Disclaimer: I don't own Haldir or Legolas…I suppose I don't own my friend the Lady of Imladris either…I'm still so poor…
Notes for chapter: The parking lot of the high school that Emily and I went to had maybe 50 something parking spaced for the 200 or so people who could drive. Little problem, right? One of my science teachers was called a "Damn crack whore" by one of Emily's teachers. Emily also just had to say hello to our sophomore year English teacher every time she saw him. He got pretty sick of her after a while… We also had a nun for a librarian who's face was really uneven and by that I mean one side of her face drooped about two inches lower than the other. She was really nasty too. We did have a roach or two in our lunchroom too. I've never seen a group of junior guys move so fast before… Also note, the name I gave to the guy isn't his real name. It has been changed to protect his person from enraged elf lovers.
The insanity continues….
Enjoy.
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Hawk drummed her fingers on her steering wheel. Shadow had managed to get into the back seat of the car with Haldir. The sounds of Shadow and Haldir making out were very distracting. Hawk was not a happy driver. The two in the back were awfully noisy. Legolas wasn't having much fun either. He was banging his head on the window.
"Someone…please…make it…stop…" He moaned while dull thuds from his head interrupted his words.
"Legolas, do you have your earplugs?"
"Yeah…why?" More thuds.
"Did Haldir bring his?"
Legolas glanced into the back. "I don't think so. Why?"
"Put yours in. I'm turning on the radio."
"Oh. Okay." Legolas smiled. He put the earplugs in and Hawk turned the radio up as loud as Legolas could bear it, which at the moment was much louder than Haldir could take.
Haldir nearly flew off Shadow so he could cover his ears. Shadow punched Legolas since she couldn't punch the driver. "What was that for?" She shouted over the music.
"I need to drive. It's not my fault Halli Boy forgot his ear plugs." Hawk smiled smugly. Besides, if I can't make out with Legolas, you don't get the opportunity with Haldir."
"Meanie…" Shadow muttered. Haldir looked miserable as he curled up against Shadow. She wrapped her arms around him. "You're making his ears hurt."
Legolas turned around again. "Not our fault he didn't being these wonderful little earplugs."
"I hate you." Haldir growled at the younger elf.
"Love you too." Legolas smirked and turned back to the road.
Hawk pulled onto the highway. "Look Haldir, don't get mad at him. I told you I didn't want making out in the back seat of my car!"
"And if we promised not to?" Shadow pleaded with her friend.
"I'd know you were lying. You've never been able to keep your hands off the elf."
"You spoil all my fun." She huffed. "And I was gonna make pudding tonight."
Hawk bit her lip. "Must you do the pudding blackmail?"
"Yep."
"Grrrr…well, I'll just get some ready made pudding at the store. Problem solved."
"Dammit."
The rest of the car ride was relatively quiet, just the occasional moan from Haldir to turn down the radio or Shadow getting mad at Hawk.
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Half an hour later, Hawk found a parking space in the tiny parking lot of their old high school. She stared at the parking space once she was out. "I always hated this parking lot."
"You'd think they could add a couple more parking spaces…" Shadow climbed around a few cars.
"It'd be nice. They remodel everything but the parking lot." Hawk finally got out of the car maze.
Legolas and Haldir had gotten out before them. "What took so long?"
"We're only human…" Shadow snorted.
"Forgive us for not having elven agility." Hawk grumbled. "Try not to make anymore comments like that…"
"Sorry." Both elves murmured.
They hurried into the front office for visitor passes. The secretary still recognized the two girls but just stared at the boys.
"Brothers?"
"N…" Haldir almost got the word 'No' out before Shadow grabbed him by the shoulder.
"Yes, but they like to deny it, don't you sweetie?" Shadow hissed.
Haldir swallowed hard. "Yep." He squeaked.
"Have fun visiting girls. I'm sure your teachers with be happy to see you again." The secretary waved.
"Yeah…Mr. M.'s gonna be really happy to see us…" Hawk led them out of the office into the main hallway on the 2nd floor.
"Mr. M?" Haldir questioned.
"He was somebody's favorite teacher…"
"He was a good teacher." Shadow snapped back.
"He encouraged the idiotic behavior for the guys in our English class!"
