Author's Note: No one is reviewing, once again; WAHH! Except for CuriousReader, you rock! o_O I think I will have to explain how the car got there eventually...
Judgement Chapter Ten
Marueen waddled over to the table and knocked on it while trying not to trip over all the various feet. The hollow noise made her ears tickle, she struggled not to laugh, Aunt Gabby would be mad. She was supposed to be up in her room taking a nap. Haldir wasn't used to children and didn't watch her closely. She simply walked out of the room and scurried up the stairs to find her Aunt and Virginia. She looked at the various pairs of feet beneath the table. A few pairs were gigantic, others were dainty in tiny shoes. Momo, as everyone called her, ventured out from under the table to find her Aunt and be shown off to all of the court. It wasn't but seconds after Momo stepped out from under the cover of the table that a dozen or more elves and women were standing about her cooing and babbling on.

"Oh look at her baby blue eyes!" crowed a young blonde haired girl. She picked Momo up and sat her on her lap. Oh well, to be shown off by anyone is okay. She looked around, her plastic pacifier sticking out of her mouth, looking for Legolas, or anyone who knew her. She had been told numerous times by her Aunt and Virginia that Daddy wasn't coming to get her, but she never stopped looking for him. Her blonde hair was getting a little curly as it grew. Then again, her father still had an afro, so what could she do? Her coveralls were stained and dirty but they were the last of her normal clothes. Legolas steered his way over to the table where the girls had crowded. He was suspicious of what they were all cooing to.

"Excuse me ladies? May I please have that baby?" he asked quietly to the small group. The blonde one looked very embarassed.

"Of course, I'm sorry, I didn't know it was yours!" she commented sheepishly. Legolas smiled and was accepted by young Momo at once.

"She isn't mine." he stated and went in search for Gabby. The elves gaped at Legolas as he passed the high table, holding the one-year-old in his arms. Elrond smiled as he shifted the child to one arm so he could catch the attention of Gabby as she joked with Arwen and Aragorn in the corner. The child looked used to this and began to yank on Gabby's hair. After a moment of this, Gabby reeled around and glared at Legolas before realizing Momo had been attempting to pull her head off via her hair.

"How did you escape Haldir, little one?" she questioned sweetly. The child giggled and dove into her Aunt's open arms. She was wrong, her Aunt was happy to see her. She tickled Momo and played a little game. "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" challenged Gabby to her niece.

"Bah lo!" the child cried happily. Translation: A lot! How cute, she was simply showing everyone what she could say and do. Gabby remembered when they didn't have enough money to buy little Maureen a kid's meal at McDonald's and how they had asked for a "Cute Kid Discount" and soon everyone was fed and happy.

"And what is your name?" Aragorn asked Maureen. He smiled and kept a distance from her as she looked him over, not quite trusting this gruff looking stranger.

"Momo." she stated. Gabby smiled and put Momo on her shoulders and made way to the table to sit down, Aragorn and Arwen following. Virginia snatched Momo from Gabby's shoulders and blew a raspberry on her belly. Momo screamed with laughter and kicked her tiny feet into Virginia's sides.

"Howdy lttle partner!' Virginia cried into the child's ear and began to bounce her legs up and down in a horse like manner. It kept her occupied long enough to get through the moment of silence at the beginning of the feast. Then she babbled and crowed all night until the dinner music ended and the dancing music began. Gabby moaned at the tired look on Momo's face. It was going to be Hell putting her to bed tonight! She would want to be with everyone else here in the banquet hall. Legolas pried Momo from Gabby's hands and began to dance his way out the door. Instantly Momo was asleep on his shoulder, on her way to a closed room where she could sleep in peace.

"Prince! I have lost-" Haldir began to explain his plight to Legolas before he noticed the sleeping bundle on his shoulder.

"Easy, she found her way to Lady Gabriel, she is going to bed." he smiled and laid the child in her crib, covering her with a blanket. "The more pressing matter is, why didn't you search for her?" he inquired Haldir who was looking at the peaceful expression on the baby's face.

