Judgment
Chapter One
Gabriel looked around confusedly. The cascading waterfalls and beautiful trees took her breath away. She hadn't thought the stupid spell was going to work. She and Lisa laughingly gathered the various ingrediants for the spell. Then Gabriel or Gabby to her friends had said the words to the odd sort of chant they had gotten out of a book. Gabriel didn't understand why Lisa couldn't read the book and she could. To her it was as plain as English, to Lisa, a set of squiggly lines with accents stratigically placed to make it look more complicated. The point was they were in Middle-Earth. In Rivendell to be exact. They had wandered in a little tired about half an hour or so ago. Now they were completely lost for words inside the immense beauty of the Elven forest and sanctuary. They heard a figure approach them slowly but confidently.
"Hello little ones, what brings you to Rivendell?" said a tall elf. Like all the ones Gabby had seen he was fair and perpetually young looking. Grinning a little Gabby replied,
"Oh nothing just a little lost in the mammoth crock of land we've managed to land in." Lisa giggled like she hadn't heard a joke in months. Which I might add is impossible. Gabby never shuts up and is always spouting cynical and sarcastic quips. Elrond smiled and bade them to follow. They followed a little too trustingly for Elrond's taste. He was sure they wouldn't have lasted two days alone in the forest outside Rivendell. Joke was on him of course, Gabby and Lisa were far to agile to be caught by a single orc or troll. Elrond stopped in front of a large pool.
"Please wait while I bring witnesses to the Judgement." Elrond said lazily. Lisa looked at Gabby a little nervously. ~Why would we need witnesses?~ She worried. When he returned with a group of elves Gabby bowed and said something that Lisa didn't catch.
"Lisa! Pay attention! Um...this is my companion, Lisa of...uh...next door dorm room..." Gabby tried helplessly. The elves smiled and beckoned them to the waters edge where in Elrond scooped up some water in a glass pitcher. He approached Lisa slowly and spoke in Elven tongue very rapidly making Lisa sway with calmness. The water splashed down her head and front as she felt an immense pain in her feet and ears. She opened her eyes to find everyone else had grown several feet high and were all giggling at her appearence. "Not good." said Gabby with a grin. "Let me get this straight, we let you speak some jibberish and we turn into whatever we're supposed to be on Middle-Earth?" she asked sarcastically. Elrond nodded but before he could speak Lisa bolted in.
"You mean I am going to be a fricking hobbit!? That sucks!" She humphed and stomped away her large feet slapping the ground resulting in more laughing. Gabby couldn't stand up any longer. She rolled on the ground laughing with tears running down her cheeks.
"Your turn." Lisa reminded her icily. Gabby sat up and gulped. The water splashed on her head and down her front as the words quickened and flowed like bells around her. Suddenly her ears errupted in pain and she understood the strange words issuing from the Elven Lord's mouth;
Oh what grace is given me, let us see her true.
Oh Elbereth may her live her life through.
What is she to be I hope to find with water from the fairest brook,
She is so fair let me see, oh let me have just one look.
Gabby straightened her hair from her face and stood taller than she felt she should be. All the elves bowed before and spoke in successsion.
"You indeed were to be an elf fair one, you were meant to be I felt it!" shouted one.
"Maybe she is the lost princess of the Night Elves!" cried another. They continued to chatter rapidly before Elrond raised a hand boldly.
"Enough, I have a council to attend, Arwen, daughter, take the lady elf and hobbit and fit them with more accomodating clothing." With that he turned and gracefully glided out of sight. Lisa whined all the way up to the room they were shown about how lucky Gabby was.
"Me lucky?" asked Gabby, " I am already getting sick of this graceful beauty act. I feel like a goddarn Goddess." She pulled her jeans off and slumped onto the bed. A horse neighed outside. They quickly dressed in the clothes Arwen left them and scurried down the marble stairs. An old man with a pointed hat stood around four more hobbits, one man, one elf, and a dwarf. The dwarf grumbled about the jewels he was missing for a birthday party. The elf smacked him upside the head and told him he was being arrogent. The dwarf nodded and said he agreed. Gabby suddenly looked at Lisa very mischieviously. Lisa cocked one eyebrow as a high pitched voice reached their ears.
