This is only my second story on fan fiction and my first Lord of the Rings one. So far, ive only got the first chapter thing written up fully but a few other key events have been noted.

Disclaimer: I do not own Lord of the rings or any of its things. They belong to JRR Tolkien. I do however own Lily, Dina and Missy.

ENJOY !

Watching the foals galloping around the pasture, Lilithia O'Ryan could almost imagine that the world was perfect and her life was whole. Unfortunately, today marked the anniversary of the day her life changed forever and her world fell apart.

She was 18 when the Commander General of the Irish army came to her and told her that her father had been killed on deployment in Libya. Lily kept the letter from the government telling her that they were sorry for her loss but that they had to inform her that, sadly, her fathers' comrades could not find his body to return home for burial. To her it was pointless political jargon that would do nothing to lessen the blow of losing the man who single-handedly raised her from a baby, a man whom she called her father for as far back as she could remember. In front of everybody else, she tried to put on a brave face but her resolve crumbled in the face of her then boyfriend, Jason Taylor. At the time, he had seemed perfect; smart, handsome, well-mannered; in short, every girls dream man. But that day, her ideal man turned into nothing more than a nuisance. The pressure he put on her to take things further in their relationship was getting to her, especially as that day he seemed to raise the bar even further, telling her that he could make her feel better really started to get to her and so Lily just couldn't cope. To say that Jason was upset by the break-up would have been an understatement but when he stormed out of her apartment, she thought he would have calmed down enough by morning to talk it through. When he did return however, he didn't talk. He simply attacked her with a knife as she woke up and dragged her from her bed, where he proceeded to rape her, only then speaking so he could ridicule her and say how it was her fault he was doing this, that if it wasn't for her it wouldn't be happening this way. When he was finished, having gotten what he wanted, he simply stood to his feet and walked away, leaving her bleeding from the stab wound in her abdomen and the various cuts along her arms and thighs, merely done for his sick, sadistic pleasure. It was only because her friends were worried about their unanswered calls that Lily didn't die on her bedroom floor that night.

Shaking herself of her memories, Lily found her vision obscured by two brown, soulful eyes staring at her from the black and white face of her beloved stallion Orion. Having had him since he was born, Lily felt she could confide in him since he had been by her side through the thick of it. Wiping the tears from her own eyes, as he flopped to the ground beside her, Lily rested her head on his back and sighed.

"Two years baby boy. Two years since all my hopes and aspirations were stolen. Two years since I lost everything… 'cept you". Lily's voice cracked on her last word and it was there her friends Missy and Dina found her. Dismounting, they went to were Orin lay, only to find Lily asleep, her hands fisted in her stallion's mane. The tracks of un-dried tears on her face made it clear she had cried herself to sleep. Dina looked to Missy for advice.

"Should we wake her?"

"Best just leave her. The memories will be hard to deal with during the day. She can dream of a family much easier when she's asleep."

Suddenly a loud crack wrent through the air startling the horses and causing Lily to jolt awake. Unfortunately for the girls, the sudden noise caused the horses to rear, and unable to move, for fear of the mystery storm, the girls were knocked unconscious by their mounts' flailing hooves.

The last thing Lily remembered was the face of a young man, in almost Medieval style armour, astride a gorgeous, dapple grey stallion of his own, accompanied by the message from her dream, before blackness overtook her and she knew no more.

"In one's dreams, anything is possible"

There you go. I'm not sure how the next chapter will go but I'll figure it out.

Reviews would help that process go a little bit faster though. *hint hint*

Laters :D