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Unexpected Vacation

Chapter 5

I slowly open my eyes to a dark room.

'Where am I?'

Suddenly everything that has happened from Legolas to Erik, to cake, to the hospital come's flooding in.

I quickly turn to the bed. Legolas' sleeping figure looks so...I don't know, depressingly great in the bit of sun shinning through the window. But I quickly shove that out of my mind.

'Has he woken up yet?'

I remember the nurse coming in with the paperwork, and after taking a look at it I realized that our insurance was so high that it would almost completely cover the incident.

'How much can 2 shots cost?'

I look at my watch.

Its 12:30, which means I have slept about an hour and a half, seeing we left the house around 11 o'clock.

I sigh. I thought elves don't sleep that much. How come he's sleeping so long?

My thoughts are broken by a knock on the door.

We are in one of those rooms where about 3-4 beds where, each separated by curtains. I haven't really thought of the fact that more people are probably in the other beds until now.

"Come in."

I say quietly, seeing that I am the only person awake in the whole section.

A young, (really cute) guy walks in pushing a tray of the normal hospital food.

His shirt is black with a strange symbol on it, which I realize to be the bird symbol from Isengard. 'Pretty cool', I think.

He stops, smiles, and then keeps on pushing the cart over to one of the other beds.

I watch him carefully place the tray on the little foldout table connected to a bed with an elderly woman in it.

Somehow he looks terribly familiar, and it nags at my brain something awful.

He turns to leave when I feel like I need to say something.

It bugs me incredibly, so much that I just can't let him go without asking.

"Excuse me?"

He stops and turns.

"Can I help you?"

I nod.

"Don't I know you from somewhere?"

He stops and looks at me for a minute.

"Tami...?"

I watch him. Who is he? Where have I heard his accent before?

And then suddenly it comes to me.

Tobias.

Tobias, from when I was 9. Tobias, my very first friend ever. Tobias from Europe.

"Toby!!"

I screech and run up to hug him. But when I get closer to him, I suddenly feel incredibly shy.

I hug him anyway.

"Oh my word! What are you doing here?"

He rapidly gets into an exited conversation about how his family needed to come here on business for a few years, and that he had tried to contact me at the old house we had moved out of a few years back.

"But why are you here? Is everything alright?"

He asks me, sounding worried.

I Nod.

"Its just...well, me and my...my friend came across some bad cake."

I nod my head toward 'Wil'.

"Will your boyfriend be alright?"

I nod and then blush when I realize what was said.

"Oh, he's not my...where not...I mean, he's just a..."

I would've rambled on, but Toby puts his hand up.

"Say no more, I understand. We where best friends at one point too, remember?"

He grins and I grin back.

"So how about you, do you have a girl friend or did you leave her in Germany? And why didn't you write me?"

I ask casually, grinning so hard it hurts.

Through all of this, Legolas has sat perfectly still, not wanting to disturb the happy conversation. Yeah, right.

'I can not believe this...' he thinks to himself.

Though he wouldn't admit it, Legolas felt left out, and a bit.... Jealous.

But wouldn't you, if you where sick with a 'terrible' case of allergic reaction, and the only friend you had at the time was busy flirting with a nurse?

"I love your shirt. Where did you get it?"

Legolas could hear Tami say. Curious, he opened his eyes ever just so slightly to see what the fuss was about.

Seeing the shirt, Legolas jumped out of the bed and ran towards Toby.

"Stop right there, evil creature! I shall not let you harm my friend in any way!"

I stare. Then without thinking, I burst out laughing. Toby's confused face mixed with Legolas' angry one looks too hilarious to imagine.

Barely containing the tears that want to run down my cheeks, I walk in between Legolas and Toby.

"Legolas, you (giggle) can't do that. I understand what your getting at, but this is just a t-shirt—just something this guy bought off the Internet! I swear on my...my hair, he is not evil."

Legolas looked somber now, like everything he had grown to understand in his world was wrong in this one.

Toby continued to stare. His confused face had turned into an almost scared one, as he realized that Legolas really wanted to kill him.

"Wait—Did you say Legolas?"

Now it was my turn to stare at what Tobias said.

Darn, Darn, Darn!

"uuuuuuuuuuh... No, I said...I said..."

It wouldn't work. I had absolutely no excuse for this one, and there was no way I could trick Toby into believing Legolas was outfitted for a costume party.

"It is Legolas! Wait...are you serious? This can't be Legolas...I mean, dude..."

I felt helpless. I mean, I also felt a bit relieved, because now I might have someone to share this secret with. But this could also cause an immense amount of trouble...

Legolas looked confused, like the whole saga of 'is it really you?' was beginning all over again.

I pull him away from Toby so he (or more I) can relax.

"Legolas.... are you feeling any better?"

The sudden normality of the question slightly startles all of us, but he finally nods.

I notice that the welts have gone down to about abnormal bug-bite level, which is good.

"Do you think you're healthy enough to leave?"

He nods again.

I stare at Toby one last time, then taking his hand I slowly start walking Legolas out of the hospital room.

"Wait—your not just going to leave, are you? You can't! I need to know how this happened, and I need to know you again!"

