Mary Sue woke up in a bed of leaves and held her hand to her head

Mary Sue woke up in a bed of leaves and held her hand to her head. She looked around and saw that she was in some sort of ruins. There were fallen statues of long forgotten kings and some crumbling shells of buildings.

'Where am I?' she thought.

She heard voices ahead. She cautiously stood up and inched forward hoping not to be caught spying on them. She looked around a half gone wall and her eyes widened at what she saw. She saw a man lying at the foot of a great tree with many black arrows piercing him and kneeling beside him was a rough looking man with green clothing and standing a ways off was a dwarf and an elf.

"Boromir? Aragorn? Legolas? Gimli? How can this be?"

She slumped against the wall in a daze. What happened? Then she remembered what had happened in Mr. Heaney's classroom with the signed copy of The Two Tower. Her hand flew to her mouth. She was in the book? How did this happen? She gave a sob. She didn't know what she was going to do to get back.

"You hear that?" growled a voice, which guessed came from Gimli. She chocked off her sob hoping they wouldn't hear her.

"Hear what Gimli?" asked a light voice, which must have been from Legolas.

"I thought I heard a noise from there."

She stood still thinking that they had found her. Her breath came quicker from fright like a frightened rabbit. She closed her eyes hoping they wouldn't find her and kill her. She heard some heavy footsteps walk away and gave a sigh of relief thinking they were leaving. Now all she had to worry about was how to get back to school.

Then the elf leaped out from behind the wall with his bow drawn and pointed at her. She gave a squeak when she saw how deadly it looked when it was pointed at her heart.

Legolas got a look at his quarry and lowered his bow down a fraction. His beautiful face got a puzzled look on his face. He spoke some unknown words to the tall man watching the unmoving body of his friend. Aragorn came over and looked with surprise at the teenage girl who was looking cross-eyed at the arrow Legolas had pointed at her with her chest heaving from fright.

"Where is he? Where is the spy?" growled Gimli as he rounded the other corner expecting an orc or an evil man but saw instead a teenage girl half scared out of her wits.

"Well that isn't much of a spy," pointed out Gimli.

Aragorn held out his hands to show that he was unarmed except he had a sword and a knife at his belt and a bow at his back. "We mean you no harm. What is your name young mistress?"

"M-Mary S-Sue," she stammered.

"Mary Sue?" He put his hand on Legolas's bow and mad him turn it down to the ground. "What are you doing here Mary Sue?"

She shook her head not knowing what to say. They would look at her as if she was crazy if she told the she fell through a book. Quick, what was she going to do? If she made a break for it they could just pick her off with their bows. But then they might be able to help her get back home. Home. She started to cry thinking that she might never get back home.

Gimli shuffled his feet uncomfortably as Aragorn looked at Legolas as if asking what to do. None of them knew what to do when a child cried so Aragorn kneeled down and patted her on the back lightly.

She stopped crying and wiped her eyes. She looked up at Aragorn with red eyes. "Could you help me?"

Aragorn looked at his companions who just shrugged. "We can try but I can't promise anything."

"I'm trying to get home."

"Which land are you from? We are close to Rohan if that is where you live."

"I don't live there."

"Are you from Gondor?"

She shook her head as he listed off the lands of Middle–earth.

Frustrated he said, "Well then you don't live in Middle-earth at all!" He threw up his arms in exasperation.

"Exactly."

All three of them looked at her with puzzlement. "Do you mean to tell us you are from another land lassie?" growled Gimli.

She nodded. Then she told them that somehow she had landed here from her world with the help of some sort of magic. When she was done explaining Aragorn and Gimli looked at Legolas and asked if such magic was true.

Legolas shrugged. "I do not know all kinds of magic. It is possible."

Aragorn sat thinking a moment. "If only Gandalf was with us," he muttered, "He would know how to send this child back." He looked at her for a moment trying to figure out what they were going to do with her. They certainly couldn't leave her there by herself. The orcs might think they hadn't gotten all the hobbits, come back and slay her. There was only one option. He got up and had a conference with Legolas and Gimli about what to do with her.

As they talked Mary Sue checked her self to make sure nothing was hurt. Amazingly there wasn't a bruise on her body. She combed her fingers through her hair trying to get all the leaves out when Aragorn told her they were taking her with them until they came to a suitable land to keep her until they could figure out what to do with her. Then briefly he told her that they will be following some friends of theirs who were captured earlier.

"Since you will be traveling with us you should know our names. I'm Aragorn son of Arathorn. This is Legolas of Mirwood and this is Gimli son of Gloin."

She got up and bowed to each of them like she expected they did when introduced and couldn't help but notice the looks she was getting from her clothes. Of course the women they see wear skirts and not pants. At least she was wearing a blouse today or else she would have gotten boggle-eyes from her usual t-shirts.

"Do the woman wear trousers where you come from?" asked Gimli. She nodded her head and Gimli just shook his head in wonder.

Aragorn looked away from her bewildered and remembered that they should do something with Boromir's body so no foul beast can feast on him. "We'll be right back Mary Sue. You just wait here."

So Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli prepared Boromir for his last rest. They placed him in one of the boats from Lorien with his sword and horn and sang a song of the winds seeking Boromir.

Mary Sue watched them far off as they said goodbye to their companion. A tear rolled down her face at what she was witnessing. This was always her least favorite part of the books.