You Could Have Caught Me
By:
LiL Pippin Padfoot
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN FARAMIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (HA!, HE IS IN MY BASEMENT THOUGH!!! MWAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!)
Chapter 21 ½
While I'm having loads of fun with Gandalf, Frodo and Sam have some one on two time with Faramir...
"So!" he said "You bid me to mind my own affairs, and get me back home, and let you be. Boromir will tell all when he comes. When he comes say you! Were you a friend of Boromir?"
Vividly before Frodo's mind came the memory of Boromir's assault on him, and for a moment he hesitated. Faramir's eyes watching him grew harder
"Boromir was a valiant member of our company... Yes, I was a friend, for my part. Why do you wish to know so much of Boromir?"
Faramir smiled grimly. "So is would grieve you to learn that my brother, Boromir, is dead?"
"Dead?" Frodo faltered "You knew it? And you were trying to lure me in with falsehood?"
"No, I wouldn't, and wasn't." said Faramir
"How did he die, and how do you know of it? Since you say none of the Company has reached the city when you left."
"As being Boromir's friend and companion I was hoping you could tell me."
"He was alive and strong when we parted! And he lives still for all I know. Though there are many perils in this world."
"Many indeed."
"Now see here!" said Sam "Mr. Frodo I think this has gone on long enough..."
"Do not speak before your master, whose wit is greater than yours." But he said it with out anger.
"There is only but a few more questions I wish to ask."
"Then please ask them." Said Frodo, who was growing weary of the questioning and was still trying to solve the fact that Boromir was dead.
"Who all set out with you from Rivendell?"
"There 10 of us. Myself, Sam, and two of my kinsmen, an elf from the Mirkwood realm, a dwarf of the Lonely Mountain, Boromir of Gondor, Aragorn son of Arathorn, heir to the throne of Gondor, and Mithrandir."
"A rather unusual company, but still I only count nine." Said Faramir
"There was one more... But I don' t know..."
"Speak, who was the tenth member?"
"It was a girl, where she came from, or why she came, was a mystery. She may know how Boromir died, she seemed rather close to him. He gave her a knife to use."
" That answers another mystery of mine. For I found him in a gray boat, with many a piercing from an Orc arrow on him, his sword broken, and his horn cleaved in two, and knife missing. I watched the boat float down the river, dreamlike, and yet it was no dream, for there was no waking."
"I am sorry, but I do know that the girl, whose name I do not know, wished to go to Gondor and see you."
"See me?"
"Yes. She thought you were...were..."
"Hot, sir." Answered Sam
"Hot?" asked Faramir with a questioning look
"Well, she told Boromir that 'hot' meant handsome."
Faramir laughed at this.
"That was most likely the first time in Boromir's life that a girl told him that she liked my over him. Come now, we must eat. And I must then leave, and find this girl."
Faramir looked out the window, facing east.
"Gandalf, are we there yet?"
"NO!"
"Will Faramir be there?"
"I DON'T KNOW!"
"Will Denethor be there?"
"I DON'T KNOW!"
"He is the Steward right?"
"ARE YOU CAPABLE OF BEING QUIET FOR MORE THAN FIVE SECONDS?"
I smiled contently. I loved taunting Gandalf.
Our horses had slowed down a bit, and we were riding side by side now.
Just when Pippin was waking up I recited :
Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three,
What brought they from the foundered land,
Over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones,
And one white tree.
"How did you know that?" asked Gandalf
I gave him my very best smirk
" I know a lot of things." Then I noticed the Minas Tirith, and I made Aracaran go as fast as he would go.
"Bet I'll reach Minas Tirith first!" I shouted over my shoulder
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This is where I end tonite.