A/N: I wish I owned this. I don't though. Life was never fair…And like always, flashbacks will be in italics.


"Please tell me we're going to turn around!" I begged Strider as we climbed higher up the mountain, the storms getting worse the higher up we went.

Strider shook his head, "I'm unsure as of yet." He told me, gathering the two hobbits he had next to him closer as he walked. "It would be best if we kept going though, this is probably the safest route." He continued, his voice rising as the wind picked up, sending a hurricane of snow and ice towards us.

I swore under my breath and tried to pull myself closer to Adrian, who was trying to keep me as warm as he could.

By the way, did you know that elves (in other words, Legolas) are able to walk on top of snow? Yeah, they really do suck, don't they? Right now I really wish I was an elf.

As we continued trudging along, since walk is to strong of a word to describe exactly what we were doing, I heard a series of muffled shouts from the front of the line from Legolas, Aragorn, who had either moved way ahead of us, or we had fallen way back, and Gandalf right before a bolt of lightning struck the top of the cliff that was directly above us.

Now see, you must understand, that in this world we live in, if you hit a mountain with lightning, parts of said mountain will fall down. When there is snow on those parts than the snow comes toppling down as well.

Are we able to put two and two together to figure out what happened?

Now if you said the snow fell halfway down the mountain and magically stopped, you loose.

If you said the snow never fell at all, you really loose.

On the other hand, if you said that the snow fell and landed on us, burying us all under a white blanket of heavy snow, you win!

For your prize you get a vacation to this lovely mountain, where you too can be buried!

"Damn it! Holy effing shit!" I yelled when I surfaced after a minute or so of trying to dig myself out of the snow only to be literally pulled upwards by Erick and Adrian.

As I caught my breath and hung onto Erick for dear life I heard more shouting in front of us, catching parts of it along the lines of "Get off…mountain" We're getting off the mountain! YES! Followed closely by me hearing: "…Rohan…close…Isengard." What the fuck is Isengard!

I also heard Gandalf shouting something to Frodo, who sat there for a second, a contemplative look on his face before he finally shouted something that sounded like "Wheels will throw away pines," which for some reason that didn't strike me as right.

Whatever, I'll just follow everyone and hope that they have a better idea of where we're going than I do.

Although I'm unsure of what wheels and pine trees have anything to do with where we're going, or for that matter why Gandalf looks so concerned.

Now I really don't think this is about wheels and pine trees.

"Do you know where we're going?" I asked Jack, tugging on his shirt sleeve slightly.

"I think we're going someplace called the Mines of Moria or some shit like that. I dunno! Ask Strider, not me, I suck at things like this." He answered after a second.

"Maybe later…I'm way too bored to even think about walking waaaaaay up there to see Strider." I told Jack in a matter-of-factly way.

"You are aware that waaaaaaay up there is actually only like fifty feet?"

"So? Fifty feet is a long way."

"If you say so."

"I do."

Jack just shook his head at me and smiled slightly.

"Who's getting married?"

Jack and I turned around to see Zeke standing there behind us, looking at us with a fake suspicious look.

"Married?" We both asked together, exchanging looks before looking back at Zeke.

"I heard 'I do'. That's what people say when they're getting married!" He explained.

"Why, Jack and I are getting married!" I said, joking around.

"Awwwww…but I thought we were gonna get married!" Zeke joked as well, snapping his fingers out of "disappointment".

The three of us all looked at each other, trying to be serious for at least another minute, before we all burst into laughter.

I noted silently that Zeke and I had been getting a lot closer, for instance, we had been deliberately walking close to each other "accidentally" bumping into each other…I'm wondering if a bit of flirting will go further…I actually, much to my horror and surprise, find that I kind of do.

"Out of curiosity, how did the five of you meet?" I heard Boromir ask from his position to the left of me.

I noticed that his question attracted the attention of a lot of people in the Fellowship, including the hobbits, Strider, Gimli, and, strangely enough, Legolas and I think Gandalf, all of who turned their heads slightly towards us for a brief second before turning back around.

I guess any conversation that wasn't retarded was welcome…when Boromir asked us the question he was the only one talking.

I noticed that Erick and Adrian both fell back a few steps so they were with the three of us.

"It's a long story, you know?" I said.

"We have a lot of time." He answered.

I nodded, agreeing with him slightly before blurting out "I wanna tell the story!"

The other guys shrugged.

"Go for it." Adrian said. "It does make more sense, since you were the sort of outcast person. The way the four of us met is a crappy story. I needed band mates, they played instruments, and the rest is history. So tell away." He continued.

"Ok, so it was in September, right?" I waited for the guys' nods before continuing. "And it was a few weeks after school started…"


Noel's POV:

"Wow this is boring." I thought, looking at the clock between half lidded eyes, wanting to just be able to leave the wonderful place called detention. Yeah…detention, aren't I so bad? Ok, not really.