"Who are they? Well I know we aren't supposed to know everyone Merry but she looks out of place. Of course I feel out of place but I am sure if she is in the company of an elf she must belong here at least for today." A rather tall hobbit with green eyes and a Scottish (at least to the American girls) accent was staring openly at Lisa. Lisa whirled around her face red and sprinted away, Gabby stifling her laughter and following.
"You should ask him out." Gabby said with a smirk.
"Um, NO!" Lisa said with a roar. They both ended up laughing. Legolas heard the hobbits talking and looked over to the unlikely pair of friends. The Elf had long straight red hair. Down to her waist at least, it was behind her head. Her eyes sparkled and danced with one color after another. First a dark blue, then a light green, then the richest brown he had ever seen. The hobbit however had a pale complexion, odd for their race, they were usually rosy cheeked. Her long blonde hair rested just past her shoulders. Odder still, the hair was not in the least bit wavy. The hobbit looked absolutely stunned her blue eyes not giving away her feelings inside. Both the girls were thin and fair in their own ways. Legolas stealthily followed them out of the entrance hall where they were laughing as if a great joke had been presented.
"Okay, I'll do it then." said the elf girl. She started to walk away when the hobbit let out a shriek and leaped up and caught her legs in her hands almost hysterical. The elf laughed but then let out a scary scream.
"Ahh! Don't bite, jeezum crow Lisa, I wasn't really!" She laughed and turned her head quite suddenly in Legolas's direction. He was standing there in the open, clearly not eavesdropping but observing their playful conversation.
"May I join you my fair ladies?" he inquired with a grin. Lisa elbowed Gabby in the ribs with a enormous smirk. Gabby picked her up and blew a raspberry in her face before putting her down. Legolas noted this odd interaction with raised eyebrows. He sat cross legged before them without a second thought. They had a pleasent conversation about various things. Gabby kept steering the conversation toward the hobbit that had looked at Lisa. Lisa kept hitting Gabby on the leg and pouting when she did this.
"May I ask of your names?" Legolas asked with a smile.
"I am Gabriel. Please call me Gabby." Gabby said with a sort of ditzy grin.
"I'm Lisa." said the hobbit with a depressed look. She looked at her large feet and tried to cover them up. With out really looking, Gabby tore a piece of her dress off and handed it to Lisa. Lisa covered her feet in it and looked away. Gabby and Legolas both sat up very tall all of the sudden. Something had just snuck up on them behind the pillar. Gabby smirked and threw a look at Lisa then turned away and began to whistle "She Loves You" by the Beatles. Lisa hit her and blushed.
"You might as well shut up, Gabby, the lyrics dont' work anyway." she complained. Though she had turned red again Pippin realized they were aware of his presence. He slumped off to where the other hobbits were standing.
"Cheer up Pip!"cried Merry, " I'm sure once she sees your hobbit physique, she'll go nuts for you!" he laughed out. Everyone laughed but Pippin who sneered and walked away, down trodden. Meanwhile, Lisa was feelin out of place as Legolas begain a string of questions about this "Beatle" they talked about. She told Gabby she was taking a walk before jumping off the bench and scurrying away to the river. She was about to hurl a pebble into the river when a splash startled her a few feet to the left of her perch. Pippin sat, head in his arms, at intervals throwing pebbles into the river, not looking to where they were landing. She was about to leave when a squeek emitted from the forlorn creature. He had seen her and was surprised at her sudden appearence.
"Hullo, I'm Pippin!" he shouted quite chipper.
"Hi, I'm Lisa." she said nonchalantly. He cocked his head at the announcement of her name.
"Lee-SAH?" he repeated in dubious tone. He felt very odd then, like she couldn't have cared less if he had called her a toad. "Your pretty." he announced with a blush. Lisa grinned and said,
"Yeah, you're not so bad yourself." she almost didn't laugh when she saw the quizzical look on Pippin's face, but the cute way he stared at her she burst out with a steady stream of very genuine laughs. Her laughter was contagious, Pippin started to giggle when she laughed and soon was wiping tears from his face. They left for the feast in Bilbo's honor hand in hand.
"Bilbo? Poor kid, if he grew up where I did he would've had the crap kicked out of him all the time." Gabby said with a feisty grin on her face. Legolas approached her after the feast, with a look of question on his face. "Look I told you, electricity is way beyond you." she started when he simply pointed to a corner where Pippin was dancing with Lisa with a smile on his lips, to the gentle dinner music. Gabby couldn't supress the laughter for very long. Her shoulder shook as she fanned her face with an empty hand.
