I am not worthy! I am not worthy! I am soooo sorry for not updating sooner.
But I had exams last week and I've bee studying and studying and if it
makes you feel any better, I totally screwed them up. So there.
But on the good side: I have time to write more chapters now! So expect
more updates soon!
Little notes;
Gotta Luv Pippin; thanks, scary dreams indeed and it's not the last of them, I can tell you. How I know all this? Well, I'm the author! ;)
PTB; Thanks for the comments on my english, I really hope that my english teacher thinks the same when he sees my exam..*crosses fingers*. I finished reading your story by the way, but I'll review tomorrow, I'm dead tired right now. But I can say that I loved it.
Lady Hummingbird; a foresight dream.who knows.*insert evil laugh here*. Thanks for the comments on my english. I actually didn't know the difference between of and off but I asked my teacher and he explained, though I probably screwed it up again.if you see anymore mistakes, please point them out. I just wanna learn from them.
Jenny; I hope you like this story as much as Rusta Iira (which I loved by the way). I can tell you that it's taking a different turn from that story though. It'll be more.no, I won't say, you'll just have to read it. *insert another evil laugh here*.
Lora; well, I kinda flunked the update soon part but I still hope you like this chapter as well, I promise to bring the next update sooner.
Mirkwoodarcher; thanks! Though I don't really know the definition of droning, maybe this chapter drones more. I'm not sure, if I start to drone, then please let me know as it sounds negative (droning is the new word of the day!)
Zetawolf; I won't be doing any slash in this story. Mainly because I'm not a fan of slash though there are some amazing slash stories out there. But I'm not good at writing slash, I leave that to the people who know how. I'll probably only mess it up.
Sugar; mwaaaHA! I made you read another story! Ain't I evil! How's that gameboy coming along?
Natta; you're Swedish! I love that country! I've been there once a long long time ago (in a galaxy.not so far away) and it's beautiful! Very green. You lucky dog!
Well, here's the story! Once again, let me know what you think. Any spelling or grammar mistakes are free to point out.
Enjoy:
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As Pippin made his way towards Buckland he started humming a little song. It was a song he used to sing with his mother went they made their way to the Brandybucks. For some odd reason his dad didn't accompany them too often. He probably had a lot to do, Pippin reasoned, being the Thain of the Shire was a busy life after all. And one day he would have to take on that job. Pippin sighed at the thought of it. At least he still had a few years until he would come of age and until that time he shouldn't have to worry too much about it all. For some weird reason Pippin started to sit up straight as he thought this. After all, the Thain couldn't sloudge. He didn't even notice doing it. It was just something his dad had taught him.
The road to Buckland was a long one and every so often he would see people who stopped him to have a little talk. They would chatter on, which made Pippin annoyed as it was getting late as it was. At this rate, he wouldn't make it before dinner and he wanted to be indoors before dark.
"How's your old father doing then, young master Peregrin?" an old hobbit asked him.
"He's doing excellent, sir, though he's very busy." Pippin said as he tried to end the conversation quickly.
"Aye, that he is, that he is. He's a good Thain, master Peregrin, you could be proud of him."
"I am, sir."
"You look like him, I bet you'll make a fine Thain yourself one day." The old hobbit winked at Pippin and walked of. Pippin looked at the hobbit as he walked away. Somehow he felt a mixture of pride at the old hobbit's words but he also felt uneasy. What if he couldn't live up to everyone's expectations? No use to worry about that right now, Pippin thought and tried to push the thoughts away to the back of his mind. Instead he focused his thoughts on the road and continued his way towards Brandy Hall.
It actually was getting darker as he entered the land of Buckland and saw the chimney's of Brandy Hall in the distance. He quickly told Socks to go faster as he could almost smell dinner. As Pippin came to a stop in front of Brandy hall, he could already hear loud noises from the house, after all it housed many hobbit family's. He was still sitting on Socks and waiting for someone to take his pony away.
"Hullo?" he said softly, he didn't dare to yell out loud. "Hello!"
