Before You Hit The Floor
Chapter 1 :: Shortcut To Mushrooms
Summary :: Your basic NON SLASH Merry/OC mary sue.
Disclaimer :: Don't own Tolkiens great inventions. Only Caroline, her family, and my plot.
Author's Note :: Well I finally got off my Legofic high and now have the need to write Merryfics. I LOVE MERRY!!!
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"Hey! Turn my movie back on!" The small six year old boy in the middle seat of the car frowned as the screen on the ceiling went black and heavy rock music filled the car. He furiously kicked the seat in front of him. His older sister, Caroline, was knocked forward. She turned around and grabbed his arm, pulling him forward. "Let go of me! Mommy!"
The girl squinted her eyes at her brother. "Don't kick my seat again." With another death glare at him she released his arm and turned back around to face the front of the shot gun seat in her mother's silver Honda Odyssey.
"Don't be so mean to him."
"Mean?!? I.. am not being mean. I am disciplining since you fail to."
"I do not fail to!"
"Yes you do! You never smack him in the head or yell at him when he's being a butt!"
"That's because violence or name calling are not ways to deal with kids."
"Uh yeah they are!" Her mother sighed and rested her head in her left hand which was propped up against the door.
"We're here." She said as she parked the car in a small parking lot at the local park. "Caroline you need to help me unload the bikes."
"How about I just watch Micheal?" She glanced at her two year old brother who was currently knawing the nipple off his bottle. With a snort of laughter she faced her mother.
"Well I guess so."
"Sweet." She said as she grabbed her back pack and hopped out of the car. "Well Micheal. It's just you and me now." The baby boy gurgled as some drool rolled down his face.
"GAHHH!" He screamed and threw his yellow block at his sister.
"Ow! You freakwad!" Caroline jumped backwards and hit the car behind her.
"Caroline! Watch out!" Caroline rolled her eyes and glared at her brother. "Come get your bike and help Chandler get his helmet on."
"Oh yeah.. i'll do everything your highness." She muttered under her breath and walked around the car to where her other brother was sitting on his bike. "Okay.. get your helmet on stinkbutt."
Chandler stuck his tongue out at his sister and jammed his green helmet on his head backwards.
"No.. see you can't wear it like that." Caroline objected and tried to remove it from his head.
"I WANNA WEAR IT LIKE THIS!"
"Fine! Fall off your bike and die! See what I care.." Caroline stormed away from her brother and mounted her own bike.
"Ready?" Her mother came out from behind the car pushing Micheal in a stroller.
"Um.. where's my helmet?"
"Isn't this it?" Caroline shook her head as her mom pointed to a small blue helmet hanging off Chandler's bike.
"Umm that's old and small."
"Oh i'm sure you can fit it over your head!"
"No I can't." A black suburban parked beside their car as her mother left the stroller and picked up the helmet.
"Yes this will fit." Caroline glanced at the group of people getting out of the suburban. Two extra large women, small fry kid, and one really hott guy.
'Ahh crap! This is so embarassing!" Caroline felt her face tinge pink as her mother approached her with the helmet.
"Look you can wear this." Her mother shoved the helmet into her hands.
"No I can't!" Caroline pointed to the flap of helmet padding that was about to fall off. "It's broken!"
"Ohh.. no it's not."
"Mom. I won't be going that fast! I'll be fine!"
"Well.." Her mother tried one more fruitless attempt to jam it on her daughters head.
"Mom!" Caroline muttered annoyingly as she saw the hott guy glance at her.
"Fine. Go without a helmet." Caroline smirked and mounted her bike, helmetless. "But stay with us!"
"Mom.. let me go around once! I'll lap you guys in like five minutes anyways.." Before her mother could protest she was off.
*
"WHOOO HOO!!!!" Caroline Watson sped down then asphalt hill on her black and red mountain bike, gaining speed as she pedaled faster and faster.
Speed. It was her antidrug. She smiled satisfactorily as the scenery around her began blurring and as all noise was cut off save the deafening rush of the wind past her ears.
"I can make it this time." She whispered as she neared the huge hill in front of her. It was so steep she'd never been able to ride up it before. But today was different. Today she was going to make it. She had to.