"A dance, lady Gabriel?" inquired a man's voice. She whirled around to find Arwen smiling as a tall man with a good deal of shaving to do held his hand out to her. She took it only to find this made Lisa giggle loudly in the corner. Gabby licked her lips and let out a loud whistle as Lisa hugged Pippin. She steered the man away so that what the dancers saw was Lisa in Pippin's arms. Lisa excused herself from Pippin for a moment to walk over to Gabby and kick her in the shin.
"I'm sorry I didn't catch your name." gabby said ignoring the pain in her leg. The man let out a loud laugh and told her his name was Aragorn, king of Gondor. "No! Oh my gosh! I can't believe I am dancing with a king." she stammered.
"Excuse me King Aragorn, may I cut in?" asked a pleasent voice. Legolas took her for a dance which was very slow and beautiful. At the end of it Gabby found her head resting on Legolas's shoulder, arms wrapped around him.
"A song from the land of our visitors!" yelled a rather old looking hobbit with a young but stressed looking hobbit standing by his side. Lisa gave Gabby a look that plainly said, "I won't sing for any amount of money." so Gabby approached Lord Elrond's table with a piece of paper on it. She handed it to him with a whisper, he nodded and handed the paper to the carpenter of Rivendell. The carpenter bowed and left. Gabby stepped up onto the singers podium before letting one of her favorite songs fly through the air.
"Well she looked all right by dawn's early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinking again
But daddy left the proof on her cheek
An' I was only eight years old that summer
and I only seemed to be in the way
So I took myself down to the fair in town on Independence Day
Well word gets around, in a small small town
they said he was a dangerous man
But momma was proud and she stood her ground
even though she was on the losin' end
Well some folks whispered and some folks talked
but everybody looke the other way
And when time ran out there was no one about
On Independence Day
Let Freedom Ring, Let the White Dove Sing
Let the whole world know today is a day of a reckoning
Let the weak be strong let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away Let the guilty pay it's Independence Day
Well she lit up the sky that 4th of July and by the tim that the firemen come
they just put out the flames and took down some names and send me to the county home
Now I ain't saying it's wrong or it's right but maybe it's the only way
Talk about your revolution it's Independence Day
Let Freedom Ring, Let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today is a day of a reckoning
Let the weak be strong Let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away Let the guilty pay
It's Indpendence Day
Roll the stone Away
It's Independence Day
This is a song sung by Martina Mcbride, I take absolutely no credit for writing any part of this piece.
When Gabby finished the song a loud applause broke out. She grinned at them all and began to say over and over again to the amusement of Lisa, "You like me, you really like me!" Legolas helped her down from the podium with a twisted grin.
"Wanna go for a walk?" he inquired mischieviously.
"With you? Alone? In the woods at night? Nuh-uh. Lisa! Pippin! C'mon!" Gabby yelled. Legolas smacked his head and sighed. Lisa and Pippin joined them with many a giggle and laugh. Almost immediately they segregated themselves by sex. Legolas and Pippin walked ahead while Gabby and Lisa chatted behind them. "Oh what I woudn't give to be able to listen to my Nirvana CD right now. I could stand listening to "All Apologies" or "Heart Shaped Box" for an hour." Gabby hurled the words at Lisa without taking a beat to breathe.
"HA! You need to spend some ALONE time with Legolas. Settle down girl! They don't date here like we do in America. They don't date at all." Lisa rambled excitedly. Gabby bent to ask her what she meant. A sparkling diamond ring was set on Lisa's finger.
"WHOA. They move too fast here. Next thing you know you'll have a pet name for him." Gabby kidded.
"What's wrong with that? He knows a family that could adopt me and we could marry and..."Lisa broke off with a grin.
"And what? Start a family? You're twenty-one, we still have to go to Mirkwood and Gondor and see Mordor..." Gabby argued. "I don't want to settle down, I'm living forever!" She pouted for a while before Pippin slowed for Lisa and Gabby.
"I think I'll call you Diamond." Pippin told Lisa. "After all, a jewel is a jewel." He grinned at her, excitement brewing over in his eyes. Legolas smiled at Pippin. The hobbit was better at this romancing than he thought. He took Gabby's arm and begged her to sing more songs. All she could think of were Dixie Chicks and other bands she hadn't listened to in a while. Come to think about it, probably wouldn't again if she didn't find her CD player before someone like Pippin did.