"Crap, I've been here five minutes." My head dropped on the table with a low thud.

Picking my head back up and, pulling out a random spiral notebook from my bag, I randomly doodled on a piece of paper, nodding my head along to the beat of the song Devils by The 69 Eyes.

"Hey, chick with the headphones!"

I glanced around slightly, looking for the person that was calling me, seeing as I did indeed right now have headphones and was a chick.

Finally, it probably took me so long due to my boredom, I saw another guy in behind of me and a few seats to my right.

I'm amazed the old lady teacher that was told to look after us didn't hear the guy…I guess all the rumors about the detention teacher having hearing issues was true.

I turned around in my chair to face him, looking back at the teacher, concerned that she would see me.

"Don't worry about her. She doesn't want to be here. She won't give us any trouble. Trust me on this." He grinned, getting up and moving himself and his bag up a few rows and a few seats over so he was at the desk next to me. He dropped his stuff next to the chair and sat down, propping his feet (complete with boots) up on the desk, causing the numerous chains on his pants to jingle.

"I'm Zeke." He said after watching me for a second and apparently deeming me alright.

"Noel." I responded back with a nod.

"So, Noel, what are you listening to?"

Before I could answer, two more boys came in as well. A guy with dark red hair followed by another guy with black hair, like Zeke's, but without the blue tips, and his was down, practically in his eyes.

The two guys gave Zeke small waves and grins and nodded to the detention teacher. Apparently they were here as often as Zeke was.

The two guys wandered over to where we were, giving me curious looks as they moved some chairs from the row in front of us back a bit and sitting on them backwards.

"So we meet again Zeke. And today somehow you have managed to sit next to a pretty girl without her punching you." The black haired guy said with a smirk.

"Thanks Jack. I'll always know that we're friends." Zeke said back, also with a smirk. "Anyways, this is Noel. She's cool."

Both the red haired guy and the black haired guy nodded at me slightly.

"I'm Jack, and that's Erick." The black haired guy introduced himself and the red haired guy, who I noticed was very quiet, intent on silently evaluating me apparently.

"So, who are you listening to?" Zeke asked, motioning to my CD player.

"The 69 Eyes." I answered, not expecting them to know who they were. Gotta love those Finnish bands.

"Devils?" The red haired guy, Erick, asked, allowing me to hear his voice for the first time.

"Yeah…you know The 69 Eyes?"

Erick nodded slowly with a smile, and then nodded to Jack and Zeke. I think that meant I had been approved.

"You're a freshman this year, right? I haven't seen you around before." Erick asked me.

"Yeah, I am…and you guys? I'm not even going to try to guess."

"Jack and I are juniors, and Erick is a senior, lucky bastard." Zeke answered, scowling at Erick, who gave him a wide grin.

"You guys seem really close." I noted out loud.

"Yeah, we've known each other since Jack and I were freshman, Erick was a sophomore, and Adrian, our other friend, was a junior. Adrian graduated last year." Zeke answered again.

"Wow." I said softly.

"Out of curiosity, Noel, do you play any instruments?" Erick asked me, looking at me and then the other guys and nodding again to them.

I nodded a yes. "Yep, I play guitar."

I noticed that the other guys' attentions were immediately captured.

"You any good?"

"I guess…all my friends say I should be lead guitar in a band." I answered Erick's second question.

All the guys exchanged looks and nods. It was almost like they were having a silent conversation. Finally Erick said something.

"We're in a band with Adrian, and we need a lead guitarist. I play guitar, but for a lot of our songs we need someone to do the backup lyrics, and I'm the only one who can play and sing at the same time, but I can't do lead guitar and backup vocals, that would kill me I would think." He said.

"So you wanna meet Adrian once we're freed from prison here? 'Cause you're really cool and even if you can't play worth shit we all can help you, because we want you to be in the band with us. " Zeke interrupted Erick enthusiastically.

Erick and Jack nodded their agreement.

"Doesn't this Adrian guy have a say?"

"He'll love you. We guarantee it." Zeke said with a grin

"What do you guys play?" I asked.

"I'm drums, Zeke is bass, as you heard already, Erick is rhythm guitar and backup vocals, and Adrian is vocals." Jack said, beating Zeke to it, who already had his mouth open to answer.

"Our lead guitarist moved away at the beginning of September, so we've been looking since then. So what do you say?" Zeke said as Jack took a breath. Clearly there had been a bit of a war with the talking going on between them.

I thought for a second. I always wanted to be in a band. And here was my chance, looking me right in the eyes. So I said the only thing anyone in my position would say.

"Hell yeah!"


"That night I met Adrian, he liked me, and we became a band, and by extension, best friends." I finished with a flourish.

"That was interesting…" Boromir said, trailing off, still a bit confused by some of the more modern terms in my story I'd imagine. I tried to explain them, but it's kind of hard. Thankfully the guys helped a lot.

I nodded and followed behind Erick, listening to him explain some of the parts of the story the Fellowship was in space over.

