Disclaimer: I hold no claims to the original LOTR cast (Holly and Rachel are mine)

A/N: No flames



Time: Reaching Unsafe Harbor



The boats, after sailing by the elegant Argornath, were pulled up on shore and the still sleeping Rachel was carried to a soft spot under a tree. Holly challenged Boromir to a little sword play and was as first refused.

"Wuss! You just can't handle this!" Holly said teasingly, pointing at her chest. She was dancing around singing the "neener neener neeeeeennerrrr" song and finally Boromir gave in to the spunky little *mumble*grumble*...

"Fine! Just don't expect me to...!" Boromir yelled in fighting stance. Holly made a mad dash at him and he barely had time to raise his sword. He began using the only technique he knew while Holly fought in her own style: rapier style. Boromir was completely thrown off track by it and was barely able to dodge the hyper girl he fought. She tripped him and held her slight sword to his throat. He made no attempt to move.

"You still think I'm weak? C'mon! Get up, you girl!" Holly yelled. She was, at one point, the coach for the fencing team. She trained them herself: every trick she knew. Boromir smiled and then the smile went nasty.

"Oh, the pain I could cause you," he whispered. Holly, completely untouched by his words, widened her eyes and held a hand to her mouth, making a small noise.

"If it's the pain I think you intend...already done. Sorry, hun. Maybe your next threat will be a little more...Boromir-ish," Holly said, prancing away. Boromir stood, motionless as he tried to uncover the meaning of Holly's words. When he realized that she was "experienced" in bed, his eyes got wide and he gasped in astonishment.

"Excuse me! I'm afraid I would never do what you're implying!"

"Oh, that's just what you say now, buddy," Holly sighed, leaning up against a tree trunk. Legolas coughed and turned red in the face and ears. Pippin and Merry burst out laughing and Gimli guffawed. Aragorn didn't notice, but Rachel stole a glance at Holly, then at Boromir, then at Legolas and grinned. She immediately wiped it off her face, realizing what her "instincts" were telling her. Boromir stood and walked away in the direction Frodo had wandered off. Nobody noticed.

"Okay...I'm on solid ground now and I can feel the effects," Rachel said, standing up. She was experiencing mild "sea-men legs," but the spells magnified it by one hundred. She felt like she was extremely drunk, in which case she wasn't as composed as she normally was. Legolas walked over to her. Rachel could barely grip the tree and when her hands slipped, Legolas was right there, catching her midfall.

"Thank you, Legolas," Rachel said, staring at the ground. She was obviously embarrassed, but, despite that, Legolas knew the inevitable.

"You should rest!" he yelled at her. Rachel squinted up at him and decided that she needed a mint (she didn't have a toothbrush with her). Searching through her stuff, she found one, but she also found her Lord of the Rings trilogy set and her cd player. Not to mention her cell phone, her *ahem* feminine products, her sketching supplies, pencils, paper, a few cds, another book, gum, granola bars, a chocolate bar?(must be Holly's), her diary, and a pair of binoculars that she decided she didn't need anymore. During their quest, she never really got into her bag except to get some clips for her gun.

"Music! Art! Novels! Heaven!" Rachel said quietly to herself. Pippin walked over and handled Rachel's cd player with confusion.

"What's this? Magic?" he asked, turning it over. Rachel laughed at him as he tried to bite one of her earphones.

"Nope. Just electricity and plastic," Rachel and Holly said together.

"What's electricity?" Gimli asked.

"What is plastic?" Aragorn asked. Everyone stared at them and the two girls decided that they would explain modern marvels later.

"It's a cd player. It plays music on this disk and you listen to it through these," Rachel explained. She turned it on and handed it to Pippin, showing him how to wear the earphones. He listened with interest to the Beethoven and Bach and Handil and Chopin on Rachel's cd. Legolas and she could hear it without the earphones and all the hobbits crowded around, wanting to listen. Holly found hers and let Aragorn and Gimli listen to Alanis Moriset. They seemed to like it.

"Where's Frodo?" Pippin asked when he noticed that Frodo wasn't participating in all the fun. Sam jerked away from the earphones and looked around the clearing worriedly, as did the rest of them.

"Shit!" Holly yelled grabbing her sword. She remembered this part of the book and rushed off into the woods.