Escape of the Murderer
"I told you, Talim," I try to say to myself, but nothing seems to come out. Where am I? If only I could open my eyes, or move, or something. I just feel my feet being dragged across the ground.
"You there!" I hear Talim's voice screaming. "Let go of her!" her voice seems about a block away. I wonder what she's doing next, but I can't see a thing still.
[Talim POV]
I pull out my cell and dial Legolas's number.
"Holla!" Legolas says and starts laughing. "What's up, Talim? Eomer and I were..."
"Shut up, Legolas! Emma is now being dragged away by some guy...what am I doing calling you? I should call the police!" My mind is going in so many directions. I don't want to think about what'd happen if he got in a car and drove away...
"What the hell!" I scream as I see him drive away in a green truck. "Uh...we're at the Gimmie cl..." I hang up on him and dial the police. "Ah, police! My friend is in a car with a man from the club! He did something to her and now she'd knocked out and he took her!"
[Legolas POV]
I grip the phone tightly. Emma kidnapped? "What the hell is the Gimmie Cl?" I cry, but there is no answer. "Damnit, Talim!" I say, hanging up the phone with a crash.
"What happened?" Eomer asks.
"I don't know! I think some guy kidnapped Emma! Talim says the Gimmie Cl!" I start walking around the room when we hear sirens a while away.
"I have no idea what the Gi..."
"Hurry up!" I say, running out of our dorm. "We've got to follow the police cars!!"
"Slow down!" Eomer says. "You're gonna kill us!"
I don't listen. I only speed up close behind the police officer. He must think I'm a total psycho driver, but who cares!
"The Gimmie CLUB!" Eomer says, pointing out the sign. "That's what it is!" As I slow down, Eomer jumps out of the car and runs to Talim.
"They went that way!" Talim yells to the police officers. "Green truck with a sandy blond driver!" They drive off, except one who stops to talk to Talim. "You sir, should stay here," says the police officer, opening my door before I drive down where Talim had pointed.
"I'm her boyfriend. I've got to save her!" I say. Without listening to him, I drive away. I know this is a bad idea! I'm gonna get in real trouble with the police for interfering, but I've got to be there myself if anything happens to her. What if he killed her? I pushed that thought away from my mind...or at least tried.
Before long I see a green truck. I can't see Emma, but I try to keep my mind off that. If I was sure she wasn't in there, I'd crash him into these light posts, damnit! Just then I see a blond head from the window, but the dumbass pushes her really hard, so that she hits her head through the window and then falls on the floor of the car. He makes a face that makes me think he accidentally smashed her head through the window.
Then I do something without thinking. I speed up, open my door, and leap from my car really far into the back of his pick-up. Yay, for my elvish talents.
I watch my car slow down and crash into a phone booth. Uh-oh. I'm sure my dad is going to murder me. "Emma!" I yell, leaning over into the broken window. The dude tries running my head into a phone pole, but I jump back before he does. Quickly, I open the door and leap in.
"Get the hell out," he yells. Ooh, riiight. I'm sorry, I'm just gonna get out of your car and leave my girlfriend. Yep...NOT!
I decide to forget about psycho-driver and get Emma. He tries to stop me, but he can't drive at the same time. I put her on my back and hold her arms together in front of my neck. As gently as possible, I hop off the car. I look back at the mess on this little street. It's really dark and everyone is coming out of their houses. Oh god, this is the end of me, I'm sure. My car is thrashed and I was supposed to leave this to the police...but at least I got Emma.
I pull her in front of me. "Oh no!" I say, looking at her cold, lifeless face. Blood is dripping over her forehead from crashing her head against the window.
"Emma...you're..." I start sobbing, staring at her blank, open eyes. I lay her down on the ground, with my hand under her head, and just start crying over her. I then get up for a minute, facing the direction where the driver went. "I'm gonna kill you!!" I yell. "I'm gonna kill you when I find you!"
I bet you could hear me for blocks. I turn back to Emma, leaning over her. "I love you, Emma."
The police show up with an ambulance. Talim and Eomer also show up. The doctors try taking her body away from me. "No, please don't take her away. There's no use! She's..."
