You Could Have Caught Me
By:
LiL Pippin Padfoot
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Disclaimer: Welcome to my Life – Simple Plan
P.S. I slipped another PotC in here, see if you can find it, first one to find it, gets a uhh, (looks around desk) POST-IT, hot pink with blue lines. How could you pass up a used post-it? or lime green, you pick
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Chapter 43
Hobo
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Time was drawing nearer when I would have to come up with a plan, and a good one, no more Cora's.
They were leaving.
Not who is leaving, more like, where. Everyone was leaving. Faramir and Eowyn, back to Ithilien, Arwen and Aragorn, to Gondor, Hobbitses and Gandalf, to the Shire, Eomer and Lothiriel to Rohan, everyone had some place to go. Then there was me.
"Gandalf! Dude, a word please."
"Huh?"
"Can I talk to you?"
"Sure."
Gandalf had become a bit nicer to me, I don't know, maybe he forgot who I was, but whatever.
"Gandalf, what do I do to get home, do I just click my tennis shoes together, and go 'I wish I was home, I wish I was home', or what?"
"I don't know what you mean."
"WHAT DO I DO?"
"Do what?"
"To get home. Everyone is perfectly happy, and then there's me."
"You're not happy?"
"I didn't say that, I said I want to go home."
"You want to go home."
"YES!"
"No need to lose your temper, I don't know what to tell you."
"Isn't there like something you can do? Like conjure a time portal or something?"
"Time portal? No, I do not do that. You will have to find your own way home, you came here on your own, and you will have to find the way to leave."
"I FELL DOWN A FLIGHT OF FREAKIN' STAIRS!"
"Your point?"
I stomped off angrily to think.
I've found that when I'm angry, and I don't think, I tend to do things I regret, or say things.
I watched things from afar. Everyone saying their goodbyes.
Really, Mr. Tolkien had no imagination. No, I don't mean it that way. I mean that his ending. Everyone got someone. I mean really, Faramir/Eowyn, Aragorn/Arwen, Rosie/Sam (though there was still time for something to go wrong), Eomer/Lothiriel, Merry and Pippin eventually get married.
I could say it's not fair, but it is, I mean considering, I shouldn't even be here, technically I should be in school, I mean my day off was way over.
Aragorn walked over to me.
"I heard you yelling at Gandalf."
"Who didn't?"
"Good point."
"Everyone really heard me?"
"Yeah, they thought that you were about to kill him."
Kill him… maybe he's like a cat, more than one life.
"I'm not giving you ideas, am I?" he asked
"None that I'd ever carry through."
"Oh, so you really don't know how to get home, huh?"
"No, I fell down a flight of stairs, assuming I'm not dead, they were carpeted, I don't know how to get back. And I have no place." A sudden thought came into my head. "I'm a Hobo!" I started to laugh.
"What's so funny?" he asked
"My friend Melissa, she predicted that I would be a hobo, she was just joking though. It's a bit ironic, really, I mean, I am a hobo."
"What's a hobo?"
"A homeless person."
"Well, if it helps, people that helped Gondor, always have a home in Gondor. And you have friends in very high places."
I gasped "It is really its not what you know, it's who you know isn't it?"
Aragorn smiled "Sometimes, c'mon, the hobbits wanted to say goodbye, but they thought you may try to take off their heads."
So I walked over with Aragorn, and gave all the hobbits a hug, and wished them best.
"Will we ever see you again, Anna?" asked Pippin
"I don't know," I replied thoughtfully "I don't know if I'll ever see my family again."
"I hope we do." said Merry
"I never did get a chance to apologize Miss Anna." said Sam
"Apologize for what?" I said
"For accusing you. Back before ..."
I knew what he was refering to, before Boromir died.
"It's all right, I'd forgotten about that."
Then finaly Frodo.
"Goodbye." he said
Frodo had never been a very a very social person, anyway, I wasn't offended.
"Goodbye. And thank you."
"Thank you?"
"If it weren't for you, destroying that, I may have been forced to make-out with a guy that has never met a toothbrush."
"I don't think I want to know." said Frodo
"I'll tell you about it!" said Pippin
Then Pippin started telling in great lenghth about the Black Gate, and me.
"Anna? Can I have a word?" it was Gandalf, sure now he wants to talk
"What?"
We walked over away from everyone else.
"I know you know what happened in the Shire."
Oh yea, I forgot about that.
"I need you to promise me Anna, you will not go to the Shire, you won't go. If you do, you could ruin everything than having Boromir alive."
"Boromir should have lived in the first place."
Gandalf sighed, there is no use arguing with me.
"Okay, just promise me, you won't go."
"Fine. But if anything happens to those cute hobbits…"
"I will be personally responsible." He replied
"Fine, we have an accord."
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