"Let's see, I could do Nirvana. But that's kind of weird stuff. At least no more about cars. Ah nevermind, I'm tiring my throat out anyway." she croaked out to no one in particular. Lisa and Pippin said their farewells before turning and walking away, in love. Gabby smiled knowing she was never going to forgive Lisa for deciding to marry that guy the day she met him. Legolas asked her for a dance though no music was playing out in the woods. "I have a better idea." she said spying a large pond to their right. Moments later they were splashing around in the clear blue waters without a care in the world. Under clothes still on, they had splash fights and dunking contests. Gabby even managed to impress Legolas with a stunning back dive off the overhanging rock ledge. In the water he scooped her up in his arms and sang an elven song to her. Even though she could understand Elven, it was a type she couldn't comprehend. Maybe she was too tired to concentrate, nah, the adrenaline was pumping too fast. Maybe she was in love.
She awoke with a scream that night. A cold sweat about her shoulders and neck she looked around for familiar settings. Rivendell's beauty surrounded her in all it's calmness. She was outside, cold, and not alone. Legolas was in a trance a few feet away but hadn't heard her scream. She stood quite suddenly, she had to leave right away. She shook her head with a smile. ~I am not going to be a Mary Sue...~ she repeated over and over again in her head as she jumped upon a horse in the stables.
"Rima." was all she told the horse. It galloped away silently until they were outside the city's walls, then the horse ran.
"SHE WHAT?!" Lisa screamed. Legolas had told them he was too tired to keep from meditating and while he was at peace, Gabby had stolen Arwen's horse and ridden away. Lisa began to cry, she knew what was happening. Gabby was afraid of being too close to anyone. She trusted Lisa more than a sister, but she couldn't shake the past. Both were runaways from their families, living with some of Gabby's relatives downstate. Her cousin had kept it a secret, neither of them expected to enroll into college that fall. They wanted to wait until the coast was clear and then move to Europe. Well, they were close after all, everyone in Middle-Earth had a British accent. "I know where she be going and I am going to ring her neck come Hell and high water!" Lisa vowed vehemently.
Alrighty, hope you enjoy, that's all there is for now. Thanks for reading.
Chapter One
Gabriel looked around confusedly. The cascading waterfalls and beautiful trees took her breath away. She hadn't thought the stupid spell was going to work. She and Lisa laughingly gathered the various ingrediants for the spell. Then Gabriel or Gabby to her friends had said the words to the odd sort of chant they had gotten out of a book. Gabriel didn't understand why Lisa couldn't read the book and she could. To her it was as plain as English, to Lisa, a set of squiggly lines with accents stratigically placed to make it look more complicated. The point was they were in Middle-Earth. In Rivendell to be exact. They had wandered in a little tired about half an hour or so ago. Now they were completely lost for words inside the immense beauty of the Elven forest and sanctuary. They heard a figure approach them slowly but confidently.
"Hello little ones, what brings you to Rivendell?" said a tall elf. Like all the ones Gabby had seen he was fair and perpetually young looking. Grinning a little Gabby replied,
"Oh nothing just a little lost in the mammoth crock of land we've managed to land in." Lisa giggled like she hadn't heard a joke in months. Which I might add is impossible. Gabby never shuts up and is always spouting cynical and sarcastic quips. Elrond smiled and bade them to follow. They followed a little too trustingly for Elrond's taste. He was sure they wouldn't have lasted two days alone in the forest outside Rivendell. Joke was on him of course, Gabby and Lisa were far to agile to be caught by a single orc or troll. Elrond stopped in front of a large pool.
"Please wait while I bring witnesses to the Judgement." Elrond said lazily. Lisa looked at Gabby a little nervously. ~Why would we need witnesses?~ She worried. When he returned with a group of elves Gabby bowed and said something that Lisa didn't catch.
"Lisa! Pay attention! Um...this is my companion, Lisa of...uh...next door dorm room..." Gabby tried helplessly. The elves smiled and beckoned them to the waters edge where in Elrond scooped up some water in a glass pitcher. He approached Lisa slowly and spoke in Elven tongue very rapidly making Lisa sway with calmness. The water splashed down her head and front as she felt an immense pain in her feet and ears. She opened her eyes to find everyone else had grown several feet high and were all giggling at her appearence. "Not good." said Gabby with a grin. "Let me get this straight, we let you speak some jibberish and we turn into whatever we're supposed to be on Middle-Earth?" she asked sarcastically. Elrond nodded but before he could speak Lisa bolted in.