"Like what?" Legolas asked.
"You don't wanna know…" Hawk shook her head.
"But you can't deny he was a good teacher." Shadow desperately tried to defend the man.
"I never said he wasn't! Can we just find the yearbooks?" Hawk threw her hands up and shook her head.
"Haldir, is it just me or it this hall too small for 4 people?" Legolas ducked under Shadow's swinging arm.
Haldir backed away from Hawk's quickly approaching finger. "It's big enough for 4, only if the people are calm though." The two elves stepped back in order to avoid the flailing girls while they looked for the library.
"This way!"
"No, over there!"
"Can I help you people?" A teacher came out of his room. He seemed to have a free period.
"We were looking for the library. Sorry about the noise." Hawk smiled. "We haven't been in school here since they finished the remodeling."
"You were students here?"
"Just the two of us." Shadow suddenly smiled when she saw the teacher's face.
His eyes widened in fear. "Oh good Lord, it's you again!"
"Mr. Mullen! Aren't you happy to see me?" Shadow hugged her former teacher.
"Shadow! Let him go! His face is turning blue!" Hawk grabbed her friend's arms. "We need Mr. Mullen to tell us where the library is!"
Shadow released her death grip on her former teacher. "Whoops." The two elves stared at her in shock and awe.
"Sorry, Mr. Mullen…she's still insane." Hawk shoved Shadow over to Haldir.
"I understand. You're looking for the library." He gasped for air.
"Yeah. We lost our yearbooks and we gotta look something up."
"Have to." He corrected her.
"An English teacher forever…" Hawk shook her head. "So where did they build the library?"
While Mr. Mullen gave her directions, the elves blinked in confusion. The teacher gave them stranger terms like K, M, S and Breezeway. Hawk stared at them.
"What? Why do you look so confused?"
Haldir let go of Shadow. "What did any of that mean?"
"Oh don't worry. We know where we're going." Shadow smiled and they left their former teachers room and went to the elevator.
Once again the elves stared. "What is it?"
"It's a…uh…a lift…get in." Hawk pushed Legolas in.
Hawk and Shadow merely leaned against the wall while Haldir and Legolas shuffled nervously. Shadow poked Hawk. "No more elevators, okay?"
"Agreed." The elves treated the elevator as if it was evil. "Stop that. The library's not that far now."
The troop of four walked through a glass hallway and up two flights of stairs. Shadow opened the door at the top of the stairs and let the others pass her as they walked in. "You'd think with all the remodeling, they'd make it easier to get to the library."
"Well, it'll probably be the last time we're here." Hawk opened the door to the actual library. "You're asking too much of a school that had roaches in the cafeteria…"
The library was nice and big. The yearbooks were all in a corner. "Let's make an attempt to find ours." Hawk grabbed a stack and put them on the table.
"Uh huh…" The other three grabbed some and they set to work. As they riffled through the books, Shadow looked up for a moment. She froze in fear. "Hawk…" She gripped her friend's shoulder.
"Ow!" Hawk hissed. "That hurts! Let…" Hawk saw what was making Shadow scared. "It's the Hell Nun…"
"The what?" Haldir and Legolas looked up.
"Shhh!" Hawk and Shadow hissed at them. They were taken aback by being quieted. Hawk scrawled something on a piece of paper and shoved it at Legolas.
'Wait till the Hell Nun goes away.' He scratched his head when he looked at the note and handed it to Haldir. He shrugged but stayed quiet.
"Finding everything ladies?" The nun stood right in front of their table. The girls, paralyzed with fear could only nod. "Good. I expect no trouble from you." They only nodded again.
After a few agonizing minutes, the nun disappeared. Hawk and Shadow sighed deeply with relief. "Wow…scary and ugly as ever…she shouldn't work in a school with small children…" Hawk muttered.
"What exactly is so bad about her?" Haldir asked quietly.
"She hates kids." Shadow muttered. "She kicked me out of the library when we still came here."
His eyes widened. "You? But you're never noisy enough to get kicked out of anywhere."
"Yeah, until she met you." Legolas muttered.
"Shut up!" Shadow and Haldir hissed in a whisper.
"Jeez, touch-y…" Hawk muttered. "Did you find him yet?"
