A/N: Here is the fourty-fourth part of the apartment story. It is sooo long. And there's more to come. Anyway, this chapter is about us people (superb grammer there) helping the less fortunate. Anyway, I hope you like all the creative ways we come up with to get money. I appologize for the wait, holidays were really busy for me. Anyway, enjoy!

Chapter Fourty-Four: Making Money

On a street, with Merry and Pippin...

"All right, Pip, ready to make some fast cash?" Merry asks.

"All righty then." Pippin says.

"You wanna use plan sickly children?"

"Nah, let's use our wonderful voices." Pippin says.

"Oh! Good idea..." Merry says.

So, without further ado and Annabel and Kay staring dreamilly at those two hottie hobbits, Merry and Pippin break into...song.

"Oh, you can search far and wide, you can drink the whole town dry, but you'll never find a beer so brown as the one we drink in our hometown!!" Merry and Pippin sing, dancing around and waving little mugs of beer.

"Oh, aren'y they cute? Let's give them money." Says Random Passer-by 2.

"Sure, but kids singing about ale?" asks Random Passer-by 1.

"Maybe it's inside joke!" Says Passer-by 3.

"Put some money in!"

So Merry and Pippin make their first 10.

"You can keep your fancy ale, you can drink them by the flagon, but the only brew for the brave and true COMES FROM THE GREEN DRAGON!!"

"Where's that?"

"It's our fine eating/drinking establishment!" Annabell and Kay say.

"Ooh!"

Meanwhile, after Merry and Pip have nearly made 50 dollars...

"How did we get stuck next to PSYCHO MAN!" Mary screams, nearly throwing the bucket at Boromir, who, coincidently, Mary and Faramir have landed next to in Operation Get Needy Children Money.

"It won't be so bad. Look! I made brownies!" Faramir says, whipping out a large tray of Betty Crocker Fudgey Chocolate IcingBrownies.

"Ooooh! We can sell them!"

"Hey! Back off, Boromir, these are our brownies." Faramir says.

"Ooh. Well, we'll just see who wins: the Brownies of the HORN OF GONDOR!" Boromir says,pulling out aforesaid Horn of Gondor.

"You're on!" Mary says.

"Breck, come here and be my lovely assistant." Boromir says.

"Sure."

"I hope you know this means war!" Mary says, glaring at Boromir and pulling out a tray table and more baked goods from her car.

"Baked goods versus the mighty Horn of Gondor? No contest!" Boromir chortles.

"You say that now..."

20 minutes later...

"Hurry, Faramir, these brownies won't last forever!"

"I'm working here! The stove is too slow!"Faramir says, leaning over a one burner camp stove with a small little oven. Faramir and Mary now have a little stove and are turning out brownies at alarming speed.

"What's our till?"

"Over 50, Faramir, and there's a huge line!"

Boromir is just sitting there, moping about because the Horn of Gondor really hasn't done it's civic duty.

"Mary...our stove broke down."

"DAMN!" Mary yells, kicking the stove.

"Hey, you fixed it!" Faramir says, as the stove starts running again.

"Mary...the stove is spitting out brownies!" Faramir says, ducking brownies that are flying out.

"Just...I dunno, catch them in a basket!"

So Faramir catches the brownies in a cute little basket and Mary puts them on the table. The stove is still going crazy, and soon there are 25 baskets of 25 brownies. That, my friends, is a lot of brownies.

"I'm sick of this." Boromir says, with Breck sitting on his lap. Boromir stands up and loudly blows the Horn of Gondor. Resulting on Breck winding up on the ground.

"AHHHHHHHH! MY EARS!!" Faramir says, covering his ears.

"Ear plugs in!" Mary yells, and Faramir and Mary cover their ears.

"Here, have your basket...and yours...and yours..."

The people put their money ($2.50 a basket) in the pot, and walk away, smiling.

"We're rich rich rich!" Faramir says.

"It's helping the less fortunate. But..." Mary says, getting a Signature Idea.

"Boromir, why on earth do you have to freakin' use the Horn of Gondor so loud?" Breck moans, her ears still ringing.

"Sorry..."

Meanwhile, Faramir and Mary are running out of stuff to make the brownies out of.

"Uh...oh..."

Boromir and Breck just cackle silently.

"Er...Hey, are you there? You're where? Is there a grocery store near you? There is? Thank God. Ok, just pick up about 20 cartons of Eggs, 5 gallons of milk, some gallons of water, and a couple thousand boxes of brownie mix!!" Mary says into her cell phone. "Yes, I know it'll cost a lot, but I'll give you some money!''

"What was that?" Faramir asks.

"We're getting more ingrediants!"

Breck and Boromir groan, then go back to moping about due to the failing Horn of Gondor.

Soon, Mary's friend shows up with the ingrediants and Mary and Faramir make more baked goods. Mary tips her friend who runs away with almost all of Mary's money.

With Denethor and Orliey...

"What are we doing to make money?"

"Er...light me on fire?" Denethor suggests.

"Why?"

"Because I'm immune to fire?"

"Sure, and that's why you died."

"Sure it is! That was a malfunction! And I'll sing while I'm on fire!"

So Denethor and Orliey make money by having Denethor go up in flames.

Later, back at the Apartments...

"All right, everyone, we made...well over 3,000,000 dollars today." Denethor says.

"That means you can't count, right?" Mary asks.

"No, I'm too lazy."

"Oh.."

"Really, now?"

"Hey, I've been thinking, can we go to the beach?" Boromir asks.

"But it's winter!" Mary says, pointing outside at the snow that is falling.

"SO?"

"Well, I guess for my favorite son..." Denethor says.

"And we're all coming." Gimli says.

"Very well."

And so the group decides to go to the beach...

A/N: I'm sorry that this took so long to get up there, but what with the holidays and all...anyway, hope your holiday was great and see you at the beach! In the story, I mean. (Hands out little presents) I know it was weird. And soon you'll find out what Mary's Signature Idea is.