Midnight, Minas Tirith

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Title: Midnight, Minas Tirith
Author: rubynye
Word Count: 100
Characters/Work: Frodo, Merry, Pippin
Adult Content/Pairing: In the eye of the beholder. No explicit adult content.
Disclaimer: This is a benign avocational fiction.


When Pippin's breathing had faded to gentle snores, Merry opened his eyes. With Frodo and Pippin snuggled on either side, Merry could gently run his fingers through their curls and over their scars, could watch them twitch and stir in their sleep rather than lying nearly still as death, could believe they had all survived their year's adventures. In the silence while everyone slept, his arm curved round Frodo and face pressed to Pippin's hair, Merry could shed a few tears of pure joy that he wasn't going home alone.

Frodo shifted, leaned forward, kissed the tears off Merry's cheek.

Comments

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Lovely, quiet moment with the hobbits. The mention of scars, and the evocation of permanent change, is particularly good... It calls to mind Tolkien's mention of Merry's scar, which he has with him for the rest of his life. An odd, but fitting memento.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*nod* Scars are souveniers, in a way. I was thinking about that, and about Merry wondering if he'd be the only one going home, and out this came.

Thank you. :)