Connected (a fanfic starring Thranduil from the Hobbit)

1 strange dream

I don't think I have slept this well in ages. I feel well-rested, warm and contend.
That changes quickly when I realize that I'm not alone in my bed. I'm lying on my side and there is somebody lying behind me, with one arm resting heavily across my rib cage. In an instance, I'm right awake. I'm confused? I know for sure I did not fall asleep with somebody else in my bed!

Soon after I processed the fact of not being alone in my bed, although I should be, I notice another scary thing. I don't think I am in my own bed either nor my own room for the matter! Am I still sleeping? Since I can't pinch myself without moving, I bite myself in my lip instead. Ouch... it really hurts, so, awake????

It's too dark to see anything properly but the shapes I can make out, don't look familiar and it smells very different too. There is foremost a smell of manly musk in the air and herbs, such as rosemary and pine I think. Also, I am, or let's say, we are covered with what feels and smells like furs. As I said, not my room and not my bed!

I still don't move. I don't want whoever this heavy arm belongs to, to wake up. Frantically I try to recall anything from the night other than going to sleep but I can not remember anything.
I go through possible male acquaintances that might be the one sharing the bed with me right now. I can't come to any conclusion though... I wonder, are drugs or alcohol involved because how else can I not remember anything? But how and when? I went to bed at 9pm, after watching a movie, didn't I? Thankfully I am still wearing my pajamas, the feeling of the cool satin is comforting. A small reliever, but other than that, I am freaked out. My body longs to move but I lay still, I am too confused and indecisive to do anything. I'm hoping that HE will move and by doing so, will take his arm off me, the instance he does, I'm out of here, probably, because this is weired and it could be potentially very embarrassing. I'm not terribly good with guys as it is.

I wait, and as I wait it is slowly getting lighter. I can make out my surroundings more clearly now. I seem to be in a cave like room, actual stone walls! The walls are adorned with beautiful tapestries, forest scenes I believe. The few pieces of furniture I can make out from my point of view, are beautifully carved and of natural wood. Other items, accessories and stuff, match the style. It makes me think of fairies.. I've always liked stuff such as this. I mean, all girls dream of being a fairy at some stage don't they but because of my unprepared and unwanted apparition, I can not find admiration or enjoyment! Actually in this, my current situation it's just weired! Weired, as in scary even.

Why in the world am I here??? Again I try to figure out the, 'how did I get here'???? Did I still go out last night and come here by consent or did the guy, whoever it is, come into my room, take me out of there and to this place and all of that without me noticing anyhing? I'm usually a light sleeper and my flatmates too? Did they not notice anything either? It makes no sense and seems rather far fetched but then, HOW?

To my dismay, the guy is shoveling closer. He is now lying right next to me, REALLY close up. Where we romantically unvolved durring the night, oh please no!!!!! The though seems revolting as I have no Idea who he is.. and frankly at this point in my live there is nobody I fancy.... I can no longer wait, I have to find out who it is, if I even know him!
If not????!!! I can see the door, it is not too far away. If I can get his arm off me, I could make for the door and hopefully, if it is not locked, I will be able to get away. I wander, where we are anyways, same town??? I move ever so slightly. He doesn't seem to notice. Encouraged I move a little more until my legs are hanging over the bed, ready to make a run if necessary. All I need to do, is get that arm off me now. I move my own arm until my hand is situated in such a way, that I might be able to lift his arm right of me. I close my fingers around his wrist and then very, very slowly I start lifting it.

Things move so fast I have no control over them....
He wakes up and moments later I find myself pinned down onto the bed. He is leaning over me glaring at me. I'm stunned!!! I stare at him.. I most certainly do not know him!!! He's got the strangest light blue eyes, almost a bit eerie, as if he is wearing weird contact lenses. Also, he has the longest, white blond hair I have ever seen on a man. He looks so different that I get a feeling he might be slightly on the mad-side. What is going to happen??

None of what I start to imagine might happen, happens though. He drags me out of the bed and I come to stand on the ground. He is slim built, though taller than me but he seems to be really strong? How else could he have lifted me the way he just did. As soon as he lets go of me, I make for the door but to my dismay, it is locked. 'NO'! Slowly I turn around to face my weird opposite. While I do so, I scan the room for anything I might use to knock him over the head if necessary.
He is standing in front of me, towering over me and now I'm quite certain that he is trying to be an elf or something like it. He does look very convincing with his long white-blond hair and that white rope with golden stitchings. He even has his ears shaped in such a way that they slope upwards like elf ears. There are people, who go as far as to shape body parts to look like something they're actually not. Like this guy/elf for an instance, it is a little crazy in my opinion!!!

He seems angry, almost as if he doesn't know what to do with me. He starts talking to me in a strange language that I have never heard before. As he does so, he walks around his room as if he is unsettled. The language sound a little like Gaelic perhaps. After a moment, he seems to realize that I can't understand him. So he says in clear English: "How did you get in here and who are you?"

What? "Don't you know!" After I've spoken, he looks at me in disdain. I feel nauseous even more confused!

"What is a human doing in my bed, I should kill you for your insolence!" His voice is now spitting, I close my eyes, for it feels like everything is spinning...

"I'm really sorry," I say, " I can't follow. I'm not at all sure what you want from me?"

"You make no sense woman, perhaps you have simply lost your mind," Yea sure, he is the one with the crazy mind! I'm starting to feel frustrated, angry, I guess it's because I'm starting to feel that he doesn't seem to be a thread.. Something about him makes me realize he is not going to harm me in any way.... I hope anyways.
I want to get to the bottom of this, "How did I get here and why".. one thing is for sure I would have never come here or gone with him by consent. He must know more but than, didn't he just ask me the same thing????Does he not know either? It's getting weirder and weirder!!!!

Suddenly everything around me starts to go foggy, the last thing I can see is his face staring at me in disbelief. Something about his eyes now makes me feel funny, it's almost as if I feel a connection. After that, I can see nothing but a white fog and after the fog clears, I find myself standing in my own room, next to my own bed.

I sit down, light headed and utterly confused. Had all of this been nothing but a dream after all? It must have been but how come did I wake up standing next to my bed? Have I started sleepwalking? It is all a bit peculiar but I am relieved that it had all been nothing but a dream because the whole experience has left me a little shaken.
That strange feeling of being connected reoccurs together with a kind of longing.... ah nonsense, I giggle nervously and try to shake off those feelings and the vivid images still so very present. The dreams one has sometimes! ... BUT....this particular dream felt and seemed so real, it was so intense, everything about it really.... Well, some dreams just do!!!! I resume to stick with the desicion that it was all just a dream!!!

Soon after I more or less forget the dream, which has partly to do with the fact that two days later I'm out with my friends and I meet someone. I fall for that someone called Jake and that sort of takes up most of my mind space and my energy.....