|Don't Let Life Stop You From Living |
|Chapter One |
| |
|Well, here it is, the long-awaited (audience: ~snort~ yeah right.)|
|last story. I just * had * to bring back the old characters one |
|last time, instead of using their children in a story, as I had |
|originally planned. But I think that this plot finishes off the |
|quad nicer. So.here it is. Dedicated to those who have helped me |
|through my writer's block and other assorted trials and |
|tribulations. |
| |
| |
| |
|~*~ |
|Rachel looked at Sam and sighed. He frowned and walked around to |
|stand behind her, arms around her waist. She leaned back and |
|closed her eyes. |
| |
|"I wish you weren't leaving." |
| |
|"Thank you for stating the obvious. So do I," she said, turning to|
|face him. "but tomorrow morning, I'll be back in my own world." |
| |
|"Remind me again why you're going?" |
| |
|"Because I have to. Elrond's leaving these shores soon, and he's |
|the only one left in Middle Earth who can send us all back. And if|
|we don't go back, it messes with time. And Gandalf says we can't |
|do that." |
| |
|"And why not? This is the one time I don't agree with him, and |
|that's saying something." |
| |
|"Because it might mess things up. Badly. And, if I don't go back, |
|everyone will be worried." |
| |
|"I'll miss you." |
| |
|She kissed him lightly on the nose. " 'tis better to have loved |
|and lost that never to have loved at all. And we've loved a |
|lifetime in these short years." |
| |
|Sam sighed. "I suppose you're right. It doesn't make it any easier|
|to let you go, though." |
| |
|"You never have to let me go. I'll be in your heart." |
| |
|~*~ |
| |
|Andrea sat in her wooden rocking chair, trying not to cry. |
| |
|"Pip." she said softly. The named hobbit walked in, towel over |
|shoulder, in leather breeches. |
| |
|"Yeah?" he asked, matching her soft tone. |
| |
|She started sobbing silently, hot tears running down her face. He |
|came over to her and knelt by her feet. |
| |
|"Look at me," he said. "Look into my eyes and tell me what your |
|first thought is." He tilted her chin up so she could look at him.|
| |
| |
|She dabbed at her eyes and, after a slow moment had passed, looked|
|into his eyes. First she smiled. Then she giggled. Then her |
|giggling stopped and her face became serious, though the smile |
|remained. |
| |
|"I love you," she said. "And I always will." |
| |
|"Good." Pippin said, and kissed her tenderly on the forehead. Then|
|he stood up, and walked over to get his shirt from where it lay |
|draped over the back of a chair. |
| |
|~*~ |
| |
|"Are you four ready?" Elrond asked. Nikki grinned- she definitely |
|couldn't remember the high elven lord speaking that way in the |
|books. "Leah's been a bad influence on him." she thought. Ivy, |
|Andrea, Nikki, and Rachel looked at their lovers. A few sighs |
|could be heard around the small balcony. Various thoughts went |
|through various minds on how they could weasel out of leaving, |
|regrets about how they didn't use their time to its fullest, and |
|thoughts of the world they'd be going to: A foreign, distant |
|place, once called home. |
| |
|But none of the thirteen present knew that something would go |
|wrong. |
| |
|~*~ |
| |
|The vision faded as quickly as it had begun, leaving all of them |
|with a deep sinking feeling. |
| |
|"Someone must go and warn them. Go into the future and defeat |
|Sauron. Are there any who would be willing to take on such a |
|task?" Elrond said. |
| |
|"Shit." Frodo said. |
| |
|"What?" Aragorn and Legolas asked in unison. |
| |
|"There are nine of us." |
| |
|~*~ |
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|CONNECTING TO "LORD OF THE RINGS: POST AND DISCUSS" |
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|USERS: |
|I_live_for_frodo |
|Lord_of_the_rings |
|Searching4Leah |
|Nikkin+Leggy |
|The_twits_and_company |
|Elessar |
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|Searching4Leah: M/P, where's Sam? Either of them? |
|The_twits_and_company: we haven't seen them, not since yesterday. |
|I think they're out again, looking for Rachel and Nikki. Poor |
|guys..and poor you! We're lucky, though, aren't we, pip? |
|The_twits_and_company: yep, we are, Mer. |
|The_twits_and_company: we've found our girls. |
|Searching4Leah: where are they, by the way? |
|The_twits_and_company: out doing something they called "clubbing".|
|That's gotta be painful.don't you think? |
|Searching4Leah: well, that's okay. Wait until you've spent more |
|than forty years with someone from this world and still find |
|yourself surprised on a daily basis. |
|MRS_BAGGINS HAS ENTERED THE CHATROOM |
|Mrs_Baggins: holy crap! Guess I'm not the only one who can't |
|sleep. Hey, Searching4Leah, what's with the name? Kinda odd. |
