LATER ON THAT EVENING...
"I'm going out to look for Pin." Said Link shortly, closing the door.
"Ok-" Nicole began, but he door slammed in her face. Elladan snorted.
"A lot of help that'll do, Nicole, TALKING to him." He said moodily from his place at the sofa. "If it weren't for you we wouldn't have been stuck here in the first place!"
"Oh SHUT UP, pointy! I had to ask her, besides, we knew her and we were all tired!"
"And you had to go and take her literally!" cried Maddy, feeling annoyed.
"Oh come off it. Maddy you agreed!" snapped Nicola. "And anyway, your room- "
"Your stupid voice-"
"You just HAD to say that!"
"Oh look, just SHUT UP!" screamed Haldir. Everyone looked at him. "We haven't been te best guests, have we. So we have to make things better. So the Plan. Where is it?"
"Um..." Nicole looked sheepish. "We...that is to say, me and Aragorn..." She began helplessly. "I mean, we- well, we kinda lost it." There was immediate uproar.
"Nic! that was our ONLY WAY OUT-"
"I CANT BELIVE YOU!"
"Well it wasn't ME!"
"QUIET!!!" A voice boomed from the room. "Just be QUIET." Gandalf said, wiping cookie crumbs from his beard. A smoking pipe was making an odd whistling noise. "Ok, I saved the Plan. Now, lets see."
The group poured over the paper for around several hours. Link returned home, soaked with rain. He hung up his cloak and tramped up the stairs. The door slammed and Mo sighed.
"I feel so bad. But we have to make an effort at least, before we go!" said Mo, chewing the end of a pencil. "Get off, Elladan!"
"Hmm, OK. Just, where are we gonna get the money? There's NO WAY we can use Pins money, that's just stupid."
"Good point. I was thinking..."
And so the conversation lasted throughout the night. In another part of the fields...
"Gimli?" Pinata knocked on the door and stooped to look inside. What with Gimli being a dwarf, the door was minuscule and Pinata had to kneel and shuffle in.
"Pinata? Are you Ok?" said the dwarf, wiping his hands on his frilly apron. "Dwalin, darling, get out another soup bowl!" he called, and then he turned back to the shivering elf. "You look drenched! Come here, my love. I'll get a good meal into you and then we can talk, okay?" Pinata sniffled and squeezed into a chair.
Dwalin waltzed in and laid a bowl in front of her. "Well now, isn't this a nice one?" he said, smiling kindly at her. "I'm Dwalin, Gimli's partner. It's a pleasure to meet you!" he said, ladling soup into her bowl and breaking off some bread and cheese. "I'll leave you two alone then, shall I? No, Gimli, don't worry. I'll go and take a bath, tell me if you need me!" he then walked up the low steps and disappeared into the bathroom.
After warming up, Pinata slowly began to tell Gimli about what had happened. "...and then I had to leave because I knew I'd go crazy if I didn't, but I miss Link and I love him and I cant bear the thought of him alone! Oh, Gimli, what have I done?!" Gimli patted her on the back sympathetically.
"You know, Pinneh, if they're truly your friends I bet they're doing something that will make you feel better right now. Come on, I'll take you home."
"Gimli...I...I cant..."
"That's OK. You want to stay overnight?" Pinata nodded, her eyes in shadows. "Okay. I'll show you to your room. Erm-"
"OW!"
"...Mind your head there..."
"Thanks for telling me, Gimli." The dwarf smiled and shook his head. How she'd grown!
MORNING
"Pin?" Link rolled over and groaned. He went to put his arms over her but she wasn't there. His hands fell to his side and he groaned and rolled over, face down in the fluffy pillow. He closed his eyes. He tried to get back to sleep, but there was a tremendous bang from downstairs which reverberated throughout the mansion. "What on earth?" he sat up, stretching, and pulling a shirt over his bare torso, he walked downstairs, still yawning. What he saw soon woke him up very quickly.