We walked for a bit longer until I promptly ran into Erick's back.

"Ow…" I muttered, rubbing my nose, which had made direct contact, and trying to ignore the muffled snickers that were around me. "Where are we?" I asked.

"The Mines of Moria." I heard Gimli say softly. I suspected that he wasn't answering for me though…I heard somewhere along the trip that these mines were made by dwarves. Since Gimli was a dwarf I would imagine he was sort of in awe over the…

Big rock with two trees and a lake?

"Ok then…" I thought, wondering at the sanity of dwarves.

Well, since these are mines they probably won't have any tall heights I'd imagine, well aware of my morbid fear of heights.

I really hope there aren't any heights. And it would just suck ass if there was like a big, really deep crevice with a little bridge without railings going across it that we had to cross or something.

That was actually my literal nightmare.

I've been having nightmares about being stuffed in that scenario for years.

Well, that shouldn't happen in a mine, with it being underground and all.


A/N: I'M SORRY! I said I'd update like three weeks ago. Sorry! I gave you a long chapter to apologize…

On the thought of the Finnish band The 69 Eyes, they are incredible, look them up; they rock my world these days (along with My Chemical Romance). And I just had to have them rock Noel's too…

I've decided that I'm going to hold off the editing for another chapter as another form of I'm sorry that I was waaaaaaay late with this chapter. So…I'm going to tell you to expect a new chapter by mid to late September since school is starting and all (which sucks) and things are going to be chaos.

Thanks to my reviewers! I love you all so much! You can get brownies this week. Feel free to add whatever you want to them. evil grin And thanks to those who read this and didn't review…I can see that I have a bunch of hits, and I thank you! Now for my individual responses…

Crecy- Thanks so much! I love the guys too…they're dorks. But we love our dorky guys. My Chemical Romance is incredible, I saw them at Warped Tour and was astounded! My favorite song is probably The Ghost of You…it's so haunting! I'm happy that that's their next video. Thanks for the review!

EverAfter-01- Yesssss…she's finally starting to realize things are not so safe. cackles Erick has a gift. He can produce cigarettes magically! So yeah, I guess there is a magic pocket. I don't know really, maybe he's rationing? I'll make that his last one. He'll be horrified to discover that…I'll get him more in Lorien! 'Cause I'm cool like that. I like the name Zeke too…there's a Zeke in about every story of mine…Lol Here's the new chapter!

Babii-Gurl07- Thanks! I'm not sure how far the romance will go, but I'm thinking that there will be some! Zeke apparently has brain problems and insults PMS. He's a retard, but I love him to death. Erick on the other hand, is smart…he knew that if he let them argue one of them would have a broken nose…Lol Maybe they'll get in a fight later, I haven't thought about it yet, but it sounds appealing! Thanks!

Fae Black- Noel isn't very good at keeping her mouth shut, so of course she needed to comment to Boromir! I've never threatened to use my brother for a dart board, so I have to say, you've beaten me in the bitchyness! As I mentioned above, Zeke seems to not be so smart, so he taunts Noel…they'll be an odd couple. Maybe that's why I kind of want them to be a couple now! Thanks a bunch!

Mystical Full Moon Maiden- Hey! I'm not sure of how far the relationship will go, but it's definitely going somewhere…And I think if there was an elf nearby who was walking on snow I would throw snowballs! I'm mean like that though. And Zeke is an interesting man, so it would make sense for him to have interesting looks! You have Legolas hair! That's COOL! Sorry…hyper…Lol Thanks for the review!

Stephanie- I like your reviews! They make me feel good, and hyper. You make me feel hyper Steph. NYC kicked ass! I'm so glad you came with me! And yes, I'm obsessed with LotR…Lol I'm a dork! And yes, the romance is coming! And I'm glad you can spell awesome. You make me proud. Thanks for the encouragement!

Crow13- I'm not that mean…I'm mean, but not that much…I hope you had fun at Warped with me, even if I did get sick and almost pass out. We got to see My Chemical Romance though! And Atreyu! Thanks for the review and I'm definitely, as I've mentioned, developing the Zeke/Noel romance…Thanks a lot!

Lindley- I have no idea when I started writing this…sometime during last year…I have NO idea, and I'm too lazy to see when I published it. Thanks for your review; I'm glad I wrote to your satisfaction! I'll see you around school as well…Oh, and if you get me, I'll get you back! Jk. See you around, and thanks for the review!

Oh, and by the way, to everyone…I got an IM off Yahoo a while back (like June lol) from someone named daedhraug when I was away and I figured out who it was but then forgot…so if this person is you, I'm sorry I wasn't there! That being said, if you want to IM me using AIM, MSN, or Yahoo, my screen name is swimgalfly. And I don't bite, though I do forget to put up away messages.

That was random, but whatever…I'll update as soon as I can and thanks for all your encouragement everyone! Thanks all!

Till Later,

Celebel