This may be a bit late to tell you this if you've already read the first chapter. I'd just like to remind everyone that this is a sequel to an earlier story that I've written and if you haven't read the first one, you're going to be very confused. So if you haven't read Kitty Tales yet, read it before you read any more of this. I'm just telling you for your own sanity. It would be like starting to read The Two Towers without reading Fellowship of the Ring. Anyway Disclaimer: (I'm thoroughly sick of these) no I don't own LOTR and it was not written by me. I only own Alice, her friends and myself. Got it? Good.

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Chapter 2

Alice gazed upon the waterfall where her friends and various elves her own age resided. Lebeth was surrounded by adoring fans. Since Legolas had become "accounted for" as they say in the dating game, Lebeth seemed to have become the new hot property. Well, that was the way it seemed, judging by the alarmingly female group of supposed admirers surrounding him. She'd heard Beth, Gina and Carry wanted to marry him, but she hadn't heard of any kisses in the moonlight or declarations of undying love. Yet. Lebeth seemed standoffish, shy and bewildered around the opposite sex. Alice put it down to inexperience. At this present moment his female circle seemed to have thinned and Alice stood next to him on the bridge

"Hey there Lebeth," She greeted him brightly.

He bowed with agile grace. "Lady Lindelë, my pleasure." He looked quite relieved.

"How's life?" Alice asked, using one of her more choice conversation starters.

"It is good my lady," He replied. "But I feel short of breath."

"All your female admirers?" Alice asked. Lebeth nodded.

"They confuse me," Lebeth confessed quietly. "Maidens have never sought to court me."

"It confused me that some ugly men sought me back home," Alice joked. "I thought there might have been something wrong with me or something. But all of those elf maidens out there are rather beautiful." She glanced over Carenmeril's way. Alice had her suspicions that the elf maiden, like many others, was in love with Lebeth.

"There is nothing wrong with you," Lebeth remarked. Alice laughed and tossed a piece of moss at him.

"Charmer," She retorted. "But then again, flattery, and chocolate, will get you everywhere. No Lebbo. I admit it. I have faults."

Lebeth raised an eyebrow. "And they are?" By this stage Alice was on the verge of a laughing fit. She couldn't believe Lebeth thought she had no faults.

"Lebeth," Alice said, trying so hard not to laugh. "I could write a book on my faults."

"You are a fountain of goodness to me," He told her seriously. Alice panicked. Oh dear. She hadn't strung him along had she? Now would be a good time for a diversion. And fast. Alice began to think with lightening bolt speed for a witty one liner. Something. Anything. This had happened before. Suddenly something came to her.

"Lebeth I'm spoken for," She reminded him, letting out a nervous laugh and keeping her voice as light as possible. "Go charm some of my friends. They're just as lovely as me." She took his hand and led him over to where Gina and Carenmeril were having a nice, girly chat. Alice fully supported it. Girly chats were the best. Inside, her heart was overflowing with joy and sadness, as she realised she missed Legolas terribly. Tears filled her eyes but she held them back.

"Hey are you okay?" Asked Carry from behind her.

"Yeah," She replied, heavy-hearted. "I just miss Legolas that's all." Carry nodded, her teal eyes understanding.

"I know," Carry said, in a placid way that could only be Carry. Calmness was her middle name. Alice only saw Carry lose her cool with parallel parking and her eternal, annoying back problem. But if that was called losing your cool, Alice looked like a raging lunatic beside Carry any day.

"Enough about me," Alice began, forcing a smile on to her face, to try and attempt to show Carry that yes, she was fine. "What's up with you? Bob still being a pain in the ass?" Carry and Bob had once dated, but Carry had dumped him as she found him a whining brat, which Alice, Gina, Carry and another friend of theirs, crazier than them all combined, Mildred Harkins argeed. Mildred resembled a Viking lady of war, complete with waist long auburn plaits and muscled limbs. Mildred was over six foot had stern rimmed glasses, freckles and was very scary to the average Joe Smith. In fact Alice still found her quite scary, especially when she was threatening to hit you over the head with a 1000 page hardback book. Mildred was a strange person. You had to meet her to know what she was like as it was near impossible to explain to anyone else her personality and presence. Alice kind of missed her in a weird way. Sure, Mildred had been quick to call her an idiot most of the time, taken quick to the idea of her being a dizzy blonde, quick to demean her. All in good humour, and Mildred did have a weird, but good, sense of humour. She inwardly chuckled and turned to Carry.