He didn't get an answer so he decided to tie Socks to one of the big trees in the front garden. After giving Socks a reassuring pat, he walked towards the round door. As he neared the door the sound of people walking and laughing inside the house became louder. The house was stirring with activity, as it always had been as long as Pippin could remember.
He was thinking of knocking or just barching in when he was suddenly tackled to the ground from behind. He fell flat on his face with a small yelp and tried to turn around to face the hobbit who was now holding his hands behind his back.
"Oy! What's this then!" Pippin smiled, he knew all too well who was sitting on top of him.
"You should be on your guard more, young Peregrin." He heard the smiling voice of his cousin.
"Merry get of me, or I'll...I'll have you thrown out of the Shire!"
"You have no power here, Pippin. This is Brandybuck land. Now be a good lad and say the Magic word." Merry said laughing as he kept Pippin's face on the ground.
"There's a magic word?"
"Actually, it's more of a sentence."
"Could you give me a hint?" Pippin teased, he knew exactly what Merry was trying to make him say.
"Do you enjoy sitting with your face in the dirt, cousin? Cause I could sit here a while and-"
"Allright, allright." Pippin sighed and recited their old password. "Blue, green, red, yellow. Merry is an awesome fellow."
"Right, now what's the second verse." Merry laughed as a small grumble came from underneath him.
"Ok, that's it." Pippin said and somehow managed to get himself from underneath Merry and instead switched places. Merry was now lying on his back with Pippin sitting on his stomach, holding Merry's arms above his head.
"You know I hated that password," Pippin laughed.
"Yeah? I kinda liked it. It had a certain ring to it." Merry laughed, "You've grown strong Pip, over those three months."
Pippin scrambled of merry and pulled him up as well.
"Crazy Brandybuck." He joked.
"Foolish Took." As Merry said that he flung his arms around Pippin in a true embrace. Pippin quickly put his arms around his cousin and laughed into his shoulder.
"You did have me by surprise." He said as they started walking towards the door.
"Aye, it's a Brandybuck trade. We can sneak up on hobbits without them noticing." Merry grinned, "or maybe you Tooks are just too daft." Marry laughed out loud and ruffled his cousin's hair. Pippin grinned back as he walked into the house. Immediately two hobbit children ran past them and nearly knocked Pippin of his feet.
"Oy!" Merry called after them "watch where you're running!"
They heard a soft "sorry" from the distance as the children continued running. Merry shook his head grinning.
"They never learn, one of these days those two are gonna bump into something big and they'll be sorry then."
"You should stop them then" Pippin said.
"Nah, they'll figure it out by themselves. As soon as one of them runs into a cabinet or something, it'll be over."
"They'll get hurt, Merry." Pippin said, at the Took household you were strictly forbidden to do anything that came even close to harm. "You should make sure they're ok."
"Ow, come on Pippin," Merry said as they walked down the hall. "The best way to learn something is to experience it. When I was a younger lad, I kept climbing those old trees near the boarders of the Old Forest. My father told me ónce that I should watch out. Only once. He knew that I wouldn't listen anyway if he told me not to do it anymore. But when I finally stood on a dead branch and fell down, well, lets say I learned my lesson."
"I remember that, you'd broken your shoulder. The doctors thought it might not even grow back right."
"Right, you would remember that, you were about 12 then."
"Dad told me that I was néver allowed to climb a tree anymore." Pippin said, thinking back at what his father had said. 'Look at that Brandybuck boy Pippin. See what kind of trouble he got himself into? Don't ever do anything like that. You're smarter then that.'
"Well, did you?"
"Did I what?" Pippin asked, shook back from his thoughts.
"Never climb another tree again?" Pippin just nodded. "Well, then what will you do when you get chased by something and you need to climb into a tree? How will you know which braches are good to stand on?"
"Will you know?"
"After falling out of trees about seven times. Yes, I hope do."
"Well, I'll just follow you then." Pippin grinned up to his older cousin, who smiled back.
