They all stoped sudenly, too stunned that they hadn't even seen someone hiding behind the rock. And we can imagine what Legolas was feeling; earlier he had had an argument with Gimli, saying that an elf's eyesight was better than any other.

Leah stood tall and strong, her shoulders arched back; anxious and nervous of what they might say. It took all her courage to stand up to all of them, strong as most appeared to be. But not too worried, she assured herself. After all, who had just won a battle with 30 stranges creatures? They put up a good fight, too. They seemed to have been trained to know no pain or weekness. Their leader was too quick, and fled when he noticed she was much powerful that his army or him. Obviously, she had thought, they have not been trained in courage.

"Who are you? And what business do you have here?" she demanded to the group.

"Hello! I'm Periguin Took, or Pippin if you wish. This is Meridoc Brandybuck, Mr. Frodo Baggins- he's on a special quest I'll have you know. It seems that there is a dark ring, and-"

"PIPPIN!" shouted Aragorn. "Why must you always be so friendly to strangers that ask you questions?" Pippin lowered his head in shame. Leah felt quite sorry for him; she actually liked his eagerness to be her friend, and had almost lowered her bow. But she was then glad she didn't when Aragorn continued. "I warn you, sir. We have strong fighters, and arent afraid of killing any man."

Leah and Jaen thought this was extremely funny, and Leah had to try and keep her face strait as she lowered her hood. "I see you are not open to new ideas."

This took them by so much surprise: the idea of being afraid of and overpowered by a women. Gimli was the first to speak up.

"Interesting that you say that. Just a couple of minutes ago, we were discussing me taking over. Legolas said 'no'. Aragorn said 'no'. Boromir said 'no'. Frodo said-"

"No?" guessed Leah. The dwarf went on and on about this. The rest of the fellowship seemed to conduct private conversations. They had learned in the past few weeks that Gimli was best undisturbed until he grew tired of the topic. Jaen, now very sore from the hard rock she was kneeling on, stood up with her hood down.

"You look just like me!" she exclaimed, pointing to the group of hobbits. "You wear no shoes, are short, and curly hair! You look just like me! Leah, do you see them? Do they not look just like me?"

"Why yes, they do, Jaen." said Leah, quite puzzled to why she had not seen the resemblence before. "Another thing, that blonde-haired man. He resembles me quite a bit..."

"Excuse me?" said Legolas, when he realized they were talking about him. "If you have not noticed, I am an elf- not a man. And yes, I supose we do bear similar traits, seeing we are both elves."

Leah did not stop to think this over, as she was quite entranced by his voice. It sounded like a creature she had heard before. A bird, I believe the villager had told her. It had indeed sounded sweet and blissful, but nothing compared to this man. Or this 'elf' as he put it. What a funny word. Elf...

"Pardon? What do you mean by "elf"? Is it perhaps your name?"

Legolas was puzzled by this, but when he saw the sun already setting, it was driven out of his mind by other things. "I think we should maybe prepare a meaL." That came quite suddenly to him, and he was surprised, due to the fact that he had been skipping meals lately. mayble it had finally caught up to him.

"Oh yes!" said Frodo quite eagerly. "A hot meal sounds very nice right now. Especially since it's been at least and hour and a half since mid afternoon meal."

Leah reluctanly agreed to eat with them, due to the fact that Jaen pinches quite hard, and can be quite annoying when a meal is mentioned. Leah then jumped off the edge of the rock and landed quite gracefully in front of the rest of them. Jaen, on the other hand, sat down on the rock and slowly moved herself down the rock- doing a sort of crab-walk. Leah joined Gimli and Legolas who were gathering firewood and moving all of their belongings underneith the rock to protect it all. Jaen joined the rest of the hobbits and helped prepare the meal and campsite. Boromir and Aragorn justod around talking about everyone else working, At first, Aragorn went hunting and came back with a large creature of some kind, but it seemed to him that he had done enough. occasionally they would shift to one side about 2 feet, then continue talking.

"Do they always to that?" Jaen asked Sam, who had introduced her to all the hobbits as she decended down the rock. "Just stand there talking while everyone else works?"

"No...sometimes Aragorn will help start a fire, but Boromir doesn't do too much. Once, while we were in Lothlorien, I saw him eying Frodo quite strangly. He seemed to have more on his mind then usual, and has kept to himself more than he normally would."

"Quite strange, if you ask me," Pipped in Pippin. "Didn't even participate in Variety Night." The others nodded in agreement, and continued skinning the animal. No one had decided on what the animal was, and it soon became a popular topic during dinner.

"A deer if you ask me." said Gimli.

"And what would you know of animals?" Legolas asked, quite frustrated. "All you dwarves do is sit in your mines and count your precious gold. Now, in my personal opinion, the animal is a fox, or perhaps a squirrel."

"what do you know about the outdoors, anyway? You might break a nail, perhaps. Or worse, tangle a precious strand of hair."

"shut up gimli........"

:Watch out! There's a giant bug in your hair!"

"GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!" Legolas began running around in circles, swiping at his hair and at one point, poking an arrow through it.

Leah and Jaen just sat. Jaen was already an official member of the hobbit clan that had been formed, but there was some resistence between Leah and the rest of the fellowship. Something that kept them from talking too much with her, and at one point became too much for her. She stood up and left the fire, heading towards the rock. She drove all the noise out of her head, and intended to "punish" them for forgetting her. When she got to the top of the rock, she realized that no one had seen her leave. Legolas had stolen Gimli's sword, and was now yelling "Come and get it!" as Gimli chased after him. Aragorn and Boromir were deep in conversation again, Frodo & Sam were drawing pictures of their home in the sand, and merry, pippin, and Jaen were all sitting and laughing together.

-------All Of this is just Leah thinking, and talking to herself.--------

I feel that my friend has betrayed me, but how I do not know. I supose this feeling could come from jealously that she has found new friends, but I honestly am happy for her. I knew how awful I can be at times, and sometimes I wish that I would stop doing such stupid things.