Disclaimer: I do not own any lord of the rings, or Harry potter characters. I only own Callie and Jes.

 Chapter Two

      When we got back we found that my mom and Legolas' dad had not finished talking yet. So we all went to the kitchens to get some food. At that point I could have eaten a whole mountain troll by myself. Not that it would have been very tasty, I herd they taste like shit, literally.

      When we finished eating we went back to the throne room. This time the King and my mother were done talking. So we all went in to tell them of the new developments concerning my father.

      "This is a very good thing. Gimili would you please send a message to your father and tell him not to let Voldermort free." My mother told Gimili.

      "Honey you have had a very trying day. Why don't you go to bed?" The King asked me. He really surprised me by calling me by an endearment. "Tomorrow you will be able to ask all the questions you want. For now I would fell better if I knew you were in bed."

      "O.k. I don't want to worry anyone more than I already have. Good-night." I told everyone in the room.

      I started walking towards the door when my mother asked, "Do you know the way to your room?"

      "Yes" I told her so that she would let me walk by myself. With that I started walking again. I really had some idea where my room was so I headed that way.

      As I was walking, I was thinking about the day's events. I really should be dead right now but I wasn't going to dwell on that. I could not believe how much my appearance had changed. Before I had normal ears, light grey-blue eyes, and my hair was dirty blonde. Even some of my facial features had changed. My pale complexion now had a deep tan; my cheekbone became more prominent. My nose became slightly upturned and unless I'm going crazy I think I grew about six inches from my five foot two inch stature.

      When I got to my room, I closed my door and stared changing into the nightgown that was lying on the bed. This nightgown was slightly different from the one that I had taken off earlier in the day. The nightgown was soft and when I put it on it made me warm all over. I hadn't even realized that I was chilled. I sat down in front of the mirror again and took my hair out of the braid that my mother had put into it. It was so weird to have someone that I can call my mother after sixteen years.

      I got up and started over to the bed when there was a knock on my door. I told whoever was knocking that they could come in. In walks Legolas "You left the throne room looking a bit sick. Are you alright?" he asked.

      "I have had a very long day and I guess that it caught up with me." I told him.

      "Would it help if you were to talk about it with someone?"

      "It might."

      "So let talk."

      "Well I guess first of all I am trying to think of why I am even still alive. All logic points to the fact that I should be dead. That curse even almost destroyed my father, yet all it did to me was knock me out for two weeks. The only other person who survived unscathed was Harry Potter. His mother died to save him. No one that I know of has ever died to save me the facts just don't add up."

      "Do you want to hear my theory?"

      "Yes please"

      "Well every last person who had their arrows pointed at your father would have died to save your life. Maybe that is why the spell didn't work like it should have."

      "That is a very good theory. How do you think that my father got into Middle earth in the first place?"

      "Usually the only way to get between the two worlds is being originally from Middle Earth. My guess is that his father was from Middle Earth. That is why it was so easy to get you here."

      "So his father may not have been as much of a muggle as he thought. So if I wanted I could go back and visit people."

      "Yes there is a way that you can open a portal. You look like you are about to fall over from exhaustion. Why don't you go to bed? I will see you in the morning." He told me, and then walked out of the room.

      After he left, I went over to the bed and pulled back the covers. I looked back at the door then I crawled into bed. I pulled the covers up to my chin. I got to thinking about my apartment with all my stuffed animals and my blanky. I think I finally fell asleep at about two a.m.

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      When I woke up the next morning, I found that my mother was sitting in my room. She looked like she had slept there all night. I got up quietly so that I wouldn't wake her up. I was in the middle of putting on the dress that was in the corner, when my mother woke up. She was looking at me weirdly. "What did I do?" I asked.

      "Nothing, I came in here last night to check on you, when this very strange thing happened. I didn't think it would happen but it did. I fell in love with you again, as my daughter. When I had found that you had come back I vowed not to fall in love again. That way I would not get hurt again. This time I see that your father does not have an influence over you any more. Before he could just pick you up and take you away, but you have grown up and won't let him come near you anymore. I just want you to know that I am proud to have you as my daughter." She told me then got up and left me to think about what she had just said.

      It makes me feel good about myself to hear her say that to me. I only ever wanted to have a mother and to have her be proud of me for being me. I had never had that kind of love in my life and it made me feel good.

      I was in the middle of trying to style my hair, when I heard a knock at my door. "Come in." I said to whoever was knocking.

      Legolas walked in and asked, "Do you want some help styling your hair?"

      "Sure, I am used to working with my hair a lot shorter." I told him.

      "Are you feeling better today?" He asked while braiding my hair.

      "Yes I have gotten over the little fact that I should be dead. I miss my home though. I would love to speak with Eric about this. He would be so happy that I found my mother after all those years of searching."

      "Who is Eric?" Legolas asked almost sounding jealous.