"You're lucky you have a cousin who looks after-". At that time they heard a loud "bump" and a scream from one of the hobbit children. It seemed that one of the running children had indeed ran into a cabinet and was now lying on the floor crying his eyes out.
"Well, there you go." Pippin said. "Now you'll have it. He's probably broken something."
"From bumping into a cabinet? Honestly, Pippin, he's fine." Merry said as he walked over to the young lad who was still crying on the floor. The other lad was walking around nervously, probably expecting to be in trouble.
"Hey, lets try to sit up," Merry said and sat the boy up leaning against the cabinet. "Are you hurt?" the lad nodded. "Where?" Merry asked all these things in a kind way that Pippin normally didn't hear from his cousin. His voice was relaxing and soothing, but still Merry at the same time.
"My hand." The boy said sniffling.
"Well, lets see it then." The boy held up his hand and Merry examined it closely. "Well, it looks allright. Can you do this?" Merry asked, holding up his index finger, moving it from side to side. The boy mimicked him perfectly.
"Very good, and this?" he now held up his pink and did the same gesture. Once again the boy did it easily.
"Very good as well, how bout this?" Merry said and crossed his eyes and stook out his tongue. The young boys laughed out loud and immediately started doing it as well. Merry grinned at both of them.
"You're fine," he said "but watch where you're running next time." He quickly ruffled their hair as he stood up again.
"We will, Merry." The boys said and walked of, but as soon as they rounded the corner, Merry and Pippin could here them running again.
"You still won't stop them?" Pippin asked. He couldn't believe that Merry was so laid-back about it all.
"Relax, Pippin, they'll be fine. Brandybuck children are not made of feathers. They can take things."
"I'm not made of feathers." Pippin said softly.
"Off course you're not!" Merry said, "you just have calm down a little. You can't control everything. And especially not in Brandy Hall."
At that time they entered the big living room where almost all the family was walking around, talking or sleeping in chairs. Pippin looked at the disoriented scene in front of him and suddenly felt a difference between this and his own home that he'd never felt before.
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Once more: I'm Dutch, not English, so please point out any mistakes and let me know what you think of the story. If you hate it, let me know. I can take flames, I might even consider paying attention to them.
Little notes;
Gotta Luv Pippin; thanks, scary dreams indeed and it's not the last of them, I can tell you. How I know all this? Well, I'm the author! ;)
PTB; Thanks for the comments on my english, I really hope that my english teacher thinks the same when he sees my exam..*crosses fingers*. I finished reading your story by the way, but I'll review tomorrow, I'm dead tired right now. But I can say that I loved it.
Lady Hummingbird; a foresight dream.who knows.*insert evil laugh here*. Thanks for the comments on my english. I actually didn't know the difference between of and off but I asked my teacher and he explained, though I probably screwed it up again.if you see anymore mistakes, please point them out. I just wanna learn from them.
Jenny; I hope you like this story as much as Rusta Iira (which I loved by the way). I can tell you that it's taking a different turn from that story though. It'll be more.no, I won't say, you'll just have to read it. *insert another evil laugh here*.
Lora; well, I kinda flunked the update soon part but I still hope you like this chapter as well, I promise to bring the next update sooner.
Mirkwoodarcher; thanks! Though I don't really know the definition of droning, maybe this chapter drones more. I'm not sure, if I start to drone, then please let me know as it sounds negative (droning is the new word of the day!)
Zetawolf; I won't be doing any slash in this story. Mainly because I'm not a fan of slash though there are some amazing slash stories out there. But I'm not good at writing slash, I leave that to the people who know how. I'll probably only mess it up.
Sugar; mwaaaHA! I made you read another story! Ain't I evil! How's that gameboy coming along?
Natta; you're Swedish! I love that country! I've been there once a long long time ago (in a galaxy.not so far away) and it's beautiful! Very green. You lucky dog!
Well, here's the story! Once again, let me know what you think. Any spelling or grammar mistakes are free to point out.