Caroline grinned as she began riding up the beginning, but the fun didn't last long. Soon her bike started to slow a bit and the pedaling started coming harder and slower.
"Come on.. Faster.." She urged her bike to go faster, but nothing seemed to work. She pushed her legs as hard as they could bear to keep the pedals turning. She had to be almost three-fourths over the hill.. just a little farther! But then everything went wrong.
Frowning, she looked frantically down at the wheels as they started to slow until they had almost come to a complete stop. She pushed all her energy into her legs trying desperatley to keep going. But what goes up must come down. She started to fall.
"Whoa!" The wheels began turning in the opposite direction. She felt herself speed backwards down the giant hill she had tried so desperatly to climb.
"NOOOO!!!" She yelled and let go of the handle bars with one hand as it reached desperatly forward, grasping nothing but air. With that sudden change of weight the bike sped out of line. It crashed to the ground, but the rider went flying.
The last thing Caroline Watson remembered after the adrenaline rush shot through her body was a face.. a round, warm face. It was a guy.. smiling at her, a pipe in hand. His curly brown hair fell carefree in his face, but not obstructing his beautiful, round, brown eyes. He grinned and wrinkled his big nose.
That was before she hit the floor.
*
Meriadoc Brandybuck snuck through the thick rows of corn. He looked both ways to make sure no one was coming then turned around.
"Pip!" He whispered into the mass of green corn stalks. "Pip! This way!" Then a slight rustling was heard, and a shorter hobbit with a very thin face appeared.
"Coming!" He said loudly.
"Pippin! Shut it!" Merry scolded him in a harsh whisper. Pippin nodded and showed his friend the stack of corn, carrots, and mushrooms he was carrying.
"Like?"
"Ah.. good work!" Merry clapped his friend on the back and motioned for him to follow. Stealthily they crept through the rows of cornfield, careful not to disturb the master of the field - Farmer Maggot.
"Are we almost out?" Pippin inquired as he glanced back at the swarm of green and yellow behind him.
"I think so.." Suddenly Merry stopped. Pippin ran into him.
"What?" Merry held up his hand to silence Pippin. He stood there, motionless for a moment. Pippin began to fidget, the small attention span that he had not lasting long.
"What is it? Do you hear something?" Suddenly Merry felt a tad bit nauseated. He closed his eyes and shushed Pippin.
-----merry's vision----
He stood there in the cornfield, hand still in Pippin's face. Something seemed to wash over him, causing him to feel sick. He closed his eyes.. but then he saw her.
A girl. She was looking up at him, smiling. A slight breeze tickled her face making some of her golden brown hair brush across her face. Milk chocolate eyes sparkling, she broke out into a silent laughter.
Then she was gone.
----end----
"Merry?" Pippin prodded his friend in the back. He had been standing there, motionless and eye's closed for sometime. Then his eyes fluttered open.
"Woah.." He breathed and turned to his friend.
"What was that?"
"I don't know. I.. I saw someone."
"What? What was it!?"
"A girl."
"Was she pretty?"
"Ye.. well I think so. I can't remember her face anymore."
"Pity."
"It's slipping away, rather like a dream." Merry's reminiscing was cut short by a sudden shout.
"OY! YOU HOBBITS GET BACK HERE! STAY OUTTA MY CROPS!" Merry and Pippin glanced at each other.
"Farmer Maggot!" They exclaimed together and took off running.
"Run!" Merry shouted as Pippin started to lag behind. Pippin glanced behind him and saw the silver gleaming razor sharp tip of Farmer Maggot's reaper. That got him going. The two hobbits raced through the maze of corn.
"I don't know how to get out!" Pippin said quickly.
"Neither do I! Just keep running!"
"Oka-" Pippin started to say something but was quickly cut off as he collided with someone and they both fell to the ground.
Merry rushed over to the two falled people and almost gasped at the sight he saw.
Yes, Pippin was lying on the ground, furiously massaging a spot on his forhead, but the person he ran into. She was strangely familiar..
"Woah.." Pippin sat up and glanced in disbelief from the girl in front of him, who was now scrambling to her feet, to Merry, who was staring blankly at her.
The girl looked at the two of them and started to back up against the corn stalks.
