"Torn"

Hello fan fiction readers, and welcome to the first installment of "torn". Before we get started I'd just like to say a few things. First, this IS a self write in, but a lot of the things that happen to me in the story didn't really happen in real life. But I don't want to say what they are right now b/c that would ruin the story for you! And I didn't describe what the characters look lie b/c, well I always thought that was pretty boring while reading a fan fic, and I never imagine them like that n e way. But if your into that kind of thing I'll describe them at the end of this chapter in the end notes. There may be some un-answered questions from this entry, but all that I won't explain in later chapters I'll explain in the end notes as well. Please excuse the suck factor of this chapter, I always hate starting stories. It will get better in later chapters, I promise!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Lord of the Rings, although I do have merry and Pippin locked in my closet in hopes that Legolas will come to save them!

Warning: This IS a mary-sue, and honestly, I'm ok with that. Flame if you want to, but I really don't see the point. Remember "the dog that barks has something to say, but the one who stops to bark back has nothing better to do". Ok enough of me, on with the story.

Chapter 1: And so it begins.

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Im sick of smiling

And so is my jaw

Cant you see my front is crumbling down

Im sick of being someone Im not

Please get me out of this slump

Im sick of clapping

When I know I can do it better for myself

Im sick of waiting

Sick of all these words that will never matter I wire these nerves together

Hoping for a chance to think on time

And Im tracing over your letter

To see if your intentions are as good as mine -"understatement" New Found Glory ~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Oh my word, you have just achieved a new level of dorkness!" I said to my friend William at lunch. We had just become really close friends over the last couple of months, but sometimes he says things that are so strange I wonder why I even talk to the kid.

"How do you put up with him all the time Kaiti?" another one of my friends that was sitting around the table asked. I just shrugged and replied,

"I was just wondering that myself." But in all truth, I knew how I put up with him. He was my life line. The past year has been pretty hard on me. In December my closest friend, Tim, was admitted into the hospital from a deadly car accident. Shortly after that, he died.

Well that would be enough to dampen anyone's spirits, and so, in defense, I immersed myself in "Lord of the Rings". I found the best way to stop hurting was to forget my problems in a fantasy world. I completely fell in love with the fiction series. I call it fiction, but sometimes I wonder if it really is. I wonder how something that brings so much comfort could not be real. And lately Lord of the Rings seems to be the only thing I ever talk about, and even more so about Legolas. But Will was always my anchor on reality. He thinks my infatuation with the trilogy, and the beautiful blonde elf, is completely insane. But as much as he tries to deny it, I think deep down inside, there's a LOTR fan trying to get out.

"Earth to Kaiti!" one of my friends said, waving a hand in front of my face.

"OH NO! I think we've lost her!" another chimed in.

"what?" I asked, beaming back to reality.

"You were zoning out again." Will said.

"oops. Sorry!" I replied.

"you seem to zone out a lot. What goes on in your head when u do that?" will asked.

"She's probably thinking about Legolas!" one of my friends offered before I had a chance to answer for myself. I rolled my eyes at her, even though she's right. He is what I think about most of the time.

Everyone reinstated their conversation over which breakfast cereal was the best, but before they decided whether it was lucky charms or fruity pebbles, I sided with fruity pebbles, the bell rang and lunch was over.

While walking with William to our next class I pulled a purple notebook out of my bag and said,

"Here! Read! I finished another chapter in 'cooking with Legolas'!" (A/N: that is a fic that I'm writing, but it's posted under my other pen name: Pineapple Princess. Go there if you want to read it!)

"GREAT!" he said and flipped open the notebook. HE READS MY FAN FICTION! There HAS to be a Lord of the Rings fan in there somewhere!

"You haven't even read the first chapter yet!"

"I know, but I've read the other 5!" I sighed.

"how can you do that? Skip the first one all the time!" he does it with everything, including Lord of the Rings, and it drives me crazy!

"I dunno. I think I'm afraid of firsts or something." I rolled my eyes at him 'what a dork!'

"Remember when u came with me and Lizz to see Return of the King and we were all dressed up as- whoa!" I tripped. I closed my eyes, expecting the hard tiling to meet my body, but instead I feel William grab my arm and pull me back up. When I opened my eyes again, though, I wasn't in the familiar halls of my school, but instead William and I were in the middle of a forest. I looked around for a few seconds then said,

"well that was thoroughly odd!"

"Yes it was! Where are we?" I shrugged and opened my mouth to say something but closed it again when I heard a loud yell. It didn't sound to pleasant so I pushed Will into a big patch of bushes. We hid there until we saw a couple of big, black, ugly guys come running over the hill.