"Yes, he still is," Carry replied. "He's got a new girlfriend." Alice shrieked in shock.

"OH MY GOD!" Was all she could exclaim. "Someone finds him attractive?" Carry, at this stage was quietly chuckling.

"Yes," She said. "Surprisingly."

"Oh god," gasped Alice. "Awful mental images... REALLY awful mental images." Alice blinked, trying to clear them from her head.

"Devon found him attractive at one stage," Carry said. Alice froze. Devon. A subject she didn't want to discuss. She would drive herself insane by it. She needed that sanity desperately. "It's not her though."

"I know," Alice said quickly and suddenly had a brilliant thought. Lebeth and Carry. The perfect couple. "Hey by the way, what do you think of Lebeth?"

"He seems nice," Carry remarked and Alice thought that she saw Carry go the slightest shade of red. "Cute. Why?"

"No reason," Alice lied. "He just seems lonely."

"You don't like him do you?" Carry asked. "That's not fair, you've got Legolas."

"Excuse me," Alice squealed indignantly. "I'm in love with Legolas. I don't like Lebeth at all romantically. You don't want to go out with him do you?"

"Well I would," Answered Carry. "He probably wouldn't look twice at me though."

"You never know," Alice said slyly. "Go on, I'd rather it was you than anyone else. Just say hello. It couldn't hurt."

"Okay," Carry sighed. "Remember, it's all your fault if he doesn't like me."

"Yeah I know," Alice replied. She gave Carry a smile of encouragement and watched her sit down next to Lebeth. She then walked over to Carenmeril and Gina.

"Hey," Gina said. "Sit down."

"Gladly," Alice replied. "So what is up with you two?"

"We are discussing Master Lebeth," Carenmeril replied.

"And whether or not he's babe material," Gina added. "And whether he's either single and straight, or straight and not single, or just gay." Alice snorted. Typical, one track minded, Gina.

"He's straight and single from what I can gather," She said. "Bit confused with all the female admirers."

Gina's mouth fell open. "Confused?! Why?! Are you SURE he's straight?"

"He's what we'd refer to on Higher Earth as being a new age nice guy," Alice informed Gina. "Male elves don't have egos. Unless they're Legolas, who by now has accepted female admirers and just ignores them, I can see how Lebeth would be uneasy." Gina made a worshipping gesture.

"Behold," She said. "The oracle of knowledge on male elves." Carenmeril giggled.

"I will be at your counsel Lindelë," Carenmeril told her. "At all times if you possess such knowledge."

"By the way, your Elven name is really pretty," Gina remarked. "What does it mean?"

"Music," Alice explained. "In high Elvish or otherwise known as Quenya."

"I could stay forever," Gina sighed and smiled, closing her eyes. "This place is so gorgeous. There's no trace of dark rings and bags under my eyes any more." A soft breeze flitted around them. Despite it being winter, the breeze was crisp with a hint of oriental warmth, a contrast to the chilling wind back in Higher Earth. Alice guessed this was because Rivendell wasn't near the sea. She squirmed. Being reminded of that made her feel disorientated due to a placebo effect of thinking living away from the ocean would be virtual torture as she'd heard from other seemingly unreliable sources.

"I am going to stay here forever," Alice muttered. "I'm going to live forever." Suddenly, the prospect of living forever seemed quite unnerving.

"Eternity to an elf is not long," Carenmeril explained, Alice turned. Carenmeril had been rather quiet in the last few minutes. "I have lived for almost an age. I do not feel stretched, or weary of life. But if I may sympathise, " She began fiddling with the hem of her gown. "Life when love is gone seems long and bleek." Alice smiled wryly at her friend. In many ways, she was right. She leaned back against the tree behind her, gazing up at the sky. She wondered what Legolas was doing right about now.

