Disclaimer: It's Tolkien's not mine.
A/N: I got such a great response from Prisoner of the Fellowship that I thought I'd see what you thought of this one. Careful What You Wish For is a Haldir story. It will be posted on my site soon.
Brianna shuts her door and leans against it as she listens to the car speed away. She kicks off her shoes and sinks onto the couch.
"You'd think I'd learn," she says out loud and rubs her head trying to ease her headache. "That was the worst date ever."
Sighing she drags herself off the couch to go take a shower. Once she scrubs away the stench of the bar her date took her too, she steps out of the shower and dries off.
She slips on a T-shirt and boxer style shorts and then steps out onto her balcony. Brianna breathes in the fresh air and looks up at the stars. She smiles as she recalls a poem from her childhood.
"Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. Wish I may, wish I might. Grant me this wish I wish tonight. I wish to find love in a place filled with magic." Brianna laughs at herself. "I'm such a moron."
Brianna turns and goes back inside, missing the strange glow of the star she was looking at. She turns off the light and climbs into bed, falling asleep almost instantly.
Brianna wakes up and jumps up startled. "What the hell?" She looks around and instead of seeing the four walls of her room she finds nothing but trees. She shakes her head and grins. "Alright Rick, you got me. We're even so come on out."
She waits for a minute and after no response she tries again. "Rick, the jokes over. You win."
Still no response.
"Rick?" She starts getting worried and looks around. "Rick, this isn't funny anymore."
Thinking she's in the park not far from her home she starts walking. "He is so dead when I find him."
After walking for over half an hour she stops and looks around in confusion. "The park isn't this big."
She hears someone coming toward her and relaxes. "Rick, you ass." She turns around. "It's about..." She screams at the sight of the creature in front of her. It has the form of a human but it's skin is black and rubbery. It's eyes are yellow and the stench coming from it is nausinating.
She steps back but stops when she finds herself surrounded by the foul creatures. She starts to panic as they close in around her.
All of a sudden she hears a soft whistle like something was flying at high speed through the air and a sickening thud. Brianna stares at the creature in front of her that now has an arrow sticking out of its neck. Before she has a chance to react the air is filled with the whistling sound and then the thuds as the arrows hit their mark. She looks around in shock at the creatures that are now lying lifelessly on the ground.
Brianna starts backing away from the creatures slowly. When she's a good distance away she turns to run but is stopped dead in her tracks by an arrow just inches from her throat.
Out of the corner of her eyes she can see that she's now surounded and all of them have arrows aimed at her. She doesn't dare take her eyes off the person in front of her, afraid that any movement will cause them to shoot her. Not that she could move anyway since she is frozen with terror.
A tall man with long hair so blonde that its almost white walks past the man in front of her and motions for them to lower their bows. His eyes travel down her body before he looks back at her with an arogant expression. "Who are you and what are you doing walking alone and barely clothed in the forest of Lothlorien?"
"That's a good question." Brianna tries to sound confident but inside she's shaking in fear. "I think I'm lost." Her eyes widen when she catches a glimpse of his ear and she glances at the man behind him and sees that his ears are also pointed. She returns her eyes to the man that had spoke to her and takes in his flawless skin. Since he is standing so close to her she also notices a faint ethereal light surounding him. She begins to visibly shake with fear as she looks up at him. "What are you?"
He looks at her in confusion. "We are Elves, the same as you."
"Elf?" she asks wide-eyed and then her surprise turns to confusion and she subconciously reaches up to touch her ear. "I'm not an..." Her eyes go wide as she feels the pointed tip of her ear. She looks at her hand to find the same ethreal light emitting from her skin.
Brianna's heart starts beating faster, her breathing becomes heavy and she reaches out for something to hold onto as everything starts to go dark. She vaguely feels someone catch her before she hits the ground as she passes out.