Angel
Chapter 14: Elves, Insomnia, and the Entrance of Pippin and Merry!
Authoress' Note: YUUUUHULLOOOOOO!!!!!!! I'm BACK! ^-^ Anyway, thank you for all the lovely reviews!!! *Hands everyone that reviewed a bouquet* Just a warning, I'm trying to follow the movie in this chapter, AND I wrote part of it sleep deprived, bwaahahahahahahaha!
"Exhaustion… eeee…" Tersa gasped, collapsing on the ground with a loud thud. "I'm a lady, I shouldn't have to haul wood for a madman like you."
"You wanted to come, so you have to make yourself useful." Frodo glared from a low tree branch as he lit his pipe. "I don't trust you to cook, you'd probably kill me or something."
"Only because you blurt out things you shouldn't." Tersa snorted, resting her chin on her hand irritably. "Where's Sam by the way? You didn't send him off to fetch wood too did you?"
"No, he went off to get something for cooking. And since he's gone, I'm free to tease you as much as I want." Frodo smirked.
"Oh leave me alone Frodo. I know it's going to be hard to since you have such a cruel sense of humor, but just leave me alone." Tersa said, glaring up at him moodily. "You've never had a crush on someone, you don't understand." She stabbed at the dirt with a nearby stick. "No one understands."
"Understands what?" Sam asked as he came back into the clearing carrying various plants and herbs.
No response.
"Alright, leave me in the dark." Sam sighed sitting down by the fire and starting to prepare a meal for the three of them. "'Tis none of my business anyway, I suppose… I came in on the end of the conversation after all."
"Frodo's being annoying, that's all you need to know." Tersa said, glaring at Frodo again.
"Glare at me as much as you like, I don't mind." Frodo replied, lying back on the tree branch. "It doesn't bother me in th- hey! Do you hear that?!" Frodo asked, sitting up and looking around. "Listen!"
Both Tersa and Sam stopped and listened, and soon heard a soft song.
"Elves!" All three hobbits exclaimed at once and quickly started off in the direction of the music. After finding the elves (and a log to hide behind) they sat in silence watching the elves pass by.
"They're lovely." Tersa whispered. "But where are they going? There's so many of them."
"They're leaving the Middle Earth." Sam replied softly. "I don't know why, but it makes me sad to see them leave."
"At least they know what will become of them. We don't even know if we will make it to Bree." Frodo sighed as the last elf faded into the distance. "We had better get back to camp. The sun is starting to set."
"Well this is great fun. We get to be stabbed by tree roots AND freeze to death." Tersa said, shifting around in her sleeping spot a bit.
"Just imagine you're somewhere else. In a sound proof box for instance." Frodo grumbled, and Tersa smacked him in the shoulder.
"You're no help, you know that?" Tersa sighed. "I'm already beginning to think I should have stayed home."
"Too late to turn back now." Frodo said with a yawn. "Go to sleep."
"Sleep? Bah. Who needs sleep." Tersa muttered, staring up at the starry sky through a hole in the canopy of leaves above her. "Something is going to try and eat me, I just know it."
She received only snores in response.
When Tersa awoke the next morning she found Sam awake making breakfast and Frodo still asleep. She also found an extra blanket over her…
"Uhhgh… Sam do me a favor, turn off the sun will you?" Tersa yawned, sitting up and rubbing her eyes.
"Good morning to you too." Sam laughed. "I'm afraid I can't turn off the sun, but there's some breakfast for you if you're willing to come over here and get it."
"That'll work too." Tersa said, then got up and sat down beside Sam. "What are you doing up so early anyhow?"
"I've always gotten up at dawn." Sam shrugged. "I can't sleep if the sun is shining. There's too much to do."
"Hm." Tersa nodded, looking around. "At least you do something constructive during the day. I basically draw and write most of the day."
"That's something constructive. I've never read any of your writing, but your drawings that I've seen are beautiful."
"Careful Sam, you're starting to sound like you're flirting with Tersa. You wouldn't want Rosie to get jealous would you?" Frodo laughed as both Tersa and Sam blushed. "Anyway, let's eat and get going fast. We need to get to Bree."
"WHY are we walking through a field?!" Tersa asked impatiently, swatting leaves from corn stalks out of her way. "You two are lost aren't you?!"
"We are not lost, we're still in the Shire. I think we're on farmer Maggot's land actually." Sam replied, a few paces in front of her. "We'll be out of this in a minute, there's a clear row up ahead."
"Good." Tersa grumbled, then after a few more steps finally got out of the forest of corn in time to see Merry and Pippin crash into Frodo and Sam.
"What the bloody are you two doing here?!" Tersa asked after the four managed to pick themselves up off the ground and Merry and Pippin started shoving vegetables into Sam's arms.
"Nothing, and for some reason, Farmer Maggot is coming after us!" Pippin shrugged with a grin, and soon after a scythe appeared above the tops of the plants.
"RUN!" Merry yelled and dashed through the next row of plants with Pippin, Frodo, Tersa, and Sam (who had to be yanked out of his daze by Tersa pulling him by his shirt collar part of the way) until they reached that drop off we know all too well from the FOTR movie and, of course, lost their fell off of it.
"That was close!" Pippin remarked cheerfully from his place in the pile of bruised and annoyed hobbits. "Is everyone still alive?"
"I think I've broken something…" Merry moaned, pulling a broken carrot out from under him.
"Sadly it wasn't your neck." Came an irritated grumble from beside him.
"Why, hello to you too Tersa! Are you that polite to everyone these days, or am I just lucky?" Merry asked with a smirk and as a result got a cabbage thrown at him after they all managed to get up again. "I'll take that as a yes, I'm just lucky!"
"Was there any point in causing us to nearly break every bone in our bodies, or is this just another one of your detours that leads no where?" Tersa replied snappishly.
"Oh this one leads to something!" Merry said quickly. "Tell her what it leads to Pip." He added after a moment of glare filled silence from Tersa.
"MUSHROOMS!"
Tersa sighed with a shake of her head as Merry, Pippin, and Sam all started fighting over a little patch of mushrooms. "They are so sad…" she said then noticed Frodo staring down the road with a frightened expression on his face. "Frodo? What's wrong?"
"Get off the road!" Frodo cried, jumping down from the road and diving under a sort of overhang made of tree roots.
"Forget that! RUNNNNNNNN!!!!!!" Tersa yelled, jumping off the road, grabbing Frodo's arm, and running as fast as her hobbit legs would carry her while dragging Frodo with Pippin, Merry, and Sam trying to catch up behind her.
"What is going on!?" Pippin asked when they finally stopped.
"Evil… get… Bree…" Frodo panted.
"Evil is going to get Bree? What?" Pippin asked, rather confused.
"No, Tersa, Sam, and I must get to Bree." Frodo finally managed to say. "It doesn't matter how, just that we get there quickly."
"Alright then, onward to the ferry!" Merry shouted and skittered off into the trees, motioning for the others to follow.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! Another chapter all done! Yes, I know it was just a repeat for most of you since you've all seen this before, but I hope you enjoyed it anyhow!