"I thought she was hiding from me in the room." he whispered, trying not to wake her. Indeed, the room was messed up quite a bit. Gabriel's bed was torn apart and the closet was emptied on the floor. Legolas dismissed Haldir to the banquet hall and began to put her room back in order. Once again, next week he was going to try and take Virginia and Gabby to Mirkwood, without having months wasted between. The Aarondiel Crystal shard made it near impossible to tell if it really was her or whoever she was trying to be.

"Is she still asleep?" a voice asked, bringing Legolas back down to Middle-Earth. He looked up, Virginia and Gabby stood in the doorway, both groggy, it was late.

"Yes. Haldir had torn apart your room in search for the mischievious little Maureen." he explained his frantic cleaning away in one sentence.

"Goodnight." whispered Gabby, kissing him on the cheek. Legolas scurried out of the room and into his across the hall. They had remained in their human form all day, and were tired and well, were going to get aggrivated if he didn't do exactly as they said.

"Well, we either sleep like little Princess here," Gabby jabbed a finger at Momo, "or we turn back and meditate until we feel like sneaking out to go find a pond or something. I don't know about you, but I am in need of a good long, swim!"

"Me too." Virginia agreed. Hours later they were splashing around in the nearest pool they could find, swimming in circles, just enjoying the crisp mountain spring's water.

Merry was restless. He had agreed to go back to the Shire so that Virginia could visit Mirkwood and return as soon as possible. Then he wasn't sure what would happen. Maybe life would develop from there, maybe not. He sighed, she could be lost forever. Then he grinned slyly. ~Not if I can help it.~ he snickered and packed a few things in a knapsack before heading out the door, heart set on Rivendell, or more importantly, Virginia.

"Virginia, do you feel that?" Gabby asked, straightening up from the cool water. Her eyes narrowed and focused on something in the west.

"What do you mean, feel?" she asked confusedly. Then she felt it too. "You mean that disturbance in the air?" she tried.

"Me thinks someone is looking for you." Gabby said. She snickered and gathered her towel about her body. She rolled her expensive gown into a little ball and began to walk towards the room they shared.

"Shit." Virginia muttered. "Does he think I'm lying? I'm coming back!" she whined at Gabby's retreating back.

"Let's change this subject, okay? Let's concentrate on what we're going to do about the wrecked car, how it got here, and my niece!" Gabby cried, exasperated.

"Time warp!" Virginia said.

"No, I think not. I think there's a portal somewhere out there. Let me think, where was Pierce when she was alone in a car?" Gabby said, more to herself than Virginia.

"Grocery shopping?" Virginia tried to help.

"I think it's illegal to leave a child in a car alone for any amount of time if they're under a certain age." Gabby told her older cousin.

"Girl, you making me look bad!" she cried, trying to sound like the comedian, Wanda Sykes.

"Florist!" Gabby cried, not hearing Virginia's last comment. "He was getting flowers for Natalie!" she said, referring to Pierce's wife.

"SHHHH!" came an annoyed voice from behind them. They blinked, ~DAMNIT!~ Gabby cried in her head.

"Worst timing possible." Virginia muttered. They were back in Europe, for almost no reason explainable.

"Nuh-uh! We should go find my brother and figure out what we're going to do about his missing daughter!" Gabby said anxiously.

"What?" Colin frowned. They had just gone from the brainwashed smiles to worried, anxious conversation.

"Shut up." Virginia told her cousin. One big happy family, twenty-three cousins for every family with two. That meant a total of twenty-five grandchildren. Hell in a handbasket, of course, you were asking for it if you raised eight kids.

"Were you not listening!? Pierce's daughter, and new car are missing!" Colin screamed at his two family members.

"We know." Virginia told him roughly. She blinked, she was back in Middle-Earth. Gabby's eyes were wide, black holes in her head. The irises of the eyes were completely covered in black. Virginia sighed and led the drone-like Gabby back towards their quarters. Maureen was still asleep, but a little restless. She was rolling around in her crib like she was trying to break down the walls of a cage.

