Disclaimer: don't own lotr! Don't own lotr! * Cat Woman/ Luthvara Halfelven: make up your mind! One name or the other, Ellaena! But thank you for your wonderful reviews. And I love Rimaraf and Nrogara as well. * Daughter of Night: *ducks and runs from rotten tomatoes being thrown at her* but I said somewhere that I wasn't gonna get into anything serious in this! Ah well. On with the story! * Lia Langard: read above. I don't like snog sessions. But lemme tell ya, it was some fun stuff! I mean, what? * Amy Cheng: I agree, Legolas is hot. But in my own twisted imagination, Damrod is so much better. And these characters are based off of real people. And these people don't have elf-fixations. More of scrubby stubbly human fixations.

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The first thing out of Boromir's mouth was, "Maybe she won't be as insane as the other three are."

Hallie burst out laughing and said, "Haha, yeah right. If anything, I'm worse. Here, do you want me to prove it?" With that, she walked up to Boromir and kissed him on the lips. She grinned at him, and Blaire, Rachael, and Allyn laughed at him. They walked away.

Boromir was still standing there. Faramir walked by him in the corridor, said a brotherly hello, and stopped short when his brother didn't return his greeting. He backed up and gave his brother a shove. Boromir still didn't respond. Faramir tried everything, from waving his hand in front of Boromir's face, to poking his brother, to grabbing him by the shoulders and shaking him as hard as he could. He finally gave up and walked away.

When Hallie and Blaire walked by him later, Boromir was still standing there, a look of stupidity on his face. Blaire burst out laughing, and Hallie sighed and kissed him again, hoping he'd come out of it. He did, looked at her, and took her outside where they began making out like mad.

Blaire watched them disappear around the corner and saw Hallie give her a helpless look before running off. She sighed. "That's the third person who's done that to me. This is sad." So to solve her problem, she went off to find Damrod. Maybe he'd want to snog her again.
Sean was spotted that night walking around and drawing spider webs on anything and everything. That included Blaire's shirt, a plate, Nightshade's back, Faramir's face, and numerous other things. Rachael had been getting complaints all day about how Sean was insane and they had to get him back to normal somehow. Rachael resolved to hit him over the head with the book again, which, fortunately only for some, solved the problem. He was normal Sean again.

But he wasn't very happy. He kept threatening to put people in joint locks and break their faces. Rachael once again put a stop to it by saying that he wouldn't get to snog her anymore if he didn't cut it out. He immediately stopped.

After about three hours, Hallie and Boromir returned, Hallie, like Blaire, looking nonchalant, but Boromir, a stunned look on his face. His only comment was that he liked girls from "the other world" better than Gondor women.

Then Mablung made a comment that hushed everyone up. "You know, you all are going to have to go back sometime."

There was a long pause. Then Blaire said, "Yeah but.we don't even know how we got here. How are we supposed to get back somewhere when we don't even know how we ended up here?"

"I don't know.but you don't belong here. We need to figure out how to get you back, because otherwise." Damrod said.

"Otherwise what?" Hallie asked.

"You're going to end up dead! And what about the people who care about you who've been left back.wherever? I'm sure they're worried!" Mablung replied.

"What if time hasn't gone on though? It'd be like one of those sci-fi movies where someone leaves and time is suspended where it was, and he gets back and time starts again." Blaire stopped when she noticed the looks she was getting from her friends. "Or not."

"Well then how are we supposed to get back? Do we just wait for the room to start spinning again? That might never happen!" Rachael said.

Allyn was looking thoughtful. "You know who would know something like this?"

"Your dad?" Hallie suggested.

"Besides my dad," Allyn replied.

Blaire thought for a moment, and then an idea dawned on her. She grinned at Allyn and then grabbed Allyn's book and turned toward Sean. "Tersa would know."

Rachael started laughing.

"NO! I am NOT going to get hit in the head with that book again. Did you see the size of the bump I have?" Sean yelled as he backed away from Blaire.

"Well, Tersa would know. and don't you want to get back? Is it worth it?" Rachael asked.

"Absolutely not! I like it here! I like teaching Faramir the finer points of Sindarin!"

Rachael shook her head, and Blaire finally backed off. "Well then how are we supposed to get back?"

Everyone once again fell silent. "We don't have a whole lot of time here," Mablung said. "We got a summons to Osgiliath to help them fend off Sauron's forces."

"I'm thinking here!" Hallie yelled at him.

"Well think faster!"

The cave was silent for a long time after that. No one seemed to know what to do, and after a while, the Rangers drifted off. After a while, Blaire, Hallie, Damrod, Boromir, and Mablung were the only ones sitting by the fire. They sat talking quietly for hours after that.

