b2mem | Importuned - by Larner (Reply)

B2MeM Challenge: 2009 Cue 18: Future or current leader grinning as someone wakes.
Format: drabble
Genre: general
Rating: PG
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Aragorn, Merry
Pairings: n/a
Summary: Relief may bring joy, but also sometimes reproving words.

Importuned

Bless Hobbits! What would this world be like without them? Most likely far too solemn, I suspect. Here Merry lies, newly wakened from the Black Breath, and he’s already thinking of smoking and expecting me to provide him with pipe and weed! The dear fellow!

Ah, I am so weary, but I sincerely doubt I shall be allowed to rest any time soon, not with so many lying under the same malady. Curse Sauron and his Rings! Oh, Merry, you dear, brave lad—what you have accomplished! But if you want pipeweed, I am not your man!

“Íf you think….”