Disclaimer; No Tolkien recognizable characters are mine. All hail the long awaited return of Camacil!
The sun was rising. As Bridget stood upon the edge of the cliff, leaning into the breeze, her hair whipped around her face, tasting the salt tang of the sea, Legolas watched her and thought she had never looked more beautiful.
Today was the day. Bridget was going to jump off a cliff. He couldn't believe it! This was suicide!
"Gandalf!" He cried, "You're not really going to let her do this?"
"I told you Legolas, I researched this. It is completely sound. Once I knew what I was looking for I recognized more references in other scrolls. The evidence also complies with how Bridget herself came to be here. Trust me Legolas, this is the only way for Bridget to return to her own world."
Legolas was still fuming. That wasn't good enough! Why was he the only one who saw how stupid this was? And why wasn't Camacil here yet? Legolas had sent a messenger bird back to Mirkwood as soon as he knew for sure that Bridget was going through with this madness. Camacil should have been here days ago. He would have to stall for time. Again.
"Bridget…wait, um…"
"Yes? Last good-byes? Don't go getting all mushy on me elf-boy, you know I'm not good with sentimentality."
"Why do you have to go at all? You could stay here."
"With you?"
"Me? What? Why would you say that?"
"Oh I don't know, maybe I thought you had another reason for wanting me to stay. But you're just…concerned for my safety?"
She was staring at him, not blinking. With the sun behind her, her eyes were dark, though he knew in the light they would shine an almost red mahogany brown, like her hair. He could get lost in those eyes, it was rather unnerving.
"Yes, your safety. I was concerned. And-"
But whatever Legolas was going to say next was lost as who should come riding up on roan stallion but Camacil, looking about as disheveled as it is possible for an elf to look while still being perfectly gorgeous.
'About bloody time!' thought Legolas.
"Bridget! Where are you going without giving me a goodbye kiss?"
"Camacil? Ha! The only kisses you'll be getting are from your horse."
"Haha, very funny." He said, walking up to her and putting an arm around her waist in order to turn her around and put himself between her and the cliff edge. "Seriously Bridge, what are you doing? You don't need to pull stunts like this to get attention, just being you is enough."
"I'm not 'pulling a stunt' spaz-cake, this is serious. Get out of the way."
"I can't let you do this, I'm your friend and I care about you."
"God damn you have you got monkey nuts for brains! I know what I'm bloody well doing!"
Bridget and Camacil are now grappling with each other right on the edge of the cliff. Camacil, surprised at how strong Bridget really is (she's been doing archery with Legolas), is momentarily caught off his guard. Taking full advantage of the situation Bridget reaches up as high as she can and punches him square on the nose.
"Oww! You bitchth, thath's my nosth!" he yells, stumbling backwards holding his face, "it'sth bleeding!"
"Oh my god I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to, Camacil stop!"
Bridget saw the danger before he did, but it was too late. Camacil takes one too many steps backwards and stumbles over the edge, Bridget jumps forward to grab his hand and just reaches it, but she doesn't have the weight to stop the momentum and with a shocked cry the two of them tumble over the cliff.
"No!" Legolas cries out, running forward and peering over the edge. "It's not possible! They're gone!"
The others join him. Far below the sea surges and crashes it self against the rocks, but the two friends would not yet have had time to reach it. They had simply vanished.
"Well I guess it worked then." Mumbled Gandalf, more than a little awed, "And it appears Camacil has gone with her. At lest he will not be alone in a strange world, as Bridget was."
"No…" Legolas sighs, whether from agreeing with Gandalf, or because he still can't believe that Bridget is really gone, we'll never know.
A few moments later, in a place far, far away, directly above Waikoropupu Springs in the South Island of New Zealand, as a matter of fact, two figures suddenly appear in the sky, plummet down, and fall with a loud splash and an ungainly flailing of limbs into the ever cold, turquoise clear blue water.
"Aaaaarrrrrg! My limbs! It's coold!" Bridget screams when her head pops up out of the water.
"Wow!" Calls Camacil, "I've gone all numb! I've never been numb before."
"Ssssnot on you, sssspaz-cake. Why'd you have to be sssso possssitive." She shiver-talks as she crawls out of the lake.
Luckily for them, it was the middle of winter in New Zealand, so there weren't any Asians, Germans, Englishmen, or tourists of any other ethnicity's standing around with cameras taking photos of themselves. So they were safe for a while from having to explain how they fell out of the sky to any media, scientists, or worse, politicians.
"Do you know where we are?" Camacil asks.
"Yes. I've been here with my family. Come on, I know the way home."
Together they start to walk along the road, both looking forward to a hot bath and dry clothes, unaware of the strange twist of fate that had been played on them.
A/N: Well folks, that's the end of Moonshine. But don't worry, I have a sequel already clogging up my brain, I just need LOTS and LOTS of REVIEWS so that I know it's worth bugging my friends to let me use their computers over, seeing as how I don't have one. So don't leave me hanging! Make me feel loved. ;o).
Aaarg! I forgot review responses, but here they are;
ArwenEvenstar83; Yes the text phone writing was hard to read, but it had to be, other wise Gandalf wouldn't have missed it. And I did explain about "cark it", it is a disphemism for dying commonly used in New Zealand. And as for suicide? Well, shes not dead yet is she? So don't worry, thanking you very muchly for the support!
Fk306 animelover; Lol, I will thank you again and again, I just love reviews.
Estelle Tiniwiel; I'm so happy you like my use of language! Words give me thrills. Ohhhhuhu…shivers.
Child of Fenris; Hahahahaha! She doesn't die! And now Camacil has been dragged away on a adventure and I'm going to torture him!
LOTR Lover 24 and 7; Numbers 24 and 7? Ok cool. No you haven't reviewed my story before, but please, don't stop now, I love hearing from people who like my writing, and even those who don't. They give me a laugh.