Chapter Eight: Thorns, Other Pointy Things, and Towers
"CARP!" a loud shout echoed throughout the forest of pines.
"What's wrong?" Legolas, Sulel, and Boromir asked in unison.
"I stepped on a thorn." Lily's whimpered answer made them all start laughing. "What's wrong with you people, it hurt!" she tried to defend her dignity as much as possible.
"That's why we wear shoes." Sulel stated calmly, and as if it was the most normal thing in the world to wear shoes when you were sleeping.
"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts doodillydoo..." Aragorn sang spontaneously "... There they are a standing in a row! Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head! Just give em a twist, a flick of the wrist that's what the salesman said!" as he started to repeat the song, Lily angrily took some fabric and stuffed shoved it in his mouth. "Mumumubabjhahfshfjs!" after making sure he couldn't sing, which involved tying a strip of cloth around his mouth, the company tried to sleep. All of them succeeded except Lily and Sulel.
They both were thinking of the same thing; Bran and how slow the group was moving and wouldn't it just be better to go off alone and rescue her. "CARP!" Lily said in an audible whisper.
"So, quite obviously," Sulel quipped quietly, "you are awake too Lily."
"Yup, and hating it. I can't decide what to do." She stated with a flourish of her hand. "I mean, at this rate, we'll never get to wherever Bran's being held before she really annoys them and they do something horrible to her." With that, she moved the hand to her temples and massaged them, deep in thought. What a predicament.
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"Saurman, got any kings?" Head Thing/man asked his master.
"Damn! Stop knowing my cards!" He snapped airily.
"Well then, stop showing them when you draw!"
"I'm not showing my cards!"
"Are too."
"Am not!"
While our two idiots fought, Bran tried to find a way off the tower. "Darn, too high to jump. To risk the stairs or not to risk the stairs that is my question." Bran looked over her shoulder at Saurman and Head Thing/man as they argued senselessly, "Risk the stairs." She quickly decided and started to hurry down the conveniently located steps.
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"... So you see, Bran and I have known each other our whole lives and I couldn't bear it if something happened to her. I love her as a sister and nothing should be able to tear us apart." Lily finished after her side of the story sadly.
"I guess I have a similar reason for wanting to go ahead, I love her. Not like a sibling, because I've already had my share of siblings, but a purer love, much deeper in my heart." Sulel said innocently spilling out his inner feelings for Bran.
"Aww... Sulel has a crush...." Lily cooed with a wicked grin.
"Not a crush, my feelings for her are so much deeper than that. It's hard to explain, I've never felt this way before."
"Ok! AW... Sulel's in love..."
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"Nice emu... That's right, I wont hurt you..." Bran said walking slowly towards an emu. "All I want is to ride you, I promise." The emu, being the dumb flightless bird it was, came toward her and let her climb on it's back. "GIDDIUP EMU!!!!!!!!!!! Run emu run; run like you've never run before. SO LONG SUCKERS!!!" she yelled back in the general direction of the tower as the emu ran as fast as it could. "Yah know I've always wanted to try climbing Caradhras." Therefore, she decided to go that way.
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"TAKE IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Lily screeched.
Sulel, in answer, stuck out his tongue. "Well it's true! your mother must have been a courtesan." Lily, much to her dislike was being held back by Arwen as Sulel was held back by Legolas.
"I'm telling you, you will regret that statement one day." Lily threatened him with a tight frown before breaking away from 'the mystery force' otherwise known as Arwen and going to sit by the horses. Since it was Sulel who had started the fight in the first place, and Lily couldn't stand Boromir or Aragorn, Legolas went and tried to comfort her. She kept sobbing and finally calmed down and leaned gently on his shoulder.
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Bran was making good time; she was already almost halfway to Lothlorin before she saw the campfire. 'Well, maybe I could stay with them or at least get some water for the emu and warm my hands at their fire.' As she neared the group, she saw that there were six people and a few horses. One of the people had their arm around another, slightly smaller figure. Just then, the smaller figure looked up.
"Uh, guys, I think someone's coming.... they're riding..." Lily squinted, "...an emu!" at this statement, the rest of the group got up.
"Hey, stay where you are! State your name, and business!" Sulel shouted.