"Erm! Link! Hi!" Maddy chirruped. "Maybe you should go upstairs!" she said, looking nervously around herself. Link raised a fine eyebrow and turned on the staircase and walked upstairs without a second glance, even when a nasty sound of water spilling came from the kitchen.
Maddy watched him. "Hmm. Not quite as well built as Leggy..." she said, tearing her eyes away from his...erm...THIGHS. Everyone stopped with baited breath as they waited for Links door to close. When it did,
"Ok, can someone help me with this banner?" yelled Legolas, wincing as his arm began to cramp with the sheer effort of holding up a paper sign.
"Has Gandalf left for the fields yet?" Asked Mo, putting down the phone and almost being knocked over by Elladan who had rushed over to Maddy with streamers and balloons.
"Guys! Arm!" panted Legolas. Everyone ignored him.
"Ok. Where's the food? Oh shit, the punch!" Nicola yelled, spilling the remaining contents of a large bowl over Aragorn's head.
"Ok, I got the wine!" said Nicole, setting it down on the table-cloth covered bench. "Does anyone know where Pin keeps the goblets?"
"They're in the second drawer in the cellar. Ok, guys, now let's tidy away. No, Haldir, NOT that!" snapped Maddy, tying a balloon to the helmet of a suit of armor. "Has anyone seen Gandalf?!"
"I AM HERE!" he boomed, triumphantly. "I have found Pinata and persuaded her to come back. Now, she will be arriving in approximately two hours. Are we all ready?" and he peered impressively around the hall. What he saw made his face crumple a bit. "Oh, MUST I DO EVERYTHING?" he said, smiling. He snapped his fingers and little pixies came and fixed everything. Gandalf moved over to the chairs set out and straightened.
"Potatoes" he mumbled, and then fell unconscious on the floor. The group looked at him.
"He's been at the mulled wine again, hasn't he?" Nicola sighed, rolling him under the table.
OBSERVATORY
Link sighed and looked up at the fluffy white clouds above the fields. He shifted his weight and leant on the windowsill, brushing a strand of blond hair from his face. He longed to go out onto the stone balcony and sit beneath the veil, but he knew that it would only remind him of Pinata. A goldfinch chirruped and pecked at the grapevine climbing up the wall. Link groaned sadly and leant over the side of the marble cast window, letting his arms dangle and laying his chin on the smooth stone. There was a noise from the hall again, and the elf vaguely thought he saw a baker turn up at the door precariously holding a cake, but he blinked and he was no longer there. He closed his blue eyes and wondered when his wife would ever come back. This house seemed so empty and quiet without her.
At which point a blast of music came from the hall. Link jumped and then raised an eyebrow. He stood up and slammed the window shut and left the room, walking down and into his room again, locking the door.
GIMLIS HOUSE
"Thanks, Gimli. I hope I haven't been much of a nuisance?" said Pinata, saddling up Epona and tightening the girth. Gimli handed her backpack and smiled at the elf.
"Not at all! In fact, I enjoyed the company. Not to say that I don't enjoy Dwalin, of course!" he said, laughing as he reached up to hold the bay mare still, trying to ignore her inquisitive sniffing.
"Jesus, what on earth is this thing? Is it edible or what? Smells like parsnips..." Pinata nudged the mare to stop her talking. The elf swallowed her giggles as various mutters like 'strange hair', 'too small', 'where's his head?' were uttered under the mare's throaty whickers.
"That's it, are you OK up there now?" he said, patting her lower leg. Pinata smiled at him and nodded.
"I hope they're all gone. Gandalf mentioned a surprise. I'm a bit worried, to say the least. I just hope that surprise is that they're all gone..." she muttered darkly, shortening the reins. Gimli smiled up at her, fiddling with his ginger beard slightly.
"Well now, lass. If they are still there you come right on back to me, you hear?" he said. Pinata turned and nodded her thanks.
"I will, Gimli!" she said, and with that she nudged the mare into a swift canter, her black hair streaming behind her.
