A/N Last chapter...it feels a little sad. Excuse me about the (very) short
length of it, but it's final. Not much left. And I don't think there'll be
a sequel although if many people beg for it I might take the time. And I'm
about to write a new story, teaser in the end of this chappie.
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'Stop!' Merry slowly dared to open his eyes as he stood, bent with his arms covering his head. He saw Paladin holding the metal stick and two policemen holding Saradoc's hands from behind. Estella ran up to him and hugged him tightly.
'Oh Merry,' she sobbed. 'It's finally over.' Merry pulled away and looked into her eyes.
'No,' he said. 'No, it's not.' Estella looked very puzzled, so he continued. 'I'm sure I'm not the only one and we have to make sure this will not happen again to any child.' Estella nodded.
'You're right,' she said. 'No more stories only walls can tell.'
The End.
A/N How sad. And now for...the alternative ending! And everyone should thank Oumpa-Loumpa for the fact that this ending isn't *the* ending. In this one, Estella never found Merry in the forest, so chapter 8 should have started with the funeral. In fact, when I wrote chapter 7, (you know the one where Merry runs away in the woods) my intention was that he was dead. Then I changed my mind, but back to the alternative ending. The funeral should have been and the ending, which I wrote a long time ago not to forget it is:
//Bright eyes//
Estella kneeled beside the water, tears silently running down her face as she cupped it in her hands
//Burning like fire//
She took a few steps out in the lake, and then lowered herself down.
//Bright eyes//
She started to swim, remembering when he had taught her, and how happy she had been back then.
//How could you close and fail?//
When she had reached the centre of the lake, she stopped and sank down in the dark water.
//How can the light that burned so brightly, suddenly burn so pale?//
She turned her face toward the surface and saw the last flicker of sunlight before her vision blurred and all went black.
//Bright eyes//
Songfic of one of my favourite songs (Bright eyes by Simon and Garfunkel)...and then she would come to an afterlife where she met Merry again! So what ending did you like best?
//Natta
P.S. Oh, and I almost forgot! A lil' summary of my next story. It is called "Walking on the twilight side of the hill" and is about a friend of Merry and Pippin, Pearl Brownlock, who has very serious problems about herself. This will be a very dark and psychological story, and I'm in desperate need of a Beta who answers mail often. (since it's irritating to sit and wait for too long and the chapters never returns.) And that's all from this story. I'll miss it. D.S.
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'Stop!' Merry slowly dared to open his eyes as he stood, bent with his arms covering his head. He saw Paladin holding the metal stick and two policemen holding Saradoc's hands from behind. Estella ran up to him and hugged him tightly.
'Oh Merry,' she sobbed. 'It's finally over.' Merry pulled away and looked into her eyes.
'No,' he said. 'No, it's not.' Estella looked very puzzled, so he continued. 'I'm sure I'm not the only one and we have to make sure this will not happen again to any child.' Estella nodded.
'You're right,' she said. 'No more stories only walls can tell.'
The End.
A/N How sad. And now for...the alternative ending! And everyone should thank Oumpa-Loumpa for the fact that this ending isn't *the* ending. In this one, Estella never found Merry in the forest, so chapter 8 should have started with the funeral. In fact, when I wrote chapter 7, (you know the one where Merry runs away in the woods) my intention was that he was dead. Then I changed my mind, but back to the alternative ending. The funeral should have been and the ending, which I wrote a long time ago not to forget it is:
//Bright eyes//
Estella kneeled beside the water, tears silently running down her face as she cupped it in her hands
//Burning like fire//
She took a few steps out in the lake, and then lowered herself down.
//Bright eyes//
She started to swim, remembering when he had taught her, and how happy she had been back then.
//How could you close and fail?//
When she had reached the centre of the lake, she stopped and sank down in the dark water.
//How can the light that burned so brightly, suddenly burn so pale?//
She turned her face toward the surface and saw the last flicker of sunlight before her vision blurred and all went black.
//Bright eyes//
Songfic of one of my favourite songs (Bright eyes by Simon and Garfunkel)...and then she would come to an afterlife where she met Merry again! So what ending did you like best?
//Natta
P.S. Oh, and I almost forgot! A lil' summary of my next story. It is called "Walking on the twilight side of the hill" and is about a friend of Merry and Pippin, Pearl Brownlock, who has very serious problems about herself. This will be a very dark and psychological story, and I'm in desperate need of a Beta who answers mail often. (since it's irritating to sit and wait for too long and the chapters never returns.) And that's all from this story. I'll miss it. D.S.