A/N: Disclaimer, same as chapter one.

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Chapter Four

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The Fellowship was not going to leave Rivendell until the scouts came back with reports about the Enemy's movements. So therefore, Sinn and Shenaux wandered about the multiple gardens in Rivendell so that they wouldn't go insane with boredom.

The two friends were walking through the gardens two weeks after the council. They didn't really associate with the other Fellowship unless it was Gandalf or the hobbits. They stayed clear from the other four members.

"So, whatchya wanna do?" Shenaux asked Sinn for the tenth time that hour.

"Hmm, how about a spar?"

"Draws too much attention."

"I could practice my archery." Sinn gave her a look. "You can be the moving target."

"Let's not and say we did." Shenaux told her. "How about I recite everything you've ever said about Haldir? Or even Legolas?" she grinned.

"Then I'll recite everything you wish to do to the two said elves." Sinn said.

Shenaux' grin became evil. "I have no shame. You will do good to remember that my old friend." She looked thoughtful for a minute or so. "Ah yes, I remember now. 'That elf is yummy!' you said when he came—" Shenaux then began to run for her life as Sinn chased after her yelling threats. Shenaux just laughed as she ran.

The rest of the Fellowship and Elrond were sitting in another one of the many gardens talking about the journey ahead when Shenaux came running in with Sinn chasing after her. Shenaux was laughing like a mad woman.

"Get back here you miserable excuse of a human being! I'm going to rip your flesh off your bones and feed you to the vultures if you don't shut up!" Sinn yelled.

"Oh! Oh! You got that dreamy look on your face when they were in Lothlorien! He was dressed in that silvery blue tunic and you said that he looked right—" Shenaux laughed as Sinn cursed her in Japanese. By now, Shenaux was running in a circle around the now bemused men.

"I remember something!" Sinn said as she stopped dead in her run. "It was about a certain wizard and his robes!" she grinned. "You wanted to know if—"

"Sinn!"

Laughing, Sinn was now running away from Shenaux, her skirts were hitched up to her knees so that she wouldn't trip and fall.

"Excuse me, ladies?" Gandalf asked, causing Sinn to stop dead in her tracks as she looked at him questioningly. Unfortunately for her, Shenaux couldn't stop as quick as her friend and Shenaux hit Sinn from behind causing her to pitch forward.

Legolas quickly stood from where he sat in front of Sinn and caught her before she cracked her skull open on the stone seat.

Sinn tried to straighten herself, but a part of her dress was caught in his belt buckle, and as they both tried to pull away at the same time they both lost their balance and fell to the ground. Sinn landed on top of Legolas.

Shenaux and the hobbits began to laugh hysterically.

Sinn glared at her friend. "A true friend wouldn't laugh at my misfortunes." She growled at Shenaux.

"I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing at the situation you're in." Shenaux giggled. "Besides, years from now you'll look back and laugh."

"Didn't you also say that about the time I knocked my father's barn down?"

Shenaux snickered. "Now that was funny! Who would have thought that throwing rocks at a pond would make a barn collapse?"

"I'm still not laughing." She muttered.

"Ya, but that's because it happened before Ransom died. He was the one who tricked you into throwing the rock. Of course you're not laughing about it yet." Shenaux told her friend.

Pain etched across Sinn's face and she quickly stood and then helped Legolas to his feet. The easygoing mood was gone from Sinn.

"Did you want anything Gandalf?" Sinn asked softly.

"No Sinn, I was just curious why you were threatening to kill Shenaux." He told her.

Shenaux got angry at her friend's mood. "Now listen Sinn!" she snapped ignoring the old wizard. "Get over it already! He's dead and he's not going to come back no matter how long you grieve. I know you loved him. He was my brother. I loved him too, but you have to let him go. I know it's hard, but would he have wanted you to be like this?"

Sinn made no reply. She turned and walked away from her frustrated friend. Only keen Elven eyes caught the tears standing in the emerald green of hers.

Shenaux sighed. "Damn stubborn mule headed female!" she muttered. "I don't know what to do anymore!"

"Let her grieve." Legolas told her softly.

"It's killing her!"

"She has to want to live again. You cannot force her to."

"Neither of her parents were ever this stubborn." She grumbled.

"You speak as if they are dead." Aragorn said.

Shenaux nodded. "Her parents and mine are dead. They died in an accident over fifteen years ago. We've lived with our grandparents until we were old enough to live on our own." She told them.

The men nodded.

Shenaux sighed. "I guess I should go and apologise. I didn't mean to be so harsh, I just figured she'd open up again." She walked off in the direction where Sinn had left.

