Nightly Discussions Amongst Humans
Allison was having trouble sleeping. The ground was not kindly on hipbones, she discovered. Aragorn had given her his cloak to use as a makeshift blanket. It was deathly cold, and Allison had curled herself up into as tight a ball as possible. This journey certainty did not have as many creature comforts as the one to the X-Files, but it had been far more interesting. The Fellowship was eccentric almost, with strange habits and an ever-present devotion to one another. Yet even among those characters charm and quirks the ambiance of the Company was always extremely hopeless and melancholy. She debated with herself about whether or not to give away some of the good things that happen in the upcoming books, the fall of Isengard, for example. She hated seeing everyone so depressed and she wanted to do anything to just give them a little light of hope. But she was not sure what the outcome might be. She could not see how it might change the future, but one never knows. The debate that she had with Mulder while they had driven back from Langly resounded in her mind.
"It is philosophized that all destinies are the same. Meaning there is no way to intervene and change the future. If quantum physics work on both the micro and macro level then that would mean that even though we exist in different states, our destinies are always the same. One electron will not bond if its other states don't as well. That would change the whole world's make-up. Therefore, whatever you tell us cannot change our futures. Saría, Saría. Whatever will be, will be"
"What if we don't exist in different states? What if dimensions are totally independent? Or even, what if they are interconnected? What if there is some portal to move between dimensions and we just happened to stumble upon it? Maybe there is no significance to our being here.
"We don't know the consequences of our actions yet. What if everything is interconnected and we screw up all of our destinies, not only that but everyone's fate will be different"
Mulder had been so sure that every destiny was independent, but Allison was not yet convinced. When she had returned from her trip to the X-Files Mulder did indeed return to the show, but it was seemingly by David Duchovny's own will, not any intervention of hers or Eric's. She didn't know if maybe she told Pippin and Merry not to run off at Parth Galen and they weren't captured by orcs, then in the book they would not have meet Treebeard and defeated Sauroman. She rolled over to her other side where she was faced with Pippin, snoring soundly. Allison rolled her eyes and sighed. She guessed that this would not be a restful night.
It seemed like an hour, or later when Allison heard voices. She lifted her head slightly and saw Aragorn, Boromir and Eric sitting away from the group talking quietly. Allison realized that she never heard Eric get up, and that she must have actually fallen asleep, or off into some state of non-awareness. She quietly got up so as not to disturb the others and moved over to them.
"What's up?" She asked and Aragorn motioned for her to sit down. She sat between him and Eric. She dare not sit near Boromir.
"We are trying to figure out how to get us home." Eric said.
"So how's it going?" Aragorn shook his head.
"Not well. This is not something I have seen before."
"We kind of suspected that you might have to tell them something and then when we fell asleep we would just ended up at home, like last time." Eric said hopefully, and Allison shook her head.
"I don't think so."
"Why not?" Boromir asked and Allison tried to look him in the eye but his gaze was just too icy, too hard.
"Well, I don't think there is anything that you need to be warned about. The books are masterpieces and I would not be one to tamper with them."
"Just shoot our plan to hell why don't you." Eric said grumbling.
"Aside from that, what if I do tell them you your futures. Would that not change the destiny of our world as well?"
"I don't understand." Aragorn said.
"Do you know what the Multiple World Theory is?" he shook his head. Allison had suspected as much. It didn't see like the laws of physics applied too much to this place. "It's basically the theory that everything exists in different dimensions. It is then assumed that one could jump from dimension to dimension. Eric and I think that we just have the ability to jump dimensions."
"The question is though, why we end up where we do." Eric said.
"If this was a fated meeting then, you would have some part to play in our story." Boromir said and Allison nodded.
"Yes."
"What did he just say?" Eric asked confused by Boromir's language
"He said that if we were meant to be here then we would somehow change their future." Eric nodded and gave a silent 'ah'.
"Yet if your fates were not meant to be crossed, in the same sense your knowledge of our world could be devastating." Aragorn said and Allison nodded again.
"But I really must tell you, I don't know too much. I know little happenings and battles and such, but I do not know whether the task Elrond gave you will be completed."
"Then you and I are the same." She shrugged.
"More or less."
"But then…why are we here?" Eric asked.
"Well if we could answer that questions we wouldn't be sitting here now would we?" Allison said.
"You know what? I have two things to say to you, how dare you! How dare you!"
"That was six things." Eric threw up his hands and began to mutter to himself. Allison turned back to Aragorn.
"If we are burdens on you, we could leave the group. If that is your concern." Aragorn smiled and shook his head.
"No; even if you were I could not allow a lady to wander in this unknown country, especially with the dangers currently at hand." Allison nodded, secretly relived that her and Eric could stay with the group. The thought of walking around aimlessly, with orcs and trolls and such in the area, was not comforting. Suddenly a thought dawned on Allison and she grabbed Eric's arm.
"What if we die? If we die here, do we die at home too?"
"Ya know, I'm not really planning on finding out." Eric said.
"I'm not keen on the idea of experimenting with it either, but…uh…stuff happens that might put our lives in danger."
"What sort of dangers are eminent?" Boromir asked.
"This probably won't come as a surprise to you, but you're in a war. There are lot of dangers in war." Allison said, trying to avoid spilling the beans on any kind of things she knew would happen in the future. This seemed to satisfy Boromir though, for the moment at least. The four were quite for sometimes, pondering. Allison wished that she would have ended up in the story at least when Gandalf was here, but she knew that he wouldn't be coming back for a long times now, probably at least a month, if not more. She sighed deeply, as interesting as this trip was she was not sure she could stand it for a whole month. Especially since there was going to be a big battle soon and her and Eric did not posses any weapon. Also, before Gandalf comes there is the trek in search of Pippin and Merry. She groaned. That was way too much walking for her liking. She need to figure out how to get home, and fast.
