A/N: Okay, just in case you're wondering, this chapter took five days to put up becuz I was working on this other one-shot for my friend, Snow. The one-shot is called A Winter Together, and it's just a little short sweet wintry tale inspired by Snow's HP fanfiction, A Second Chance. So just in case you're interested, this one-shot is also, obviously, a HP fanfic, and you can visit it by just clicking my name and then selecting the story. It's a sweet little semi-romantic tale actually; more details about it when you check it out. It's not bad, and if you read HP fanfiction, make sure you also don't miss Snow's "A Second Chance"! It's a nice, bittersweet tale. Lol, though this is only for those who may be interested! However, both my one-shot and Snow's story aren't bad reads, if I dare say so myself. Lol :) But well, for now, anyways, on with MY crazy story! Yaaaay! XD
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8/20/05- Tale of my Hamsters
Well, as I was playing with my hamsters rather splendidly today, I decided to write about them. I still remember how their crazy tale all started, one evening in November last year…
My mother came in from work that day beaming, and so immediately my brother and I knew something was up.
"Would you guys like a hamster?" she asked immediately, as soon as she stepped through the door.
My brother and I started at her, unsure of what to say, in case she was only joking.
"So?" my mom prompted again. "One of my co-worker's hamsters gave birth and they're giving up the babies for free. Tiny, cute, little Russian dwarf hamsters, and I saw a picture of them; they are the sweetest things."
I jumped down from my chair. "You serious about us having one?" I asked incredulously.
My brother chimed in. "Yeah, serious?"
"Of course." My mom laughed. "I mean, ordinarily you guys know I wouldn't agree to such a thing as having a pet, but I saw their pictures- and then I thought- how bad could a hamster be? Or better yet, even two? It's not like they're as complicated as dogs or something. And they really are so cute that even I want them."
I was speechless. My brother, however, got a sudden rush of euphoria and he went dancing out the door singing about hamsters and pets and hamsters.
"So… I take it you guys want one then? Well, all right! I'll tell my friend tomorrow. Oh, but hold on- how many do you guys want? Two at the most."
I sank back into my chair. "Could we- really have two?" I whispered.
"'Course! I'd love that myself, as long as they're both the same gender. Well, I'm going off to ask your brother and dad, then…" and she went off after them, leaving me to sit alone with my head full of new ideas, like what I'd call my hamsters, what my friends' reactions to my new pets would be, what the hamsters would look like……………
The next day I came home from school to a wonderful surprise- two little hamsters were curled up tightly into balls in one corner of their new cage. One of them had beautiful soft golden fur, while the other had dark brown. And immediately I knew what to call them. I had been toying with their names ever since last night, first with the amusing thought that if one was a girl and the other was a boy, they would be donned Adriel and Legolas, but as I knew my mom was set on getting the same genders, and preferably boys, I knew that that pairing was out of the question. So then what? I wanted LOTR names, but I wasn't sure if my family would agree. So I thought of a dozen pairs of names: Potatoes and Tomatoes? Ha! Aragorn and Arwen? No girl-boy pairings… Harp and Flute? Wtf? Elladan and Elohir? Nahh… Carrots and Peas? No, no, no! Orlando and Bloom! HAHAHA…:SNORT: x.x
But anyways, however, upon seeing them, I knew what their names would be. And after I called my mom to check if they were indeed both boys, I was more certain than I ever was in my life about their names. The dark-brown haired one would be called Frodo, and the golden-haired one called Legolas.
It was absolutely foolproof! It was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!
At this moment though, Legolas popped in and said, "You named a hamster after ME?" His expression was quite unreadable, but anyways, I nodded a yes. "Can I see it?" His expression was more interested now. I nodded again, and got up to lead him to the cage where Legolas was scurrying around alone in. As soon as we neared, Legolas the hamster stopped running and looked up at us, her (yes, her, and I'll tell you why in a minute) little pink nose poking through the bars of her cage.
"Hey wittle Leggy," I cooed, opening her cage door to pour some hamster food in. "How are you today?"
Little Legolas the hamster jumped eagerly into the roll I use to transport her in and out of the cage, as she wanted to come out. I lifted the roll up, ready to take her outside.
"Can I hold her?" Legolas the elf asked, sounding very interested now. (After all, Legolas the hamster does look shoooo adorable.)
"Umm, yeah," I said, turning to tip the hamster onto his outstretched hand. "But be careful, she-"
Legolas the hamster hopped onto Legolas the elf's hand, and immediately bit down hard with her little sharp teeth
"-she bites." I finished helplessly.
"Owwwwww!" Legolas the elf yelped, and swung his hand around fast. Poor little Legolas the hamster went flying through the air.
"Nooooooooooooo!" I screamed, leaping forward to catch my poor flying hamster. I would catch her no matter if she would bite me or something when I caught her, I just couldn't let my little hamster fall inches through the air to her death…
If I were tagging bases in softball, I would have been perfect I slid across the ground, hands outstretched, and safely caught little Leggy the hamster, who fell onto my hand gently without the slightest injury.
"By the love of Valar!" Legolas the elf yelled as I crawled back to the hamster's cage, ready to deposit the hamster down, "He bites!"
I shot him a look as he held shaking up his hand that had a tiny quick little bite, while Leggy the hamster was biting away at my hand with absolute ferocity, AND continuously. Then I corrected him, "She. She bites." I shook the biting Legolas the hamster off my hand and put her back in the cage.
Legolas looked confused at me for a moment. "She?"
I nodded. "Yes, she, and I was just getting to it, if you'd stop interrupting me." Then turning around and ignoring the glare Legolas gave me, I continued with my hamster tale.