|Searching4Leah: Leah WAS Odd. |
|Nikkin+Leggy: she certainly was! |
|Mrs_Baggins: that's rather.. uncanny. My name's Leah. |
|Searching4Leah: really? Leah what? |
|Mrs_Baggins: Underhill.why? |
|Searching4Leah: Holy hell. |
|Mrs_Baggins: what, are you stalking me or something? |
|Searching4Leah: Leah, this is gonna be hard to understand. But |
|please just listen to me. I'm your husband. |
|Mrs_Baggins: don't you ever say that again, you bastard! Don't |
|even JOKE about that! You don't know what you're fucking with, |
|buddy. |
|MRS_BAGGINS HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
|Searching4Leah: Shit. |
|Nikkin+Leggy: The plan still on for the rendezvous on Sunday? |
|Sunday at the tea shop on 96th and Highland? |
|The_twits_and_company: sure, why not? |
|Searching4Leah: sure. |
|Elessar: okay. You alright, Frodo? |
|Searching4Leah: yeah. |
|THE_TWITS_AND_COMPANY HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
|NIKKIN+LEGGY HAS LEFT THE ROOM |
|ELESSAR HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
|SEARCHING4LEAH HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
|Lord_of_the_rings: So, where were we.? |
|I_live_for_frodo: I was nibbling your ear and you were just about |
|to tell me- |
|Lord_of_the_rings: -how beautiful you are. |
|SAURON HAS ENTERED THE CHATROOM |
|I_live_for_frodo: shit. Go to the second chatroom..there's no one |
|in there. |
|Lord_of_the_rings: k. see u there. |
|SAURONS_HELPER HAS ENTERED THE ROOM |
|Sauron: alright. Have you called the troops together outside the |
|city? |
|Saurons_Helper: yes, my lord. They are waiting eagerly within the |
|borders of Thatchwood Forest. |
|Sauron: call the command on Wednesday at midnight. Approach the |
|city quietly. Avoid burning, looting, raping, pillaging, and all |
|that good stuff yet. Gather in Central Park by one AM. The troops |
|from the southeast will meet you. When I give the command, invade |
|the surroundings and spread out. With several attacks, they won't |
|be able to fight back. |
|Saurons_Helper: yes, my lord. |
|Sauron: I like the screen name, by the way. Who came up with it? |
|Saurons_Helper: I did, my lord. |
|Sauron: very good. Not something I'd expect from someone of low |
|intelligence, but I like it. |
|SAURON HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
|SAURONS_HELPER HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
| |
|~*~ |
|Chapter One |
| |
|Well, here it is, the long-awaited (audience: ~snort~ yeah right.)|
|last story. I just * had * to bring back the old characters one |
|last time, instead of using their children in a story, as I had |
|originally planned. But I think that this plot finishes off the |
|quad nicer. So.here it is. Dedicated to those who have helped me |
|through my writer's block and other assorted trials and |
|tribulations. |
| |
| |
| |
|~*~ |
|Rachel looked at Sam and sighed. He frowned and walked around to |
|stand behind her, arms around her waist. She leaned back and |
|closed her eyes. |
| |
|"I wish you weren't leaving." |
| |
|"Thank you for stating the obvious. So do I," she said, turning to|
|face him. "but tomorrow morning, I'll be back in my own world." |
| |
|"Remind me again why you're going?" |
| |
|"Because I have to. Elrond's leaving these shores soon, and he's |
|the only one left in Middle Earth who can send us all back. And if|
|we don't go back, it messes with time. And Gandalf says we can't |
|do that." |
| |
|"And why not? This is the one time I don't agree with him, and |
|that's saying something." |
| |
|"Because it might mess things up. Badly. And, if I don't go back, |
|everyone will be worried." |
| |
|"I'll miss you." |
| |
|She kissed him lightly on the nose. " 'tis better to have loved |
|and lost that never to have loved at all. And we've loved a |
|lifetime in these short years." |
| |
|Sam sighed. "I suppose you're right. It doesn't make it any easier|
|to let you go, though." |
| |
|"You never have to let me go. I'll be in your heart." |
| |
|~*~ |
| |
|Andrea sat in her wooden rocking chair, trying not to cry. |
| |
|"Pip." she said softly. The named hobbit walked in, towel over |
|shoulder, in leather breeches. |
| |
|"Yeah?" he asked, matching her soft tone. |
| |
|She started sobbing silently, hot tears running down her face. He |
|came over to her and knelt by her feet. |
| |
|"Look at me," he said. "Look into my eyes and tell me what your |
|first thought is." He tilted her chin up so she could look at him.|
| |
| |
|She dabbed at her eyes and, after a slow moment had passed, looked|
|into his eyes. First she smiled. Then she giggled. Then her |
|giggling stopped and her face became serious, though the smile |
|remained. |
| |