"Who.. are.. you." She breathed. Merry took a step forward, which caused her to move backwards. He decided to not do that again.
"Uh, Meriadoc Brandybuck. Or Merry, rather." She turned to Pippin, a look of disbelief in her eyes.
"And you?"
"Pippin. Really Peregrin Took but Pippin's better." Her expression did not change.
"May I ask who you are?" Merry nodded toward her.
"C..Caroline. Caroline Watson." She said faintly. Suddenly Farmer Maggot's voice interrupted the scence again.
"Run! It's Farmer Maggot!" Pippin cried and grabbed Caroline's arm. She had no choice but to run with them. They continued running, not stopping for anything, not even Caroline's stammering protests.
"Where are we going?" She managed to say as the three sprinted through the field.
"Just run!" Merry replied and they ran. They ran and ran until they no longer heard Farmer Maggot's shouting. They were about to stop when..
CRASH!
The three runners crashed through the wall of corn stalks and ran straight into two people.
"Frodo! Merry! It's Frodo Baggins!" Caroline rolled over in the dirty floor of the corn row. Apparently these people knew each other, for a larger one pushed Merry off him and grabbed Pippin.
"Get off him!" He growled as Pippin staggered backwards.
"What's the meaning of this?" Pippin asked a tad bit obliviously as Merry gathered the dropped vegetables and placed him in Sam's arms.
"You've been into Farmer Maggot's crops!" Sam protested, but once again that fateful farmer's voice rang through the fields.
"Hey! You get out of my fields! You'd better watch out when I catch up with you!" The four boys glanced at each other and took off running, but not before Merry grabbed Caroline's hand.
"Come on!" He said to her as they raced through the corn. "I don't know why he's so upset, it's only a few carrots." Pippin spoke up from behind him.
"And some cabbages. and those three bags of potatoes we lifted last week. And then those mushrooms the week before that!"
"Yes Pippin! My point is, he's clearly overreacting!" Merry exclaimed as they neared the edge of the field. "Run!" Before they knew what hit them, they were running straight off a bluff.
"AHHH!!" Merry, Pippin, and Caroline screamed as they fell down to the road below. They landed in a heap with a sickening crack.
"I think i've broken something.." Merry said painfully as he pulled out a broken carrot from under his back. Sam got up and started dusting dirt off his shoulders.
"Trust a Brandybuck and a Too-" He paused seeing Caroline who was stuck under Pippin who was stuck under Frodo who was stuck under Merry. She lay there on her stomach, fingers drumming the ground in a bored way.
"Who are you?" Sam looked confusedly at her, completley forgetting the fact that Frodo was being squished.
"Caroline Watson. Nice to meet you." She stuck out her hand, thinking she must have died or something.. this couldn't get any weirder.
"Er.. nice you meet you." He said edgily as he shook her hand. Then he glanced at Frodo. "Mister Frodo!" He frantically grabbed Frodo's arm and pulled him up.
"MUSHROOMS!" Pippin shouted and started to get up but Sam shoved him back and ran for the shrooms. Once again he struggled to stand but Merry used his head as a stand to get up and made a dart for the little squishy things. They began gathering mushrooms in a bag as Frodo looked at Caroline.
"So... who are you?" She opened her mouth to answer when Frodo's attention was diverted elsewhere. His gaze was locked on a spot farther down the road. Completley disregarding Caroline he said,
"I think we should get off the road." The others paying no heed he added in a more frantic voice, "Get off the road! Quick!" They five ran off the road and hid under a large tree root. Then they heard ominous hoof beats coming their way.
A horse stopped somewhere behind them, and silence ensued. They all jumped slightly as the sound of metal hitting rock stung their ears. They scratching of something's feet against the road told them something was out there.
Caroline did all she could to keep from screaming as spiders, centipedes, and other insects crawled out of the dirt behind them and writhed on the ground.
They could hear the sniffing of the creature on the road behind them. It started to get louder when Merry tossed a small bag out into the woods and the creature ran off.
"What was that?" He asked, looking from Sam to Frodo. Frodo was panting slightly, looking at the ground, clutching something in his hand through his shirt.
His eyes raised to Caroline. "Who are you?"
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author's note :: well that's all for now. hope you like! review cuz i live for them!
