Disclaimer: We do not own anything associated with LOTR, or any of its characters. Legolas: How did I know you were going to drag me into this? You brought in Elrohir, Elladan and Haldir...how many Elves do you need in one story? TICS: As many as I can get my hands on, Lego. Legolas: You are NOT getting your hands on me! TICS: Wanna bet? In this story, I plan on leading you around by your nose, Elfboy. Legolas: That is NOT my nose. TICS: Oops. Hee,hee.

A/N: Due to circumstances beyond our control, Southerngirl has asked me to write this chapter, even though it is not my turn. She'll be writing the next one, though. Hee, hee...I get to play with the twins again!

Chapter 6

Double the Pleasure, Double the Fun

Jessie looked from one twin to the other. A slow, frankly evil grin spread across her face as she took in the twin's handsome features and pointed ears.

"Where on earth did you find these two? Can I have one?" Jessie asked, walking around the twins to get a rear view. She whistled softly as she stood behind them. "Wow...they're as good looking going as coming!"

"Down, girl...down," Sam said, pulling Jessie back around to the front of the twins. "This is Elladan, and this is Elrohir," she said introducing the duo to her friend. "This is our other roommate, Jessie."

"I'm 'Ro, and he's 'Dan," Elrohir corrected, pointing to himself, then to his brother.

"Whatever. How are we supposed to tell you apart, by the way? I mean, aside from your clothes, because you could easily switch those. Isn't there anything different about one of you that we can look for?" Misha asked 'Ro. She ignored Jessie, who was humming the theme song from the "Patty Duke Show."

'Ro bent over and whispered something into Misha's ear that made her face blush almost the same hue of purple as her hair. It earned 'Ro an extremely hard punch in the arm, although Misha had a very slight smile on her face after that.

"Hey!" Jessie cried, "Don't damage the goods, Misha! I may want to play with that later."

"You're not playing with anybody, Jessie. They're kind of stuck in our world for the time being, and we need to send them back in one piece, or those Valar guys may fry our asses," Sam said, pulling Jessie further back from the twins. She gave Jessie an abbreviated version of what had happened on the beach.

"Don't fight over us, girls...there's plenty of Elf to go around for everybody," Elladan laughed, elbowing his brother in the ribs.

"Get over yourself, Elfboy!" Sam retorted, although her cheeks were tinged with pink. Turning to Jessie, she said, "Thanks for running interference with the Dragonlady. I really wasn't in the mood for another of her famous 'when-are-you-going-to-grow-up-and-stop- embarrassing-your-father-and-me' lectures. Plus, she would have chewed me up and spit me out if she found me in the bedroom with the Gruesome Twosome, here."

"I beg your pardon? You think we're gruesome? I'll have you know that in our world, we are thought of as quite handsome!" Elrohir said haughtily.

"You'd be handsome in any world, sweet cheeks," Jessie purred, running her tongue over her lips. Elrohir cocked an eyebrow at her, and smiled.

"Good God, Jessie, get a grip, will ya?" Misha said disgustedly, giving Jessie a little push. Rolling her eyes at Samantha, she said, "Okay, new house rules! No touching the Elves. No interspecies dating! Got it?" She gave the other four her patented "Do NOT Screw With Me" look.

"Got it," the four said together. Somehow Misha didn't believe any of them.

"Pardon me, Jessie, but you have a little something hanging right here...and here," 'Dan said pointing to the side of his nose and his right eyebrow.

"Those are piercings...don't you like them?" Jessie answered. 'Dan leaned in for a closer look.

"You put holes in your body? Purposely?" 'Dan asked incredulously, reaching out with one finger to touch the tiny hoop attached to Jessie's eyebrow.

"Of course...don't they have piercings where you come from?"

"Yes, but one usually winds up spending some time in the House of Healing -or the graveyard - when one gets pierced in our world."

"You would look good with a piercing..." Jessie said, reaching up to touch 'Dan's elegant dark eyebrow.

"What did I just say about not touching the Elves?" Misha cut in, catching Jessie by the forearm, and dragging her back a few steps.

