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

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I liked this , great use of the prompt!

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

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

[ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Wow, so well done! Well said - from one nightmare to another.

[mrowe.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, yes, just a bit from one nightmare to another...

[nefhiriel.livejournal.com]

Aww. I do love me a bit of Aragorn and Boromir friendship when I can find it.

And seeing the Watcher in the Water would totally be enough to give me nightmares!

[estelcontar1.livejournal.com]

Short and sweet and very chilling indeed.

[rs9.livejournal.com]

So realistic. We've all had nightmares like that where we long for that wake up "jerk". hmmmm.... don't know quite how to rephrase that!

[shirebound]

A very scary and realistic nightmare.

[imbecamiel.livejournal.com]

*shivers* Nicely creepy. Yikes, Moria would not exactly be a comforting place to wake to after a nightmare. :P

[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.