Chapter 1 :: Shortcut To Mushrooms
Summary :: Your basic NON SLASH Merry/OC mary sue.
Disclaimer :: Don't own Tolkiens great inventions. Only Caroline, her family, and my plot.
Author's Note :: Well I finally got off my Legofic high and now have the need to write Merryfics. I LOVE MERRY!!!
***
"Hey! Turn my movie back on!" The small six year old boy in the middle seat of the car frowned as the screen on the ceiling went black and heavy rock music filled the car. He furiously kicked the seat in front of him. His older sister, Caroline, was knocked forward. She turned around and grabbed his arm, pulling him forward. "Let go of me! Mommy!"
The girl squinted her eyes at her brother. "Don't kick my seat again." With another death glare at him she released his arm and turned back around to face the front of the shot gun seat in her mother's silver Honda Odyssey.
"Don't be so mean to him."
"Mean?!? I.. am not being mean. I am disciplining since you fail to."
"I do not fail to!"
"Yes you do! You never smack him in the head or yell at him when he's being a butt!"
"That's because violence or name calling are not ways to deal with kids."
"Uh yeah they are!" Her mother sighed and rested her head in her left hand which was propped up against the door.
"We're here." She said as she parked the car in a small parking lot at the local park. "Caroline you need to help me unload the bikes."
"How about I just watch Micheal?" She glanced at her two year old brother who was currently knawing the nipple off his bottle. With a snort of laughter she faced her mother.
"Well I guess so."
"Sweet." She said as she grabbed her back pack and hopped out of the car. "Well Micheal. It's just you and me now." The baby boy gurgled as some drool rolled down his face.
"GAHHH!" He screamed and threw his yellow block at his sister.
"Ow! You freakwad!" Caroline jumped backwards and hit the car behind her.
"Caroline! Watch out!" Caroline rolled her eyes and glared at her brother. "Come get your bike and help Chandler get his helmet on."
"Oh yeah.. i'll do everything your highness." She muttered under her breath and walked around the car to where her other brother was sitting on his bike. "Okay.. get your helmet on stinkbutt."
Chandler stuck his tongue out at his sister and jammed his green helmet on his head backwards.
"No.. see you can't wear it like that." Caroline objected and tried to remove it from his head.
"I WANNA WEAR IT LIKE THIS!"
"Fine! Fall off your bike and die! See what I care.." Caroline stormed away from her brother and mounted her own bike.
"Ready?" Her mother came out from behind the car pushing Micheal in a stroller.
"Um.. where's my helmet?"
"Isn't this it?" Caroline shook her head as her mom pointed to a small blue helmet hanging off Chandler's bike.
"Umm that's old and small."
"Oh i'm sure you can fit it over your head!"
"No I can't." A black suburban parked beside their car as her mother left the stroller and picked up the helmet.
"Yes this will fit." Caroline glanced at the group of people getting out of the suburban. Two extra large women, small fry kid, and one really hott guy.
'Ahh crap! This is so embarassing!" Caroline felt her face tinge pink as her mother approached her with the helmet.
"Look you can wear this." Her mother shoved the helmet into her hands.
"No I can't!" Caroline pointed to the flap of helmet padding that was about to fall off. "It's broken!"
"Ohh.. no it's not."
"Mom. I won't be going that fast! I'll be fine!"
"Well.." Her mother tried one more fruitless attempt to jam it on her daughters head.
"Mom!" Caroline muttered annoyingly as she saw the hott guy glance at her.
"Fine. Go without a helmet." Caroline smirked and mounted her bike, helmetless. "But stay with us!"
"Mom.. let me go around once! I'll lap you guys in like five minutes anyways.." Before her mother could protest she was off.
*
"WHOOO HOO!!!!" Caroline Watson sped down then asphalt hill on her black and red mountain bike, gaining speed as she pedaled faster and faster.
Speed. It was her antidrug. She smiled satisfactorily as the scenery around her began blurring and as all noise was cut off save the deafening rush of the wind past her ears.
"I can make it this time." She whispered as she neared the huge hill in front of her. It was so steep she'd never been able to ride up it before. But today was different. Today she was going to make it. She had to.
