I wrote this fic many years ago. I think it was before the movie even came out, not sure. But, it's the prelude to "Pirates In The Pantry," a story my friend Pyraterose worked on a long time ago, too. My friend put in ideas, I wrote everything out, and I just found the notebook it was in (along with some other fics I hope to post soon...). So, because some of it is pretty funny, I am going to post it and hope for the best! This is far from being my best work!

Elves in the Shower

Chapter One

It all began one day, like most things do. It was a simple day, the sun shinning, the birds waking everyone with their gossip. Alicia and I had a sleepover at her house. Being that her family and mine were out of town, what better reason to stay at her house for a week?

Anyhow, something happened that I could only have imagined. This is how my best friend, Alicia, and I spent a week playing host to the beings of Middle Earth.

"Do you want to shower first, or should I?" Alicia muttered, half awake and struggling to untangle herself from the covers.

"You can," I answered, watching Alicia manage to fall out of the bed. "But don't use all the hot water."

Several minutes later, as I was getting ready for my own shower, Alicia burst into the room, running into the door first, then tripping as she screamed: "ELF!"

"What?"

Alicia straightened up, clutched her towel tighter, put on a calm face and replied, "There are elves in the shower."

"An elf in the shower?" I replied skeptically. "You had-"

"No, not an elf. Elves. Meaning more than one."
"Alicia, there is nothing in the bathroom."

"Yes, there is."

Still calm, Alicia picked up the nearest stuffed animal (a large moose) and quietly walked to the bathroom. Convinced Alicia had either found the sugar or gone insane, followed.

"Alicia, what's with the moose?"

"Protection."

"From what? The evil bar of soap?"

"No, from the elves."

Both of us, in towels and half awake, crept into the bathroom. The last thing I remember thinking was: "This was not a funny joke."

Alicia whipped the curtain back from the shower. There stood three people, well, characters, that we had loved from The Lord of the Rings.

Now, if I wasn't so freaked, I would have thought that three crazy people, dressed in rental costumes, had broke into the house just to hide in the shower. But, no. We were not that lucky. Elrond, Galadriel and Legolas stood there behind Alicia's silver sparkle shower curtain.

Nearly dropping my towel and remembering just in time that I was not dressed, I fled from the room, screaming. Alicia followed. Stopping in the hallway, I panted, "What next? Gandalf in the living room? Hobbits in the kitchen?"

Crash.

"I think so..." Alicia replied, still in a daze. Then, suddenly snapping out of it, she yelled, "The china!"

"What is this confounded contraption?" came a grizzled voice from the living room. Peeking over the banister, we saw Gandalf hit the television with his staff, leaving a large dent in the top. Gimli was laying on the couch, Alicia's dog, Oz, licking the top of the dwarf's large nose.

I screamed again, grabbed Alicia's hand, and fled to the closet. In the dark, we sat there, choking on the smell of old shoes.

"So," I said, trying to calm myself. "We have Gandalf hitting the TV, Gimli sleeping on the couch, Hobbits in the kitchen, and elves in the shower. Correct?"

"Um, is that your hand on my foot?" asked Alicia, "Because I feel something cold on my ankle."

"When was the last time you cleaned your shoes?" I asked at the same time. "They smell awful!"

"My precious..." crooned a voice in between us.

As I screamed, Alicia started whacking Gollum's hand on her foot and we fled again, this time to the room we started in. Boromir and Aragorn were there to greet us, however, Aragorn bouncing upon our bed and Boromir digging through the suitcase I had brought, wiping his nose on my favorite shirt.

And that is how Alicia and I ran out of the house and stood in the yard like fools in our towels, waking the whole town with my screams.

That was the first chapter. I don't own The Lord of the Rings or anything associated with it. So, all the characters and Middle Earth things are not mine. I am just writing about them. Excuse me if I have made some spelling mistakes on the character's names. This is my only LOTR fan fic, so I don't write them down very often! Please review! I love reviews! This story is mostly to work on my humor, anyway... Thanks very much!