-Hiya, yes it's time for.....chapter 2! =D Don't hate me because I left it there =P I said I would update soon! okay, here it comes.

Disclaimer: I don't own Pippin, Merry, Sam or anything else Tolkien related. *runs away, crying*

Everything is going to be alright

The little body was cold..he was not breathing. There was a wound on his head and it was bleeding. Merry dragged Pippin on land. "Oh please, Pippin, please, please, please. Don't do this!" Merry whispered trough his tears and he grabbed the little ones arm. No heartbeat. Merry desperately looked around. "HELP! HELP ME PLEASE!" He screamed and looked back at his cousin. "Come on Pip...please.." He whispered and held him. Tears were streaming down his cheeks.

There were white flashes before his eyes, and suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his chest. He realizes he was coughing up water, and he desperately tried to get some air. He continued to cough and choke and he brought up more water. He could finally take a deep breath, and his head hurted real bad. Slowly he opened his eyes and shivered, everything was blurry.

"Pip? Pippin?" Merry whispered and his younger cousin finally opened his eyes. "Pip, can you hear me?" Merry asked. Pippins eyes looked at Merry's but they didn't really saw him. The seven year old coughed again, and pain was written on his face. "Pippin, look at me, Pip." Merry said and suddenly Pippin looked back at Merry. "M...Merry?" Pippin whispered but he then closed his eyes again. Merry smiled, still crying.

"Hullo Pip.." He said. "Let's get you out of here." And with that Merry picked up his little cousin and began to sprint to the nearest Hobbithome, as luck would have it, it was the old Gaffers house. Pippin mumbled something but then slipped back into oblivion.

"Sam! SAM!" Merry yelled when he reached the hobbithole, and soon enough the door opened. "What is all this yelling for?" Sam asked but when he saw Merry's face and then Pippin, he stepped away. Merry walked in and placed Pippin on the table. Sam followed Merry. "Hurry, get some dry clothes or anything. We must get him warm. And get some hot water with a little towel too, we have to treat this wound." Merry said and started stripping off Pippin's wet ones. Sam thought it would be better to ask questions later and went to get some clothes and the other things.

Some time later, Pippin was laying in a warm bed with clean dry clothes. His wound had been treated. Merry was too busy with caring for Pippin that he didn't do anything about his own wet clothes, and he didn't realized he was shivering.

"I think we better get you in some warm clothes too." Sam said when he observed Merry. Merry sighed and nodded. And within a view minutes he was sitting in a chair next to the fireplace. A blanket was surrounding him. And he was holding a hot cup of something that you could call chocolate milk. Sam was sitting in the chair facing his.

"So, what happened?" Sam asked and took a sip of his milk. Merry looked up and sighed. ".....Well, I was teaching Pip how to swim, and we had lots of fun. He was doing quite good. When evening was beginning to fall I suggested that we should be heading home. I think Pippin didn't want to walk all that way to the bridge and when he saw a formation of stones in the water he suggested we should cross the river there. Before I could say something he jumped from stone to stone, I said that I didn't think it was a good idea, but he didn't listened. He slipped and fell, he hitted a stone with his head. I couldn't find him in the water, but suddenly I saw a flash of his scarf. I jumped in the water and dragged him onto the land..." Merry said and sighed again. "...He wasn't breathing, Sam. I was so scared..." Merry whispered and looked at Sam. "I couldn't stop thinking it was all my fault....I finally managed to get some sort of live in him again. he started coughing up water, and didn't seem to recognize me the first time." Merry stared into the fire. "It's okay now, Merry. It's okay." Sam said and he looked into his cup that was now empty. He got up and re-filled his cup.

They talked for quite some time but then Sam insisted that Merry got some sleep. There was no point in arguing this so Merry agreed. But before he went to bed he said down next to Pippin, who seemed to be peacefully asleep. Merry smiled. He places a kiss on his forehead and got up. "Don't do something like that ever again!" He whispered and went to his bed.

-Chapter 2 finished yaaaay! Hope you like it, Chapter 3 will come soon (if I get inspiration) -babet-