"I miss my home. I miss karate, my family, my friends.hell I even miss school by now," Blaire said.

"I don't miss my family so much, but I do miss my friends and Jason, and I kinda miss school too," Hallie replied.

"You don't get along with your family?" Damrod asked.

"I get along with my dad, but I don't like my mom at all."

"Same here," Blaire said.

"I miss Minas Tirith," Boromir said. "I haven't seen the city in nearly a year.and that's the only home I've ever known. And it might not even exist anymore, for all I know. When I left, Sauron's forces were too close for comfort, and I fear that the city may be in ruins by now."

An idea dawned on Blaire. "Maybe.maybe we're supposed to help out."

"What?" Damrod asked in surprise.

"Maybe we're supposed to be fighting along with the people that stand against Mordor. I mean, we know a lot about Middle Earth. Hell, anyone would, even if they'd only seen the movies once. So maybe we're supposed to help out. Allyn and Rachael would sure be good for that."

"This isn't making any sense! What are you saying, that we have a purpose here? That we're supposed to be doing something and that when we've completed it, we get to go back?"

Blaire nodded vehemently. "I think that we all have something that can help in the war. And we need to use it before we can leave. But.why us? And what are we supposed to be doing here?"

Hallie looked thoughtful. "Well.like you said, Rachael and Allyn know everything about the books, from cover to cover. So they can tell the armies what they're supposed to be doing.what they need to do to win. You and Sean are warriors, in a sense. You're both black belts. And me.what the fuck am I doing here?"

Blaire shrugged but didn't respond. No one else moved. Finally, Boromir said, "Maybe you're just a wild card. That you're just thrown in to do whatever you can, fight or lead."

That seemed to fit. So Blaire went off to get Faramir, Allyn, Sean, and Rachael back to discuss their idea. The only problem was.where were they? Or more, what were they doing.

Fortunately for Blaire, none of them were doing anything more than snogging. So she dragged them all back to the cave, grumbling as they were, and sat them down.

"We have an idea." Hallie got up to stand next to Blaire. "We think we know how to get back."

"Really?"

Blaire nodded. "We all have some reason that we're here, that there's something about each of us that drew us here, and we have to put it to use before we can go back."

"Well.what something would this be? And what are we using it for?" Sean asked.

"Well for you, it would be your fighting skills," Hallie said. "You and Blaire are black belts, so you'd fight really well along with the armies who stand against Mordor."

"Rachael and Allyn, your knowledge of the books could easily be put to use. Maybe you know of some disaster that can be averted, or something like that. I certainly don't know of anything. I haven't finished the books yet." Blaire shrugged. "That's just an idea.but it seems to fit."

Rachael and Allyn looked at each other. "The only disaster I can think of has already happened: Isildur's taking of the Ring. Of course, if he hadn't done that, none of you would be here right now.so neither would we," Allyn said.

Blaire looked disappointed. "Well then.what are we doing here?"

"Wait!" Rachael said as she jumped up. "Frodo has the Ring! We could take it and Blaire could go back into Mordor and throw it back in! We know that Frodo himself is having problems taking it into Mordor.so then we can do it for him! And it won't look suspicious because Blaire's already supposed to be bringing it back to Sauron!" Rachael said excitedly. "It works!"

"Well yeah.except Frodo's never gonna let us have the Ring," Sean said pointedly. "And even if he did, Sam wouldn't let us get two feet away from him."

Blaire shrugged. "So we take them with."

Allyn shook her head. "Not only will that look suspicious to Sauron, but that would take too long. We have to find a way to take the Ring from Frodo and get it to Mordor."

"But.how do we get it back?" Rachael asked.

Hallie rubbed her hands together. "I think that's my job. I'll be back in fifteen minutes." That said, she walked through the tunnels to where Frodo and Sam were being kept.

And, true to her word, she came back fifteen minutes later. "Did you get it?" Rachael asked.

Hallie dug through her pockets for a few seconds (long enough to make Damrod, Faramir, Boromir, and Mablung sweat), and then she pulled it out triumphantly.

"What did you do?" Allyn asked.

Hallie looked around innocently and replied, "I dazzled him with my.wits!"

Rachael, Blaire, Allyn, and Sean burst out laughing.

"But we gotta get going soon," Hallie warned. "By tomorrow morning at the latest, because otherwise he's going to wonder if I'm giving it back."

"You told him you were giving it back?" Blaire asked incredulously.

Hallie nodded. "That's what I told Jason," she said and pulled Jason's class ring out of her pocket.

"This is not good," Allyn muttered.