Ruby Red Blood

by gingerdaywalker

Ruby and Dillon are twins that have never met, but fate brings them both to Middle Earth. The become wizards apprentices and set in motion events that will have to be rekoned with. Not your normal Girl in ME fic! Please Review.

1. Chapter 1

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A/N: It's so exciting to be posting here now. I have lurked on this site for a long time and now I am finally adding something. Please Review and tell me what you think. This is just the intro, the real story will be up shortly. Oh and I don't own any of Tolkien's characters.

The high way was slick and rain covered. Ruby Jemirana peered through the windshield trying to get a glimpse of the road she was trying to drive on. The headlights played with the droplets of rain, the only source of light for miles around. The only sound that could be heard in the car was the monotonous drone of the wheels and the soundtrack to The Fellowship of the Ring.

Ruby tiredly pushed her dark red hair off of her face. Her emerald eyes were full of exhaustion, and yet the sparkling light of excitement glowed behind them. After all of these years, she was finally going to meet her sister. There father had left there mother shortly after she had found out she was pregnant. She turned to drinking soon after. The twins had been adopted to different families only a few weeks after their birth. Now, 19 years later, Ruby was going to get to meet her sister, Dillon Brown, again.

Her long fingers gripped the blue steering wheel tightly. She should have left earlier in the day, but things had happened. First her little brother had needed to go to the doctor because he had broken his knee while playing rugby. Then her tires needed air. It had been well into the day before she had started. Her blue Mini Cooper hummed down the highway as quickly as it could safely do so. The tall shadows of pine trees stood on either side, straight like sentinels keeping her safe. Danger lurked in between the rain soaked boughs.

As Ruby hummed along with the Even Star song, A pair of gleaming eyes slowly made their way out into the ditch. The song was reaching it's high point, and the girl closed her eyes for a brief second. That moment of poor vigilance was all it took. When she opened her eyes, a doe and her young fawn were standing in the middle of the road, not twenty feet from the speeding car. Ruby screamed and jerked the wheel all the way to the right, trying her best not to hit the deer. Unfortunately, she hit a slick spot and the car rolled. Once, twice, four times it rolled until its progress was halted by the trunk of one of the pines. Ruby was knocked out instantly.