation. Finally he spoke up softly, almost inaudably,"When our quest ended Pippin, I thought things would be different. That everything would go back to the way it was. But I suppose I was wrong. I know now that things can never be the same as they were before we left. I can never be the same as before we left."

Pippin glanced up with wide eyes, Frodo had never spoken of what he felt about the journey to anyone, except maybe Gandalf or Sam.

Frodo continued, growing quieter with each word almost as if he was speaking to himself, a speech he had definitely spoken before, if only in private."the ring, it changed me, consumed my spirit and all of myself. When it was thrown away, a piece of me was thrown into that fiery pit with it."

He looked up and his clear blue eyes were distant,"I shall never be whole again Pippin. A part of me has forever been torn away. I can't stay here, where you are all whole...someday, perhaps soon, I shall have to leave the shire forever."

"But Frodo you can't! You can stay here with us!"Pippin said,panicked.

Frodo smiled sadly turning his gaze upon his friend,"no Pippin I'm afraid I can't. We saved middle earth, and the shire, but I can't stay. I have to find healing somewhere else. But for you Pippin, we saved this place for you,your healing lies here, because this is your home."

Pippin dropped his own head but Frodo continued,"Your heart lives here and it is whole. Completed by Daisy because you love each other. And one kiss between her and someone else hasn't changed that, if anything her heart lies even more with you because she knows she isn't happy with anyone else. She loves you still, only you. If the two of you complete each others hearts, then you can only be whole together. Forever here in the shire."Frodo said placing his hadn on Pippin's shoulder.

Pippin tried to smile through his tears,"You always were the wisest out of all of us Frodo."

"You're wiser than you get credit for my friend,"Frodo replied.

"Perhaps only you are wise enough to see it."

Frodo smiled faintly,"Daisy sees it. Come on let's head home, you have a wedding to plan."he said and dragging Pippin up, the two turned and headed for Bag End.

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3 Weeks Later

"I can't believe it's over already,"Pervinca sighed,"you guys had a fabulous wedding."

"Over?"Daisy said casting her gaze on Pippin,"Oh I'd say it's just starting Vinca."

"Hmm, I'll say. With the mischeif your children are sure to create...I'm sure the two of you can enjoy a lifetime of wedded bliss."Merry grinned.

"Well we can always send our children to be looked after at their dear Uncle Merry's."Pippin smirked.

Daisy just laughed and turned to drag Pippin out for some more fastpaced dancing. Merry offered Pervinca his hand and the two of them joined the married couple out on the dancefloor and Sam decided to follow their example and shyly asked Rosie Cotton if she would care to join him for a turn. She gratefully accepted and before long many of the younger hobbits had taken to twirling and laughing in their own versions of the local waltz.

Only a few hobbits stood off on the side and although many hobbits would have thought him to ill to participate, it was by choice that Frodo sat all alone. He knew it was almost time for him to be leaving and he was only glad that he was here to take part in his cousins wedding before he left. It was almost fall, and by the time his birthday came around he would be leaving his home forever, by springtime Frodo Baggins would only be a distant memory to many of the hobbits here, even if he was a hero in distant lands.

But for the moment he was content to take part in celebrating his friends happy marriage, and so when Daisy asked him as kindly as she could, he couldn't resist a dance with a beautiful girl like her.

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It was a month later when Frodo asked Sam if he would care to join him on the road for one final trip, or if he would care to join him part of the way at least. Daisy, Merry and Pippin had been living happily down at Crickhollow for some time and Frodo decided that if they wished they could always ask them to join up with them once they reached the edge of the Shire. But to Sam's dismay they hadn't even travelled for a day when they saw a host of elves coming towards them. Singing happily with Elrond strumming on his harp and fair Galadriel's voice rose up above the others around her. Sam understood at once and while he was deeply sorrowed he understood his master's decision. The only thing he regretted was that his other friends wouldn't be there to see Frodo off.

They had reached the havens when they heard the nose of quick galloping behind them and turning they saw two small ponies headed towards them at a breakneck speed. Once they drew near the ponies were drawn up and three figures leapt down and raced towards those who were getting ready to board the ship.

"Frodo you didn't think you could give us the slip this time did you?"Pippin asked, swiping at the tears he was so desperately trying to hide.

Daisy had less luck with this task and tears spilled down her cheeks as she stepped up to Frodo."I wish you didn't have to go Frodo. I'll miss you so much."she cried,throwing her arms around her cousin,"I love you Frodo."she whispered sniffling.

Frodo smiled at Daisy,"don't worry Des,you have Pippin to be with you forever, and Merry and Sam as well. I'll miss you too but I have to go."

With that he hugged all his friends and boarded the ship with Gandalf at his side. They waved goodbye as the ship left the shore, and the others gazed after it until all they could see was the vial with Galadriel's light that Frodo held up on the ship. And then this too flickered and went out.

They slowly made their ways back home, and lived together until an old age, almost as old as Bilbo himself. Merry eventually married Estella Bolger and Sam married Rose Cotton. And there was much visiting between Bag End, Crickhollow and Tookland. Not only by the travellers themselves but of all the children these three had, including a Frodo for each of them.

The End