"Sulel!?" The emu-riding figure asked amazed. "Finally!"
"BRAN! Lily ran up to the emu and Bran and hugged her as soon as she got off the bird.
"Eeep! hey, Lily?" Bran managed to gasp out.
"Yes?"
"Can you please let go of my neck?" As soon as Lily relinquished her hold, all the others crowded in on Bran asking if she was all right and all that kind of thing.
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Early the next morning, (a/n: about dawn) the company, which now included Bran and an emu, packed up and started back to Rivendell. They decided not to take the Gap of Rohan (a/n has anyone noticed a little thing called Déjà vu occurring here?), choosing instead to climb Caradhras. As they neared the summit, Bran looked up from the little conversation she was having with Lily and noticed, "What are the Nazgul doing up here?" she wondered aloud as she saw the Nazgul doing the can-can, in a dancer line below.
Sulel leaned over towards Lily, who was sitting on Arod (Lego's horse), "Just like what your mom does on weeknights." He whispered into her ear. She promptly slapped him HARD on the cheek.
"SHUT UP ALREADY!" she shouted. Bran snorted loudly from her perch behind the offending elf.
"What's all that about?" Bran asked Legolas for she hadn't seen what had happened the previous night.
"He insulted her mother by calling her a whore."
"Isn't that what your mom really does though?" Bran queried and got slapped too.
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" Lily shouted. "Um, Bran,"
"Yes?" Bran said testily.
"Isn't that your boom-box?"
"THE NAZGUL HAVE MY BOOM-BOX! And they're dancing to my karaoke version of Lady Marmalade!" Bran screeched and jumped off the horse grabbed the boom-box and ran back over to the company.
"That was sick, twisted, and not to mention, wrong." Lily made retching noises and glanced in the direction of the gaudily dressed Nazgul.
"Anything that might interest your mom?" Sulel asked.
"SHUT UP!" Lily hollered.
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A little later in the journey...
"Any man of mine better be proud of me/ Even when I'm ugly he still better love me/ And I can be late for a date that's fine/ But he better be on time/Any man of mine'll say it fits just right/ When last year's dress is just a little too tight/ And anything I do or say better be okay/ When I have a bad hair day/ And if I change my mind/ A million times/ I wanna hear him say/ Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah I like that way/ [chorus] Any man of mine/ better walk the line/ Better show me a teasin' squeezin' pleasin' kinda time/ I need a man who knows,/ how the story goes/ He's gotta be a/ heartbeatin' fine treatin' Breathtakin' earthquakin' kind/ Any man of mine" Bran sang to the music.
Then it was Lily's turn. "I know what that one is! It's Shania Twain's Any Man of Mine!" Bran applauded her best friend.
Lily started to sing, "Under a lovers' sky/Gonna be with you./And no one's gonna beat around/ You think that you won't fall,/Well just wait dear/Till the sun goes down/
Underneath the starlight/There's a magical feeling so right/It'll steal your heart tonight./[chorus] You can try to resist/Try to hide from my kiss/But you know that you can't/Can't fight the moonlight/Deep in the dark/You'll surrender your heart/Cause you cause you know/That you can't/Can't fight the moonlight./ No" as she broke off, Legolas and Sulel looked at each other then turned back to the road in front of them.
"Oh, Can't Fight The Moonlight by LeAnn Rimes!" Bran exclaimed. Now it was Lily's turn to clap.
END CHAPTER EIGHT!
Author's Notes: the songs here don't belong to us, they belong to the previously mentioned famous singers. Not us… nope definitely not us. *Molly of Ozz steals keyboard* Okay; now you people have been very good in reviewing, so thank you to; Asa (you rock!), Zerah Star (hello!), Mela's Runya (Howdy, Karissa), Megan (kiwi birds are fun, don't you agree?), Sarah Loudin (honestly, no one wants to sit with me at a lunch table, you don't have to battle for a spot), AND Ainsley Hayes Sloan (hope we didn't hurt you too bad). Now, I want you too keep being so wonderful and review more! C'mon!
Anyway, LOTR doesn't belong to us, either. And we just added the songs because we think that they describe Bran and Lily's romantic personalities. Okay, now, you click the review button and I shut up.
