A/N: The song that MC sings is Mudpie, by Blyss. Blyss is the former name of the band Lifehouse. I do not own the band/song. And I know it doesnt really seem like it yet, trust me, there IS a plot! I swear! lol. And about TC's room...well...it may seem like we're making a big exaggeration, but, we arent. Its like my room. My room, is quite...disorganized. While yes, there is a slight exaggeration with the thing under the bed, my room is about one step away from being that bad. And Im very sorry about the delay of this chapter. I was in the school musical and had absolutely no life. and now im apparently in foresics, so the chapters will be coming very slowly...sorry, please bear with me.

Chapter 2-The Mountain Dew Spill and an Engagement Ring

"What's that?" Pippin asked, referring to the refridgerator TC was looking through.

"It's a fridge." TC answered, her look of concentration turning into a look of sheer joy as she let out a squeak of excitement and pulled out a two liter bottle of Mountain Dew.

Merry spotted this and walked over. "So THIS is Mountain Dew!" he said with a grin, grabbing the bottle from TC just as she was about to drink from it.

"Hey! Give that back!" TC tried to take it back from Merry. He would not let go, however. The two began wrestling over it. MC and Pippin quickly evacuated the kitchen as Mountain Dew sprayed everywhere. When TC and Merry stopped fighting, the bottle was completely empty. It's contents were spilled all over the kitchen. The two hobbits were quite soaked, as well.

"Oops." TC said, surveying the mess, then glared at Merry. "You wasted my Mountain Dew!"

"You helped!" Merry yelled.

TC was about to go after Merry, but someone knocked at the door. TC walked over and opened it.

"Hey Rhia."

Rhia stared at the hobbits. "Um...what...what happened?"

"A lot happened, actually." MC replied, walking down the hall to brave TC's room. TC began to explain the whole story. Though, a more summarized version of what she told MC's mom. MC somersaulted out of TC's room, quickly pulling the door shut, and grabbed the personal cd player that came out with her.

TC finished talking and Rhia stood, dumbfounded. "Well." was all she could think of to say. TC, who was now sitting on the counter, stared at the mess in the kitchen. She shook her head in dissappointment.

"I guess I should clean this up." TC jumped off the counter and grabbed all the clean towels from the hallway closet.

"So you guys have been in Middle Earth for the past thirteen months, assissting the Fellowship, including Hobbits, a Dwarf, and Elf, and a wizard?"

"Well, I wouldn't say they...'assissted.'" Pippin mused. "More like, 'hindered.'"

"Hey!" TC cried defensively, while stuffing the soaked towels in the washing machine.

"MC didn't hinder us!" Merry yelled.

"You can't be serious!" TC said, in disbelief.

"She tried to kill you!" Pippin screamed.

"So? That was just a misunderstanding." Merry stated. "We worked through it."

"She tried to kill you SEVERAL TIMES!"

"She tried to kill Aragorn!" TC yelled.

"So?" Merry sked.

"She...she...pissed Aragorn off!"

"Not as much as you did!" Merry accused.

TC paled, her eyes grew wide. "Now...hey! That's off the subject!"

"No! You hit him in the face with a snowball on Caradhras, you hit him with a mudball in Helm's Deep---"

"Now, I wasn't the only one---"

"You made him have a mental break down!"

"Well, that wasn't--"

"You scared him off at the council!"

"MC helped!"

"AFTER breaking a statue!"

"Oh...well..."

"You let the wraiths know when we were on Weathertop!"

"Now I was sleep---"

"You drenched everyone on the river!"

"You guys helped!"

"You destroyed everyone's hair!"

"Hey now! MC was in on that---"

"YOU COMPLETELY DESTROYED MINAS TIRITH!"

"Well...not by myself!"

"You beheaded a chicken, adopted a warg, almost threw Gandalf down a well, assisted Pippin in looking in the Palantir, knocked a guy out riding Shadowfax..."

"ENOUGH!" TC yelled. "I get your point!"

"Wow." Rhia said in amazement. "You really tore up Middle Earth!"

"Well...not on purpose! And...and MC helped!"

MC walked into the kitchen, completely oblivious to the others. She had TC's headphones on, listening to TC's Lifehouse cd in TC's cd player. TC glared at her. MC began singing.

"Nothing but a mudpie wrapped up inside with a pretty bow. Nothing but a for sale sign on a house that's already sold---"

TC grabbed her cd player from MC and whacked her over the head with it. She then returned it to her room.

"I'm hungry." Pippin commented, rubbing his stomach as it growled.

"Okay..." TC began muttering incoherently as she rummaged through her cupboards. She pulled out a small box of Cracker Jacks, opened it, and handed it to Pippin. He began to eat the Cracker Jacks. Then, suddenly, he came across something.

"What's this?" Pippin held up a small, plastic ring.

Merry's eyes grew wide. He dived at Pippin and wrestled the ring from him.

"Hey!" Pippin yelled. "That's mine!"

"MC!" Merry fell down onto one knee in front of MC, holding the ring out in front of him. "Will you marry me?"

