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Pippin starred to the wall opposite of the bed and his eyes didn't budge from the stop. "Pippin, who is here?" asked Merry frightening to end wits. He didn't answer

"It's the rock. That stupid rock. Thanks to it, he'll never leave me alone. He will never let me be," said Pippin and started to cry. Merry was so tired of that stupid, yet beautiful, rock. Damn it to Hell Merry thought. "You have to let me go, I thought if I was with you, he'd leave me alone. But it's not like that. If you have to let me go," said Pippin looking up at Merry.

"What are you talking about? Let you go where? Wherever you need to go, I can go with you. I'm you best friend…cousins need to stick together," Merry said smiling meekly. A smile of courage and a little fear in his eyes, but Pippin knew that would not matter.

"No Merry. You can't come with me," said Pippin and looked down, "I'll look after both of us. The Pippin you know will be taken care of, but you can't come."

"Why not?" Merry asked and got up quickly.

"We are going somewhere you cannot follow. The only way we can end it," said Pippin closing his eyes and taking a deep breath.

"Where!" Merry yelled in shock and confusion. He couldn't believe what was happening. Everything that had happened. It seemed like just too much.

"Death," said Pippin very quietly. Merry's eyes widened. He took his head in his hands and yelled.

"No!" yelled Merry over and over and dropped to his knees. Pippin looked away. All because of that rock, that evil rock. No thought Merry! He ran from the room, down the road and to the kitchen of his hobbit hole. He went to the cupboard he had put the rock in and opened it. Empty. The rock was gone. Merry was stunned and then thought of Pippin and ran back to the room in the care center. The bed still unmade from where he slept was there, but Pippin was gone. How could he have been so stupid?

Suddenly, Merry heard a scream from down the road, not of Pippin, but of a girl. The road was filled with hobbits and Pippin's mother was crying and screaming all at once. Merry pushed through the crowd cowering over something. No, please no Merry thought to himself. There was Pippin, he had cut his own next with one of care center's utensils. Tears did not fall, they couldn't. It was impossible to drop even one. Merry dropped to his knees beside Pippin. He wasn't bluffing; he wanted him to let go, but how could he?

There was more to this than there seemed. The Shire wanted to hold a funeral for Pippin, they all believed he was murdered, but Merry knew better than that. There was more to this than there seemed to be. He got home and started to cry, he had to, for he had still not dropped a tear for his cousin. Pippin was gone, why wouldn't he cry? He fell to the floor and cried loudly, his sulking echoed in the room. He heard a creak and looked up, his open window from his bedroom carried in a breeze that creaked the open cupboard door where the rock had been. Where WAS the rock? He had forgotten about it after Pippin's disappearance. Who took it? Only Pippin and him knew about it,…….so who could of taken it? He was going to find out, not for himself, but Pippin.

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