Angel
Chapter 12: Beginnings and Endings
Authoress' Notes: Hi everyone! Thank you for all the wonderful reviews and compliments!!!!!! You guys are what keep me writing (and guilt-trip me out of writer's block!!!!) So as a thank you present, here's the 12th chapter of Angel!
Tersa and Samwise continued to work side by side for the rest of the month, and became close friends. Tersa's attraction to Sam eventually faded into a distant memory, not because it no longer existed, but because she buried it in her mind and forgot it until a party eleven years later…
"No! The big one!" Merry instructed as Tersa held up a firework from inside Gandalf's cart.
"How about this Merry?" Pippin asked, holding up a certain dragon shaped firework.
"Yes! Get down get down!" Merry exclaimed jumping around. "Someone will see us."
"Alright alright!" Pippin said, scrambling off of the cart then noticing that Tersa was peering over the side of the cart, glaring at something. "Tersa are you coming?!"
"What? Yeah! Just set it off without me alright?" Tersa jumped off the cart and ran over to where the dancing was taking place.
"That's odd… I thought Tersa said she hated dancing." Pippin looked over at Merry who was clearly as confused as he was. "Do you think she's sick?"
"I have no idea." Merry shrugged. "Now lets go find something to light this thing with!"
"Bloody barmaid… let's burn her…mmmm… flaaaaaames…"
"Tersa WHAT are you muttering about?" Frodo asked, moving so that he was sitting directly across the table from her. "You've been bitter ever since Rosie showed up."
"Do not speak that name in my presence." Tersa glared.
"Um, right." Frodo looked over at Rosie then back to Tersa. "And I shouldn't do this because…?"
"She is evil." Tersa replied irritably. "WHY did you have to shove Sam out there to dance with HER?!"
"I don't believe it! You're jealous!" Frodo exclaimed. "After all these years, you STILL have a crush on Sam!"
"I do not! Shut up if you know what's good for you." Tersa growled. "I just think he deserves better than that THING."
"Jealous!"
"Shut up!"
"Admit it!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NO!!!"
"I'll have Bilbo announce it to half the Shire!"
Tersa's mouth dropped open. "You wouldn't dare!"
"I would." Frodo smirked at her then started to get up.
"NO!" Tersa cried, jumping up and running around the end of the table and blocking Frodo's path. "Please don't! I beg you don't!"
"Alright."
"What?!" Tersa asked.
"I'll just do to you what I did to Sam." Frodo shrugged then shoved Tersa out into the circle of dancers and as luck would have it, right into Sam.
"Er… Hi Tersa. Frodo pushed you out here too?" He asked.
"Yeah." Tersa blushed, looking anywhere but at Sam. "So how are we going to get out of this fix?"
"When we get to the outer circle again we run." Sam replied quickly ducking to avoid being hit in the head with a fallen decoration.
"Good idea." Tersa agreed.
They soon managed to get to the outside of the circle and retreat to the relative safety of the tables where Frodo was still doubled over laughing.
"You should have seen your faces!" He choked, nearly falling off the bench he was sitting on. "It was priceless!"
"That was not funny!" Tersa snapped, smacking Frodo over the head with a nearby rolled up napkin.
"Why just because you have a crush on S-" Frodo was interrupted by Tersa beating him over the head with the napkin again. "Ack ack! Vicious attack with a napkin! Ack! Help!"
"You're lucky I only have this as a weapon or I'd-" Tersa was cut off by the sound of a gigantic explosion. "What in nine hells?!"
"DRAGON!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Someone yelled, pointing to the sky.
The next thing Tersa knew she was on the ground beside Sam with his arm around her shoulders as the glittering dragon passed over them then erupted into a glittering explosion high in the sky. "Those idiots…" She sighed shaking her head as she started to get up, knowing exactly who was responsible for that particular firework.
"What?" Sam asked when they were both standing again.
"That was Merry and Pippin's doing… and how did I get on the ground exactly?" Tersa looked at Sam with mock suspicion. "Were you trying to save me Sam?"
"Er…" Sam blushed a bit and looked down. "I don't exactly know myself. It was sort of automatic." He looked up at her after a moment, still a bit red. "I couldn't loose one of my best friends."
"Thanks Sam." Tersa smiled, then turned to where Bilbo was starting his birthday speech onstage to hide some of her blush.
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