Hellloooo peoples! Sorry I didn't get this chapter out sooner than I'd hoped *cough* a month later *cough* and I'm sure you must really hate me. Lol! So, in no particular order (other than the one that appears on ff.net) I would like to thank my readers:

Sarah: *Eats cherry that was on pretty please* Here is the next chappie! Muahahahahaha! *Chokes on cherry* Thanks for ya review!

Dragon…yada Nikky, you know who you are ;) : Yes, I would use that foul language if I had to read one of my stories. Lol! Thank you so much for your relevant review! They always make me warm a fuzzzzzzy inside! Apart from the bit where you threatened to kill me… I was a bit scared then… Lol! THANK YOU! *Hugzzzzzzz*

Yuhi-thedoerofdevildeeds: Nice name. J Here's the update, and thanx for taking the time to review this hunk-a-junk!

Landos Star: Sure, you can have Haldir! ^_^, I still haven't thought of ANY pairings in this AT ALL! Lol. Grrr… at least I have a basic plot, which is more than I have usually! Lol. Thank you for the nice comment.

Ainu Laire: Hehehe. Thanks for correcting me there, but hey! Not that bothered, I'm too lazy an author to do my research. I'm glad that you liked my 'basic plot line, spelling and grammar'. Thanx.

Dunthonwen: Hurrah! Thank you for that kewl review, I love making people laugh! YAY! *skips along happily*

Sugaricing: lol! I liked your review. Yes, Sara had better suck up. Hehehe. Thank you so much for your presents. *shakes box* Oooooooh! What's inside????

Bobo SB: And cookies to my first reviewer! Hmm… you liked that line too, huh? Well, I'm sure he would have a rather nice backside… Sara is just waaay too lucky!

And now for a wee rant. I need to change my summary. *sniffs at pathetic summary*. Meh… -_-* I'd like to dedicate this chapter to a school pupil who died the other day. Steven, you didn't really know me, but this is for you.

Legolas: There, there, go back to sleep…

ENJOY!!!!

Chapter Two;

Sara breathed in the fresh morning air and yawned, stretching to her full height. She was nice and comfy in her sleeping bag, and she'd had a good sleep, well, as good as it got in a blanket. Haldir and herself had walked quite a distance before they had set up camp under a large silver aged tree. The days travel had obviously took it out of Sara, for as soon as her head had hit the pillow she had been fast asleep.

Sara rolled over to her side and snuggled closer under the blanket, closing her eyes and taking in the sounds around her. She took notice of one particular bird that was chirping happily in the tree that she was lying below and smiled faintly. Her happiness was short-lived as she heard light footfalls coming towards her. She frowned and groggily opened her eyes.

There she saw two brown boots right in front of her nose. She slowly lifted her gaze upwards up to see Haldir looking at her with his eyebrows raised. She snapped her eyes shut, even though elves slept with their eyes open, and rolled over, wanting to get back to sleep.

"For an elf, you do seem to get fatigued very easily," Haldir prodded her gently with his foot to make sure that she wasn't about to fall back asleep.

Sara growled and sat up, glaring at the foot that dared to poke her first thing in the morning. She had only woken up and already Haldir had managed to annoy her. However, she did get irate very easily in the mornings.

Sara sighed and stood to her feet, giving her bedding a longing glance before rolling it up. She began to help pack away the small camp. With the objects that were out now nicely tucked away in Sara and Haldir's backpacks, they set off again towards the edge of the forest to meet the mystery individual that was currently arriving at Lothlorien. Sara frowned and briefly speculated who the person could be before shrugging off her pack and getting two pieces of Lembas bread out for Haldir and herself. Haldir, who had turned to see where Sara had got to, looked at the bread that was offered to him and took it with a small smile of gratitude. He too, had forgotten to eat breakfast.

By mid afternoon they were almost near to where they should be. Sara couldn't help but grin when the plains past the forest could be seen. It took a moment for her eyes to get used to the bright sunlight when she stepped outside, and with her good sight she could see two people each riding a horse towards her. She narrowed her eyes and studied the both the males. One of them was riding a black stallion and had deep brown hair and fair, pale skin. His intense blue eyes seemed to be studying her too. Sara eyes trailed to his ears and noticed that they were pointed. Sara looked at what he was wearing. He was clad a blue tunic bearing intricate silver embroidery and silver elvish pants with black travelling boots very much like the ones she was wearing now. Her stare switched to the other elf on his right. He was riding a white mare and looked startlingly like the first one.

Realisation hit her as to who they were and she felt tears prick the corners of her eyes at the sight of her old friends. Sara sprinted towards them as fast as she could to meet them halfway. By the time she had reached them a tear had fallen down her cheek and the two men looked down at her jovially, almost grinning from ear to ear. The one riding the black stallion demounted it with ease and grace that not even Sara could manage and stepped towards her. He placed a hand to her cheek and she did the same to him, like Elrond had taught her to greet other elves. When he moved his hand she moved to him and embraced him in the tightest hug she could muster. A look of surprise passed his face for a moment before returning the embrace.

"Elrohir! I've missed you so much," Sara spoke, but this came out slightly muffled and she had her head buried in his shoulder.

He just chuckled and held her tighter. "Well, I missed you too," he let go and leaned back to look at her face, which by now, was tear streaked. Still the same Sara he could remember, only older. By the looks of things she had gone through a lot.

A cough could be heard from behind the two. Sara peered from around Elrohir's shoulders and looked at the other person.  She was faced with a practical duplicate of Elrohir aside form the fact that his eyes were slightly darker than his twin's. Sara let go of Elrohir and stepped towards Elladan, skipping the traditional greeting and hugging him straight away. She had missed the pair so much.