"what are those?" will whispered to me, but I held a finger to his lips and mouthed "quiet". If these guys were who I thought they were, then we defintily did NOT want to be discovered by them. Soon a whole group of ugly guys came over the hill fighting with another small group of people, but I couldn't see who they were. After about 15 minutes of unknown guys killing black, ugly guys all the ugly guys were lying on the ground dead. I figured now would be a good time to go talk to the winners of the battle so I jumped out of the bush, pulling William along with me.

"Excuse me sirs, but could you tell me- AAH!!!" I started to say but, the blonde guy pointed an arrow at me, and I lifted my arms to block my face. "please don't kill me!" I said, and after a few seconds I lowered my arms, but what I saw in front of me left me utterly speechless.

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I knew who Kaiti was staring at. His picture WAS plastered all over our locker after all. But it couldn't really be him.could it? Kait just stood there staring in what I could only guess to be awe, not saying a word. So I took it upon myself to make the first impression.

"Could you please tell us where we are?" I asked.

The group of men standing in front of us looked around at each other, puzzeled, chattering in a language I couldn't recognize. I looked over at Kaiti. She was still drooling over blondie. I nudge her, bringing her back from her transe. I opened my mouth to ask her a question, but she cut me off.

"Do you see who that is?!" she asked, almost giggling

"I see, but I hope it's really not him." At this Kaiti scowled, but I continued. "But anyway, do you know what they're saying?" I fiund it doubtfull that she would, but it was worth a shot. She listened for a second then said,

"If my guess is right, they're speaking Westron, but, no, I don't know what they're saying."

"Westron?" I asked, I didn't recognize the name.

"The common tongue of Middle Earth. It's different from English, as opposed to popular belief." She answered. I rolled my eyes at her. All of the sudden the old man with the twisted stick began chanting. When he stopped The tall man with dark hair said,

"who are you? Where do you come from?"

"how can we understand you?" Kaiti asked, not answering his question.

"I used an old elvish translation spell" The old man replied.

"hmm, useful." Kaiti said, then I repeated the same question I asked before.

"Could you tell us where we are?"

"You're half way up the Caradhras!" the old man said, "But we're at least 10 days from any village! Tell me young ones, where do you come from? And how did you arrive here?"

At this Kaiti momentarily stopped oogling the blonde boy which, might I add, previously tried to kill us, and answered,

"We're from a place far from here, I doubt you've heard of it."

The old man looked at her and said,

"I have been all over Middle Earth. What is the name of your town?"

"Colorado Springs."

"I have never heard of such a place!" the old man said thoughtfully. Kaiti produced one of her signature sighs and eye rolls to this last comment. Had she been talking to anyone else she undoubtably would have replied 'Well no shit Sherlock! What did I just say?' but somehow she restrained herself.

"I'm sure you haven't. It's not in Middle Earth at all. It's across the ocean, in a place called The United States of America."

All of the sudden bow-and-arrow boy got excited and said, "You have seen the ocean?!" Oh yeah, he's a natural blonde.

"Many times." Kait said to him in a dreamy tone. Oh my word, I'm going to throw up if I have to see much more of this!

"hmmmm.." The old man muttered for a second then said, "well you have not answered my second question, how did you arrive here?"

"I have not answered because I do not know." This comment received puzzeled looks from all the others, I decided to step in,

"We were walking together when she tripped, I helped her up and the next thing we knew we were here. When we heard these.things coming over the hill we hid in the bushes and that brings us here."

"that's very odd." Blondie commented.

"That's what I said!" kaiti replied.

"Perhaps you should stay with us for the night. We were just about to set up camp and we can't very well leave you alone to wonder in the woods now can we?" the old man said. 'night?' I thought and looked up the sky. Sure ebough, the sky was filled with stars and only a faint light could still be seen from the sun. 'today just keeps getting stranger and stranger!'

"Thank you Gandalf, that would be very much appreciated" Kaiti said, and all of the strange men looked up at her, surprised. HAHA! How's she going to get herself out of this one?

~*~

oh crap! I said his name!Way to mess things up!

"How do you know his name?" one of the hobbits asked.

"Well see.um.I uh.kinda know all your names." I stammered.

"oh yeah?" another hobbit asked, "prove it!"

"Well ok, let's see.you guys are the hobbits, Merry, Pippin, Sam, and Frodo, the ring bearer. Then Gimili, Boromir, we all know Gandalf. Um, and you're Strider or Aragorn, or Estel, or any of your other names, and last, but certainly not least, Legolas!"

"A spy of Sauromon!" Aragorn yelled, pulling out his sword.

