Chapter 12

A/N: This is the last one, folks! I will be continuing the story very soon with a follow-up. Obsidie's strange logic: She doesn't want a 68 chapter long fanfic. Solution: I decided to have three installments, each of them started about the same time as the previous year's, so I will be making a Two Towers edition to companion this. I already have ideas and life will continue as usual on the farm.

Disclaimer: I do not own LOTR, this is getting redundant.

Finally they made it to shore by "that big waterfall thingy" as Ete so pleasantly called it.

"Hey." Merut said, pulling Ete off to the side.

"What?"

"Do you think we should keep a tab on Frodo and Boromir?"

"Hmm. Well..." Ete looked around, "We could follow them as long as we don't interfere with the will of Tolkien. You know what happens then authors get angry." The two looked fearfully to the sky.

The Author Goddess: Damn straight.

The two companions shuddered.

"Cool!" Merut said, thoroughly excited to see Boromir in a weak moment. "I'll follow-."

"I'll take Frodo!" Ete said cheerfully.

Merut's mouth dropped to the floor.

"WHAT!"

Ete folded her arms and closed her eyes, her eyebrows raised, completely smug. "I'm sure that you and your precious Gondor boy would just loooove to have a moment alone..."

Merut's eyes widened with the thought.

"GAAAAAHH! UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!" She started to rub the "Gondor Boy Cooties" off.

Whilst Merut was proceeding, Ete grabbed her bow and arrows and followed the little hobbit off into the woods.

Ete followed Frodo stealthily along on his adventure.

Merut was finally pulled aside by, you guessed it, Boromir, into the woods.

"I want to have a conversation with you." Boromir said, once the two stopped.

"As long as you don't use your mouth, fine." Merut said, folding her arms. The two thought for a second. Merut started to grin once she realized the accidental limitations on the Gondor Boy and Boromir looked frustrated.

"Look-."

"You're using your mouth!"

"Merut-."

"No using mouth!"

"But I need-."

"You're breaking my rule!"

"MERUT!" Boromir yelled. "Let me talk!"

Merut sighed heavily. "FINE. But just... don't start kissing me and whatever." Boromir started to talk. "And collect wood while you're at it." She picked up a log and smacked it against his chest, knocking some wind out of him.

"Okay." Boromir said hesitantly after coughing and regaining some oxygen. The two walked into the woods while they talked, Merut staying outside of Boromir's arm span. "I wanted to talk to you about how appallingly I behaved in the boats the other day."

"Well that's no surprise."

"You expected me to kiss you?" Boromir said in alarm.

"HOW DARE YOU!" Merut said, slapping him.

That's somehow what Boromir expected.

"Shouldn't have said that." Boromir said, stepping forward. "I'm sorry."

An awkward silence passed between the two.

"Just sorry?"

"Sorry as the entire world would be if the world could be sorry."

"Apology..." Merut sighed. "Accepted." Boromir looked plainly delighted. "But no more funny business. I hate your guts and the world would come to an end if I didn't."

"Agreed." He said. There was a rustling in the bushes. "What was that?" Boromir was distracted and looked off into the woods. Sure enough, Frodo was walking along, Ete in close step, ducking behind trees. Merut used this opportunity to join her and they kept watch as Boromir ruined his life.

"Pathetic humans." Merut said, snarling from behind the rock.

The scene continued as usual. Orcs came, died and carried off Merry and Pippin. They knew everything that was going to happen, so they followed along and kicked major butt. Then Boromir started dying.

"Aw." Ete said sadly, frowning and actually quite upset. She didn't expect it to hurt.

Merut played it off pretty well, but she was kind of upset. Especially because she was right behind the tree he crawled off to die behind and heard him speak his last words.

"Boromir was a jerk." Merut said as she watched his body float off down the river. "He was a jerkedy jerk jerk idiot with no respect of personal boundaries and was a weak man." She sighed.

"But he was your jerk." Ete said, hitting it right where it hurt.

"Are you insinuating that I had some sort of hot mojo love for Gondor Boy, heaven forbid?" Merut said angrily.

"You liked him in teh end. Admit it."

"He was a jerk and I don't want to think about him anymore! I hated him!" Merut screamed in the direction of the waterfall.

"Will you give it a rest!" Gimli protested. "The only thing you did on this trip was insult Boromir! He was a noble man!"

"He was a bigot!" Merut screamed. "That man was a worthless as the ground beneath his feet!"

"Here we go again..." Aragorn, Ete and Legolas said in unison.

"Boromir had a noble heart!"

"His heart was lead!"

"He was kind!"

"HE KISSED M-!" Merut was cut off. "I feel funny." She looked down. Her feet weren't there... and she was slowly disintegrating into dust! "Ete!"

"Hmm?" Ete asked. She looked down and she was turning into dust, too. "AGH!"

"Ete!" Legolas said in alarm.

"I'm turning to dust!" Merut exclaimed.

"Help me!" Ete said as she last of her disintegrated.

Somewhere in Lorien...

"Hmm. I feel funny." Said the SAB as he quickly disintegrated.

Back at Pennsic...

"Ugh, I'm all wet!" Merut complained.

"I'm soaked..." Ete said disdainfully.

"House Crossbow to Abby." Said the voice on Merut's forgotten belt.

"Mm?" Merut said.

The two were back at Pennsic, the stream flowing over them, sitting in the water.

Within days, the two were sent on their way home, Merut to Connecticut and Ete back to Massachusetts.

The mundane Ete, Meredith, got an email from the mundane Merut, Abby, at school. Life had become increasingly dull since their return and the two had kept in steady email contact since Pennsic.

"You have 1 new messages." Said the yahoo account's main page.

"Next year, we're going back."