Title: How Does It Feel (Prologue/?)

Author: palephoenix [formerly celeb-gilgalad] (palephoenix(underscore)6(at)yahoo.ca)

Author's Note: Yes, I am back... Just have a new pen name... This story was removed a week and a half ago for reasons I cannot comprehend (the reasons stated in the e-mail I was sent made no sense whatsoever)... But anyway... It's back up now.

Genre: LOTR FP-het

Pairing: Legolas/OFC

Rating: PG for now...

Warning: Mary Sue... I'm in a Mary Sue mood... if ya don't like it, don't read it!

Archive: My site if I ever get it done...

Disclaimer: Not for profit, purely for entertainment purposes. The characters belong to Tolkien and the actors belong to themselves. I'm just borrowing them. I don't know the actors; if I did I wouldn't be writing this... I'd be keeping Orlando in my bed for the next five years.

Feedback: pretty please with Orlando on top???

Notes: Eilish is pronounced 'eye-lish'... As far as I know it is the Irish version of Elizabeth... Lion's Gate General Hospital does indeed exist and is located in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada... It's the hospital where I was born. The lyrics in this chapter are taken from 'Don't Tell Me' and 'How Does It Feel' by Avril Lavigne from her new CD, 'Under My Skin'.

Summary: Labour and delivery nurse Eilish Bell is in a car accident and finds herself thrown into Middle Earth.

Prologue

I'm not afraid of anything

I just need to know that I can breathe

I don't need much of anything

But suddenly

I am small and the world is big

All around me is fast moving

Surrounded by so many things

But suddenly, suddenly

How does it feel to be

Different from me

Are we the same

How does it feel to be

Different from me

Are we the same

How does it feel

I am young and I am free

But I get tired and I get weak

I get lost and I can't sleep

But suddenly, suddenly

How does it feel to be

Different from me

Are we the same

How does it feel to be

Different from me

Are we the same

How does it feel

Would you comfort me

Would you cry with me

I am small and the world is big

But I'm not afraid of anything

How does it feel to be

Different from me

Are we the same

How does it feel to be

Different from me

Are we the same

How does it feel

How does it feel to be

Different from me

Are we the same

How does it feel to be

Different from me

Are we the same

How does it feel

How does it feel

How does it feel

You're different from me different

How does it feel

How does it feel

You're different from me different

How Does It Feel Avril Lavigne

"My god, what a day," Eilish Bell sighed wearily as she made her way through the staff parking lot at Lion's Gate General Hospital. The 23 year-old labour and delivery nurse was just coming off a rather chaotic 12 hour shift.

After pulling her car keys out of the pocket of her jeans, she paused beside her metallic black Corolla Sport and stretched her aching muscles. She sighed in relief as her back cracked audibly.

"Much better," she breathed as she hit the keyless entry on her key chain. She opened the driver's side door, slipped her backpack off her shoulder and tossed it onto the passenger seat, before sliding into the driver's seat. The black Toyota was her baby; the very first thing she'd bought herself when she became a registered nurse and got her job at Lion's Gate.

Eilish started the engine and carefully backed out of the parking space. After a moment the car left the underground, moving into the bright April morning. She turned on the radio, grinning when she heard the beginning of one of her favourite songs: 'Don't Tell Me' by Avril Lavigne. She sang along as she drove through the midmorning traffic.

"'You held my hand and walked me home, I know/Why you gave me that kiss/It was somethin' like this and made me go oh oh...'"

Eilish pulled into the left turn lane to leave Lonsdale Avenue and checked on coming traffic before beginning the turn onto East 4th St. Her attention on finding an oft elusive parking spot in front of her apartment, she didn't notice the silver Honda fly around the corner of 5th and Lonsdale until it slammed into the side of the Corolla.