Disclaimer - See - Tolkien owns The Lord of the Rings. I do not own it. Tolkien - owner. Me - crazed fangirl borrowing it for a period of time. :o) Also note that I do not own Huinesoron or the Noble Platypus - they, presumably, own themselves. :o)

A/N - Yah! The trial! Hooray! Maybe I'll actually get things back on track in this chapter.


"Please raise your right hand, and repeat after me," said Agent Huinesoron. "I, insert really horrible fan-girlish pen name here, do solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help me Eru."

Wincing, I followed his directions. "I, Haldy's girl twenty five, do solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help me Eru." I stopped to consider this for a moment. "Hey! That doesn't sound right!"

"Neither does your pen name," one of the jurors piped up. "But we're not commenting on that now, are we?"

I chose to ignore this comment, as did Huinesoron.

"Melissa, you stand accused of creating two Boromirs and inadvertantly killing them both. Is this correct?" He asked gravely, black cloak swishing menacingly.

"Yes," I stated calmly. "I am guilty as charged."

"This was not your first offense, was it, Melissa?"

"No. I - er - arrested for writing Mary Sues. Erm - they stuck me in my own story, and forced me to live it out, as was standard punishment, I am told." I admitted.

"And who did you write Mary Sues for, Melissa?"

"Haldir - but only before I saw the movies. After that, I read the books - and stopped writing them for him. I moved on to writing different stories." I answered.

"But you did not bother to remove your fan fictions, did you, Melissa?"

"Er - no. I didn't really think of it. To be honest, even if I could have I don't think I would have. It just - I dunno. I had a lot of fun writing them, and even if I only received flames, I still wanted to keep them up, as sort of a badge of honor, to show what I'd done and what I'd learned by doing it." I prattled on.

One of the jurors - a platypus? - gave me an approving look. I gulped.

"A badge of honor, Melissa? What did that badge say upon it - Writer of Toxic Sues?"

"Objection!" The judge cried. "Irrelevant question, Agent Huinesoron!"

He scowled at her, and continued on. "So when you wrote this particular Sue, you had not read the books?"

"No - that's why there are so many misspellings of the names." I squeaked. Two of the purists were glaring at me. "That's why I spelled Boromir's name wrong - that's why he died twice! It wasn't really Boromir - it was Borimir - a character that bore his likeness but not his name!" I exclaimed, suddenly realizing what this meant.

Huinesoron glared at me. Apparently he'd enjoyed torturing me through questioning. "I have no further questions."

The judge looked over the top of her spectacles at me approvingly. "The evidence has been gathered and shown. If the jury will please step into their room to deliberate . . ."

One by one, the twelve fan fiction writers left. As they passed me by, almost all of them were smiling - and one, I was sure, even winked at me.

Relieved, I sank back in my chair, to wait until they reached a decision.

An hour later, the jury reappeared.

"We have reached a decision," said the platypus. "We the jury find the defendant, Haldy's girl twenty five, not guilty. We would like to add, however, that if she has read the books, then why hasn't she changed her screen name, for fork's sake?"

I almost didn't hear the last part, so busy was I jumping up and down laughing hysterically.

Within ten minutes I was back in my story setting, watching through Lossenlossëwen's eyes as Boromir slowly, painfully died.

"Oh Boromir," sighed Lossenlossëwen. "I tired to warn u that this wuld hapen, but u did not listen 2 me. Y?"

"Lossenlossëwen," gasped the man. "Forgive me - I have failed u."

Sobbing, she watched as the lite went out of his eyes. He was dead.

Haldir apeared and put an arm around her shoulders. "Its ok, Lossenlossëwen. Its ok. He's going to a better place."

She sniffed. "Yah, I know, but I still can't get over the fact that he's dead."


I stood up and dried my eyes. "Ack. Couldn't they have at least warned me what was going to be happening as soon as I got back?"

Haldir, realizing that it was my shoulder he had his arm around backed away quickly. "Indeed." He gave me a scrutinizing look. "Why are you still here? I thought that nice Agent was going to torch you."

I stared at him blankly. "Nice? Torch me? No. You're still stuck with me."

Haldir groaned, and, turning in the other direction, ran away from me as quickly as he could.

Bored, with nothing better to do, I sat down by Boromir's body and waited for someone to come find me.

The Noble Platypus - :o) You're on the jury! Hooray! Don't feel bad for Melissa, because a). This is not a self-insert thing, and b). She deserves everything she gets. Mwahahaha. :o) Also - *waves back* Pancakes fan girl!


Phaidra - Did I update soon enough?


Huinesoron - Glad that even if you don't act like that in real life you still liked your fiction counterpart. :o) Sorry you didn't get to torch the Suvian - but then where would this story go?


Fireblade K'Chona - I didn't need another member of the jury in this chapter, but I might in other chapters, depending on where this goes. I'll keep your name in mind. :o)