What she didn't know however, was that Legolas was thinking the exact same thing. Currently in the Mines of Moria, he was currently turning stern. The day had been harsh, full of surprises, all of them unpleasant. They were currently on their way to Balin's place, hopefully for a good feed. So far, things did not look good. The Mines of Moria turned out to be like a desert town, dead dwarves lying every where. The day before, Pippin had caused disturbance for deciding to throw stones into a well for entertainment. Unfortunately this would probably alert any enemies or spies of Sauron listening that they were indeed in close range. Today, they had made good ground by moving briskly. Tonight, Legolas was on watch after Frodo. Since Caradhras, the group feared even more so for Frodo's safety. Sure, the hobbit was very strong willed, but there was only so much a mortal could take. And, in addition to that, Legolas suspected that the will of Boromir was growing thin. The ring was corrupting him slowly and surely. That night, he drifted easily along the paths of dreams, all of them including, in some way or another, Alice. Oh how he missed her. This thought tugged at him until he awoke and took over from Frodo, who seemed quite highly strung at that moment, on watch. The Mines of Moria were like a tomb, as Boromir had said. Everything was so quiet. Far too quiet. He half expected to hear a scream or a yell from far off, to let him know there was life here. Legolas went about his watch for the rest of the night until what he suspected to be dawn (although there was no telling in a mine devoid of all sunlight). The Fellowship were on a trip again. For better or worse.

It should have been hoped by readers and author that Alice had an okay night too. But simply for tragedy purposes she didn't really. Plagued with harrowing nightmares she thrashed about her bed throwing half her covers off in the process. Most of them included Devon for some strange, deranged reason. It all started with Devon being tortured and assuming Orc form. A man with a long white beard who looked positively evil turned to her and said:
"Do you choose to presume yourself a friend?"

The scene before her distorted and changed into a fiery pit. Legolas was there and Alice found herself feeling inconsolably excited. Her excited nature changed to growing horror as in came Devon. She had seemed to have recovered from her Orc-ish state and now was back to looking positively evil and spiteful.

"Hello Leggy," She sighed in sultry tones. "Are you... well?" Legolas looked hypnotised.

"Yes Mistress." He replied in a monotone. Devon took Legolas into her arms and to Alice's absolute agony she kissed him passionately. Alice swore she could see all major tongue action.

"Now, sweetheart," Devon sighed again, breaking off the kiss. "See that maiden over there? You must kill her. She is a threat."

"I do as you wish Lady," He said, in the same monotone as before. Alice tried to scream, but she couldn't. In fact, her throat had clenched up and she could make no sound. Legolas stood before her with his bow drawn ready to kill... and she was falling, falling into a hole...

Alice was finally able to scream. Sitting bolt upright, she saw she was no longer in the fiery pit she was previously, but upon the floor of her Rivendell bedroom. She looked around earnestly to see where she was. It took her a little bit of time due to being a blonde that there were people surrounding her and that she must have fallen out of bed.

"Are you ok?" Gina asked. "We heard you screaming from the other side of your grandpa's place." Alice nodded.

"I am fine," she answered. "Or will be. Bad dream." Carry knelt down beside her and patted her on the back.

"Oh you poor thing!" Carry exclaimed. Alice felt lulled and comforted by her cultured South African/Hong Kong accent. She looked up to see Elrohir kneeling down next to her also.

"Daddy!" Alice cried instantaneously hugging him. Elrohir returned the hug while stroking her hair.

"I am glad you are safe daughter," He said. "I had only just returned from Lothlórien when I heard you cry out in pain."

"I'd like to see Lothlórien," Alice mused.

"That could be arranged daughter," Elrohir replied. "I must consult father, but I am sure you would be welcomed, considering you are of kin to the Lord and Lady of Galadhrim." Alice smiled and stood up.

"Excellent," She said. "Well, the sun seems to have risen, finally. Must mean it's time for me to get up." Alice did exactly that, followed by her entourage of Gina, Carry and Beth. Elrohir sat in her wake, smiling a quiet, intellectual smile. She would get to see the fair woods of Lothlórien soon. Too soon.

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Sorry it took so long. I've had a bout of tonsillitis, and I'm still sick with it. My tonsils are the size of small marbles and all white and pussy. It looks seriously gross, but not as gross as before. I'd like to think they're getting better. Another reason is my brother's 21st which is now over. We've been really busy organising it and stuff. Also, I See Red's going to choir finals next week and I've been at countless numbers of choir practices which probably killed my throat in the first instance. Oh well. Hopefully the next chapter will be along sooner. I have a lot of time on my hands as Mum's decided to keep me home from school until Thursday.