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Chapter IX: The Plan.

She didn`t know she was followed.  Rory was about to call a taxi and go straight down to the station again, when she suddenly saw the time on the big clock on the church. Alfred had to be worried, so she decided to go home first.

As she started to walk it began to rain and when she reached her house she was soaked. She knew that Alfred knew there was a key hidden underneath one of the garden gnomes and was therefore not surprised when she felt the door slid open.

She stiffened in the corridor, something wasn`t right, she couldn't explain it, but it felt like somebody was in her house. She took one look at the door and the rain outside, then she grabbed on of her high-heeled shoes so that she had something to defend her self with. Her heart was running inside her chest and she was afraid that the sound would alert whoever it was that was inside her house.

Carefully she made her way trough the corridor, she stopped now and then to make sure nobody could hear her…. if she could hear anybody. As she walked into the living room she swallowed a gasp as she saw what had happened.

The place had trashed, books, Cd`s lay everywhere. Her Tv was smashed, chairs lay in a crippled heaps of wood, and the large glass table she had bought a couple of weeks ago was smashed. Then something else suddenly hit her mind like a bomb. Where was Dante, her faithful dog, could….she didn`t dare to think the thought.

Suddenly somebody griped her arm, and not even thinking she started to hit the man furiously with her shoe. She smiled in triumph as she heard him curs and yelp in pain, and soon he let her go.

            "Geeze Rory" The man said, and she stopped hitting him and stared at him for a long time. "Who are you, what are you doing in my house…where is Dante?" she asked taking deep breaths trying to calm her self. The man rubbed his shoulder were the spike of the heel had hit him.

"My name is Fred, Alfred sent me, and the dog is just fine" he muttered and pointed a long and thick finger to the door leading to her bedroom. She opened and greeted Dante who immediately jumped up, knocked her over, and licked her face.

"Alfred sent you…where is he…. what happened?" she asked when she had finally managed to calm Dante down.  Fred continued to rub his shoulder, and then he found one of the chairs that were not smashed and sat down. "He is down town, bailing the others out" he explained. "How does he know they are in jail?" she asked shocked, and Fred shook his head.

"Let us wait for the others, that way we only have to explain everything once"

"We?"

It was a strange gathering that sat on her floor in her house. David had immediately wanted to run down to the police and report the trashing but Alfred managed to talk him out of it.  David had then hugged Rory tightly and asked her what Steven wanted. She said they would talk about later; right now they had more important things to talk about.

So on the floor in her living room sitting in a half circle was: and elf, two dwarves, a hafling, three computer nerds, Alfred, a dog, David and she.  If somebody had asked her what kind of party this was, she would have told them this was not a party. It was a nut house.

Gustav eyed the chips bowl suspiciously wondering if it was something dangerous. David sighed deeply to often, Noritz looked around trying to seem occupied, Fred, Ned and Ed were talking about something Rory didn`t understand, Alfred was reading some papers, David and Horizt were arguing about what happened at the strip club, she hoped they wouldn`t go to far into details. So everything was it normal self.

Except Legolas who kept staring at her. Rory tried desperately to avoid his eyes that seemed to be glued on her and she moved uneasy at her spot on the floor. She wondered why he stared at her like that, he hadn't said anything since they bailed them out and brought them up here. Could I probably have anything to do with Steven, with her ears? She had hid them behind her hair again, trying to forget what they had said about them.

The ears of an elf.

She had other things to think and worry about.

Finally Alfred cleared his troth and everybody stopped talking and looked at him. "Right" Alfred said when he saw that he suddenly had every attention in the room at him, something he wasn`t familiar with. He wondered when he became the leader of this little…. quest.

Then he started to tell them about what Fred had said, about the two worlds, the mathematics and the Stonehenge. David's snorts and Gustav and Horizt who needed every other word explained only interrupted him.

            "So then we assume that the only way for them to get back to Middle-earth is trough this mirror, that is currently in the Whitehouse?" Rory said when the silence, after Alfred's speech, became too heavy. Alfred nodded.