They reluctantly pulled apart and began walking towards where Haldir was (still by the forest). Sara thought this was very stupid as the twins had horses, but didn't mention so as they seemed to be quite content in chatting away to her. This didn't bother her; in fact she was doing most of the talking. They had a lot to catch up on.  

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/Finally! /

Sara flopped back on her comfortable bed, grateful for the fact that she didn't have to sleep a moment longer on that awful… blanket. She closed her eyes and listened to the light chatter of the people that were by her open window. She liked to take the time to listen to things.

A knock came from her door, and she grunted for the person to come in. She already knew who it was anyway. The door opened and Haldir stepped inside her room, lowering his head slightly to her out of respect. She tried her best not to roll her eyes.

"Lady Sara-"

"Sara."

"Sara," Haldir corrected himself, watching her form on the bed, "Lady Galadriel told me to tell you that the party is only in two hours. You should be getting yourself ready soon," Haldir paused before continuing. "Are you still tired from our trip? It was two weeks ago!"

Sara stopped her mutterings for a second, trying to think up a feasible excuse for the fact that she was in bed at four in the afternoon and still recovering from the short journey they made two weeks ago. She wasn't even tired; it was just that her soft bed was so… soft. She 'um-ed' for a while, and to her irritation, he just chortled to himself and left her room. How dare he?!

"Oh, I know when the party is! I did organise it after all!" Sara shouted after him, her fists clenched.

She sighed and figured that she'd better get out of bed soon. Elrond will be wondering where she was. She speculated for a minute if Arwen had heard what she had just shouted. She just crossed her fingers and hoped for the best, after all, Arwen still didn't know about her surprise birthday bash.

Sara tried not to shout in frustration as she heard another nock, and had to grind her teeth as she told that person to come in as politely as she could muster. The next thing she knew Melian was bustling about her room, fussing about the fact that her bed was still unmade. She was just about to go and make it when Sara told her to do otherwise.

"Mel, you are a guest here. My guest. What kind of a hostess would I be if I told you to make my bed?" Melian beamed, but Sara couldn't help but notice that her hand was twitching slightly towards the direction of the unmade bed. Sara had also invited Melian along because she was her first ever maid, and they had gotten pretty close over the past years. It just wouldn't be right if Elrond and his family was here and not Melian.

"Well, can I at least help you get ready?" Melian looked at the slightly wrinkled white nightgown that Sara was currently wearing with an almost disdainful look. Sara looked down at her feet slightly ashamed that she was still not dressed.

After a moment Sara sighed and raised her hands in submission. "Okay, fine. You can help me."

Melian looked delighted, and went through to the connecting bathroom to fill up the metal tub with hot water that she had collected in a bucket. Within half an hour Sara was soaking in the hot bath and washing her hair with the special shampoo she was given a while back by Galadriel as a gift that made it extra shiny and healthy looking.

After an hour of frantic rushing around (due to the fact that Melian had almost fallen out of a window because Sara had shoved her away from her hair slightly harder that she was supposed to), Sara was finally ready. Melian pushed her in front of a mirror for Sara to see the overall look.

Sara 'hmmm-ed' at bit at her reflection. She was wearing a silver dress that was made out of the finest materials in Lothlorien. Sara had received it a while back for her birthday, and had only worn it once for a special occasion. It had an off the shoulder sleeve on one side, and a shadowy silver and a lighter silver were fusing together in a swirl towards the centre of the dress. The bottom of the dress was dark, whereas the top half was lighter. The sleeves where long and part of it was attached to the finger with a loop to stop it from falling about everywhere. The neckline followed the off-the-shoulder line to reveal her shoulder and part of her collarbone. Her dress was slightly fitted about her top half and past the waist was left to flow towards the floor gracefully.

"I look like a silver tree," Sara jabbed her thumb towards the forest trees outside her window.

Melian tutted and Sara impatiently tried to throw her hair over her shoulders out of an old habit, but to her dismay remembered that she had shamefully let Melian bully her into putting her hair up. Sara hands twitched slightly and she resisted the urge to take the elven silver clip out to free her hair again.

"You look beautiful."

Sara rolled her eyes skywards and shook her head.

"Elves are supposed to have good eyesight. Anyways, should we go down to the hall now?" Sara asked, frowning slightly with worry. What if Arwen knew about the party? All her planning would've gone to waste. What if no one turned up in the first place? Sara bit her lip with worry, continuing to think up ways that her party could go wrong.

"Yes, I think we should."

Melian and Sara left for the hall, though by this time, Sara doubted that anyone would even be there.

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"I would like to say that I wish my daughter the best of happiness…" Elrond seemed to have droned on for what seemed two hours in the native tongue of Elvish. Sara sighed silently. You'd think that travelling thousands of leagues would get you away from Elrond's boring speeches, but no, thousands of leagues weren't enough. She began to play with a random crumb on the table. She felt someone nudge her and Sara looked round to see who it was.

"If you manage to summon up the energy to look even more fed up, you'd look close to tears," Elrohir whispered, an Elladan and Arwen snickered. Elladan was sitting next to Elrohir and Arwen was sitting next to Sara.

Sara flicked the crumb to see how far it would go before answering to her three friends silently.

/What do you mean 'summon up the energy'? I am reduced to tears! /   

Arwen elbowed her as if to scold her slightly, but it didn't look very serious as she was grinning. She managed to change it into a false happy smile to please her father when he looked at her halfway through a sentence. She gave a small wave to Elrond before he turned back to the people who were invited to the party.

//Sara, stop encouraging Arwen and the twins//

Sara sputtered and glared at Galadriel who until now, Sara hadn't noticed was looking at her pointedly from across the table. Sara rolled her eyes and looked for her special crumb. The three siblings looked and each other and rolled their eyes. Some things never changed.

TADA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry it's so short *sobs* but you guys still love me, right?

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