A/N: Ai caramba! Sorry, I know the last chapter might be kinda weird...cuz I hadn't seen the movie in forever, and yes, I am now aware that Éomer was indeed banished from Rohan, so it makes absolutely no sense that he would escort the personship BACK...but just deal with it. Here's chapter 23!

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            Kristen heaved a huge, bored sigh. Ents were so totally boring. First of all, Treebeard had carried her, Pam, and the hobbits to some weird thing called an Entmoot, where they'd been told to wait. Then the Ents—which were really freaky, but also cool...however Kristen decided not to offend them by asking of their brains were made of wood—started making earthquake sounds, which Merry and Pippin said must have been them talking in Old Entish...

            "Pam," Kristen complained, "I am so totally bored!" Pam rolled her eyes.

            "Yeah, I know. And Ents are totally boring too, and so am I, but the hobbits aren't; they're just cute. We've heard it all a hundred times before."

            "Why are we waiting here?" Kristen asked, completely ignoring Pam's sarcastic—but true—comment. Just then Merry and Pippin walked in, each holding a large cup of some weird Ent drink, and Pippin answered her question.

            "It's because we're trying to get the Ents to join the war against Sauron, Kristen," he explained patiently. "If they decide, then we'll go with them and attack Saruman at Isengard."

            Merry muttered something under his breath, which Pam's leprechaun ears heard as, "If they ever get past greeting each other first." She sighed. It would take a while for anything to happen, and there was no logical way to get away from Kristen—without hurting her feelings—except to go to sleep.

            She was tired, too.

            So Pam settled herself down to sleep, nestled in a fold of the earth, by the huge trunk of one of the ageless trees of Fangorn Forest. Soon after she dozed off, Merry and Pippin followed her lead, and Kristen was left alone.

            "You people are so rude!" she exclaimed to their sleeping forms, before heaving a dramatic sigh and taking about ten minutes to get comfortable. She was soon fast asleep, too. Going crazy after your fiancé—Boromir—dies, and then getting taken captive by orcs and escaping only to get totally bored waiting for Ents to make a decision can make a girl tired!

~*~Kristen's Dream~*~

            She stood in a small clearing, in what looked like a huge forest. It was a different forest than the one they were in now, though. Fangorn was freaky and dark and scary...and boring. This one seemed to glow with a soft, muted light coming from all directions. The trees were slender and graceful, stretching up to the sky.

            "Pretty," she said.

            "Pretty!?" an indignant voice caused Kristen to spin around. "This is my realm, HELLO!! It's not just 'pretty'. It's beautiful, captivating, magical..." Galadriel, who was in reality a high-school girl called Jackie, stood glaring at Kristen with her hands on her hips.

            "JACKIE!" Kristen shrieked. They hugged tightly, and that was when Kristen realized that she was wearing clothing like Jackie's, a beautiful gown that befitted the Lady of Lorien. "How are you in my dream? And why are we in Lothlorien again?"

            Jackie sighed. "Honestly, Kristen, don't you have anything figured out?"

            "Well...only that when Matt and Jamie blew up the school, that's when everyone in our class started poofing into middle-earth as humans, elves, and leprechauns. Other than that, nope." Kristen waited expectantly for Jackie's explanation.

            "Alright. I'm really Jackie, but I look like Galadriel, and everyone in middle-earth—except the ones from our world—thinks I'm Galadriel. Which works out nice...they have the best bubble baths in Lothlorien!"

            "Continuing on..."

            "Yes. Ahem. Continuing on. I have been brought into this world as an elf, with all of Galadriel's powers. I've been experimenting, and besides being able to prophesize stuff and talk into people's heads, I can also visit their dreams!! Isn't that AWESOME!?"

            "TOTALLY!"

            "So I'm gonna visit you and Erica and Morgan...I guess I should pop in to Pam and Jordan and Steph's heads too...I REALLY don't wanna go near the guys..."

            "Well said." Kristen shuddered.

            "So I'll be like a person who knows everything, and I'll be able to tell you what's going on with everyone else, and I'll tell them what's going on with you...OH MY GOD I CAN SPY ON ARAGORN AND LEGOLAS' DREAMS!!!"

            Kristen blinked. "Say what?" Jackie was jumping up and down in excitement, a very unladylike action, especially for the Lady of the Wood.

            "You know...Erica and Morgan...or their identities, Arweniel and Nuavariel, are in love with Aragorn and Legolas...and they hate them at the same time...whatever, I can spy on the guys' dreams and tell them what's going on! Isn't that the coolest!!"

            "Uhh...what if their dreams are like...R-rated?"

            Jackie paled. "EEEWWW!! Kristen! That is so totally gross!!" Then she grinned. "But I'm still gonna spy on them anyway! So umm...I gotta go now, and visit the other dudes and do some spying, but I'll come and talk to ya again later!"

            "Okay! Bye telug love ya as a friend and all that!"

            "Same to you!"

            Jackie poofed out of Kristen's dream.

~*~End of Kristen's Dream (obviously)~*~

A/N: That is also, coincidentally, the end of the chapter. So I hope ppl will review and like it or flame it, whatever! In the next chapter: a dream meeting with Jackie, Arwen, and Nuavar, and some SNEAKY SPYING!!! See ya then!