Snow Flakes
By Robin Girl
Chapter 4

(* dodges objects thrown at her* sorry for not updating. ^^; Hehehe!! But here it is….chapter 3!!!!)


Merry rocked his cousin's frozen body back and forth. "Wake up, come on wake up." A few seconds later Merry felt Pippin's little hands grip his shoulder weakly. "Pip?"

"Merry?"

The Brandybuck felt warm tears run from his eyes down his cheeks. "Don't you ever do that to me again."

Innocent green eyes stared back up at him uncomprehending. "What did I do?"

Merry laughed kissing Pippin's forehead. "Don't worry about it. You've still got a fever."

"I'm cold..and hungry.."

"Oh good." Frodo, who had faught Sam earlier to be considered fit to be up, walked over and knelt down in front of the two. "You are awake. Did you enjoy being covered in snow?"

Pippin's eyes widened, "I was covered in snow?"

Frodo eyed both of his cousins then realized that Merry hadn't told him. "Pip, listen to me right now," He didn't continue until Pippin nodded, "From now on, when you go to sleep you are going to lay with either Merry, Sam, or I. If the humans will allow it you may sleep with them also."

"Ok Frodo," Pippin replied not to sure as to why Frodo wanted him to do that. But at the moment he didn't care. He was safe and Merry was holding him. Then his green eyes drooped sleepily.

"You're tired aren't you?"

Pippin nodded laying on Merry's chest. "Am I allowed to go to sleep?"

"I want Aragorn to check you over first, Pip. Alright?" Before the young one could answer Frodo called Aragorn over. "Could you give Pip the check over?"

"Oh? The check over huh?" Aragorn chuckled making light of the situation and knelt down gathering the youngest in his arms. "Well lets see.."

Curiosity getting the better of the elf, who was not use to hobbits and humans, he crawled over and watched wondering what in Middle Earth 'The Check' was.

"You still have two arms, two legs, curly hair, big nose..."

Pippin went cross eyed as he tried to look at his 'big nose'. "It's not big!!! Your's is bigger than mine!!!"

"Oh is that so?" Aragorn laughed and checked for a fever. "You're a bit warm but nothing serious yet. I believe you have something called being sleepy."

"Is it bad?"

"No it's not bad at all. It means you need sleep. Go snuggle up next to Merry and sleep. We'll eat something warm later."

Pippin obeyed and thankfully crawled back to Merry's warm embrace. "Did you hear that Merry? We get to eat something warm later.."

"I heard Pip, but, only if you sleep." Merry found his eyes closing also and soon both were sleeping soundly.

Aragorn smile turned to a frown. "The fever has gone up. I'm going to need to make something to bring it down.."

"Mr. Strider I do believe I have some Broca Leaves in my here pocket. It's what Nurses in the Shire use to bring down the fever."

Aragorn didnt need another hint and he walked over to Sam, "Can you prepare some?"

"Of course, it will be my pleasure."

*~*~*~*

"Frodo, is what I feared?" Gandalf asked quietly.

"Is it what Gandalf?"

"Does Peregrin have the Autumn Daze?"

Frodo looked to the old wizard then laughed, "He's not that bad off. Besides you can only get it once a year and Pip already had it once. So he's safe. Hopefully it's just a very bad cold."

Gandalf felt better and took a whif of his pipe. "Tommorrow we need to get moving if we're going to get down the mountain in a few days."

Frodo nodded, "Alright..but what about-"

"I'll carry him if need be." Boromir's voice broke through the two. "Gandalf is right, the enemy is probably onto us by now."

End Chapter 4

(please review and let me know how I'm doing I actually went to go look into the book to make sure I was doing this right!! ^_^ Go me!! )