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I'm back! I'm sorry for not updating before, but I had troubles with computer. And I'm afraid I'll be writing sad chapters because I feel sad myself.. : ) I've returned from this wonderful journey and I still don't have forces to be happy.. Anyway, I really appreciate all your reviews! I'm so happy that you really like this story, if it wasn't for all of you, I couldn't go on writing! Thank you very much and Happy New Year!

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I just can't stop an' simply let it be.

Where are all those feelin's of my yesterdays

Feelin's now I have bring back those bad ole ways.

Though I know you wanna turn an' blow

I just can't stop an' simply let you go.

I feel I'm fallin' apart 'cos I know I've lost my guardian angel. . ..

Let me see you smile once more that special way warm as summer

On a chilly winter's day though I know you're simply laughin' at me

I just can't stop an' simply let it be.

I feel I'm fallin' apart 'cos I know I've lost my guardian angel. . . .

Guardian angel- Masquerade

I opened my eyes in the darkness, feeling a hand on my shoulder. At first I couldn't distinguish him, but when I heard his voice, I knew at once that Gandalf was going to tell me something important.

"What's wrong?" I asked, and he asked me to shut up. Obviously he was in a hurry.

"I must leave now.. my role in this mission ends here.. Frodo is waiting for me, and we both we'll part to the Grey Havens. " he smiled , and I felt shocked.

"What are you saying? That you leave me here?" With my shouts the both elves woke up, staring at Gandalf with curiosity.

"See what you have done, Zana?" Gandalf sighed. "My friends, my time has come" Legolas smiled, to my surprise.

"When will you leave? I've always dreamed about this moment.." I looked at Legolas as soon as he said those words. What was going on?

"Which moment? What are you talking about?" I was becoming crazy. Haldir was staring at the ground, confused.

"When the elves leave this world and go to the Grey Havens forever" Legolas looked at me with a strange gaze. "Since I can remember, I've always waited for this moment.. and I wonder when will I do it" I felt a kind of pain in my stomach.

"You want to leave forever? Why?" I asked, and his blue eyes smiled.

"Not now, of course.. but I thought that maybe my destiny would be this.. that one day I would join the elves in their final journey.." He stopped talking, and looked at me. "But things changed a bit since you arrived.." Somehow I felt better with those words.

"Gandalf..why is Frodo leaving with you?" I was full of questions that seemed not to have a good answer.

"He suffered enough once.. now he must rest in a place where the bad feelings won't invade him.. where the pain won't return.. and my days here are over too.. I can't help you any more, dear Zana"

"What do you mean? That the end of my mission is near?" All from the sudden I felt so scared. I was afraid of loosing them, of loosing all the good moments.. afraid of coming back.. or not coming back. "If things were more defined.." I sighed, and I noticed Haldir's gaze on me.

"Don't fear anything, Zana" He said, but his words didn't sound too convincing.

"So.. I think this is the end" Gandalf said with a smile. "My friends.. we've lived so many adventures together.. Legolas, Haldir.." he looked at them, and the both elves stood up. "I don't have words to describe my emotions now.. the war joined us and I'll always carry this feeling with me.. good luck" He gave a very strange look to Legolas, who smiled back. And then, his eyes looked at me. "Zana.. you're solving your own life in an amazing good way.. maybe now you don't understand my words.. but soon.. soon you'll find out. Never give up.. whatever will happen" Those last words scared me a bit, but I nodded.

"Gandalf" Haldir walked towards him. They both looked at each other in silence, as if they were exchanging private information inside their minds. "I know.." He replied, in a sad way.

"What is what you know?" I asked, nervous. Gandalf looked at me.

"Zana.. things are getting defined" This was his mysterious answer. I saw him leaving throw the door, leaving the palace.. I went to the window, and saw his shape in the moonlight. Suddenly, the sea became green, as if it had a light inside it. The sky showed all possible colours and a strong wind forced me to close my eyes. When I opened them again, the night had come back, and Gandalf wasn't there. I felt the loss deep inside me. I had lost my guardian angel.

We tried to go on sleeping, but I couldn't. I didn't know what was expecting for us now, how would we leave that century and end up in the next one.. things were too confusing. I was fixing my future life, but I didn't know how. I avoided the war of Troy and this was something that still worried me. Effects would be terrible.

"Zana.. are you awake?" I felt Legolas sitting next to me.