MC stared at the ring with contempt. There were moments of silence (other than TC laughing), until MC finally grabbed the ring from Merry. She ran down the hall and threw it into TC's room. Everyone stared at her in question.

"Oh...um...oops." MC stated with a hint of sarcasm. "Merry...I...uh...'accidentally' lost the ring in TC's room...if you get it out, I will marry you."

Merry, without hesitation, ran over to TC's room. He paused when he reached MC. "Don't worry, my lady." He placed his hand on her shoulder. MC gave him a worried look. "I will get your ring!" With that, Merry drew his sword and charged into TC's room. The door flung shut, and they could hear Merry screaming.

"Merry!" Pippin screamed, running to the door, pounding on it. Many thumps and crashes were heard, followed by unknown strangled cries, then all at once the noises ceased. "MERRY!" Pippin sunk down on the floor in despair.

"Well." MC grinned. "Now that he's out of the way---"

"NO!" Pippin sobbed.

"NOW we can get down to business."

"You are pure evil!" TC said, shaking her head.

"Something HAD to be done! NOW, can we decide what we're going to do?" MC walked over to the table and sat down. Rhia and TC followed suit.

"So..." Rhia said.

"There has to be SOME way to reverse this!" TC stated.

"Um...how exactly did this happen?"

"WE ALREADY TOLD YOU!" MC shouted. "We opened my door and, well, there was Hobbiton!"

"So why are you here then?"

"This is getting too redundant!" TC yelled and began pacing.

Rhia jumped at the onslaught of yelling. "Fine...what do you propose we do?"

"That's why we called you over here. That's why we asked you to help." TC replied flatly. "WE DON'T KNOW!"

"Okay...why don't you go over to MC's house and try to see if that works..."

"Gee. I don't know why we didn't think of that." MC said sarcastically.

"So from what I gather we're just gonna hang out here until we die?" TC asked angrily.

"I don't know why you thought I could help..."

TC fumed and continued her pacing while MC and Rhia sat in thought. Their concentration was broke when TC's door flung open and Merry tumbled out. The door slammed shut behind him. Merry stood up, holding the plastic ring triumphantly out in front of him. His face was scratched, his clothes were torn, and his hair was standing straight on end, but he did not care.

"I got it!" Merry yelled happily.

"Oh no!" MC's face paled.

"You couldn't have just said no, could you? You had to give him room for success." TC muttered, laughing quietly.

"MC, why exactly do you hate Merry so much?" Rhia asked. "You were quite fond of him last time I talked to you."

"That was a year ago! BEFORE he started stalking me!" MC screamed, storming upstairs.

"Oh, it couldn't have been THAT bad..." Rhia commented to TC.

"He carried her through Moria." TC calmly informed her.

"Well, that was only one incident."

"He wanted her to suck his blood."

"That's disturbing..."

"We got used to it." TC paused. At MC's scream from upstairs, she added: "Well, with the exception of MC, at any rate." There was another blood curdling scream from upstairs.

"Why is she so mad?" Merry asked, innocently.

"She isn't mad." TC grinned. "She's just...overwhelmed. I mean, she's just SO happy that you finally asked. She was getting frustrated that you hadn't asked sooner."

"That's why she's been avoiding me!" Merry's eyes got wide with realization. He gasped. "I need to go apologize to her for making her wait so long!"

"Yes! Go on!"

Merry ran upstairs. TC was grinning wildly. In roughly ten seconds MC screeched and flew down the stairs, then right into the bathroom. Merry ran after her.

"Wait! MC! I'm sorry!" Merry began trying to open the bathroom door, but MC had locked it. "I know I should have asked sooner, but I DID ask!"

"AHH!" MC let out a strangled cry.

"Well. Now I can see where she might get angry..." Rhia stated. "Now, we need to get MC out of there, and convince Merry to leave her alone. He should let her be if we tell him to back off, if we reason with him, right?"

TC stared thoughtfully at the hobbit hurling himself against the door and yanking on the doorknob, screaming his apologies desperately, despite MC's screams at him to go away. "Well..." TC drawled. "You can reason with him all you want...bu I don't think it's gonna work..."

"You should fix this."

"Why?"

"You started it."

"NO! Merry did!"

"YOU made it worse."

"FINE! Pippin! Come here!"

Pippin walked over to TC and Rhia. "What?"

"Okay, we are getting MC out of there, and locking Merry in. When I tell you to, tackle him, alright?"

"You're locking him in?"

"Yeah, but I can pick the lock."

"Okay."

Pippin walked over and stood a couple feet from Merry. TC ran into her parents' bedroom, which had an alternate door to the bathroom. She knocked on the door and began whispering. "MC, it's TC! Unlock the door, I'll get you out of here!" MC unlocked the door and TC rushed into the bathroom, pushing TC out. "TAKE HIM DOWN PIPPIN!" TC screamed at the top of her lungs (just to make sure Pippin heard her). TC unlocked the main door and opened it. To her surprise, Pippin had not done his job. To everyone's shock, Merry quickly tackled TC and kissed her.