Angel
Chapter 10: WHAT?!
Authoress' Notes: Hi everyone! I'm sorry I took so long to get this written. I had it written up, I just had to type it and then I procrastinated so much that the notebook it was in went… poof! But now I have rewritten it, and here it is!
"NO!" Tersa cried, holding onto Bilbo's couch as both he and Frodo pulled on her ankles to try and get her to let go. "I CAN'T GO HOME! MY MOTHER WILL KILL ME! I'LL BE DEAD! DEAD! SHE'S GOING TO MURDER ME!"
"No she won't! I'll even explain to her what happened, just let go of my couch so we can get you home now that the snow is gone!" Bilbo said and with a final tug managed to get Tersa to let go only to have her latch onto his coffee table.
"She'll kill me! Please don't make me!" Tersa pleaded as Frodo tried to pry her fingers from around the leg of the coffee table. "Either that or I'll never be let out of my room again and never get to see any of you again! Please! Just tell her I died or something!"
"Tersa-" Bilbo started, but was interrupted by a knock at the door. "Don't move." He ordered, then went and opened the door.
"Hello Bilbo. Is my daughter here?" Brigina asked, and heard a frightened squeak from living room where Tersa was still clinging to the coffee table. "I'll take that as a yes." She sighed. "May I come in?"
"Of course." Bilbo nodded, and stepped aside. "Please don't be too hard on her Brigina. I'm sure she didn't mean to worry you as much as she did."
"I'll try." Brigina sighed as she and Bilbo walked into the living room in time to see Tersa hide behind the couch that Merry, Pippin and Sam were sitting on.
"If you're looking for Tersa you just missed her. She…er… disappeared just a moment ago." Pippin lied, and Merry nodded enthusiastically.
"Exactly Ms. Took! Just missed her!" He agreed.
"I saw her hide behind the couch, but nice try dears." Brigina smiled, and walked behind the couch to find a blanket with a (very large lump in it) on the floor. "If you come out on your own, the punishment will be lessened you know."
Tersa slowly peeked out from under the blanket and looked at her mother, who still had a touch of a smile on her face. "M-mumma p-please don't k-kill me!"
"Why would I kill you Tersa?" Brigina laughed, kneeling on the floor beside her daughter.
"B-because I ran away an' disobeyed you when you told me to come back and you're probably going to strangle me for making you worry." Tersa answered, pulling the blanket up so you could just see her eyes.
"Very true, but I also know why you ran away. Your sister explained it to me, and now I'm not so angry anymore." Brigina dropped her voice to a whisper. "If I had lost my diary I'd go crazy too!"
"Really?!" Tersa exclaimed, crawling out from under the blanket excitedly. "So I'm not going to be punished?!"
"Now I never said that. You need to do something to pay back Mr. Bilbo, and I think I know just the thing. You can go and work to repair the damage to the plants outside with Samwise and Mr. Gamgee for the rest of the month." Brigina said.
Tersa went scarlet. "But-"
"No buts. Now let's get home."
"Mothhhhhherrrrr!" Tersa whined after Brigina and she arrived home, "Why did you have to pick that!? Why couldn't you pick anything but that?!" She hid her head in her hands. "I can't work with Sam for a month!"
"Why not?" Brigina asked sharply. "Sam is a nice boy from a nice family. There is absolutely nothing wrong with him! Why are you making such a fuss?"
"Because she fancies him!" Aiana smirked. "It's written all over her face."
"Shut up Aiana!" Tersa snapped, blushing again. "I do not!"
"Then why are you all red?" Her sister teased.
"Because the fire is lit and it's hot in here." Tersa glared.
"Funny, that's the first time I've seen an invisible fire before." Aiana snorted, looking at the empty fireplace.
"SHUT UP!" Tersa yelled. "JUST BECAUSE I HAVE A CRUSH ON SOMEONE DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO TEASE ME!"
"Ohh! My little baby's first crush!" Brigina beamed and hugged her youngest daughter. "How cute! And he's such a nice boy too! I'm so proud!"
"GAH! Mother let go of me!" Tersa growled, wiggling out of her mother's arms and running out of the kitchen. "I'm telling the papers about you loonies!"
"Oh it's so cute!" Brigina sighed happily, reminiscing. "I remember the first boy that I had a crush on."
"Who was he?" Aiana asked giggling. "If it was a Gamgee then we know where Tersa got her taste in boys from!"
"Actually it was your father.' Brigina grinned. "I didn't tell him until we were both thirty-three, but I had fancied him ever since I was around Tersa's age."
"At least you liked someone that was about as old as you were. Sam is something like four or five years older than Tersa." Aiana frowned, thinking. "She's growing up fast and acts older than she is, but Tersa is still just sixteen. I don't want to see her get hurt."
"Maybe you should tell her that instead of teasing her constantly." Brigina suggested absently, filling a teapot with water to heat and make tea. "I'm sure she'd appreciate it."
Aiana just grumbled in response.
Weee!! The long awaited chapter ten of Angel! Again guys, I'm sorry for making you wait so long. I know I hate waiting for people to update their fics, and I didn't update for something like three or four weeks. Just do me a favor and please review, even if it's just to tell me to post faster! Thanks for reading!