"Yes.. I can't sleep.. this is unbelievable.. what will happen now?" I looked at his eyes, that were shining in the darkness of the room.

"I don't know.. but I have a very good feeling inside me.." He seemed to be happy, and I couldn't understand why.

"What do you mean?" But he didn't reply, he just sighed, as if he was full of force inside him. The opposite of Haldir, who was sleeping with sadness in his face. After some moments of silence, Haldir also woke up. He looked at me but soon avoided my gaze.

"We must go to the beach.. we have to be there in the sunset" He said, standing up.

"Why?" I asked, and he gave me my bag.

"Because Gandalf said so.." His voice was a bit sharp.

"I don't remember this.." I replied, and he lost his patience.

"Will you go to the beach with us or not?" I was surprised with his reaction.

"Yes, but don't talk to me like this, Haldir. I don't know what's wrong with you.." He looked at me.

"You're fixing your future indeed, Zana.. also mine" What was he saying? That I was spoiling his future?

"Don't blame on me, I didn't look for this, I didn't make myself appear in Middle Earth and now here.." This looked like an argument. I felt really angry.

"We can't change things, this is all. And you can't change anything whatever you will do. I wonder why Gandalf had to make me come back to life.."

"Haldir, don't say those things!" Legolas looked at him, shocked. "What happened to you ?" They exchanged a look.

"Lets go to the beach" He said in reply. We took our bags and walked in the halls.

The beach was silent and empty. The sun, rising in the horizon. Legolas stared in the distance, and Haldir sat on the sand, looking at the water moving. I just didn't know what to do. Holding my bag, feeling scared.. speechless. Obviously we were waiting for something, but I didn't know what. Although Haldir seemed to know it. I caught him watching at me, and soon he turned his head.

"I hate waiting.." Legolas murmured. And suddenly, a dense fog invaded the place. So dense that I almost couldn't see my friends. And then, the sound of a siren. From a ship maybe.. or maybe it was a horn.. my heart was beating so fast that it hurt. And I felt cold. It smelled of trees, of water.. of mountains. The sound of hundreds of steps and then, silence. I tried to look for Legolas and Haldir, but I couldn't see anything and I didn't dare to move.

"Are you feeling OK?" A new voice asked me.. a very nice voice from a man. But I still was trying to look through the fog. A soft breeze made my vision clearer, and I was able to see the person who was talking to me. I was in a park, it seemed to be a city.. a modern city.. with stone buildings, streets.. but there was something else.. the cars.. they were old, as if I was in the 40's. I looked at the man. He was young, taller than me, and he spoke English with a strange accent.. as if he was.. German? His blue eyes looked at me worried. His face reminded me of the face of a child, but he was a bit older than me, I would say so. He walked two steps and leaned against me a bit. He wore an uniform, he was a soldier. I froze when I saw it. The black jacket, the eagles on the lapels. I started to shake violently. And Legolas wasn't there. Neither Haldir. "Miss.. what's wrong? Can I help you? I see you don't speak German.. " Yes, that shocked me. I didn't speak German. And I was in Germany.. in the Germany of the 40's. I had assured my own death. He was an official from the SS.

"I'm a bit lost.. I'm a .." I didn't know if I should say the word "tourist".. he looked at me, insisting.

"You are..? " His eyes were kind, which I couldn't believe, considering who was him and who he worked for.

"Zana.. and I'm lost in this city.." He looked at my clothes, surprised.

"And you're wearing only a summer dress.. if this can be called a dress.." His eyes didn't leave my face. He looked amazed, shocked.. he wasn't able to talk. "What happened to you?" Now things got complicated.. how would I explain him?

"My family.. I got lost.. we were on a trip, and then.." I stopped, thinking of a possible answer.

"They stole your belongings.. this is terrible" I looked at him, and nodded without thinking. "You must be frozen, Miss Zana.. I'm so sorry.. in those war times those things happen often.. there are thieves everywhere.."

"War times?" I asked, and he looked so confused.

"Second World War, Miss.." I felt dizzy, so scared I was. I knew what happened to people who didn't belong to their alliance.. and I was speaking English.. like Americans and British.. I was an enemy and he was a soldier from the Reich. "You must come with me and we'll get you warmer clothes.." But suddenly I didn't trust him. He would lead me to the police station where they would torture me to get information, and then send me to Auschwitz or any other similar place.

"No, I won't go.." I murmured, shaking with fear. He smiled kindly.

