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

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

It certainly would give me nightmares!!

I like Aragorn-Boromir friendship stories, too. There's not a ton of them out there, though, I guess because the window on their friendly feelings was a little narrow.

[nefhiriel.livejournal.com]

Inconveniently narrow time-frames are what AUs (like plasticChevy's) are made for, no? ^^

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

True! I don't read many AUs and write still less--I don't know that I've ever written a true AU, come to think of it. I think if I were tempted to write AU's, it'd be that Halbarad lives!

[nefhiriel.livejournal.com]

"I think if I were tempted to write AU's, it'd be that Halbarad lives!"

You'd have my vote on that. :D (In My Own Little World, there's never really any danger of canon happening to Halbarad. It's too sad!)