I shake my head, trying hard not to cry at the memories pouring in with each sound of his great accented voice.

"This shouldn't have happened in the first place. Its all the cakes fault, and I can't allow someone else to be dragged into this mess. I need to get him back, Toby. We can get together after all this is over."

Legolas lets me pull him into the hall.

Toby runs out and grabs my arm, not really a good idea since Legolas looks like he is ready to kill him again.

I turn and stare at Toby, an exasperated look on my face.

"You can't handle this all by yourself, Tam. You need someone's help."

I sigh.

Pulling a piece of paper out of my pocket, both guys watch me quickly scribble a phone number on it.

"Call me sometime... And we'll talk about it some more. Right now I need to get home and think a bit, okay?"

He slowly nods and takes my pen and copies my number onto his hand.

Then he writes his phone number on the back of the paper.

I put the paper in my raincoat pocket (still over my Pajamas, I might add) and turn to go, a somber Legolas following me.

The car ride home is a quiet one.

Norah Jones 'Don't Know Why' is playing quietly on the radio and it actually calms me down a bit.

I waited 'til I saw the sun

Don't know why I didn't come

Left you by the house of fun

Don't know why I didn't come

Don't know why I didn't come

Suddenly I really listen to the song, which I have never really done. It seems Legolas is listening to it too, because he has gotten awfully quiet after I talked him into getting in the car.

When I saw the brake of day

Wish that I could fly away

Instead of kneeling in the sand

Catching tear drops in my hand

My heart is drenched in wine

You'll be on my mind

Forever

A silent tear rolls down my cheek, but for what reason I have no idea, except maybe its from seeing Toby again. Or maybe it's from all the stress. I don't really know.

Out across the endless sea

I would die of ecstasy

But I'll be a bag of bones

Driving down the road alone

My heart is drenched in wine

But you'll be on my mind

Forever

Legolas turns to looks at me, and I think he is startled to see the tears streaming down my cheeks.

Something has to make you run

Don't know why I didn't come

Feel as empty as a drum

Don't know why I didn't come

Don't know why I didn't come

Don't know why I didn't come.

The song ends and we pull into the driveway. But we don't get out.

The rain is still pouring down.

"What was that? What was that sound, coming from your machine? ...Are you alright?"

Legolas whispers quietly.

I sigh and stare at him for a minute or two.

"When I was nine, my family moved from Europe to America. It was a big change for me, even though I was so young. I had grown up there, and to be told we where going some place completely different, hundreds of miles away.... It was hard, you know? But it wasn't just that. Growing up, Toby was my only friend. We both lived out in the middle of nowhere, and his dad's farm was across the street from our house.

"We played all these extravagant pretend games, and I didn't want it to ever end. But it would no matter what, I guess.

When I found out we where moving, I was exited at first. We had visited my grandparents once before, and America seemed like a great fun place to visit again. It didn't really hit me until we where driving away and I looked out the window and saw Tobias staring at us in the distance that we weren't really coming back."

I am suddenly silent, realizing that I have just spilled over a part of my life in just a few seconds.

"No... Legolas, I don't think anything's all right anymore. You have only been here one day and look! My brother's mad at me, I got you sick, I saw Toby..."

"But I thought you where exited about...about this 'Toby'. And my illness was not your fault, Tami."

I am surprised to hear him say my name. It has always made me happy when guys say my name, because they never really do it often. An incredibly weird thing to think about (I know), but it just makes me happy. And it doesn't sound as plain when Legolas says it. It sounds real, more magical in some bizarre way.

"I was happy... I mean, I haven't seen him in years! But this is all hitting me pretty hard. We still need to figure out how you even got here, right? And about Merry and Pippin... They'll need to go back too..."

I sigh. Then suddenly I realize.

I turn to Legolas.

"You know what? This is just too much. I think I should do what any normal girl would do in my case."

Legolas stares at me.

"And... And what is it that normal girls do in your case?"

I giggle at his worried face and wipe my tears away with my sleeve.

Putting the keys back in the ignition, I turn and grin at him.

"Legolas, whether you like it or not, thousands of girls around the continents have only dared to dream of this happening to them. A bunch of them have even written story's about meeting you! But the biggest thing is, most girls wouldn't take it as seriously as I'm taking it.

If you where with someone else, you would probably be out at malls, or in movie theaters, or at theme parks! And all I'm doing is worrying. Well, I'll do that later. Today, I'm going to show you around my hometown, and just have fun being the girl who actually gets to hang out with Legolas! Okay?"

I don't wait for his answer, but pull out of the driveway and down towards the shopping square.

TBCTBCTBCTBC.....

Okay, not the best, but done in a rush since school is starting. gag

It was incredibly predictable that part of my life's story would eventually come out in a fan fiction, but I didn't expect it to happen the way it did.... Oh well... No one cares about my life's story anyway, right? It's not like any of you will hunt me down…I hope…

So as I said, rushed, I know, and parts are shoved in at strange moments, along with some un-needed stuff… But again, oh well. I'd say I'll write more soon, but you all know that is a lie. (Don't hit me!). Please review!

-Tats