Talim looks over, her tan face going pale immediately. "D...dead!" She starts crying like crazy, screaming. That ass! He...He killed her! She's dead," she starts crying on Eomer's chest. I start crying too.
The ambulance takes her anways, but I can't get up. I just lay on the ground where she was. Everything about her was so beautiful. I want her back! I'd do anything to just see her move and say good-bye...anything!
The ambulance sets her down and takes off with her. "Where is her legal guardian?" A police officer asks Talim.
"In Rivendell. She goes to Gondor High," Answers Talim, sniffling.
I try to block out all sound. No! She's not dead! She can't be! This is all a horrible dream! Fifteen minutes ago I was watching a movie. I must have fallen asleep! I must have!
[In the ambulance]
Doctor: "She's not dead!"
Driver: "What?"
Doctor: "Her heart is beating and she is starting to breath now! This is amazing! There is something in her blood that's...it looks like Dynophom. She was knocked out and Dynophom must have really reacted to this and she stopped breathing! But she's alive! She's gonna make it!"
[Talim POV]
"...she's dead," I finish. Tears well up in my eyes. "She was kidnapped and the guy...killer her." I imagine that guy's face as he asked her to dance. How dare him! I want to kill him! Tears start spilling over my face as I tighten my grip on my cell phone.
There is nothing on the other line, though Rome, Elise, and Edoran are all there. The first thing I hear is Edoran's yelling. "I'm gonna kill the bastard...!!!" Then I hear Elise's sobbing and screaming.
'CRASH!!!' I heard something break on one of the lines. Then it happens again.
"What just happened?" I ask.
I just hear Elise's sobs rise over Edoran's voice whose trying to tell me what just happened. "Damnit!! Damnit!!!!" I hear Rome yell that and a bunch of other stuff as you hear him smashing the phone under his foot. Then he starts crying. Then we all just start crying together.
"No sister!!! She's gone!" Edoran starts sobbing really loud.
"She'll never be there to hear our CD when it comes out!" Elise cries.
"No one to use my clothes...No Emma!"
We all try to calm down. Then Rome picks up the phone, which is probably all crushed up. "I don't believe it. I don't!"
"Are you sure?" the police officer talks in his walky-talky. "She's alive?"
All of us pause in our tracks. "WHAT?"
"She's alive everyone!" shouts the police officer. Legolas's face just goes...there's no word for it! Bezerk! So many emotions seem to take control at one time. He jumps up.
"Let's go get her!! I want to see her!" He says.
"Legolas?" Emma asks, breathing really hard. "You came to save me when you weren't supposed to?"
"I'm sorry, Emma! I couldn't help myself. I had to get you back! I was afraid and..." I start crying, remembering how lifeless she looked an hour ago.
"Shhh," she says, wiping my tears with her knuckles. "I love you Legolas." I grab her hand, kiss it, and then hold it against my cheek. "I love you too...I'm still so scared."
"I know," she nods.
[Talim's POV]
"She's alive!!"
Elise starts crying again.
"What?" Edoran asks. "She's dead! You said that..."
"Everyone was wrong!" I say as I start crying again. I've been crying for two hours straight. "She was drugged to fall asleep and I don't all understand it, but she's all right. She wants to talk to you. Rome first."
There is this long pause. "Oh my god," Elise and Edoran say at the same time. "Emma wants to talk to you," Elise says to Rome.
Rome grabs the phone and I hold my phone to Emma's ear.
[Emma POV]
Talim holds her phone up to my ear. "Emma! Emma! You're alive! Oh my god! We all thought you were dead...talk to me, Emma! Talk!"
"I'm alive, Rome," I say, my voice hoarse. "I thought I had died when everything was going black."
"It's gonna be okay," Rome says. I can tell he's crying. I smile at the thought of such a tough guy, crying about me. "You're gonna get out of the hospital soon and we'll come over and watch movies, pig out on candy, fight over what music we'll play on your CD player, and it'll be like old times," he assures me.
I smile. "Thank you. I miss you so much already."
"And we're going to find the guy that did this..." Rome sounds angry. "Don't you worry about anything."
