Carolyn woke up to Sam poking her with a stick.

"Miss Carolyn? Are you alive?"

Snickering internally, Carolyn let out a whoop and grabbed Sam's ankle, to give him a scare. She nearly blacked out again when Sam rapped her on the head with his stick.

"Ow, Sam, wadya do that for?"

"You grabbed me, and I was startled. There are orcs around, and it was a defense mechanism. Sorry."

Sam helped Carolyn to her feet while she tried to remember what had happened.

O yeah, orcs ran by and hit me on the head with something. They probably thought I was dead and left. Yay for me and my instinct to play dead when I'm hit on the head hard enough to make me pass out!

"Let's go find Mr. Frodo, Sam. I think he's fixing to leave, and Gandalf warned you about doing that, didn't he?"

Sam nodded and started off towards the river. Carolyn nearly did a dance of joy. She would get to meet her o-so-sexy Boromeister's (stole from my fav reviewer, teehee) brother.

Meanwhile...

Jenneva woke up to a gentle prodding of her abdomen. She rolled over, mumbling. "Bad kitty, no. I said no! You eat my headphones and now you want to eat me too, is that it?"

All of a sudden memory rushed back and Jenneva bolted upright, hitting her head on something. She looked around, but nothing was there. Then Frodo popped out of thin air a few feet away, rubbing his nose.

"You didn't have to hit me, I was just trying to see if the orcs had killed you and stuffed you in a hollow tree for no reason."

"No, I saw orcs coming so I hid in the tree. I must have slid out, only my legs are in it now...some of that stuff we gave Boromir must have gotten to me, because I fell asleep."

"What did you give to Boromir? He tried to steal the ring from me, I'm leaving..."

"Oh, oh, oh, I'm coming! Don't worry about Borry, he's in a box, asleep. The elves will come get him in about a week. He has enough food and water, he'll be fine, don't worry. Can we go now? I don't like orcs, they make me feel antsy."

"No, I have to go alone. Its too dangerous."

Jenneva gave Frodo a bland look.

"Shut up, lets go."

So they headed off towards the river. Frodo was such a wimp. Then again, maybe cause it's Jenneva is his size...

In the meantime...

Kelsey woke to being jostled around. She was tied, hand and foot. Frightened, she startled to struggle, and opened her eyes. That seemed to trigger her nose, and the smell almost made her puke. Rotting innards of animal flesh (which she didn't eat, seeing as she was a vegetarian...) was what she smelled, and a bunch of orcs was what she saw. She inhaled, preparing to scream, but she could almost taste the foul smelling...smell...and she closed her mouth to smother her upchuck reflex. Realizing she was awake, the orc she was riding grabbed her and put her on the ground near where Merry and Pippin were running. It sliced the bonds off her legs and said in a gruff voice "Run!"

Now Kelsey sometimes thought of herself as a rebel, and she was cranky. She crossed her arms, put her weight on one foot, and said clearly: "Make me."

This was stupid. She got hit from behind, a stunning blow not quite hard enough to make her black out. She gasped in surprise and staggered to her feet again.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING? I AM A PERSON, NOT A-"

This time, the blow was hard enough to knock her out.

With Aragorn and Legolas and Gimli...

"The girls and the hobbits are gone. We should save them," said Aragorn.

"Aww, do we have to?" whined Gimli.

"If we don't they'll probably make our lives hell. Lets just go and get it over with." Was Legolas' opinion.

Apparently, since no one had died, they didn't feel obligated to save their fellow...fellowship fellows. Too bad for them, they were going to do it anyways...