Disclaimer: I don't own lord of the rings. So sad....

Ah, Hell

My Best friend.

Kathy and Ariel were driving back from the bar. Kathy was hammered as usual and Ariel was nicely toasted for the first time. It was Ariel's twenty-first birthday and Kathy had taken her out to get drunk, and experience bar-hopping. Kathy was twenty-five, so she was already familiar with the bar scene.

The air that night was unusually thick, and Ariel, through her blurred vision, noticed that the cab driver was having problems seeing. She moved forward and put her hand on the back of cabby's seat. "Excuse me, sir, can you see through the fog okay?" She was amazed that she was able to get the sentence out without slurring it, when just ten minutes earlier she couldn't tell male from female.

The cab driver nodded and Ariel sat back in her seat. About ten minutes later Ariel and Kathy heard a loud crash. The cab driver swore, "Oh, shit!" They watched as the cars in front of them spun out of control and slammed into one another. Without thinking, the cab driver jerked the wheel to the right and then to the left, trying his best not to collide with four already wrecked cars. Ariel's fingers gripped the seat cushion, and Kathy screamed "Wheeee!" as the cabbie did his best to maneuver out of danger.

Finally the cab driver was able to steer clear of the wreck and continue on his way. Soon after, the cab driver pulled off the road and into a small parking lot. "Okay, here we are ladies! That will be thirty-five even." Ariel went into her purse and pulled out a twenty and two tens (at least she hoped it was), and handed them to the cab drier.

"Keep the rest," she told him, then opened the door and the two inebriated women stumbled to the stairs up to their apartment. Ariel fumbled with the keys for a while, trying to steady her hand while she put the key in the lock. Finally the door opened and the two girls wobbled inside. They struggled to remove their shoes and then went to their rooms and collapsed on their beds, leaving there clothes on.

Kathy was the first to wake; she woke up with a hangover from hell. "Oh shit, I think I drank too much again," She said as she got to her feet with much effort. Ariel woke up moments after Kathy. "Why is it so cold and breezy in here?" She asked as she staggered around, trying to find her friend. Its was about five minutes later that the girls noticed that they were not in their apartment. Kathy and Ariel were standing side by side in an open field. "Okay Kathy, is this another one of your friends' stupid tricks?" Ariel said, assuming that one of their friends had somehow managed to move them out there in the middle of the night.

"Ariel, Bill and Dan would not do this. This is a little to out of their league." She shot back. They just stood there, looking out at the vastness of their surroundings for a few moments. They scanned every direction over and over again to find some sort of civilization, but there was nothing. "Well, at least we didn't change into our pajamas last night," Kathy said, attempting to laugh at the situation they were in. Ariel turned to Kathy with a look of frustration and pointed to their feet. "Yeah, at least we have decent clothes on," she said sarcastically. Kathy looked at their feet and noticed that neither of them had shoes on. Kathy was still wearing both of her socks, but Ariel was curiously only wearing one.

Kathy and Ariel just sat there, staring at the nothingness that they where stuck in. The clouds soon grew dark and the air grew cold. Ariel looked down at her watch. It was still before noon. They could hear thunder off in the distance. "Wonderful, it's going to rain. Nothing like sitting in a freezing cold rain in your socks," Ariel sarcastically commented. A short time later a few drops began to fall. As soon as they looked up at the sky, as if someone was playing a cruel joke on them, buckets of rain immediately fell onto there faces. "Boy, this is nice," Kathy said while turning and grinning at Ariel. Ariel just glared at her friend and started walking off. "Come on we have to find some place to stay." Ariel said as she sped up her pace.