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Chapter 14

A Plot

(Yeah . . . back to our creative titles again)

In which Mandy becomes a slug, Glorfindel is sexy and Nickel is kidnapped

Nickel's PoV

"So what's up with Legolas and Gimli?" I asked Mandy slyly.

They're deciding what's wrong with Minas Tirith." Mandy answered stubbornly.

"Oh." I poked her, "Are you sure?"

"Yes!" Mandy glared at me, "What else would they be doing?"

"Remember, Mandy - Kelsey and I had to convince him to like you."

Kelsey whacked me, "You are vicious."

Mandy was a bit tearful, "You're so-"

"Mandy . . ."

"What?"

"You're a slug."

"No I'm - OH MY GOD I'm A SLUG!"

Kelsey and I kneeled around the slimy thing that was yelling its head - or lack there of (do slugs have heads) - off in Mandy's voice.

"Okay, Mandy, think elf." Kelsey tried.

"You're not a slug Mandy." I told her, "Well, right now you are but . . ."

"I'm not a slug; I'm not a slug . . ." Mandy started chanting.

"That's right, Mandy."

"At least it's just us." Kelsey comforted her too soon.

Legolas walked in at that moment, "Is that-"

"I'm not a slug; I'm not a - LEGOLAS! NO!" Mandy started sinking into the floor.

"Plate!" I yelled.

Kelsey mutely handed me her teacup saucer.

I put Mandy on it, "Okay, Mandy, be a teacup."

"Why?"

"Because it beats being a slug and Legolas will drink tea out of you."

Mandy was a teacup before I'd finished the inflection on "you".

I handed her to Legolas.

"Do I have to?"

"Just drink!" Kelsey snapped, her fingers in her mouth with nervousness. I gently removed them.

I closed my eyes as Legolas took a deep breath and put the teacup to his lips . . .

"Alright, that's nice" Kelsey groaned.

I opened my eyes. Mandy and Legolas were making out. Why am I not surprised?

"MANDY!"

Mandy looked at Kelsey sheepishly.

"I'll just be . . . going" Legolas fled Kelsey's foot.

"HEY!" Mandy yelled, chasing Kelsey around the room.

I rolled my eyes and left.

Mandy's PoV

"Have either of you seen Nickel?"

Kelsey and I stopped running around in circles.

"Ahhh!" Kelsey screamed and fell over, twitching.

"What's wrong with her?" Glorfindel - our visitor - asked, concerned perhaps that Kelsey was acting unnaturally like Nickel.

I stared at him, "Your . . . boxers . . . did Nickel give you those?"

"For Christmas!" He said proudly, "Have you seen her?"

I looked around, avoiding the sight of Glorfindel in red velveteen boxers with furry white trim - like a Santa hat, but boxers. "She was just here . . ."

He turned to leave.

"You should put a robe on before you leave. But if you don't mind ruining your reputation, you could walk around like that and seize the first Gardenia to laugh at you."

"She wouldn't laugh." He said mournfully, "She's got better self control than that."

"Could you please put something normal on?" Kelsey shrieked, recovering slightly.

"Sorry, Ladies." He left.

We glanced at each other, "Someone needs to murder Nickel." Kelsey announced.

"What if we tie her up and leave her at Glorfindel's mercy?" I asked.

Kelsey glared at me, "He'd just untie her."

"Not necessarily."

"Hmmm."

Kelsey's PoV

That Night, we crept through the halls, tying to remember where Nickel's room was - these halls look so different at night and there are about six different buildings. She'd also chosen an inopportune time to move around - every night being what I mean.

"This looks about right." Haldir pointed to a door that had papers pinned on it.

We slowly opened it, careful not to creak the door. Nickel was sleeping like a -

"Who's that?" I asked Mandy.

She squinted at the bed, "It looks like Glorfindel but-" We glanced at Glorfindel who stood nervously in the hallway. Legolas handed us our candle.

"Oh my-"

We giggled.

"Lisa would be proud."

"What is it?" Haldir asked poking his head in the door, "oh . . . come on, let's go."

"Oh alright." Mandy grumbled.

I shut the door, "Nickel must have been in there weeks ago."

"Who was it?" Gimli asked.

"My Lady Galadriel and my Lord Celeborn." Haldir whispered - obviously afraid they would wake up.

We crept a way don't the hallway.

"Any idea where Nickel is?" I asked, "At this rate we'll be here all night."