Enjoy:
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As Pippin made his way towards Buckland he started humming a little song. It was a song he used to sing with his mother went they made their way to the Brandybucks. For some odd reason his dad didn't accompany them too often. He probably had a lot to do, Pippin reasoned, being the Thain of the Shire was a busy life after all. And one day he would have to take on that job. Pippin sighed at the thought of it. At least he still had a few years until he would come of age and until that time he shouldn't have to worry too much about it all. For some weird reason Pippin started to sit up straight as he thought this. After all, the Thain couldn't sloudge. He didn't even notice doing it. It was just something his dad had taught him.
The road to Buckland was a long one and every so often he would see people who stopped him to have a little talk. They would chatter on, which made Pippin annoyed as it was getting late as it was. At this rate, he wouldn't make it before dinner and he wanted to be indoors before dark.
"How's your old father doing then, young master Peregrin?" an old hobbit asked him.
"He's doing excellent, sir, though he's very busy." Pippin said as he tried to end the conversation quickly.
"Aye, that he is, that he is. He's a good Thain, master Peregrin, you could be proud of him."
"I am, sir."
"You look like him, I bet you'll make a fine Thain yourself one day." The old hobbit winked at Pippin and walked of. Pippin looked at the hobbit as he walked away. Somehow he felt a mixture of pride at the old hobbit's words but he also felt uneasy. What if he couldn't live up to everyone's expectations? No use to worry about that right now, Pippin thought and tried to push the thoughts away to the back of his mind. Instead he focused his thoughts on the road and continued his way towards Brandy Hall.
It actually was getting darker as he entered the land of Buckland and saw the chimney's of Brandy Hall in the distance. He quickly told Socks to go faster as he could almost smell dinner. As Pippin came to a stop in front of Brandy hall, he could already hear loud noises from the house, after all it housed many hobbit family's. He was still sitting on Socks and waiting for someone to take his pony away.
"Hullo?" he said softly, he didn't dare to yell out loud. "Hello!"
He didn't get an answer so he decided to tie Socks to one of the big trees in the front garden. After giving Socks a reassuring pat, he walked towards the round door. As he neared the door the sound of people walking and laughing inside the house became louder. The house was stirring with activity, as it always had been as long as Pippin could remember.
He was thinking of knocking or just barching in when he was suddenly tackled to the ground from behind. He fell flat on his face with a small yelp and tried to turn around to face the hobbit who was now holding his hands behind his back.
"Oy! What's this then!" Pippin smiled, he knew all too well who was sitting on top of him.
"You should be on your guard more, young Peregrin." He heard the smiling voice of his cousin.
"Merry get of me, or I'll...I'll have you thrown out of the Shire!"
"You have no power here, Pippin. This is Brandybuck land. Now be a good lad and say the Magic word." Merry said laughing as he kept Pippin's face on the ground.
"There's a magic word?"
"Actually, it's more of a sentence."
"Could you give me a hint?" Pippin teased, he knew exactly what Merry was trying to make him say.
"Do you enjoy sitting with your face in the dirt, cousin? Cause I could sit here a while and-"
"Allright, allright." Pippin sighed and recited their old password. "Blue, green, red, yellow. Merry is an awesome fellow."
"Right, now what's the second verse." Merry laughed as a small grumble came from underneath him.
"Ok, that's it." Pippin said and somehow managed to get himself from underneath Merry and instead switched places. Merry was now lying on his back with Pippin sitting on his stomach, holding Merry's arms above his head.
"You know I hated that password," Pippin laughed.
"Yeah? I kinda liked it. It had a certain ring to it." Merry laughed, "You've grown strong Pip, over those three months."
Pippin scrambled of merry and pulled him up as well.
"Crazy Brandybuck." He joked.
"Foolish Took." As Merry said that he flung his arms around Pippin in a true embrace. Pippin quickly put his arms around his cousin and laughed into his shoulder.
"You did have me by surprise." He said as they started walking towards the door.
"Aye, it's a Brandybuck trade. We can sneak up on hobbits without them noticing." Merry grinned, "or maybe you Tooks are just too daft." Marry laughed out loud and ruffled his cousin's hair. Pippin grinned back as he walked into the house. Immediately two hobbit children ran past them and nearly knocked Pippin of his feet.