"You mean I am going to be a fricking hobbit!? That sucks!" She humphed and stomped away her large feet slapping the ground resulting in more laughing. Gabby couldn't stand up any longer. She rolled on the ground laughing with tears running down her cheeks.
"Your turn." Lisa reminded her icily. Gabby sat up and gulped. The water splashed on her head and down her front as the words quickened and flowed like bells around her. Suddenly her ears errupted in pain and she understood the strange words issuing from the Elven Lord's mouth;
Oh what grace is given me, let us see her true.
Oh Elbereth may her live her life through.
What is she to be I hope to find with water from the fairest brook,
She is so fair let me see, oh let me have just one look.
Gabby straightened her hair from her face and stood taller than she felt she should be. All the elves bowed before and spoke in successsion.
"You indeed were to be an elf fair one, you were meant to be I felt it!" shouted one.
"Maybe she is the lost princess of the Night Elves!" cried another. They continued to chatter rapidly before Elrond raised a hand boldly.
"Enough, I have a council to attend, Arwen, daughter, take the lady elf and hobbit and fit them with more accomodating clothing." With that he turned and gracefully glided out of sight. Lisa whined all the way up to the room they were shown about how lucky Gabby was.
"Me lucky?" asked Gabby, " I am already getting sick of this graceful beauty act. I feel like a goddarn Goddess." She pulled her jeans off and slumped onto the bed. A horse neighed outside. They quickly dressed in the clothes Arwen left them and scurried down the marble stairs. An old man with a pointed hat stood around four more hobbits, one man, one elf, and a dwarf. The dwarf grumbled about the jewels he was missing for a birthday party. The elf smacked him upside the head and told him he was being arrogent. The dwarf nodded and said he agreed. Gabby suddenly looked at Lisa very mischieviously. Lisa cocked one eyebrow as a high pitched voice reached their ears.
"Who are they? Well I know we aren't supposed to know everyone Merry but she looks out of place. Of course I feel out of place but I am sure if she is in the company of an elf she must belong here at least for today." A rather tall hobbit with green eyes and a Scottish (at least to the American girls) accent was staring openly at Lisa. Lisa whirled around her face red and sprinted away, Gabby stifling her laughter and following.
"You should ask him out." Gabby said with a smirk.
"Um, NO!" Lisa said with a roar. They both ended up laughing. Legolas heard the hobbits talking and looked over to the unlikely pair of friends. The Elf had long straight red hair. Down to her waist at least, it was behind her head. Her eyes sparkled and danced with one color after another. First a dark blue, then a light green, then the richest brown he had ever seen. The hobbit however had a pale complexion, odd for their race, they were usually rosy cheeked. Her long blonde hair rested just past her shoulders. Odder still, the hair was not in the least bit wavy. The hobbit looked absolutely stunned her blue eyes not giving away her feelings inside. Both the girls were thin and fair in their own ways. Legolas stealthily followed them out of the entrance hall where they were laughing as if a great joke had been presented.
"Okay, I'll do it then." said the elf girl. She started to walk away when the hobbit let out a shriek and leaped up and caught her legs in her hands almost hysterical. The elf laughed but then let out a scary scream.
"Ahh! Don't bite, jeezum crow Lisa, I wasn't really!" She laughed and turned her head quite suddenly in Legolas's direction. He was standing there in the open, clearly not eavesdropping but observing their playful conversation.
"May I join you my fair ladies?" he inquired with a grin. Lisa elbowed Gabby in the ribs with a enormous smirk. Gabby picked her up and blew a raspberry in her face before putting her down. Legolas noted this odd interaction with raised eyebrows. He sat cross legged before them without a second thought. They had a pleasent conversation about various things. Gabby kept steering the conversation toward the hobbit that had looked at Lisa. Lisa kept hitting Gabby on the leg and pouting when she did this.
"May I ask of your names?" Legolas asked with a smile.
"I am Gabriel. Please call me Gabby." Gabby said with a sort of ditzy grin.
