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Title: Five Things That Never Happened to Billy Boyd
Author: Bartleby
Fandom: Lotrips
Pairing: Gen, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood, Liv Tyler
Rating: G
Summary: Billy’s had a lot of adventures; these aren’t it
Feedback: Please.
Series/Sequel: No
Disclaimer: This is not true and never happened, I don't know these guys and I'm not claiming that I do.
Five Things That Never Happened to Billy Boyd
1.
Billy was born with wings, just like all the other children. A perfect pair, fine bones and covered in soft, gray goose down feathers. Ten fingers and ten toes, almost as an afterthought. He weighed ten ounces.
He walked before he flew and tossed into the air he would drop like a stone. Refusing to unfurl his wings even to slow his fall; even though he should have been soaring above the trees with the other boys long before now.
Truth be told, Billy hated to fly.
And the other boys flew over him and dropped stones as he walked.
2.
Fire consumes everything. Which, Billy guesses, is why he likes it so much. The click, whoosh of Elijah’s silver Zippo as it blazes up in the dark is wickedly hypnotic and it distracts Billy as it lights Elijah’s face.
Elijah doesn’t notice he’s dropped it or that Billy’s palmed it into his pocket.
The barn is old and creaks gently in the soft sea breeze, because the ocean here is never far. He flares up and throws the lighter into a crumbling pile of hay, nothing, as it smolders and catches, that he’ll have to buy Elijah a new one.
3.
It’s colder than it looks this high above the world. Huddled in a tent with Tibetan wind rattling through brittle sounding canvas and freezing in spite of warm clothes and possibly the thickest sleeping bag ever.
Orlando’s breathing is quiet and has fallen into that high altitude arrhythmia with a name Billy can’t think of right now. It’d probably scare him if he didn’t know.
He shakes Orlando and offers him a bit of the cold food he’s been eating and Orlando gives him and irritated look and goes back to sleep.
Billy settles in and listens to Orlando breathe.
4.
Billy thought he was lucky waking up in a lifeboat with Dominic, bright red chunks of their boat’s hull floating in the water all around them. Billy doesn’t know what happened and Dominic offers no details, he just mans the rudder and tries to keep the boat pointed in what is probably the right direction.
And after three days or two weeks or both or neither, Dominic gives up his post and allows the currents to carry them along to wherever. Half mad from hunger and sick from seawater, Billy thought he was lucky, but now he isn’t so sure.
5.
It’s not so bad to fie alone, Billy thinks. And too late to take it back as he stands on superheated sand that no longer feels hot and watches the last of his blood drain from his ruined body.
It barely hurt. No more than having a splinter removed, though it probably should have judging from the condition of his remains. There are others, now, young men and women in brown and khaki fatigues, dazed from having their souls blown from their bodies.
Liv is among them and she smiles at him faintly; Billy smiles back.
He has no regrets.
~Fin
Author: Bartleby
Fandom: Lotrips
Pairing: Gen, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood, Liv Tyler
Rating: G
Summary: Billy’s had a lot of adventures; these aren’t it
Feedback: Please.
Series/Sequel: No
Disclaimer: This is not true and never happened, I don't know these guys and I'm not claiming that I do.
Five Things That Never Happened to Billy Boyd
1.
Billy was born with wings, just like all the other children. A perfect pair, fine bones and covered in soft, gray goose down feathers. Ten fingers and ten toes, almost as an afterthought. He weighed ten ounces.
He walked before he flew and tossed into the air he would drop like a stone. Refusing to unfurl his wings even to slow his fall; even though he should have been soaring above the trees with the other boys long before now.
Truth be told, Billy hated to fly.
And the other boys flew over him and dropped stones as he walked.
2.
Fire consumes everything. Which, Billy guesses, is why he likes it so much. The click, whoosh of Elijah’s silver Zippo as it blazes up in the dark is wickedly hypnotic and it distracts Billy as it lights Elijah’s face.
Elijah doesn’t notice he’s dropped it or that Billy’s palmed it into his pocket.
The barn is old and creaks gently in the soft sea breeze, because the ocean here is never far. He flares up and throws the lighter into a crumbling pile of hay, nothing, as it smolders and catches, that he’ll have to buy Elijah a new one.
3.
It’s colder than it looks this high above the world. Huddled in a tent with Tibetan wind rattling through brittle sounding canvas and freezing in spite of warm clothes and possibly the thickest sleeping bag ever.
Orlando’s breathing is quiet and has fallen into that high altitude arrhythmia with a name Billy can’t think of right now. It’d probably scare him if he didn’t know.
He shakes Orlando and offers him a bit of the cold food he’s been eating and Orlando gives him and irritated look and goes back to sleep.
Billy settles in and listens to Orlando breathe.
4.
Billy thought he was lucky waking up in a lifeboat with Dominic, bright red chunks of their boat’s hull floating in the water all around them. Billy doesn’t know what happened and Dominic offers no details, he just mans the rudder and tries to keep the boat pointed in what is probably the right direction.
And after three days or two weeks or both or neither, Dominic gives up his post and allows the currents to carry them along to wherever. Half mad from hunger and sick from seawater, Billy thought he was lucky, but now he isn’t so sure.
5.
It’s not so bad to fie alone, Billy thinks. And too late to take it back as he stands on superheated sand that no longer feels hot and watches the last of his blood drain from his ruined body.
It barely hurt. No more than having a splinter removed, though it probably should have judging from the condition of his remains. There are others, now, young men and women in brown and khaki fatigues, dazed from having their souls blown from their bodies.
Liv is among them and she smiles at him faintly; Billy smiles back.
He has no regrets.
~Fin