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StarSpray ([personal profile] starspray) wrote in [community profile] b2mem2018-03-04 11:55 am

Favorite Walks, by StarSpray

B2MeM Prompt and Category: Daily: Aubade, Andante,  Affrettando
Format: triple drabble
Genre: gen, family
Rating: General
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Belladonna, Bungo, & Bilbo Baggins
Pairings: n/a
Summary: Bilbo gets his love of walks from his parents.


Bungo grumbled at the notion of rising before the sun had burned the mists off the Water and the dew from the grass, but Belladonna loved to rise with the sun, to fling open the windows to let in the fresh breeze and birdsong. Bilbo, too, rose easily in the morning, springing out of bed and humming as he carefully brushed the hair on his feet.

And when Belladonna told him where they were walking that day—out to the Woody End, where, if you were very lucky, you might hear Elves singing—his face lit up like the sunrise.

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Bilbo loved to tramp across the Shire with his parents. They sang old favorite walking songs, or made up new words to tunes older than memory. On this day, Bungo had business in Hobbiton, so it was only Belladonna and Bilbo who went walking up to the Woody End to look for Elves. They found none, but they did find a patch of mushrooms, which they gathered to take home for supper.

On the way home they cut across country. “It’s more fun this way,” Belladonna said, and stopped to point out a pair of baby rabbits beneath a hedge.

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Just in time for dinner, Bungo hurried home. In the entrance hall, he shrugged out of his jacket, and called to Bilbo. “Look what old Mr. Boffin gave me today!” He unrolled a large, beautifully illustrated map of the Shire, with all its roads and paths laid out nice and neatly. “I thought we could hang it up here, in the hall, and you can mark all the best walking paths. In red, of course, to make it official!” Delighted, Bilbo ran to fetch a bottle of ink.

They marked three different routes before Belladonna called them to the table.

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[personal profile] zdenka 2018-03-04 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
This is charming! And I like how you used the prompts.
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[personal profile] kayleearafinwiel 2018-03-04 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
So adorable and sweet! I love it :) Belladonna stopping to look at rabbits just made me giggle for some reason. And I love the map, very properly marked in red ink!
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[personal profile] elwendell 2018-03-04 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
What lovely, sweet, scenes. They sound like a very loving family.

The thought of little Bilbo carefully brushing his foothair just made my day.
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[personal profile] hhimring 2018-03-04 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, very nice!
I like that how you involve both of them, both Belladonna and Bungo, Belladonna with the canonical looking for Elves and the Woody End and Bungo with the map and the red ink.
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[personal profile] shirebound 2018-03-04 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
What a lovely gap filler! I rarely find stories about Bilbo and his parents, especially such a joyous one.

[personal profile] ex_mithrial116 2018-03-06 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Great prompts and great drabbles. :D
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[personal profile] independence1776 2018-03-08 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
This is adorable!