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Title: Three's Company (#4282)
Author: NancyBrooke
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: The Hobbit
Description: Rosie in the dark. 150 words, so not a proper drabble.
Published: 25 Sep 2010
Updated: 25 Sep 2010
Warnings:
Type: Angst
Characters: Rosie Cotton; Sam Gamgee; Frodo Baggins


Chapter 1 - Three's Company

Sometimes she wondered, Rosie did, just what had happened to Sam in the Time Away. Most of what she’d heard she’d heard him deny, as Sam sputtered ‘Oh, no, Mr. Frodo’ whenever Frodo gently claimed Sam the author of all their good fortune, that without Sam to fight for him, Frodo never would have made it to the Mountain of Fire, let alone back again to the Shire, to Bag End.

And Rosie couldn’t help it, though she hid it, that little twinge of jealousy. It had never been her he’d been fighting for.

But then, on those dark nights when she woke as Sam nestled himself into bed beside her, back from settling some neighbor’s squabble or answering the call that some last ruffian had been found hiding in a hedgerow, she knew: she knew no matter what had made him leave, it was her he came home to.
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