I own nothing. Buffy belongs to Joss Whedon and Lord of the Rings belongs to the all might Tolkein. Now I hope you like my story the idea kinda popped into my head. If you have any suggestions or anything please please please review it would make my day. Thanks! Enjoy!

Lily slowly opened her eyes and was greeted by the sun streaming in through her bedroom window. She sat up and stretched a yawn emitting from her mouth as she threw her legs over the side of her bed and stood up. She quickly took a shower and got dressed before her sisters and friends who lived in their home woke up and rushed the bathroom. It was one of the perks of being an early bird, she always had hot water. Lily was the middle child, she had two sisters. The Summers' sisters were all skinny, with blond hair, and blueish green eyes. Only each had their differences with one another. Buffy was the shortest of the three, and also the slayer. Dawn's hair was a darker shade of blond and she was still taller than Buffy but not the tallest. Lily was the one of the three sisters who had the most differences. She was much taller than Buffy and taller than Dawn reaching about 5'10. Her hair was very light blond almost white and seemed to glow in the moonlight, her eyes were a deep ice blue without any trace of green, and her ears were slightly pointed at the tip as opposed to the normal curved ear, but despite these differences they were still very close to one another.

            Lily was sitting at the kitchen table sipping a glass of orange juice and looking through the newspaper when Dawn came down for breakfast before school. The youngest of the Summers' was only a junior in high school just reaching sixteen years of age, while Lily was twenty-one and Buffy twenty-two.

"Good Morning." Lily said pushing a plate of muffins Dawn's way. "Anya went on another cooking kick, to make the perfect muffins for Xander. They aren't that bad this time."

"Amazing." Dawn said taking a blueberry muffin, and started to pick it apart. Lily lowered her paper and looked to her younger sister.

"What's with the pouting and picking at your food?" Lily asked raising an eyebrow.

"Nothing, well, prom is soon and I have no date yet. The geeky boys haven't even asked me. No one notices me." Dawn said looking down.

"Dawnie, the boys just don't know how wonderful you are. Besides prom is in what three months that is plenty of time, you haven't even started looking for a dress yet."

"Well why get a dress if you have no date?" Dawn said sadly. "It's just if I looked like Buffy I'd have gotten a date, she's got that strength and independent thing about her."

"Dawn, you know that is not true, Buffy and prom was really interesting remember?" Lily said reflecting upon her and Buffy's senior where Angel had dumped her, and evil dogs had been released.

"Ok then, if I was you, boys would be lined up around the block. You are tall blonde and beautiful, any boy I've ever met tells me your sister is hot." Dawn said. Lily looked down sadly.

"Don't forget much of my childhood I was taunted because of my ears, but I'll tell you what. This weekend we'll hit the mall for dresses for your prom and I bet you will get a date to the prom." Lily said. Dawn smiled and then looked at the clock.

"Going to be late. Thanks Lils." Dawn then grabbed her backpack and dashed out the door. Lily smiled and then grabbed her bag scribbled a note to Buffy and Willow and headed to the magic shop to talk with Giles.

            Lily opened the door to the magic shop and walked to the center table put down her smoothie and notebook propped her feet up and waited until Giles noticed her. After about ten minutes she decided to go look for him. She walked through one of the many aisles and noticed Giles taking inventory. She cleared her throat sending Giles into the air being so startled.

"Lily you scared me, sometimes I do not think you make any noise when you walk. Now what can I do for you?" Giles asked walking into the center of the store.

"I needed to talk to you about my dreams again."

"They've come back?" Giles asked. Lily had been coming to him for months about these dreams she had been having of another dimension.

"Yeah and with a vengeance. What do you know about Middle Earth?" Lily asked.

"I know that it is an alternate dimension. We inhabit earth; Middle Earth is home to hobbits, elves, men, wizards, and any mythical creature you have ever heard about. Is that where your dreams take place?" Giles asked climbing the ladder to the top section where his books were shelved.

"Yeah, that's not the big thing though. Giles I can speak and understand elvish. Well in my dream I could and when I woke up I remembered the language. That and I can write it." Lily said and threw Giles the notebook once he had come back down the ladder placing a stack of books on the table.

            Giles opened the notebook and looked to find page after page filled with unique characters that Lily had claimed to be elvish. He reached for one of his books while Lily leafed through another. He looked at her writing and then his book again.

"You say you wrote this after your dream." Lily nodded and reached over grabbed her notebook flipped to an empty page and wrote more, then tossed the notebook back to Giles. "What did you write?" Lily frowned and looked down.

"The one phrase that sticks out the most in my mind." Lily said her eyes getting darker and chills going up her spine. "Three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone, nine for mortal men doomed to die. One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne, in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie. One ring to rule them all. One ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie." Lily finished and then looked to Giles who was speechless.

"It sounds like a prophecy, but since it is only an alternate dimension to this plane of existence I don't think their prophecies will be in any of my books, but I will find out as much as I can about this Middle Earth. Lily nodded again and was startled when Buffy came in.

"Good morning, or well afternoon really. Oooh books on the table something evil must be coming, which is good. I've been itching for a good fight." Buffy said sitting down and looking at the titles of the books. "Alternate dimensions. Is something from another place coming?" Buffy asked.

"Not exactly." Lily said. Buffy looked from Giles to her sister.

"As much fun as everyone know what's going on except the slayer game is I do want to know what is going on. I mean really I'm the slayer if something is going to happen, chances are it is going to involve me. So now what is the big bad coming?" Buffy asked kicking her feet up on the desk next to Lily. Giles smiled the two of them were quite the pair, despite the year between them and looks they were identical in action. Giles nodded to Lily to tell her. Lily took a deep shaky breath and looked to her sister's inquisitive gaze. She then explained all that she had told Giles to Buffy.

            Buffy blinked a few times registering everything Lily had said. She closed her eyes and then looked to her sister.

"So you know this other language, dream of this other place, Giles I'm chocking this one up to experience was Lily sent to me?" Buffy asked as tears came to her eyes. Giles and Lily both looked as if a new thought had been brought to them.

"That thought had yet crossed my mind." Giles said before disappearing into his bookshelves.

"I didn't think of that either." Lily said looking to Buffy. Buffy smiled sadly.

"It make sense Lils, you dreaming of this place, waking up one morning knowing this language I mean it's kind of like hmm you aren't from here." Buffy said sadly with a tinge of anger in her voice.

"I'm sorry Buff, it's just weird, and we don't know anything right now. So let's go buy a new pair of boots for you to make you smile." Lily said with a smirk. Buffy laughed and then jumped up.

"Shoes there are no other bliss. Giles we'll be back later." Buffy yelled back. The response was simply the mutterings of Giles immersed in his books.