Caroline grinned as she began riding up the beginning, but the fun didn't last long. Soon her bike started to slow a bit and the pedaling started coming harder and slower.
"Come on.. Faster.." She urged her bike to go faster, but nothing seemed to work. She pushed her legs as hard as they could bear to keep the pedals turning. She had to be almost three-fourths over the hill.. just a little farther! But then everything went wrong.
Frowning, she looked frantically down at the wheels as they started to slow until they had almost come to a complete stop. She pushed all her energy into her legs trying desperatley to keep going. But what goes up must come down. She started to fall.
"Whoa!" The wheels began turning in the opposite direction. She felt herself speed backwards down the giant hill she had tried so desperatly to climb.
"NOOOO!!!" She yelled and let go of the handle bars with one hand as it reached desperatly forward, grasping nothing but air. With that sudden change of weight the bike sped out of line. It crashed to the ground, but the rider went flying.
The last thing Caroline Watson remembered after the adrenaline rush shot through her body was a face.. a round, warm face. It was a guy.. smiling at her, a pipe in hand. His curly brown hair fell carefree in his face, but not obstructing his beautiful, round, brown eyes. He grinned and wrinkled his big nose.
That was before she hit the floor.
*
Meriadoc Brandybuck snuck through the thick rows of corn. He looked both ways to make sure no one was coming then turned around.
"Pip!" He whispered into the mass of green corn stalks. "Pip! This way!" Then a slight rustling was heard, and a shorter hobbit with a very thin face appeared.
"Coming!" He said loudly.
"Pippin! Shut it!" Merry scolded him in a harsh whisper. Pippin nodded and showed his friend the stack of corn, carrots, and mushrooms he was carrying.
"Like?"
"Ah.. good work!" Merry clapped his friend on the back and motioned for him to follow. Stealthily they crept through the rows of cornfield, careful not to disturb the master of the field - Farmer Maggot.
"Are we almost out?" Pippin inquired as he glanced back at the swarm of green and yellow behind him.
"I think so.." Suddenly Merry stopped. Pippin ran into him.
"What?" Merry held up his hand to silence Pippin. He stood there, motionless for a moment. Pippin began to fidget, the small attention span that he had not lasting long.
"What is it? Do you hear something?" Suddenly Merry felt a tad bit nauseated. He closed his eyes and shushed Pippin.
-----merry's vision----
He stood there in the cornfield, hand still in Pippin's face. Something seemed to wash over him, causing him to feel sick. He closed his eyes.. but then he saw her.
A girl. She was looking up at him, smiling. A slight breeze tickled her face making some of her golden brown hair brush across her face. Milk chocolate eyes sparkling, she broke out into a silent laughter.
Then she was gone.
----end----
"Merry?" Pippin prodded his friend in the back. He had been standing there, motionless and eye's closed for sometime. Then his eyes fluttered open.
"Woah.." He breathed and turned to his friend.
"What was that?"
"I don't know. I.. I saw someone."
"What? What was it!?"
"A girl."
"Was she pretty?"
"Ye.. well I think so. I can't remember her face anymore."
"Pity."
"It's slipping away, rather like a dream." Merry's reminiscing was cut short by a sudden shout.
"OY! YOU HOBBITS GET BACK HERE! STAY OUTTA MY CROPS!" Merry and Pippin glanced at each other.
"Farmer Maggot!" They exclaimed together and took off running.
"Run!" Merry shouted as Pippin started to lag behind. Pippin glanced behind him and saw the silver gleaming razor sharp tip of Farmer Maggot's reaper. That got him going. The two hobbits raced through the maze of corn.
"I don't know how to get out!" Pippin said quickly.
"Neither do I! Just keep running!"
"Oka-" Pippin started to say something but was quickly cut off as he collided with someone and they both fell to the ground.
Merry rushed over to the two falled people and almost gasped at the sight he saw.
Yes, Pippin was lying on the ground, furiously massaging a spot on his forhead, but the person he ran into. She was strangely familiar..
"Woah.." Pippin sat up and glanced in disbelief from the girl in front of him, who was now scrambling to her feet, to Merry, who was staring blankly at her.
The girl looked at the two of them and started to back up against the corn stalks.
