A/N Okay so this is one of those Mary-sues where a girl who is of the early 1800's England somehow gets transported to Middle Earth and she eventually falls in love with Legolas, so if you hate those stories then stop here because you wont like it. Hey! But if you do! Kudos to you! Because I love those stories! If you hate Mary-sues, don't say you weren't warned and I will ignore those flames saying how Mary-sues suck. Having said that… I hope you like my story and polite criticism is welcomed… but please, don't just flame for the sake of flaming… please say something constructive! Enjoy!
Oh! And this takes place before the fellowship.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything that is anyone else's,
I do however own the plot so there!
A Horrible Life
PROLOGUE
Beth was of a poor family. She was a hard working girl of 18 still living with her Father, (mother died a few years back), unmarried. She did the best she could to bring her father money, but her efforts were not good enough, so her father beat her… "BETH! You hid the wages," here father would say… so he would pull out his belt and whip her with it, sometimes she would do something wrong, and he would hit her. She had bruises all over, but she never blamed her father… "He does the best he can, works all day, I just get in his way sometimes" she would think. Still she would do her chores on their small farm and worked all day to live and help her family live. She never had much of anything… and certainly wouldn't get the best of anything so she settled with what she had. She enjoyed one thing in her hard life, and it was living next to a forest where she could hear the rustle of the trees, and go for small walks not too far from the farm but just enough to get away from her life for a short while.
"Shu… Shu… Shu aroon," Beth sang (an Irish love song) while she was milking the cows.
"Beth!" her father yelled for her in an angry yell.
"Yes father!" she yelled in return
"Come here right now!" he yelled once more.
She went to him reluctantly. Very slowly she walked from the door way to see her father in an angry mood.
"Where is last week's pay!" he yelled.
She said in fear, "Father! The employer gave it to you, you must have misplaced it."
"YOU'RE HIDING IT AGAIN AREN'T YOU!" he yelled.
"N-n-no father... I sw-.." she was cut short.
"GIVE IT TO ME!" he ran to her but she was too quick for him.
"I don't want to be hit today, or any more!" she thought as she kept running… she ran out of the house to her beloved forest, deeper and deeper, and climbed a tree and waited until she could not hear anymore of her father's footsteps.
"Beth!" Her father called in the distance, "Beth... Fine! You're not worth anything to me anyways… stay here for all I care! He gave up and left for his farm.
"Goodbye Father." she said crying. "I guess I shall find a new place to live," she thought. She started to climb down the tree, but just then she slipped off of a lower branch and fell onto the ground landing on her ankle and breaking it. She groaned for a few moments, in such pain wondering what she should do. She put her head up and looked around teary-eyed and noticed that she didn't know where she was. Beth's fear grew and grew as the darkness came upon her. She tried to stand up, but when she gave it a try she fell down in agony. "Just calm down," she said to herself, "The sun has not hidden all the way" She quieted herself and thought of a possible solution. Just then she heard a crack of a twig and became more frightened, and she heard strange sounds… nothing she had ever heard before, then she saw the ugliest thing she had ever seen.
"H-hello?" she said, she was very scared.
"He he he" she heard back. It was coming at her with an ax. Helpless she was and the only thing that she could do was scream.
"AHHHH!" she screamed. It was no more than a couple of yards in front of her before it fell down dead, with an arrow in its heart. She was shivering, and her arms were out protecting her and hiding her. She heard footsteps coming towards her.
"Who are you?" what seemed to be man's voice demanded. She uncovered herself from her arms, and looked up.
"M-my name is Beth," she said still very frightened.
"Get up," he said. She tried once more as to not be embarrassed by her leg, but was unsuccessful; she fell down and screamed in agony yet again.
"I can't," she said sobbing. He ran closer to her to see what was wrong and saw that she was holding her ankle. "Let me see," he said in a kinder voice. She moved her hands reluctantly.
"It's my ankle sir," she said crying still, and shaking non-stop. Her ankle was the size of a grapefruit. She felt him touch it and examine it.
He moved her foot and she once again screamed with pain.
"Yes, I think it is broken. Can you move it at all?"
She didn't reply… she was in shock.
"Beth?... Beth? He said concerned. "I must get you into town for medical attention at once!" He whistled for his horse and picked her up feeling her shake profusely, gently he set her on the horse holding onto her so that she wouldn't fall and hopped on. He rendezvoused with two other elves and rode off with them as fast as he could to their home of Mirkwood. They arrived, he jumped off of his horse while the other two did the same but they ran for help.
He gently grabbed her from the horse and set her on the ground and tried to snap her out of shock. Just then the two elves came back with a blanket and a nurse elf. He wrapped the blanket around her and carried her into the House of Healing and set her on a bed there.
"Her name is Beth," he said.
The nurse said, "Beth? Beth dear."
Beth looked at her and snapped out of it. She asked frightened, "Where am I?"
"You are in Mirkwood," the nurse replied. "I am Alasse."
"And who are you?" she asked the man who saved her from the orc.
"I am Legolas, where are you from, Beth?" he replied.
"I am from Lincolnshire; I live on a farm with my father… Mirkwood? Where am I?" she asked.
"Where is Lincolnshire?" he asked very confused.
"It's AHHH!" she screamed again.
"What is it?" Legolas asked alarmed.
"My ankle!" she said. Alasse was putting it in a splint and had almost finished.
"There," said Alasse, "it should heal in a few days… take this it will stop the pain." She gave her a drink of something that tasted bad… but it was better than feeling the pain. "…and take this, it will heal faster." She said and handed it to her. She drank it and lay back down.
"Thank you Alasse," Beth said as she left the room.
"You're welcome dear," she said and left. Her pain began to lessen and she was able to be more comforted.
"It's in England," she said to Legolas who was watching the elf nurse walk out.
He turned and said, "What?"
"Lincolnshire is in England," she said once again.
"Oh… What is England?" he asked very confused.
"Where is Mirkwood?" She asked just as confused.
"It is the woodland realm of the elves, in Middle Earth," he replied
"Middle Earth? Aren't I still in England?" she replied.
"No, what or where ever England is, you are not there anymore." He said.
"Elves?" she said once again confused, then she fainted,
"Beth?" Legolas said worried. No reply, he checked her pulse and found that she was resting; he let her be and headed out and shut the door behind him. He head for his father's chambers and needed to speak with him.
"Father?" he said.
"Yes, Son?" He said
"I found a strange woman in the forest, she was injured, and I ran her to The house of healing. She spoke of strange things, father, of England and Lincolnshire… Father, I don't suppose that she knows where she is."
"I have heard of past incidents where our world merges with another for a short while, she may be telling the truth son!" he said, "Let me see her! She may be telling the truth, yes, but she might also be a spy for Sauron"
"No father! She is resting, I will ask Alasse to retrieve you when she awakes." Legolas insisted.
"Alright son," he said, "I must speak with her though, do not delay."
"Of course Father," Legolas bowed his head and left the room.
"Another world?" Legolas said softly to himself.
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