On the Way to Lórien
After they had set out early the next morning, Allison kept Eric in the back of the group with her. She needed to theorize with him.
"Ok, the deal is this. There is going to be a rather large battle sometimes in the near future."
"How near?" Allison thought and then called to the head of the group, "Where exactly are we heading?"
"We are going to be entering Lórien soon." Legolas answered. Allison nodded and then paused for a second as the chronology of the story slowly crept back into her mind.
"It's been a long times since I've read The Fellowship of the Ring, but I do believe that after we go through Lórien we travel up the Great River and then there is the battle that breaks apart the Fellowship. That is what I am most concerned about. I'm afraid that we will rather hinder the group in the fight which may ended up changing the story a bit."
"So what do we do about it?"
"Well, we have until we get on to the Great River to figure things out. Though, I bet the Lady of the Wood could help us."
"And if not?"
"Well, let me do something hypothesizing here. Let's assume that we don't get home by the time we get to Parth Galen, which is where the battle is, and we don't end up getting ourselves massacred, or anyone else for that matter." She paused and then said as quietly as possible to make extra sure that no one heard, "'Cept for Boromir, he's suppose to die." Eric nodded giving a look to the son of the Steward of Gondor. "And we don't get captured by orcs, which I don't think we will. They just want Hobbits, anyhow. So we end up staying with Legolas, Gimli and Aragorn then we have to wait, I figure about a month before Gandalf will come back and help us get home."
"And if he can't do it?"
"Well, then we have a real problem on our hands. After they find Pippin and Merry (who were taken by orcs) there is a large battle at Isengard and then from there everything is battles and fights and war." Eric made a face, wrinkling up his nose.
"Meaning that we need to get home soon."
"Essentially, yes."
"How do we do it?"
"At the moment, I do not have the foggiest idea. My only thought is to perhaps wait until we get to Lórien and see if the elves there can help us." Eric nodded and they quickly wrapped up their conversation as they realized that they were lagging behind.
Once they did, they fell into step by the Hobbits again, walking behind Legolas and Gimli.
"I hear you know our futures." Sam said in wonderment.
"Sort of." Allison said.
"Anything good to come?" Frodo asked hopefully, bright blue eyes begging for good tidings, and Allison didn't have the heart to tell him no.
"Yes. There are good things ahead." She felt terrible about lying to him, because for Frodo and Sam there wasn't really anything hopefully for a long time. Aragorn looked back at her, for he knew she was lying to the Hobbit, but was thankful she had done so. If their sprits were to break, he wouldn't know how to patch them up again.
"Tell us what happens?" Pippin asked and Allison grit her teeth so as not to shout out about his accent.
"I can't."
"Why not?" Merry asked,
"Well, if you knew what was going to happen to you, don't you think you would somehow end up changing it?" Merry shrugged.
"I don't know."
"Yeah, neither do we." Eric muttered. He stuck his hand in his jacket pocket and a smile crept over his face. "Well, I'll be damned." Allison looked at him,
"What?" He pulled out a 20-dollar bill.
"I just found 20 bucks!" He looked proudly at the bill lying in his hand, as if his genius had some factor in his finding it.
"Not much good it will do you here." Allison said. Eric got a queer look on his face and said,
"Oh yeah…"
"Aside from that, you probably put it in your pocket to pay for our tickets for the movie."
"Oh yeah…"
"What's a movie?" Sam asked and Eric tried his best to explain.
"Well, it's like a big TV…wait you don't know what TVs are either." At this Allison interjected
"Thank you mister science" Eric shot her a look but continued
"It's like a really big moving picture." Sam looked confused,
"A big moving picture?"
"Just imagine someone taking a picture of this right now."
"You mean us walking?"
"Yeah, and then you going back and watching it and everything being exactly the same." Sam smiled,
"Hum, I would like to see this movie thing."
"Yeah and people make stories and such into movies so everyone can watch it and we have awards for the best movie and such."
"Was our story made into a movie?" Pippin asked and Eric nodded and said,
"We were going to see it last night" He paused and then muttered "before we got thruster into it."
"I should like to see this movie very much." Sam said and Allison smiled at the hobbit's childish ways but still unable to pinpoint his striking resemblance to someone whom she did not know. It was then, looking at Sam, that Allison cried out.
"Sean Astin!" Everyone looked strangely as the girl.
"What?" Frodo asked, as she continued to looked at Sam,
"Sean Astin! That's who you remind me of!" Sam's face had a look of a cross between fear and confusion. "Eric! Doesn't Sam remind you of Sean Astin?" Eric shrugged.
"Who the hell is Sean Astin?" Allison threw up her hands and sighed,
"You know, Sean Astin the guy from Memphis Belle that Cara is in love with." Eric shrugged and responded in a confused way with,
"No?" Allison shook her head and then turned around and saw the looks of bewilderment that was on the face of everyone in the group. She looked at them uncomfortable and then coughed to fill the silence. After a while she just hung her head and muttered,
"I'm to stop talking for a while now." The group then continued on its way, and Sam looked to Frodo in questions and said,
"Sean Astin?" Frodo shook his head and said,
"I do not understand anymore than you do, Sam. Perhaps it's best if we do not questions these strangers ways." at that Sam nodded in agreement and said,
"You probably right Mr. Frodo."
