When Worlds Collide: Chapter 2

Disclaimer:  Not ours.  Just not.  Bex, El, however, and their screen names are ours.  Don't take those if you value your life.  *eye twitches*

Author's note:  Chapter 2!  Finally *grumble*  Ah well.  Here it is, the start to the absurdly long adventure.

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FrodoBaggins1OTS: Hey El.

SamGamgee38: Hullo Bex

FrodoBaggins1OTS: have you seen Sean (A) in Rudy yet?  It was great.  Lij was good in Oliver Twist too

SamGamgee38: I haven't seen Rudy, no, but Oliver Twist?  Lij looked like a weirdo in the hat *giggles*

FrodoBaggins1OTS: um, sure.   I liked his hat!

SamGamgee38: whatever lights yer match.  XD

FrodoBaggins1OTS: lol

SamGamgee38: LOTR was better though

FrodoBaggins1OTS: yep.  Y'know it's interesting.

SamGamgee38: yeah.  What is?

FrodoBaggins1OTS: shaddup.  No, what I was going to say was its interesting that 2 totally different girls from different parts of the country could become such good friends.  Y'know, cos im in this pathetic excuse for a house, with a puter that hardly works, and ur over there with your happy family in a nice house with

FrodoBaggins1OTS: a good computer and stuff.  I just like that the net connects us nicely.

SamGamgee38: y'got a point there.  's interesting.  That cut on your face better?

FrodoBaggins1OTS: thankfully, yes.  Bastard hit me again too.

SamGamgee38: I sorry.  I hope the man burns in Mordor!

FrodoBaggins1OTS: LOL.  Ah shit, dad alert

SamGamgee38: shoot.  Ok, ttyl.

FrodoBaggins1OTS: namaarie
SamGamgee38: namaarie

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Bex fumbled with the mouse to her computer.  "Stupid thing!"  Her father was opening the front door.  To let everyone know, he wasn't a nice man.  He'd adopted Rebekah with his wife, but when his wife left and left him with Bex, he obviously wasn't happy.

Sadly, he'd taken to hitting Bex when she didn't do as he liked.  She went to a public school and lived in a run down part of California.  The *house* was a two room shack, the kitchen/living room/bed room thing was connected to the bathroom, and this made up their house.

Elinor, on the other hand, lived in a well off neighbourhood in Maryland.  She lived with her mum, dad, and sister, went to a private school, and was certainly not as run down as Bex.  However, these two girls, roughly the same age, had been brought together by their love of a movie and book series, the Lord of the Rings.  ((That's why it's in THIS category!  Sorry.  Anyway…))

Bex finally closed the AIM window and the screen went blue.  She jiggled the power button.

"This is weird.  On normal conditions my computer's a failure, but what happened?"

Across the wide expanse that was America, El was having a similar problem.  Her screen went blank and blue as well.  Then her entire vision was filled with blue, and the feeling of falling overcame her.

"Ah, blue, my favourite colour, but this is a little much."  She tried to look around, though it didn't work, as the colour blue took over.  Then the light came back, colours came back, and things returned to normal.  Or, as normal as things were going to get for a LONG while.

El landed hard on the ground and immediately rolled backwards over one shoulder, the remnants of Aikido training, saving her back from some serious pain. 

"Ow, crap," she muttered.  Someone else was there, standing up and brushing off their pants.  They looked up at the sound of her voice and glanced around.  El sat up on her elbows and looked around.

They were in a clearing of a forest.  The sun was shining, clouds drifted lazily across the blue, blue sky.  A small stream gurgled to itself as it tumbled over the rocks.  The other person there was looking in her direction and seemed very confused.  El stood up and started brushing off her jeans.  She stuck her hands in her back pockets and saw that the other girl, for it was a girl, was maybe her age, perhaps a year older.  She had a bruise on her cheek bone and a cut by her left ear that was bleeding a significant amount.  Her hair was brown, about shoulder length, and mussed. 

The girl looked up with her brown eyes and grinned.  "Hurt a bit," she said, "Did I just fall from the sky?"

El shrugged.  "I dunno.  I think I did too.  Name's El."  She held out her hand.

"Bex."

"Bex?  From… California?"

The girl nodded.  "Hullo El.  Nice day, ah?"

El gawked.

"Fashion tip, El, mouth looks better closed."  El laughed and pushed Bex's shoulder.

"Shut up."

"Fine.  I'm very good at shutting up.  See?  Very good at it.  I got an award for shutting up once.  It was gold, and it came up to your knee!  Aren't I good at this?"

El laughed.  "Right Bex.  Where do you think we are?"

"I have no idea, we could have landed any-" Bex stopped, staring at her feet.  "El..."

"Hmm?"

"Look at your feet."

"What?  Why?"

"Just do."  El looked down.  She wasn't wearing shoes, and she didn't think she'd need to for a while.

"Hobbit feet!"

"Yay!  This really feels like some weird fan fiction."  Bex laughed.  The irony of it was too funny.

El climbed a tree and peeked out from atop the tree.

"Hoy!  We're in Hobbiton!"

Bex sat down very quickly.  "We're WHERE?!"

"Hobbiton," El repeated, climbing down from her perch.  "Now it REALLY feels like fanfiction."

Bex started pinching herself.  "This isn't a dream.  Ow!  This isn't a dream.  Ow!  Nope, not a dream."

"Wanna see if we can find Bag End?" El asked, shoving her hands in her pockets.

"We can see if it's before or after the War of the Ring.  Good idea." 

She stood up and the two of them left the forest, about to face something bigger than either of them could imagine.