"And how exactly are we going to do that…get them into the Whitehouse, and who are these enemies?" she asked, but this time David sighed to deeply and he rose.

"Oh…. haven't we been trough this already, how far are you going to take this prank…. I've been in jail, isn't that enough?" he asked and Alfred grabbed his arm and pulled him down again. "We have told you, you are free to go home," he muttered. David opened his mouth to say something, then he caught the way the elf was staring and Rory, and he stubbornly crossed his arms over his chest.

"No…I think I will stay" he said, sending the elf a look that would certainly berry him a couple of feet under the ground.

"The enemies…. as you put it…we don`t know yet…. but I think it is the people who work for the president, the same one who trashed your house." Ned said. "Why would they do that?" Rory asked and picked up a broken china doll. "I don`t know…probably because they do it in the movies."

"Or they were looking for something" Gustav muttered, once again David snorted loudly. "Come on, you can't think the president is some dark lord, come on look what he has done for this country" he said, and Rory sighed, she feared that David was going to put some damper on their plans.

"It doesn't matter if he is a dark Lord or not…. the thing is we need to get to that mirror in the Whitehouse" Rory said sternly and the others nodded, except David. "And that means…" Alfred started.

"That we have a bit of a trouble…. the Whitehouse is well guarded" Ed said and grabbed his laptop computer and started to type.

"Aha…there are no castle that can hold this dwarf outside" Horizt said and hit his hand on his chest.  "We can simply storm the building…." Noritz said and his brother nodded eagerly.

"We need to do this discreet and without hacking and slashing…that means no killing!" Alfred said and the two dwarves sighed deeply in disappointing.

"Okay…. I have managed to hack my way into the Secret Service files…" Ned said suddenly causing everybody to turn and look at him. "How did you manage to hack you way into the SS files?" Alfred asked suspiciously, and then quickly added. "Never mind"

"There is a blue print here over the house….it seems like the oldest part is in for a remodeling, the full package  pedicure to manicure" he said and Rory nodded thoughtfully. She remembered seeing something about this in the newspaper.

"Then getting in, shouldn't be to difficult….we will simple disquiet our self as workmen and stroll right inn" Fred said and quickly David mumbled.

"Have you ever heard a plan were so many things can go wrong"

Rory was getting sick of his constant muttering and negativity. She quickly rose, grabbed his arm and led him out to her bedroom away from the others. Alfred raised an eyebrow as they walked past them and said quickly. "He is going to get some now"

"Get some, now?" Horizt asked puzzled and looked towards the bedroom.

            "David, I've told you either you stop this…. whatever you are doing…or you can simply go home" Rory told him as she closed the door behind them. "Rory, when are you going to wake up" he said and sat down on her bed and looked at her tiredly. "David…forget it….I am doing this….whatever it is…" she added.

"What about the opening in Broadway…are you going to toss that opportunity away also?" he challenged and she looked at him stunned. "How do you know about that?"  She demanded.

"Steve told me…. come on Rory….you have worked so hard for this….to long, don`t blow it away on some…prank"

He rose and walked over to her and placed both his hands on her shoulder and looked at her deeply in the eyes. "Your house has already been trashed, you have been in jail…isn't that enough?" he asked softly, and Rory looked away not able to meet his stare. He always did this to her, used his puppy dog eyes to get what he wanted.

"I worry about you" he said, his voice just a whisper now, and then he gently cupped her face with his hands and kissed her.

Kissing David again…. was like sucking a tomato Rory thought as she felt his tongue hungrily probe her lips. He started to move closer to her body, and she took a step away, but not breaking the kiss. A hundredth million thoughts were running through her mind, and finally she grabbed the one that screamed that this was wrong.

"No" she muttered and pushed him away and quickly wiped her lips. David sighed deeply and closed his eyes. He had always hoped that they would get back together, they seemed to be made for each other, why couldn't she see that?

He was about to say something, when suddenly they both heard the sound of cars drive down the rode outside her house. And the next thing she remembered was the sound of a hundredth breaking glasses and she felt her body go limp.

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