Title: Now I Lay Me Down...
Author: Daffodil Bolger

Pairing: Frodo/Merry/Pippin
Rating: PG

Summary: Merry observes

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NOW I LAY ME DOWN...

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Smooth now, the brow. Soot-black lashes, soft and still over the pale rise of fine-boned cheeks. Firelight lends honeyed-amber to skin twice-pallid by light of Sun. Muted auburn weaves warm and soft through raven curls. Merry chases the light with feather-light touches of fingertips.

“Why do you watch him so?” Pippin whispers softly from behind.

Merry doesn’t turn but smiles, watches the rise and fall of Frodo’s chest and counts each blessed breath.

“Because, when he sleeps,” he answers, “there’s no room for pain.” A fingertip traces tenderly over the plane of a frownless brow. “And there is no goodbye in his eyes.”
 

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