      "Eric is a friend from back home, who I met almost a year ago."

      "Are you in love with him?" Legolas asked with a hint of jealousy in his voice.

      "Yes and no. I love him as a friend, but I don't have any romantic feelings for him. It would be forbidden if I did.

      "Why would it be forbidden?"

      "Eric is a bard, I am a witch. There is a magical law that states that bards and witches or wizards can never get married."

      "Why is that? To me it sounds stupid to say that two people can never get married." Legolas said.

      "Well the reason is quite simple really. The reason the law was put into place was because bards are not human. They may look really close to humans but they are not human. Bards and humans can never have children, so the law was put into place so that magical people would not die out. After a while bards and humans just stopped falling in love, romantically, with each other. Even though the best friend you could ever have is a bard." I explained.

      "What is a bard?" asked Legolas.

      "A bard is a being who uses magic through music. Everything they do they use music. They conceive children through music. That is why humans and bards can never have children." I told him.

      "So you and Eric are just friends nothing more?" he asked.

      "Yes"

      "Do you have anyone back home who you are in love with?"

      "No I never really knew any boy that well."

      "This is kind of a rude question but how old are you?"

      "I am almost seventeen years old."

      "I don't want to scare you but the instant I met you, I was attracted to you. I was wondering if you felt the same way."

      "I felt the attraction also but figured that you would not be interested in me. You are so nice and might I say hott. Nobody like that is usually interested in me."

      "Well I am interested in you. I am now done with your hair. You look beautiful to me."

"Thank you" I said, and then looked into the mirror. I could barely recognize myself. I stode up and Legolas and I looked into each other eyes. For a moment I thought we were going to kiss. Legolas looked away then walked over to my bed and sat down.

      "What would your mother say if she knew about this? It almost feels forbidden. You are so young. I have seen much evil. I don't know if it would work." Legolas said sounding very sad.

      "I think that she would be happy. I have also seen a lot of evil. Look at my father; he is the most powerful dark wizard in over 1,000 years. I may not have a lot of years but I have done much. I graduated from Merlin Academy at sixteen. Then I move to New York City to attend Julliard. I have been taking care of myself since I was six. My life has not been easy. I have a lot of emotional baggage that I don't know if I will ever be able to get rid of. When people go into relationships they almost never know how it is going to work out. We can't see into the future to see how things will workout. I feel that we should try a relationship just because of the attraction that we both have."

      "How can you be so sure about this?" Legolas asked me.

      "Life is about taking chances. You should do what you feel in your heart is right. In my heart I know that we should take a chance on this." I told him.

      My mother must have been listening to our conversation, because at that moment she walked into the room. "Both of your presences are requested in the throne room. I would also like you both to know that I would have no problems if the two of you were to start a relationship." She told us.

      "Really, you don't mind?" I asked her.

      "Really, I don't mind." She said. Then she walked back out of the room. Leaving us to think about what she had just said.

      "What do you think your father would say about us?" I asked Legolas.

      "I don't know it has never come up." He told me. "Well we should get going, so my father doesn't send people looking for us."

      With that we both got up from where we were sitting. I walked over to him, looked into his eyes, and then turned around to leave. He stopped me then kissed me. I didn't expect it. It felt like I had become whole. Like there was a part of me missing up until that moment. I melted into his loving arms. He linked his hand through my hair. I ran my hands down his hardback. After I don't know how long, I pulled out of the kiss.

      "Did you feel that?" I asked him.

      "Yes, I have never felt that way before. You filled a part of me that never knew existed." He said.

      "We really should get going. My mother and your father will be worried about us." I told him.

      So I started to leave, when again Legolas stopped me. This time he took my hand into his. Then he started walking out, so I followed suit. When we were walking down the halls I felt like a little girl again. Like that was the first time holding a boys hand. I was so enwrapped in that thought, that I didn't notice all the loving looks we were getting.

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      When we reached the throne room, we were met by 'what took you two so long' looks from our parents. "Legolas I would like you to teach Callie how to fight. So that she can defend herself if she really has to." The king told Legolas.

      "Yes father" he replied, "Can Jes help me out?"

      "If you will actually teach, instead of screwing around. If I find that she isn't making satisfactory progress, Jes will have to find something else to do. I know you are best friends, but training Callie is very important." The king said.

      "We will take this responsibility very seriously, father." Legolas told his father.

      "Callie I hope you don't mind, but it is something you need to know how to do. Your mother agrees with me. It is for your own good." The king said to me.

      "I think it will be kind of fun. What will I be learning?"

      "You will be learning how to use a bow and arrow, plus how to use Elvin short swords. I hope you will become very adapt with these weapons.' The king told me.          

      "Thank you, your highness." I said.

      "You're welcome. I will see you two at lunch." He told us.

