Sierradogbaby: I think that this chapter will answer your questions. ;)

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Ginny lay on her back on a cold stone floor in the middle of a stone corridor, which, she guessed, was most likely in the middle of nowhere. That, or China. She didn't know how long she'd been lying there staring up at the stone ceiling, but supposed that it had been a while since she was getting cold. Well, excepting that time that she had definitely heard a cow say "milk sucks", falling through a giant hole in the ground was probably the weirdest thing that had ever happened to her.

Pouting at the pain in her back, Ginny climbed slowly to her feet and hugged herself, shivering. The hall she was in wasn't necessarily scary. It just felt empty. Ginny bit her lip, trying to figure out what she should do. That "stay where you are so someone can find you" rule annoyed the heck out of her, so she might as well start walking. After all, how big could this building be? Ginny sniffed the air one way, then the other. Gandalf had said that when you were in doubt, always follow your nose. Stupid old wizard. Both ends of the corridor smelled the same!

Ginny spun in a circle and began walking as soon as she stopped… unfortunately running into a wall. "Ow," she muttered, rubbing her forehead. After a few more tries with the same technique (the last of which caused a chunk of rock to fall from the ceiling onto her head), Ginny decided that she was getting nowhere and just started walking in the first direction that came to mind.

 The hallway was ominously quiet, except for the soft padding from Ginny's tennis shoes. Normally quiet didn't bother Ginny, but at the moment when she found herself alone in a strange cold corridor, it was particularly eerie. Ginny's thoughts drifted back to home… which obviously brought her to her conversations with Nikki. Ginny giggled manically as she pictured shoving Aragorn out a window… and then at the memory of when she and Nikki had been trying to figure out where Lupin had come from. Ginny decided that Lupin gave her the magic hat, but he often appeared out of the magic hat, so it must be a sort of "Chicken or Egg" thing. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Or, in this case: Lupin or the magic hat?

Finally growing bored of the stillness, Ginny started humming "It's a Small World After All". By the time she was finally coming to a turn in the hall, she was singing loudly.

"Jingle bells, it's a rich man after all," she belted out, not caring who heard. At this point, she would love to see another person. Suddenly, she thought she heard another voice and stopped her song abruptly.

A second later, she heard the sound again. This time, it was a distant, hesitant, "Mary Sue?"

Ginny's heart leapt as she recognized the code. Grinning, she hollered, "And Gimli too!"

"Ginny!" the person yelled.

"Nikki!" Ginny answered. She ran around the corner and there, at the other end of a wide-open hall was a girl about Ginny's age. "Nikki!" Ginny shouted again, running across the hall and embracing her friend.

The girls laughed with relief. Ginny stepped back and took a good first look at her friend. Nikki had a round face that was framed with raven colored hair and stormy gray eyes. Ginny had to look down a couple of inches at her, so she guessed that Nikki was around five feet four inches. The Nikki that was in front of her now was pretty much as Ginny had imagined her, though her hair was a little darker than she had supposed.

Ginny grinned. "So, wanna know my last name now?"

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So… here's a hint… REVIEW! J Thanks a ton, y'all.