"Oy!" Merry called after them "watch where you're running!"
They heard a soft "sorry" from the distance as the children continued running. Merry shook his head grinning.
"They never learn, one of these days those two are gonna bump into something big and they'll be sorry then."
"You should stop them then" Pippin said.
"Nah, they'll figure it out by themselves. As soon as one of them runs into a cabinet or something, it'll be over."
"They'll get hurt, Merry." Pippin said, at the Took household you were strictly forbidden to do anything that came even close to harm. "You should make sure they're ok."
"Ow, come on Pippin," Merry said as they walked down the hall. "The best way to learn something is to experience it. When I was a younger lad, I kept climbing those old trees near the boarders of the Old Forest. My father told me ónce that I should watch out. Only once. He knew that I wouldn't listen anyway if he told me not to do it anymore. But when I finally stood on a dead branch and fell down, well, lets say I learned my lesson."
"I remember that, you'd broken your shoulder. The doctors thought it might not even grow back right."
"Right, you would remember that, you were about 12 then."
"Dad told me that I was néver allowed to climb a tree anymore." Pippin said, thinking back at what his father had said. 'Look at that Brandybuck boy Pippin. See what kind of trouble he got himself into? Don't ever do anything like that. You're smarter then that.'
"Well, did you?"
"Did I what?" Pippin asked, shook back from his thoughts.
"Never climb another tree again?" Pippin just nodded. "Well, then what will you do when you get chased by something and you need to climb into a tree? How will you know which braches are good to stand on?"
"Will you know?"
"After falling out of trees about seven times. Yes, I hope do."
"Well, I'll just follow you then." Pippin grinned up to his older cousin, who smiled back.
"You're lucky you have a cousin who looks after-". At that time they heard a loud "bump" and a scream from one of the hobbit children. It seemed that one of the running children had indeed ran into a cabinet and was now lying on the floor crying his eyes out.
"Well, there you go." Pippin said. "Now you'll have it. He's probably broken something."
"From bumping into a cabinet? Honestly, Pippin, he's fine." Merry said as he walked over to the young lad who was still crying on the floor. The other lad was walking around nervously, probably expecting to be in trouble.
"Hey, lets try to sit up," Merry said and sat the boy up leaning against the cabinet. "Are you hurt?" the lad nodded. "Where?" Merry asked all these things in a kind way that Pippin normally didn't hear from his cousin. His voice was relaxing and soothing, but still Merry at the same time.
"My hand." The boy said sniffling.
"Well, lets see it then." The boy held up his hand and Merry examined it closely. "Well, it looks allright. Can you do this?" Merry asked, holding up his index finger, moving it from side to side. The boy mimicked him perfectly.
"Very good, and this?" he now held up his pink and did the same gesture. Once again the boy did it easily.
"Very good as well, how bout this?" Merry said and crossed his eyes and stook out his tongue. The young boys laughed out loud and immediately started doing it as well. Merry grinned at both of them.
"You're fine," he said "but watch where you're running next time." He quickly ruffled their hair as he stood up again.
"We will, Merry." The boys said and walked of, but as soon as they rounded the corner, Merry and Pippin could here them running again.
"You still won't stop them?" Pippin asked. He couldn't believe that Merry was so laid-back about it all.
"Relax, Pippin, they'll be fine. Brandybuck children are not made of feathers. They can take things."
"I'm not made of feathers." Pippin said softly.
"Off course you're not!" Merry said, "you just have calm down a little. You can't control everything. And especially not in Brandy Hall."
At that time they entered the big living room where almost all the family was walking around, talking or sleeping in chairs. Pippin looked at the disoriented scene in front of him and suddenly felt a difference between this and his own home that he'd never felt before.
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Once more: I'm Dutch, not English, so please point out any mistakes and let me know what you think of the story. If you hate it, let me know. I can take flames, I might even consider paying attention to them.