      When he was done speaking, Legolas and I walked out of the throne room. We walked hand in hand to a part of the city I had never seen before. Legolas knew right where he wanted to go. It seemed like we only walked for one minute before we got to the door where we stopped.

Legolas knocked on the door five times, and then stood back. The door opened to reveal an elf with black hair and dark blue eyes. I couldn't tell whether the elf was male or female.

While I was studying the elf, the elf was studying me.

      "Hello Jes." Legolas said to the elf.

      "What brings you down here?" Jes asked.

      "I would like your help. If you have any spare time." Legolas said.

      "All I ever have it spare time. You should know that, old friend." Jes then asked, "Who is the girl?"

      "This is Callie, a friend of mine." Jes said,

      "Nice to meet you Jes." I said

      "Nice to meet you also Callie." Jes said

      "My father wants us to teach Callie how to defend herself." Legolas told Jes.

      "So daddy finally trusts me again. When did hell freeze over?" Jes remarked.  I had to laugh at that comment. Both of the guys gave me a really funny look.

      "What?" I asked.

      "How did you know that was a joke?" Jes asked.

      "Well it is a joke where I come from, so I figured that it could be here also. "I told him.

      "You are the second person to ever laugh at one of my jokes. The first is holding your hand." He commented.

      "Really, how sweet." I said.

      "Why do we need to teach such a beautiful thing how to fight?" Jes asked.

      "I have some very powerful enemies." I told Jes.

      "O.K Legolas you are covering the archery right?" Jes asked.

      "Yes, and I figured you could teach her how to use the short swords." Legolas said.

      "Sounds good to me. When do you want to start?"

      "I was thinking right now."

      "O.K Give me a minute to change."

      "When I was young I was very curious. I came wandering down here and ran right into Jes, who was playing a game. We became instant friends. After about an hour his father came down to retrieve him, because the king was looking for his son. When his father saw me he asked where my father was. I told hi in the palace, so he walked me back and became my father's top adviser. Jes and I have been friends ever since. We have gotten into lots of trouble in the past 2000 years." Legolas told me."

      "So it really was a joke about your father not trusting him?"

I asked.

      "Yes and no. My father trusts his father with his life. I don't think he completely trusts Jes and me though. We have pulled a few too many pranks." He explained

      "I'm ready." Jes said.

      "So you two are trouble makers?" I asked. The reponse I got was two very innocent looks, except for the devil horns." " You two think I am going to fall for those faces? Think again. I wrote the book on looking innocent." I told them.

      "We can't fool her can we." Jes asked Legolas.

      "No, she can see right through us." Legolas said.

       "I guess we'll have to tell her." Jes said.

      "No, I like her too much."

      "We'll let her live for now." Jes told Legolas. "Anything you see or hear can not be told anywhere else." He told me.

      "Who would I tell?" I asked.

      "Your mother, my father. Just to name a few." Legolas said.

      "Why would I tell them anything? I hardly know either of them." I asked.

      "I don't know. May be you would want to rat us out." Legolas answered.

      "Why would I want to do that?"

      "To get revenge, I don't know."

      "What would I want revenge for?"

      "In the off chance that we would do anything to you." Legolas asked.

      "You would really be dumb enough to try?"

      "No, I wouldn't. I don't know about Jes tough."

      "If he tries, I will happily teach him a lesson."

      "How could you do that?" Jes asked.

      "If I told you, you wouldn't learn from it now would you." I told him.

      "You can try." He said. Then we started walking back the way we came from. We went past the palace, into field beyond. The guys went about setting the field up for archery practice. They also scanned the area, so that if I missed the target, no one would get hurt. When they were done with that, Legolas came over to me and showed me how to use a bow. I only missed the target once when Jes felt the need to give me jumper cables. When I missed Gimili had the misfortune of getting hit. The look on his face was priceless though. He didn't get hurt, just startled. By lunchtime I was hitting the center of the target every time.

      We went to lunch were the king asked how I was doing. Every time one of the guys would say something the king would look to me for confirmation. The king told me that my mother had gone home. I was a little disappointed because she didn't say good-bye. Then the king told me she would be back within a week's time. That made me feel better.

      After lunch we went back out to the field. This time was different however. Jes had picked up four really beautiful swords. He began to teach me how to use them. Soon after we found that I was just as goods with the swords as with the bow. Both things came really easy to me like understanding Elfish.

      About an hour before dinner, I started planning how I was going to get Jes back. Then I came up with the perfect idea. I could set a harmless snake on him. Basically the only thing I got from my dad was the ability to speak Parsletounge. The look on Jes' face was priceless. I think he would have screamed if he would have had a voice. It took the guys like half of an hour to figure out that I had done it.

      The next week went by really fast. Once the boys got used to having a girl around, they became much more fun. The three of us could get into a lot of trouble we found out. Once they got used to the fact that I could talk with snakes, we began setting them on unsuspecting people. Once we even set one on the King.