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

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Oh a very good way to work this into canon! Nicely done.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I really couldn't think of any other way to do it within canon, as it didn't seem like he (or any of them) had any prior knowledge of the beast. (But boy, wouldn't an AU of Aragorn and Halbarad or young Estel and the Twins coming across it be a grand adventure...!)