"No…I did find our freshman book though." Shadow held up the page. "Don't you look cute?"
"Put that down!" Hawk slapped her hand. "I hate that picture."
"Is this the right year?" Legolas offered Hawk another book.
"Oh, yes! Finally. No more stupid pictures." Hawk began flipping through the pages.
"Do you see him yet?" Shadow looked over her friend's shoulder.
"No. I'll tell you when I find him." She flipped faster. "Ah here!" She found the spiky haired boy she was looking for. "Joe Frantino."
"Joe?" Haldir looked at the picture. "It's a little…um…mundane, isn't it?"
"He's got a lot of brothers and sisters. You run out of ideas after awhile." Shadow jumped to Joe's defense.
"Whatever…when I get my hands on him, I will send an arrow up his nose." Legolas muttered.
"No…you can't do that. He's still our friend." Hawk huffed as she wrote down his name.
"But the pictures!" Haldir looked at Shadow. "I am not fat!"
"Well, to be honest, Joe probably hates you two. All we did was talk about you two when we went to school together."
"Are you saying the pictures were warranted?!" Legolas snapped as he shoved his chair back into the table, a little too loudly.
"No! And watch it! Be careful with that! Don't get the Hell Nun's attention!" Hawk began to push Legolas from the library. "And I never meant it as warranted! I'm just saying we'll take care of it!"
"Yeah. There's no need to kill him. Just be mad at him." Shadow lead them back downstairs.
"Fine. Only because you said so…" Haldir muttered as he walked next to his girl friend.
"Please you guys, no making out in school…" Hawk stepped in between her friend and the older elf.
"Fine…" They muttered.
As they walked, a shrill voice stopped Hawk cold. "Come back to take my class over again, have you?" A rather short woman glared at her.
"Uh…ah…no…I was coming for a uh…visit…Shadow, help me…" Hawk was petrified.
"She was your teacher not mine…" Shadow backed up behind Haldir.
"You were such a miserable student…you need to take Chemistry again."
"I was not that bad!" Hawk snapped. "I did better than a lot of people. Like Liza…"
"Liza slept in class. You paid attention and still failed the final." The evil little teacher was still mad.
"I got a C! I never failed your tests!" Hawk was hopping mad now. "I was a good student!"
"For a student like you, C is failure!"
"Go away, you damn crazy crack whore!" Hawk jumped up and down while complaining. "You make me sad!"
The teacher suddenly turned red and shuffled away into the teachers' lounge. Hawk sighed with relief. "I hate that woman…"
"Um…what just happened?" Legolas was staring at Hawk with wide eyes.
"Revenge of the horrid teacher…I never failed her damn tests…she would just like to think I failed…"
"Oh…" Both elves nodded quietly.
"I think it's time to go…" Shadow hurried the group back out to the car.
As they were walking, Hawk still ranted about her horrible science teacher. Legolas was once again very thankful for the earplugs. Haldir wasn't so fortunate.
"Hey! Who's that!?!?!" Shadow saw someone near their car.
"Could it be Joe?" Hawk started to run. "If he does anything to my car…"
"It looks like the guy in the picture!" Legolas could see the person's face.
When Hawk got to her car, she found another envelope. "I think I'm going to kill Joe…" She ripped it open and found on piece of paper with a large picture on it.
Girly Legolas and Fat Haldir were sitting at desks in the school with dunce caps on. "Study hard." The same black letters were scrawled across the top and the inkblot/bird was in the corner too. Hawk crumpled the paper and chucked it on the ground. She looked up and saw someone running across the parking lot. "I'm gonna kill him!" She took off running as Shadow and the elves reached the car.
Legolas picked up the paper. Shadow looked at it. "Well, here's the final chase." She handed Haldir the keys. "Get you bows and follow us later."
" I thought we weren't allowed to kill him…" Haldir opened the trunk.
"You won't be killing him, just pinning his clothes to a tree to stop him." Shadow shouted over her shoulder as she ran after Hawk.
"Here goes nothing." Both elves grabbed their bows and followed the girls into the winding paths of the forest behind the school.
"You said it…" Haldir was just a few steps behind the younger elf.
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The final chase is on! Will Joe survive?
~*~Shadow Hawk~*~