"And that works both ways...no touching the humans, either!" she continued, wagging her finger at Elladan.

"Who died and made you the Mommy?" Jessie asked, giving her friend a sour look.

"Hey...you weren't the one that nearly got toasted on the beach by the Great Whatever who sent these two here, now were you?" Misha retorted. "I plan on keeping my ass out of the line of fire, if you don't mind. And that means NO TOUCHING THE ELVES!"

"Okay, okay...you don't have to get all Queen Bitchy on me..." Jessie replied, holding her hands out in front of her. "I get it, I get it...lookee, no touchee."

Misha exchanged a look with Sam that meant they were going to have to keep a very close eye on Jessie.

...meanwhile, back at the beach...

"Great. What are we supposed to do now? Do you see 'Dan and 'Ro anywhere? I don't. Just where in the hell are we?" Haldir asked, standing and brushing the sand off of his clothes.

"Another world, according to Manwe," Legolas answered, scanning the beach for signs of life. They seemed to be completely alone on the long expanse of white sand.

"Can ye tell if they've been here?" Gimli asked Legolas, roughly pushing a sleeping Pippin off of him. He also stood, surveying the deserted beach. "Can ye pick up their tracks, Laddie?"

Legolas began walking in ever widening circles around the spot they had landed. "Here! Two Elves walked ashore...and met two others. All four walked off this way," he said pointing up toward the sandy dunes.

Haldir looked down at the unconscious Hobbits lying scattered and snoring on the sand. He nudged Frodo with his foot. Frodo grunted, and rolled over. "Will you look at these four? Why did the Valar send them? They're useless!"

"Bah! There's one way to sober them up quick enough!" Gimli grumbled, picking up Pippin's two hairy feet in his hands. He dragged Pippin down to the water's edge, and let the cold ocean waves lap at the Hobbit's face.

Pippin's eyes popped open, and he came up spitting salt water. "Spiders!" he cried, sitting up, waving his arms around. He caught Gimli right in the Dwarven jewels.

"Ooof!" Gimli's breath exploded out, as he bent over clutching his offended parts. Pippin's eyes opened wide when he realized what he had done. He scrambled to the relative safety of Haldir's shadow before Gimli could recover and tear him apart.

"It serves you right, Gimli...have you never heard of the old expression, "Let sleeping Hobbits lie?" Legolas laughed, watching his friend dance around on the sand. He bent down over Frodo, placed his hand on the Hobbit's forehead and murmured a few words in Elvish. Frodo's eyelids began to flutter as the healing spell took effect. Legolas quickly walked to the next Hobbit, getting out of the range of fire, and did the same. Before long, all four Hobbits were wide-awake and firing questions at Gimli and the Elves.

"Where are we? What happened? When did you three get here? Where's my mug of ale?"

Haldir silenced the Hobbits with a stern look, then quickly explained what had happened, and what they were supposed to do.

"Oh, no! Not the twins!" Merry cried, eyes widening. "The last time I saw those two they shaved my feet! I had to wear socks for a year!"

"Those are the orders of Manwe...and we shall obey them." Haldir said sternly, "Although I must admit, I'm not happy about it either. Come, let's see if we can follow their tracks." He led the party up toward the dune, following the faint footsteps in the sand. Unfortunately, the footsteps ended at the beginning of the asphalt parking lot.

"What is this hard substance, Legolas?" Frodo asked the tall Elf, who had bent down to examine the surface of the parking lot. "And what are those shiny metal objects scattered about?" He pointed to the cars parked here and there in the lot.

"I know not, Frodo...perhaps there was a great fire that burned the ground hard and black...but I know not what those metal things are. I suspect we shall see many strange sights in this world."

"The question is, Laddies, what do we do now? The trail is cold," Gimli asked, looking up at the tall Elves.

"We wait," Haldir said simply, turning around to go back to the beach. "Sooner or later, they will return here."

"How do you know that Mister Haldir?" asked Sam, looking confused.

"Because they are Elladan and Elrohir...they always return to the scene of the crime."

The group of two Elves, one Dwarf, and four Hobbits made themselves comfortable in the sand, and waited.