"I told you, Talim," I try to say to myself, but nothing seems to come out. Where am I? If only I could open my eyes, or move, or something. I just feel my feet being dragged across the ground.
"You there!" I hear Talim's voice screaming. "Let go of her!" her voice seems about a block away. I wonder what she's doing next, but I can't see a thing still.
[Talim POV]
I pull out my cell and dial Legolas's number.
"Holla!" Legolas says and starts laughing. "What's up, Talim? Eomer and I were..."
"Shut up, Legolas! Emma is now being dragged away by some guy...what am I doing calling you? I should call the police!" My mind is going in so many directions. I don't want to think about what'd happen if he got in a car and drove away...
"What the hell!" I scream as I see him drive away in a green truck. "Uh...we're at the Gimmie cl..." I hang up on him and dial the police. "Ah, police! My friend is in a car with a man from the club! He did something to her and now she'd knocked out and he took her!"
[Legolas POV]
I grip the phone tightly. Emma kidnapped? "What the hell is the Gimmie Cl?" I cry, but there is no answer. "Damnit, Talim!" I say, hanging up the phone with a crash.
"What happened?" Eomer asks.
"I don't know! I think some guy kidnapped Emma! Talim says the Gimmie Cl!" I start walking around the room when we hear sirens a while away.
"I have no idea what the Gi..."
"Hurry up!" I say, running out of our dorm. "We've got to follow the police cars!!"
"Slow down!" Eomer says. "You're gonna kill us!"
I don't listen. I only speed up close behind the police officer. He must think I'm a total psycho driver, but who cares!
"The Gimmie CLUB!" Eomer says, pointing out the sign. "That's what it is!" As I slow down, Eomer jumps out of the car and runs to Talim.
"They went that way!" Talim yells to the police officers. "Green truck with a sandy blond driver!" They drive off, except one who stops to talk to Talim. "You sir, should stay here," says the police officer, opening my door before I drive down where Talim had pointed.
"I'm her boyfriend. I've got to save her!" I say. Without listening to him, I drive away. I know this is a bad idea! I'm gonna get in real trouble with the police for interfering, but I've got to be there myself if anything happens to her. What if he killed her? I pushed that thought away from my mind...or at least tried.
Before long I see a green truck. I can't see Emma, but I try to keep my mind off that. If I was sure she wasn't in there, I'd crash him into these light posts, damnit! Just then I see a blond head from the window, but the dumbass pushes her really hard, so that she hits her head through the window and then falls on the floor of the car. He makes a face that makes me think he accidentally smashed her head through the window.
Then I do something without thinking. I speed up, open my door, and leap from my car really far into the back of his pick-up. Yay, for my elvish talents.
I watch my car slow down and crash into a phone booth. Uh-oh. I'm sure my dad is going to murder me. "Emma!" I yell, leaning over into the broken window. The dude tries running my head into a phone pole, but I jump back before he does. Quickly, I open the door and leap in.
"Get the hell out," he yells. Ooh, riiight. I'm sorry, I'm just gonna get out of your car and leave my girlfriend. Yep...NOT!
I decide to forget about psycho-driver and get Emma. He tries to stop me, but he can't drive at the same time. I put her on my back and hold her arms together in front of my neck. As gently as possible, I hop off the car. I look back at the mess on this little street. It's really dark and everyone is coming out of their houses. Oh god, this is the end of me, I'm sure. My car is thrashed and I was supposed to leave this to the police...but at least I got Emma.
I pull her in front of me. "Oh no!" I say, looking at her cold, lifeless face. Blood is dripping over her forehead from crashing her head against the window.
"Emma...you're..." I start sobbing, staring at her blank, open eyes. I lay her down on the ground, with my hand under her head, and just start crying over her. I then get up for a minute, facing the direction where the driver went. "I'm gonna kill you!!" I yell. "I'm gonna kill you when I find you!"
I bet you could hear me for blocks. I turn back to Emma, leaning over her. "I love you, Emma."
The police show up with an ambulance. Talim and Eomer also show up. The doctors try taking her body away from me. "No, please don't take her away. There's no use! She's..."
