B2MeM fic: Out of One Nightmare Into Another

[cairistiona]

B2MeM Challenge: B7 Beasty: "Watcher in the Water"
Format: Drabble
Genre: Gen/Horror
Rating: PG
Warnings: Scary Nightmare Imagery
Characters: Aragorn, Boromir, Watcher in the Water
Pairings: None
Summary: Nightmares abound when one is forced into darkness...



The tentacle reached for him, wrapped itself snakelike around his leg. He tried to move, to run, to flee, but it held him fast, and more tentacles emerged from the water, trapping his arms, pinning them to his sides. Pulling him toward the gaping maw...

Aragorn gasped and jerked awake. Boromir held out a hand to steady him. “Are you all right, friend?”

It was several moments before he found breath to reply. “A nightmare, that is all.”  He looked around the shadowy cavern of Moria and wondered if they’d escaped one nightmare only to plunge into one far darker.

Comments

[lilybaggins.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I like. I actually really enjoy friendship scenes with Aragorn and Boromir, even though they didn't know each other long. Still, as the only two Men in the group, they had to have felt something in common.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Yep, I don't think it was always prickles and tension between the two. I like to think they would have become really good friends had circumstances turned out differently.