"I'm Lisa." said the hobbit with a depressed look. She looked at her large feet and tried to cover them up. With out really looking, Gabby tore a piece of her dress off and handed it to Lisa. Lisa covered her feet in it and looked away. Gabby and Legolas both sat up very tall all of the sudden. Something had just snuck up on them behind the pillar. Gabby smirked and threw a look at Lisa then turned away and began to whistle "She Loves You" by the Beatles. Lisa hit her and blushed.
"You might as well shut up, Gabby, the lyrics dont' work anyway." she complained. Though she had turned red again Pippin realized they were aware of his presence. He slumped off to where the other hobbits were standing.
"Cheer up Pip!"cried Merry, " I'm sure once she sees your hobbit physique, she'll go nuts for you!" he laughed out. Everyone laughed but Pippin who sneered and walked away, down trodden. Meanwhile, Lisa was feelin out of place as Legolas begain a string of questions about this "Beatle" they talked about. She told Gabby she was taking a walk before jumping off the bench and scurrying away to the river. She was about to hurl a pebble into the river when a splash startled her a few feet to the left of her perch. Pippin sat, head in his arms, at intervals throwing pebbles into the river, not looking to where they were landing. She was about to leave when a squeek emitted from the forlorn creature. He had seen her and was surprised at her sudden appearence.
"Hullo, I'm Pippin!" he shouted quite chipper.
"Hi, I'm Lisa." she said nonchalantly. He cocked his head at the announcement of her name.
"Lee-SAH?" he repeated in dubious tone. He felt very odd then, like she couldn't have cared less if he had called her a toad. "Your pretty." he announced with a blush. Lisa grinned and said,
"Yeah, you're not so bad yourself." she almost didn't laugh when she saw the quizzical look on Pippin's face, but the cute way he stared at her she burst out with a steady stream of very genuine laughs. Her laughter was contagious, Pippin started to giggle when she laughed and soon was wiping tears from his face. They left for the feast in Bilbo's honor hand in hand.
"Bilbo? Poor kid, if he grew up where I did he would've had the crap kicked out of him all the time." Gabby said with a feisty grin on her face. Legolas approached her after the feast, with a look of question on his face. "Look I told you, electricity is way beyond you." she started when he simply pointed to a corner where Pippin was dancing with Lisa with a smile on his lips, to the gentle dinner music. Gabby couldn't supress the laughter for very long. Her shoulder shook as she fanned her face with an empty hand.
"A dance, lady Gabriel?" inquired a man's voice. She whirled around to find Arwen smiling as a tall man with a good deal of shaving to do held his hand out to her. She took it only to find this made Lisa giggle loudly in the corner. Gabby licked her lips and let out a loud whistle as Lisa hugged Pippin. She steered the man away so that what the dancers saw was Lisa in Pippin's arms. Lisa excused herself from Pippin for a moment to walk over to Gabby and kick her in the shin.
"I'm sorry I didn't catch your name." gabby said ignoring the pain in her leg. The man let out a loud laugh and told her his name was Aragorn, king of Gondor. "No! Oh my gosh! I can't believe I am dancing with a king." she stammered.
"Excuse me King Aragorn, may I cut in?" asked a pleasent voice. Legolas took her for a dance which was very slow and beautiful. At the end of it Gabby found her head resting on Legolas's shoulder, arms wrapped around him.
"A song from the land of our visitors!" yelled a rather old looking hobbit with a young but stressed looking hobbit standing by his side. Lisa gave Gabby a look that plainly said, "I won't sing for any amount of money." so Gabby approached Lord Elrond's table with a piece of paper on it. She handed it to him with a whisper, he nodded and handed the paper to the carpenter of Rivendell. The carpenter bowed and left. Gabby stepped up onto the singers podium before letting one of her favorite songs fly through the air.
"Well she looked all right by dawn's early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinking again
But daddy left the proof on her cheek
An' I was only eight years old that summer
and I only seemed to be in the way
So I took myself down to the fair in town on Independence Day
Well word gets around, in a small small town
they said he was a dangerous man
But momma was proud and she stood her ground
even though she was on the losin' end
Well some folks whispered and some folks talked
but everybody looke the other way
And when time ran out there was no one about
On Independence Day
Let Freedom Ring, Let the White Dove Sing
Let the whole world know today is a day of a reckoning
Let the weak be strong let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away Let the guilty pay it's Independence Day
Well she lit up the sky that 4th of July and by the tim that the firemen come
they just put out the flames and took down some names and send me to the county home
Now I ain't saying it's wrong or it's right but maybe it's the only way
Talk about your revolution it's Independence Day
Let Freedom Ring, Let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today is a day of a reckoning
Let the weak be strong Let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away Let the guilty pay
It's Indpendence Day
Roll the stone Away
It's Independence Day
This is a song sung by Martina Mcbride, I take absolutely no credit for writing any part of this piece.
