Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I do not own any characters or places in Lord of the Rings.
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"Can you sing, Master Hobbit?" questioned Denethor suddenly, breaking into the new hobbit guard's thoughts.
After a brief moment of thinking, Pippin answered hesitantly.
"Well… yes." Pippin looked up at the figure eating alone with bad eating habits. "But we have no songs for great halls and… evil times."
"And why should your songs be unfit for my halls?" Turning his head, Denethor looked unblinkingly at the small figure before him, a line of red running down his chin and his mouth severe.
"Come, sing me a song." ordered Denethor.
Glancing at his new superior, Pippin barely contained a wince when he saw the tomato the Steward bit into burst open, spilling juice and tomato seeds down the man's chin. Quickly averting his eyes, Pippin thought frantically for a song that would be suitable enough for the halls of Gondor, while trying to ignore the continuing squishing and chomping sounds coming from in front of him.
Thinking of nothing and afraid that the Steward's patience was running thin, Pippin suddenly thought of two potential songs that he had sung before in the Mines of Moría….
"This is the song that never ends… yes it goes on and on my friends…." sung Pippin softly as Denethor continued to consume his lunch.
"…but they'll continue singing it forever just because this is the song that never ends…" continued Pippin, looping the song once more, not noticing what happened with his companions in Moría was happening to the Steward.
"… yes it goes on and on my friends…"
"STOP!" commanded Denethor, who had stopped eating a long time ago and was now glaring at the newly initiated hobbit.
"Sing something else." demanded Denethor, more than ready for a change of music. As long as it's not that blasted song…
"Al-alright…" answered the frightened hobbit meekly.
Thinking hard, Pippin thought of the other song he sung in Moría, forgetting what had almost happened as the result of him sing the two infamous songs…
"I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves… everybody's nerves… everybody's nerves…" began Pippin.
Within moments, the song looped and repeated five times without any sign of Pippin tiring from singing the same lyrics over and over again.
Grumbling, Denethor abandoned any attempt to try to return to his delicious lunch and tersely dismissed Pippin abruptly.
The clueless hobbit quickly sensing his Lord was suddenly in a bad mood gave a short bow and hurried out the door.
Was it something I said?
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Meanwhile, Denethor was silently promising to himself that he will never ask THAT hobbit to sing for him again, EVER!
I know a song that gets on everyb- GRRRR! THAT song is stuck in my head! ARGGGGGG!
With a glare that could have killed anybody on the spot and buried them 200 feet under, Denethor glared at the direction Pippin had gone.
His mind disobeying his orders for it to stop replaying the songs over and over again was distracted the rest of the day, leaving him ill equipt to listen to reason and making wise decision in the face of the Enemy.
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AN: Yeah, I know, another Pippin chapter so soon. Sorry, the idea suddenly popped into my head for an alternate reason why Denethor was so unreasonable and irritable to Gandalf. Hehehehe… thanks for all the reviews. Had a nice week?