"CARP!" a loud shout echoed throughout the forest of pines.
"What's wrong?" Legolas, Sulel, and Boromir asked in unison.
"I stepped on a thorn." Lily's whimpered answer made them all start laughing. "What's wrong with you people, it hurt!" she tried to defend her dignity as much as possible.
"That's why we wear shoes." Sulel stated calmly, and as if it was the most normal thing in the world to wear shoes when you were sleeping.
"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts doodillydoo..." Aragorn sang spontaneously "... There they are a standing in a row! Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head! Just give em a twist, a flick of the wrist that's what the salesman said!" as he started to repeat the song, Lily angrily took some fabric and stuffed shoved it in his mouth. "Mumumubabjhahfshfjs!" after making sure he couldn't sing, which involved tying a strip of cloth around his mouth, the company tried to sleep. All of them succeeded except Lily and Sulel.
They both were thinking of the same thing; Bran and how slow the group was moving and wouldn't it just be better to go off alone and rescue her. "CARP!" Lily said in an audible whisper.
"So, quite obviously," Sulel quipped quietly, "you are awake too Lily."
"Yup, and hating it. I can't decide what to do." She stated with a flourish of her hand. "I mean, at this rate, we'll never get to wherever Bran's being held before she really annoys them and they do something horrible to her." With that, she moved the hand to her temples and massaged them, deep in thought. What a predicament.
************
"Saurman, got any kings?" Head Thing/man asked his master.
"Damn! Stop knowing my cards!" He snapped airily.
"Well then, stop showing them when you draw!"
"I'm not showing my cards!"
"Are too."
"Am not!"
While our two idiots fought, Bran tried to find a way off the tower. "Darn, too high to jump. To risk the stairs or not to risk the stairs that is my question." Bran looked over her shoulder at Saurman and Head Thing/man as they argued senselessly, "Risk the stairs." She quickly decided and started to hurry down the conveniently located steps.
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"... So you see, Bran and I have known each other our whole lives and I couldn't bear it if something happened to her. I love her as a sister and nothing should be able to tear us apart." Lily finished after her side of the story sadly.
"I guess I have a similar reason for wanting to go ahead, I love her. Not like a sibling, because I've already had my share of siblings, but a purer love, much deeper in my heart." Sulel said innocently spilling out his inner feelings for Bran.
"Aww... Sulel has a crush...." Lily cooed with a wicked grin.
"Not a crush, my feelings for her are so much deeper than that. It's hard to explain, I've never felt this way before."
"Ok! AW... Sulel's in love..."
******
"Nice emu... That's right, I wont hurt you..." Bran said walking slowly towards an emu. "All I want is to ride you, I promise." The emu, being the dumb flightless bird it was, came toward her and let her climb on it's back. "GIDDIUP EMU!!!!!!!!!!! Run emu run; run like you've never run before. SO LONG SUCKERS!!!" she yelled back in the general direction of the tower as the emu ran as fast as it could. "Yah know I've always wanted to try climbing Caradhras." Therefore, she decided to go that way.
********
"TAKE IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Lily screeched.
Sulel, in answer, stuck out his tongue. "Well it's true! your mother must have been a courtesan." Lily, much to her dislike was being held back by Arwen as Sulel was held back by Legolas.
"I'm telling you, you will regret that statement one day." Lily threatened him with a tight frown before breaking away from 'the mystery force' otherwise known as Arwen and going to sit by the horses. Since it was Sulel who had started the fight in the first place, and Lily couldn't stand Boromir or Aragorn, Legolas went and tried to comfort her. She kept sobbing and finally calmed down and leaned gently on his shoulder.
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Bran was making good time; she was already almost halfway to Lothlorin before she saw the campfire. 'Well, maybe I could stay with them or at least get some water for the emu and warm my hands at their fire.' As she neared the group, she saw that there were six people and a few horses. One of the people had their arm around another, slightly smaller figure. Just then, the smaller figure looked up.
"Uh, guys, I think someone's coming.... they're riding..." Lily squinted, "...an emu!" at this statement, the rest of the group got up.
"Hey, stay where you are! State your name, and business!" Sulel shouted.
