Attack of the Plot Bunnies

by rabidsamfan

Ficlets, and drabbles; funny and serious. Many focusing on Samwise, but not all. 1-30 in chronological order, 31. Departure, 32. Feasting at Rivendell, 33. Counsellor of Elrond, 34. Bottom of the Bin, 35.Mending, 36. Gift

20. Homesick

Attack of the Plot Bunnies Chapter Twenty

Timeline: mid-October, 1419/3019 Chapter: 6.VII

Credit where Credit is due: previously appeared on my LJ

Disclaimer: It all belongs to Tolkien (except for the bits that belong to Peter Jackson and the rest of the people who made the movies.) I'm just playing with the toys.

Author: rabidsamfan

Title: Homesick

All he wanted to do was curl up again on the lumpy ticking of the bed he had once shared with his brothers, with the quilt his mother had made wrapped high over his shoulders and the starlight showing dim in the tiny window on the far wall. No featherbed had ever been sweeter, not in the palace of the King, nor even in the storied halls of Rivendell, than lying in the well-known darkness and listening to the familiar grumble of voices and the slap of cards as the old hobbits talked in the kitchen deep into the night

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