Gabrielle: haha, well you never know which way it will go. ;)
Okay enjoy the chapter. I know I normally update daily but next will I have to teach at this Vocation Bible School camp thing so it might be touch and go. shudder stupid VBS...I got a free t-shirt though! go me:) Just thought I'd let you all know that in advance. Oh, if I suddenly disappear and not post anything for more then a week, the children drove me to insanity. ;) Happy reading!
Chapter thirteen
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It only took an hour before Gwen realised what the two Dark Lords had done. Somehow, they had exchanged the milk, water, and juice with a very strong alcoholic beverage that none had picked up on. When she realised that everyone, including the Valar and excluding Morgoth and Sauron, were drunker then skunks she quickly ran to the front of the dining hall and locked the door. Morgoth and Sauron looked surprised at her action.
"You're not drunk?" Sauron asked.
"I only get drunk once at camp and I did that last night. What did you do to them?" Gwen demanded.
Morgoth shrugged.
"We exchanged the liquids with very potent alcoholic beverages," he replied.
Gwen threw her hands up in disgust.
"Damnit Morgoth!" she exclaimed smacking him in the chest.
"Think of it as pay back for the picture yesterday," Sauron put in.
"Well I was working on payback but not to this degree!"
Just then a very drunk Aragorn walked by and put his arm around Sauron.
"Hey baby, let's me and you go out sometime. I won't tell Arwen if you won't tell Morgoth," he said.
Sauron made a gagging noise and pushed Aragorn's arm off his shoulder.
"Morgoth, I don't think I like this," Sauron exclaimed.
"Varda! You know I love you baby! Please come back to me!" Manwë shouted across the dining hall.
"You and me both Sauron," Gwen replied.
"I think you're hot Morgoth!" a camper yelled out and then ran open armed at Morgoth. He winced and pushed the girl away before she could touch him.
"I thought this would be funny but it's damn right creepy," he said shuddering.
"Well it's your own bloody fault," Gwen yelled.
"So what do we do with them?" Sauron asked.
"Well we have to get them all to their rooms. We know where all the staff members live but for the campers, I have no idea," Gwen replied.
"Well we'll just stick everyone in a bed and hope for the best."
Gwen walked over to Fëanor and picked him off the chair. She thought it would be best to get the violent ones from the dining hall first.
"Come on Fëanor, we're going to bring you to bed," she said soothingly.
"No! No bed! I gotta find Morgoth and say sorry. I didn't mean to try and kill him because he stole my Silmarils. I wanna be friends!"
Gwen rolled her eyes and grabbed him by the arm.
"I'm sure he knows it," she said leading him from the dining hall. Gwen turned around and caught Morgoth's eye. He inwardly shuddered after hearing Fëanor's words.
"This plan did not go right at all," he said sighing.
"You could say that again," Sauron replied leading a sobbing Manwë from the room.
Morgoth then found Elrond, who looked as if he was yelling obscenities in Elvish. Then he stopped and broke down into sobs. Morgoth rolled his eyes and pulled him from the chair.
"This is going to be a long afternoon…"
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An hour later the three of them had most of the staff members to their rooms. A few times Gwen would catch one of them attempting to leave their room and so Gwen decided to lock them from the outside. This proved very wise. Gwen also began to get annoyed with the drunken blather from the people she would be spending six-weeks with so she asked Morgoth and Sauron if they knew any spells or potions that would make them all fall asleep and stay asleep so it would be easier to get them to their rooms. Morgoth did know something to the affect and after leading Arwen to her room she walked into the dining hall to the sound of silence. It felt blissful.
"The silence is killing me!" yelled Sauron as he came back into the dining hall after bringing Thuringwethil to her room.
Gwen rolled her eyes.
"I'll put some music on in the centre stereo," she replied.
She left the dining hall and made a side trip to her room where she picked up the CD 'Nightfall in Middle-Earth' by Blind Guardian. Afterwards she left Lammoth and headed to the centre stereo. The centre stereo was, as in the name, located in the centre of the camp. This stereo could put out music all across the camp and everyone would be able to hear it. The stereo was empty at the moment, nobody had a use for it until now, and she placed the CD in and pressed play.
As she walked back to the dining hall to take more drunk and sleeping campers to their rooms Morgoth emerged with Gollum over his shoulder.
"What CD is this?" he asked.
"It's called Nightfall in Middle-Earth by a really good band called Blind Guardian. I thought you might like it," Gwen replied as she passed him.
"Yeah, well the first one is a little weird. It's not even a song," he said.
She nodded.
