Disclaimer: The characters and the places there of belong to Tolkien. No profit is being made. Nightshade and Alexa are original though.

Rating: PG

Character's: Alexa (oc), and Nightshade (oc).

Cameo Character's: Haldir, Legolas, Rúmil, and Orophin.

Easy as Falling

The sun rose high in the sky over the fair elvish city of Lothlórien as if waking from a long slumber. All was quiet in the Golden Woods and it is at this time two figures could be found on a flet built on and around the lower branches, Nightshade and Alexa where deep in conversation.

"This is what you do: You hide in the bushes and wait until he's in sight than you leave your hiding spot and start to walk towards him. Once you're close enough to him you just happen to trip over a tree root and he just happens to catch you. It's as easy as falling!" Nightshade used her hands as she talked and explained her idea to Alexa.

"What? Yeah maybe for you, you fall naturally. Clumsiness is apart of you; tree roots attack you all the time. You have no choice but to trip. Besides he'd see right through it, he might be blonde but he's not stupid." Alexa stood up from where she was sitting near the edge.

"Do you want to make the first move here or don't you?"

"Yes but I'm not going to throwing myself at him. That's totally sleazy, and unromantic. You got to plan these things out; it takes time and careful thought. You can't force love. Everything has to be perfect and the timing has to be right." Alexa twiddled her thumbs and started to pace back and forth in the middle of the talen. Nightshade pulled her feet to her body so that she could rest her arms on her knees; she then leaned her head back against the tree's trunk and closed her eyes.

"To bad the twins aren't here, they'd know what to do."

"NO! No, no, no, no! Thank you but no! Anything but them, last time they tried to 'help' it was a disaster. I had to hide form Elrond and Gandalf for nearly a month. It was horrible. They're still number one and two on my list and that's not good for them. So NO!"

Alexa continued to babble; Nightshade looked at her then rolled her eyes up to the sky and stared at it for a while.

"You had them apologizing for weeks." Nightshade finished talking and looked back at her friend her eyes widened and her jaw dropped open. She stood up slowly. "Alexa

What ever you do don't take a step back."

"Why not?"

Alexa looked at her skeptically, and then took another step back. Her foot met empty air and she struggled to keep her balance. Her arms flailed wildly.

"Alexa! No!"

Nightshade lunged forward but was too late. By the time she made it to the ledge Alex had plummeted over the side and out of sight.

"Alex! Alex where are you? Are you alright, I don't see you! Please say something, where are you? Alexa!"

"Look down"

Nightshade looked to the left and the right then finally down over the platform. There was Alexa holding on a branch with both hands looking up at her, a much larger branch came out in front of her a few feet above her head.

"Alexa! You're alive. Don't move I'll be right down. How did you get there any way that's like the oddest spot ever?"

"This is all your fault! Now hurry I don't like heights."

"My fault? How is this my fault? I told you not to take a step back."

"Everyone knows when you tell some one 'don't do this' they're going to do it anyway. It's inevitable."

"Well I didn't know!"

"Whatever just please hurry up my hands are slipping."

"I'm coming, don't go anywhere"

"Don't worry I won't".

Nightshade made her way down towards her friend carefully. She reached over the hanging branch just above Alexa's head, then slowly went to straddle it with both legs. Once she was straddling the branch she then crawled on her belly further out onto the branch so that she was right over Alexa on the lower branch. Nightshade looked to the branch below. Alexa looked up at her,

"Alex give me your hand."

They reached out towards each other, but there was an inch still between them.

"Just a little further…. Almost there. Stretch, keep stretching that's the key, keep stretching."

Their hands inched together little by little until they clutched each other.

"There we go now let go of the branch."

"What! NO!"

"Just do it!"

Alexa let go of the branch Nightshade jerked forward from the extra weight. Alexa dangled back and forth she was not happy, she glared at Nightshade.

"Now what stupid?"

"I um… pull you up."

"Pull me up! How are you going to do that! You could barely pull yourself up."

Alexa continued on talking loudly to herself and her friend. Nightshade simply rolled her eyes the looked down and then up the path. There was a distant murmur from down below. Someone was coming.

"Alex SHHHH! Do you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"I thought I heard something, it sounded like voices."

"So lots of people talk it could be anybody. Now pull me up."

"Alex the sun is barely up yet no wakes up that early unless they're going to the fields to practice."

"Nightshade!"

"Quiet they're getting closer"

They both looked down the path four figures where walking down it, quivers and bows strapped on their back and a sword at their waist. As they continued to come closer Nightshade was able to make out who they were and an idea came to her mind.

"They're getting closer."

"Who cares now get me up!"

"Just hold on."

"Nightshade! NO! My hands are slipping!"

"Just a bit longer… Steady now steady."

Alexa looked down, by now the four figures where in plain sight and she could tell who it was that was walking in front of the other three. In another few moments he'd be right below her. Her eyes widened and she looked back up at Nightshade.

"Don't you dare!"

Alexa tried to grasp Nightshade's hand with her other hand but to no avail. Just as the figure took his next step their hands slipped apart and Alexa started falling toward the ground. She shrieked loudly and tightly closed her eyes as she waited for her body to impact with the ground, but it never happened. A pair of strong muscular arms had caught her and held her secularly, holding her up with an arm supporting her back and under her knees. She wrapped her arms around the persons neck and held herself tightly to him resting her head at the nape of his neck she hid her face.

"Is it over?"

"Yes."

"Am I alive?"

"Yes."

She loosened her grip around his neck. Haldir set her down on her feet in front of him, his arms wrapped around her for support. Alexa's arms rested on his chest. They gazed into each other's eyes.

"Thank you"

"You're welcome."

It then seemed to Alexa that his face was getting closer and closer, which he was, they were just about to kiss when…

"Told you so. Told you so. Told you, told you, told you so. Told you…."

The sound of singing came from above. Alexa's eye twitched as all thoughts of being kissed were washed away and she looked up and growled. She looked back at Haldir and raised her index finger at him.

"Excuse me, just… Just one second I have to go and kill someone. Just… Hold that thought. I'll be right back."

Alexa turned and ran to the nearest set of stairs.

"NIGHTSHADE!"

Footsteps were heard from above as Nightshade made her exit.

"Yeah you better run cause once I get a hold of you, you're so dead!"

The guys watched as Alexa ran up the steps and out of sight but not out of hearing. They turned to each other in silence and blinked their eyes. The silenced past and they continued on their way to the practice field.