"Gandalf, if the girl is emotionally unstable she shouldn't go on this journey. It'll be even more dangerous for her than anyone else. The Ring will tempt her more than any." Legolas said.

"We shall see Legolas, we shall see." Gandalf told him as he stood up. "I believe I shall get ready for lunch."

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Shenaux walked the gardens, looking for Sinn. She found her friend sitting on a branch in one of the many trees, watching the clouds in the sky.

"I want to apologise." She called up to her friend. "I had no right to say those things to you. I had no right to try to get you to open up."

Sinn looked down and smiled sadly at her friend. "I know, and I reacted horribly. I know that Ransom is dead and that I'll never see him again, but I've been with him since I was thirteen, and I've known him my whole life."

"Sinn, I've lived with him for twenty-three years. I too, have known him all my life. We were all best friends. I miss him too, but he wouldn't have wanted us to be moping around feeling sorry for ourselves. He'd want us to enjoy life. His death opened my eyes to the fact that we could die any day and I don't want to miss anything."

Sinn looked back up to the sky, tears falling down her face. "I loved him more than life itself Shenaux. We planned on getting married next June."

Shenaux climbed up to sit beside her friend in the tree. "He proposed to you?"

Sinn nodded. "Five minutes before he was shot. We were heading back to the apartment to consummate our engagement and to tell you." She pulled out a chain with and engagement ring on it. It was silver with some sort of writing on it. A beautiful small diamond was set in the centre.

"Oh Sinn," Shenaux breathed. "It's beautiful. Do you know what the writing says?"

"He had this made right after the first Lord of the Rings movie came out. He said it is elvish. It reads: 'Deep in my soul, I know you are the only light I see. Your love means everything to me.'" She pointed to the inner part of the ring. More elvish words were there. "This says: 'I promise that we'll never part because you'll always be in my heart.'"

"It's beautiful." Shenaux whispered.

"It's from our song." Sinn explained. "It was by 98 Degrees. The song is called, 'Still'." She then began to sob brokenly.

Shenaux took her best friend in her arms and held her as she cried. She motioned for all the curious and worried Elves, Men, Dwarves and Hobbits that heard them speak to leave. The Fellowship looked on feeling utterly useless as Sinn cried out her anguish.

Shenaux looked up, her sorrow shining in her eyes, pleading for their help. Sinn had cried herself into an exhausted sleep. "Can someone help me get her down?" She asked softly. "She's finally asleep."

Aragorn and Legolas stepped forward and helped Shenaux and Sinn out of the tree.

"Legolas, take Sinn back to her room." Gandalf ordered. "Shenaux, I think we need to talk."

Shenaux nodded and followed Gandalf and Elrond to a council room.

Legolas left heading towards Sinn's room.

When Shenaux, Gandalf and Elrond entered the room, she turned to look at them expectantly. "Well, what do you want to talk to me about?" she asked them.

"It's about Sinn," Gandalf started.

"You are curious if she will be able to withstand the journey." Shenaux guessed. "Yeah, I think she will be. We both have some ghosts in our pasts. We can handle them."

"This journey is going to be even more dangerous for her. She will be vulnerable to the Ring's call."

"Sinn felt nothing towards the Ring but malice. Just like I felt nothing but malice. The Ring holds no power over us. Just because we grieve doesn't mean that we will be vulnerable to the Ring. There is nothing that Sinn and I want."

"Not even revenge on the people that hurt you?" Gandalf asked.

"The people that hurt us made us stronger. We have no need to return to our world. Our families are dead. Sinn's love is gone, and I don't want to have another relationship. We wished that we could go someplace away from our pain and our past. We both agreed to that before we appeared in your garden's Elrond. Sure, our friends will miss us, but we were bound to leave our city sooner or later."

"So that's what happened." Gandalf muttered. "You're feelings must have been extremely strong to rip through the fabric of time and space."

Shenaux shrugged.

"Then why is it that you wanted to leave?" Elrond said.

"We were frightened. We went with our thoughts, not our hearts."

"What do you mean?"

"We thought that we shouldn't be here, that this was all wrong. Our hearts were telling us different though. We are home."

"Home? As in home on Middle Earth?" Gandalf asked. "But how do you know that?"

"We just feel it. For some reason it just feels right to be here on Middle Earth. We are more comfortable now. We feel like we belong."

"How do you know how Sinn feels?"

"We know each others minds. Now if you two will excuse me, I think I shall go check up on her. She should wake up soon." And Shenaux left the room.

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