Close Encounters of the Fictional Kind
Chapter 23: Drugged
Elise looked down at Marie, who was currently passed out on the couch at her parents' house. Marie's parents were out for the night and had asked Elise to come over and make sure that Marie was safe while they were out seeing as Marie had broken her arm and bruised up nearly her entire body a couple days ago at a concert and was being weaned off of the pain medication… and Marie on pain medication was a funny, but dangerous thing.
Elise pulled her book out of her bag and settled in to get some reading done before Marie woke back up. The Goblin King was off trying to find a way to win Sarah's heart, so she was free from her scribe duties for the weekend. She smiled at that fact.
A few hours later, Marie started to move about a bit, a sign that was known to Elise that she was going to wake up soon. Elise got up and made her way into the kitchen to get a glass of water and the non-narcotic pain medication for Marie. As she made her way into the living room she saw Marie sitting up and holding her head.
"Hehehe, dizzy. Oh," Marie looked up to see Elise, "ELISE! What are you doing here? Did you know that I was getting Oxycodone from the doctor?"
"Hi Marie. Your parents asked me to come see you while they were out, remember?"
"Right… My arm is numb… So is my head… I think? It is there, right?"
Elise chuckled walking to the couch and sitting next to Marie.
"Yeah, your head is there, do you remember that the last oxycodone pill was the last one you could take? I have Ibuprofen for you. Do you think that you need it?"
"No, I just feel fuzzy… did glitter boy come by? I see glitter…"
"No glitter, no Goblin King. Just you and I, and you were sleeping most of the day. I got to read most of my book."
Elise placed the water and pills on the table next to the couch before getting up and moving back to her seat. She watched as Marie sat staring at the door.
"Elise, is it Friday?" Marie asked slowly.
"Yes, why?"
"What time is it?"
"About six thirty. Why Marie?"
Marie looked at a confused Elise to the door and back again.
"Oh no, oh no, no, no, no."
Marie stood, which only resulted in her falling backwards into the couch.
"I have to get ready, Elise."
Marie again stood up, this time swaying a little before smiling and starting to walk to her room.
"Marie!" Elise screeched, shooting up and grabbing her drugged up friend. "What do you think that you are doing? What do you have to get ready for?"
"She's coming… in … soonly… I have to be ready."
Elise knew that there was no way of getting Marie to walk back to the couch so she decided to make her lay on her bed. Elise could end up using the desk just as well as the chair and her lap in the living room.
"Here, sit down on your bed Marie," Elise said as she guided her friend to the bed, where, Marie all but fell face first onto the bed and pillows.
A few moments she rolled over, "I have to get dressed for her… she will be upset if I am not in the right clothes. Her sister picked them out…"
"Marie, what are you talking about?"
That was when both girls heard the front door open and clothes and a blonde and redhead were standing in the doorway to Marie's room.
"What did you do to yourself, blood bag?" The Redhead asked.
"What the… Rose what are you… who are you?"
"Elise," Rose Cullen said, "This is Jessica. We are here because we are supposed to be going out. Obviously she is not coming with, it looks like it's gonna be just us vampires tonight."
"But we were going to go dancing and I was going to make out with Jessica again…"
"Make out… again? When did the first time happen? Jessica, as in King Bill's prodigy? " Elise said, looking fast between the three girls in the room. The look on Jessica's face made Elise think that if she could blush, she would have been blushing.
"The second time she came to Fangtasia with Rose and Emmett…"
"WHAT?"
Marie was giggling, while swaying back and forth where she was sitting on her bed. "You were working and I was forced to go out the first few times. Rose said that I wasn't allowed to be pathetic… Blondie Bear." Marie pointed at the Rose.
Rose growled, shocking Elise, "Holy crap… Marie, don't make the vampire growl…"
"But I always call Rose Blondie Bear… Emmett thinks it is cute..."
Marie let herself fall backwards as Rose's cell phone rang.
"Yes Alice. Okay… Now? … Nope, just Jessica, Elise, Marie, and I… No one else… Yes, I will be… Good bye Alice."
Rose hung up the phone and left the room and returned a few moments later.
"Is there something else supernatural here besides us two?
"No…" Elise trailed off. "Or… Come on! I have the night off!"
Elise stood up and looked around.
"You never have the night off," The Goblin King said as he appeared into Marie's room in a cloud of glitter.
"No," Marie shouted, sitting up and throwing a pillow at him. "Glitter BOY! OUT! OUT! OUT!" Things kept being thrown at the man, as he tried to duck behind someone that was in the room.
"MARIE!" Elise screamed as she was hit with a paperback book in the chest.
"Get him out, glitter every where! No!"
"Scribe," The Goblin King said, his voice filled with anger and loathing. "I need you to come with me." With no other warning, Elise and the Goblin King were gone and everyone was still as the glitter from his exit settled onto nearly every surface in the room.
"Elise…" Marie sat in stunned silence.
"Umm, Marie?" Jessica started, moving towards the bed, "Are you okay?"
"No… Toliet…"
Jessica picked Marie up and rushed her to the bathroom, holding her hair back as she threw up, as Rose stood in the doorway of the bathroom.
"Jessica," Marie softly said, "Can I have my Ibuprofen now… my body hurts."
In the Goblin Kingdom, Elise stood in shock as Sarah wiped the glitter off of her, "Elise, can you hear me?"
"Why? What? Sarah?" Elise turned her head to look at her friend, "What are you doing here? What am I doing here? JARETH!"
Elise turned, her eyes finally landed on The Goblin King. She rushed up to him, Sarah close behind, "I am supposed to be watching Marie, she is in pain and on medication. Send me back!"
The Goblin King didn't try to hide his amusement. "No. I need you, I have duties of you that have just come up after a meeting I just had, and I need them fulfilled now."
Elise looked at Sarah; both girls had confused looks on their faces. Elise was about to talk again, but Jareth held up his hand, cutting her off.
"So, why am I here?" Sarah asked.
"Because," the Goblin King said with a smirk on his lips, his hand falling back to his leg, "You look ravishing in that sun dress."
With that the King left, a pile of papers, an ink well, and a feather pen at Elise's feet, and a pissed off Sarah. His voice filled the room, "Clean up the writing and enjoy a chicken race or two."
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**Based on a true story... well... kind of... Marie did have Oxycodone.
Jareth (c) Jim Henson & Co.
Twilight (c) Stephenie Meyer
True Blood (c) Alan Ball