"Sulel!?" The emu-riding figure asked amazed. "Finally!"
"BRAN! Lily ran up to the emu and Bran and hugged her as soon as she got off the bird.
"Eeep! hey, Lily?" Bran managed to gasp out.
"Yes?"
"Can you please let go of my neck?" As soon as Lily relinquished her hold, all the others crowded in on Bran asking if she was all right and all that kind of thing.
********
Early the next morning, (a/n: about dawn) the company, which now included Bran and an emu, packed up and started back to Rivendell. They decided not to take the Gap of Rohan (a/n has anyone noticed a little thing called Déjà vu occurring here?), choosing instead to climb Caradhras. As they neared the summit, Bran looked up from the little conversation she was having with Lily and noticed, "What are the Nazgul doing up here?" she wondered aloud as she saw the Nazgul doing the can-can, in a dancer line below.
Sulel leaned over towards Lily, who was sitting on Arod (Lego's horse), "Just like what your mom does on weeknights." He whispered into her ear. She promptly slapped him HARD on the cheek.
"SHUT UP ALREADY!" she shouted. Bran snorted loudly from her perch behind the offending elf.
"What's all that about?" Bran asked Legolas for she hadn't seen what had happened the previous night.
"He insulted her mother by calling her a whore."
"Isn't that what your mom really does though?" Bran queried and got slapped too.
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" Lily shouted. "Um, Bran,"
"Yes?" Bran said testily.
"Isn't that your boom-box?"
"THE NAZGUL HAVE MY BOOM-BOX! And they're dancing to my karaoke version of Lady Marmalade!" Bran screeched and jumped off the horse grabbed the boom-box and ran back over to the company.
"That was sick, twisted, and not to mention, wrong." Lily made retching noises and glanced in the direction of the gaudily dressed Nazgul.
"Anything that might interest your mom?" Sulel asked.
"SHUT UP!" Lily hollered.
*********
A little later in the journey...
"Any man of mine better be proud of me/ Even when I'm ugly he still better love me/ And I can be late for a date that's fine/ But he better be on time/Any man of mine'll say it fits just right/ When last year's dress is just a little too tight/ And anything I do or say better be okay/ When I have a bad hair day/ And if I change my mind/ A million times/ I wanna hear him say/ Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah I like that way/ [chorus] Any man of mine/ better walk the line/ Better show me a teasin' squeezin' pleasin' kinda time/ I need a man who knows,/ how the story goes/ He's gotta be a/ heartbeatin' fine treatin' Breathtakin' earthquakin' kind/ Any man of mine" Bran sang to the music.
Then it was Lily's turn. "I know what that one is! It's Shania Twain's Any Man of Mine!" Bran applauded her best friend.
Lily started to sing, "Under a lovers' sky/Gonna be with you./And no one's gonna beat around/ You think that you won't fall,/Well just wait dear/Till the sun goes down/
Underneath the starlight/There's a magical feeling so right/It'll steal your heart tonight./[chorus] You can try to resist/Try to hide from my kiss/But you know that you can't/Can't fight the moonlight/Deep in the dark/You'll surrender your heart/Cause you cause you know/That you can't/Can't fight the moonlight./ No" as she broke off, Legolas and Sulel looked at each other then turned back to the road in front of them.
"Oh, Can't Fight The Moonlight by LeAnn Rimes!" Bran exclaimed. Now it was Lily's turn to clap.
END CHAPTER EIGHT!
Author's Notes: the songs here don't belong to us, they belong to the previously mentioned famous singers. Not us… nope definitely not us. *Molly of Ozz steals keyboard* Okay; now you people have been very good in reviewing, so thank you to; Asa (you rock!), Zerah Star (hello!), Mela's Runya (Howdy, Karissa), Megan (kiwi birds are fun, don't you agree?), Sarah Loudin (honestly, no one wants to sit with me at a lunch table, you don't have to battle for a spot), AND Ainsley Hayes Sloan (hope we didn't hurt you too bad). Now, I want you too keep being so wonderful and review more! C'mon!
Anyway, LOTR doesn't belong to us, either. And we just added the songs because we think that they describe Bran and Lily's romantic personalities. Okay, now, you click the review button and I shut up.