"AAAAAHHHHH!!!! Don't kill me!" I cried, hiding behind William. First Legolas, now Aragorn, who's gonna try to kill me next?

"I don't believe Sauromon would send 2 small human children as spies." Gandalf said. I peeked out from behind William.

"Then how could she know this?" Aragorn protested.

"Ask her yourself." The wizard replied. Everyone turned and looked at me for an answer. Oh great! How do you tell someone that they're life is a fairy tale? I guess just come right out with it.

"Well you know how I said I lived in a far away place? Well that's tru, but it's also a different time. Many years ahead of now. And there this whole quest is common knowledge. I've spent quite a bit of time studying it. I know what will happen on this journey and what will become of the ring."

"what, then, will happen?" asked Frodo.

"well that's where this whole situation becomes a little.sticky. You see if I tell you what will happen then you may make different choices, which will change the course of events in the story. And I won't change anything either, because that could also lead to disaster. How I see it, all I can do is watch and make sure everything goes according to plan."

"I find this hard to believe." Gimili scoffed, "You claim to know what will happen yet you do not tell. How do we know you don't lie?"

"well, as I can't very well say what will happen, I CAN say what has been." Gimili nodded for me to continue. "The hobbits left the shire in September. They traveled through Bree, after encountering the Nazgul for the first time, where they met up with strider. They traveled on and were attacked again at weather top. There Frodo aquired a rather nasty shoulder injury from a Nazgul blade. He was rescued by.was it Arwen or Glorfindel? There are 2 versions of the story and I don't know which one we're living out."

"it was Glorfindel." Frodo answered meekly.

"Oh good! I can't stand Arwen!" But this comment only received a rather brutal glare from Aragorn. Note to self: don't mention aversion to Arwen around Aragorn. "Anyway, he was healed by Lord Elrond in Rivendell, also the location of the council where the fellowship was made. From there, you all went south, but on your way you encountered Crebain from Dunland and decided to go over the mountain. And here we are! Scaling the mountain side, on out way to Mordor, trying to destroy the Ring!" There was an awkward silence then finally Aragorn spoke,

"How can we trust that you have not just been following us?" "Oh my dear ranger! If we were following you this whole time don't you think you or your elvish friend would have noticed us by now? And if so, why would we approach you so openly now? Besides, if we WERE following you, which we weren't, I would have known it was Glorfindel, not Arwen that saved Frodo."

"hmmmm" Gandalf mumbled then said, "we will further discuss these things later. No we must set up for the night." Everyone nodded then separated. William and I were the only one's left standing, and I finally let my excitement out of it's cage. I smiled and hopped up and down, I would have squealed like little fan girl but I didn't want to draw too much attention to myself. Then I whispered to Will,

"Do you know where we are?!"

"I could guess, but I'm really hoping I'm wrong."

"We'rein Middle Earth! Lord of the Rings!"

"Damn! That's what I though. I hate being right!"

"oh come on! This is great! I mean, seriously, how often do you get the chance to do this?"

"well I'm glad ONE of us is having a good time. What's going to happen anyway?" I grinned evilly at him. I have the power now!

"I'm not going to tell you!"

"Oh come on! Please?" he begged, trying pathetically to put on a puppy dog face, which I'm sure would look adorable on Legolas, but he just couldn't pull it off.

"nope! I bet you wish you saw the first movie now!"

"Kaiti! Why? Why can't you just TELL me?"

"Hey! You had plenty of opportunities to watch the first movie! I told you to watch it almost everyday! You even rented it and didn't watch it!"

"No fair!" he cried. I just shrugged.

"Life isn't fair. Get over it."

"Please!? tell me!" he begged, but his efforts were lost because I had caught sight of Legolas again, and was probably drooling.

"No kaiti!" Will said.

"No what? I wasn't doing anything!" I said, trying to sound innocent.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about!

"Well you can't really stop me! And besides, this is a once in a life time opportunity, I'm not gonna let it pass me by!"

"But what will happen when we go back home?"

"How do you even know we're going back home? Do you know something I don't?" Will just sighed and glared at me.

"I just don't want.I don't want anyone to get hurt."

"Neither do I. And no one will."

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I can't believe this girl! She's going to go after Legolas! When she KNOWS we'll be going home soon! Or maybe she's right.maybe we're stuck here. Wait! Don't think like that! We'll be going home soon, very soon. And until then, I just have to make sure both of us stay safe.

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I had heard most of the two strangers conversation. What was the girl going to do? Obviously her friend did not think it was a very good idea. Who would get hurt? I need to talk to this girl, alone, before she tries to do anything to hinder the quest.

"Legolas!" Aragorn called to me.

"yes?" I answered.

"what do you make of these strangers?"

