Reveiws:

Queen Islanzadi: I hope you enjoy this one then - as always, of course

TheHouseoftheGoldenFlower: New reveiwer! yeah! Nice name. That would be Glofindel's Family.

gina: you know me

nightstarz: I tend to switch to lesser character's PoVs when I run out of ideas, or when there's no one handy to steal the mind of.

Chapter 11

Guess who's back!

Gina's PoV

(That's right, Gina. If you don't know who she is, you probably didn't do well in ninth grade English. We've mentioned her a grand total of two times. (Not counting review thanks))

I stared at the phone. It stayed despairingly silent. I glared at the phone. No change.

This sucks

I gave up on psychically forcing the phone to ring and picked it up. If he wasn't going to call, I may as well mope. I dialed Nickel's number, thinking despairingly that she was probably out at a movie or something with Kelsey.

The phone rang, waiting for Nickel's answering machine.

"Hello?" An unfamiliar male voice answered the phone cautiously as if it might explode.

"Is Nicole there?" I asked, mood spiraling downward.

"Yes . . ."

I waited. "Can I speak with her?"

"Just a moment."

I listened carefully for sounds on the other side of the line. Who was this guy?

"Kelsey! What am I supposed to do?"

"Now calm down, sweetie . . ."

"Hello?" Nickel answered the phone.

"Hi." I didn't know what to say now. I had been so sure she wouldn't answer . . . "Who was that?"

" . . . Er . . . Just a friend of Kelsey's. So what's up?"

"He didn't call." I moaned into the phone.

There was silence on the other side.

"Nickel?"

"Who?"

"What?"

"Who didn't call?"

"Nickel! How could you forget? Remember - my prom date - he said he'd call. But it's been a mo-"

"Sorry, Gina." She stopped my rant, "I've been busy lately and forgot . . . everything . . . Really."

"Can I come over?" I asked.

"Erm . . ."

"Are you guys leaving?"

"No . . . You can come over. Kelsey and her friend are going to church actually. Come on over. I need someone so I don't commit suicide."

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"Yeah, just get over here as soon as you can."

"Okay, Bye. See you soon." I shrugged on a jacket and grabbed the keys off the counter. Nickel sure was acting strange. Not that it was unusual for her to act strange.

Taylor's PoV

He's not new either - remember the guy who appeared in Moria and thought he was in a rock gym? With his girlfriend, Katie? Yeah, that's the guy.

"Hi, Ernie!" I waved.

The skinny guy next to Ernie scowled at us in the darkness of the movie theatre.

"Shh, Taylor, hello to you too." Ernie sat down next to Tomato.

"So what did you need to talk about?" I asked.

"Well, it's about this girl . . ."

"Who?" Scott asked.

"It doesn't matter; the fact is she's making my life miserable."

"What do you want us to do?" I asked.

"I need you to help me with phase one of the resistance."

"Speak and we shall follow." Tomato announced in a monotone.

"Do any of you remember a place called Middle Earth?"

I thought really hard. "Nope."

"You were somewhere normal one moment, and the next, you thought you were in a dream - somewhere else entirely"

"That happens all the time." Scott complained, "Whenever I fall asleep in school."

"Oh my freakin-"

"Tomato."

"Sorry, that was when that freaky short guy kept following me around! He was so darned annoying. Scott and Taylor were there too - Scott for longer than I was, though I think Amanda pushed him and Allie off a cliff in that dark, creepy tunnel."

"Very good!" Ernie exclaimed, "Sauron, go get us some popcorn."

The skinny guy got up, mumbling the whole time.

"Oh, yeah." Scott moaned, "It was boring as all get out. So what?"

"We are going to revamp Middle Earth so it is cooler, fierier and way more evil."

"Awesome!" Tomato intoned.

"Nice . . . I guess." Scott grumbled.

"I'm still confused . . ." I tried to get a word in.

"Come on, we're going to take over the world!" Ernie led us out of the theatre and I still had no idea what he was talking about, "I'll have to get more recruits though . . ."

Kelsey's PoV

In a matter of minutes after leaving Nickel on the phone, Haldir, Legolas and I were cruising along with Mandy. She dropped Haldir and me off at my church and went on her way with a signifigantly more cheerful Legolas. Pastor Robbins was already preaching in his podium when we slipped in to a pew near the back. Haldir stared over my shoulder at the hymnal, in an obvious state of confusion.

"What's that for?" He whispered.

"It's all the songs for the people who don't know all the words."

"Don't you know all the words?"

"Some of these are really obscure songs, Haldir."

"Oh."

We listened to the service.

"Kelsey?"

"Yes, Haldir?"

"When we save Arda and this world from Morgoth, will you marry me? I didn't get to ask last time, so I though now would be good. The Pastor guy said something about marriages here yesterday, so I thought-"

I placed a finger over Haldir's lips, "Of course I will, Haldir. Did you even have to ask?"

He took my hand and kissed the palm lightly, "It's nicer to ask."

Sauron's PoV

"Help with the resistance . . . hah! They'll be slaves just as much as I am." I muttered all the way to the concession stand only to realize that I had no money. Morgoth knew that as well as I did. "So he doesn't trust me anymore." I stalked out of the cinema to Penelope's car. We would go our own way and take over the world however we wanted. With Penelope on my side I'd probably beat Morgoth to it. He only had a triad of high school graduate boys to help him.

Penelope wasn't in her car. I glanced around the parking lot, and went back into the theatre. Maybe she had followed us . . .

"You're working for who!?" I heard from behind a pillar. The back of a golden head protruded from the top of a wilting fern. A very familiar golden head for that matter . . .

"Hello Glorfindel." I said in my scariest voice (I can be pretty scary.)

I could hear the meep he issued before he tried to run away.
I caught Glorfindel by his hair (he has a weakness for that stuff), "I just want to talk, Elf boy."

"Are you sure you don't have me confused with Legolas?"

My eyes narrowed, "Don't try to distract me, Glorfindel. Now tell me what you are doing."

"Trying to avoid being killed?" Glorfindel offered hopelessly.

"You're coming with Penelope and I . . . me . . . whatever." I dragged Glorfindel behind me to Penelope's car and shoved him in the back seat. She scrambled to the driver's seat and revved the engine.

"Nickel's?" She asked, having read my mind.

"We need to settle the matter of our allegiance, you and me." I told her, "Morgoth cannot be trusted.

Glorfindel scoffed, "You think?"

"Shut up, Glorfindel." Penelope ordered sharply, I don't want anything to happen to you - Nickel will actually kill me."

"Like I said, I'll protect you." I told her.

Glorfindel just laughed and laughed and laughed.

Author's Note

This was one of my favorite chapter's to write, except for the fact that Pen and Sauron didn't do what they were suppoed to to, ensuring that they remain in this story while a major plot point got put off. No one ever wants to do Morgoth's dirty work - even by accident.