"Look at yourself.. you're shaking!" There was something friendly in his voice, although he was one of those monsters that Hitler created.. or maybe not.. maybe he was just a boy who was forced to work there.. this had happened in the past.. or should I say present? "Come with me" We looked at each other. I was unable to move. Since I was small, I always had panic when I saw those movies about Second World War.. about the things that the SS had done to people.. about all the horror.. I was living my own nightmare. And this soldier knew about my fear. I could see it on his face.

"I prefer to stay here.." I said, wrapping myself with my arms.

"I won't allow you to stay here, it's dangerous" He said, worried.

"Dangerous? More dangerous than going with your people?" I blushed as soon as I said this. I had called the SS "people". He frowned.

"What do you mean?" I almost started to cry. Everything was lost. They would send me to one of those camps.

"I'm a foreign, I speak English.." He shrugged.

"And? Which is the problem?" He asked, innocently.

"Well.. you will consider me an enemy" He stared at me for a while.

"Yes, you're right, maybe" His blue eyes were still on mines. I froze. "This is why you'll come with me without making answers, and this is why you'll have to trust me. Because I'll risk my life for you. I'm a SS official"

"What would happen if I didn't go with you?" I asked, and he smiled in a strange way.

"My co-workers would find you, bring you to the office of Herr Commandant, where he would decide what to do with you.. and Herr Himmler is not a friendly man.."

"Himmler?" I remembered this man from my history books.. he was even worse than Hitler himself.. he had tortured and killed thousands of persons. "This can't be happening.." The cold air made me freeze, but I froze even more with the thought of that man.

"Yes, and I don't know why but I'll do this for you. I'm not a loyal soldier as I was forced to serve.. and I'll risk my life to help you, but you'll have to help me too" His voice was a whisper.

"How?" I murmured. He gave me his hand, and I took it.

"Come to my house, we'll say you're Italian or Spanish.. they're not considered enemies here. Can you speak any of those languages? " I nodded, and he smiled happily.

"Great.. so you'll be introduced in my house." I felt strange under his gaze. We walked through the park, and suddenly he stopped. "By the way. my name is Romih"

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Legolas looked around himself. Haldir wasn't there.. and suddenly he remembered that they had forgotten about Gimli, who probably would still be sleeping in Troy. He covered his face with his hands. The place was strange, he had never seen something like that before. A lot of buildings, strange machines moving with people inside.. one of them almost killed him, and the man inside shouted things in a strange language.. noises, smog.. that world was horrible.. people looked at him, as he walked in the street. He was aware that he was so different from them. He had never felt so lost in his whole life. If that was the Future, he hated it.

"Halt, Herr" Two men dressed in dark clothes stopped him. Speaking in a strange language. He couldn't understand what they were saying.

"I'm sorry, but I.. " He couldn't go on speaking. He felt the beat before it came, and fell on the ground. Darkness came.

The two soldiers came inside the office, and they knocked on a wooden door.

"Come in" A rude voice said. The strong short man checked the visitors with curiosity. "Who is him?" Said, pointing at the elf.

"We found him in the street, lost.. he can't speak German. Maybe he's a spy. His appearance.. his ears.. look.." The boss kept his breath. That man looked strange. "Leave me alone with him" The soldiers left, leaving Legolas on a chair, as he was waking up. His blue eyes checked the horrible place.

"Where am I? " He asked, confused. He didn't like the expression on that man's face.

"You speak English.. interesting.." An evil bright in his eyes. "Something is going on"

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Haldir saw himself dressed in strange clothes. His hair was short, very short. His ears round, not pointy. A black uniform. And he was walking in a strange place. Inside a high building. A black small machine started ringing, and a young woman came in.

"Phone is ringing, Herr.. you won't reply it?" Haldir looked at her confused. She was speaking a strange language but he was able to understand it.

"What?" He asked, and she smiled.

"Don't worry, I'll reply it for you" She picked it up and talked. "Yes, Herr Himmler.. yes, he's here. I pass you with him" She gave Haldir the phone, and he imitated her movements.

"Yes..? " A strong voice started to shout in his ear.

"Herr Ghering, we have something interesting here, my soldiers found him in the street.. I wait for you, come in three minutes!" The man hang up. Haldir looked confused. The woman smiled.

"You're an important man if Herr Himmler himself calls you" Haldir just nodded.

"Yes..but where am I?" He murmured to himself.