"I don't know, but I do not intend on letting them slow us down."

~*~

Everyone was gathered around the fire, the fellowship on one side, and the newcomers on the other.

"Well you know our names" Gimili said, "but we have yet to learn yours."

"oh right! I'm so sorry!" said Kaiti, "I'm Kaitlyn Jones, but just call me Kaiti."

"Well I'm William Harrison, and just will is fine."

"Well .Will" Aragorn spat, as if the name was painful to say, "Tell me, do you know as much of our quest as your friend Kaiti here does?"

"No, actually, I don't know almost anything about it."

"All he knows is what I've told him." Kaiti interjected 'and what happens in the two towers' she thought, but didn't say it out loud.

"What business would a woman have in such important matters?" Boromir scoffed. Kaiti glared at him like she was going to kill him at that moment, but she still managed to speak to him civilly, albeit through gritted teeth.

"Where we come from WOMEN have as much right as men. And like I said before, you're story is common knowledge, even reguarded as a myth."

"Why did you come here?" Aragorn asked, "If all we are to you is a myth." "Well considering I don't even know how we got here in the first place, I also don't know why we're here. But I'm definitely beginning to understand why the hobbits didn't like you when you first met in Bree. Although, if I were you, I'd be suspicious of us too. But don't worry, we're not here to hurt you."

"Indeed!" Legolas said, then stormed away from the group. Everyone sent puzzled looks to each other, then kaiti got up and followed Legolas into the darkness.

~*~

Legolas stopped and wwaited just out of earshot from the rest of the group, knowing she would follow.

"what was that about?" kaiti asked as she approached the elf, "have I given you some reason not to trust us?"

"I heard the hushed conversation you had with your friend earlier" Legolas said, motioning towards William. "Tell me, what does your friend so desperately not want you to do? And why would it hurt anyone?"

Kaiti sighed 'damn elvish super sonic hearing' "When he said that he wasn't talking about the fellowship. He was talking about me. You see, he's kind of over protective and he's afraid I'll become to attached to Middle earth and get hurt when I go back home."

Legolas stared down at kaiti for a long moment, searching her face. After not getting a reply, kaiti spoke again,

"Please Legolas, Don't think I would ever try to hurt you, or the others. As long as I'm here I only want to help you." Kaiti looked up at him, hoping for some kind of reply. After a few seconds Legolas said,

"I think.I think you are telling the truth." A look of relief washed over kaiti's face,

"good. Then let's get back to camp before the others start to worry!"

~*~

When the two returned Aragorn whispered to Legolas,

"what happened?"

"I believe they really only want to help us, I believe they are telling the truth." Legolas replied, and that was enough to put everyone's mind at ease. For the rest of the evening the fellowship sat around the fire and discussed many things. Why they're clothes were so odd, social differences, education, government, and anything else they could think of until they finally decided to go to sleep for the night.

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William looked up at Kait when they were clearing rocks and twigs from a spot on the ground that they would sleep and asked "what came here with us?"

"whatever we had in the hall. I have my bag and my jacket, but that's all."

"Ya, same here.well let's get comfortable! This is how we'll beliving until we find a way to get home, might as well get used to it."

"Goodnight Will." Kaiti said and laid down on the ground, attempting to sleep. Boromir had first watch. The fire had burned down to a few glowing embers before sleep finally took Kaiti's racing mind.

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there it is! Chapter 1!!! And it was long! I have real plans for this story. I have it planned all the way through the sequel (for the most part) all I have to do is write it! Chapter 2-5 will be up soon, I already have them written, I just have to do 1 final editing and then type them up *gag*. Oh, for all who are wondering, I put "the long journey" on hold for awhile. I realized while writing chapter 4 that there's absolutely no plot whatsoever. So when I get that figured out I'll continue. And you know what I just realized while typing this? If someone from my school read this they would know exactly who I was and all about my secret lego-fantasies. Creepy. Luckily, that's not likely to happen( u know what's really sad? Will doesn't even know I wrote him into this fic. Oh well! Tim knows I killed him though, in real life he moved, but for my stories purposes, he's dead. And I know the question you're all asking yourself is "where's Sarah?!" well she's coming, be patient. But she won't show up until about chapter 6. well until next chapter, REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!

And for all those who care, here are the character descriptions: Kaiti: sophomore, about 5' 5", dark brown hair, green eyes, 16 years old. And for this story she'll be wearing..a tan t-shirt and vintage style stretch jeans William: sophomore, about 5'9" or 5' 10" (I'm really not sure), brown eyes, short brown hair, 16 years old. And he'll be wearing.a white Abercrombie t- shirt and blue jeans REVIEW!!!