Traveling with Idiots

by Aille

Mistress Iris Baggins, head of the Baggins Clan. A respectable Mistress, with a slight streak of danger. Finds herself with a house full of darrow, an idiot she's going to teach a lesson to and her father who never knew she existed. Well, they were going to find this Hobbit wasn't a pushover and that their pig headed idiot leader may just someday speak without his foot in mouth

3. Her Growth

Chapter Three

After the Fell Winter, Iris and her papa did everything they could to seem normal. To be proper, her uncle couldn't visit as often as he once had, which saddened her, she missed her first breakfast with him in the morning. Though he was there for some of them, so papa was still happy most days.

Papa at least still told her everything he knew about her father. Though it wasn't much, as he'd never met the dwarf in question, he could tell her that her mother loved him very much and never gave up that he'd come for her someday. They made plans that when she came of age, they would go on their own adventure and find him, if only to find out why he never came.

Until that time, Iris would have to hide her heritage from the rest of the Hobbits. To make sure that she grew up respectably, her papa married her mother to keep them both safe. He showed her how to hide the amount she ate, so that everyone thought she still ate all seven of the daily meals. As she grew into her tweens, she found that she wasn't as hungry as her playmates. She also found that she just didn't feel the same way about her age mates; where she still wanted to play fauntling games, they were starting to pair off into couples. Though she took to cooking and gardening like any other hobbit, she also had an eye for shiny stones. She kept a small collection in the cellar where other hobbits wouldn't find them.

Her papa taught her how to be a respectable hobbit, with all the Baggins traits She knew her math, to both read and write (something most didn't bother to learn), and how to manage the lands and properties that the family owned and cared for. Baggins were gentle hobbits, and usually not adventurous at all. She knew that her papa wasn't looking forward to leaving his home, but would do it for her.

Which was why she loved her Papa and why she was devastated when he passed just before her thirty-third birthday. In a fit of anger to her father, and loyalty to her papa, she decided to stay in the Shire, if he hadn't wanted to come for her mama, why would he want her anyway?

Since no one knew she was anything but, she took over as Head of the Baggins family, as her papa had trained her to do. Acting as a proper Hobbit was to do.