"I'm going out to look for Pin." Said Link shortly, closing the door.
"Ok-" Nicole began, but he door slammed in her face. Elladan snorted.
"A lot of help that'll do, Nicole, TALKING to him." He said moodily from his place at the sofa. "If it weren't for you we wouldn't have been stuck here in the first place!"
"Oh SHUT UP, pointy! I had to ask her, besides, we knew her and we were all tired!"
"And you had to go and take her literally!" cried Maddy, feeling annoyed.
"Oh come off it. Maddy you agreed!" snapped Nicola. "And anyway, your room- "
"Your stupid voice-"
"You just HAD to say that!"
"Oh look, just SHUT UP!" screamed Haldir. Everyone looked at him. "We haven't been te best guests, have we. So we have to make things better. So the Plan. Where is it?"
"Um..." Nicole looked sheepish. "We...that is to say, me and Aragorn..." She began helplessly. "I mean, we- well, we kinda lost it." There was immediate uproar.
"Nic! that was our ONLY WAY OUT-"
"I CANT BELIVE YOU!"
"Well it wasn't ME!"
"QUIET!!!" A voice boomed from the room. "Just be QUIET." Gandalf said, wiping cookie crumbs from his beard. A smoking pipe was making an odd whistling noise. "Ok, I saved the Plan. Now, lets see."
The group poured over the paper for around several hours. Link returned home, soaked with rain. He hung up his cloak and tramped up the stairs. The door slammed and Mo sighed.
"I feel so bad. But we have to make an effort at least, before we go!" said Mo, chewing the end of a pencil. "Get off, Elladan!"
"Hmm, OK. Just, where are we gonna get the money? There's NO WAY we can use Pins money, that's just stupid."
"Good point. I was thinking..."
And so the conversation lasted throughout the night. In another part of the fields...
"Gimli?" Pinata knocked on the door and stooped to look inside. What with Gimli being a dwarf, the door was minuscule and Pinata had to kneel and shuffle in.
"Pinata? Are you Ok?" said the dwarf, wiping his hands on his frilly apron. "Dwalin, darling, get out another soup bowl!" he called, and then he turned back to the shivering elf. "You look drenched! Come here, my love. I'll get a good meal into you and then we can talk, okay?" Pinata sniffled and squeezed into a chair.
Dwalin waltzed in and laid a bowl in front of her. "Well now, isn't this a nice one?" he said, smiling kindly at her. "I'm Dwalin, Gimli's partner. It's a pleasure to meet you!" he said, ladling soup into her bowl and breaking off some bread and cheese. "I'll leave you two alone then, shall I? No, Gimli, don't worry. I'll go and take a bath, tell me if you need me!" he then walked up the low steps and disappeared into the bathroom.
After warming up, Pinata slowly began to tell Gimli about what had happened. "...and then I had to leave because I knew I'd go crazy if I didn't, but I miss Link and I love him and I cant bear the thought of him alone! Oh, Gimli, what have I done?!" Gimli patted her on the back sympathetically.
"You know, Pinneh, if they're truly your friends I bet they're doing something that will make you feel better right now. Come on, I'll take you home."
"Gimli...I...I cant..."
"That's OK. You want to stay overnight?" Pinata nodded, her eyes in shadows. "Okay. I'll show you to your room. Erm-"
"OW!"
"...Mind your head there..."
"Thanks for telling me, Gimli." The dwarf smiled and shook his head. How she'd grown!
MORNING
"Pin?" Link rolled over and groaned. He went to put his arms over her but she wasn't there. His hands fell to his side and he groaned and rolled over, face down in the fluffy pillow. He closed his eyes. He tried to get back to sleep, but there was a tremendous bang from downstairs which reverberated throughout the mansion. "What on earth?" he sat up, stretching, and pulling a shirt over his bare torso, he walked downstairs, still yawning. What he saw soon woke him up very quickly.
