WHO: Sam Gamgee and Navi WHAT: After leaving the Baggins' Sam goes to see Navi WHEN: Backdated: Friday, April 26th. Late Afternoon WHERE: Deku's RATING: Low STATUS: Complete
After leaving the Baggins’ house, Sam headed over to Navi’s nursery. He had the pictures of the spot Mrs. Baggins wanted him to landscape on his camera and while he had a few ideas, he thought that if anyone would be able to give him more ideas it was Navi. She seemed to always know exactly what flowers and plants would look good in any one place and he trusted her opinion. Pulling his truck into the lot outside the nursery, he parked and went inside, stopping to look at a couple pots near the front before heading towards the counter area where there was a customer, which meant Navi was more than likely there as well.
Navi was, chatting with them to make sure they found whatever they needed. But then she saw Sam, excused herself, and went over to glomp him. “Hey, you!”
“Hey!” Sam smiled as Navi came towards him, “How’re you doing? You sure you don’t need to be helping the customers? Get them to spend as much money as possible.” Sam’s smile turned to a grin. He always enjoyed coming into the nursery and not just because of the plants, but because seeing Navi always brightened his day even when he wasn’t having a bad one.
“Oh, I always try to save people money, you know that.” She couldn’t hug him as tightly as she wanted, if only because of the baby bump. She giggled when he grinned, bouncing onto the balls of her feet. “I’m glad you’re here!”
Sam nodded and hugged her back, “I know.” Pulling back, he glanced down at her stomach, “So, how’s the little sprout?” He’d known Navi long enough that he was just as excited to meet her baby as she was. After having just seen Mrs. Baggins, who was almost ready to pop, Sam tried to image Navi at eight months and was sure that she’d still be bouncing around like she was now, “Why, do you have something new to show me?”
“Oh, she’s good! And nope, I just like seeing you!” Navi ruffled his hair, chuckling to herself. “Do I have to have reasons to want to see my friends?”
“Nope. Just wanting to see them is a good enough reason,” Sam laughed as she ruffled his hair, “Hey. Don’t mess with the hair.” Sam’s curly mop as already unruly enough as it was. It didn’t need Navi’s help. “So, I’ve got some pictures for you to take a look at. I want your opinion on this new job.”
She liked his hair! And she liked pictures of his work. “Oooh,” she nodded. “Come on back to the office, I’ll make tea and we’ll look and figure things out.”
“I could go for some tea.” Sam didn’t know any other guys his age who actually drank tea, but he enjoyed it. It soothed him. Yeah, Sam wasn’t really your typical twenty something guy. “Lead the way.”
Bouncing along (because that was the only way Navi travelled, really), Navi guided him to her office where she started up the kettle and heaped tea into a pot. “So, pictures!” “Right.” Sam reached into his pocket and pulled out his digital camera. He turned it on and flipped back to the first picture, which was of the Hobbit Hole structure in the Baggins’ backyard. It was sunk into the ground with a round door and quite a bit of dirt surrounding it. “So, they have this built in their backyard. They call it Bag End. The wife wants lots of plants and flowers and green.”
Navi’s eyes went wide. “Oh, pretty! I can see it with lots of daisies and black eyed susans and ivy rioting wild, can’t you?”
Sam nodded, “I was thinking of the daisies too. Ivy would be really nice. I hadn’t thought of the black eyed susans though.” Sam advanced through the pictures, which were all basically Bag End from different angles, anywhere that plants could be placed. “I don’t know what they’re gonna use it for, but it’s pretty interesting. Have you ever seen anything like it before?”
Navi shook her head. “Never, but it’s beautiful.” It looked like something out of a fantasy movie. “I kind of want to live in it.”
Sam laughed and turned off the camera once they’d reached the last picture and pocketed it, “Why am I not surprised?” Honestly though, he could see Navi living in something like that for some reason. “It needs a lot of grass. Think I should seed it or roll it out?”
“Seed! Rolling it out will look good right away, but it’ll look less good next year.” Navi beamed at him, moving to get the kettle when it whistled.
“Good idea.” Sam didn’t know why, but he wanted this job to go perfect. Sure, he always did his best to make sure that every lawn and garden and what not were perfect, but he felt a stronger need for this particular job to go perfectly. “So, what’s new with you?”
“Oh, nothing really, just learning how to cope with heartburn. Babies apparently push everything up and out of you. Greedy abdomen hogs.” She giggled, pouring hot water into the teapot and letting it steep.
“I’ll never understand all that pregnancy stuff.” Sam said, watching as Navi got the tea ready, “Guess it’s a good thing I’m a guy.” He smirked over at her, “In all seriousness though, I hope the heartburn isn’t too bad.”
“Oh, no, I’m using tea to deal with it.” Navi smiled and shook her head. “Someday you might get a lady pregnant, and you’ll be sweet with it.” She squeezed his hand, beaming at him.
“Well I’m hoping that doesn’t happen for awhile.” It wasn’t that Sam didn’t want kids, because he did, but not at this point in his life. He was still young and was enjoying the freedom he had when he wasn’t working. “Kids can wait for awhile.” He smirked back and squeezed her hand in return.
She nodded, leaning against him, liking that from the word go, they’d had a very brother/sister like relationship. She always felt awkward when she hugged guys who liked her romantically. Navi was very happy with her husband. “Yup, you’ve got all the time in the world for little ones. But you get to practice with the tadpole when she’s born!”
“I’m looking forward to it.” Navi was so easy to get along with that Sam couldn’t imagine them not being friends, “And how’s your husband with the whole impending fatherhood thing?” He knew a lot of guys could get pretty freaked out when their wives were pregnant.
“Oh, he’s already planning the next ten little ones.” Navi laughed. “He loves it. He talks to the baby, he’s the first one to tell me what foods I should be eating - I think he’d carry one if he could.”
“Ten more?” Sam’s brow rose and he laughed as well, “Good luck with that. That might drive you crazy.”
“Oh, I think he’ll have his full at about three. Let him dream a while longer,” Navi giggled.
Sam laughed, shaking his head, “Three sounds like a good number. You could get one of each and an extra,” He teased. Of course he knew that it didn’t always work like that, but he didn’t need to be all scientific or whatever when he was teasing.
“That’s what I figured!” Navi cheerfully poured them tea, putting honey into hers and humming to herself. “I’m the practical one, he’s the one who wants a child footy team.”
“Don’t all fathers want their own sports teams?” Sam laughed, adding honey to his own tea. “Then again, it all depends on what sport they want them to play.” That could equal either a lot of kids or a few kids.
“He wants a football - er. Soccer team.” Navi rolled her eyes. “Waaaay too many.”
“Oh yeah. Pretty sure even you’d start rocking back and forth in a corner with that many.” He grinned and took a sip of his tea. Catching up with Navi was always fun, partly because it always wound up giving him the most interesting mental images and he loved it.
“It’d be like Mido all over again.” Navi wrinkled her nose. She was thinking of the boy in her dreams that was annoying and bossy. He’d been a handful.
“And the last thing I need is for you to start rocking back and forth in a corner, because then I’ll have to find another nursery.” Sam smirked and took another sip of his tea. He was going to ask about Mido, but the look on her face deterred him. “So promise me not to have so many kids that you’ll go crazy.”
“I’m already plenty crazy,” she grinned, shaking her head. “Promise, I’ll have a normal number of children.”
“Okay, can’t argue with that.” Sam laughed, grinning back.