"Glorfindel?" Mandy and Glorfindel held an eyebrow battle. He would have won if it weren't for the fact the Mandy cheated and made her eyebrows into caterpillar-like things.

"Alright, she's in my room."

"WHAT!"

"What?"

Mandy and I glared at Glorfindel. Legolas and Haldir picked up their cue and glared as well. Gimli was clueless.

"How long has this been going on?" I asked icily.

Glorfindel thought. Really hard, "awhile . . . I don't know - sometimes she comes in and kicks me out - sometimes she doesn't. I think it's just when everywhere else is taken."

"That would be Nickel." Mandy muttered.

"At least we know where she is." Legolas offered timidly.

We tramped toward Glorfindel's rooms - which were thankfully always easy to find being as they had been the same rooms since he showed up.

We went in and closed the door behind us.

"Surround the bed." I instructed.

"Ow, my toe!"

"Shhh!"

"Is this the bed or the couch?"

"There is no couch."

"Is it just me or is there a-"

Suddenly, sourceless light filled the room."

Nicole sat on the previously nonexistent sofa in a halo of light. "Hello." She smiled.

"Uhoh." Haldir whispered.

"Get her!" I yelled and we all dived at the sofa.

"I've got a leg!"

"That's my leg!"

"Sorry!"

"Ouch!"

"Where'd she-"

"Mph!"

"Got her!" Glorfindel emerged, gasping and grasping a kicking Nickel.

"Ropes!" Legolas called.

We soon had Nickel secured. The sofa had disappeared and it was darker.

"Do the right thing, Glorfindel." Mandy said, patting him on the back, "This is your revenge."

Nickel struggled against the ropes and gag.

"Bye, Nickel!" we left Glorfindel with Nickel at his mercy.

"That was amusing."

"Night guys!"

We all parted ways and headed for our rooms.

Nickel's PoV

"Guess who's he-ere!" I sang, bursting into where Gimli and Haldir were trying to figure out how to play scrabble, Legolas and Mandy watched and Kelsey was interrogating Glorfindel - she hid it pretty well when I came in.

Legolas sighed, "I would say you sing horribly, but - annoyingly enough - I can't"

"I know." I smiled sweetly.

"Isil." Haldir laid out four tiles.

"She still sings horribly when she's bathing." Glorfindel offered, "But you don't get to comment on it then."

"How many points is that?" Gimli asked, rifling through the instruction manual - in English, French, Chinese and Spanish which doesn't do much good.

"Why do you hear Nickel singing in that state?" Kelsey asked suspiciously.

"Four points" I told Gimli.

"So it's the number of tiles?"

"Not exactly."

"Glorfindel? Nickel?" Kelsey glared at us.

"Hot tub parties" I told her, "You should join us - that nice guard guy Pip knows makes this great pizza thing."

Kelsey raised an eyebrow.

I raised two. (The one eyebrow thing is beyond me.) "Guess who's he-ere!" I broke off and sang again, sitting on Glorfindel.

"Who?" Kelsey asked, exasperated with us. Haldir had tried to keep her busy for us, but she was still convinced we were doing naughty things behind her back. Well we were married! But then again, I hadn't told her that and Mandy seemed to have forgotten . . .

"Eomer!" I sang.

"Eomer?" Legolas asked hopefully.

"Eomer." Gimli grumbled.

"Eomer!" Kelsey exclaimed.

"Eomer?" Mandy asked, confused, "When did he leave?"

"Eomer!" Haldir yelled, 'Wait, who's Eomer?"

"The guy with the horse tail that saved our guts at Helm's Deep." I explained cheerily.

"Oh . . . Eomer!"

I gave Kelsey a look.

"He's not stupid!" Kelsey exclaimed, "He's winning scrabble!"

"That's because all Gimli can spell is his name and names are out."

"EOMER!" we yelled, charging out of the room to find the Rohirm.

"Maybe he brought us presents!"

I stopped, "Mandy, all he knows of your existence is you life story as told by me. Why would he bring presents?"

"Maybe he wants you to record a cassette tape for him?"

I decide Mandy was not worth questioning and we barreled after Kelsey who had a bit of a head start.

So . . . I saw those boxers at Walmart . . . they were cool . . . anyways, we're all a bit mad at Mandy right now, so the slug thing is understandable even if I did write it before I realized what a slug she's being. Things are happening now, so we'll get back to cannon and get moving soon . . . and then whatever. We could end this next chapter . . . or the next. Please file any request since I don't really have anything else to focus on.