"Erm! Link! Hi!" Maddy chirruped. "Maybe you should go upstairs!" she said, looking nervously around herself. Link raised a fine eyebrow and turned on the staircase and walked upstairs without a second glance, even when a nasty sound of water spilling came from the kitchen.
Maddy watched him. "Hmm. Not quite as well built as Leggy..." she said, tearing her eyes away from his...erm...THIGHS. Everyone stopped with baited breath as they waited for Links door to close. When it did,
"Ok, can someone help me with this banner?" yelled Legolas, wincing as his arm began to cramp with the sheer effort of holding up a paper sign.
"Has Gandalf left for the fields yet?" Asked Mo, putting down the phone and almost being knocked over by Elladan who had rushed over to Maddy with streamers and balloons.
"Guys! Arm!" panted Legolas. Everyone ignored him.
"Ok. Where's the food? Oh shit, the punch!" Nicola yelled, spilling the remaining contents of a large bowl over Aragorn's head.
"Ok, I got the wine!" said Nicole, setting it down on the table-cloth covered bench. "Does anyone know where Pin keeps the goblets?"
"They're in the second drawer in the cellar. Ok, guys, now let's tidy away. No, Haldir, NOT that!" snapped Maddy, tying a balloon to the helmet of a suit of armor. "Has anyone seen Gandalf?!"
"I AM HERE!" he boomed, triumphantly. "I have found Pinata and persuaded her to come back. Now, she will be arriving in approximately two hours. Are we all ready?" and he peered impressively around the hall. What he saw made his face crumple a bit. "Oh, MUST I DO EVERYTHING?" he said, smiling. He snapped his fingers and little pixies came and fixed everything. Gandalf moved over to the chairs set out and straightened.
"Potatoes" he mumbled, and then fell unconscious on the floor. The group looked at him.
"He's been at the mulled wine again, hasn't he?" Nicola sighed, rolling him under the table.
OBSERVATORY
Link sighed and looked up at the fluffy white clouds above the fields. He shifted his weight and leant on the windowsill, brushing a strand of blond hair from his face. He longed to go out onto the stone balcony and sit beneath the veil, but he knew that it would only remind him of Pinata. A goldfinch chirruped and pecked at the grapevine climbing up the wall. Link groaned sadly and leant over the side of the marble cast window, letting his arms dangle and laying his chin on the smooth stone. There was a noise from the hall again, and the elf vaguely thought he saw a baker turn up at the door precariously holding a cake, but he blinked and he was no longer there. He closed his blue eyes and wondered when his wife would ever come back. This house seemed so empty and quiet without her.
At which point a blast of music came from the hall. Link jumped and then raised an eyebrow. He stood up and slammed the window shut and left the room, walking down and into his room again, locking the door.
GIMLIS HOUSE
"Thanks, Gimli. I hope I haven't been much of a nuisance?" said Pinata, saddling up Epona and tightening the girth. Gimli handed her backpack and smiled at the elf.
"Not at all! In fact, I enjoyed the company. Not to say that I don't enjoy Dwalin, of course!" he said, laughing as he reached up to hold the bay mare still, trying to ignore her inquisitive sniffing.
"Jesus, what on earth is this thing? Is it edible or what? Smells like parsnips..." Pinata nudged the mare to stop her talking. The elf swallowed her giggles as various mutters like 'strange hair', 'too small', 'where's his head?' were uttered under the mare's throaty whickers.
"That's it, are you OK up there now?" he said, patting her lower leg. Pinata smiled at him and nodded.
"I hope they're all gone. Gandalf mentioned a surprise. I'm a bit worried, to say the least. I just hope that surprise is that they're all gone..." she muttered darkly, shortening the reins. Gimli smiled up at her, fiddling with his ginger beard slightly.
"Well now, lass. If they are still there you come right on back to me, you hear?" he said. Pinata turned and nodded her thanks.
"I will, Gimli!" she said, and with that she nudged the mare into a swift canter, her black hair streaming behind her.