Author's Notes: I'm sorry for the wait, but the stupid computer reformatted or something again and cannot read my disk where most of my important things, like the next two chapters for this story, are. So I must rewrite them. Which is okay, I was going to rewrite them anyway. I just have to save one thing there, actually, and then I'm fine. The rest I can always go back for, or rewrite. One thing I'm not going to rewrite, though…

Anyway, to the story!

Part 15: All that You Can't Leave Behind

And love is not the easy thing, the only baggage you can bring is all that you can't leave behind…

--U2

The first thing that Makoto was aware of was that she had someone's hand on her back, and she liked it there. She smiled in the odd dream and wondered if she should turn to see who it was. It wasn't one of the other Senshi's hands. She would have felt those, and knew how they felt when they touched some part of her. There was always that feeling of another power touching her own, but not taking, like the time that Minako, as Sailor Venus and the Moon Princess, tried to get them to remember and Makoto felt a sense of déjà vu.

But this hand was different, and Makoto liked it. She finally turned slightly and opened her eyes to see that next to her was Haldir, who had been all the way over where the Sailor Quartet had been. She frowned, but then smiled and realized she didn't really care where Haldir had been, only that he was here now. She moved a little closer to him and he stirred before opening his eyes to look at her own and smiled at her.

"For a moment," he told her, "I thought you were an Elf with red hair."

"Oh," Makoto giggled slightly, "I'm immortal like an Elf, but I'm not one, sorry."

Haldir shrugged as the two finally sat up, the hand being removed from her back as she looked around for the others. Encircling them was a crystal of pinkish green, and when Makoto touched it, the crystal disappeared to show various others, like a small garden of multi-crystal mounds in Elysium's fields.

"Should we wake them up?" Haldir asked as he moved slightly closer to Makoto.

"We'll let them wake up on their own. I wouldn't want to disturb them. I think the Maenads can get us something so I can cook up some food for them when they awake."

The two walked back towards the shrine to find a place to cook the food and await the awakening of the rest of the Senshi within their crystal cocoons.

*

The next two to awaken were Rei and Minako, both who headed back to the temple after looking around and finding that they couldn't wake up anyone in their crystal. Hotaru also came in shortly afterwards with the three cats, each in their human form. All four were asleep by the time the next grouping, this one of Haruka and Michiru, came to the Temple. Gandalf and Aragorn wandered in shortly afterwards, both telling them that the others would wake up eventually. Merry and Pippin raced at the smell of Makoto's cooking, while Sam helped Frodo to the food as well and made sure he ate his Hobbit's fill.

While Makoto was making more food so that the Hobbits wouldn't eat all of it, the Sailor Quartet and the Generals came in one after another, leaving only the himes, Mercury, Pluto and their loves to come in for a late meal.

*

Usagi slowly got up and looked around at the crystal again, wondering if she had been dreaming and this was still the battle against Metallia. Next to her, Mamoru stirred and opened his eyes before smiling and touching her face. She smiled, realizing this wasn't the long-ago battle, when she was still just remembering her life on the Moon and still gaining new powers. The two touched the crystal, and it vanished. Nearby, the pink crystal of Chibi-Usa and Helios (AN: I checked back on the spelling) disappeared and showed the two coming out as well.

"That was odd," Chibi-Usa commented, then looked around, "Where's Puu and Ami-san?"

Mamoru pointed, "They'll wake up soon, I promise. For right now, we should see what the others are doing. I'm sure there'll be food involved, knowing the Hobbits."

"Food! Snacks! Cake!" the two Moon senshi smiled at the idea, and both Helios and Mamoru laughed. Sometimes, it was obvious those two were related.

*

Boromir felt someone holding his hand, and he squeezed it, then opened his eyes. Next to him was a green-haired woman with dark skin who seemed to be smiling as she held his hand, and then opened her own eyes. She blinked the red orbs and then sat up. "Oh," she blushed as she looked down at their hands, "I'm sorry."
Boromir smiled. "Don't be. We did use our powers together, and my guess is that I can also control some of Time, but not as good as you do." He looked up at the crystal encasing them, "I guess that's yours?"

"Hai, it is," Pluto stood up as Boromir did, and they finally untangled their hands so Pluto could touch the crystal. It dissolved, and they saw that they were standing in a field and, nearby, was a blue tinted crystal.

"That would be Elenaithil and Legolas?" Boromir said as they walked up to it. Pluto nodded, and then touched the crystal. Boromir, curious as well, touched it also. The two closed their eyes, seeing if they could wake up the others.

*

"Boromir! Setsuna-mama!" Hotaru yelled as she saw the two coming. They held hands and sat down next to each other and greeted the others before getting some food.

"Where's Ami and Legolas?" Aragorn asked, "We thought they would come by now."

The two new arrivals exchanged a glance and blushed deep red. "Um…no, their still…asleep. I suppose they used up a great deal of power. And anyway, they'll probably be here for breakfast," Boromir told the group.

"And if not, second breakfast," Setsuna said with a smile at Pippin, Merry, Usagi and Chibi-Usa, all of whom were still eating or coaxing Frodo to eat more.

Aragorn and Minako, though, seemed a little intrigued by the wording that Boromir had said. "Sleeping, hai?" Minako said, "Is that true?"

Again, the two blushed. "Hai."

Aragorn now joined in. "They must have used up a great deal of energy for that. They're 'sleeping' much longer then most."

"Aragorn, what are you saying?" Gimli asked. "That they're not sleeping?"

"As everyone else here says, 'hai'."

Rei looked over at Minako, "You're saying that too, but I want to know what else they would be doing?"

"So does ParaPara!"

Boromir and Setsuna turned beet red. Everyone looked at them, and then at one another. Chibi-Usa, Helios, Hotaru, Diana and ParaPara were suddenly confused when everyone turned red a little and started to say, "No, they wouldn't…" "Maybe they would…" "There is more important things to do…" "Yeah, but they do love each other…" "Well…"

"NanI?" the group of innocents asked finally. The others looked at the group as well, as if curious if they should tell them or not.

"You're too young to know!" was the final answer from all of the adults.

*

The two that were the objects of discussion were right now laying down side by side, looking up at the blue tint around them.

"The others are probably worried," Ami said.

"Let them."

"They may come looking for us."

"Like Boromir and Setsuna?"

"That was evil of us, Shashu-chan."

Legolas smiled at her, "Well, they deserved it. We were in the middle of something." He moved to his side and looked over at the Senshi of Water. "Do you think we should go?"

"Hai, we need to. No doubt everyone has the wrong impression now."

"Or the right one."

"Legolas…"

Legolas smiled and helped Ami up to her feet. "I'm sorry, Elenaithil. We should go and see how everyone else is doing. Shall we?" The two touched the crystal, and it disappeared quickly, allowing them time to walk and talk.

"You will have to go back to Middle Earth."

"I don't want to."

"You must, Legolas. There are things you must do, places you must go."

"But they don't have you."

"I, too, have a duty. I cannot give that up, Legolas."

"I wish we could."

Ami hugged Legolas close a short way from the temple. "Have confidence that we will meet again, ai no Mercury. We will meet again, and then we can make up for lost time."

Tears fell, and though they were kissed away, both stood a long time together before going to see the others and have to answer odd and slightly uncomfortable (for the other side, of course) questions.