Well, so anyways, as I was saying, Legolas and Frodo the hamsters got along splendidly in the same cage, until two weeks later, to our horror, we heard little squeaking sounds coming from their cage and also noticed a gigantic nest of bedding that they had built up. Peeking in for a closer look, inspection revealed 7 little pink things curled up underneath Frodo.
I went berserk.
"Mooooooooooom!" I screamed, leaping up and crashing into my mom's room. "Baaaaaaaaaaabies!"
"Or it could be Frodo's pink guts that went out of her body." My brother whispered.
I ignored him. "Mom," I yelled, going up to her, "Frodo has babies!"
My mom was out her bedroom door already. "No way," she whispered, crouching down outside their cage. "7 of them." She seemed at a loss of what to say.
"Yes way," I whispered back.
So anyways, Frodo gave birth to 7 dark-furred hamsters, and meanwhile, we thought Legolas was still a guy and had gotten Frodo pregnant (lolz) and so immediately we went to go and get another cage for Legolas. I also immediately changed Frodo's name to Adriel (which is just as perfect since she's also dark-haired and all), but as we had gotten used to calling Adriel "Frodo", we continued calling her "Frodo". Just her official name is Adriel. Yeah, lol, I know, it's confusing.
At this moment, Legolas, who was looking slightly creeped out by the story so far, said, "Too bad Frodo isn't here. In fact, too bad everyone else isn't here…."
I wanted to scream at him, "Wait! You're getting ahead of the freaking story!" But instead I nodded and said back, "I want to see everyone else too. But just let me finish this story for now."
He fell back to listening in silence.
Well, so now, after 6 weeks or so the little gross looking pink things turned into 7 cute little brown hamsters. We had some difficulty finding new homes for them, but finally we gave away 5 and decided to keep the other two for ourselves. We brought all 4 hamsters (Adriel and Legolas and the two younger hamsters) to the pet sore to have their genders checked, so there wouldn't be any more accidental births this time. The man who checked them picked up Frodo/Adriel first "Mmmhm, yep, this one's a girl," and we put her into a box. Then the man picked up the smaller of the two babies, "This one's a girl too," and we put her in the same box as Adriel/Frodo. Then the man picked up Legolas, and said, "Ah, this one's a guy," and we put him in a different box. Then the other baby was picked up, and the man said, "Boy too," and we put him in with Legolas.
After that, I named the girl baby Elanor, after a dark-haired girl in my Adriel fanfic, and the boy Alvenas, after Adriel's dark haired brother.
We went home thinking everything was all right.
Four weeks later, I heard the telltale squealing again. I rushed to Legolas's cage this time, where the squeaking was coming from, and saw with newfound horror 6 pink things this time.
I went berserk once more.
"Mooooooooooom!" I screeched, picking up the phone this time and calling her on her cell. "Baaaaaaabies! Agaaaaaaaain!"
"Or guts," my stupid brother whispered once more.
My mom sounded faint. "Just- Just take care of things till I get home, Adri." And then she hung up.
I ran back to Legolas's cage trying to figure out who was the mother: Legolas, or Alvenas. Closer inspection revealed that it was Legolas who was nursing them. I almost choked with hysterical laughter. In my mind I could just hear one of my friend's teasing comments the day I had told them I had gotten two hamsters called Legolas and Frodo. My friend had said then, almost wildly, "What if Legolas turns out to be a girl and then you go screaming all over the place like, LEGOOOOOLAS IS PREGNANT! LEGOOOOOOOOLAS HAS BABIES! FROOOOOOOODO IS ON TOP!" We had cracked up all over the place that day, but now, it was just plain wrong.
I also note that Legolas the elf prince is now looking quite grossed out and angry.
Well, so, we immediately gave Alvenas the boy hamster away, as we couldn't leave him with a girl hamster anymore. Out of the six hamster babies, one of them died at childbirth, and so we went outside and buried the little pink thing under a tree. And then, 6 weeks later, we gave four of the babies away again, and kept one more of them this time for ourselves. The babies' fur this time is like a mix of gold and light brown, so it looks sort of like some kind of gold-tinted grey.
I asked my mom if she wanted to take the baby to the pet shop and gets its gender checked again, but she shook her head. "That pet store man can't be trusted anymore." She said resolutely, and so instead got yet another cage for the baby. Better safe than sorry, I guess. So now, we have three cages, one with Adriel/Frodo and her daughter Elanor, another with Legolas/Rielle, as I renamed her too after a blonde character in my story, but since we also got used to calling her "Legolas", we still do, and anyways the last cage has the youngest baby, which I named Idil, after Legolas's childhood nickname in my story. To this day, we still don't know Idil's gender is for sure, but we wanted him to be a guy after having so many girl hamsters, and so I just gave him/her a guy name. Idil is currently the cutest of all hamsters, with his pretty soft fur as smooth and warm as rabbit fur, and his tiny pink paws always padded like cushions. I asked Legolas if he'd like to try and hold Idil, who doesn't bite (Legolas/Rielle is the only one who does), but he shook his head. Clearly, he has now developed hamster-phobia or whatever.
Well, anyways, that's the little messed-up tale of my hamsters, with all the gender mistakes and renaming of them and dead babies and everything. Oh, and how come Frodo got pregnant if Legolas is also a girl? We guess that her husband must have been another hamster in their litter; you see, there were four hamsters that day in the litter my mom got Frodo and Legolas from, and so we guess one of the other two hamsters got Frodo pregnant. Interesting and weird, huh? And if you think about it too, their hamster family tree is like screwed up. A sister marries her brother, and then her son marries the mom's sister, and so on.
Life can be funny sometimes.