"I'm back!" came Gabby's voice. "I told Pierce, I don't think he believed me but he won't be able to do anything, I told him his car fell into an alternate dimension. Hehe, Maureen with it." she smiled at her plan. "I think I am going to take her with me to Mirkwood, after we judge her." Virginia squealed in happiness. She does that a lot.

"YES! We are so going to raise her an elf!" she said, triumphantly. Legolas errupted into the room rather rudely. Neither girl was startled, exceptional hearing was part of bearing pointy ears.

"Pardon, but I believe you have more company." Legolas said, in an amused voice. She could almost hear Elrond moaning from her room in the entrance hall.

"Bloody Hell." Gabby moaned. She trudged off to the hall with Legolas and Virginia, too weary to care who it was. In the hall, Elrond sat, looking curiously at the man before him. He clutched a steering wheel and a cigarette hung out of the corner of his mouth.

"Ahem." Elrond motioned for the door where they all stood. The man turned around and glared at Gabby with a very arrogant look in his blue eyes.

"You can leave, right now you know." she had a look of pure fury in her voice. The man dropped the Mazda steering wheel to the floor and walked up to her, still arrogant.

"If it bothers you that I am here, I think I'll stay." he told her with a gleam of hatred in his eyes as well.

"Go to Hell, Chris." Gabby said softly to the blonde haired man before her. She waved a hand and turned away from the odd, orb-like eyes. Gabby blinked, the pendent on her neck glistened and shined. "A dream, or vision?" Gabby asked herself. "How much of it was real?" she looked around. Virginia was meditating on her bed, Maureen was asleep, Legolas hadn't come after all! She gave a mental cheer and gazed into the night as the stars blinked before her. Odd that she fell asleep in elf form, after all, she wasn't in the least bit tired.

"One more night before he comes you know." Virginia told Gabby bluntly. Gabby started to panic when she realized Virginia was talking about Merry, not Chris.

"Tough luck for you! Try not to let him stowaway in one of our saddlebags, I'd hate to find the poor guy all scrunched up in your stuff after being sick all over it several times." Gabby was about to say more when a barrage of pillows flew at her head. The war began and ended as Maureen rolled around in her crib frantically.

"Nightmares." Gabby said. "Poor thing. I wonder what they're about." she looked into the child's partially opened eyes. What she saw horrified her beyond belief. Someone was glaring down at Gabby from the black abyss of Maureen's eyes. She raised her hand and began to bring it down when the image blinked and showed a little girl walking towards the girls. Her skin was charred and black, her hair singed and falling out. The child tilted her face towards the group,smiled and revealed pointed teeth. Blood dribbled down her chin and stained her black clothes, making her appear very demonic. She continued to walk towards the two terrified girls. Virginia's hands lashed out of the darkness surrounding the girls and shook Maureen. Even after she woke up and the vision ended, she still shook, harder and harder.

"VIRGINIA STOP IT!" Gabby screamed trying to stop her maddened cousin. Virginia was crying and trying to shake her cousin's niece into submission. Legolas came through the door in time to see Gabby strike Virginia across the face and snatch the hysterical child from her grasp. Both child and cousin blinked and looked around their surroundings. Maureen stopped crying, as did Virginia.

"I'm so sorry." sniffled Virginia. She wiped her face of the tears and reached out to touch Maureen. Maureen shrieked and scrambled out of Gabby's arms and into Legolas's outstretched embrace. Virginia sighed and approached Maureen once more. Momo whimpered and skittered about in Legolas's arms. Virginia grabbed her arms and looked the child in the eye. "That wasn't me, nor was that you. I am sorry." she then released her iron-fist from the little child's arm and collarbone. Momo sighed and put her head on Legolas's shoulder, and was dead to the world until morning.

Author's Note, Again: Hey! I hope this isn't getting too creepy. I definetly don't want Momo to turn into that kid from the Sixth Sense! Or Samara from The Ring. *Shudders at thought* Anyway, suggestions are asked for by anyone, no flames please. Keep the reviews coming, I love feedback! Special thanks to all who heard my call of distress and reviewed this weekend. *Winks and gives thumbs up sign to computer monitor*