"Du'h, it's you and Sauron talking at the War of Wrath," Gwen said before she went into the dining hall.
"What?" he asked turning around, but she was already inside. He turned back around and continued walking to Lammoth.
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It was around six o'clock at night by the time they had put all the staff and campers to bed in their dorms. None of them were sure that the campers were in the right rooms but it didn't matter. They could fix it themselves tomorrow.
The three sat on Lammoth's outside porch on comfy beach chairs. Gwen sipped a pink lemonade and Sauron gulped down a Long Island ice tea. The music was still playing, it had played over too many times to count already, and Morgoth was beginning to like the music.
"This is not that bad," he said.
"It's only the best band in the world. They actually prevented me from disappearing with the rest of the original staff members," Gwen replied.
"Really now? How did that happen?" Sauron asked.
Gwen took a sip of her lemonade.
"Well their new CD came out the day before camp started. So I left to buy the CD and by the time I got back everyone had disappeared," she replied.
"Yeah, and then you insulted me," Morgoth said.
Gwen shrugged.
"I insulted a Dark Lord. I'm invincible," she said laughing.
Morgoth's face broke into a delicately evil smile. He glanced at Sauron and his smile widened.
"Oh Sauron, guess who's not here to defend the human?" Morgoth asked.
Sauron raised his eyebrows and then broke into an evil grin. Before the two could tackle her, Gwen was up and running across the Great Lawn.
"You'll never get away!" Sauron yelled as the two chased after her.
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Gwen knew of a place that neither Morgoth nor Sauron would ever find her. She took a side trip to her room and pulled out a dusty copy of The Hobbit and took off again. She ran past the staff parking lot and disappeared into the woods.
She hiked up the side of a hill and found her special tree. Three years ago, when she had been dating Erik the theatre director, they had taken a hike up this hill and found a beautiful tree. The two built a wooden platform with one side wall and a roof inside the branches and they would sneak off to the tree at night to talk and be alone.
Gwen climbed up the rope ladder and landed on the wooden platform. It still looked exactly like she remembered it. There was a mattress next to the back wall and a wooden trunk next to the tree. She opened the wooden trunk and found two blankets, two pillows, a water bottle, a bag of salt and vinegar chips, a flashlight, a lantern, a deck of cards, and a package of gum. Gwen pulled out the blankets, pillows, flashlight, lantern, and the gum and sat down on the mattress. She took out a piece of gum and popped it into her mouth and pulled the blanket around her. She opened her book and began reading.
She knew that they would never find her here and she was glad. Maybe for a controlled amount of time it, being chased around by two Dark Lords and almost getting killed would be fun. But now she just needed alone time. She missed Jack, and Erik, and so many other friends who had been staff members. She put the book down and stood up. She walked to the edge of the platform and looked up at the sky. The stars were beginning to twinkle in the sky, even though the sun had not yet gone down. From in the distance she could hear Morgoth and Sauron calling her name. She smirked knowing that they would never find her up here. They wouldn't even know where to begin in these woods. Sighing to herself, she walked back to the mattress and sat back down. Her thoughts shifted to Erik who was probably doing something not-so-heroic in Middle-Earth.
I miss you guys. Yes, I enjoy having these Tolkien characters here but I miss you and I hope you all come home safely.
She put the book down and stretched back onto the mattress. She pulled the pillows together under her head and pulled the blankets close. Before sleep claimed her she heard her name shouted through the trees back at camp. She fell asleep with a smile on her face
Ha, I fooled the Dark Lords.
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"Oh give it a rest Sauron, she fooled us. She knew of a place to hide and she won't be coming out," Morgoth said.
The two had called out Gwen's name for the past half-hour now and they had checked every nook and cranny that they knew existed in the camp. Morgoth had decided it was time to turn in.
"I'm going to bed," he said.
"But you've just been bested by a girl! Surely we should continue looking for her!"
Morgoth waved it off.
"You can, but I'm going to bed," he replied.
Sauron raised an eyebrow.
"But why?"
"Because Manwë's gonna wake up tomorrow with a damn awful hangover and I need to think of an excuse so I don't get another talking to by the Valar!"
"Oh."
"Oh is right. Now goodnight," he said as he trudged into Lammoth. The porch door slammed shut behind him. Sauron knew better then to follow him in. He concluded that Morgoth must be in a funk as to why he can't find Gwen amid the entire camp. Sauron thought it would be wise if he slept in the living room instead of Angband so he entered Lammoth through the living room porch door and stretched out on one of the many couches.
Stupid camp. He thought before he fell asleep.