You Could Have Caught Me

By:

LiL Pippin Padfoot

Okay, something that needs to be explained:

To Pull a Cora, comes from when my friend, Cora, was hunting and she got a 14 point buck, and she jumped up in her tree stand, but missed the bottom, fell out of the tree and broke her arm.

And now, when one of my friends does something stupid, like when I ran into a closed glass door, we call it pulling a Cora.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Fellowship, no matter what anyone says. Right?

Chapter 10

I Do The Unthinkable

I was in the same boat as Legolas and Gimli. No one noticed, that I was watching Boromir. I was trying to figure out a way to distract Boromir enough to get him to quit mumbling like he was, he sounded possessed, just muttering, and he was scaring Merry and Pippin.

I looked over the edge of the boat. The clear water of the Anduin shone in the sunlight.

"Do not lean over to far, you may end up in the water." Said Legolas with a side look toward me.

End up in the water.... Hmmm

I thought for a second, but that was all.

I stood and dived into the water.

First I realized swimming in the Anduin was no picnic. It was cold, and wet, and very well fast. But I knew how to swim.

I heard a splash, just as I surfaced. Aragorn's head came out of the water in front of mine.

I wondered if maybe I should act like I was drowning and just let him have a hero moment. Nah.

"You can swim?"
"I can swim."

A gave a side glance to Boromir, who was on my left.

He'd quit muttering, and was staring at me, along with everyone else.

Aragorn looked at me again, then turned to Legolas.

"Let us get the boats ashore, so we can dry off."

I swam over to the bank, where the boats had paddled up to.

I stood up, and shook my hair. I tried to squeeze the water out of it. But my hair that goes way past my shoulders, wasn't getting dry any time soon.

"Guys, this may take a while."

"We don't have a while."

"I don't have any more clothes."

"You jumped out of the boat."

"..."

"One day, tomorrow morning we are back in the boats, dry or not."

I sighed, one day, that could make a difference.

Maybe.

Yup, I sacrificed my dignity to try to save Boromir, I pulled a Cora on purpose.

I am ashamed for life.