When Gabby finished the song a loud applause broke out. She grinned at them all and began to say over and over again to the amusement of Lisa, "You like me, you really like me!" Legolas helped her down from the podium with a twisted grin.
"Wanna go for a walk?" he inquired mischieviously.
"With you? Alone? In the woods at night? Nuh-uh. Lisa! Pippin! C'mon!" Gabby yelled. Legolas smacked his head and sighed. Lisa and Pippin joined them with many a giggle and laugh. Almost immediately they segregated themselves by sex. Legolas and Pippin walked ahead while Gabby and Lisa chatted behind them. "Oh what I woudn't give to be able to listen to my Nirvana CD right now. I could stand listening to "All Apologies" or "Heart Shaped Box" for an hour." Gabby hurled the words at Lisa without taking a beat to breathe.
"HA! You need to spend some ALONE time with Legolas. Settle down girl! They don't date here like we do in America. They don't date at all." Lisa rambled excitedly. Gabby bent to ask her what she meant. A sparkling diamond ring was set on Lisa's finger.
"WHOA. They move too fast here. Next thing you know you'll have a pet name for him." Gabby kidded.
"What's wrong with that? He knows a family that could adopt me and we could marry and..."Lisa broke off with a grin.
"And what? Start a family? You're twenty-one, we still have to go to Mirkwood and Gondor and see Mordor..." Gabby argued. "I don't want to settle down, I'm living forever!" She pouted for a while before Pippin slowed for Lisa and Gabby.
"I think I'll call you Diamond." Pippin told Lisa. "After all, a jewel is a jewel." He grinned at her, excitement brewing over in his eyes. Legolas smiled at Pippin. The hobbit was better at this romancing than he thought. He took Gabby's arm and begged her to sing more songs. All she could think of were Dixie Chicks and other bands she hadn't listened to in a while. Come to think about it, probably wouldn't again if she didn't find her CD player before someone like Pippin did.
"Let's see, I could do Nirvana. But that's kind of weird stuff. At least no more about cars. Ah nevermind, I'm tiring my throat out anyway." she croaked out to no one in particular. Lisa and Pippin said their farewells before turning and walking away, in love. Gabby smiled knowing she was never going to forgive Lisa for deciding to marry that guy the day she met him. Legolas asked her for a dance though no music was playing out in the woods. "I have a better idea." she said spying a large pond to their right. Moments later they were splashing around in the clear blue waters without a care in the world. Under clothes still on, they had splash fights and dunking contests. Gabby even managed to impress Legolas with a stunning back dive off the overhanging rock ledge. In the water he scooped her up in his arms and sang an elven song to her. Even though she could understand Elven, it was a type she couldn't comprehend. Maybe she was too tired to concentrate, nah, the adrenaline was pumping too fast. Maybe she was in love.
She awoke with a scream that night. A cold sweat about her shoulders and neck she looked around for familiar settings. Rivendell's beauty surrounded her in all it's calmness. She was outside, cold, and not alone. Legolas was in a trance a few feet away but hadn't heard her scream. She stood quite suddenly, she had to leave right away. She shook her head with a smile. ~I am not going to be a Mary Sue...~ she repeated over and over again in her head as she jumped upon a horse in the stables.
"Rima." was all she told the horse. It galloped away silently until they were outside the city's walls, then the horse ran.
"SHE WHAT?!" Lisa screamed. Legolas had told them he was too tired to keep from meditating and while he was at peace, Gabby had stolen Arwen's horse and ridden away. Lisa began to cry, she knew what was happening. Gabby was afraid of being too close to anyone. She trusted Lisa more than a sister, but she couldn't shake the past. Both were runaways from their families, living with some of Gabby's relatives downstate. Her cousin had kept it a secret, neither of them expected to enroll into college that fall. They wanted to wait until the coast was clear and then move to Europe. Well, they were close after all, everyone in Middle-Earth had a British accent. "I know where she be going and I am going to ring her neck come Hell and high water!" Lisa vowed vehemently.
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