Drabble: So Many Fishies Left in the Sea

[illwynd]

This just jumped up and wanted to be written, so here goes...

Title: So Many Fishies Left in the Sea
Author: illwynd
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing.
Characters: Déagol, Sméagol
Rating: G
Notes: AU, written for the “Different Decisions” challenge at tolkien_weekly

With golden scales it swam in the river waters. Its existence was cold and simple—small insects in the silty bottom for eating, lazy slumber on the currents, yearly spawning. Just now it was drawn by a plopping sound from above—a juicy worm had fallen from the sky! He was lured by it, drew closer… but then his eye was caught by something new. A ray of light slanted to the bottom, glinted off of something. Forgetting the worm, he went to investigate…

“Not a nibble yet, Déagol?”

“No. But it’s a fine way to spend your birthday anyhow.”

Comments

[illwynd.livejournal.com]

Heeh, shiny indeed! :P And I was pondering that too... what if he swam out to sea, then got caught in a net, and wound up on someone's dinner plate far, far away? Or perhaps he would become Ringwraith Fish. O_O

But yeah. Thanks for the comment!

[lilan14.livejournal.com]

Ringwraith Fish!! LOL! Would he dress up in black on top of his golden scales?

A very interesting drabble indeed! I don't know if I entirely believe that Smeagol would have lived a happy hobbit life if he hadn't come across the Ring, but it would certainly have been better for poor Deagol. But it's the kind of thing that makes one ponder about "bigger" things! Well done (said by a person who doesn't normally read AUs)!

Just a little question: first you refer to the fish as "it," and then it's "he" - was that deliberate?

[illwynd.livejournal.com]

Heeh, maybe he would. And maybe he'd have guppy minions... heeh. :p

And well, can't be sure, but it would likely have been a happier life than what he wound up with, no? Definitely stuff to ponder, though.

And, um... it was kinda-sorta intentional? It felt like a perspective-shift, closer in. *shrugs*

But yeah, thanks for reading, and glad you liked it! ^_^

[cressida0201.livejournal.com]

You know, I think we've just figured out the identity of the Demon Fish: clearly, it is the EVIL FISH LORD after he ate the Ring!! *nods*