Piper gulped.

'We're... um ... well...'

Aragorn stepped forward.

'They're some old friends of mine that I met when I was still a ranger. This is Piper, Phoebe and Paige. We met at... um, where did we meet again?'

'We met at the Prancing Pony', Piper said, blurting the first place that came to mind out. 'It was a couple years before your coronation, remember?'

'Right.'

Everyone looked at Arwen's stern face. Suddenly, her face broke into a smile and she kissed Aragorn on the cheek.

'Make sure you don't stay up too late, OK?'

She waved goodnight to the girls and walked out of the room through the door she had come. When the door closed, the sisters turned to Aragorn, looked stunned. He shook his head.

'Hormones', he muttered. 'Hers are totally out of order. One minute she'll be as fit as a fiddle and the next she'll be completely mad at me. For no reason at all.'

'It's all part of the pregnancy thing', Piper said. 'Don't worry. It will pass after the little one is born. Then her body will return to normal.'

Aragorn nodded, looking reassured.

'But right now we need to worry about finding the fellowship', Paige reminded them.

'Yes', said Aragorn, his mind coming back to the task at hand. 'I'll have riders set out this very night once we know where they are. What is it you need again Phoebe?'

'A crystal fused to a chain so I can swing it back and forth and a map of Middle Earth. Paige will have to do her best with finding Frodo and Gandalf.'

Aragorn nodded.

'I'll be back soon. You can make yourselves comfortable in the room over there if you wish.

'Thanks.'

They waited for the next hour while Aragorn found a map and had the scry made. Phoebe was nearly falling asleep by the time he returned in his nightclothes.

'Sorry I took so long but Arwen found me just before I was going to go to the forge and asked where I had been. So she dragged me off to bed. I had to wait half an hour before she fell asleep. I had no time to get to the forge but I was able to get this.'

Aragorn held up a necklace. A crystal was in the center shaped like a star and silver surrounded the flower as well as entwined down below.

'Arwen's necklace', Piper muttered. 'Aragorn, she's going to notice it's missing the moment she wakes up, which can be any time in the night if her bladder is as bad as mine was when I was pregnant.'

'She won't notice it's gone if we hurry. I'll write down their name and their location as we go. Here's the map.'

Phoebe grabbed the map and the necklace and sat down at the desk. She spread the map out and placed the necklace on top of it.

'Now for a spell. Let me think... Ah

Let this crystal point the way

Help us find friends, find them today.'

The necklace glowed with a faint white light for a moment, then faded. Phoebe picked up and started swinging it above the map.

'Sit back and relax', she said. 'This may take a while.'

By the time Phoebe found everyone it was one o'clock in the morning. But Aragorn was true to his word and sent the messengers out to retrieve the fellowship. This unfortunately took a few weeks since the only transportation they had was horses, not cars. But the girls had an enjoyable time when Arwen was in a happy mood. Whenever she was in a bad mood, they did their best to avoid her, but that wasn't always possible.

But slowly the fellowship returned and they had more people to talk to other that Arwen. Legolas unfortunately returned on a bad mood day and when he presented her with an elfish gift for the little one, Arwen threw it and him and yelled about stupid elfish tradition. Luckily the gift wasn't breakable and when he presented it to her again an hour later she was absolutely delighted.

When everyone but Frodo and Gandalf had arrived, Paige orbed of in search of them. An hour later she returned with Gandalf and a very wet, very grumpy Frodo.

'Mr. Frodo!' Sam cried in delight.

He ran forward and gave Frodo a hug. Sam then turned to Paige.

'But why's Mr. Frodo wet?'

Paige shrugged.

'He was having a bath and I kind of orbed in on him, told him to get dressed and pretty much yanked him out of the bath tub. Personally, I thought he'd be happy at the thought of seeing his friends again.'

'Well it's one thing to interrupt a fellow in the middle of his bath', said Frodo angrily. 'But it's a completely differently thing if you nearly rip his arm off!'

Paige winced.

'Sorry about that.'

Pippin looked up from the fruit bowl where he was looking for the biggest banana.

'Personally, I think being interrupted during a bath is the worst thing possible, especially if it's woman and there are no bubbles to hide certain things.'

Merry nodded as he munched on an apple.

'He had bubbles!'

'Not enough for my liking', Frodo muttered.

'OK', Aragorn said loudly. 'Before this gets out of hand I think we should get to the point of us gathering.'

Everyone looked at Aragorn, then sat down.

'Thank you. Now, we're all gathered her because Piper's second son had a vision of Middle Earth going to war against Isengard. There has been no rumor yet of any dealings with them. But we must be prepared if the time should come.'