|"I love you," she said. "And I always will." |
| |
|"Good." Pippin said, and kissed her tenderly on the forehead. Then|
|he stood up, and walked over to get his shirt from where it lay |
|draped over the back of a chair. |
| |
|~*~ |
| |
|"Are you four ready?" Elrond asked. Nikki grinned- she definitely |
|couldn't remember the high elven lord speaking that way in the |
|books. "Leah's been a bad influence on him." she thought. Ivy, |
|Andrea, Nikki, and Rachel looked at their lovers. A few sighs |
|could be heard around the small balcony. Various thoughts went |
|through various minds on how they could weasel out of leaving, |
|regrets about how they didn't use their time to its fullest, and |
|thoughts of the world they'd be going to: A foreign, distant |
|place, once called home. |
| |
|But none of the thirteen present knew that something would go |
|wrong. |
| |
|~*~ |
| |
|The vision faded as quickly as it had begun, leaving all of them |
|with a deep sinking feeling. |
| |
|"Someone must go and warn them. Go into the future and defeat |
|Sauron. Are there any who would be willing to take on such a |
|task?" Elrond said. |
| |
|"Shit." Frodo said. |
| |
|"What?" Aragorn and Legolas asked in unison. |
| |
|"There are nine of us." |
| |
|~*~ |
| |
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|CONNECTING TO "LORD OF THE RINGS: POST AND DISCUSS" |
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|USERS: |
|I_live_for_frodo |
|Lord_of_the_rings |
|Searching4Leah |
|Nikkin+Leggy |
|The_twits_and_company |
|Elessar |
| |
| |
| |
|Searching4Leah: M/P, where's Sam? Either of them? |
|The_twits_and_company: we haven't seen them, not since yesterday. |
|I think they're out again, looking for Rachel and Nikki. Poor |
|guys..and poor you! We're lucky, though, aren't we, pip? |
|The_twits_and_company: yep, we are, Mer. |
|The_twits_and_company: we've found our girls. |
|Searching4Leah: where are they, by the way? |
|The_twits_and_company: out doing something they called "clubbing".|
|That's gotta be painful.don't you think? |
|Searching4Leah: well, that's okay. Wait until you've spent more |
|than forty years with someone from this world and still find |
|yourself surprised on a daily basis. |
|MRS_BAGGINS HAS ENTERED THE CHATROOM |
|Mrs_Baggins: holy crap! Guess I'm not the only one who can't |
|sleep. Hey, Searching4Leah, what's with the name? Kinda odd. |
|Searching4Leah: Leah WAS Odd. |
|Nikkin+Leggy: she certainly was! |
|Mrs_Baggins: that's rather.. uncanny. My name's Leah. |
|Searching4Leah: really? Leah what? |
|Mrs_Baggins: Underhill.why? |
|Searching4Leah: Holy hell. |
|Mrs_Baggins: what, are you stalking me or something? |
|Searching4Leah: Leah, this is gonna be hard to understand. But |
|please just listen to me. I'm your husband. |
|Mrs_Baggins: don't you ever say that again, you bastard! Don't |
|even JOKE about that! You don't know what you're fucking with, |
|buddy. |
|MRS_BAGGINS HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
|Searching4Leah: Shit. |
|Nikkin+Leggy: The plan still on for the rendezvous on Sunday? |
|Sunday at the tea shop on 96th and Highland? |
|The_twits_and_company: sure, why not? |
|Searching4Leah: sure. |
|Elessar: okay. You alright, Frodo? |
|Searching4Leah: yeah. |
|THE_TWITS_AND_COMPANY HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
|NIKKIN+LEGGY HAS LEFT THE ROOM |
|ELESSAR HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
|SEARCHING4LEAH HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
|Lord_of_the_rings: So, where were we.? |
|I_live_for_frodo: I was nibbling your ear and you were just about |
|to tell me- |
|Lord_of_the_rings: -how beautiful you are. |
|SAURON HAS ENTERED THE CHATROOM |
|I_live_for_frodo: shit. Go to the second chatroom..there's no one |
|in there. |
|Lord_of_the_rings: k. see u there. |
|SAURONS_HELPER HAS ENTERED THE ROOM |
|Sauron: alright. Have you called the troops together outside the |
|city? |
|Saurons_Helper: yes, my lord. They are waiting eagerly within the |
|borders of Thatchwood Forest. |
|Sauron: call the command on Wednesday at midnight. Approach the |
|city quietly. Avoid burning, looting, raping, pillaging, and all |
|that good stuff yet. Gather in Central Park by one AM. The troops |
|from the southeast will meet you. When I give the command, invade |
|the surroundings and spread out. With several attacks, they won't |
|be able to fight back. |
|Saurons_Helper: yes, my lord. |
|Sauron: I like the screen name, by the way. Who came up with it? |
|Saurons_Helper: I did, my lord. |
|Sauron: very good. Not something I'd expect from someone of low |
|intelligence, but I like it. |
|SAURON HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
|SAURONS_HELPER HAS LEFT THE CHATROOM |
| |
|~*~ |