Talim looks over, her tan face going pale immediately. "D...dead!" She starts crying like crazy, screaming. That ass! He...He killed her! She's dead," she starts crying on Eomer's chest. I start crying too.
The ambulance takes her anways, but I can't get up. I just lay on the ground where she was. Everything about her was so beautiful. I want her back! I'd do anything to just see her move and say good-bye...anything!
The ambulance sets her down and takes off with her. "Where is her legal guardian?" A police officer asks Talim.
"In Rivendell. She goes to Gondor High," Answers Talim, sniffling.
I try to block out all sound. No! She's not dead! She can't be! This is all a horrible dream! Fifteen minutes ago I was watching a movie. I must have fallen asleep! I must have!
[In the ambulance]
Doctor: "She's not dead!"
Driver: "What?"
Doctor: "Her heart is beating and she is starting to breath now! This is amazing! There is something in her blood that's...it looks like Dynophom. She was knocked out and Dynophom must have really reacted to this and she stopped breathing! But she's alive! She's gonna make it!"
[Talim POV]
"...she's dead," I finish. Tears well up in my eyes. "She was kidnapped and the guy...killer her." I imagine that guy's face as he asked her to dance. How dare him! I want to kill him! Tears start spilling over my face as I tighten my grip on my cell phone.
There is nothing on the other line, though Rome, Elise, and Edoran are all there. The first thing I hear is Edoran's yelling. "I'm gonna kill the bastard...!!!" Then I hear Elise's sobbing and screaming.
'CRASH!!!' I heard something break on one of the lines. Then it happens again.
"What just happened?" I ask.
I just hear Elise's sobs rise over Edoran's voice whose trying to tell me what just happened. "Damnit!! Damnit!!!!" I hear Rome yell that and a bunch of other stuff as you hear him smashing the phone under his foot. Then he starts crying. Then we all just start crying together.
"No sister!!! She's gone!" Edoran starts sobbing really loud.
"She'll never be there to hear our CD when it comes out!" Elise cries.
"No one to use my clothes...No Emma!"
We all try to calm down. Then Rome picks up the phone, which is probably all crushed up. "I don't believe it. I don't!"
"Are you sure?" the police officer talks in his walky-talky. "She's alive?"
All of us pause in our tracks. "WHAT?"
"She's alive everyone!" shouts the police officer. Legolas's face just goes...there's no word for it! Bezerk! So many emotions seem to take control at one time. He jumps up.
"Let's go get her!! I want to see her!" He says.
"Legolas?" Emma asks, breathing really hard. "You came to save me when you weren't supposed to?"
"I'm sorry, Emma! I couldn't help myself. I had to get you back! I was afraid and..." I start crying, remembering how lifeless she looked an hour ago.
"Shhh," she says, wiping my tears with her knuckles. "I love you Legolas." I grab her hand, kiss it, and then hold it against my cheek. "I love you too...I'm still so scared."
"I know," she nods.
[Talim's POV]
"She's alive!!"
Elise starts crying again.
"What?" Edoran asks. "She's dead! You said that..."
"Everyone was wrong!" I say as I start crying again. I've been crying for two hours straight. "She was drugged to fall asleep and I don't all understand it, but she's all right. She wants to talk to you. Rome first."
There is this long pause. "Oh my god," Elise and Edoran say at the same time. "Emma wants to talk to you," Elise says to Rome.
Rome grabs the phone and I hold my phone to Emma's ear.
[Emma POV]
Talim holds her phone up to my ear. "Emma! Emma! You're alive! Oh my god! We all thought you were dead...talk to me, Emma! Talk!"
"I'm alive, Rome," I say, my voice hoarse. "I thought I had died when everything was going black."
"It's gonna be okay," Rome says. I can tell he's crying. I smile at the thought of such a tough guy, crying about me. "You're gonna get out of the hospital soon and we'll come over and watch movies, pig out on candy, fight over what music we'll play on your CD player, and it'll be like old times," he assures me.
I smile. "Thank you. I miss you so much already."
"And we're going to find the guy that did this..." Rome sounds angry. "Don't you worry about anything."