"Who.. are.. you." She breathed. Merry took a step forward, which caused her to move backwards. He decided to not do that again.
"Uh, Meriadoc Brandybuck. Or Merry, rather." She turned to Pippin, a look of disbelief in her eyes.
"And you?"
"Pippin. Really Peregrin Took but Pippin's better." Her expression did not change.
"May I ask who you are?" Merry nodded toward her.
"C..Caroline. Caroline Watson." She said faintly. Suddenly Farmer Maggot's voice interrupted the scence again.
"Run! It's Farmer Maggot!" Pippin cried and grabbed Caroline's arm. She had no choice but to run with them. They continued running, not stopping for anything, not even Caroline's stammering protests.
"Where are we going?" She managed to say as the three sprinted through the field.
"Just run!" Merry replied and they ran. They ran and ran until they no longer heard Farmer Maggot's shouting. They were about to stop when..
CRASH!
The three runners crashed through the wall of corn stalks and ran straight into two people.
"Frodo! Merry! It's Frodo Baggins!" Caroline rolled over in the dirty floor of the corn row. Apparently these people knew each other, for a larger one pushed Merry off him and grabbed Pippin.
"Get off him!" He growled as Pippin staggered backwards.
"What's the meaning of this?" Pippin asked a tad bit obliviously as Merry gathered the dropped vegetables and placed him in Sam's arms.
"You've been into Farmer Maggot's crops!" Sam protested, but once again that fateful farmer's voice rang through the fields.
"Hey! You get out of my fields! You'd better watch out when I catch up with you!" The four boys glanced at each other and took off running, but not before Merry grabbed Caroline's hand.
"Come on!" He said to her as they raced through the corn. "I don't know why he's so upset, it's only a few carrots." Pippin spoke up from behind him.
"And some cabbages. and those three bags of potatoes we lifted last week. And then those mushrooms the week before that!"
"Yes Pippin! My point is, he's clearly overreacting!" Merry exclaimed as they neared the edge of the field. "Run!" Before they knew what hit them, they were running straight off a bluff.
"AHHH!!" Merry, Pippin, and Caroline screamed as they fell down to the road below. They landed in a heap with a sickening crack.
"I think i've broken something.." Merry said painfully as he pulled out a broken carrot from under his back. Sam got up and started dusting dirt off his shoulders.
"Trust a Brandybuck and a Too-" He paused seeing Caroline who was stuck under Pippin who was stuck under Frodo who was stuck under Merry. She lay there on her stomach, fingers drumming the ground in a bored way.
"Who are you?" Sam looked confusedly at her, completley forgetting the fact that Frodo was being squished.
"Caroline Watson. Nice to meet you." She stuck out her hand, thinking she must have died or something.. this couldn't get any weirder.
"Er.. nice you meet you." He said edgily as he shook her hand. Then he glanced at Frodo. "Mister Frodo!" He frantically grabbed Frodo's arm and pulled him up.
"MUSHROOMS!" Pippin shouted and started to get up but Sam shoved him back and ran for the shrooms. Once again he struggled to stand but Merry used his head as a stand to get up and made a dart for the little squishy things. They began gathering mushrooms in a bag as Frodo looked at Caroline.
"So... who are you?" She opened her mouth to answer when Frodo's attention was diverted elsewhere. His gaze was locked on a spot farther down the road. Completley disregarding Caroline he said,
"I think we should get off the road." The others paying no heed he added in a more frantic voice, "Get off the road! Quick!" They five ran off the road and hid under a large tree root. Then they heard ominous hoof beats coming their way.
A horse stopped somewhere behind them, and silence ensued. They all jumped slightly as the sound of metal hitting rock stung their ears. They scratching of something's feet against the road told them something was out there.
Caroline did all she could to keep from screaming as spiders, centipedes, and other insects crawled out of the dirt behind them and writhed on the ground.
They could hear the sniffing of the creature on the road behind them. It started to get louder when Merry tossed a small bag out into the woods and the creature ran off.
"What was that?" He asked, looking from Sam to Frodo. Frodo was panting slightly, looking at the ground, clutching something in his hand through his shirt.
His eyes raised to Caroline. "Who are you?"
***
author's note :: well that's all for now. hope you like! review cuz i live for them!