Forever In Your Heart

By Robin Gurl

Chapter 1

(I was looking through Snow Flakes and I Just Can't Help Falling In Love With You and saw that they kinda over lapped. o_O Weird how that one worked out *shrugs* but anywho, I have decided to start one that will go through Bree and right where IJCHFILWY starts and then have IJCHFILWY end where Snow Flakes starts. Ooookie day have I like um..confused anyone? *all stare at her blankly*...o_o OOook in other words Read this one first then IJCHFILWY then Snowflakes. Got it? If you don't to bad cos you can read them separately if you wish. It's just cooler if you read them in order. Cos some of the flashbacks will appear!! Expecially that new scene in Snow Flakes where Pippin tells a secret to Gandalf! Hee hee!! ^_^ Humor and Insaneness will ensue!! Ok point 2 -- Please remember when you read these that Pip is acting like a child for a reason...I mean come on in the summary I said '12 YEARS OLD' unless you just don't read summaries...o_O And for you newbies or oldies that just don't know: 12 years old is like 7 in hobbit years! XD Hee hee. Ooook on with story enough with the pretty author note!!)

Disclaimer: ..(oh yeh...^^ Can't forget the shiny disclaimer, can we?) ...*holds up a sign that says 'I OWN NO ONE YOU NITS'*

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"Pip, don't you dare bother Sam," Bilbo Baggin's shouted from the entrance to Bag End.

A little hobbit no older than 11 ½ or 12 (if you wanted to make him happy) stopped in his tracks and turned around. He pouted, "I'm bored! 'sides I wasn't going to bother him. I just wanted to talk to him."

"Yes, and in the process you will keep him from doing his work!" The old hobbit replied. Bilbo was no dummy, he knew how the young Took's mind worked. "Where are your cousins?" he asked.

"Talking 'bout lasses." the little Took answered wrinkling his nose, making an awful face to show his dislike of the subject.

The face was so 'awful' that Bilbo chuckled and leaned against the door of the Hobbit hole.

"What?" Pippin cried, "Lasses are boring! All they do is put bows in your curls and dress you up in lacy dresses! It's horrible!!"

"I see. Well, why don't you come help me then," replied Bilbo.

"What do I have to do?" Pippin wasn't stupid. He had found out a long time ago, if a young lad or less was bored, an adult will make you do some boring chore or something of the like. Pip wasn't that bored to have to do chores.

"Just some help in the kitchen. But if you don't want to then I understand. I'll do it on my own." Bilbo turned to go back in the hobbit hole.

Food? Green eyes brightened. Free food? Food that you weren't going to get scolded later for eating? Immediately Pippin decided that this wasn't an icky chore that food would be nice. "Alright..I'll do it!"

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"Frodo, I can't find him!!"

Bilbo looked up to see a frantic tweenager running around the hobbit hole like a wild boar. "Meriadoc you are going to destroy my perfectly clean hole. What ever is the matter?"

"He can't find Pippin." Frodo replied sitting in a chair. "And knowing Merry, we'll be searching until we find him…"

"Oh, that is all." Bilbo replied in an uncaring tone.

Both hobbits looked up in alert. No one was ever at ease when they found out that Pippin had gone off on his own. Especially since the young hobbit had learned to walk on his own.

Merry looked as though he was about to faint. Frodo kept looking back and forth from Bilbo to Merry. He was worried about his cousin's health. "Merry, calm down. I'm sure he's fine."

"Frodo, he only comes up to my thighs and is about the size of a large tree branch. I am very worried about him. If anything has happened to Pip-"

Then a high-pitched giggle emitted from the kitchen. Merry's worry turned to anger in three seconds flat. "That fool of a Took is going to get it from me. We're going to have a go around and I promise you it will be more me than Pippin."

Frodo gulped and sat down on one of the chairs. He suddenly felt sorry for the young Took. "Just don't kill him, Merry."

"Kill him?" The Brandybuck muttered under his breath as he started towards the kitchen, "I'm in for disemboweling the brat."

Frodo giggled and picked up a book, "I almost feel sorry for Pippin."

Bilbo only snorted and went back to reading.

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"A pretty flower there and a heart there!!" Pippin smiled leaning on his knees. He was sitting on Bilbo's counter with a container of homemade icing in his left hand and in his right was a spreader. "Merry is going to love these!!"

Before Pippin could get down to show the cookies to Merry he saw his favorite cousin glaring at him. Wait, Pippin put the cookies down and cocked his head, if Merry glared it meant he was in trouble, but what had he done to get in trouble? "Merry?" Pippin asked carefully, "Did I do something wrong?" He climbed off and walked over to Merry still not sure of how to take the glare.

"You didn't tell me where you had gone."

"I did to!!" Pippin exclaimed crossing his arms, "You just didn't notice!!"

"You should have kept talking to me until I did notice. You scared me!" The blonde knelt down in front of the small hobbit and smiled, "Your parents gave me permission to raise you, Pip. And if you don't straighten up then they are going to take you back."

"NO!! They can't!!" Pippin flung himself at Merry hugging his cousin's neck tightly, "Oh Merry, don't let them! It would be something awful to never see you again!"

"They won't if you will listen to me!" Merry replied hugging the youngster back. The Brandybuck still had no idea why of all hobbits, Pippin had chosen him to worship. But he had; now Merry had to raise him as best as he could.

Then he chuckled, his mom and aunt had both told him that it wasn't all Pippin's fault. According to both Merry had tried many times to 'take' Pippin home for his own without the adult's knowing anything about it. Pearl also told the story of Merry taking the little hobbit to his room one night and worrying the whole family. Merry remembered that one, he still had the whip marks from the punishment.  

"So promise me next time that you will tell me and make sure that I know where you are before you run off. What if Roy Bracegirdle had gotten a hold of you? I would have never known it and you could have been hurt."

"I'm sorry, Mer. I won't do it again!!"

"Good. Now what in Middle Earth are you up to?"

Green eyes brightened and proudly Pippin dragged his cousin over to the counter. "I iced the cookies!!"

They weren't the prettiest cookies Merry had ever seen but they were done by a 12 year old so it was justified. He looked down to his cousin and saw Pippin was covered in the pink icing, "Oi, I think more of the icing hit you than the cookies!"

Pippin giggled as Merry picked him up. From his perch on Merry's hip he pointed out all of the cookies and how he made each and every heart and star. "Here, Merry. This one is for you!!"

Merry took the cookie and saw it had a pink heart that was colored in. "Thanks. And here is one for you."

"We both get heart cookies! Does that mean we love each other?"

Merry laughed, the little hobbits innocence was so cute. "Yes, Pip. It means we're forever in each other's hearts."

"Forever is a long time, Mer." Pippin replied, "A very long time. I hope we are friends forever. That would be fun!!"

"I'm sure we will be, Pip."

End Chapter 1

(Ok…abrupt ending..o_o For the first chappy of course!! ^_^ Hee hee. More Pippin cuteness on the way!! Oh. And the little 'stories' that Merry remembers when he tried to take Pippin for his own are from 'Where Ever You Are Is Home' by Pervinca Took. It's a very good story and I would recommend reading it! One of my personal favorites as well. ^^)